Free, Cool Graphics Editor

GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc. GIMP is expandable and extensible. It is designed to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything. The advanced scripting interface allows everything from the simplest task to the most complex image...

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Speed Up Your Android Device

Android smartphones and tablets can become slow and sluggish over time. These easy-to-follow tips will help make your device run like new. You may have noticed over the past few months that your once-speedy Android device has slowed down considerably. Simple tasks such as switching between apps or returning home are proving more troublesome than before, and you are now experiencing lag in all the wrong places. Things don't have to be this way, however. These simple tips and tricks can help speed up your device and make it perform like new.  More here >&g...

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UPDATED - FREE Black Leather Desktop Background

Here's an interesting leather image to use as a wallpaper or background. Very sophisticated! Download it here!...

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UPDATE: Cool Web Effects - Lightbox Image Viewer 2.03a

As you may well have observed by now, the effect is not working any longer on my blogger as Google has adapted a similar approach to view images. I had, in that particular post, included the script in my heading and body, but these are conflicting with Google's implementation. However, you can still follow the directions and apply to Wordpress or your own web-site. Below is the original post: The Lightbox Image Viewer 2.0 expands upon the original Lightbox Image Viewer with a few new features. While the original version is great for viewing images individually on the page, Lightbox 2.0 supports...

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Android 101: Keep your apps up to date

Those apps aren't going to update themselves ... by default, that is One of the best parts about owning a smart phone is the limitless possibilities of installing apps that can do so much more than the phone can out of the box. The unfortunate downside is trying to keep up with the seemingly constant flow of app updates coming to your device every day. But you're in luck, as Android has had automatic updating of apps through the Play Store since back in the day when it was still the Android Market, and it's a simple process to get set up. Head to the Google Play Store on your device, hit...

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How to Add Automatic "Read More" to Your Blogger Homepage

I am going to tell you something about read more links. The read more link gives you more page views and is very SEO friendly. This feature presents your visitors to a more enjoyable web visit, as it neatly maintains concise text in a manageable view, especially when you have lengthy posts. You can add Read More >> , Read Full Post, etc. I am using the text Read More >>.  Any text and even a small graphic can be employed on your preference. There is not too much difficulty adding the additional script, as long as you follow the steps given here. HOW TO INPUT THE CODES Note: before you make any changes on your templates, always make a backup of it. 1. Login in to your blogger account 2. Navigate to Template section...

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Fences is a program that helps you organize your desktop, and can hide your icons when they're not in use

Fences is a program that helps you organize your desktop and can hide your icons when they're not in use. A "Fence", a term coined by this program, is an icon group on your desktop. Fences is an add-on to your desktop, not a replacement. Rope off your desktop Fences allows you to create shaded areas on your desktop that you can place icons in. You can label them however you wish, and move/resize them anywhere on the desktop. Pre-included layouts help speed the process for new users. See your wallpaper again! Quickly hide & show all your icons with an easy double-click Double click blank space on your desktop, and all your icons will fade out. Double click again, and they’ll return. We think this feature is so useful and unique, that...

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70 Windows 7 Tips & Tricks

Windows 7 is currently only a beta version, but it’s much better than the latest version of Windows Vista and it comes with a lot of new features. Unfortunately, some of them aren’t so easy to figure out, so I created a list of the most important tips and tricks and a step-by-step guide that will help you apply all of these great tips and tricks. 1. PC Safeguard I rarely let anyone use my PC because I’m afraid he will mess it up, but it seems Microsoft has been thinking at me and came with a solution. The PC Safeguard doesn’t let anyone mess your PC settings, because after the user logs off, the configurations are reset back to normal. Of course it will not restore the configurations changed by you, but only the ones done by other users...

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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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How To Capture A Frame From Any Video File

To capture a screen of any window you have one of two options: either you press the Print Screen key on your key board (or Print Scrn) to capture the whole desktop or press (Alt + Print Scrn) to capture only the active window. Black area? Read how to fix this. Open the video file using your favorite software. Press (Alt + Print Scrn) together on your key board, now you have copied the active window to the clipboard. Open Paint by going to Start -> All Programs -> Accessories -> Paint. Click on Edit -> Paste (Ctrl + V) to...

