Posts Tagged ‘window’
Windows XP To Be Continued Until 2010
Microsoft just announced that Windows XP can continue to be shipped on low-cost PC’s until 2010. They said earlier in the year that they would discontinue XP in June 2008, but because of all the protests against it, they decided to change their decision. Companies have been pressuring Microsoft to do this too because Vista, a power-hungry OS, while XP runs great on low-end PC’s that are becoming more popular among the non-gaming crowd. When asked about more powerful machines, Microsoft said that even though they are keeping XP on the market for low-end PC’s, they won’t have exact specifications on the computers XP can be used on. One of the PC’s that MS is keeping XP around for is the Eee PC, which is a cheap ($300 or less) laptop that is built for internet browsing and video viewing, coming with a max hard drive of 250 GB and 802.11n Wi-Fi for browsing around the internet.
Photoshop Fog Effect Tutorial
This blog post officially kicks off the Photoshop Tutorial Review mini-series, and it only seemed natural to start off with PhotoshopTutorials.ws. Entering PST, I was very happy. The site is clean, no clutter, and not over-done. The purpose of this post is not to actually be a tutorial, its for me to do the actual tutorial, and then provide anything that I believe could be improved upon, allowing you to get the best of the best. At PST, there are many different types of tutorials. There are tutorials strictly about Photoshop, but there is also photography, downloads, and forums to seek further help. One thing that separates this tutorial site from the rest is that it actually pays members who write great tutorials cash via Paypal. As I browsed the tutorials, I noticed they were very novice-friendly and detailed. After finding one that I really liked, I will walk through it beginning to end.
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FreeSnap Improves your Open Windows
I just finished reading an article over at Lifehacker about FreeSnap, a program that gives you more power over your windows. Some of the great things that FreeSnap manages to do are:
- Hotkey control
- very low memory usage (about 4 mb’s)
- You can size your windows fully horizontal or vertically, or center the window
- Easy custom window resizing, useful for web developers who need to see websites at different screen resolutions
I like that FreeSnap can make the window a certain size because I mess around with website creation a bit. This software is Windows only, sorry Linux guys, but a Linux version may one day be coming your way.
