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- Entertainment & Gaming
Free Photoshop
Youre on vacation. You have your digital camera and you plug it into your friends laptop to upload a few pics to your favorite photo sharing site. Youd love to make a few quick adjustments before you publish, but your friends computer has no good image editing software. Enter Adobe Photoshop Express online. Through their revamped Flash 9 player, Abobe has created a scaled-back and easy-to-use version of Photoshop which runs entirely in your Web browser. Best of all, its free.
3.29.2008 at 09:54am - Comment by greasytonyThe only thing photoshop and fireworks could ever give me that GIMP and paint.net could not are the text effects. Photoshop is fantastic for getting some text for a banner and then adding embossing and gradient effects very easily but I can't find anything that can do it for free? Also, the Express software is not bad, mainly cos it integrates well with the social sites and is a hosted solution but for functionality it is no replacement for anything more than Microsoft office picture manager and MS Paint
- DIY
The Shape-Shifting Origami Table
digg_url = 'http://digg.com/arts_culture/The_Shape_Shifting_Origami_Table'; Imagine a table that could be quickly expanded/collapsed to accommodate any size dinner party. Oh sure, some tables have a set of panels that can be inserted for changing the size of a table. But, theres that nuisance storage factor of where do you keep the panels when not in use. Oh, ‘no prob, you say; just keep the panels permanently installed in the table. Or, better yet, buy a drop-leaf table with a movable side panel. OK, smarty pants, try that same trick with a round table.
3.29.2008 at 09:34am - Comment by greasytonysweet
- DIY
Mod Your PC for Triple Boot: a PC for All Seasons
digg_url = 'http://digg.com/mods/Mod_Your_PC_for_Triple_Boot_Vista_XP_and_Ubuntu'; Lucky you; you just received a brand new shiny PC for your [fill in the occasion: birthday, anniversary, graduation, holiday]. Unfortunately, your new rig almost certainly came preinstalled with Windows Vista, and youve got a ton of legacy software that require an older 32-bit Windows OS for operation. Whats a poor Vista PC to do?
3.29.2008 at 09:30am - Comment by greasytonyWindows hardrives are automatically formatted as NTFS, I thought Linux had trouble writing to NTFS and you have to format non window partitions and file storage partitions to FAT 32 to be accessible from Windows and Linux OSs. So you would have to tell all windows installs to use a different folder (on the FAT32 partition) as the my docs etc. or am I wrong?
- Gadgets
How It Works: The Sturdiest Solid-State Storage
Like a traditional hard drive, a flash-based drive stores information in the computer-readable language of 0s and 1s. But instead of writing data by flipping magnetic poles on a spinning disk, flash memory just shuttles electrons around on a stamp-size microchip.
3.29.2008 at 09:08am - Comment by greasytonyWhen flash usb thumb drives and mp3 players which were like 64mb > 512mb started to come out, we were told that the flash memory had a lifespan and has a finite number of writes, if this is the case, what should we use to back up data?
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