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Photoshop Mobile App For Android

szehau — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 19:06:05 +0000

What is the next thing to do after you have taken a picture on your mobile phone? To me, I may need to edit, add effect and store it to somewhere safely. Making modification to a photo in phone may make the photo even look worse. What we need is to have a good software to do this.

Photoshop is very well know this photo editing. It is a good news that Photoshop software is now available in Android operating system. The Photoshop version for Android mobile is called Photoshop.com Mobile App.

With the Photoshop.com Mobile App on your Android phone, you can simply drag your finger to crop, adjust color and apply effects. Other than the software feature itself, you can also open a free Photoshop.com account to upload, store and share all you photo online.

Below is a demo for Photoshop.com Mobile App.

Photoshop Mobile App For Android

Free Text To Speech Software And Save Speech As MP3 or WAV

szehau — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 17:14:20 +0000

Sometime, busy people like business man does not have time to read their documents, words by words but need to find some one to read the documents for him. But it is impossible to do this when you want the document to be read when you are walking from one place to another.

It will be cool if you can convert your document files such as text files (.txt), word documents (.doc) or a web page (.html) into audiobooks in .mp3 or .wav format. And then you can listen to them using a MP3 player while you are walking or jogging.

With Panopreter, you can do this. Panopreter is a text to speech free software, that allows you to convert text-based files to audio formats (.mp3 and wav). Panopreter makes use of text-to-speech feature in Microsoft Windows, so you have to make sure that your Windows has installed a default voice.

Panopreter can be ran on Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7. If you find that the voice quality is not that good, you can download a third party voice by searching keywords like "TTS voice".

Get Panopreter Here

Save Word To PDF Without A Word PDF Converter

szehau — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:45:00 +0000

PDF or Portable Document Format is a widely used document format nowadays. It is a file format created by Adobe Systems in 1993 for document exchange. PDF was officially released as an open standard on July 1, 2008.

Microsoft Office applications (Office 2007) now even can work with PDF directly without needing to install any PDF converter. Before this, there is various ways you can convert a Word document to PDF.

You can easily find online tools that help you to convert your document to PDF. But this come the privacy issues - are they keeping you document in their server?

You can also easily download PDF converter freeware easily and install them as a "PDF printer" or use it as a standalone program. But sometime, these programs simply cannot get the actual result that you wanted it to be.

To save your Word document or Excel document as PDF, simply open your document with Microsoft Office. Use the "Save As" option in Microsoft Office menu, choose "PDF or XPS" and save as the filename you want. Make sure you have chosen the PDF as the file type in the save file dialog.

You can use the same method to save your other Office documents to PDF files as well. In case you do not see the "PDF or XPS" option in your Office menu, you will need to download the "2007 Microsoft Office Add-in: Microsoft Save as PDF or XPS" plug-in from Microsoft website.

The KMPlayer – The Solution For Playing HD Video On Slow PC

szehau — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:19:58 +0000

Most of the video player softwares like Windows Media Player and iTune nowadays require fast processor and a lot of memory in order to play a nice video clip, especially HD video.

The KMPlayer - also a video player that supports virtually any format of video file and audio file - on the other hand is a lightweight software that does not consume a lot of CPU resources in order to play a video.

The KMPLayer is a free software and can be download from the KMPlayer website. The installation of the software is pretty straight forward.

When installing the KMPlayer, make sure that you have selected the Performance option during the installation wizard process. The is to ensure that The KMPlayer will do the best to play a high quality or HD video for your computer.

The KMPlayer is compatible with Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista and also the latest Windows 7.

Visit The KMPlayer website for more information.

RealPlayer SP SuperPass (compatible with Windows 7)

szehau — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 15:48:32 +0000

The new version of RealPlayer SP SuperPass is now compatible with Microsoft Windows 7. There is not much new feature in the release (or version 12) but the Windows 7 users can install the new RealPlayer SP SuperPass without worrying about the compatibility issues.

Feature Highlight

RealPlayer SP SuperPass feature highlight:

RealPlayer H.264 - convert video to new digital video standard
Advance video - Adjust size, aspect ratio, brightness, hue and many more
Burn DVDs - burn DVD easily
Download Videos - download web video directly anytime with a click on your web browser
Covert Videos - convert video for your mobile, iPod, Xbox, PS3 and other devices
Share Videos - share your video on Facebook or twitter
Universal Player - play major types of media - MPEG-4, Flash, Quicktime, Windows Media, DVD, CD ....
iTunes support - transfer videos from web sites to your iTune library
Media Browser - let you surf while playing clips
High Quality Video - enjoy HD and near DVD-quality video and audio with broadband connection
LivePause & Perfect Play - Pause, rewind, fast-forward while the audio and video are played
Advanced CD Burning - Rip, mix and burn CDs and MP3
Crossfade - crossfade songs and add reverb
RealAudio Lossless Format - high quality CD with lower disc space
Advanced Audio - 10-bad equalizer and convert vinyl, tape and voice to digital format
Multiple Audio Format - CD, MP3, WMA, AAC RealAudio LossLess ...
Visualization - make your music dance and look cool
10-Band EQ - optimize sound exactly the way you want
Surround Sound - supports 5 channel audio and dedicated sub-woofer channel

