Handpicked Spring Wallpapers

Mar 07, 2009 | 7 Comments

Since Spring is so near in this post I have provided some amazing and surely handpicked Spring wallpapers to use them for your desktop background in Spring and every time else you like. Here you can see my provided list with their description. Well, I have tried to gather high resolution and qualify images. Some of them are available to be used as widescreen wallpapers or dual monitors wallpapers but other ones not so. Almost all of these spring and nature wallpapers would be useful as widescreen wallpapers and dual monitors. Let’s watch all here:

1) Pink view reaction in water

A beautiful pink and waterfull view that indicates a nice spring on your desktop. Would you like to download wallpapers? just click on them to see the original size and then save it on your computer.

spring wallpaper - pink wallpaper

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Free spring photoshop tutorials

Feb 26, 2009 | 5 Comments

As we know all Spring is so near and it would be nice to collect some free spring photoshop tutorials to have a review on them and choose the materials we need. Well I have tried to select and collect handpicked photoshop tutorials are related about our today subject. Let’s check them out below:

1) March 2009 Calendar Wallpaper

It would be the best Spring Photoshop tutorials I found. In this tutorial you will learn how to make an amazing March 2009 wallpaper as like as the picture below. I really recommend it!

free-Spring-photoshop-tutorials-MArch-Callendar-2009

 

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How manage FireFox bookmarks with Total Commander(or Windows Explorer)

Feb 24, 2009 | 0 Comment

As you know it’s impossible to do easy, since FF keeps bookmarks in
own database. But Since TF may synchronize bookmarks between browsers
you may do the changes in Internet Explorer bookmarks and Tidy
Favorites will change the same in Firefox.
As result you may manage Firefox Bookmarks in any file manager or even
inside Internet Explorer.
Also New bookmarks from Firefox comes directly to IE or Opera etc.

 

More details

TidyFavorites is a powerful software to manage your bookmarks. This light software would be available to use in portable mode or installation mode while the size only 5.9MB. The portable version is much secure because of it’s capability of moving and storing on HDD and even phone.

You would be able to bookmark your favorites by clicking easily. After bookmarking TidyFavorites generates a named thumbnail automatically and then put it under stack section. Finally you can drag and drop the generated bookmarks to the management part.

Features:

  • Viewing bookmarks by clicking (in a new window)
  • Storing bookmarks’ URLs on clipboard
  • Removing bookmarks only by one click
  • Editing every thumbnail name and title
  • Resizing bookmarks
  • Selecting an area for bookmarks

You can also group bookmarks in order to having better management. Every group’s would have a tab that shows the group’s name. It’s also possible to sort URLs as you like.

Using TidyFavorites makes you able to never feel worry about missing your golden links.

To download the trial version and test this windows tool fully go to http://www.tidyfavorites.com


Sites as free online services for hosting your files +20

Feb 19, 2009 | 3 Comments

Hello Dear Readers! Who want to stay up to date!

In this post, I have provided more than 50 site that you can have free hosting there. In the list below I have provided some features of every upload service for you to be able to compare them and select each one you need to upload or download your files in order to use a free host or making a backup.

Well as we know there are just a few services that let users to have a direct links or let users to be hosted their files for unlimited times but some services just clean the files that not be downloaded after a specific times. for example after 30 days inactivity. There fore you can compare these services and choose what is proper for yourself.

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10 online resources to find free Gimp tutorials

Feb 17, 2009 | 6 Comments

Today I will introduce 10 amazing places to you in order to find many free Gimp tutorials. (Gimp = GNU Image Manipulation Program). I hope to have a useful post today.

Here I am going to bring the sites’ names according to their already Alexa rand and Google page rank.

