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Learning the art of photography is exciting, especially because so many resources are available to beginner photographers online and off. Some of the best of these resources are blogs, and they highlight gear, techniques, inspiration, and more that can help you learn to be a better photographer. Read on to discover 100 of the best photography blogs out there. General For general interest photography, be sure to check out these blogs. All Day I Dream About Photography : This blog has great tips, featured photographers, and more. See the rest at Photography Colleges

Microsoft has been developing Windows 7 under a shroud of secrecy worthy of Apple, and it's led to a rash of rumours and unfounded expectations. The vision for Windows 7 doesn't sound like a snappy marketing slogan yet. Even Mike Nash, the Vice President for Windows Product Management, doesn't have one. He says: "The things you do today on Windows, Windows 7 makes easier; and the things you always dreamed of doing [are made] possible." This time, a key concern for Microsoft in terms of design is the Windows user experience. To make this happen, there's been a bit of a re-shuffle; Sinofsky isn't the only person to move from the Office team to Windows. Julie Larson-Green, the person responsible for introducing the ribbon interface to Office 2007, is now Corporate Vice President of Program Management for the Windows Experience. A handful of accessories (including WordPad, Movie Maker and Paint) will get a version of the ribbon, but it's not the look of Of

Time to take out your camera: tonight's full moon in the Northern Hemisphere will be the biggest it's been in 15 years. Many people who try to photograph the moon fail because they set their cameras for a nighttime exposure. However, the moon is lit by sunlight, so the camera settings are the same as any photo taken in bright daylight. The following will help you in capturing the moon on film or digitally. More at eHow .

Instead of fretting about the old recovery CD you lost (or perhaps never got), why not take a few minutes and make one of your own? Ideally, a recovery disc should act as a safety net should anything disagreeable happen to your PC's hard drive or its data. (Think crash, virus, spyware attack, driver corruption, and so on.) A good recovery disc allows you to reinstall Windows to fix a minor problem or rebuild your PC from scratch to recover from a major one. Here's the problem: Once you upgrade your XP installation to Service Pack 3, Windows won't ever allow you to install an older version (including earlier editions of XP) without either wiping the hard drive clean or installing to a different drive. More from PC Mag

You've finally decided to move all your email online to Google's web-based service, Gmail. Great! But what about messages still going to your old email address(es)? You don't have to notify all your contacts that your email address has changed—again. Gmail is not only an email host, it's an email client, which can fetch mail from any number of external services and consolidate it all right there in your Gmail inbox. Here's how to move your email to Gmail without missing a single message from an existing account. More at Lifehacker

Many readers asked for more information on symptoms they should look for if they fear for their machines' security. Subscriber Leslie Kight asks the following question: "Great article. I'm curious, though: what makes Woody suspect his XP machine is infected by Mebroot? What symptoms did he see to raise that question?" Here's Woody's reply: "I kept getting weird virus warnings from AVG — viruses would appear, I would remove them, then they would reappear in different locations, or entirely different viruses would show up. AVG reported that the MBR [Master Boot Record] was being changed every time I rebooted, even when I did nothing. "I did a deep scan — first with AVG, then with NOD32 — to remove all the reported malware, but the viruses kept reappearing. Antirootkit scans turned up nothing. Then I couldn't connect to F-Secure's Web site, so I pulled the plug. "As I said in the article, I have no idea at all if it wa

You don’t have to be filthy rich or a well known celebrity in order to turn your home into a more Earth friendly environment. No matter what your favorite room in the house is, you can transform each part of your home into a greener environment. From small things like the products you use and your daily lifestyle routine, you can easily teach your family how to maintain a home that works with the environment and not against it. You’d be surprised by how simple the process can be! CareFair.com

By Gina Trapani You just hit the power button your PC, and now you've got enough time to brew a fresh pot of coffee for the entire office—because that's how long it takes for your computer to go from "on" to "ready to work." If your PC's bogged down by a bunch of programs that automatically start up when it does, it can take forever to get started every morning. Without a major hardware upgrade, there's not much you can do to cut the time it takes for Windows to actually boot—but you can trim and tweak the amount of time it takes for your desktop to get to a working state. Let's take a look at a few ways you can cut your Windows' desktop's loading times using built-in utilities and third-party tools. When you install a new piece of software on your computer these days, more often than not it will set a little bit of itself to start up automatically when your PC does, either to check for updates, make it seem faster, or just remind you tha

