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Photoshop Mobile App For Android

szehau — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 19:06:05 +0000

What is the next thing to do after you have taken a picture on your mobile phone? To me, I may need to edit, add effect and store it to somewhere safely. Making modification to a photo in phone may make the photo even look worse. What we need is to have a good software to do this.

Photoshop is very well know this photo editing. It is a good news that Photoshop software is now available in Android operating system. The Photoshop version for Android mobile is called Photoshop.com Mobile App.

With the Photoshop.com Mobile App on your Android phone, you can simply drag your finger to crop, adjust color and apply effects. Other than the software feature itself, you can also open a free Photoshop.com account to upload, store and share all you photo online.

Below is a demo for Photoshop.com Mobile App.

Photoshop Mobile App For Android

Notepad Trick For 2010

szehau — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 16:31:42 +0000

The following notepad trick was created by a 14 years old blogger. To see the trick, open notepad on your windows, copy and paste the following text to the notepad:

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Click the Edit > Replace menu on notepad, replace the character six "6" with underscore "_" and you will see the magic happen!

[Update: This is what you will see!]

Free Text To Speech Software And Save Speech As MP3 or WAV

szehau — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 17:14:20 +0000

Sometime, busy people like business man does not have time to read their documents, words by words but need to find some one to read the documents for him. But it is impossible to do this when you want the document to be read when you are walking from one place to another.

It will be cool if you can convert your document files such as text files (.txt), word documents (.doc) or a web page (.html) into audiobooks in .mp3 or .wav format. And then you can listen to them using a MP3 player while you are walking or jogging.

With Panopreter, you can do this. Panopreter is a text to speech free software, that allows you to convert text-based files to audio formats (.mp3 and wav). Panopreter makes use of text-to-speech feature in Microsoft Windows, so you have to make sure that your Windows has installed a default voice.

Panopreter can be ran on Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7. If you find that the voice quality is not that good, you can download a third party voice by searching keywords like "TTS voice".

Get Panopreter Here

Save Word To PDF Without A Word PDF Converter

szehau — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:45:00 +0000

PDF or Portable Document Format is a widely used document format nowadays. It is a file format created by Adobe Systems in 1993 for document exchange. PDF was officially released as an open standard on July 1, 2008.

Microsoft Office applications (Office 2007) now even can work with PDF directly without needing to install any PDF converter. Before this, there is various ways you can convert a Word document to PDF.

You can easily find online tools that help you to convert your document to PDF. But this come the privacy issues - are they keeping you document in their server?

You can also easily download PDF converter freeware easily and install them as a "PDF printer" or use it as a standalone program. But sometime, these programs simply cannot get the actual result that you wanted it to be.

To save your Word document or Excel document as PDF, simply open your document with Microsoft Office. Use the "Save As" option in Microsoft Office menu, choose "PDF or XPS" and save as the filename you want. Make sure you have chosen the PDF as the file type in the save file dialog.

You can use the same method to save your other Office documents to PDF files as well. In case you do not see the "PDF or XPS" option in your Office menu, you will need to download the "2007 Microsoft Office Add-in: Microsoft Save as PDF or XPS" plug-in from Microsoft website.

Kill A Windows Process When Task Manager Is Disabled

szehau — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 06:37:08 +0000

Sometime you may find windows difficult to bring up the Task Manager windows when one of the running program hangs. You want to kill the hung process so that your computer can work normally but you wait forever before the Task Manage comes up.

No matter you are running the taskmgr.exe from the Run dialog box; or right click the task bar and select Task Manager; or press Ctrl+Alt+Del on your keyboard; to wake up the Task Manager, sometime it just won't work and it is very annoying.

To overcome this problems, you can actually use the taskkill command at command prompt. Before you can kill a process, you also want to know which process to kill (normally identified by its image name or process id or window title). To list out a running processes, you can use the tasklist command at command prompt.

tasklist - This tool displays a list of currently running processes one either a local or remote machine.

Syntax -TASKLIST [/S system [/U username [/P [password]]]] [/M [module] | /SVC | /V] [/FI filter] [/FO format] [/NH]

To get details on the tasklist command, type tasklist /? at the command prompt.

For example, to list out the running processes:
tasklist /fi "status eq running"

To kill a process at command prompt, you need to execute taskkill followed by the process id or image name.

tasklist - This tool is used to terminate tasks by process id (PID) or image name.

To get details on the taskkill command, type taskkill /? at the command prompt.

For example, to kill a running process by image name:
taskkill /IM notepad.exe

For example, to kill a running process by process id:
taskkill /PID 1230

The KMPlayer – The Solution For Playing HD Video On Slow PC

szehau — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:19:58 +0000

Most of the video player softwares like Windows Media Player and iTune nowadays require fast processor and a lot of memory in order to play a nice video clip, especially HD video.

The KMPlayer - also a video player that supports virtually any format of video file and audio file - on the other hand is a lightweight software that does not consume a lot of CPU resources in order to play a video.

The KMPLayer is a free software and can be download from the KMPlayer website. The installation of the software is pretty straight forward.

