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Backup Your and Your Friends Facebook Photos

Master — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 11:37:03 +0000

Facebook makes it very easy to upload photos from a cell phone. Many of us with limited cell phone storage space delete photos after uploading them to Facebook, making Facebook the only place where we can access our pictures

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Customize Folder Options in Windows 7

Master — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 12:19:18 +0000

With Windows 7, Microsoft has changed the ways that users can customize how their folders look and has provided more options for viewing files and folders than ever before; to see how you can customize your folder options, open Windows Explorer and then click on the Pictures folder that was created automatically for you when Post from: Customize Folder Options in Windows 7

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Customize Folder Options in Windows 7

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Turn Documents, PDFs, Pictures and Movies into Interactive Flip Books

Master — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 11:02:04 +0000

Tablets and e-readers constantly try to simulate the reading experience of a printed book by making digital pages appear to flip when turned. So far, owners of these devices like the idea of digital-page turning, so much so that software developers are looking for ways to make other text-based materials into flippable pages. Page Flip-flap Post from: Turn Documents, PDFs, Pictures and Movies into Interactive Flip Books

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Allow Friends to Download Your Flickr Albums in One Click

admin — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 11:42:13 +0000

Flickr is arguably the most popular way to display and share photos on the Internet.

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Download All of Your Facebook Photos the Easy Way

admin — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 11:48:53 +0000

Sharing photos on Facebook is super easy. We can upload photos from our computers, send photos from our cell phones or take photos directly from a Web cam. However, downloading the photos from Facebook is a tedious process

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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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Use Windows Live Photos with Windows Live Photo Gallery 2011

admin — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 11:52:41 +0000

Windows Live Photos is one of the options available to users when they long in to Windows Live, along with SkyDrive, Office, Messenger, Hotmail and MSN; it is in essence, a repository for photographs and images, and works very much like other photo hosting sites Windows Live Gallery 2011 on the other hand, is a free photo/video editing program with links to SkyDrive and other sites. To get it, go to Windows Live Photo Gallery 2011 , and download it. Once you have it downloaded and running, you should notice the now familiar Microsoft ribbon that has been incorporated throughout Microsoft’s suite of applications, it looks like this: If it looks familiar to you, that’s because this is the program that is actually running on Microsoft’s “cloud” television commercial.

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View Slideshows of Your Facebook Friends Photos

Master — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 11:21:50 +0000

Facebook users share thousands of pictures every day. While photo sharing helps us feel connected to our friends, if we have more than a few friends, the number of photos to view in a week can become insurmountable. A Facebook app called Pixable organizes all of your friends’ photos into categorized slideshows, making them easier to view.

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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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Find, Resize and Position Photos for Your Blog

admin — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 12:36:31 +0000

One of the on-going challenges for most bloggers is finding meaningful photos with the proper reuse rights. There are many databases available to search for photos, but searching these databases is time consuming. Besides, when the right photo is found, we must still resize it and provide the proper credit to the photographer

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Bulk Convert, Rename, and Resize Images with MS Office Picture Manager

admin — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 12:42:34 +0000

Converting, renaming, and resizing pictures one by one is a tedious task. If you’re a graphic or web designer, or just the usual computer user, you should try the Microsoft Office Picture Manager to do these tasks. This software is the successor of Microsoft Photo Editor (bundled in Office XP edition), Microsoft Office Picture Library 2003, and Microsoft Office Picture Library.