"While our thanks goes out to ALL developers of ALL the free software we've featured on these pages, a few projects deserve special mention. On Monday we asked exactly what free software you're most thankful for, and thousands of votes later, we've boiled down the list to the top 40 or so. While we're offline for the day, feast your eyes and mouse on this prodigious list of some of the best free software we're most grateful for. Happy Thanksgiving!" More

Michael Sliwinski founder of Nozbe and editor of Productive Magazine has just released the first issue of Productive magazine and I have to say it looks fantastic.  There are 17 articles in the first issue and the one headlining the magazine is an Interview with David Allen by Oliver Starr.  The great thing about this professionally produced magazine is that it’s absolutely free to download. The magazine is in PDF format but looks like a professional magazine and it’s obvious that Michael and his team has put in a lot of time and effort into producing this.  It’s not your normal PDF download. As I said there are 17 articles on productivity and how you can get more done in your life and the list of blog authors is impressive. Alex Shalman Blog Black Belt Productivity Change your thoughts Cranking Widgets David Allen Company GTD Times LifeClever Marc and Angel Hack a Life Michael Sliwinski on Productivity Organize IT Positive Sharing

The Zapruder film of the Kennedy assassination; The Mansell Collection from London; Dahlstrom glass plates of New York and environs from the 1880s; and the entire works left to the collection from LIFE photographers Alfred Eisenstaedt, Gjon Mili, and Nina Leen. These are just some of the things you'll see in Google Image Search today. "We're excited to announce the availability of never-before-seen images from the LIFE photo archive. This effort to bring offline images online was inspired by our mission to organize all the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. This collection of newly-digitized images includes photos and etchings produced and owned by LIFE dating all the way back to the 1750s." You can search the photos—which range from the 1750s to present day—directly from the LIFE photo archive start page, or you can simply include source:life with any Google Image search query, e.g., source:life Queen Victoria. More from Official G

Layout-o-Matic a tool which allows to select a layout type, width, and other options to the left, and then click Download or View and pick up your multi-column CSS layout starter kit (turning it into something unique and beautiful not included). You’re welcome to use the resulting generated layouts for any purpose, personal or commercial. CSS Creator creates a fluid or fixed width floated column layout, with up to 3 columns and with header and footer. Values can be specified in either pixels, ems or percentages. More

The creators of the previously mentioned , versatile CD/DVD burning tool CDBurnerXP have posted a guide in their forums to using the program to create a live-booting Windows XP (or 2000/2003) disc. It's a multi-step process that involves a lot of settings to tweak, but at the end you should have a Windows desktop that loads straight from the boot. If you're going to roll your own live-boot XP, you might want to get familiar with trimming it down to the bare essentials for faster loads, or slipstreaming your installation to avoid Windows Update nags that will, frankly, never go away. More

This week we introduced the new Ancient Rome 3D layer in Google Earth, a groundbreaking collection of 6,700 3D buildings modeled as leading scholars determined they stood in the year 320 A.D. More at Google Lat/Long

Like most other browsers, Google Chrome has some special pages that show information about memory usage, cached files, plug-ins and more. Here's a list of the most interesting about: pages available in Google Chrome (you can open them by dragging about:name to the address bar). 1. about:version - Google Chrome shows the version number the browser, WebKit and V8 (JavaScript engine). You can also find the user-agent used by Google Chrome. See more at Google Operating System

The curse of being nerdy is that you're often called upon to help friends and family resolve their computer problems. Of course, as you've probably learned, trying to troubleshoot by phone is maddeningly difficult. It's so much easier when you can actually visit the problematic PC and work your magic directly. But until science invents Star Trek-style transporters, you'll have to rely on the next best thing: remote-control software. CrossLoop lets you take full control of another PC. Just click the Free Download button to download and install the small client app on your PC, then instruct the other person to do likewise. Next, he or she clicks the Share tab and reads you the access code listed there, which you type into the client at your end. Click Connect and presto: You're connected. Now you have total control of the other system, so you can find the missing file, install the antivirus software, figure out why the printer's not printing, or whatever. Free and

