Hasta La Gadget!

This article was written on July 30, 2007 by CyberNet.

Just in time for you to make your own Web 2.0 logo using the tutorial we posted earlier today, Paint.NET v3.10 Beta is now available. The prior version, v3.08 was released back on June 1st, so it’s been about two months since we’ve been able to play with something new.

There are two ways you can get the new beta.  If you already have a version of Paint.NET downloaded, you can go to the Help Menu>Check for Updates and then click the options button to select that you’d like to also check for beta versions. By default, this option is not checked.

If you don’t have a version of Paint.NET installed, you can find the download here.

There are three new features that you’ll find within this beta version.  The first is a “soften portrait” effect, the second is an “ink sketch effect” and the third is that there is now support for the DirectDraw Surface (DDS) file format. Besides the new features, there’s a list of improved/changed/fixed features that you can take a look at here.

Plugin Guide

It’s always nice to see improvements and new features for a great program like Paint.NET. For some of the things that you’d like to do with Paint.NET, but aren’t a built-in option yet, there are many plugins available.  Richard Tallowin over in the forum has put together a guide on how to get the most out of Paint.NET using plugins. It’s definitely a guide you’ll want to check-out!

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This article was written on March 13, 2008 by CyberNet.

One of our faithful readers, Alex, noticed our underlying plea for an invite to the Dropbox service that we wrote about earlier today. While Dropbox has no formal way to invite a friend they do let you share a folder with others, and if they don’t have an account it will let them create one on-the-spot. So Alex shared a folder with us, and we were able to get an account!

Now we want to help spread some of the Dropbox love. There doesn’t appear to be any limitation on the number of people you can share a folder with, but we don’t want to be sending invites day in and day out. So we’ll send invites to the first 50 people who request them in the comments below.

All we need is your email address which you can specify in the email field (registered users can change their email address on the account page), or you can put it in the comment field if you don’t mind everyone seeing it. After we send out the 50 invites we’ll let everyone know in the comments, and hopefully some other individuals will take a few minutes to invite the others who weren’t fortunate enough to get in on the action.

Make sure you check your spam folder because it’s very much possible that it will be filtered as spam by your email service. We won’t be sending them out every minute or anything, and so you may have to wait a few hours to get your invite. We do sleep contrary to popular belief.

And remember, Dropbox is a Beta service so don’t yell at us if your computer blows up or grows mutant legs and walks away.

UPDATE: Bad news guys, it looks like Dropbox is currently limiting the number of people you can invite using this method. We were only able to send invites out to the first four commenters. I really apologize, but they didn’t state anywhere that they limited that. I would very much appreciate it if the people who do receive the invites contact me so that they can share the invites with some of the other people who were supposed to get them.

UPDATE 2: Okay, invites have been sent out to EVERYONE as of 8:30AM Central Time on March 14th. Don’t ask us how we did it, because we’re not proud of it. Just check the email address you provided (especially the spam folder) for the Dropbox invite.

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This article was written on June 16, 2008 by CyberNet.

Notepad++ is definitely one of the best text editors for Windows, and pretty soon it will be getting even better. The new Notepad++ 5.0 is currently in Beta, and it includes a feature I’ve been waiting a long time for: auto-completion! As you can see in the screenshot above I was writing a bit of HTML, and as I started to close the “center” tag it offered to auto-complete it for me. Simply pressing the Tab or Enter key would have inserted the current recommendation.

This feature is disabled by default, but a quick trip to the Preferences will get you using the new auto-complete feature in no time at all. Go to Settings -> Preferences, and switch to the Backup/Auto-competion tab. At the bottom of that screen you’ll see where you can enable auto-completion, and you can optionally turn on the “show function parameters” feature as well. What’s that do? Here’s an example of me using a PHP function, and you’ll notice that it gives me a friendly reminder of the parameters the function takes:

From a coder’s point of view this text editor just got taken to a whole new level. Let us know in the comments if you’re as excited as I am to see this feature.

Get Notepad++ 5.0 [via Ghacks]

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This article was written on August 30, 2007 by CyberNet.

Tutorial Thursday

Flickr is an extremely powerful resource for uploading your photos, especially if you’re like me and bask in the glory of their Pro account for just $25 per year. With a Pro account you get unlimited storage and no bandwidth restrictions. That’s the reason I use it to backup all of my images!

Uploading thousands of photos can be a daunting task, and that’s why I’m glad that I came across a tiny little app called FlickrSync. It’s free, open source, and runs on Windows XP SP2 as well as Vista. It supports one-way photo syncing…meaning it will take the photos on your computer and upload them to Flickr. It never modifies the images that are stored on your hard drive, so you don’t have to worry about permanently losing an image.

Here’s some of the features Flickrsync has to offer:

• Works with both Pro and non-Pro Flickr accounts
• Browse local folders and Flickr sets. Then match your local folders to the corresponding Flickr sets.
• Create new Sets when uploading new folders.
• Define Flickr permissions for each folder and other synchronization options
• Preview all operations (including photo thumbnails) before applying them to Flickr .
• Synchronize specific folders or all selected folders
• Synchronize all image information, including metadata like title and description, keywords/tags and even geo information. Works great with Vista’s built-in tagging and caption system.
• Use different synchronization methods according to your needs (ex: by date taken, by caption, by filename).
• Define optional filters for each folder. For example: only synchronize to Flickr images that have a certain keyword/tag on a specific folder.
• Support for all Flickr image formats

So now that you know exactly what FlickrSync is capable of doing, why don’t we take a look at how to use it:

Important: I’ve noticed a slight bug in the program, and it’s that you’ll get an error message if you have no sets in your Flickr account. So you’ll need to make sure that you’ve created at least one set before proceeding.

1. Download and install FlickrSync (currently in the Beta stage).
2. After installation you’ll be prompted to authorize FlickrSync so that it has access to your Flickr account.
3. After FlickrSync starts up you’ll want to check the box corresponding to a folder on your computer that needs to be synchronized (your Flickr sets are shown on the right side):
   
4. Now you’ll need to pick one of your existing sets or create a new one to be synchronized with that folder. Here you can also choose how you want FlickrSync to match up photos, what permissions they should be given, and whether you want to filter a certain set of images to be uploaded. Also, look closely at the two checkboxes located at the bottom of the window, because if you leave them unchecked some of your Flickr images might get unexpectedly deleted:
   
5. Now when you’re taken back to the main screen just go to the Sync menu and choose the View and Sync option to synchronize your photos. FlickrSync will then show you which photos will get uploaded, and which ones will get deleted:
   

Tip: If you don’t want to synchronize all of the folders that you have setup, just right click on a folder (or on the corresponding set) and choose the View and Sync option. This will synchronize only the photos associated with that particular folder or set.

This is one app that I’m really glad I found. There’s no doubt that it will shave some time off of my photo management process, and all I’m hoping to see now is a scheduler so that I can automate the syncing process. Boy, you’ve gotta love when you come across free apps like this that are unbelievably useful!

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