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Paint Digital Pictures with TwistedBrush Open Studio

Master — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 12:34:45 +0000

Most of us who make graphics rely on our old favorites, Paint Shop Pro and Photoshop, for our graphic needs. Both of these programs are powerful photo editors and digital graphic creators, but their capabilities for recreating a more traditional artistic experience, like say, with a medium such as pastel or watercolor, leaves a lot to be desired. This has left a major divide between the art created by artists in a studio and art created by artists behind a computer. Granted, Corel Painter mimics the traditional artistic experience well, but with a nearly $400 price tag, most of us simply go back to our Photoshop and make the best of it

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How to Connect Xbox 360 to PC

admin — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 12:45:16 +0000

If you have an Xbox 360 console, you can easily share all the pictures, videos and music stored on your computer with your console. This is nice if you have your Xbox connected to your huge flat-panel TV and want to show your family and friends home videos or pictures. Depending on what operating system you are running and whether or not you have a Windows Media Center PC, there are a few different ways to connect your Xbox to your PC.

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Make Mosaic Profile Pictures Featuring Your Facebook, Myspace and Twitter Friends

admin — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 11:37:37 +0000

For those on the never-ending quest for unique social-networking profile pictures, Frintr has created a way to shrink all of your friends photographs into teeny-tiny pieces, then arrange them like puzzle pieces to form your own photograph. These mosaic pictures are sure to catch attention.

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Make Mosaic Profile Pictures Featuring Your Facebook, Myspace and Twitter Friends

Quickly Create a Flash Slideshow

Master — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 11:49:34 +0000

Attention-catching photo slideshows are great additions to most Web sites.

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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Download All Tagged Facebook Photos the Easy Way

admin — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 11:40:52 +0000

Creating an offline collection of friend’s tagged Facebook photos could take hours of navigating through individual photo albums. If you have a great number of friends, this may seem like a nearly impossible task. Luckily, a small program called PhotoGrabber makes downloading tagged photos a quick, nearly effortless process.

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Convert Photos to Artistic Renderings, no Paint Brush Required

Master — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 11:21:52 +0000

Finding unique, cheap art to hang on the wall is completely simple if you have a library full of digital photos. Regardless of photo quality or artistic ability, a small program called FotoSketcher can turn photos into pencil sketches, oil or watercolor paintings in minutes. First, click File> Open a Picture and choose a photo to turn into a work of art.

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Create an Index Image of All Your Photos

Master — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 12:11:24 +0000

If you have thousands of pictures stored in your computer, a thumbnail or index image of all of them would be a better file management practice. An index image of all your pictures will also give you an easy time when finding a certain photo. The Cas program is a photo index maker that is so easy to use.

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Listen to Blogs and other RSS Feeds with BlogRadio

admin — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 11:51:02 +0000

Subscribing to blogs is a great way to keep track of the topics that are important to us, but after awhile, we seem to accumulate more RSS feeds than we can possibly read consistently.

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Hide Files in JPEG Pictures the Easy Way

admin — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 11:41:24 +0000

A couple years ago, we discussed how to hide files in JPEGs. The method we discussed worked well, but many novice computer users may feel more comfortable using a piece of software to hide files.

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Edit Videos on YouTube

Master — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 11:29:25 +0000

Like most Google products, YouTube has a lab section full of new features the Google experts are currently testing. YouTube’s experimental section is called TestTube

Desktop Blogging Apps for the Mac

Master — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 11:15:36 +0000

Time and again, Windows users who switch to the Mac platform have difficulty settling on a desktop blogging application. There are a few stand-out applications, but most of them are not free, and it’s difficult to make a one-to-one feature comparison between your current application and a similar application for OS X.

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7 Best Image RSS Feeds

admin — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 11:56:37 +0000

With the ability to use an RSS feed to rotate our wallpaper with Windows 7, finding a good RSS image feed becomes the holy grail for many of us. There are an endless supply of image RSS feeds thanks to sites like Flickr and Photobucket where anyone’s vacation photos can become an RSS stream. In this article, we have tried to avoid streams like those, and have instead found a collection of RSS feeds of striking image quality from sites all over the Web. 1. Getty Images Getty offers one of the largest assortments of individual image RSS feeds on the Web. You can subscribe to editorial images in categories such as entertainment, sports, news or features, or you can subscribe to creative images or the highest customer rated images. Something here will likely please everybody

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