Create your own logo using Photoshop
Posted on July 2, 2009 at 5:05 am
Previously, I wrote about a free online service called LogoMaker that lets you create and design your own logo online. However, making a good looking text logo is easy using Photoshop. In this tutorial we will apply duplicated layers, opacity and some rasterizing techniques to create a text that looks like the one below.
Begin with an empty Photoshop document. Create a new layer and create a text on the document using the Text tool. In your background layer create the text by clicking on the Text Tool of Photoshop then click and drag it in your background layer to your desired size. You can also select the font, size, and colour of the text that you want to use.
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3 best online document sharing sites
Posted on July 1, 2009 at 5:06 am
Looking for a place to share your documents online? Previously, I’ve written about services like Show Document, a free online document collaboration tool. However, I’ve not yet gone into detail about document sharing websites.
Firstly, there are a bunch of them! If you simply want to upload a file and share it with your friends, family, book club, college organization, company team, etc, it’s a piece of cake nowadays.
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Turn off SeachWiki customized search results in Google
Posted on June 30, 2009 at 5:01 am
SearchWiki is a feature in Google Web Search that lets you customize the result pages manually by ranking, removing, and adding notes.
It basically consists of a few extra buttons on the search result pages, including a green up arrow, an “x” to remove a result, an “Add a result” button and a comment icon, if you want to add your own comments.
You will see these buttons when you are signed into your Google account. The changes that you make will stick as long as you are logged into Google. Next time you perform that search, the results will be the customized version you created.
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Don’t forget attachments in Outlook 2007 anymore
Posted on June 29, 2009 at 5:43 am
Just two days ago, I wrote about the most useful Gmail Labs features, one of which is a attachment reminder. If you mention somewhere in your email that you have “attached” a file, etc, and if you click Send and there is no attachment, it will prompt you before sending.
Unfortunately, this functionality is not available in Outlook by default, however, since it’s one of the most used email clients in the world, it would be nice to have the option!
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Convert image to text using free online OCR software
Posted on June 28, 2009 at 5:52 am
Have a PDF document or an image that you would like to convert to text? Now will everything being digital, you might end up getting a document from someone that is in TIFF or PDF format, but that you would have preferred in Word or Text format so you can edit it.
Of course, you could always purchase OCR software, but here at OTT, we always try to find ways to do everything for free! That’s where a free online OCR service comes in handy.
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Top 9 cool and useful Gmail lab features
Posted on June 27, 2009 at 5:38 am
If you’re using Gmail and have not played around with the new Gmail Labs options, you’re definitely missing out on some cool features! Why aren’t these out of beta yet, you might ask?
Who knows! It usually takes Google a long time to move from their Labs to standard feature, even if people have used those features for years. Anyway, here is my list of ten cool and useful features in Gmail Labs that you should enable.
You can get to Gmail Labs by clicking on the green flask icon at the top right of your Gmail window:
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