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Free your RAM and improve system performance

1) Start any application, say Excel. Open some large documents. 2) Now go to Windows Task Manager and click Processes tab and sort the list in descending order on Mem Usage. You will notice that excel will be somewhere at the top, using multiple MBs of memory. 3) Now switch to excel and simply minimize it. (Don’t use the Minimize All Windows option of the task bar). 4) Now go back to the Windows Task Manager and see where excel is listed. Most probably you will not find it at the top. You will typically have to scroll to the bottom of the list to find excel. Now check out the amount of RAM it is using. Surprised? The memory utilization has reduced by a huge amount. 5) Minimize each...

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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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Stop Blogger from turning all your text into CAPITALS

Blogger makes your post footer, blog footer, profile widget and header text turn out in uppercase letters by default, and this of course, sucks like a black hole for some (I know it does for me). To remedy this, just do the same procedure as with eliminating borders (see above) but instead of searching for "border:", search for "text-transform:" and eliminate every instance of it. Change "uppercase" to "non...

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HACKED!!! Supercharge Firefox For Speed Surfing

Nowadays THE most popular freeware is the Mozilla Firefox browser. As a huge Firefox fan, I wanted to give you some tips on increasing the speed when surfing the web using Firefox! First of all I suggest you to download and Install Mozilla Firefox. In my opinion, its the best browser available. Download it here. Some obscure preferences exist that affect the network performance and display performance of Firefox. They're the equivalent of special hardware tweaks that enthusiasts use to make your CPU run faster. There are security implications to modifying the network performance....

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Hack to Change Windows XP Home to Windows XP Professional

Enable the features found in Windows XP Professional on your Windows XP Home Edition installation with this hack. It will allow you to turn your Windows XP Home CD into a Windows XP Profrssional CD.Note: If your Windows XP CD does not contain Service Pack 2, you might want to Slipstream Your Windows XP CD first as you will not be able to upgrade an installation after using the CD.1. Copy the root directory and the i386 directory of the WindowsXP CD to your hard drive.2. Extract the Bootsector of your Windows XP CD.3. Click START-->RUN-->REGEDIT4. Highlight HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE5. Click FILE-->LOAD HIVE and select the Setupreg.hiv file This file is located on your Windows XP CD in the i386 folder.6. Locate the following registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINEHomekeyControlSet001Servicessetupdd7....

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Vista-style Sidebar for Windows XP

Thoosje Sidebar:The Thoosje sidebar for Microsoft Windows XP and Vista has gadgets like media players, google search, yahoo search and lots of more search engines. It has also vista sidebar gadgets like weather and system uptime and lots of more useful gadgets. The sidebar uses 50% less RAM and is faster than the original Microsoft Sidebar with more extras and works on Microsoft Windows Vista and XP.Organize your gadgets in Thoosje Vista Sidebar:Thoosje Vista Sidebar works on Windows XP and Windows Vista. Gadgets are easy to use mini applications that give you information at a glance and provide...

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Hovering Peek-A-Boo Navabar on New Blogger

In a previous post, we explained how to remove the New Blogger navigation bar. Well, perhaps you didn't really want to eliminate it altogether? Follow along on this hack and after it is in place, when you hoover your cursor over where the navabar should be, it will appear.....Like Magic!!1.-Open Your Layout Settings2.-Go To The Edit HTML3.-Put This Two Lines Of Code Inside The CSS Section That Is After The Color Parameters Arrays Of Your Blogger v3.0 Template And Before the /head Code Tag:#navbar-iframe{opacity:0.0;filter:alpha(Opacity=0)}#navbar-iframe:hover{opacity:1.0;filter:alpha(Opacity=100,...

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Create a Secure and Locked Folder in Windows XP

NOTE: Since some people were having issues with this method of hiding a folder in XP (folder being renamed incorrectly, visible via the command prompt, etc), I am adding to the bottom another way to permanently hide a folder using a program called Free Hide Folder. Please scroll down to read about it.If you’ve come across this page looking for a way to create a password protected, secure, hidden or locked folder in Windows XP for free, you’ve come to the right place. Unfortunately, Windows XP does not have any user-friendly built-in tools to create secure folders on computers with multiple users....

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