Create collages in your favorite shape

shape-collage Making picture collages is very common and most of us love to make one with our photos. I have already written a post about How to create collage online? sometime back in November. Some of us still think creating photo collages need expertise or require expensive tools. But it is wrong and all you need to have is a freeware tool. There are not much freeware tools available to create collage for free and even Microsoft has released AutoCollage which is quite good but you need license. Unlike others Shape Collage is a free tool which allows you to create collages in your favorite shape in few mouse clicks.

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February 14th, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Skype 4 launched for Windows

Skype 4 Yesterday I happed to read an article in mXnet a free daily commuter magazine in Sydney about the release of Skype 4 but when I checked it in Skype I didn’t find any official note on Skype official website but today I am able to find one. Yes, it is official now and Skype 4 comes with great features like full screen video calling and built-in bandwidth manager to ensure the quality of the call even on low internet bandwidth.

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February 4th, 2009 | 1 Comment

Its time to dive into Google Ocean

google-earth Google earth which is one of the widely used and most popular application gets a dimension with the release of Google Earth 5 by introducing Google Ocean to explore the ocean layer. After introducing Google Earth, first came Google sky then the Street view and its now time to explore the ocean layers with Google Ocean. Official announcement of Google Ocean has been posted in Google’s official blog and users can download Google Earth 5 and start exploring the new options and features. Google Earth has come up with some historical images and one can now move back and forth in time to reveal imagery from years and even decades past.

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February 3rd, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Encrypt mails from Gmail using FireGPG

firegpg-firefox-plugin Security of emails have become so important as sensitive emails through network is considered as highly insecured as eavesdropping is always possible through any network with data that is not encrypted. Packet sniffing is always possible through any insecured network and mail sent with plain text can always be dangerous these days. Most of us are least bothered about encrypting emails for our personal usage and encrypting emails can even save you if somebody knows your inbox password as your messages are encrypted. PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) is one of the popular techniques used to encrypt messages. FireGPG is a very simple utility which uses Gnu PGP in conjunction with GMail to encrypt and decrypt your emails.

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February 2nd, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Uninstall windows applications silently

Add or Remove programs Uninstalling software or any other application in Windows operating system is a tedious and unclean process though it one can use Add or Remove Programs which comes with the operating system. The problem with Windows Uninstall applet from control panel is memory, loading time and the left over entries sometimes if there is a problem with the installer. Also there are not much good freeware alternatives to Control Panel utility Add or Remove Programs to do the job in a much better way. Safarp will help you in that case which can be a portable and light-weight alternative to the control panel utility offering some extra features.

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January 25th, 2009 | Leave a Comment