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5 Windows XP Tips That Sometimes Become Very Useful

1. Access Websites Without Typing In The Browser’s URL
From the Start menu in the run window, you can type for a web address instead of typing in the browser.

2. Select All
Ctrl+A lets you select all thats on a page.

3. Put Your Own Icons For Your Folders
Go to Start>All Programs>Accessories>Paint>image>Attributes. In this window, type 32 in both the Width anfd Height boxes and select Pixels under the Units section. In this way, you make an icon size document. Have a brush art, use pencil or air brush whatever you want to create one for you or open up one to edit as you like. Save the file as an icon by typing .ico after the name, for example for a file named ‘abc’ you will type ‘abc.ico’. Go to the properties of the folder that you want to change the icon of. Under the Customize tab, click Change Icon button, under the Folder icons section. Browse for the icon that you have just saved.

4. Display Two Equally Enlarged Windows Side By Side On The Desktop
In the taskbar where you have your Windows’ buttons, click on any one of them, press the Ctrl key and hold it and right click on the other Window button. You will see options of Horizontally and Vertically Tiling, click one of them which you like.

5. Reach The Desktop In A Hurry With The Keyboard
You want to reach the desktop but there are many windows in front of you to minimize them first, here are the keys that keep you ’safe’ from this minimizing job. There are two combinations of keys to press one and then other. First press Ctrl+Esc, realease them, then press Alt+M.
Note: Tested on Windows XP Professional Edition.

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Tags: Tips & Tricks

Cool Chinese Tech-Cool G108 Watch Phone

China, a symbol of copying the originals, now has come up with its own. An attractive one when it comes to features and compactness, the round shaped watch phone comes in a clamshell design, as a watch when closed and a phone when opened. Opening it we have a Motorola RAZR style beautifully illuminated keypad with the ‘mouse pad’ in the center and numerical buttons go along the circumference. The screen we have is the 1.5″ LCD with the 256K of color display and 128 X 60 pixel resolution. Featured heavily in its small body of 51 X 51 X 20 mm(compared to mobile phones having that much features) and weghing only 65 grams, the watch phone incudes a camera of 1.3 MP, a speakerphone, a media player, built-in 0.5 MB memory and a slot for a removable memory, support for quad-band GSM and GPRS, USB connectivity and of course, SMS/MMS.

No word yet for pricing but I am sure keeping in mind the low pricing of Chinese products, it will be very much affordable for the masses.

Tags: Tech News

Nokia Aims To Kill iPhone With It’s “iPhone Killer”

Presented in the Evans Data Developer Relations Conference, held in California, this handset is based on Symbian S60 platform. Told as Nokia’s first touchscreen handset, codenamed ‘Tube’, the big one from Nokia expected to be released end this year, because there going also some high-ends to be released then and a healthy competition is likely to be created. Although Tube appears almost as an iPhone copy, with the only noticable exception of Nokia’s logo, iPhone has readily been challenged by Nokia, hence called the Tube iPhone Killer. It will be interesting to see an iPhone copy going to ‘kill’ iPhone.
Nokia seems quiet an aggressive guy in a mood to outclass the another guy iPhone who has been quiet successful so far but a ‘not-giant’ in the world of handsets which is dominated very much by the former. And because of this there are received some strict signals from Nokia.

Comparing the sales which iPhone had in the last six months with that of Nokia’s, in the very words of Forum Nokia’s vice president, Tom Libretto:

“We’ve done that since we’ve had dinner on Friday”.

Note that the sales magnitude of some days of Nokia included all of Nokia’s models while its iPhone alone the model on the other side which took almost half a year to come to the sales point equalling the former. Such an ‘expert’ comparison, by a man of such designation? What could be said about it.
The Tube will have 3G connectivity and java support, features which the iPhone lacked. No words for the exact date of shipment and price yet.

Tags: Tech News

Photoshop Fun: Spherize An Image

Select the part of the image that you want to ‘Spherize’, using the Marquee tool from the toolbox’s top-left side. (The Marquee tool is pointed with the red arrow and the part of image that I want to Spherize is selected with the elliptical marquee tool in the picture below.

Click the Filter tab, go to Distort and then click Spherize.

The Spherize titled window appears showing the preview of the effect. Inside this window beneath the preview are two buttons for zooming in/out the preview. Also, in this window, there is a slider called amount slider, drag that slider to your desired amount of distortion. There is a mode bar with other spherizing types, I left it for you to check them out yourself.

Click OK. Tada!

Here note that the amount of distortion ranges from -100 to 0 to 100. Moving from 0 to the left gives your image a concave effect. This concave effect goes on increasing as we drag the slider towards the negative extreme -100 until we reach it, the point where the concave effect is maximum. Same goes for the right side with the only exception of effect which here should be of course, convex.

I spherized the Tower of Pisa with the convex effect leaving the concave part for you.

This post is aimed at having fun with the very basics of Photoshop. I see myself as a beginner photoshop user. This great program can much easily be learn playing with it like that in this post. Make your thoughtful comments did you like the post and how did I demonstrated in the post? Should I continue with it?

Convert Your Documents Into PDFs Very Easily.

PrimoPDF is a free application by which you can convert windows application files to PDFs. It works with all the applications which have the print functionality. To make the PDF, go to File tab, click Print, select PrimoPDF from the printers name list and click OK. PrimoPDF window will appear which has the options to choose from Screen, Print, eBook, Prepress. 128-bit encryption security provided. Why not give this useful freeware a try?
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