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Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Photoshop Elements are both powerful photo editors. For the hobbyist, Photoshop Elements can be used to handle most, if not all of your photo editing needs. For serious photographers and professionals, the full version of Photoshop offers more tools for complete control over your photos. Both programs, and many other photo …
There are many utilities out there that will show you the space used in the various folders on your system. One of the better ones is WinDirStat. WinDirStat is a disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool for Microsoft Windows (all current variants). WinDirStat reads the whole directory tree once and then presents it in …
(image courtesy of Download Squad) Michael Robertson, the founder of MP3, has been promoting open source software for a while now. He recently started working with a company, Ajax13, that is writing web-based office-suite applications. The latest venture is a Windows replacement called ajaxWindows: Today I’m launching ajaxWindows – a complete virtual PC you can …
From BusinessWeek: Consumers who want to weigh how their purchases affect the environment have plenty of guidelines and seals of approval to choose from for everything from cars to tissue paper. But finding out just how eco-friendly a computer is can be a bigger chore. There are several competing yardsticks, each considering a different aspect …
This is from the TechRepublic Microsoft Windows Blog: Windows Vista’s hard disk imaging utility, Complete PC Backup, allows users you to create an image file that contains the complete contents and structure of a hard disk. If you want this capability in Windows XP, you don’t have to pay for a third-party utility, such as …
From the New York Times: On a recent afternoon at his company’s headquarters here, Michael S. Dell is seated in a spacious conference room named Dobie Hall — in honor of the University of Texas dormitory where, in 1984, he started the computer giant that bears his name. He boasts that Dell Inc. has just …
From the Financial Times: George W. Bush has acknowledged that the US is vulnerable to cyber-attack and said he might raise the issue with Chinese President Hu Jintao when they meet in Sydney on Thursday. The US president’s comments followed a report in the Financial Times that the Chinese People’s Liberation Army had allegedly hacked …
Study and Practice Today’s tip could be applied to just about anything you wish to excel at. It is something I have mentioned in the past and is well clichéd: Practice makes perfect. If you aren’t out practicing photography, you aren’t out improving your photography. Of course, you could take tens of thousands of photographs …
Shawn Bremner, a friend who used to provide the Thought of the Week, sent me a link to an image that is supposedly from a 1979 magazine that computers and other electronic gadgets in the home. You can see the much larger, readable image on Flickr…
From USA Today: Anyone who has been inside a hospital probably has been cut off from relatives and colleagues because of a common rule: no cellphones. But some health care facilities are creating wireless networks to let patients, family members, physicians and staff members use their phones. The concern about the phones, hospital officials say, …