Google introduced the beta version of its open source Chrome browser nearly two months ago, and issued its third update to the beta yesterday. (The update pushes to you automatically if you're running Chrome.) Although there are signs that the very early popularity of this browser has calmed down somewhat, it's still generating a lot of buzz, Google has confirmed that many extensions are coming for it, and I expect to see it in a mobile version very soon. If you're running Chrome, here are seven tips for customizing and getting the most out of it. Go here for more.

Managing Windows services is a painless efforts because the Microsoft tool services.msc does a decent enough job. It provides an interface that is displaying all existing services, their status and enough options to change the status easily. But there is always room for improvement. System administrators for instance would love an option to save different service profiles or save profiles in an xml file to load them on different machines easily." more at ghacks :

A repair/reinstall of Windows XP can be the last resort when you've got a really persistent problem. How awful, then, if this solution causes yet another problem—a breakdown in getting updates. We've got two ways to fix this problem in today's tip. Read the full story here .

Kyle Monson, PC Magazine's Associate Editor and music junkie, shares some of his favorite music websites like seeqpod.com, finetune.com and much more! More at PCMag

Free media file converter FormatFactory is a handy all-in-one utility for taking one kind of audio, video, or picture file and converting it to another. The interface is a dead-simple drag-and-drop affair, and it's meant for running batches of files through converters—FLVs to Windows Media, MPEGs to iPod-friendly video, DVDs to DivX files, etc. You won't get a lot of options for quality control, compression rate, or other tweaks, but for some folks, that's really a benefit. FormatFactory is a free download for Windows systems only. More via Lifehacker

Chrome is Google’s new sleek web browser. Even though it is only a beta version, it is an easy browser to like. With a streamlined design, fast rendering of webpages, ability to create web applications from any website, the list goes on and on. Here’s the list of tutorials that we’ve accumulated on Chrome, to this point: Read the rest of this entry »

Developers and designers are using more and more JavaScript in modern designs. Sometimes this can be a hindrance to the user and take away from the simplicity of the design, and other times it can add greatly to the user’s experience. The key is a) adding the right amount of JavaScript, and b) using the right JavaScript techniques. We have already collected various JavaScript techniques in the past – now it’s time for a new portion of JavaScript. Thanks to the Web’s widespread adoption of JavaScript, JavaScript libraries have sprung up to help make design and development easier. Here are a few of the major JavaScript libraries that developers use: jQuery, Prototype, Scriptaculous, mootools, Dojo. These frameworks have thriving communities whose members have developed countless plug-ins that can greatly add to the JavaScript framework. However, sometimes we need JavaScript solutions that are a little more involved or specific. Here are 75 more handy JavaScript techniques that have made

The Power User's Guide to Google Chrome : "Now that you've been enjoying Google Chrome's headliner features and speed for almost a week now, it's time to dig into the less obvious functionality and options you don't already know about. Become a keyboard shortcut master, take a peek under the hood, and customize its behavior and skin with some of the best shortcuts, bookmarklets, themes, add-ons, and subtle functionality in Google Chrome. More from Lifehacker . What, you don't like Google Chrome? Here, have the power user's guide to Firefox 3 "

Chrome, a Google Browser. It was about time. I’m sure you have heard a lot about Google Chrome already. If you haven’t tried it yet, keep reading because I have tried it for you, and I will summarize everything you should be aware of. Alright, did we really need another browser? Maybe. Google’s approach was to analyze existing technology and then make it better. Sounds familiar, doesn’t it? The comic strip that introduces the ideas and technology behind the browser states that developers started from scratch. The point was to create a browser compatible with the internet of today, rather than that of decades ago, when browsers were invented. Again, Google did not re-invent the wheel, but it may be pushing it forward a great deal. via makeuseof

Microsoft has recently released Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2, an impressive update for a software that stagnated in the past years. Internet Explorer 8 looks more elegant and easier to use, while adding many of the missing features. Microsoft's IE8 is here . More from Google Operating System

