Make Photographed Documents Look Like Scans
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 5:10 am
While we do not always have quick access to a scanner, most of us almost always have access to the camera on our cell phones. So, in a pinch, we can take a picture of a document and send it to whoever needs it. However, photographed documents look unprofessional and can be hard to read.
Cam to Scan Lite is a free software download designed to make photographed documents look like scanned documents.
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Open PDFs in Firefox without Adobe Reader
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 6:56 am
The latest Adobe X update reportedly does not play well with the latest version of Firefox. Many users report that when they try to open a PDF in Firefox, they are unable to scroll to see the entire document. Most of the time, the window locks and must be closed—or Firefox must be restarted.
Fortunately, many Adobe Reader alternatives are available for viewing PDFs in Firefox. One of our favorites is Foxit Reader.
Click the Download link on the right of the Foxit Reader page and save the file to your computer. Once downloaded, install Foxit Reader.
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Add Fun Effects to Your Facebook Photos
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 5:21 am
Over the past couple of years of uploading photos straight from our cell phones to Facebook, we have amassed a large collection of rather boring-looking photos with no way to edit them short of downloading them from Facebook and using a graphic editor. This seems like a great amount of trouble just to jazz-up our boring photos.
MessMyPhoto.com has a little-effort way to add cool effects to Facebook photos without having to download, upload, edit and re-upload them.
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Delete All of Your Twitter Tweets
Posted on January 16, 2012 at 5:52 am
Chances are, if you have been on Twitter since the beginning of the service, you have amassed more tweets than you realize. Some of them may be sheer genius. Others (often the majority) are less than stellar. Some even may even be lame.
If you reach a point where you want to delete all of your tweets and start over, yet keep the same followers, you can do that with TwitWipe.
Towards the middle of the page on the far right, look for a white box with a sign in with Twitter button. Click the button.
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Aggregate All of your Email and Social Media Contacts
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 6:50 am
We have contacts saved all over the Web, from multiple email addresses, Facebook, LinkedIn and probably other places we have long forgotten. After nearly two decades with modern Internet access, we still do not have one central place to see all of our contacts.
Neiio Contacts seeks to end the contact-finding chaos by creating one central place where you can store contacts from both social media outlets and email—even multiple email addresses.
Click the Subscribe link on the Neiio homepage. The link is located beneath the login button.
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Download YouTube Videos as MP3s and MP4s from a Toolbar
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 5:55 am
We have found many ways to download YouTube videos as both MP3s and MP4s. However, none of these ways is infallible, and YouTube has started trying to block many of these downloaders. Having several download options is important.
One fairly new option is the YTByClick Toolbar. If you use Chrome, IE or Firefox, you can install the toolbar and give yourself one-click access to MP3 and MP4 downloads.
Click the big red Download button on the YTByClick homepage. Depending on your browser, you may need to give the toolbar permission to install.
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