When you are making a presentation, you may want people to see only one of your applications, and not your whole computer screen. You may also be doing some work while presenting and you want to separate what everyone sees on the screen from your work on the computer. Here is how to make sure…

A cool effect on photos you may want to use is when the edge of the photos fades out into white. Without using Photoshop, you could also add fading to the photos in Microsoft Word. It makes for a nice touch to presentations and documents. Here is how to fade out the edges of photos…

When you make a presentation, you may want to add some animation for emphasis. Microsoft Powerpoint has very useful animation features, and the easiest way to work on animation is to use the animation pane. Here is how to use the animation pane in MS Powerpoint: Step One. Open your Microsoft Powerpoint document, place all…

Often when you are composing a letter or writing a paper, you want to avoid repeating the same word or phrase. An easy way to make your language more versatile is to use a thesaurus, but most of us are lazy to get up from our computers. Did you know that Microsoft Word has an…

Foobar2000 is an advanced freeware audio player for the Windows platform. How do I rearrange my songs in the play list? You may find that just drag and drop can merely select a whole bunch of songs, starting from the one you are trying to move! That’s really annoying. How to solve this problem? Here is…

DVD Flick aims to be a simple, but at the same time powerful DVD Authoring tool. It can take a number of video files stored on your computer and turn them into a DVD that will play back on your DVD player, Media Center or Home Cinema Set. You can add additional custom audio tracks,…

We have all watched music and worked simultaneously on our computers. But when there is an incoming call on skype for example, you want your laptop to either completely stop playing the music, or at least reduce the volume, so that you will be able to take the call undisturbed. Here is how to automatically…

GoodSync is an easy, secure, and reliable way to automatically synchronize and back up your photos, MP3s, and important files. Backing-up and/or synchronizing your critical documents is as easy as one click, and can also be scheduled using a variety of automatic options. Quicken has a backup feature by itself. But the more protection we…

Sometimes we use a few folders work on our computer, so we need to update certain files but forget about the other versions of the file. In this case, it is important to chain sync these folders together with GoodSync. GoodSync is an easy, secure, and reliable way to automatically synchronize and back up your…

Do you want to alter your images to give them some artistic feel? Do you want to convert your images into paintings? If yes, FotoSketcher is a great choice. It is a great program which can help you convert your digital photos into art, automatically. Here are the detailed steps. Step One: Download FotoSketcher and…

ACDSee has everything you need to manage, perfect, and present your images. Carry out digital asset management and all the essential tasks of your photography workflow in one complete, amazingly fast solution. Achieve stunning results, stay organized, save time. ACDSee can also help us to generate a list of files, here is the instruction for…

ACDSee allows photographers to carry out all of the essential elements of the creative photography process and distribution in one place. Managing your growing photo collection has never been this painless. ACDSee stores a history of the most recently used folders and image files. But sometimes we may feel unsafe for this, we need to…

When transferring your pictures or movies via Bluetooth between the phone and the laptop or other devices, by default they are saved to the folder “Bluetooth exchange folder”. It may sometimes be hard to locate the file once you transfer it to your laptop. If you want to change the destination folder for your Bluetooth…

By default, most laptops start dimming their displays (their screens brightness) when not plugged into a power source. This can be irritating, especially when you are watching a movie or you are making a presentation to a customer. You might need to keep increasing the brightness of your display manually. Here is how you can…

When opening any windows, it plays a short sound / melody. If you need to reboot your device often, it can become annoying. If you want, you could prevent windows from playing any sound when it opens. Just a note: the startup sound is different from the login sound. So if you stop the starting…