Adobe Releases Photoshop Elements 6 and Premier Elements 4

I received this press relesas in my inbox today: Adobe Introduces New Photoshop Elements & Premiere Elements Best-Selling Photo and Video Software Feature New Levels of Integration and Creativity SAN JOSE, Calif. — Sept. 24, 2007 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced two major upgrades to its digital photo and video software for consumers: …

The 10 Funniest Sites on the Internet

From PC World: Along with sex and shopping, comedy is one of the biggest drivers of traffic on the Web. Especially now that a lot of regular people know how to post their homemade video and audio to the Web (along with clips from TV or radio), there’s an awful lot of funny stuff online. …

Overriding your White Balance to Achieve a Desired Tone – Digital Photography Tip of the Week

I previously wrote about white balance and how setting your camera white balance control to the proper setting for the scenario you are shooting will give you more accurate colours. But what if that is not what you want? Overriding your white balance let’s you control how your camera records your images. To maintain the …

:-) turns 25

From CNN: It was a serious contribution to the electronic lexicon. 🙂 Twenty-five years ago, Carnegie Mellon University professor Scott E. Fahlman says, he was the first to use three keystrokes — a colon followed by a hyphen and a parenthesis — as a horizontal “smiley face” in a computer message.

MySpeed Broadband VoIP and Speed Test

There are lots of Internet speed tests around, but a good one I came across the other day is the MySpeed Broadband VoIP and Speed Test. As the title indicates, it tells you how a VoIP connection would be. But it also provides you with overall upload and download speed tests, and shows the results …

Man in China dies after three-day Internet session

From Reuters: A Chinese man dropped dead after playing Internet games for three consecutive days, state media said on Monday as China seeks to wean Internet addicts offline. The man from the southern boomtown of Guangzhou, aged about 30, died on Saturday after being rushed to the hospital from the Internet cafe, local authorities were …

JkDefrag

I think I’ve mentioned before that I am a big fan of “portable” programs. By this, I mean programs that you do not need to install. You can just run the executable from anywhere (including a USB drive), and it will run. I came across a defrag utility recently that doesn’t need to be installed. …

How to Fix a Scratched CD

I came across an article in wikiHow called “How to Fix a Scratched CD“: While compact discs (CDs) are remarkably durable, it’s nearly impossible to prevent scratches and scuffs from occurring from time to time. The resulting damage can be either a skip in your favorite Bob Marley track or, in the case of data …

Toppling the Great Firewall of China

From eWeek: The Great Firewall of China is no firewall after all. The People’s Republic of China has no firewall perched on its routers to enable censors to block Internet sites. Rather, the authoritarian regime relies on a far more sophisticated censorship system that uses a keyword blacklist and routers that reach deep into Internet …

Soon millions of Facebookers won’t be incognito

From USA Today: Social network Facebook will soon make the listings — the name and photo — of its 40 million active members available to anyone who searches the Internet on Google, Yahoo and Microsoft. But in its pursuit of building a bigger audience, Facebook has set off privacy alarms among customers who don’t necessarily …