RealPlayer SP Minimum System Requirements

1.4 GHz processor or faster
512 MB of RAM Windows XP with Service Pack 2
1 GB of RAM with Vista Service Pack 1
300 MB available disk space
16-bit sound card and speakers
1024x600, 65k color or higher display
Adobe Flash Player 9 or later
Video Downloading is compatible with Internet Explorer 6.05 or later, FireFox 2.0 or later, and Google Chrome 1.0 or later.

Download RealPlayer SP SuperPass now

Create Your Own Handwriting Font For Free

szehau — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 02:24:49 +0000

How cool is it if you can type in your own handwriting font in your favorite word processing programs or image editing software like Microsoft Word Adobe Photoshop or any Windows applications. You can then send a e-card in this Christmas with your own handwriting on it to your friends and surprise them!

FontCapture, a web application developed to let you create computer font from your handwriting. There is no software required to download in order to generate the font you wanted and the best is, it's totally free!

To create your own handwriting font is pretty simple. First, you will need to print out the font template form (in PDF format) and fill in the font with your handwriting.

When you have done that, scan the filled form and save as an image file (prefer PNG but JPEG is OK too) in your computer. And then point your web browser to FontCapture website and upload the image template.

Depend on your Internet connection, the whole process could take several minutes. FontCapture will then generate the fonts for your computer in digital format. Save the generated file in your computer for later use.

The created font can be used in both Mac and Windows. To install a font in Windows, simply copy the font file to your [Windows Drive]:\[Windows Directory]\Fonts. For example C:\Windows\Fonts. To install a font in Mac, double click the font file and click "Install font" when prompted.

Rejected Windows 7 Artwork

szehau — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 15:44:37 +0000

These are the high resolutions artworks that has been rejected to be put in into Windows 7. The artworks are pretty nice and I'm not sure why it is not included in Windows 7.

You can download the rejected Windows 7 Artworks ThemePack here to be put as your wallpaper. It's pretty cool.

[via Beingmanan.com]

Notepad++ – A Simple And Fast Source Code Editor

szehau — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:54:29 +0000

Notepad++ is a free source code editor for Microsoft Windows environment. The software is an open source software and is govern under GPL license. Notepad++ is developed based on a powerful editing component Scintilla and is written in C++ language.

Since the software is written in C++, so it is fast and use less memory. Most people use this software as the replacement of windows' notepad. I use these software quite heavily and mainly to edit HTML and PHP files for my programming projects.

Although it is not as sophisticated as other source code editor like NetBean and Eclipse, but it is still serve as an important software in my computer when I want my source code to be opened very fast for a "temporary and fast edit".

Here are the features of Notepad++:

Syntax Highlighting and Syntax Folding
WYSIWYG - You can print your code in color too
User Defined Syntax Highlighting
Auto-Completion
Multi-Document
Multi-View
Regular Expression Search and Replace
Drag and Drop
Dynamic Position of Views
File Status Auto-Detection
Zoom in Zoom out
Multi Language Supported
Bookmark
Brace and Indent guideline Highlighting
Macro Recording and Playback

You can download the software at Notepad++.

Download Windows 7 Manual For Free

szehau — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:26:42 +0000

You can now download Microsoft Windows 7's manual for free at Microsoft website. The manual is available in XPS and PDF formats. Windows 7 is a giant operating software so you may expect the size of the manual will be big too. It is about 62Mb for PDF format and 30.5Mb for XPS format.

The manual includes product guides that provides a detailed look at the many new features in Windows 7; information on how Windows 7 can simplify task, works the way you want and make new things possible; information for IT professionals to make people productive anywhere, manage risk through enhanced security control and reduce costs by streaming PC management.

Download Windows 7 Product Guide.

Windows 8 – When is it?

szehau — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:02:48 +0000

Windows 7 was just launched on last month, 23 October 2009. When will be the next launch of Windows 8?

Windows 8 is expected to be released at around a time frame of 2012. Will these be related to the "end of the world" in 2012? A forum users even commented that he wants to use Windows 8 before the end of the world.

[via Microsoft Kitchen]

GnuCash – A Pretty Good Free Accounting Software For Personal And Small Business

szehau — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:37:23 +0000

GnuCash is personal and small-business financial-accounting software, freely licensed under the GNU GPL. It is available for major operating systems like GNU/Linux, BSD, Solaris, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows.

