Monday, March 28, 2011

Easily Create High Dynamic Range (HDR) Photos

A HDR (High Dynamic Range) photography can capture the attention of many people. So, what is HDR photography? If you continue to read this article, you will know more. Many people think that to create a good photography, there must be an expensive camera behind the scene. However, this isn’t possible to create your own using a photoshop enhancing method.



HDR photography is done by taking multiple photos from the same scene with different times exposure. Then, those separate photos are combined in a great smart way to generate a good result that has beautiful exposure across the whole image. When compared to those photos taken in the traditional way, HDR photos have a deep colors range appearance added. As a result, the scenes of your photograph sections will have both very bright and very dark effects, the results won’t become wither too dark or washed out in colors.

Here is a site called YoHDR has great function for you to merge three normal photos into an HDR photo in quick way, then output your photos into the HDR photography quality. Once it is done correctly, the result could be remarkably beautiful.



Automatic Post Updates from Facebook to Twitter

For those who are having both Facebook Page and Twitter accounts, wish to post their updates to both of these social media sites at the same time, will need to login to both of the accounts to post them every time. In Facebook, there are options for us to post updates from Twitter to Facebook automatically.

How about on the other way round?
To post updates from Facebook to Twitter automatically when you post your updates on Facebook.


You can do this by login to your Facebook and then visit http://www.facebook.com/twitter.



Over there, you can link your all the Facebook Pages you have to your Twitter account. So, every time as you post your Status Updates, Photos, Video, Links, Notes and Events in your Facebook page, it will automatically publish to your Twitter account too. Hence, this is so convenience and save your time!



Unzip and Unrar Files Online with WobZIP

Wobzip is a free web service which allows you to uncompress archive format files online. To uncompress files from your PC, just upload your archive file to its server and then “Wozip” to get all the files in the archive.



If your file is password protected, then enter your password before you “Wobzip”. The site also lets you to uncompress files from a URL. Presently, file formats supported for this service are 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, RAR, CAB, ISO, ARJ, LZHCHM, Z, CPIO, RPM, DEB and NSIS.

According to the site, each file you upload to uncompress is encoded with a hash, so you can be assured that the site will not open, view or distribute your files. There is a limit file sizes for this service but it can be a handy service if your archive files are small in size.

WobZip



Friday, March 25, 2011

Automatic Windows Installation, No keypress required

An unattended Windows XP/2003 install can install all your software and settings along with Windows, and without you having to click a button or press a key,completely automated. Learn how over here:

CODE

http://unattended.msfn.org



Recover Ubuntu Grub loader after installing Windows

you run a dual-boot system with Linux and Windows, this has happened to you. You had to do your monthly reinstall of Windows, and now you don’t see the linux bootloader anymore, so you can’t boot into Ubuntu or whatever flavor of linux you prefer.
Here’s the quick and easy way to re-enable Grub.
1) Boot off the Live CD
2) Open a Terminal and type in the following commands, noting that the first command will put you into the grub “prompt”, and the next 3 commands will be executed there. Also note that hd0,0 implies the first hard drive and the first partition on that drive, which is where you probably installed grub to during installation. If not, then adjust accordingly.
sudo grub
> root (hd0,0)
> setup (hd0)
> exit

Reboot (removing the live cd), and your boot menu should be back.
Only read below if Windows is now missing from the boot menu
If you installed Ubuntu before you installed Windows, then Ubuntu will not have anything in the grub configuration for Windows. This is where you’ll have to do a bit of manual editing to the grub boot menu file.
If you open the file /boot/grub/menu.lst with the following command:
sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst
You’ll see a sample section for Windows, which you’ll want to uncomment and add to the boot menu list in whatever position you want it in. (uncomment by removing the #’s)
# title Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP/Vista
# root (hd0,0)

# makeactive

# chainloader +1


Note that you should also verify that hd0,0 is the correct location for Windows. If you had installed Windows on the 4th partition on the drive, then you should change it to (hd0,3)
AKPC_IDS += “559,”;




Create files and folders without any name

1) Select any file or folder.

2) Right click on it, select ‘Rename’ or simply press ‘F2′.

3) Press and hold the ‘Alt’ key. While holding the Alt key, type numbers ’0160′ from the numpad

Actually the File name is replaced with Spaces, use the numbers in numpad in the key board else it will not work



Create Bootable Linux Flash Drive

UNetbootin (Universal NetBoot Installer) is free and open-source application that loads utilities or installs Linux/BSD to hard drive without a CD.


Download UNetbootin and select the ISO image of the operating system and follow the options.



Download UNetbootin Here

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