Apple Orders DMCA Takedown of "Apple-Tracker" Website

Apple has a beef with the site's use of page-scrape tools for data on Apple's official online store A website that takes inventory of Apple products in nearby stores has been shut down by the Cupertino giant itself. Apple-Tracker, which was developed and maintained by Mordy Tikotzky, was a site that compiled data on in-store pickup purchases only from Apple's official online store. So if you were shopping for an iPad Air and wanted a specific model, you could've used Apple-Tracker to see which stores nearby had the item in stock. However, Apple sent Tikotzky a Digital Millennium Copyright Act...

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Repeating Seamless Background Image Tutorial Using Photoshop

A trick often employed on webpages is to use a seamless background that can tile both vertically and horizontally. If your website gets alot of traffic and you don’t like paying for extra bandwidth costs you need to optimize your site for every single kilobyte. This generally translates to NOT using a giant JPG as a background; (unless you’re doing silly myspace layouts). This tutorial will explain how to make seamless backgrounds for your webpages.Step One - Identify image you want to use as your seamless backgroundIn this case we’ve put together a 500x500 red and gray image that we think will...

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Zango Removal Instructions and Help

What is Zango?Zango is a entertainment site with free access to videos, music, games, and other downloads. The site is free to all users, but is paid for by advertisements. Visitors are presented with an end user license agreement that they accept before downloading any content.Zango does display popup advertisements and such to pay for the games and videos. The Zango software includes a search assistant and toolbar. Since the software does not collect or share any information about users they are not considered spyware but rather adware. Advertiser sponsored free software that anyone can view...

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.NET Framework Cleanup Tool User's Guide

This .NET Framework cleanup tool is designed to automatically perform a set of steps to remove selected versions of the .NET Framework from a computer. It will remove files, directories, registry keys and values and Windows Installer product registration information for the .NET Framework. The tool is intended primarily to return your system to a known (relatively clean) state in case you are encountering .NET Framework installation, uninstallation, repair or patching errors so that you can try to install again. There are a couple of very important caveats that you should review before using this tool to remove any version of the .NET Framework from your system: This tool is designed as a last resort for cases where install, uninstall, repair...

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Download Social Music, Video & More…for FREE

Orbit Downloader, leader of download manager revolution, is devoted to new generation web (web2.0) downloading, such as video/music/streaming media from Myspace, YouTube, Imeem, Pandora, Rapidshare, support RTMP. And to make general downloading easier and faster.Current version : 2.7.6 No adware! No spyware!Why use Orbit Downloader? Download Rich Media: Streaming Media, RTMP, Social Music & Video Orbit Downloader supports HTTP/FTP/HTTPS/RTSP/MMS/RTMP protocols and provides a total solution to download rich media. So Orbit Downloader can be used as YouTube downloader to download YouTube...

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5 Tools to Make Windows XP Look Like Vista

Do you like Windows Vista only because of its newly revamped Graphical User Interface? It surely does have an attractive interface but many are still hesitant to upgrade. Some because of it’s massive system requirements, and some because of all the negative buzz around it. Whatever your reasons are, you still can get a Vista like look even on your Win XP system. Below are some of the better free tools that can help you to make your Windows XP look like Vista. Just make sure you got a bit of spare RAM on your system.Vista Start MenuVista Start Menu turns XP’s Start menu into one like on Vista....

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FREE - Brushed Metal Photoshop Style

Get this Photoshop style and apply to any layer to get the brushed metal effect instantly. PS: To use this style, download the .asl file, then open styles window in Photoshop, click on the drop down menu and select ‘load styles…’ and browse to the .asl fi...

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Photoshop Carbon Fiber background

I have been wondering for some time now how to create a good looking carbon fiber background or wallpaper. I started playing around with some color combinations to get the carbon fiber to look right. So lets get started.What you need to have: Adobe PhotoshopPS: ⌘ key for Mac users / CTRL key for Windows usersPrepare the texture pattern 1. In Photoshop, create a new document. Set the size at 20×20 pixel. 2. Zoom in (z) few step so that you can work on it easily. Choose Rectangular Marquee from the toolbar (m). 3. Make the selection of 5×10 pixel 4. Set foreground and background colour as...

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Transparent Glass Lettering. Learn how to make a stunning glass text effect using Gimp!

In a previous post, I commented on a cool free graphics editor called Gimp. It is a powerful, full featured editor. To show you one of the things you can do with it, below is a post which was on gimpology.com.Step 1Create a new file and fill the background with a dark gradient. I used #0f291a to #22502b.Now type in a word with a nice font and a light color. I used Myriad Pro, 144px at #72bd90:Step 2Select your text layer and set its opacity to 60%. Now select the text tool and click on your text, then click "Create Path from Text":Step 3Select your text layer, then click Layer > Layer to...

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How To Use Your Favorite Text As Bullet In MS-Word

In Microsoft Word, lists of items or important points of a specific topic are presented in the documents in a prominent way by applying default bullets and numbering. By default, word provides only few built-in bullets and numbers to prominent your important points. But if you wish to use your name or any favorite word as a bullet then you can modify the default bullets lists.Follow the given steps to modify the default bullets with your favorite name:First open your Microsoft Word program.Now go to File menu and click on Open option to open any word file.Now go to Format menu and click on Bullets...

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