Archive for May, 2007

I would like to post some pictures online, but I don’t want anyone to copy them. How can I protect them from being stolen? There is only one answer to this question, and it is a short one: It cannot be done Any method designed to stop visitors from downloading images can be circumvented by a person with [...]

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You Control: Tunes is a Mac application that adds iTunes controls to your Mac’s menu bar. Install this free download, and listen to your music without ever needing the actual iTunes interface. The function of You Control: Tunes is only natural, which is what makes the idea great. Many people listen to music for the length [...]

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Is there an easy way for me to monitor the news for certain topics? How can I alert myself whenever that topic comes up, without spending a lot of time online? Google has a product called Google Alerts that serves this exact purpose. With Google Alerts, you create a list of keywords, and notify yourself each [...]

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Keyboard shortcuts are key presses and combinations that allow you to use the keyboard to accomplish tasks usually completed with the mouse. If you are not using keyboard shortcuts, you have no idea how much faster you could be working with your computer. We have covered keyboard shortcuts before, but they are so essential that [...]

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Most people who’ve taken an interest in digital photography beyond hitting the shutter button will, at some point early on, wonder about RAW files. Most digital cameras capture photos in JPEG format for ease of use, however many feature-rich cameras, especially DSLR cameras can also record your photos in RAW. The praises of shooting RAW [...]

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Now there’s an even better way to get rid of Snap.com preview pop-ups: a simple rule added to Firefox’s AdBlock Plus Add-on banishes them for good. We previously covered disabling Snap.com’s annoying pop-ups, but the solution required you to visit the Snap.com website and click on a link that sets a cookie. If you ever [...]

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Ever wonder what the speed of your Internet connection really is? The Broadband Speed tool from Internet Frog can answer that question for you. The Broadband Speed tool measures your connection’s strength, and plots it on a graph in relation to other types of services, ranging from the sloth-like 14.4 modem to the super fast [...]

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If a picture is worth 1,000 words, a digital photo is worth 1,001. When you hit the shutter button on your digicam, the device in your hand records the light its lens sees — but that’s not all. Each digital photo you take has a variety of data fields embedded inside of it, visible [...]

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If you’ve ever had iPod issues after disconnecting from a Vista PC, Microsoft has released an update that may help you out. A new download from Microsoft corrects a Windows Vista flaw that caused data corruption on certain users’ iPods. Vista has features that claim to “safely remove hardware”, but an error in the system actually [...]

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A DSLR is a digital camera, but not just any ol’ digicam. A DSLR is a serious photo-taking tool that differs from point & shoot digital cameras in a variety of ways. If digital photography has begun to act as a hobby, if you’ve been hanging around Flickr, or if you’ve just spoken to a [...]

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