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Image editing programs such as Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Photoshop Elements, Gimp and Microsoft Digital Image Suite offer a wide range of tools that can be used to create beautiful photographs, many of those tools and the effects they crete originated in the world of film photography. One such tool effect is the Orton Effect. The …
From CNN: Are your Web surfing fingers getting tired? There may be a reason. Netcraft, an Internet monitoring company that has tracked Web growth since 1995, says a mammoth milestone was reached during the month of October. “There are now 100 million Web sites with domain names and content on them,” said Netcraft’s Rich Miller. …
I read about this on the Download Squad site… Gickr is a cool web app that lets you quickly created animated GIFs without leaving the comfort of your web browser. You can upload files or read directly from your Flickr account.
From ComputerWeekly: Green issues are climbing the IT agenda as power costs escalate and legislation such as the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive begins to bite. IT professionals were this week in unanimous agreement that green IT is important, both commercially and environmentally. A report by technology analyst firm BroadGroup highlighted power costs as …
Do you use batch files at all to copy files from one place to another? If so, you know that you can use copy, xcopy, xcopy32, and other commands to do this. In the Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools there was also a utility called Robocopy. The latest edition of TechNet Magazine talks about …
Microsoft has quite a few products that they are beta testing now, or have just recently come out of beta. I came across one that I don’t remember hearing about before (I must have missed it). Microsoft Expression isn’t a single product, but a suite of products that let’s you work with graphics, create web …
From BusinessWeek: Those predictions that Google’s stock would hit $600 aren’t looking quite so outlandish any more. Not after a blockbuster third quarter and optimism that buying video downloading site YouTube will help Google conquer a whole new area of Internet search. The stock price has surged 11% in the past five days alone, closing …
From TechRepublic: It isn’t over yet, but 2006 is already a record year when it comes to security vulnerabilities. There is, however, a silver lining: A smaller chunk of the flaws are high risk. Last year, researchers at Internet Security Systems identified 5,195 vulnerabilities in software. On Monday, the count for this year stood at …
As I have mentioned several times before, I have been a member of my local camera club for about 8 years. Camera clubs typically look for technically perfect shots with absolutely sharp, critical focus. However, when you start to look around at fine art photography, you will find that those same attributes aren’t necessarily as …
Regular reader Shawn tipped me off to this… By Anne Morris, Total Telecom 30 August 2006 New free browser promises to keep your Internet search habits secret. A new free Web browser has been launched that claims it will enable people to surf the Internet without fear that their information and search habits will be …