Many times, we want to print the contents of our computer monitor — not just the contents that will print when we use the File > Print function or press the Print icon (in a program that has one). Tech Tip There’s another way to trigger a program to print, assuming that the program can [...]
How can I Save an Animated GIF?
Site visitor Eric wrote to ask: more of a question please Terry. Spent an hour looking through the site tips but couldn`t find an answer to what I was searching for, could you please tell me if / how I can save an Animated Gif attachment — then open it again to view it — [...]
Fun on the Internet
Every once in a while, I like to write about new sites (or, at least, new to me) that are designed for fun. First, let’s take a look at some ASCII art. ASCII stands for "American Standard Code for Information Interchange." In the 1960′s and 1970′s, before the days of dot-matrix printers and other printers [...]
Finding Photo Opportunities
One of the blogs that I frequently view belongs to photographer Andre Gunther. I first ran into Andre on one of the Usenet newsgroups, where he was asking for suggestions for a different web host. He was using Yahoo hosting at the time and was having a bad problem with people using his pictures and [...]
Creating and Editing Graphics and Images
There are a lot of programs available for editing pre-existing images. If you have a digital camera, you probably received an inexpensive "light version" of one along with the camera, so that you could eliminate Red-eye and do similar simple editing. Irfanview has more extensive capabilities than does Picasa, but is correspondingly harder to use. [...]
Reader Comments – Copying an Image from a PDF File
I answered a question from reader Glenn Wilkes, who wanted to know how to capture images that were in a PDF file and copy them into a Microsoft Word word processing file. This week, several readers wrote about alternate ways to accomplish the same thing. Longtime subscriber and frequent commenter Janusz Lukasiak wrote: Hello Terry, [...]
Picasa Free Photo Editor/Organizer
The Picasa photo editor and organizer will surprise you with its unique interface and its amazing power. With Picasa, you can easily edit photos with basic fixes, as well as adding any of 12 lighting and color effects. You can organize your photos, write captions on them, and even order prints. (click on the image [...]
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