Category «Computer Tips»

Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0 and Adobe Premier Elements 3.0 Software Review – Digital Photography Tip of the Week

Over the past several weeks I have been using the new Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0 and Adobe Premier Elements 3.0. Having used every version of Photoshop Elements, I was pleasantly surprised by the inclusion of a few features I have long thought would make this the best product for amateur and serious hobbyist photographers, curves …

Secunia Software Inspector

Almost everyone uses WindowsUpdate to keep their Microsoft products up to date, but what about all the other applications that you have on your system? Secunia, the well-known security research company, has a new web-based scanner: The Secunia Software Inspector relies on carefully crafted “Secunia File Signatures” to recognise applications on your system. The detected …

2006 Year-End Google Zeitgeist

Last week I mentioned Yahoo’s top searches of 2006. This week it’s Google: A year’s worth of search speaks to our collective consciousness, and 2006 is no exception. To compile these year-end lists and graphs, we reviewed a variety of the most popular search terms that people typed into Google. Click on all the tabs …

Ripping DVDs

I have a DVD burner at home and at work, but I’ve never tried to make my own video DVD. I’m not particularly concerned about any legal ramifications. I’ve just never really needed to. Lately I’ve been doing some reading and thought I’d share a couple of things. The first is software called DVD Shrink: …

ExpoDisc White Balance Filter Review – Digital Photography Tip of the Week

This week I review ExpoImaging ExpoDisc White Balance Filter. Through a series of controlled tests in different lighting conditions and real world examples, I show how this filter can improve colour accuracy in your photographs. Read the full review…

Online Generators

Do you like to use wizards or online generators to create code, shrink graphics, or automate other common tasks? If so, then you should definitely check out a posting from Smashing Magazine where they have a huge list of online generators. One can discuss, whether web-generators are useful or not. On the one hand, they …

Yahoo! Top Searches of 2006

They seem to be a bit early with this, but Yahoo! is the first major search engine to release their top searches for 2006. The top ten overall searches are: Britney Spears WWE Shakira Jessica Simpson Paris Hilton American Idol Beyonce Knowles Chris Brown Pamela Anderson Lindsay Lohan There are lots of different categories as …

10 Minute Mail

Long-time friend and reader Shawn sent me this… Check this out: http://www.10minutemail.com/ It might be good content for your ezine. It gives you a temporary email address so that you can sign up for more info on other sites, read/get the info you want, and then the address is gone (so you can avoid spam, …

Show Texture in Your Photographs – Digital Photography Tip of the Week

Showing texture in photographs is not that difficult when you know how to capture it. Photographs are a two dimensional medium, so to show texture, we need to light our subject in such a way that we present the illusion of depth in the image. To maximize texture in a photograph, side lighting is key. …

PDFCreator

Our printer at church died the other day and we won’t have a replacement for a time. A piece of software that we use has to print reports before moving on to other functions. Someone suggested we download a PDF writer so that we could at least print the information to file. I assumed that …