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Download Free John’s Background Switcher 3.3 to Switch Background Pictures on PC Wallpaper

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

Do you have bunch of nice pictures that are intended to be shown on PC screen automatically? Instead of wasting your time to select which is the best one to show off, wouldn’t it be better to show all the favorite pictures one by one after the certain time intervals. If your answer is yes, this software utility may suit your need. Named as John’s Background Switcher, it enables wall paper switching by grabbing some of the picture files from specific folder automatically at own preference intervals. Although there are already quite a number of solutions out there that can switch the pictures as background wallpaper but this one seem to be able to do more by able to choose those pictures stored even in online websites such as famous Flickr, Picasa, Phanfare web albums and even Yahoo! Image Search.


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Free Download: Microsoft Pro Photo Tools Version 1 with Geotag Metadata Support

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

Microsoft Pro Photo Tools provides a set of photography tools for photographers such as to view, add, change, edit and delete common metadata properties for digital photos or pictures, and captures RAW images. It also includes ability to geotag the photos, including latitude, longitude, and other location details. With the help of Microsoft Virtual Earth and Live Search Maps service (previously Windows Live Maps and Windows Live Local), user can place photos on the Live Earth map and then drag them to the right location to automatically tag GPS information into the photos, or load track route files recorded with GPS tracker device in most popular format (NMEA, GPX and KML).

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AMD Announced ATI XGP to Boost Graphics Capability in Laptop Market

Saturday, June 7th, 2008

We just talked about the new media module released by Broadcom to boost the Blu-ray HD video decode capability, now it comes another similar external graphics module that is able to enhance graphics processing of an entry level PC or laptop to next high level. Named as ATI XGP, it is a next generation product being developed by AMD targeting to enhance the multimedia and visual experience of an average laptop or PC system.


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Photo Editing with PhotoPerfect

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

Photo editing can be a taxing and time-consuming job if you don’t have a proper and professional photo-editing tool. To edit your favourite shots or create innovative digital art for your company proposals or marketing material without a good photo editing software might occupy a lot of your valuable time and yet yield unsatisfactory results. There are many types of photo editing software available in the market such as Adobe Photoshop Element, Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo, PhotoPlus, Photo Suite, ACDSee Photo Editor, PaintShop Pro, FotoFinish Suite, Photo Explosion, Photo-Impression, and so on. Generally good photo editing applications feature some common functions. For instance, they are easy to use, support various formats, have powerful editing functions, are able to assist in organizing the photos, come with sharing capabilities and provide comprehensive tutorials to guide you. The features and functions normally come together with the price you pay. A superb professional photo editing tool will usually cost you an arm and a leg. Having said that, if you are looking for a reasonably good photo-editing tool which doesn’t burn a hole in your pocket, you can try this professional photo-editing tool, PhotoPerfect.

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Create 3D Graphics and Model with 3D Bridge in Photoshop

Saturday, February 9th, 2008

Sourcing for a great tool to create your own personalized 3D computer graphics or 3D models instead of looking for ready-made templates in a 3D photo gallery? Well, there is an easy way for 3D graphic artists, designers or amateurs to make their 3-dimensional imagery or artwork if they are using Photoshop Creative Suite 3 (CS3) or Photoshop 7.0 and above. Try out the 3D Bridge from DAZ Studios. It is a 3D plug-in for Adobe Photoshop.
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Corel’s New PhotoImpact X3 for Digital Art

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

photoimpact-x3.jpgThe market leader in developing graphics, productivity and digital media software, Corel Corporation, unveiled its latest award-winning digital photo editing software, PhotoImpact X3. This new photo editing and digital art software is designed for users to tidy and arrange their photo collection, enhance the photo quality and create digital arts. It is easy to use and features comprehensive function for photo editing.

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Create an Animated Favicon

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008

Many people create a favicon which also known as a website icon, page icon or urlicon to associate it with their own webpage. It is somehow an identity or a logo representing a website. Favicon is quite popularly used nowadays. Web designers will create their preferred favicons and users can see them in the browser’s URL bar, next to the site’s name in lists of bookmarks, and next to the page’s title in a tabbed document interface. Technically to create a favicon or even an animated favicon is not that complicated and difficult.

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Webcam Timershot PowerToy to Record and Capture Image Snapshot

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008

Logitech has a free QuickCapture Gadget for Vista that can takes, captures, records and saves pictures or snapshots from webcam (web camera) that is installed on the computer. If you web cam does not comes packaged with such ’spy’ software for free, Microsoft has free Webcam Timershot PowerToy for XP that can automatic recording of webcam images.

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