Whether you’re a beginning, intermediate or advanced user, these shortcuts and suggestions will help you get the most out of Firefox 3. For example: Zoom In, Zoom Out Tired of tiny text? Want to see an image a little more up close and personal? Now you can easily zoom in and out of Web pages. Zoom In: press CTRL and the plus (+) key Zoom Out: press CTRL and the minus (-) key Lots more at Firefox Tips & Tricks

Here is a sample of some of the most interesting and accessible English-language sites that distribute news, and what makes them worth a visit. * Daylife's (http://www.daylife.com) reason for being is less about presenting news from many sources gathered on one website. Rather, it allows other news publishers aggregate news on their own sites, said partner and new media blogger Jeff Jarvis says. Nevertheless, the site exhorts readers to dig in, giving them photos, timelines and other accessories that Jarvis says provides "an analysis of the body of news." * Newser (http://www.newser.com), started by Vanity Fair media columnist Michael Wolff, tells readers that "You can't follow 100 news sources, but we can." Its hook is human editors who search for and present the news, similar to old-fashioned print newspaper editors. more from Reuters

Q: Windows offers the Startup folder, which lets you specify tasks or applications to execute at start-up or log-on. Is there an equivalent for shutdown or logoff? I would like to copy some files I update during the day to a network location before I log off and go home at night. A: You can find a variety of small utilities that will automate tasks at shutdown, but for a straightforward task like the one you've described, you really don't need them. Just create a simple batch file to copy the updated files and end it with a command that shuts down the computer. You just have to remember to end your session by launching this batch file rather than by tapping the power button or shutting down via the Start menu. More from PC Mag

Welcome to FreeOTRShows.com. We offer free old time radio downloads directly from this site. All of our free old time radio mp3s are in public domain which means you are free to download them and distribute them as you would like. Our List of otr mp3 goes from Abbott and Costello through to Zorro." via Free Old Time Radio Downloads | OTR | Old Radio Shows : or . . . . Listen to the Original Dixieland Jazz Band from 1917 - 78RPM and Cylinder Recordings - 10 Tracks

What are services? By definition, it's a program that runs invisibly in the background. But can't the same thing be said for a number of programs that run in the background such as anti-virus programs? Yes, but the real difference is that services load and start running whether or not anyone logs into the computer, unlike a program that is launched from the Startup Folder under All Programs. There are two ways to view Services on your computer. The first is to use the MS Configuration Utility by typing msconfig.exe in the Run box accessed via the Start Menu, followed by clicking the Services tab. If you want a quick visual of which items are running or stopped, this is fine, but the information is limited. The preferred way to make changes to services is to launch services.msc from the Run option on the Start Menu. The Services window shown below will open. via The Elder Geek

Google expert Phillip Lenssen dishes up the latest news about Google and its features at his daily blog, Google Blogoscoped. Author of the new O'Reilly book, Google Apps Hacks, Lenssen takes some time out of his busy schedule today to share some of his best tips for using Google Apps from Gmail to web search to Google Docs. via Lifehacker

When you need something done quickly, efficiently, and without any software overhead, the command line is where it's at. It was the first way humans told computers what to do, but as graphics became increasingly important, the command line, or terminal, became an insiders' secret weapon. But with the right commands and a little bit of know-how, anyone can get things done from a text-only interface. Let's take a look at 10 commands and tricks that make the terminal more accessible, and more powerful, on any system. via Lifehacker

Using Picasa Web Albums you can create a Flash slideshow to embed in your blog or webpage. Each slideshow features built-in playback controls, size options, and the ability to display captions. To create and embed a slideshow: Sign in to your Google Account for Picasa Web Albums at http://picasaweb.google.com using your Google Account username and password. Click the My Photos link and select the album you'd like to make a slideshow.Click the Embed Slideshow link. This creates a Flash slideshow from the album you've selected. When you update this album, your slideshow is automatically updated to show the latest photos. To embed the slideshow, copy and paste the HTML code that's shown into your blog or webpage. Tip: Once it's embedded into your blog or site, people viewing your slideshow can click the person icon to go to your public gallery or click Get Your Own to start making their own portable slideshows. via Google