1) gimp.org

Alexa: 9,188

Google PageRank: 7

Description:
This site has categorized it’s content according to your skills level including: beginner / intermediate / expert / photo editing / web / script authoring. So it’s really great to study Gimp free tutorials step by step.

online-free-gimp-tutorials_gimp.org

2) gimpology

Alexa: 243,646

Google PageRank: 5

Description:

Gimpology was launched to provide the users of The GIMP a one-stop site for tutorials, tips and articles. You can also login and publish your own tutorials there.

online-free-gimp-tutorials_gimpology.com

3) gimp-tutorials.net

Alexa: 77,543

Google PageRank: 5

Description:

This site has the most beautiful view among all. You can visit this site as a blog to find newer tutorials and you can also visit it as a site to find Gimp tutorials categories, popular tutorials and recent brushes. It is also possible to find users’ tutorials.

online-free-gimp-tutorials_gimp-tutorials.net

4) gtuts.com

Alexa: 620,133

Google PageRank: 1

Description:

Common categories and a beautiful view. You can also write tutorials by your own for them.

online-free-gimp-tutorials_gtuts.com

5) Meet the Gimp

Alexa: 516,269

Google PageRank: 5

Description:

This site would be much different than others because this is a site to find a lot of video tutorials for the free graphics Gimp. There is a forum there too. Really useful and friendly.

online-free-gimp-tutorials-meetthegimp.org

6) gimp-tutorials.com

Alexa: 218,504

Google PageRank: 3

Description:

This is an other resource like others that you can find newer and random tutorials there. This site has categorized it’s tutorials according to most rated and most viewed tutorials. It is also possible to find Gimp tutorials in these languages: Dutch, English, French, German, Polish, Spanish

online-free-gimp-tutorials_gimp-tutorials.com

7) Gimp users

Alexa: 181,796

Google PageRank: No page rank!

Description:

This site has a simple but not much beautiful environment. You can find German Gimp tutorials and English Gimp tutorials there.

online-free-gimp-tutorials_gimpusers.com

8) PA Blog

Alexa: 1,041,954

Google PageRank: No page rank!

Description:

An amazing blog that seems we can find handpicked Gimp tutorials there. The interesting matter about this site is video of the week in this site.

online-free-gimp-tutorials_pa-blog

9) Gimp Talk

Alexa: 93,418

Google PageRank: No page rank!

Description:

This is different that others. It is just a forum include many materials about GIMP.

online-free-gimp-tutorials_gimp-talk

10) gimpguru.org

Alexa: 404,923

Google PageRank: 6

Description:

Although this site doesn’t have a nice environment and nice categorized content in it’s home page but you can find many useful free Gimp tutorials there by searching.

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guru.org


Laptop Battery

Jan 27, 2009 | 0 Comment

Today I’m going to tell you some recommended tips to improve your laptop battery life. Knowing these tips would be really helpful and practical for all laptop owners specially who need to work with their laptops using battery power frequency.

Improve your laptop battery life

  • Sometimes you need to work on your notebook using battery power. Using the tips below helps you to optimize your laptop battery usage and extend your battery life:
     
  • CPU activities need amount of battery power. So, you can use some programs that control the CPU speed to optimize the battery life. For example SpeedSwitchXP is simple and straight-forward to use, and you can Control the speed of your CPU to give you either Max Battery.

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32 useful tips to improve laptop performance

Jan 22, 2009 | 9 Comments

In this post I am going to gather some popular advices which are about improving laptop performance. Applying these short tips makes you able to have the best usage of your laptop. Please read this post fully and help me to gather more tips and advices by leaving your comments.

 

RAM:

As you know, RAM is the most important hardware for laptops after CPU. Having more memory makes your laptop faster. So, if your laptop can not process as well as you need you should freed more memory to have more available memory for your programs. To solve this problem I recommend these eight tips:

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A challenge for computer programmers to solve a numeral question!

Dec 19, 2008 | 4 Comments

Invite your friends to the Challenge:

Let’s have a nice challenge here. Every thing is clear and simple to understand. But I just want to invite you to think more about this question and then design an algorithm about it and then make a code about it and send it to me via Email: stayupdate.com@gmail.com

Well, as I said the question is much clear and easy to understand. But almost a few students can solve it well. Who had better algorithm performance and shorter source code would be the WINNER!

