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7 Best Free Alternatives to Adobe Photoshop for Easier Photo Editing

December 19, 2012 By 12 Comments
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Adobe Photoshop is probably the most advanced and widely used photo editing tool with so many features you may not find in other photo editing software programs. Although this feature-rich software is greatly appreciated by professional graphic artists, it may be rather too complicated for someone who isn't much conversant with the 'complex' user interface. I do use Photoshop now but at the beginning, it was sort of hard and I had to look for alternatives. There are lots of other photo editing software programs but to the best of my knowledge, none of the free ones can be compared to Adobe Photoshop. With or without Photoshop, I can create logos, edit my photos and do some other little … [Read more...]

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How to install .NET Framework 3.5 on Windows Server 2008 R2

October 31, 2012 By 1 Comment
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The other day I was trying to install a certain software on Windows Server 2008 R2 but the application required Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 which I downloaded and tried to install but got an error that looked like this: You must use the Role Management Tool to install or configure Microsoft .NET Thinking the framework was incompatible with the OS, I downloaded the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 and installed it successfully. To my surprise, the application still didn't work and still asked for version 3.5 of the framework. After doing some findings, I realized Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 was even an inbuilt component that comes with Windows Server 2008 R2 and has to be installed as a … [Read more...]

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How to Maintain Your Hard Disk & Avoid Sudden Crash on Windows

October 12, 2012 By 6 Comments
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I abuse my computer a great deal but that doesn't mean I do not maintain it. Keeping the registry clean is just one of the things I do but more importantly, making sure the hard disk is in a pretty good shape. A lot of things depends on your hard disk and if it crashes all of a sudden, you know you have a lot to lose. Normally, you should do a backup to an external hard disk (or the cloud) every now and then but even at that, there's still a chance that your hard disk may stop working all of a sudden, making you lose some important files you just got. There are certain things you need to do often to maintain your hard disk. Just a few days ago, I downloaded iOS 6 using IDM (Internet … [Read more...]

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A Simple Tip to Make Windows 7 Boot Up Faster

October 2, 2012 By 5 Comments
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You're in a hurry and trying to boot your computer up but it takes like five minutes or more before the system becomes useable.  Countless startup programs seem to be choking your computer and hang it somehow. With so many programs starting up with your computer, it takes quite a while before you can use the OS and full boot might be slow but there's a fix for it. This isn't a new tweak, as a matter of fact, it's very old but you probably won't know about it if you're not a computer savvy person. You don't need any other software to kill these startup programs preventing Windows from booting quick, there's a default in-built feature where you can turn off those autostart … [Read more...]

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5 Internet Browsers That Are Better Than Internet Explorer and Why

July 12, 2012 By 13 Comments
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If you own a PC, it's likely that you are using Internet Explorer to surf the web. Why? Because that's what came installed on your computer when you bought it. Most people don't take the time to download and install a different internet browser, but there are many other better options out there. Google Chrome This web browser was designed with speed in mind. You'll find that the program starts up fast, loads web pages quickly, and also runs applications efficiently. Additionally, Google released much of its source code to public, allowing any developer the opportunity to modify its offering, which has resulted in a host of useful extensions on top of the large official library from … [Read more...]

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How to Share Your Computer Network Connection with iPhone / Android / Symbian Phone / other PCs

June 16, 2012 By 14 Comments
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It's easy to use your mobile phone connection with your PC but it can be a bit technical trying to do it the other way round. You need to go to your active network connections and share your active network connection but this can be a bit technical if you don't know much about these things. I can easily share my computer network connection with my iPhone through wireless connection without doing much settings. Connectify doesn't do that only, it lets share your computer connection with computers around you so. Connectify also allows you to password your internet connection so unauthorized users won't have access to your connection. So, whether you need to share your internet connection … [Read more...]

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How to Install WordPress Locally without a Hosting Account

May 14, 2012 By 26 Comments
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If you're on the free Blogger platform and wondering if you should move to Wordpress or not, you might want to see all the features available before planning to get a hosting account. You can install Wordpress locally on your computer and have full access to all the available features without even having a hosting account. Locally Wordpress installation allows you to get used to Wordpress dashboard, install themes and plugins and do everything you would do with a Wordpress installation on a regular web host. Alright, let's stop the talk and go straight to business. You'll need to download WampServer. This software is a Windows web development environment. It allows you to create web … [Read more...]

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How to Open / Merge / Join Files with .001, .002 File Extensions

April 30, 2012 By 10 Comments
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The first time I download some split files with .001,.002 and .003 extensions, I was confused about what to do with them. I first thought they were split archives and renamed them to .rar but I got nothing but error extracting the content. I googled out solutions but none made sense till I ran across a software that solved the issue. I was able to join the split files (not archive). Now, I have to explain this: .001 and .002 can either be whole files split into parts or split archives. You're going to deal with them differently in each cases and there are two solutions I found. 1. Joining .001, .002 as split files You should first try out this method as it worked in my case. It's most … [Read more...]

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