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Resize, Rotate, Crop or add Color Tones to JPEG or PNG Images

Master — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 11:59:55 +0000

We have written several articles about tools that make photo editing quick and easy, with little to no graphic editing experience required. Recently, one of our readers suggested a new tool to add to our collection

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Resize, Rotate, Crop or add Color Tones to JPEG or PNG Images

Turn Big Images into JavaScript-Enabled iFrames

Master — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 11:01:23 +0000

Modern digital cameras take very big pictures. Sure, these pictures are alive with detail and striking colors, but they must be resized for Web use.

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Turn Big Images into JavaScript-Enabled iFrames

Make Custom Brushes in GIMP

Master — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 12:29:51 +0000

GIMP doesn’t come with a large number of brushes. But it does have tools you can use to make your own custom brushes. Custom brushes can be very useful if you need a brush in a specific size, shape or color to create your images

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Performance Issues in Clouds: An Evaluation of Virtual Image Propagation and I/O Paravirtualization

admin — Tue, 31 May 2011 15:01:06 +0000

As a technology, cloud computing has become an IT buzzword for the past few years. Cloud computing has often been used with synonymous terms such as software as a service, platform as a service, and infrastructure as a service (IaaS)

Convert Documents, Spreadsheets and Presentations into Images or PDFs

Master — Mon, 30 May 2011 12:42:34 +0000

Newer versions of Microsoft Office come with built-in PDF conversion, but the built-in converter does not always work the way we hope. Sometimes text is skewed, sometimes our images are misplaced.

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Resize, Split or Crop Images the Easy Way

Master — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 12:28:34 +0000

In the Web 2.0 world, there is no shortage of image-editing Web sites. There is, however, a shortage of image-editing Web sites that split images for printing on multiple pages. Jimpl’s Image Splitter splits images easily and quickly, but with a few bonus editing features, like cropping and resizing, too

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Resize, Split or Crop Images the Easy Way

Add Special Effects to Images

admin — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 11:45:08 +0000

Finding new, wacky ways to impress friends with photos and other images is a popular use of our favorite social networking sites. While new ideas appear every day, most image enhancing Web sites are one-trick only, leaving them easily forgotten after a user uploads an image or two.

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How to Create Animation in Windows Live Movie Maker using MS Paint

admin — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 12:25:19 +0000

Windows Live Movie Maker is a fun application that is part of the Windows Live suite of applications that Microsoft has developed to give users the ability to jazz up videos to make them look more professional. Unfortunately, there is still no way to create animation in Windows Live itself however.

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How to Create Animation in Windows Live Movie Maker using MS Paint

How to Resize Images using GIMP

admin — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 11:17:47 +0000

The GNU Image Manipulation Program, is a free program that does most, if not all, of the things that can be done using Photoshop, which is great. The down side though is that a lot of people find GIMP a little difficult to use, which is too bad, because once you get used to how things work, GIMP is well worth the time invested.

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How to Resize Images using GIMP

Convert Text from Images into Editable Text Files the Easy Way

Master — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 11:59:14 +0000

Most scanners come with software that converts scanned images containing text into editable text files. However, many of us have started using our cell phone cameras to take pictures of documents—most of our phones, however, do not have OCR (Optical Character Recogition) built in. One quick way to turn any image, even those taken with our cameras, into an editable text file is to use an online service like Free Online OCR.

Export an OpenOffice Writer Document as a PDF

admin — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 12:04:24 +0000

The Portable Document Format (PDF) is a convenient method for creating and distributing a number of document types without having to worry about which applications a reader has on his/her computer. OpenOffice includes the ability to export Writer documents as PDFs

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Repair/Fix Corrupt JPG/JPEG Files

Master — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 11:57:57 +0000

Recently, I was working with a client that had accidentally deleted a bunch of photos from his computer.

