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Alien Skin Bokeh – give your photographs that professional look
Have you ever looked at a photograph in a magazine or in a newspaper and think to yourself – ” How do they achieve that awesome out of focus background and make that person stand out so much?” . The real answer is that professional photographers buy lenses with very large apertures that cost hundreds or even thousands of dollars. Now for most of us, that seems like a lot of money to spend on a lens and that’s even if we have a digital SLR camera.Fortunately a company called Alien Skin Software has invented a plugin for Photoshop that will achieve these professional looking effects without you having to spend an arm and a leg on equipment. The plugin is called Bokeh.
Posted by Stephen O Connell on November 26th, 2009 in Photography, Photoshop, Plugins, Productivity, Windows Tags: camera,Photography,Photoshop,Plugin, 2 Comments »
Xpad laptop cooler- cool your mac and your lap
Laptops these days are getting more and more powerful; even the mid-range models are sporting multi-core processors and are carrying out very intensive work that is causing the processors to overheat and no doubt this heat has to go somewhere. On Mac laptops the vents are located on the underside of the body and all this heat can’t be good for your knees and lap. Fortunately there is a product that will prevent this. It’s call the Xpad laptop cooler.
Posted by Stephen O Connell on September 26th, 2009 in Gadgets & Gizmos, Geek Tools Tags: Cooler,Xpad,Xpad Laptop Coooler, 3 Comments »
Google Notifier: An easy way to see if “You’ve got mail!”
I don’t know about you, but I find that having to constantly click between my email page, and the page I’m currently viewing just to see if there is any new email, can be very time consuming and tedious. Wouldn’t you love if something just popped up on the screen to tell you there is new email in your Google account. Fortunately there is! The application that allows you to do all this Google Notifier.
Posted by Stephen O Connell on August 4th, 2009 in Applications, Email, Freeware, Internet, Productivity Tags: Email,Freeware mac apps,Gmail to your Mac Desktop,google, Leave a Comment
Cooliris: The easy way to search for media content
How would you like to be able to search YouTube videos without having to read an onslaught of text? Do you find that looking for pictures on google does not always give you the right results? Is the thought of shopping for items online, without seeing proper pictures, putting you off ? If these questions apply to you then I can recommend a fantastic application for you that will make life so much more easier when searching for media items. This application is called Cooliris.
Posted by Stephen O Connell on July 27th, 2009 in Firefox, Freeware, Plugins, Web Tags: 3d,cooliris,Firefox,Media, 6 Comments »
Senuti: Backup your music direct from your ipod
Picture the scenario; you’re laptop has crashed and the hard disk has failed. All your precious collection of music is gone. But then you remembered that you have everything on the ipod. But for some strange reason; you don’t have access to the content on it. How are you going to restore all your music? This is a total nightmare situation that fortunately can be solved with the great application Senuti.
Posted by Stephen O Connell on July 21st, 2009 in Tools, iPhone, iPod Tags: backup,iPhone,iPod,senuti, 4 Comments »
Read it later: For those websites you don’t have time to read
Are you someone who comes across a massive amount of websites but never has the time to read them? Do you find that your bookmarks folder is full of websites that have only been viewed once or twice? Do you wish you could just organize your bookmarks folder into categories but just couldn’t be bothered? Then you need to download Read It Later ; a simple yet powerful FireFox extension that allows you to organize your bookmarks that have to be read only once and never again.
Posted by Stephen O Connell on July 13th, 2009 in Firefox, Freeware, Plugins Tags: bookmark,Firefox,Plugin,read it later, 5 Comments »
iLick: The cleaning app you’ve always wanted
Have you ever complained that your iPhone screen was becoming dirty? Have you ever wanted a cute dog to carry around in your pocket? Then iLick can solve both of these problems for you, providing a cute canine cleaning companion to scourge your iPhone from the inside out. Is this app ridiculously pointless, or is it worth the plunge?
Posted by Stephen O Connell on June 28th, 2009 in App Store, Fun, Unique Tags: Cleaning App,Dogs,iLick, 2 Comments »
The new Twitterific: Good just got better
Twitterific was one of the first of many Twitter clients that have been released to the App Store. During its 1.x days, it was a decent client. It was fast loading, had Twitpic integration, and was fairly simple to use. However, it had some major flaws. It scrolled really choppily, some interfaces were inconsistent, and it had crashing problems. But worst of all for me, it was ugly. Now, Twitterific 2.x has been released to build on its previous flaws and add needed features. How does it stand among the competition nowadays? Does it even compare to the mighty Tweetie?
Posted by Stephen O Connell on June 9th, 2009 in App Store, Social, Twitter Tags: Tweetie,Twitpic,Twitterific, 2 Comments »