Web-based music search tool Mix Turtle creates playlists of songs you find online. Working from an index of millions of songs, Mix Turtle supplies suggestions to your search terms as you enter them. Covering a broad spectrum of time and tastes, Mix Turtle returned impressive results for diverse searches such as Miley Cyrus, Robert Miles, and Miles Davis. Once you find songs you would like to listen to, you simply click on them to start playing or click on the plus symbol next to the song to add it to your playlist. Create an accoung and log in to save your playlists, but a login is not required to use the service. The playback applet has no control for volume or jumping about within the track that is playing, but otherwise the playback is clean and the quality of the tracks high. While not a replacement for more robust service like Pandora , song selection was easy and playback enjoyable. Mix Turtle is free to use. Mix Turtle

The wireless Internet is everywhere, but how do you find a hot spot—or make one for yourself? Here's the full spectrum of Wi-Fi access methods to try when you're not at home. For the last decade, as wireless networks have grown in popularity, so has the number of hot spots around the globe. The leading online hot-spot directory, JiWire , lists 215,666 locations as of this writing. Those are just the ones people bother to report. Believe it or not, they're not all in coffee shops—in fact, hotels host the most hot spots, followed by restaurants. With that many venues offering Wi-Fi, it should be easy to find Internet access wherever you go, right? It is, if you know where, and perhaps how, to look. Here are some tips on finding locations, both free and for a fee, unique venues where Wi-Fi may flourish (think: air travel), and how to make your own mobile hot spots on the fly if you've got the equipment, the cash, and the gumption to unwire beyond your home

Russ Bartels has an interesting observation about giving XP the performance tools found in Vista: "Great job; however, you missed one that I have used for a long time. In Windows 2000 and XP, you can right-click My Computer and select Manage to see a great selection of these tools. This would be a good addition to your directory of niche tools." The Computer Management window brings together many Microsoft Management Console snap-in controls that would otherwise have to be launched individually. (These Microsoft controls can be recognized in the Windows System32 folder by their .msc extension.) This windows gives you access to a couple of tools that I recommended on Jan. 10. If you want to add Computer Management to your collection of tools, the executable file name to create a shortcut to is compmgmt.msc. Alternatively, you can open the Computer Management window by clicking Start, All Programs, Administrative Tools, Computer Management. If you don't see the Administrati

There are so many tools available on the Internet, it’s difficult to keep up with them all, and some are just downright silly while others make life much easier. This list highlights 100 web tools that fall into the latter, more useful category and help you with some aspect of your life, whether it’s managing your time, more efficiently surfing the web, or planning a perfect vacation. Accredited Degrees

FeedMySearch Turns Google Search Results into RSS Feeds : "FeedMySearch, a free Google-tweaking utility, turns new results from Google's many search areas—web, news, blogs, images, and more—into an RSS feed you can incorporate however you'd like. Some of these results, like Google News, have RSS feeds built in, but FeedMySearch's web search feeds are full-fledged with embedded video and pictures, and the site makes it easy to embed the feeds in your favorite start pages or bookmarking tools. via Lifehacker

Simple techniques for touching up digital photos : "A Guide to Touching Up Your Digital Photos" One problem faced when starting out with digital photography was how to touch up my raw digital images. Perhaps an image was slightly dark, perhaps it had to be rotated or cropped. Maybe some dirty spots had to be cleaned out and erased. Digital photos usually require some form of manipulation before final output. So here's a short guide which I've compiled to help you touch up your photos. Basic-Digital-Photography.com

Q: I still haven't found a music program that will organize my music into folders for me! Any ideas? A: Go to your preferences (Don't know what platform you're on, but it wouldn't be hard to find) Go to the "advanced" tab, and tick the two boxes "Keep my iTunes Music folder organized" and "Copy files to my iTunes Music folder when adding to library". Click ok, accept, bla bla. Then, if you want to make sure music existing in your library get sorted, go to the "Advance" menu (not "Advanced" tab in Preferences), and select "Consolidate Library". The newest version of iTunes is a free download for Mac and Windows. iTunes 7.7 [Apple]

