7 applications to tweak your Facebook photo

Posted by Cody | windows news | Wednesday 25 May 2011 1:38 pm

7 applications to tweak your Facebook photo

Of all the photos circulating on Facebook with your face wedged in them, there is a flag you should take special care: your profile photo. And it is that we have seen that a profile picture could cause you a problem inadequate than others in this network.

But as Politeness does not brave, we also believe that in order to distinguish yourself on Facebook, you can give an original touch to your profile photo . What better way to do that with web applications we recommend then specialized in creating such images. Take a look:

MyPictr

Let’s start with the obvious: your profile picture should be the correct dimensions to avoid appearing too small. When you upload a photo to Facebook, the page itself retains the proportions of the photo and is not always ideal.

That’s where MyPictr: in one convenient cropping process can cut any photo with the specific dimensions for a lot of social networks. If your picture does not do touch-ups needed, it is certainly the easiest option and recommended.

ProfilePictureMaker

If you want something more than your profile photo resize, ProfilePictureMaker includes several tweaks that can help improve it, or at least give it a twist.

You have three editing modes: Basic , no frills, Neutral , or frames trimmed with sober, Creative , with up to nine types of frames. Of course, most are of English football teams, so we will be more practical if you consider yourself a fan of the Premier League.

Pimp My Profizzle

This site does the same thing ProfilePictureMaker but plays with more types of frames and effects . You can also draw on the photo with different strokes and colors. Of course, we recommend the latter only if you consider yourself a good artist either mouse or tablet.

ProfileGen.com

With recent changes to the Facebook page, has emerged a small window of five images with your most recent photos tagged. Why not use it to give a twist to your profile?

ProfileGen is a generator of banners : Pick the one you like and the site will cut it into four parts in order to upload your profile. Not only have the gallery: you can also create other texts chosen by you.

MyPeex

Sometimes your mood does not match your profile photo. If you want to add a smiley, you can do with MyPeex. This editor uses your current photo and added a sheet below or badge of those who are in their gallery. Not many others can upload or own, but work for most situations.

PicScatter

The application PicScatter ProfileGen takes the idea a little further. And in a single step can be used by a single image, the area of the profile picture, that of the five images above and the three photos of your latest publication on the Facebook wall.

A very original idea, unfortunately, work while no one is to publish then on your wall or you tagged in a photo.

A word of advice: please note the number of lines in your basic information over the thumbnails, or thumbnails appear misplaced.

PicHacker

We left for the final utility complete. This website allows you to tweak your profile photo with all kinds of shapes, stickers, effects and gradients of color. You can also add any custom text in many different sources and tweak the direction and height of the resulting image.

And if not satisfied with the outcome, we will return the photo as it was.

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Got 10 minutes? Make use of them to learn

Posted by Cody | windows news | Saturday 26 March 2011 4:43 pm

Got 10 minutes? Make use of them to learn

How many times you find yourself at the computer to kill a few minutes? Most of the time just watching the mail but it just ended, playing solitaire or, as usual, browsing aimlessly.

If you loose 10 minutes and want to be, here are a small compass so you do not throw away your time and make the most to learn about all kinds of subjects. There are plenty of websites and useful applications, but we propose six different solutions to find one for you.

Attractive multimedia presentations on all topics

Qwiki is an original application to learn about all sorts of topics. Nature of history through music or art styles, with Qwiki can choose which you like to know. As if by magic, in seconds Qwiki prepare a multimedia installation with voice, video and photos. And if you’re inspired, you can always choose to see the day selection.

A powerhouse of texts

Who does not know the Wikipedia ? Besides being able to navigate through numerous articles, his site every day will present a selection of items. From knowing the origin of coffee to read about the French Revolution , the Wikipedia is a mine of surprises and information. In this case, unlike Qwiki, you can also practice reading. Finally, if you want surprises, random pages are a good option to know all sorts of topics.

Five minutes to improve your English

Countless online resources offer English courses. Among them, the BBC has a huge amount of material as well as a wide selection of games, trivial, crosswords and other interesting flash games that will help you take advantage of your free time to give a boost to your English.

The inspiring speeches TED

If you’re tired of TV, you feel boring and repetitive, or just want to hear something different, TED has a video selection inspiring, educational and different . Politics, economics, music … a source as diverse as full of interesting material. There are many videos in English, but you can also find them with subtitles .

