Category «Computer Tips»

ACDSee update ACDSee Photo Manager

ACDSee Systems has updated their popular image viewing software. ACDSee 9 Photo Manager is now available. Watch here for a full review in the coming weeks. ACD Systems Releases ACDSee 9 Photo Manager – the Company’s Fastest and Easiest-to-use Photo Management Software To Date Faster viewing, organizing, enhancing and sharing capabilities significantly increase the speed …

Focus Lock – Digital Photography Tip of the Week

I wrote last week about furthering your photographic abilities by joining a local camera club or taking a course at a community college. As I said last week, I found them to be helpful in my own photography. This week I offer a tip to aid in focus and composition. I had previously wrote about …

Adobe releases Photoshop Elements 5 and Premiere Elements 3

I received the following press release from Adobe today. I will post a full review on the product once I receive a review copy. Adobe Takes Home Videos and Photos to New Level with Landmark Release of Photoshop Elements Plus Premiere Elements Software Bundle Integrated Photo and Video Functionality Offers More Ways to Make and …

Fast Disk Defragmenters

The Google Operating System blog had a posting recently about a freeware disk defragmenting utility I’d never heard of before: Auslogics Disk Defrag is a freeware for Windows 2000/ XP/ Vista with a simple interface, that runs much faster than the built-in defragmenter. You can’t defragment more than one partion at a time or set …

How to find confidential reports with Google

Chris pointed out this Boing Boing posting.. If you search Google for the Confidential “do not distribute” you will find all sorts of things that maybe shouldn’t be on the Internet.

Take a Class – Digital Photography Tip of the Week

It has been a long road, but I hope everyone enjoyed my 4 part series on digital black and white photography. One thing that wasn’t mentioned in my tips though, be sure you take your photographs in colour! Shooting in black and white mode on your camera will eliminate all of the colour information you …

Google Debuts 200 Year News Archive Search

From SearchEngineWatch.com: News and history junkies take heart: Google’s new News Archive Search lets you search back over twenty decades worth of historical content, including scads of articles not previously available via the search engine. “The goal of this service is to allow people to search and explore how history unfolded,” said Anurag Acharya, Google …

Office Letter: A Cheat Sheet For Word

Regular reader Pat sent me a great document of Microsoft Word shortcuts and tips. As I looked into it, I found it was originally referenced on the InformationWeek site in an article called Office Letter: A Cheat Sheet for Word: Office Letter reader Lyn Hancock wrote to share her list of shortcuts for Word. This …

Black and White from Colour Images – Part 4 – Digital Photography Tip of the Week

Over the past few weeks, I have discussed different methods to create black and white photographs from your colour images. I covered the three main conversion techniques, convert to grayscale, desaturate you image, and using the channel mixer. Of course, there are still even more ways to convert you image to a black and white …

Instantly recover your precious data with Search and Recover 4

I received this information from Iolo the other day regarding their Search and Recover 4 software: Have you ever accidentally deleted a treasured photo, erased an important document, or deleted an email message you wish you could get back? Accidentally deleting photos, files, songs, e-mail, or videos can leave you feeling angry and helpless. With …