Check out the most popular Lifehacker posts that have been published in the first half of 2008. Lifehacker

Discogs - Huge discography database Dogmazic - lots of Creative Commons music (mainly French) Whitburn project - 120 years of chart history Artists facts and Song facts - lots of facts about songs and artists Classical.com - Huge database of classical music Grove music encyclopedy - *The* ultimate resource for all sorts of information about western music John Peel Festive Fifties - Actual content of John Peel sessions (would be cool to link to that from the BBC John Peel dataset) Musical knowledge webs - Some general music information, appears to be quite structured Bach cantatas - All Bach Cantatas Concert Programmes - Large concert database (performers, venue, works, etc.) Laytune - Audio web search by artist/track/album Songkick - Huge database and recommendation service for live music OLPC sound samples - Big database of Creative Commons audio samples FreeSound - Huge database of freely available audio samples OperaGlass - Huge database of Opera - 25,000 operas, 4,8

Embedded comments, and star ratings Google’s Blogger has a couple of new features available at the special Blogger Draft site. Google Blogoscoped

Yesterday I decided that it was time to restructure my email. A completely stuffed inbox and reading Darren’s article about 10.000 to 0 emails in 24 hours convinced me, that it was time for some changes. If you have read Darren’s article, you will notice similarities since I used his tips, but I’ve made some personal tweaks for some reasons, I’ll explain later on. Coen Jacobs

When you're copying and pasting something to or from a Microsoft application such as Word or Outlook and you want to remove the formatting there is a quick keyboard shortcut to do so. Rather than use the mouse and the Paste Special button, you can simply paste the text, highlight it, and hit Ctrl+Space to remove the formatting and convert the selection into plain text. Lifehacker

The newest version of our favorite open source web browser, Mozilla Firefox 3 , offers dozens of new features and fixes, but only a handful will make the most dramatic difference in your everyday browsing. After 17 months of alphas and betas, Mozilla's finally made a feature-complete release candidate available, so it's time to spotlight the biggest improvements that will make "Gran Paradiso" the browser to beat. Nearly everything in the open-source app has gotten a second look from the minds at Mozilla, from back buttons to bookmarks, address bars to add-ons, passwords to performance, and the changes will make Firefox 3 worth the upgrade come its official release date, slated for sometime next month. Let's take a look at the 10 best upgrades in Firefox 3, and how they'll bolster your browsing, after the jump. Lifehacker - Go! Also, Field Guide to Firefox 3 from dria.org.

You already know about Firefox 3's marquee new features, but now it's time to dig deep and unearth the shortcuts, tweaks, and even Easter eggs that Mozilla marketing doesn't mention. In honor of today's official release of Firefox 3—at 10AM Pacific Time—let's dive in past Firefox 3's most talked-about feature-set into its lesser-known power uses, tricks, and customizations. Go! Lifehacker

The quality of design sites around has just been escalating and escalating. Last year we published two articles on finding design inspiration - 34 Places to Get Design Inspiration On and Off and the follow up 60 More Places to Get Design Inspiration . Since then I’ve been collecting new sites that didn’t make those two lists, and today I’m happy to deliver 33 New Places to Get Design Inspiration! Without further ado From: http://freelanceswitch.com/

Windows occasionally gets into a weird state where, well, things just stop working - the start menu doesn’t launch some apps anymore, clicking links in Internet Explorer doesn’t work, context menus stop working, etc.* Instead of rebooting Windows to get things working again, try logging out and logging back in. When Windows (and the apps that plug into the Windows shell) get into some weird state, you don’t need to reboot; a logoff shuts down the Windows Explorer, and a logon loads it again. This used to happen to me every now and again, but since SP1 It hasn’t happened once. Alternatively there is a much easier way to get your computer running smoothly again and remove all the idle processed. Create a new shortcut on the desktop In the input field type: “%windir%\system32\rundll32.exe advapi32.dll,ProcessIdleTasks” Click ‘next’ and name the shortcut. When this shortcut is run the system should stop for a few seconds as it reclaims RAM before speeding up again as you use it. Don