Exercise your mind

The logic games, of course, are a great way to spend a few minutes giving you exercise the brain . There are plenty available and many do not even require installation. Check out our section of online games and choose your puzzle for those 10 minutes of mental work. In the picture, Bloxorz , a simple and addictive game.

Bonus Track: videos of everything you can imagine

Khan Academy began with the author creating videos to teach algebra to his nephews. With more than 2,100 videos and exercises to practice the most diverse disciplines , this is a good spot for restless minds. Choose what you want to learn and prepare the elbows and head.

Do you take advantage of free time to do something productive? What do you do when you have 10 minutes at the computer?

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Leanback Youtube, videos from your couch in your house

Posted by Cody | windows news | Saturday 19 March 2011 7:01 am

Leanback Youtube, videos from your couch in your house

Probably one of the biggest nuisances of YouTube is having to sit in front of the PC to switch video. Just to enjoy yotube from the couch, bed or while doing your daily exercise, Youtube Youtube has Leanback.

Youtube Leanback will be responsible for bringing the contents of Google TV. However, as we await his arrival, and can be enjoyed from the computer screen.

How it works

The idea of Youtube Leanback order to make the experience of watching videos on your computer in something closer to traditional television. You choose the content, but then you can relax on your couch and let the mouse rest.

Like turn the TV

To get Google Leanback, just open it and start playing Youtube videos as if you just turned on the TV.

Immediate content

Of course, if you want to choose what they want to watch rather than rely on automatic selection, you will need to put something on your part. But it is at that level, which simplifies the process Leanback Youtube.

First, just start typing to automatically open a browser window without having to navigate or use the mouse. The results of the search, and within seconds you can start watching the videos of the game yesterday or the jokes of your favorite comedians, one after another.

Enjoy your playlists, bookmarks and subscriptions

Leanback Youtube also has a fairly convenient to navigate the best of the day or for your favorite playlists or subscriptions. You see them on the bottom of the screen, move quickly from one to another with the help of the keyboard and pause or resume playback by pressing the spacebar.

For example, if you create a list of music videos to watch before bedtime, you can access it from the same Youtube Leanback.

In short, an example of what is coming, or rather, already is upon us, with Google TV, Boxee and the integration of Internet on TV.

Have you used Youtube Leanback? Why do you find it useful?

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8 essential programs that by themselves are worthless

Posted by Cody | software | Monday 15 November 2010 7:22 am

8 essential programs that by themselves are worthless

Many people do not know exactly what they are. But without them in some cases your browser, and in others your system will be crippled. We talked about a whole series of programs needed when a video, animation, connecting to a webcam or run a program. Surely you are missing and you’re left with an inch of his nose when the browser has shown you a message like "you need … to open …" or an installer told you can not continue.

In the case of the browser, usually allows the program to automatically download of the day, but nobody knows why, these links fail more than a gun fair. So it is better to do on our own and how much to let the browser updates. If the installers do not always carry the language bookstores in which the application is scheduled.

1. Java Runtime Environment (JRE)

This is the Java runtime environment, ie, only the portion required to run the programs developed in Java. Sure on many occasions has appeared to you a picture of a cup of coffee when you open a web page. In all these cases, JRE is needed.

A peculiarity of this virtual machine is constantly updated often, a fact that makes it recommended to enable automatic updating.

2. Adobe ShockWave Player

This plugin makes it possible to run various multimedia contents on all games and presentations. Run files created with Macromedia Director *. DCR.

3. Adobe Flash Player

Often confused with Adobe Shockwave Player. In this case, play SWF files, usually created with programs like Macromedia Flash and Macromedia Flex. Such files can be run from the PC or the browser, in which case the format is Active-X or Plugin.

4. Microsoft. NET Framework

. NET is a software development platform from Microsoft. This means that many applications need to have installed the libraries of this Framework to run.

5.DirectX

This is a library of multimedia drivers for Windows. These enhance the graphics and audio performance. For most modern games is essential to have it installed.

6. GTK + 2 Runtime Environment

GTD (The Gimp Toolkit) is a set of bilbliotecas for developing user interfaces (GUI). Originally created exclusively for GIMP, the image manipulation program. However, now serves a variety of programs for Linux.

7. Visual Basic Runtime Files

Visual Basic is a programming language used by Microsoft. Although it falls into disuse in favor of other languages such as. NET, you might need it for some applications.

8. Microsoft Core XML Services

Also known as MSXML, this package installs in the system libraries needed by programs that work with XML, extensible markup language.

We could add some more as WinPcap is a library to monitor data traffic on network devices.

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