Computer Tricks and Secrets

One of the very first Photoshop skills we learned in my tenth grade photojournalism class was cropping the background out of images. I hated it. It was extremely time consuming, and the magnetic lasso tool never seemed to want to cooperate with me. Nearly a decade later, the tools have gotten better, but there still isn't a quick and simple way for people without polished photo-editing skills to remove the background from an image. But James Diebel and Jacob Norda, the team behind a new free web app called Clipping Magic , hope to change that by doing it for you almost instantaneously. or you can try a tool given below   Adobe Photoshop contains tools like the background eraser and an extract filter to help you quickly erase complicated background images from digital photographs. Want to do something similar but without Photoshop ? Just upload your picture to FotoFlexer , an online photo editor, and open the Geek tab. There you’ll find an intelligent tool called "Smart Scisso...

The problem : You have documents, photos, music and other important files on the home computer. How can you “remotely access” these files from your office computer or, when you are travelling, from your mobile phone? The solution : The simplest solution would be that you copy all your data from the home computer on to a portable hard drive and carry it around but this is obviously a bit cumbersome approach as it requires you to manually sync the home computer and your portable disk. Access Files on your Computer from Anywhere There are couple of ways by which you can retrieve files stored on your home computer from anywhere else using a regular Internet connection. Option 1: Using Online Backup You can use an online backup service like  SugarSync ,  Carbonite ,  SkyDrive  or even  Dropbox  – they provide desktop utilities that will automatically upload files on your home computer to the Internet and you can then access these files through the web browser of any other Internet connected...

Did you just buy a new mobile phone? The first thing that you’ll probably is copy all the phone numbers and other contact information from the old phone to your new cell. Transfer Contacts from one Cell Phone to another The process may vary depending upon the phone support cloud but broadly, there are three options. I will discuss the most popular mobile platforms like BlackBerry, iPhone, HTC, Nokia, Windows Phone, Samsung and Android. 1. SIM based transfer If the address book of your old phone is relatively small and you only want to copy the phone numbers to your new cell phone, simply use the SIM card. Just copy the phone numbers from the old phone’s memory to your SIM card, insert this SIM card into your new phone and then copy the phone numbers in your new phone’s memory. Here’s a detailed guide on how to transfer contacts from the Nokia to an iPhone using the SIM. 2. Transfer Contacts via your Computer The SIM card based approach is good only for transferring basic phone numbers ...

[For non-techie parents who have a computer at home and are worried about their kids safety online.] How Parents Can Block Certain Websites From Children A mother recently wrote saying she is very concerned that her young children are spending too much time on websites like Orkut, MySpace and Facebook. Her worries are not just about children wasting time on the Internet – it’s more about the activities that children are doing on these sites. She is concerned that children could be interacting with complete strangers (or online predators) and even sharing personal information. And with some news reports saying that criminal activities could have been planned on Orkut, the mother has finally made up her mind to restrict access to Orkut and some other websites on the home computer. The only problem is that she has absolutely no clue about how to block websites – parental control software like Net Nanny or Norton Internet Security are pretty good but they cost money. Now before you take th...

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