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Tuesday, November 18th, 2008CreateHDR is an online tool that lets you easily add High Dynamic Resolution effects to images without using Photoshop or any other HDR software. HDR images show greater range of tonal detail, than your camera could capture. This site emulates HDR effect so you can play with it with no Photoshop or other software. [...]
Can you create your own 3D cartoon ?
Sunday, November 2nd, 2008This is my first xtra normal video.
Very basically, the tool takes what you type, for one or two characters, and creates a video of your selected characters. You can control pretty much everything in the video, from background music to camera shots, and character appearances and actions, by dragging icons and dropping [...]
Converting MP4 to MP3
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008I know there’s a lot of sites (like vidtomp3) that let you extract music from online videos. But what if you already have the video (in my case, some *.mp4 files) on hand ?
Converting MP4 files to MP3 is quite easy, once you have appropriate software. I used google to find the free [...]
Response to “Christian Lobby Welcomes ISP Filtering Moves”
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008The Australian Christian Lobby have issued a press release welcoming the Australian ISP Filtering Moves PDF. Here’s my response
Hi Jim,
I doubt you remember me, but we’ve met twice at Shellharbour COC and you also spoke at a course I was attending , ran by Warwick Marsh of the Fatherhood Foundation. I’d [...]
Why does Software Piracy hurt FOSS ?
Monday, October 27th, 2008jason stirk tweeted about an interesting article about the interaction and semantics, I suppose, of Usage and Piracy of Software, and it’s effect on Open Source Software.
The point to draw from it is that software piracy, while not giving cash to the software company, still provides support for them. The example used in the [...]
How to Change the Windows Start Button (Win XP)
Friday, October 17th, 2008Windows XP is one of the best operating systems. It is extremely customizable (even if it is not intended to be), compatible with nearly everything, and is quite stable. For example, did you know you can change the text in the windows start button ?. It will really remind you how much of a [...]
5 Applications to help reformat Windows
Monday, September 8th, 2008Every so often you have to reinstall XP. it may be exciting the first time, but after that you want to make it as painless as possible. Download Squad has 5 usefull applications for making a Windows reinstall easier.
DriverMax. Running DriverMax before the format lets you back up all the drivers on a [...]
Free Virtual Desktop Manager for Windows from Microsoft
Monday, September 1st, 2008I’ve just been sent a link to a useful utility called Desktops, developed and supported by the Sysinternals team at Microsoft
Desktops (v1.0) is a Virtual Desktop Manager that lets you create up to four different desktop screens for arranging all those open applications in a more logical and productive manner.
For instance, you could put all [...]
Windows Software Licence Keys and Serial Numbers
Monday, September 1st, 2008If you want to reinstall your operating system, you need to have the licenses an serial numbers at hand for all the software programs that you have purchased and registered. Obviously, this includes the Windows product key but also other serial numbers for applications like Nero, Office, VMWare and pretty much every other application.
If you [...]
Disk Copy Software PC Network Clone
Monday, September 1st, 2008When you get a new hard disk or new computer you generally want to copy the contents of an old one to the new one to continue working with all of your files, operating system and settings. PC Network Clone is disk copy software that can copy the contents of a hard drive to one [...]