Features Highlight

Double entries - Every transaction is debit to one account and credit from other accounts by an equal amount.
Stock/Bond/Mutual Fund Accounts - Able to auto update prices from Internet.
Small Business Account - Simplify managing a small business with Customer and Vendor tracking, Invoicing and Bill Payment, and Tax and Billing Terms
Customers, Vendors, Jobs, Invoices, A/P, A/R
QIF/OFX/HBCI Import, Transaction Matching
Reports, Graphs
Scheduled Transactions
Financial Calculations

The latest stable version is 2.2.9. You can download for free at GnuCash website. You may also find their tutorial about accounting concept useful as well.

Download GnuCash.

Personally, I'm using this software toStock/Bond/Mutual Fund Accounts records both my personal expenses and my business transaction. I'm not an accounting professional but I found that GnuCash is quite easy to use and understand after reading the tutorial.

Adobe Flash Player 10.1 Prerelease Is Now Available

szehau — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:54:08 +0000

Adobe Flash Player 10.1 prerelease is now available for PC and netbook. It enables uncompromised Web browsing of expressive applications, content and video across devices (e.g. mobile devices, including smartphones, netbooks, smartbooks and other Internet-connected devices). It also allows your content to reach your customers wherever they are.

Key features of new Adobe Flash Player:

Ubiquitous Reach - Easily installable and updateable.
Global error handling - allows programmer to write single handler to process all runtime errors that are not fall in normal try/catch statement.
Mobility - support mobile platforms, enhance performance and support new device capabilities (e.g. multitouch)
Options for high quality media - With streaming of HTTP and HTTPS, video and audio can be delivered securely within the browser.

Read more about Adobe Flash Player 10.1.

Windows SteadyState for Shared Computer

szehau — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:32:40 +0000

Have you ever encounter when your shared computer is full of downloaded and unwanted files? And the files are left at the hard disk without house keeping. In this case, Windows SteadyState can help you to maintain your shared computer in a consistent state.

Windows SteadyState, successor to the Shared Computer Toolkit, is designed to make life easier for people who set up and maintain shared computers. With Windows SteadyState:

You can manage whole groups of users as single user accounts. The new Windows SteadyState console makes it easier than ever to create and modify user profiles.
You can limit user access to control panel functions, network resources, and other sensitive areas. This is so that your system can be more stable and consistent.
You can simply set it and forget it. Everything can be undone by simply restart the machine.

Windows SteadyState is free for download and can be ran work groups or standalone PCs. You must have a genuine Windows XP or Windows Vista in order to run the software.

Microsoft Security Essentials

szehau — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:48:20 +0000

Microsoft Security Essentials is a free download from Microsoft that is simple to install, easy to use, and always kept up to date so you can be assured your PC is protected by the latest technology. It’s easy to tell if your PC is secure — when you’re green, you’re good. It’s that simple.

To install Security Essentials, you must have Genuine Windows XP (Service Pack 2 or Service Pack 3); Windows Vista (Gold, Service Pack 1, or Service Pack 2); Windows 7 running on your computer. Below are the minimum requirements to run Security Essentials:

For Windows XP, a PC with a CPU clock speed of 500 MHz or higher, and 256 MB RAM or higher.
For Windows Vista and Windows 7, a PC with a CPU clock speed of 1.0 GHz or higher, and 1 GB RAM or higher.
VGA display of 800 × 600 or higher.
140 MB of available hard disk space.
An Internet connection is required for installation and to download the latest virus and spyware definitions for Microsoft Security Essentials.
Internet Browser: Windows Internet Explorer 6.0 or later. Mozilla Firefox 2.0 or later.
Microsoft Security Essentials also supports Windows XP Mode in Windows 7. For more information see the system requirements for Windows XP Mode in Windows 7

Download Security Essentials Now.

FREE Windows 7 Upgrade (Malaysia)

szehau — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:01:36 +0000

Microsoft Windows 7 was officially launched in Malaysia last week on 23th October, 2009. Many Windows users are awaiting to install Windows 7 into their computer. Now, you can purchase Windows 7 in any major IT stores.

For those who bought a PC or notebook with Windows Vista installed between 26th June, 2009 and 31st January, 2010, you could be eligible for a free Windows 7 upgrade.

To be eligible for free upgrade, please check the Windows Vista part number at Microsoft Upgrade Option page. Next, you will need to contact your PC or notebook manufacturer (e.g. Dell) to ask for the free upgrade.

Windows 7 Highlights

Improved taskbar and full-screen previews

Jump Lists

New ways to work with Windows

Internet Explorer 8

Windows Live

Better device management

HomeGroup

Faster, more responsive performance

Extended battery life

Theme packages reflect your style

Take control of problems

Share music and videos

Windows Touch

Handwriting recognition additions
Improved taskbar and full-screen previews
Jump Lists
New ways to work with Windows
Internet Explorer 8
Windows Live
Better device management
HomeGroup
Faster, more responsive performance
Extended battery life
Theme packages reflect your style
Take control of problems
Share music and videos
Windows Touch
Handwriting recognition additions

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