Personal blog for Lisa Shea
This is a fairly specific field, but making videos can be really useful for all sorts of reasons. Let me know if you’re interested in seeing this to offer feedback. I sell origami videos, although I really need to make a fresh version.
My videos were made over 10 years ago and camera technology has improved immensely!
Do you ever make videos? Of what?
Finally finished my revisions on my Book Marketing book. Lots of changes here in 2020. It’s a challenge to keep up – but well worth it!
What are you guys up to? Probably sleeping :).
Today I’m working on the microwave recipe book update.
Let me know if you’d like to see a copy to offer suggestions or ideas!
Thanks!
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101 reviews! Yoga-loving heroine and bass-playing ranger solve murder mysteries in the rural town of Sutton, Massachusetts. Who could these two be based on? FREE full length novel 🙂
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81 reviews! Learn to bring stress relief into your life through simple, easy to learn yoga poses which you can do pretty much anywhere. Every day is a new opportunity to improve your world.
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I need some beta-readers for my low carb no-cook recipe cookbook! All of these recipes involve no cooking. I’d love feedback and ideas for this one.
I can send a PDF. Thanks!
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For my birthday I bought myself something I’ve always wanted – beading supplies to make lava rock chakra bracelets. So far I’ve made myself one with an owl, a Celtic heart, an elephant, and a shamrock. If you’d like one, they’re $10 each. I can also mix things up in a custom way. You can add essential oils to the lava rock if you want :). Lava! I love lava :).
I’m doing a sweep to update all my low carb books. I’m starting with my most popular one – low carb charts.
Left is the old cover; right is the new one.
I’m making sure the branding is more clear that this is part of a full 13-book series.
Suggestions? Ideas?
Let me know if you’d like to take a look at the ebook to offer feedback on its content!
Success! Just finished an enormous effort and updated books 3-4-5 in my author’s essentials series.
Book 3 is an overview of the various ways you can get published.
Book 4 is all about traditional publishing including magazines.
Book 5 is a dense, in-depth section-by-section-with-screenshots explanation of how to self-publish on Amazon and Lulu for both ebooks and paperbacks. It also covers Draft2Digital, SmashWords, WattPad, etc.
I’d love to have some beta-readers of my updated versions. Let me know if you’d like to see one of these!
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Hurrah! Hurrah! All three time-viewing books are wholly loaded onto Amazon in Kindle and Paperback form.
The series is complete.
Enjoy book one for FREE please download it to take a look! Thanks!
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Digital cameras might seem as if they take an infinite amount of photos. However, the hardware within the cameras does have a lifespan. If you’re buying a used camera, it’s important to know if it’s been used to take only 100 photos or 100,000 photos. That makes a critical difference to the life left in the components.
However, for whatever bizarre reason, the camera maker doesn’t just tell you that information on a menu screen. You have to download software to your computer, install it, hook the camera up to your computer with a cable, and then have the software tell you the count.
Very strange.
You can’t just look at the numbering on your memory card, either. It’s easy enough to reset that back to zero.
So here’s a few shutter count software packages I have tried. I’ll note I’m on Windows 8.1 and am connecting my Canon EOS40D via two different USB cables. I even tried my Canon EOS 7D Mark II to all programs, using a different cable, to help test.
First, make sure your camera is connecting to the computer. Look in Device Manager under Portable Devices. You should see your camera listed there. If you don’t even see your camera in the device manager, you have to fix that problem with your cable or USB drivers.
https://www.ideiki.com/astro/Download.aspx
This installs an astro photography tool. It’s all about taking photos of the sky and stars. But as an added bonus, when you connect your camera, it says right there in the log what the shutter count for it is! For free! Quick and easy!
http://www.freeshuttercount.com/
This website downloads the file setup_freeshuttercount.exe. It installs from the publisher Keerby Application.
When you run it, it detects the camera fine. So it is doing something. HOWEVER, it then requires you to install LibUSB-win32 with “Zadig”. It says it is recommanded (their typo) but there is no way to do anything at all without installing LibUSB drivers.
If you look up Zadig, you’ll find it’s an actual entity for installing USB drivers. So it sounds fairly legitimate. When you install this, it says it is from Akeo Consulting. That is an actual software house in Ireland that does work with LibUSB. You get this window.
Make sure you choose Options – List All and choose your camera from the main drop-down. Then over in the WinUSB drop-down toggle down to the LibUSB option.
When you install, you should get a SUCCESS message.
But now, when you open the software, it doesn’t see the camera any more. Or, when it does, it asks you to install the Zadig again.
Which makes me wonder just what is being installed … I wrote them a message, but when I hit SUBMIT it just took me back to the site homepage. So I’m not sure they even got the message.
I’ll also note that in the footer of this website it says: “The software Free the shutter count number at no charges up to 1000 actuations. Premium version needed for shutter count number greater than 1000 is charged 7$.” – that makes me think if your camera has taken more than 1000 photos they’re going to charge you $7 to show you the results. That’s not really free. But since I can’t even get it to work with two different cameras, I call it not worth the effort.
http://astrojargon.net/EOSInfo.aspx
This is one that a LOT of people recommend, but it’s also quite old. The change history says it was last updated in 2009. The file you download is called SetupEOSInfo.exe. This installs EOSInfo.MSI from “Unknown” publisher.
Unfortunately, this is all it ever shows. My cameras say “Busy” and never connect at all. Since my cameras worked with the AstroPhotography software, I am not sure what is going on here. Nothing useful, it seems.
The filename is shown as EOSInfo.exe at a Google Drive. I’m not going to even try this one. You download the software from a google drive account, and the email address in the readme is associated with known scammer software systems that take passwords. It’s easy enough to do a Google search and find those for yourself.
So, to summarize, I highly suggest the top cool astro photography program which for FREE shows you your shutter count simply as the start-up information about your camera. Quick, easy, useful! Heck, get a telescope and really put the software through its paces!