When installing the KMPlayer, make sure that you have selected the Performance option during the installation wizard process. The is to ensure that The KMPlayer will do the best to play a high quality or HD video for your computer.

The KMPlayer is compatible with Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista and also the latest Windows 7.

Visit The KMPlayer website for more information.

RealPlayer SP SuperPass (compatible with Windows 7)

szehau — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 15:48:32 +0000

The new version of RealPlayer SP SuperPass is now compatible with Microsoft Windows 7. There is not much new feature in the release (or version 12) but the Windows 7 users can install the new RealPlayer SP SuperPass without worrying about the compatibility issues.

Feature Highlight

RealPlayer SP SuperPass feature highlight:

RealPlayer H.264 - convert video to new digital video standard
Advance video - Adjust size, aspect ratio, brightness, hue and many more
Burn DVDs - burn DVD easily
Download Videos - download web video directly anytime with a click on your web browser
Covert Videos - convert video for your mobile, iPod, Xbox, PS3 and other devices
Share Videos - share your video on Facebook or twitter
Universal Player - play major types of media - MPEG-4, Flash, Quicktime, Windows Media, DVD, CD ....
iTunes support - transfer videos from web sites to your iTune library
Media Browser - let you surf while playing clips
High Quality Video - enjoy HD and near DVD-quality video and audio with broadband connection
LivePause & Perfect Play - Pause, rewind, fast-forward while the audio and video are played
Advanced CD Burning - Rip, mix and burn CDs and MP3
Crossfade - crossfade songs and add reverb
RealAudio Lossless Format - high quality CD with lower disc space
Advanced Audio - 10-bad equalizer and convert vinyl, tape and voice to digital format
Multiple Audio Format - CD, MP3, WMA, AAC RealAudio LossLess ...
Visualization - make your music dance and look cool
10-Band EQ - optimize sound exactly the way you want
Surround Sound - supports 5 channel audio and dedicated sub-woofer channel

RealPlayer SP Minimum System Requirements

1.4 GHz processor or faster
512 MB of RAM Windows XP with Service Pack 2
1 GB of RAM with Vista Service Pack 1
300 MB available disk space
16-bit sound card and speakers
1024x600, 65k color or higher display
Adobe Flash Player 9 or later
Video Downloading is compatible with Internet Explorer 6.05 or later, FireFox 2.0 or later, and Google Chrome 1.0 or later.

Download RealPlayer SP SuperPass now

Create Your Own Handwriting Font For Free

szehau — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 02:24:49 +0000

How cool is it if you can type in your own handwriting font in your favorite word processing programs or image editing software like Microsoft Word Adobe Photoshop or any Windows applications. You can then send a e-card in this Christmas with your own handwriting on it to your friends and surprise them!

FontCapture, a web application developed to let you create computer font from your handwriting. There is no software required to download in order to generate the font you wanted and the best is, it's totally free!

To create your own handwriting font is pretty simple. First, you will need to print out the font template form (in PDF format) and fill in the font with your handwriting.

When you have done that, scan the filled form and save as an image file (prefer PNG but JPEG is OK too) in your computer. And then point your web browser to FontCapture website and upload the image template.

Depend on your Internet connection, the whole process could take several minutes. FontCapture will then generate the fonts for your computer in digital format. Save the generated file in your computer for later use.

The created font can be used in both Mac and Windows. To install a font in Windows, simply copy the font file to your [Windows Drive]:\[Windows Directory]\Fonts. For example C:\Windows\Fonts. To install a font in Mac, double click the font file and click "Install font" when prompted.

Rejected Windows 7 Artwork

szehau — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 15:44:37 +0000

These are the high resolutions artworks that has been rejected to be put in into Windows 7. The artworks are pretty nice and I'm not sure why it is not included in Windows 7.

You can download the rejected Windows 7 Artworks ThemePack here to be put as your wallpaper. It's pretty cool.

[via Beingmanan.com]

3 Simple Tricks To Prevent Keylogger From Stealing Your Password

admin — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 12:15:39 +0000

Keylogger or keystroke logging software is a software that installed in a computer to track of log the key struck on keyboard. Normally Keylogger does not appear as a windows, instead it resides in computer memory. The computer user who use keyboard may not aware their actions are actually being monitored.

It is pretty insecure to use a computer if the computer is being installed keylogger intentionally or unintentionally (a as kind of spyware). This is especially true when we are using computer of people we do not know or when we are using a public computer (e.g. cybercafé). The sensitive data like password and credit cards information.

Most of the time we are not allowed install any software at public computer. Therefore we can't install any anti keylogger software or keylogger removal software to prevent the threat from happen.

The things we could only do is to use a trusted computer and be careful when using other untrusted computer. Below are the 3 simple tricks that we can use to avoid a keylogger from logging the sensitive information we type when using the untrusted computer.

