Outstanding set of search tips. By Dan Price at MakeUseOf.com…
Google has now become such an ingrained part of our daily lives that we just take it for granted, turning to it for everything from recipes to directions.For the most part, it’s pretty good at answering our queries with a simple search, certainly on the more popular topics.
Source: 11 Advanced Searches To Bookmark To Become A Google Power User
This will come in handy. By Rod Trent at WinSuperSite.com…
…However, for those that want to do image and video capture on-the-cheap, Microsoft includes a screen recording utility in Windows 10’s new Xbox app. As you can imagine, this is generally meant for recording Xbox games streamed to a Windows 10 PC, but what’s especially interesting is that the recording utility also works for regular apps.
Source: How To: Use Windows 10’s Screen Recording Utility | Windows 10 content from SuperSite for Windows
Excellent article on use of lighting for better photos and videos. By Patrick Allan at Lifehacker.com…
The big difference between good looking photos and video and bad ones comes down to how well things are lit. Whether you’re an amateur photographer building a home studio or a budding YouTube star, here are some simple tricks for casting the right light without spending a fortune on professional equipment.
Source: How to Improve Your Photos and Videos with Affordable Lighting
Addressing one of the shortcomings of the most recent version of Windows 10.
By Christian Cawley at MakeUseOf.com…
Windows 10 is coming, and with it a bunch of new features. But wherever you find new features, you’ll also find holes, where old favorites have been deprecated. With Windows 10, the Windows Media Center will no longer be supported. This means that if you have it installed, WMC will stop working when you upgrade to Windows 10. Not ideal, especially if Windows Media Center was your favored solution after cutting the cord.
Source: 5 Alternatives to Windows Media Center for Windows 10
By Mark O’Neill at MakeUseOf.com…
In the era of paper, when men were men, and the Internet was still a twinkle in Tim Berner-Lee‘s eye, signing something like a letter or a contract was as simple as getting a pen and scribbling your name.But then the Internet came along, and of course, like everything else, signing papers went online. But when you get that contract via email, what do you do? You have to print the last page, sign it, scan it, and email it back. How terribly inconvenient.
Source: 8 Ways To Sign A PDF From Windows, Mac & Mobile Platforms
What a great collection! By Anup More at Linux.com…
Often due to some restrictions by the web development company, most of the web developers are forced to use free open source platforms such as Ubuntu. For such developers, it becomes headache to work without the tools that are mandatory and used for developing a website. However, there are some similar tools available for Linux that can be used in the web development.
via Web Development Tools for Linux & How to Install Them | Linux.com.
By Danny Stieben at MakeUseOf.com….
We all know that Photoshop is the premiere application for image and graphics manipulation. It simply does everything you could possibly want, which is the reason why most professionals choose it and why your wallet has a deep hole after you buy it. But Photoshop isn’t the only image manipulation tool on the block. The leading open source alternative to Photoshop, GIMP, has plenty of power under the hood as well.
via Better Than Photoshop? Make GIMP Even More Powerful With These Plugins.
By Aaron Couch at MakeUseOf.com…
We’ve all been there, some more than others, but at one point or another we’ve all had to convert a file. But whether we knew how to or not, was the question. Sometimes with this sort of thing it’s simply the lack of knowledge of what to use. The other common issue is how to use it. Well now that you’re reading this article, those should no longer be problems that you’re familiar with.
via Format Factory: Quickly & Easily Convert Multimedia Files Without The Headache [Windows].