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Repair/Fix Corrupt JPG/JPEG Files

Add Captions to Images in Word

admin — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 11:27:09 +0000

Microsoft Word is a powerful word processing program that contains some elements of a desktop publisher.

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Add Captions to Images in Word

Override Firefox Default Permissions Settings for Individual Websites

admin — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 12:26:28 +0000

With its flexibility and feature-rich interface, Firefox is the web browser of choice for millions of Internet users. Its options allow you to globally control permissions for how pop-ups works, whether to allow cookies, and a host of other options. Unknown to many users of Firefox, you can override these permissions for individual websites.

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Discover Pixel Color Information with Pixie

Master — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 12:29:13 +0000

Graphic designers and web designers the world over are constantly looking for ways to speed up development and make good use of color in their designs.

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Watermark, Join and Split PDF Files the Easy Way

admin — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 11:10:46 +0000

The versatility of PDFs is amazing. Unlike word processing files, PDFs will open on virtually any electronic device, regardless of installed software

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Add a Bing Map to a Blog Post in Windows Live Writer

Master — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 12:50:51 +0000

The latest version of Windows Live Writer adds even more features to make posting to a blog that much easier. One feature of the application is the ability to add, with just the click of a button, a Microsoft Bing Map to a blog post. Learn how to add a Bing Map to your blog post and explore some of the reasons to do so in the first place.

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Add a Bing Map to a Blog Post in Windows Live Writer

Identify Animals, Art and Objects in Images

admin — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 11:28:35 +0000

Digital cameras allow us to take hundreds of pictures at a time, which means we are sure to capture at least one great photo from every vacation or event we photograph. But, digital cameras do not label the photo’s location, nor do they label the things in the photo—they only assign the photo a number. This makes figuring out the exact location or the objects in a photo challenging when sorting through photos weeks or months later

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Identify Animals, Art and Objects in Images

Setup and Access Blogger.com with Windows Live Writer

Master — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 12:17:51 +0000

Google’s Blogger, which is hosted at blogspot.com, is one of the Internet’s pioneers in blogware. Since its inception in 1999, Blogger.com became an instant major hit among millions of bloggers around the world.

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Features of the Avery Template Tab in Word

admin — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 11:41:05 +0000

Avery is a company that produces a variety of preprinted products to help you make professional looking labels, business cards, invitations, letterheads, and many other documents. Using a template in Word, you can be certain that your Avery product creations will print correctly the first time. If you’ve been using Word 2007 or 2010 for a while now, you know that the Ribbon sometimes changes to include content that is customized to what you are currently working on.

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Features of the Avery Template Tab in Word

Adjust Gamma, Brightness, and Contrast on a LCD Monitor

Master — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 12:38:26 +0000

ATI and NVIDIA are locked in a war for top place in the graphics card market. AMD’s relatively recent acquisition of ATI has given the company a slight edge over its competition.

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Print Only What You Need with GreenPrint

admin — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 11:54:00 +0000

When printing pages from documents, websites, and other files, we tend to print unnecessary parts, such as useless images, texts, and even the pages itself.

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Print Only What You Need with GreenPrint

Turn your Boring FireFox Layout to 3D via FoxTab

Master — Tue, 11 May 2010 12:34:51 +0000

If you’re like me who likes to tinker and tweak their web browsers, try something new and add a little bit of spice to your Firefox experience. A 3D view of all opened, recently closed, and top-picked websites would be great. FoxTab is a very appealing 3D tab management application that was especially designed for Mozilla’s Firefox

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Turn your Boring FireFox Layout to 3D via FoxTab

New Google Docs Application – Drawing

Master — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 11:32:06 +0000

Google has been extremely busy updating Docs in the past few weeks.

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New Google Docs Application – Drawing

Edit Images Online for Free with Aviary

admin — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 12:17:45 +0000

If you edit images regularly, you know the value of a good image manipulation program. Unfortunately the industry standard applications, like Photoshop, are extremely expensive.

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Edit Images Online for Free with Aviary