Turn Photos of Friends into Santa Claus with iPhone
Posted on December 2, 2011 at 5:00 am
It is the holiday season once again. With Cyber Monday behind us, it is time to commence with the next great digital holiday tradition: Morphing photos of our friends and family into embarrassing likenesses of holiday icons.
If you have an iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch, a great app for embarrassing your friends this holiday season is Santa Booth. For our test, we used the free version, labeled in the App store as Santa Booth Free.
Once the app is installed, click the Start button.
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Embed Your RSS Feed on Any Webpage
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 6:30 am
Blog popularity depends on more than just being seen by the major search engines. Advertisements definitely help, but having your feed showing in as many places as possible, include Facebook pages and personal Web sites, can also help.
RSSInclude.com provides an easy way to embed your feed on any Webpage.
Click the Create a New RSSbox button on the homepage.
On the next page, choose one of the free box templates on the left and click Create Now. The templates on the right are premium, and thus cost $36.50 per year.
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Make a CD or DVD Cover the Easy Way
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 5:55 am
Custom CDs or DVDs make great holiday gifts for family and friends. Mothers the world over enjoy photo and video montages of their children set to lively music and burned on a DVD. To make the present truly unique, a custom cover for the CD or DVD is essential.
While there are many ways to make a CD or DVD cover, one of the quickest is to use DVD Slim.
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Remove Skin Blemishes from Photos using GIMP the Easy Way
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 6:19 am
One of the most needed things in a photo editor is the ability to remove blemishes from skin, usually the face area, so that people won’t feel embarrassed putting up a picture of themselves on their Facebook page, etc. Luckily, since commercial software costs a ton, there is a free, open source program called GIMP, that you can use for free. All you have to do is go to the GIMP site and download it onto your computer, then follow the instructions for installing it.
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Use Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and Groupon from Your Email
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 5:35 am
If you use Facebook, Twitter and Google+, you likely receive several notifications per day telling you someone posted on your wall, commented on your tweet or wants to be your friend. To reply or otherwise participate on the social network, you must click a link in the email and sign into the service.
PowerInbox can save time by allowing you to reply and interact with email notifications from Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and even Groupon, all without leaving your email.
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How to Do Simple Math Using Microsoft Excel 2010
Posted on November 29, 2011 at 6:32 am
A lot of times people find themselves wanting to do some simple math and find that what they want to do is a little complicated for Windows Calculator, and then wonder if it might not be easier to do the job in Microsoft Excel. Unfortunately, since so many people rarely if ever use Excel, they find trying to do something simple takes far more time than they’d bargained for; It doesn’t have to be that way though, because learning to do something very simple in Excel is pretty easy, that’s what this article is for.
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