How to apply the radial blur effect in Photoshop
Posted on September 7, 2008 at 5:28 am
Radial blur is one of the powerful filter tools you can apply to your photos to give them an emitting light effect. It is best used to achieve an expressive feeling of love or happiness and even spiritual power. If you want your pictures to glow, then this tip is for you!
Before we get started, make sure to check out my other Photoshop tutorials, such as how to retouch photos in Photoshop and how to remove red-eye using Photoshop. Also, check out my post on how to swap colors using IrfanView.
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Flock - The social browser
Posted on September 6, 2008 at 5:24 am
Back in 2007, I first wrote about the Flock browser and how much I liked it! Indeed it is yet another browser, but it offers something more that other browsers don’t have. Flock (URL: http://flock.com/) is built from the Mozilla Firefox technology so yes it does hog a lot of RAM but its response and stability is good.
The edge of Flock over the other browsers is its capability to interface with social networking sites very easily. At the left hand part you can see its display of supported sites:
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Have fun online with the Subservient Chicken
Posted on September 6, 2008 at 5:15 am
Last week I mentioned a retro space shooting game called LaserAge, which I hope you liked. Will it make your day if I tell you there is an online dude in a chicken suit that will obey your typed commands online? This became famous in 2004 and after four years, it still is one of my favorite classic fun website. The URL is subservientchicken.com.
When a friend told me the URL I said “what? subsidized chicken?” See, English is not out first language and “subservient” isn’t in my vocabulary yet at that time. A little query to Meriam-Webster.com got me to the listed definitions: “useful in an inferior capacity, serving to promote some end,obsequiously submissive”.
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How to track changes in Excel 2007
Posted on September 5, 2008 at 5:29 am
Are you looking for a way to track changes made to an Excel spreadsheet. In an earlier post, I wrote how you can protect an Excel workbook using a password, but there are many cases where you have to distribute a file and allow others to edit it also.
In these types of cases, it’s handy to be able to track any changes made to the original Excel spreadsheet. Tracking changes in Excel is fairly straight-forward and here’s how you do it.
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Hakia - The semantic search engine
Posted on September 5, 2008 at 5:19 am
Semantic search engines are making a buzz lately. Google, even with its own power and might of searching webpages, is one of the challenged search engines who don’t employ semantics on its rule to determine page relevance. Unlike
Google who uses page ranking algorithms to determine if your searched phrase matches a webpage, Hakia uses a semantic approach to determine if your keywords are related to a webpage even if the keywords are not in the webpage. Sound confusing? It is at first. With semantics, the search engine should be able to find related pages to the keyword by intelligently matching your keyword with related words.
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Fix Registry editing has been disabled by your administrator error
Posted on September 4, 2008 at 5:38 am
If you’ve recently tried to open the Windows Registry and were presented with the message” “Registry editing has been disabled by your administrator”, then you’re not alone! You can get this message for several reasons and sometimes will not be able to run regedit unless you are an Administrator.
Most of the time you will see this in corporate environments where the IT staff has locked down the computer by disbaling Windows settings and services. If it’s a policy pushed out by the main servers, it’ll be pretty hard to bypass, however you can still try!
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