Use Keyboard and Mouse Trick
When typing a sensitive information in a text field, you try to fool around with the keylogger by the combination actions of mouse and keyboard. For example, when you type abcefg for your password, you can type a then click at other place or switch to other program (e.g. notepad) and then type z and repeat the two steps until you have finished typing your password. Then the keylogger will record az.... which is a invalid password. Another way to fool around the keylogger would be to play around with the position of characters in your password (e.g. type b first then use mouse to move the text caret to first position to type a and so on).

Use On-Screen Keyboard
Windows comes with a program called On-Screen Keyboard. You can use the On-Screen Keyboard to "click" in the characters you want into the text field. The keyboard works as a virtual keyboard for you computer. In case you worry the On-Screen Keyboard send the click events to the text field as keyboard events, you can alway use On-Screen Keyboard together with the "mouse and keyboard" trick.

Use Portable Browser
You can take your portable browsers (like Google Chrome and Firefox) together with your USB drive. These browsers come with a feature call "remember password" that you can use to login into your email without keying anything .Then you can use this application safely at cybercafé's computer or any public computer which is shared with other users. Be sure you key in an save the sensitive information at home or at a trusted computer before use it at untrusted computer.

Hope you find this 3 simple tricks useful to you. Do leave me a comment know if you have a great trick on preventing keylogger (without installing any keylogger removal or anti keylogger software).

Secure Your Windows By Removing The Stored Network Password

szehau — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:22:03 +0000

You may have your credentials data (e.g. usernames and passwords) saved on your windows when you access a computer over networks. The credentials are actually stored files in your Windows.

It could become a threat if you think you have not save any credentials data (but actually you have) and you share your computer with others. This will let the others to have a chance to log on to the computer or system (e.g. Windows Live Messenger) over the network that you have visited before on behalf of you.

Therefore it is advisable to remove all your credentials data in your computer before you hand over your computer to your other people.

To remove the credentials data, go to Start > Run > Type control userpasswords2 and press Enter. User Account window will be opened. Click on the Advanced tab and click on Manage Password button.

Choose the credentials information that you don't want to be stored in the computer and click Remove. You can also backup and restore credentials data at the screen. Make sure you store the credentials at a secure place.

Notepad++ – A Simple And Fast Source Code Editor

szehau — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:54:29 +0000

Notepad++ is a free source code editor for Microsoft Windows environment. The software is an open source software and is govern under GPL license. Notepad++ is developed based on a powerful editing component Scintilla and is written in C++ language.

Since the software is written in C++, so it is fast and use less memory. Most people use this software as the replacement of windows' notepad. I use these software quite heavily and mainly to edit HTML and PHP files for my programming projects.

Although it is not as sophisticated as other source code editor like NetBean and Eclipse, but it is still serve as an important software in my computer when I want my source code to be opened very fast for a "temporary and fast edit".

Here are the features of Notepad++:

Syntax Highlighting and Syntax Folding
WYSIWYG - You can print your code in color too
User Defined Syntax Highlighting
Auto-Completion
Multi-Document
Multi-View
Regular Expression Search and Replace
Drag and Drop
Dynamic Position of Views
File Status Auto-Detection
Zoom in Zoom out
Multi Language Supported
Bookmark
Brace and Indent guideline Highlighting
Macro Recording and Playback

You can download the software at Notepad++.

Download Windows 7 Manual For Free

szehau — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:26:42 +0000

You can now download Microsoft Windows 7's manual for free at Microsoft website. The manual is available in XPS and PDF formats. Windows 7 is a giant operating software so you may expect the size of the manual will be big too. It is about 62Mb for PDF format and 30.5Mb for XPS format.

The manual includes product guides that provides a detailed look at the many new features in Windows 7; information on how Windows 7 can simplify task, works the way you want and make new things possible; information for IT professionals to make people productive anywhere, manage risk through enhanced security control and reduce costs by streaming PC management.

Download Windows 7 Product Guide.

Windows 8 – When is it?

szehau — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:02:48 +0000

Windows 7 was just launched on last month, 23 October 2009. When will be the next launch of Windows 8?

Windows 8 is expected to be released at around a time frame of 2012. Will these be related to the "end of the world" in 2012? A forum users even commented that he wants to use Windows 8 before the end of the world.

[via Microsoft Kitchen]

Microsoft Office 2010 Beta

szehau — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:51:10 +0000

The new Microsoft Office 2010 Beta is now available for download. You can download the Microsoft Office 201o beta and install at your computer to have a test drive on the new features in Microsoft Office 2010.

The programs included in Microsoft Office 2010 Beta are Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Excel, OneNote, Access, Publisher, InfoPath, SharePoint Workspace and Communicator.

To install Microsoft Office 2010 Beta, you are recommended to uninstall any previous version of Microsoft Office. Your computer also need to have at least 3.5Gb free space for the installation.

Microsoft Office 2010 Beta is only available for Windows XP SP3 (32 bit), Windows Vista SP1 (32/64 bit), Windows Server 2003 R2 (32/64 bit), Windows Server 2008 SP2 (32/64 bit) and Windows 7 (32/64 bit).

Download Microsoft Office 2010 Beta.

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