 

The question:

The program should have this parameters:

INPUTS:

A) 3 points and their positions: A(a_i,a_j) B(b_i,b_j) C(c_i,c_j)

Note: It should be possible to make a triangle by connecting the points above.

B) Another point and it’s position: point(p_i,p_j)

 

OUTPUT:

- The program should determine that:

1) Is the point out of the triangle? ( In this case the program should print: out)

stayupdate.com-A simple challenge- out

 

2) Is the point on the triangle? ( In this case the program should print: on)

stayupdate.com-A simple challenge- on

 

3) Is the point in the triangle? ( In this case the program should print: in)

stayupdate.com-A simple challenge- in

 

Don’t forget to invite your friends to this challenge!

I am awaiting for the WINNER!

GOOD LUCK!


10 tools to have a perfect twitter account

Dec 18, 2008 | 0 Comment

1) Just tweet it

Just twit it help you to find other twitter users who are like you. Surely it would be really perfect to you to find other users that are like you because they can help you and be good partners of yours.

 

2) twitter patterns

Here you can find supplied styles for your twitter in order to have an stylish twitter.

 

3) twitter feed

twitter feed let you to inform your followers when you update your blog via sending your last post URL. This is really useful for web developers.

 

4) Easy tweets

This is a web-based marketing tool that makes you able to manage multiply twitter accounts at the same time and be able to tweet with them.

 

5) straw poll now

You can have a poll on you twitter via this service. So, then you do not need any code or script and it is fast too.

 

6) tweet beep

This service let you to be informed when others tweet about your favorites via alert. You can easily keep track of conversations that mention you, your company, your product and etc.or a URL then you will be informed when others tweet about them.

 

7) twitbin

Twitbin is a Firefox extension that let you to use your twitter account on your Firefox browser. You can send and receive messages easily! twitbin creates a side bar on your Firefox browser to allow you to communicate on twitter.

 

8) twitterfox

twitterfox is another Firefox extension that notifies you on your friends’ status on twitter. This Firefox extension just add a small icon on your Firefox. Then you can click on it to send messages, login, log out and etc. Really easy to use!

 

9) twitt(url)y

This is a web service to track what URLs are twitter users talking about. Useful to know popular subjects and hot links among twitter users.

 

10) Less Friends

You are following some people on twitter.com. Well, are they following you too? Less Friends help you to find the answer.


Check your Emails on Google faster (7 tips)

Dec 18, 2008 | 2 Comments

1) Gmail

You can go to http://m.gmail.com to sign in to your google account to check your Emails. This is a great way to check your Gmail on your mobile.

2) Mozila Thunderbird

Mozila Thunderbird is a great program that let you to organize all of your Emails in offline mode. you can also search your Emails, send your Emails to others, and have multiply Gmail account on it. I really recommend it.

3) Google Desktop

You can search your Emails in offline mode and you can also search on your computer as easily as you search on the web via Google Desktop. Using Google Desktop makes you able to have a desktop search and also a sidebar gadget.

4) Google Talk

Google talk makes you able to have an approach for instant communications. You can also use Google talk to be informed about the new Emails that you have received.

5) iGoogle

Fist make a iGoogle page for yourself and then add Google mail\Gmail to your page (leave them checked). That’s finished now you have an iGoogle page and you can have some of your favorite materials there in just one web page.

6) Google Toolbar

If you want to work by IE and you need a toolbar for your Google account, you can download Google Toolbar. Firefox users can also download another Google Toolbar. That’s it!

7) Check your Emails on Google via Firefox add-ons

I have provided 2 Firefox extensions in order to check you accounts via Firefox faster:

|) Gmail Notifier

Gmail Notifier makes supports checking multiply Google accounts as well as Gmail hosted accounts. So, you can use Gmail Notifier to monitor multiply Gmail accounts inside your Firefox.

Google notifier

||) Gmail manager

This Firefox extensions supports managing multiply Google accounts too. Gmail manager notify you when you receive a new Email and let you see account details (unread messages, draft, spam & …).

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