Hasta La Gadget!

This article was written on April 01, 2008 by CyberNet.

One of the nice features built-in to the Windows Photo Gallery in Vista is a “fix” option where you can edit your photos. Among the editing features are options to auto adjust, adjust exposure, adjust color, crop the picture, or fix red eyes in an image. Once you make a change and close the “fix” window, the changes have been saved. When you go to open up the image, you no longer see the original image, you see the newly “fixed” image.

So what if you wanted to view the original image again because you don’t like the changes that you made? Luckily there’s a “Revert” button that will appear if you were to open the edited image. Keep in mind that if you decide to revert to the original, you will lose all changes that you made.

So what if you wanted to view the original image, but you still wanted to keep the edited image in tact? Here’s what you do.

1. Open up the Windows Explorer
2. Click on the User
3. Click AppData (this is a hidden folder)
4. Click Local
5. Click Microsoft
6. Click Windows Photo Gallery
7. Click Original Images

There you’ll find the original images for any photos that you have edited.

Another reason you’ll want access to the original images is if you’ve edited a bunch of them and you’re limited on hard drive space. Some photos can be pretty big and take up a lot of space, so you can go there and delete any of the original photos you know you won’t want.

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This article was written on July 12, 2007 by CyberNet.

A lot of people use a screensaver on a daily basis for something other than the intended purpose. Screensavers have been around since the early 1980’s which goes to show that they must have been made for an important reason. Some people look at screensaver’s as a way to conserve power or look at it purely for its entertainment value, but there really is a practical use for them.

CRT monitors (you know, the big and heavy monitors) use electron beams to light up phosphors in order to display an image on your screen. The refreshing of the screen happens several times per second, and this could cause problems if the computer isn’t used for long portions of time.

If the monitor is constantly being refreshed with the same image, this can cause the phosphors to get "burned-in" and never fully return to its normal state. It kind of reminds me of when your parents told you that if you make that silly face for too long, your face is going to get stuck that way. Same thing goes for the CRT monitors, but I’m sure you’re wondering when this would happen?

There are probably several portions of your screen that don’t change very often, such as the Taskbar, which could end up getting burned into the screen. This effect is called "ghosting." Another time it could happen is when your computer sits at a login screen (especially at offices and schools where computers can go untouched for long portions of time). When I was searching around for an image of such an effect there was one that came up for an airport terminal, and it is among the worst that I’ve seen:

This is where a screensaver comes into play…it constantly refreshes the screen to ensure that the phosphors are not being "burned" with the same image. LCD monitors and some of the more modern CRT’s are exempt from this problem because of how they are created, but it just goes to show that there is a real reason behind using a screensaver.

Looks like this truly is a "screen saver"!

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This article was written on September 28, 2007 by CyberNet.

One of the things you may have noticed with Flickr is that the photos will have another image overlaid on top of them called spaceball.gif (here is an example photo) This prevents you from copying the address to the image or being able to save it to your computer. If you try to save spaceball.gif to your computer all you’ll get is a 1×1 pixel image that has no content to it.

Today we’re going to show you how to remove the spaceball.gif overlay image on Flickr photos. It’s pretty easy to do in both Firefox and Opera…

–How do I Remove Spaceball.gif in Firefox?–

1. Install the Stylish extension if you haven’t done so already.
2. Create a new Style by right-clicking on the Status Bar icon.
3. Add whatever description you would like, but in the content area paste this:
    
   @-moz-document domain(flickr.com) {
img[src*="spaceball.gif"] {display:none !important;}
}
    
   

–How do I Remove Spaceball.gif in Opera?–

1. Go to Tools -> Advanced -> Blocked Content, and press the Add button.
2. Add this as the URL to block:
    
   *flickr.com/images/spaceball.gif
    
    

Thanks to the anonymous tipster who sent this in!

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

A bout a week ago, I came across an article over at Webware about using Gmail as a baby book. Rafe Needleman pointed out how setting up a new Gmail account would be a really simple solution for parents who want to keep a record of what is going on in their children’s lives. He said, “although it’s not elegant, it sure is easy.” With that in mind, we thought about how easy it would be to take this idea a little further and to use Gmail as a journal.

The easiest way to go about doing this would probably be to create a new email address for your journal so that its sole purpose is to keep a record of what’s going on in your life. Think about how simple yet really organized this could be. You could create labels for each month of the year so that later on, it’ll be easy to go back and read entries from a certain date. You could even create a simple filtering system (learn how here). Including important pictures from events that happened in your life would be a cinch and then they’d always be there for later reference.

One benefit of using Gmail is that your whole journal is searchable. Want to find the entires where you talked about a wedding you went to months or years ago? Just search for wedding and Gmail will pull up every “message” that had the word wedding in it. Another benefit is that it’s private. You don’t have to worry about anybody snooping into your business because the messages are only there for you to see, unless of course you wanted to share it, and then you could easily forward the entry on to someone.

Again, life Rafe said, it’s not that this is an elegant solution for keeping a journal, but it is very simple to do.

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This article was written on April 05, 2008 by CyberNet.

One thing that you may not realize is how many different actions can be performed simply by dragging and dropping text or URL’s in Firefox. Most browsers actually support similar actions, but we thought it would be useful to provide an overview of the different ways you can put it to work.

You can drag and drop…

• a URL (hyperlinked or not) onto the address bar to immediately be taken to that site in the current tab.
• a URL (hyperlinked or not) onto an existing tab or blank tab to immediately replace it with the new URL.
• a URL (hyperlinked or not) onto an empty area on the tab bar to immediately have that URL opened in a new background tab.
• highlighted text onto the address bar to replace the URL with the text, but it will not be executed immediately.
• a single highlighted word (cannot contain spaces) onto an existing tab or blank tab to replace it with www.[highlighted word].com immediately. Where [highlighted word] is the single word you were dragging and dropping.
• a single highlighted word (cannot contain spaces) onto an empty area on the tab bar to immediately have www.[highlighted word].com opened in a background tab. Where [highlighted word] is the single word you were dragging and dropping.
• an image onto the address bar to immediately have that image open in the current tab.
• an image onto an existing tab or blank tab to immediately replace it with the image.
• an image onto an empty area on the tab bar to immediately have the image opened in a new background tab.

Tip: When dragging and dropping the text, images, and URL’s you can also hold down the Control key to force them to open in a new tab.

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