The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination June 5, 2008 J.K. Rowling, author of the best-selling Harry Potter book series, delivers her Commencement Address, “ The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination, ” at the Annual Meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association. Harvard Magazine May-June 2008

iTunes 7.6 Since its inception, iTunes has hidden the inner workings of its file management , preferring instead to present a single abstract "Library" to the user. This is fine if you like doing things the iTunes way, but it can be annoying if you prefer to organize things according to where all of your files actually reside on your hard drive. Fortunately, Apple gave in—partway—in Version 7.0, with support for multiple libraries. Hold down the Shift key (Windows) or Option key (OS X) as you start the program, and you'll see a graphic representation of the different libraries you have, along with an option to create a new one. Expert Help by PC Magazine

If you’re concerned about your web pages’ speed or want to make sure you’re in tip-top shape before starting or launching a project, here’s a few useful, free tools to help you create and sustain high-performance web applications. from Six Revisions

1. Digg This Plugin for Live Writer : The Digg This plugin inserts a "Digg This" button to your Windows Live Writer posts and provides seamless integration with Digg. 2. Social Bookmarking Tags : Using this plugin, you will be able to add automatic social bookmarking tags to your blog posts like del.icio.us and Technorati. (Check out this URL for an example.) the rest . . . . Sarah In Tampa | Channel 10

Microsoft launches Windows Live Writer, a new publishing tool for authoring rich blog posts on Windows Live Spaces, Wordpress, Typepad and other blogging services. Digg - Introducing Windows Live Writer

Ok, so you've lost an important file. Don't panic. Take a breath, and let's see if we can find it. Before you go into full-on file recovery mode, make sure you double-check the folder you had saved it in and the Recycle Bin or Trash. Still nothing? See Lifehacker .

Via Lockergnome Technorati Tags: virus , scanners There are a couple of excellent places online where you can test single files. The first of these is VirusTotal . Virustotal is a free service that will run a file through 32 separate anti-virus programs. Afterwards, it will give you a report. The report will contain the results from each AV, the date of the last update of each AV. There are two blogs found on Lockergnome that you can always count on to keep you up-to-date with the latest information on what Security products are good, what’s in, what’s out and what to stay away from. One is written by Kat . Both of them are Microsoft MVPs. Ron’s MVP award area is in Windows Desktop Experience, and Kat’s award is in Consumer Security. Both are well known in their fields, and know what they’re talking about.

MakeUseOf.com Lots of websites come and go, especially when it comes to TV show and movie websites. Being a major movie, TV show, news and documentary addict made me try lots of websites over the last couple of years. While many of those sites sucked, some of them were really good. Here are my top four websites for watching my favorite stuff online."

TechRepublic.com When your computer hardware appears to power up okay, but the Windows XP operating system won’t boot properly, you have to begin a troubleshooting expedition that includes getting into the operating system, determining the problem, and then fixing it. To help you get started on this expedition, here are 10 things you can do when Windows XP won’t boot.

Installing Microsoft's XP Service Pack wasn't smooth sailing for everyone--here's how to work around the glitches. Go here .

30 Websites to follow if you’re into Web Development | Six Revisions Here’s some of the websites to keep track of to find new techniques, resources, and news about building websites."

Making VoIP Work For You « : "Web Worker Daily - Making VoIP Work For You" A common misnomer about Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) is that it requires you to be using a headset, tethered to your computer. This is simply untrue as modern VoIP services and solutions use either a) normal corded and cordless phones or b) a specialized phone that resembles a cordless phone or cell phone - just modified to utilized VoIP technology

PC World - Installing Windows XP SP3? Read This First : " Wait a minute! You say you haven't followed the XP SP3 saga? Read " Early Tests Say SP3 Speeds Windows XP " and Robert Strohmeyer's " Windows XP SP3: First Impressions. " Start with Microsoft's " Steps to take before you install Windows XP Service Pack 3 ," a handy set of instructions to ensure a pleasant experience.

