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Archive for August, 2008

» Photoshop Tutorial:File Formats

Photoshop is capable of adjusting to numerous ‘types’ of formats and its tools if used to their full capacity can create some amazing results including even the smallest detailing, It also uses many different formats and there are advantages and disadvantages to which format you choose to save your work in. Photoshop can also open [...]

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» When iPod Attacks

Japan?s Ministry of Economy has issued a warning to users of the portable music player, the iPod Nano, after at least two recent incidents of the popular device overheating and causing minor fires. So far there have been 14 such incidents in the country, according to reports, including one that occurred in March. The latest [...]

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» Toshiba Strike Back with Near-High Definition Quality DVD Player

After a right pounding from Sony?s Blu-ray DVD format in the high-definition war that ended in early 2008, Toshiba has set up shop in the standard definition DVD market. The company has launched a new up-scaling DVD player, the XD-E500, which promises to deliver as near to HD-DVD as you can get, without it actually [...]

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» Photo Editing and Restoration in Photoshop

This tutorial will teach you how to add colour onto an old photograph that may of lost colour through fading or an image that is originally black and white or greyscale, sometimes this can take a lot of time but the more time spent the better the final result will be, and looks great if [...]

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» Windows 7 tech-details to be released soon

For Microsoft, Vista is barely out of the box, and XP is still the operating system of choice for many, but a blog run by two of the computer giant?s senior engineering managers is already talking about Windows 7, even though is not scheduled for release until 2010. Jon DeVaan and Steven Sinofsky, plan to [...]

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» Twitter Halts UK SMS Service

The popular micro-blogging system Twitter has stopped its text message support in the UK due to excessive costs, leaving British users without a full service. The Site, which allows users to send messages to individuals or friends over the web, text or instant messaging, will still continue to allow people to send messages to Twitter [...]

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» Digital Images

There are four most common image files which are used in Web Design today, these being ? JPEG, GIF, TIFF and PNG. These image files have their own individual ways of storing colour modes. A JPEG image using RGB mode will store 24 bits per pixel or 8 bits per pixel in Grayscale mode. A [...]

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» Are Russian Cyber Operatives to Blame for Georgian Network Issues?

With wave after wave of Russian troops, and bomber aircraft pouring over the border, Georgia have been under a hell of a lot of attacks in the last few days, but it?s not just the physical battering of the nation, Russian Cyber operatives have crippled the country?s communications network, halting the Georgian government?s flow of [...]

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» Cutting Up Images In Photoshop For Web

Images which are used for Web Design layouts and templates, tables, JavaScript enabled menus and interfaces need to be cut up differently, to ensure they are proportioned correctly for what they are going to be used for, this tutorial will show you how to cut them up correctly and then input them into HTML tables [...]

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» Hacker Finds Security Flaws in nokia S40 Series Handsets

A security researcher has discovered a couple of major flaws with Nokia?s mid-rage handsets, which allow him to remotely install malicious application with unprecedented capabilities. He?s keeping the details to himself though unless someone is willing to give him EUR20, 000. The issues are apparently with Nokia?s series 40 platform, which is the proprietary OS [...]

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