Monday, August 10, 2009

Animate your photos, create GIF animations with Loogix

Here are some examples of animations, have a look.

swirl effect at loogix

explosion effect at loogix

radial blur effect at loogix

There are several effects available, like, Radial Blur, Swirl, Blur, Movie, Motley, Guggle, Negative, Painting, etc. You just have to choose and effect and upload your photo, choose the size, and hit ‘Generate Animation’ to get the animated image.

working with loogix

Once you get the animation, you can share it using the widgets on the page, or you can simply save them on your computer.

options for sharing the animated photo at loogix

Loogix also allows you to create the GIF animations from the set of images you have.

creating animations from static images at loogix

This can be found scrolling down the homepage, it’s a simple 3 step process, Upload images (each image will be a frame of animated GIF), select the size and speed, hit the ‘Generate Animation’ button, got the animation, now share them the way you want, get the embed code or simply download it to your computer.

Give it a try, animate your photos, or create animations from the images, I am sure you will love its simple interface and fast working.

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How to create tabs of different styles and colors for your Website

Tabs Generator is an online tool which allows you to create tabs for your website.

The tool is quite self explanatory and hence simple to use.

tabs generator create tabs for your website for free

By now, you would have got the idea about how to use this tool, as soon as you make any changes, the Refresh button appears on the page so that you can preview the output of the change.

making any change will get the refresh button to get the preview at tabs generator

Once done with this and like the preview, click on the ‘Download’ button to download the PNG file.

Tabs Generator allows you to create fully customized tabs, almost every attribute is editable, so go ahead and create some tabs which go well with your website’s current look and feel.

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Exercises and Postures to avoid Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

Here are some posture advices to be followed especially to avoid the Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS) –

Elbow Position during mouse usage to avoid CTS

Elbow Position during mouse usage to avoid CTS

Rest your palm on mouse

Rest your palm on mouse

How to use the Keyboard to avoid CTS

How to use the Keyboard to avoid CTS

Here are some stretching exercises for your hand, to stay away from CTS –

Stretch towards back and hold for 5 seconds

Stretch towards back and hold for 5 seconds

Stretch as shown, 5 seconds in the same position

Stretch as shown, 5 seconds in the same position

Lie down on abdomen apply pressure on palm as if trying to get up

Lie down on abdomen apply pressure on palm as if trying to get up

Incline the palm sideways as much as you can for 5 seconds again

Incline the palm sideways as much as you can for 5 seconds again

So, go ahead and practice these postures, and the stretching as well. Depending upon the frequency you can repeat each exercise for 5-10 times.

Feature yourself on Graffiti, Locket, Sunglasses, Sidewalk Art and much more

Eff My Pic, this online tool allows you to add several effects on your photos.

Here is s snapshot of some of the effects –

available effects on eff my pic

Using Eff My Pic to add effects to your photos is damn simple, just click on any of the effect you like, new page will appear in front of you, here you can have a better view of the chosen effect and on the top left of the page you will get the browse button, browse and later hit the upload button.

As soon as the uploading is done you get several sharing options, and another option to download this processed photo to your computer.

processed photo and sharing options at eff my pic

Simple! Isn’t it? So go ahead and add the effects to your photos.

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Sunday, August 9, 2009

15 Windows shortcuts which you should have hands on

We keep searching for new ways to improve our productivity with our computer, one of the most searched and desired of this series is ‘Shortcuts’, Here is a list of some shortcuts which will help your with this. I would suggest you to create shortcut files for each of them and have it in some folder or desktop or even assign some hot key. I have given example and a video at the end.

To, use them simply type in the text below, the functionality (written in bold), in the ‘Run’ command, i.e. ‘Windows + R’ key combination too.

The 15 Ultimate Shortcuts

1. My Computer:
explorer.exe /root,,::{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}

2. My Computer with C drive selected:
explorer.exe /select,c:

3. My Network Places:
explorer.exe /root,,::{208D2C60-3AEA-1069-A2D7-08002B30309D}

4. Recycle Bin:
explorer.exe /root,,::{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}

5. Task Manager:
taskmgr.exe

6. Computer Management:
compmgmt.msc

7. System Properties:
control.exe sysdm.cpl

8. Volume Control:
sndvol32.exe

9. Date and Time Properties:
control.exe timedate.cpl

10. Logoff:
shutdown.exe -l

11. Switch User / Lock Computer:
rundll32.exe user32.dll LockWorkStation

12. Hibernate:
rundll32.exe powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState

13. Restart:
shutdown.exe -r

14. Shutdown:
shutdown.exe -s

15. Shutdown (abort):
shutdown.exe -a

How to create shortcuts for quick access:

You can now create Shortcuts and keep them on your desktop to access these items easily, here is the illustration, which shows how to create a shortcut of these items,

Right click on the desktop, choose ‘New’, then ‘Shortcut’.

Creating Shortcuts Step 1

Creating Shortcuts Step 1

Type the text or code, in the text box as shown below.

Creating shortcuts Step 2

Creating shortcuts Step 2

Enter the title or name for your shortcut

Creating shortcuts Step 3

Click ‘Finish’ to get the Shortcut.

Final Shortcut

Hope you enjoyed it, Share with us the shortcuts which have not been enlisted here.

GiniPic : Excellent Application for finding images

GiniPic is an ultimate desktop application which can help people who regularly need images either in their articles or for documentation or even in slideshows. Basically Ginipic is based one the image searches of popular search engines like google and yahoo but what makes it a Swiss Knife are the tools integrated with it.

  • Social Media / Sharing
  • Copy as Link or HTML – Useful for Documentation
  • Drag and Drop , just too easy to for writing articles for us.
  • Set as Desktop background : lovely for wallpaper freakers.
  • Lightbox and Add to fav integration.
  • Watch all images as Slideshow.
  • get complete details on Sizie, URL, title, original url, license etc.
Ginipic tools

Ginipic tools

Ginipic search
Ginipic search

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