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Soft Focus is a much sought out effect in photography. You can find it used commonly in glamour shots and to some extent in wedding photography as well. There are special lenses you can use to create the soft focus effect using your cameras. Some modern cameras come with a settings that let you create [...]
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Change is coming. One thing to look forward to would be the launch of Microsoft Office 2010. Come the middle of this year, the new version of the Office Suite will part the curtains to emerge from the backstage. I have given the Public Beta a miss and am still hashing away at my old [...]
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Screencasts are those videos depicting a shot of a computer screen.  There are many applications for such a program such as tutorials and software reviews.  It is also often used to record video chat conversations.  There are quite a few tools for creating screencasts.  Today I would like to review another free screencasting tool that [...]
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Windows 7 has been around for a little while now and a lot of users are using it. It was released on July 22, 2009  and as of today it accounts for 27% of traffic on my personal blog askTheAdmin.com which happens to be right up there with the damn Internet Explorer 6 share! But [...]
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By now, most MakeUseOf readers should know all about BitTorrent, the most popular peer-to-peer technology on the web. We’ve talked about the protocol more than once, and even released the Big Book of BitTorrent“”a great place to start if you find BitTorrent too confusing for your use. There are thousands of BitTorrent clients on the [...]
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For those of you using Windows XP and getting tired of the green start button, listen up! Here is a straight forward article showing you how to change the color of the Windows XP start button for free. The XP start button consists of three layers: a bitmap file, a start text, and a hover [...]
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So you have yourself a wireless network and a printer. The printer is not wireless. The challenge is that you would like to print over the wireless network from any computer connected to your network either wired or wirelessly. How do do it? The answer is quite simple and the logic behind it is quite [...]
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We decided to reward our readers with even more benefits and this is what we’ve come up with. Every month, we’ll feature a cool product to give away. It could be an application, a subscription to a web service, a cool gadget; the sky’s the limit! This month, we’re giving away 3 copies of McAfee [...]
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I don’t think my problem is a unique one. I usually don’t watch a video in one sitting, although I might hear a song from start to finish. Sometimes, it takes about three sittings to finish off a movie! It’s not the popcorn calories I get worried about, but the hassle of resuming a movie [...]
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When I came across Autobahn (for Windows/Mac) and read about what it is capable of doing, I immediately wanted to install it and try it out. According to the website, it “optimizes your Internet connection to provide blazing fast downloads and video streams.” In the past, I wrote about how to tweak Vista to improve [...]
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As you might be aware, flashcards are a set of cards which generally have a question on one side and the answer on the reverse. You read the question, try to remember the answer and then flip sides to reveal the answer. Repeating the same process over and over again helps in memorizing. Flash cards [...]
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So your friendly neighborhood admin has been asked this question way too many times and I have decided to share this information with you here in the hopes that users will Google this issue before asking! Camcorders such as the JVC Everio (pictured below) use a .MOD extension to save their video files. This is very [...]
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With ample hard disk capacities at disposal, its only natural if one gets complacent about deleting older documents. However, such a habit requires efficient management so that you can find the file you are looking for quickly and don’t have to go through pile of unneeded files to find out what you were looking for. [...]
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My earliest recollection of trips to the video store usually ended with drumming my fingers. I did that while the guy behind the counter filled out the pink index card with the borrower’s details. Why couldn’t he be quicker about it? My frets didn’t speed him up. But any of today’s open source movie organizer [...]
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These days most people have more than one Internet connection. Like I have one for home, another while I am traveling and then add to then, the one I get at my workplace. Now, I happen to use my laptop at home, on the go and at the office as well. Anyone who has been [...]
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