Tech & soft
Google Calendar and Outlook
At my work I use Microsoft Outlook for my e-mails and works organization. Though I have Outlook, installed on one of my home computer I don’t use it. Reason – I better prefer online tools.
Few days ago I decided to try Google Calendar. And found it to be very handy time organizer and [...]
Computer bottle
No, it’s not a whiskey - it’s a fully functioning computer. Yeah, sometimes computer modding could be real fun.
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70 Free Photoshop Actions to enhance your photographs
Just to drop a note for Photoshop lovers that Rains Wim is sharing free Photoshop actionscripts for photography enhancement - noise reduction, color correction, sharpening and much more. Actionscripts are divided into several categories. Preview of each actionscript effect is available (needs Javasript to function properly).
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Free office templates
For Windows Office 2007 and Mac Office 2008 users - juice up your presentations with a set of free office templates from Microsoft. These templates will separate your stuff from the default looks of office suite.
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Social network radio
Social networking is hype today. But have you ever thaought about social network … radio? Answer is Olinda - “Lego type” social network radio designed by Schulze & Webb Ltd. It can be sticked together by several different modules.
Olinda is a prototype digital radio that has your social network built in, showing you the stations [...]
Grokking The GIMP: free GIMP e-book
Adobe Photoshop is number one program when we talk about professional image editing. Unfortunately it is expensive enough. Though there are free alternatives even to Photoshop. Lot of people choose free open source software GIMP instead. GIMP is pretty equal with Adobe Photoshop in functions.
For GIMP users there is good book written by Carey Bunks [...]
How to use a hardware
Some creative ideas on computer hardware re-use.
.gallery {
margin: auto;
}
.gallery-item {
float: left;
margin-top: 10px;
text-align: center;
width: 33%; }
.gallery img {
border: 2px solid #cfcfcf;
}
.gallery-caption {
margin-left: 0;
}
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Website Grader - free SEO tool for webmasters
Website Grader is a free SEO (search engine optimization) tool which helps webmasters to check websites ranking in internet searh engines. It measures the marketing effectiveness of a website. Tool provides a score that incorporates things like webite traffic, SEO, social popularity and other technical factors. It also provides some basic advice on how the [...]
Free stuff for students
Some stuff that might be helphul for students:
advise on how to learn more and study less;
Software for starving students - collection of free software which could be helpful in students’ life (full list of programs: http://softwarefor.org/faq.html).
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new Pivot 1.40.4. released
On Monday new update of free blogging engine Pivot 1.40.4 was released. Fixed some minor bugs. Though one of the fixed bugs is a security issue (XSS) on the public-side related to comment-previews and therefore upgrade to the current version version is recomended.
Full changelog here. You can download new wersion or updates here.
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