For $20, Costco will transfer two hours of VHS, S-VHS, VHS-C, Hi-8, Digital 8, 8mm videotape, MiniDV, or Betamax tape to DVD. Once you have the DVD in hand, you just save the files to your computer’s hard drive (assuming your computer can read DVDs). Costco also has a service that transfers 200 feet of 8mm, Super 8, 16mm movie reels to DVD for $20 and another that scans 50 slides to create digital photographs for $20. There are dozens of other companies out there doing the same thing that Costco is doing, but many require you to ship your tapes to them. If you’re okay with putting your tapes in the mail, here are a couple websites to explore: Family Memories to DVD and The Photo Archival Co.. Be sure to give your local camera shop a call, too, because often they offer these services. More

Keyboard shortcuts. Driving your computer using a mouse pointer may be easiest, but it's also the slowest way to get things done. Take the time to learn Windows' built-in keyboard shortcuts for tasks you perform often, and assign your own to shortcuts you always launch. Global Windows shortcuts: Windows comes with dozens of keyboard combinations built in. Here are a few of our favorites: Control+Esc opens the Start Menu. Update: So does one tap of the Windows key. F3 starts a file search Alt+Tab cycles through open programs First letter of a Desktop shortcut name places the focus on that shortcut, Enter to launch. Win+D toggles Show Desktop Win+E starts Windows Explorer Win+L locks computer ( more at Lifehacker ) Also, see Microsoft's Keyboard Shortcuts for Windows

Camera Hacks: Turn Your Point-and-Shoot into a Super-Camera : If you're using a consumer grade point-and-shoot Canon digital camera, you've got hardware in hand that can support advanced features way beyond what shipped in the box. With the help of a free, open source project called CHDK , you can get features like RAW shooting mode, live RGB histograms, motion-detection, time-lapse, and even games on your existing camera. Let's transform your point-and-shoot into a super camera just by adding a little special sauce to its firmware.

45 Photo Editing Tutorials for Photoshop | Vandelay Website Design : If you’re looking to improve a website by using Photoshop to enhance a photo to make it clearer, more interesting, or more exciting, here are 45 of the best tutorials to show you some of the possibilities.

Luxul ANTBOS-24-UN 500mW Booster Antenna at TigerDirect.com : "Luxul ANTBOS-24-UN 500mW Booster Antenna The Luxul ANTBOS-24-UN is a great plug and play range extender for your home or small office wireless network"

Google Analytics Blog: Google Analytics for Blogger now in private beta : "Google Analytics for Blogger now in private beta - Wednesday, April 30, 2008"

heise online - Microsoft postpones Service Pack updates : "Microsoft has delayed the distribution of its recent Service Packs for Windows XP and Windows Vista by Windows Update. Service Pack 3 for Windows XP was to be made available on April 29 for all users as a download and via auto update, but according to a blog entry published by Microsoft exec Chris Kerouac, Microsoft has a compatibility problem between the recently completed Service Pack 3 for Windows XP and one of its enterprise applications, Dynamics Retail Management System (RMS) and is now working on a hot fix."

Windows XP SP3 "Field Guide to Windows XP SP3" What Should I Expect? You may be disappointed to find out that SP3 isn't really bringing much to the table in terms of new and sexy functionality. In fact, the majority of updates included in SP3 have been available as per-item hotfixes and updates for XP. However, there are also four new features being back-ported from Vista to XP. What Should I Expect? You may be disappointed to find out that SP3 isn't really bringing much to the table in terms of new and sexy functionality. In fact, the majority of updates included in SP3 have been available as per-item hotfixes and updates for XP. However, there are also four new features being back-ported from Vista to XP.

Windows XP Service Pack 3 Resources for IT Professionals : "Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) Updated April 23, 2008 Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) stand-alone is now available for download. Windows XP SP3 includes all previously released updates for the operating system, in addition to a small number of new updates. Windows XP SP3 will not significantly change the Windows XP experience. Installation media and documentation on disc for Windows XP SP3 may sometimes refer to Windows XP SP2. Windows XP SP2 installation guide instructions apply to Windows XP SP3."

Business & Technology Blu-ray bound? Why you might want to wait Seattle Times Newspaper : "Blu-ray bound? Why you might want to wait By Troy Wolverton, San Jose Mercury News You may be itching to buy a Blu-ray DVD player now that the format has won the high-definition disc-standard war. But you may want to hold off. By waiting a few months, you may save yourself some irritation — and a few bucks."

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