Add Effects to Photos and Create Motivational Posters the Easy Way
Posted on November 29, 2011 at 5:54 am
Facebook users love to post and ogle motivational and demotivational electronic posters. These posters once hung in classrooms and dentist offices, yet now grace nearly every Facebook user’s wall. Cats seem to be the most popular source of motivation, often paired with a witty saying more funny to its creator than its reader.
If you have always wanted to make your own motivational poster, ClipYourPhotos is the answer to your prayers. Along with poster-making tools, ClipYourPhotos can add ripple effects, frames and disfigurations to your photos.
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Spot and Magnify Image Parts with Snagit Editor
Posted on November 28, 2011 at 6:09 am
If you’re presenting images, graphs, and charts in a conference or meeting, it’s always an excellent idea if you can highlight the most important and useful portions of the image. This way, you’ll instantly get the attention of your audience.
Giving more weight to integral information is also useful when you’re giving several instructions or when you want to give emphasis to an idea. For instance, if you want to emphasize quotes found in an e-book, the best way to accentuate it is by using the so-called “spot and magnify” method. This technique allows the chosen texts to be magnified so that it will stand out from the rest of the e-book’s contents.
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Search for Links Your Friends Share on Facebook and Twitter
Posted on November 28, 2011 at 5:19 am
No advertising is more powerful than word of mouth. When our friends have positive things to say about a product or service, we are almost always willing to try it. This is one of the reasons social networking is a powerful advertising tool.
After awhile, we tend to forget what our friends like, especially when we amass over 100 friends! To help us find links our friends have shared or liked, Social-Search.com has created a search engine that lists our friends’ links along with standard search results for any keyword.
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How to Get Windows Live to Send You E-mail Reminders
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 5:39 am
We all forget stuff, that’s a fact of life; and we all have different ways of having people (or machines) remind us to do the things we should do so we don’t fall behind on our rent, or find an angry wife when we get home after forgetting her birthday. One almost surefire way to never forget another important date or event is to have Windows Live send you e-mail reminders, even if you don’t remember to log in to Windows Live on the day the reminder needs to be sent.
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Best Free Download Managers
Posted on November 26, 2011 at 5:23 am
If your Internet connection is slow or prone to interruption, using a download manager can save you a lot of time and trouble. The best download managers can pause and resume downloads, download multiple files at once and download files using alternate protocols such as FTP and BitTorrent.
They also support downloading of Flash video files from sites like YouTube and Google Videos. The following download managers are among the best there are, and all of them are totally free.
Free Download Manager
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Create and Use Basic Formulas in MS Excel 2010
Posted on November 25, 2011 at 6:08 am
Oftentimes people avoid using certain programs because they figure the learning curve might be too long or the amount of time invested won’t be worth the eventual payoff. Nowhere is this more apparent than Microsoft Excel, the spreadsheet program that comes with the Office suite of applications.
Millions of people the world over have this application on their computer, but only a fraction of those ever take the time to learn how to use it, mostly due to its reputation as being hard to use. This article serves to do debunk that myth by showing just how easy it is to create spreadsheets that make use of formulas, the underlying powerhouse of Excel.
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