Category «Computer Tips»

Have a tip, leave a tip with Tipstrs

I read about this on Download Squad: Do you have something to share? Maybe a little tip about something? A trick of some sort? Tipstrs wants you to leave it on their website and share it with the world. Tipstrs is pegged as a hybrid social bookmarking site. The whole idea behind the site lays …

Layer Masks – Digital Photography Tip of the Week

Both Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0 are great tools that offer precise control over your photographs. Back in the days when I printed my own black and white photographs in my basement darkroom, I used tools for both burning and dodging (adding or holding back exposure) specific parts of my photos. Today’s photo …

The How-To Geek Windows Vista tips

The How-To Geek is a nice site that has tips for a variety of operating systems. There are currently 88 tips for Windows Vista. I haven’t tried Vista yet, so I can’t vouch for any of the tips, but they seem pretty straightforward. Check it out…

Turn off your flash – Digital Photography Tip of the Week

I know I mentioned last week I will discuss layer masks this week but time has not been on my side so will hold off until next week for that topic when I can give it the time it needs to be properly explained. This week, I want to offer a brief suggestion for point …

Daylight Savings Time changes

As you are probably aware of by now, the daylight savings time rules are changing this year. Instead of happening the first Sunday of April and ending the last Sunday in October, it is now going to start the second Sunday of March (March 11 this year) and ending the first Sunday in November (November …

RipIt4Me

RipIt4Me is a freeware utility that helps you backup your copy protected DVDs. Recently released DVDs are now very often equipped with stronger copy protections – such as ARccOSâ„¢ and RipGuard DVD. Programs like DVD Shrink or DVD Decrypter cannot handle these types of discs. It is similar to other programs I have mentioned previously …

Set your White and Black Point – Digital Photography Tip of the Week

There are a few steps I do to almost all of my images after I have captured them. Over the next couple of weeks, I will go over some of them, step by step. The first step to obtaining a great final image is setting your black and white points. Most, but not all photographs …

DVD Flick

I’ve seen this mentioned on several sites lately. DVD Flick is an open source DVD authoring tool: DVD Flick aims to be a simple but at the same time powerful DVD Authoring tool. It can take a number of video files stored on your computer and turn them into a DVD that will play back …

Send To Toys 2.5

I read about this on Pirillo’s Picks… Send To Toys is an enhancement of the Send To system menu. – Send To Toys Control Panel Applet allows you to manage the Send To system menu content, and configure the various Send To Toys settings. – “Add to Send To menu” and “Remove from Send To …

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom now for Sale at Adobe.com

Photoshop Lightroom, the much anticipated new software from Adobe is now available for purchase from the Adobe Store.  Developed for professional photographers who need to manage and adjust large volumes of photographs,  Lightroom allows quick and easy adjustment to a large number of images from a variety of formats. Watch here for review of Adobe …