Create an Andy Warhol Style Image from a Photograph

Posted on October 28, 2011 at 5:44 am

Andy Warhol had a profound influence on the artistic world in the 1960s and 1970s. Several decades later, his work is still admired, copied and transformed. Good graphic editors can turn any photo into the iconic color-block style Andy Warhol used in his most famous paintings, but it can be hard to find the right filter settings to make the photo look like a painting.

The Warholizer is a much quicker way to create Warhol-style images with consistent, visually pleasing results.

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Force Stop an Android Application

Posted on October 27, 2011 at 6:38 am

Every once in a while you may get an error message while using Android that your app needs to Force Close. This generally means that the application has frozen and cannot close on its own. If the Force Close window does not appear though, you may be forced to manually stop an application that is wreaking havoc on your battery or it’s making your phone significantly slower.

To manually force close an application, begin by tapping the Home button on your device to get to the Android home screen.

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Find a Lost or Stolen Android Phone

Posted on October 27, 2011 at 5:00 am

Losing a cell phone is almost always a panic-worthy experience. Most of us no longer bother to memorize our friends’ phone numbers—why, when we can just click their name to dial their number? But, without a phone, we have no access to any of our contacts, which can make us feel completely cut off from the world.

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Display Tweets, Blog Posts and Photos on an Aggregated Timeline

Posted on October 26, 2011 at 6:50 am

Facebook’s new timeline-based profiles have been met with mixed reviews. Some people absolutely love the neat and orderly way information is displayed. Others just want their old info pages back. Regardless of the mixed reviews, apps around the net are following Facebook’s trend and creating ways to show just about any information in timeline format.

One of these apps is TimeKiwi, which aggregates Twitter, Tumblr, Posterous and WordPress into a nice, neat timeline.

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Review of Siri on iPhone 4s

Posted on October 26, 2011 at 5:06 am

When Apple announced that the next generation of iPhone would include a voice controlled personal assistant called Siri, we were skeptical. Sure, text-to-speech and speech-to-tect recognition has improved greatly over the past few years, but the type of artificial intelligence that Apple described at the announcement meetings seemed way too good to be true. The commercials for Siri seem like something out of Star Trek or The Jetsons.

After more than a week of putting Siri through its paces of our everyday lives, our initial impression is very favorable.

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Solve PC Problems With Microsoft Fix it Solution Center

Posted on October 25, 2011 at 6:12 am

When you encounter an error with a Microsoft product, such as Office or Windows, your first instinct may be to go to your favorite search engine for help. Many results will take you to popular blogs, forums and the Microsoft knowledge base. While all of these may provide great results, you could have your problems fixed quicker by using the Microsoft Fix it Solution Center.