Create Your Own Unique & Personal Timeline Covers For Facebook With CoverCanvas
A lot of bad things have been said about Facebook over the years, many of them justified. But there is one thing about Facebook that even the most zealous critic can’t ignore – it makes people more creative. What do I mean by that? Well, can you imagine yourself designing something like your Timeline page just right before Facebook came along?
Create A Cool Travel Slideshow In iPhoto '11 [Mac]
For iPhoto users who have travel photos taken in different places throughout the country or world, iPhoto offers a pretty cool slideshow theme that is relatively easy to put together, depending on how well you have managed your iPhoto library. It even includes a great piece of stock background music if you don't have anything better to use.
Preserving Your iPhoto Library For Your Grandkids & Beyond [Mac]
The end of the year is a good of time as any to tidy up, organize, and back up your iPhoto library. Even if you're using Apple's Time Machine to back up the contents of your Mac, your memorable photos are definitely files that you will want to preserve in more than one place. Apple has made the process fairly easy, in that you can simply back up your entire iPhoto library on a disc or external hard drive.
10 Inspirational Websites For Creating Your Own Customized Logo Designs
Designing the perfect logo requires an in-depth understanding of the company, the product, the consumers, and the culture in which all these operate. But what if you are starting out with your own small business and need a logo? Costs come in the way of hiring the best logo designers. The makeshift answer could be to look for some creative logo inspiration and design a logo yourself.
How To Extract Links For Mass Image Or File Downloads With JDownloader
We've published lots of articles about download managers here at MakeUseOf. FlashGet, Free Download Manager, and Download Accelerator plus are some of the favorites among Windows users. DownThemAll is usually the pick when we're going for a mass downloader compatible with our favorite browser. One that we've yet to feature is JDownloader. Some would say that it's for the more advanced user.
Edit Multiple Photos Simultaneously with BatchPhoto [Giveaway]
Ever wanted to add watermarks to a whole bunch of photos, or maybe resize them? BatchPhoto Home is a user-friendly application that lets you take a large collection of photos and apply numerous filters to all of them. This week, we're giving away 25 copies of BatchPhoto Home. Find out how you can win one right after the review.
Google+ Adds Free Photo Editing Suite [News]
Social networks rely on photos as a means of communication. Where have you been? What have you been doing? Who are you with? Now Google+ users can now look a little better doing whatever with whomever, thanks to a free photo editing suite called Creative Kit. It unexpectedly arrived a few days ago, and brings a range of options available for free.
4 Apps That Make Halloween Better & Safer [Android]
Ah, Halloween. Of all the holidays, it’s likely the most social. This brings its own challenges. With everyone spread far and wide, you may want to keep track of your family or friends. You might also want to watch what you’re eating, lest the candy bars get out of control. Let’s have a look at some apps to solve these problems – and more.
3 Tools to Quickly Preview Your Images in the Context Menu With a Right-Click [Windows]
When it comes to using the mouse, the right-click context menu is a powerhouse of productivity. If tweaked right, it is definitely a shortcut to saving time. Quickly previewing your images with a right click is a good move if want to save a click or two. Previewing images is a time-saver from within dialog boxes too like the File Open box. Here are three image tools for your right-click context menu.
3 Color Picker Add-Ons For Web Designers & Graphic Artists [Firefox]
Eyedroppers and color pickers can work outside a mammoth graphic tool like Photoshop and CorelDraw. Most of these tools are small and portable. But today, we will diverge from desktop color picking tools and look at five browser based ones. After all, a graphic artist can take his inspiration from anywhere…and if it’s anywhere online, a few very useful Firefox add-ons could come real handy.
Pixlr-o-matic Arrives For Android 2.1+, Lets You Mix-And-Match Photo Filters [News]
Do you want to make your digital smartphone photos look like they were taken with a 50 year old camera that you found at a yard sale? Do you have an Android? Then you’re in luck, because Pixlr-o-matic is now available for the low price of free. It’s an image editing app that can apply pre-determined filters to photos on your Android.
Find Duplicate & Similar Images On Your Hard Drive With SimilarImages [Windows]
The main reason why you would want to delete similar images is to save some space on your hard drive. Going through your image folder deleting extra images is too time consuming. Besides, many of the similar images can have different names which makes identifying them almost impossible. Luckily, there's a free tool to semi-automate the process.
3 Light & Simple Ways to Take Screenshots in a Snap
Taking screenshots is something everyone needs to do once in a while. There are numerous screen capture tools out there – some very powerful and costly, and some lighter and cheaper. But let’s face it, most of us don’t need to use screenshots professionally. We just need a lightweight and simple tool that won’t slow down the computer and will simply do what it’s supposed to – take screenshots. Here are 3 free, simple and lightweight tools that do just that.
Add Notes & More To Your Photos Using Skitch [Android]
In Mac-using circles, Skitch has been a household name for a while now as it’s a great tool for capturing, editing and sharing screenshots. In August, Skitch was bought out by Evernote, and now we get to see Skitch on Android for the first time.
EyeEm - Another Fun & Useful iPhone Camera App
If you're an avid iPhone camera user, you no doubt have heard of or use the popular Instagram app which seems to have a cult following. With over 150 million downloads of that app, it's not surprising to see similar iPhone camera apps come onto the market. Thus a new camera app called EyeEm may very well attract its own users and followers.
3 Photo Editing Tools To Make Fun Of Your Face
We have already covered at least 5 sites that will change the way you work with digital photos as well as more than 10 sites to add amazing effects to your photos. Today's collection is only about making fun of your face to create cool fake photos and arrange funny pranks or create humorous greeting cards for your friends and relatives.
Create Stunning Panoramic Images With Pano [Android]
Today we’re going to be looking at Pano, a camera app that currently goes for $2 on the Android Market. Pano has no built-in effects; it doesn’t have advanced shutter controls or a built-in timer. It doesn’t do Lomo, and you can’t say "cheese" to have it take a picture. It does just one thing, but something no other camera app I reviewed so far can do - it helps you take large, beautiful panoramic images.
5 Ways to Have Fun With Your Android Phone Camera
Most Android phones and tablets come with a small camera, often two. Typically, the in-built webcam is used for video chatting or video calls. If these are the only tasks you use the camera of your Android device for, then you are wasting precious potential for a lot of fun. Let me introduce you to five alternative uses for your Android device's webcam.