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So if you are into creative graphics and would like to learn how to edit and create amazing images using Photoshop. You're in luck - CreativeLive has something called PhotoshopWeek. What happens here is that for a whole week you get 6 days of intense training on Adobe Photoshop. All of these online classes and tutorials will be broadcasted live starting Feb 25, 2012 - Mar 2nd. All these free tutorials are being made available through 12 world-class instructors. Classes are for all levels of learners from novices to graphic gurus. The good thing about these classes are that they will be available to anyone anywhere in the world. So once you join you get 40 hours on nonstop classes. The tutorial will cover Photoshop elements, CS5, CS6 and all other elements of Photoshop. All these Photo Shop Tutorials will help you learn Photoshop in a week. Photoshop has a lot of tools that are extremely creative and very useful - especially if you have just started out with Photoshop. There is the ...

Google Glass has been in the news after disappearing for sometime. Google Glass are augmented realty glass eye-wear from Google. It is to be worn like regular glasses with a huge difference however. These glasses can shoot video, take a pic, share to your social networks and even make calls. These are just a few of the possibilities of Google Glass. The latest video from Google shows at least two commands that that the Glass follows. 'Ok Glass' will tell Google Glass to get ready to take a pic or shoot a video. Saying Google will bring up search results on whatever you might be looking at, at the moment. Saying Ok Glass tells the device that the users wants to do something - maybe check the weather, get driving directions or launch a video chat hangout. Check out the video below to see Google Glass 'Ok Glass' video below http://youtu.be/v1uyQZNg2vE

Created jointly by the NYPD and Microsoft - a system has been developed and know as 'the dashboard'. This state-of-the-art system is the latest in crime fighting technology. The Dashboard is a system setup in the police control room that immediately mines data from police records, data, security cameras and other available information and presents it to officers post a 911 call. The system is very user-friendly and presents data in a structured form helping officers quickly zero in on a threat and see what connects it has to past police records. Helping them determine the terror threat level. The system is currently being tested and refined before being rolled out to all 34,000 officers. The way it works is that as soon as a 911 call comes in. The call pops up on a panel. when the officers clicks on the alert. He is taken to the area on a map, also showing the cameras that are already in the area. Helping the officer zero down and determine the exact threat level. This program...

For this post we take a break from the usual Tech writing and do something related to mother earth. Another reason for this posts' inspiration is the constant updates on Reddit in regard to the fact that Elephants are actually scared of Bees. For a long time there has always been an urban legend that 'Elephants are scared of mice'. To debunk this the Myth-busters team over at Discovery actually went to Africa fully prepared to prove it was wrong and just an urban legend. Hiding mice under elephant dung the researches waited, and much to their surprise when elephants discovered the rodents. it stopped them dead in their tracks and even made them turn around. It is actually true elephants are scared of mice. Please don't ask us why. Are elephants scared of Bees?, yes, they are deathly scared of bees. There is even something know as the 'Bee Rumble'. When the sound of a swarm of bees was played close to elephant families. The reaction was instant - the elephants l...

Pheed has in a short while become one of the most popular Apps at the iTunes store. It is totally free to download and use and quickly risen to becoming one of the most popular apps being downloaded. Many uses on Twitter and other social networking sites are already claiming that it's the next big thing. Paris Hilton has also joined Pheed and has already Tweeted congratulating them for becoming the No 1. App in the world. So what's all the fuss about - there are many features that make Pheed a wonderful and powerful App and let us try to break it down for you here. What is Pheed? Pheed is a social networking App now available at the app store and coming soon to the Google Play store for all you Android users. Once you setup your Pheed people can follow you and you can follow people. Something all Social Networking site users are familiar with What can I do once I setup and create me Pheed It gives you a chance to express yourself. As a user you can create and share texts, photo...

Any ordinary event in life is now being made into a meme . Thanks to the creative people who hang around site like Reddit. If you are new to the whole business and would like to make or create a meme of your own. We have a list of the most popular sites being used by people to generate their own memes. All of these sites already have the preloaded macro image of the original. All you need to do is to add your captions - once done you Meme is ready and you can then share it on sites like Twitter, Facebook and Reddit. This list is in no particular order and all you need to do is to visit the website and start creating your meme. 1. Quickmeme.com   - On Quickmeme, all image macros are already loaded - simply click on make a meme to get started. Choose your image and add your creative captions and then share. 2. Troll.me - this websites has all memes loaded on the front page, scroll through and choose the meme image you want to use. Click on the image you want to use, and on the right you...

Facebook has offices all over the world, be it in Dubai, Paris, India, Singapore or Australia to name a few. They are also very with keeping their careers page updated. Old jobs re removed and new ones are added. There is always some hiring happening at Facebook. Visiting their 'Careers at Facebook' page you can browse through all the openings around the globe and apple for one that best suits your skill-sets. So if you want to explore the opportunity at landing a job at Facebook and working in one of their cool offices around the globe this is how to do it. How to find a job and apply for a job at Facebook. Facebook careers are great 1. you would first need to go to their Careers Page 2. Beside their job search descriptions box - choose the drop-down beside the globe icon 3. Now choose the location nearest you and click on the 'magnifying glass icon' 4. You should now see all the openings at that particular location or spot. If a particular jobs suits your job role an...

Outlook.com from Microsoft have announced that they have finally removed 'Customer Preview' from the service and the transition has begun. In just six months Outlook mail says that they have amassed over 60 million new email subscribers and users. Hot,mail.com was old and outdated and no matter what Microsoft tried the service could not be resurrected. Outlook.com seemed the answers and Microsoft built a whole new web interface and launched it to the public. Outlook.com comes with a slicker user interface and functionality that is second to none. Could possibly give Gmail a run for the money. For those of you who still cling to your Hotmail account - there is no bad news. You can still keep your Hotmail account, however when you type Hotmail.com. You will get redirected to the new Outlook.com - don't worry and wonder where your Hotmail has gone to. it has just changed. Some users are sure to be worried, wondering what happened to Hotmail.com and why can't I reach it....

The Harlem Shake is a video based internet meme that went viral on YouTube. The meme started in February of 2013 - it is so new. The meme started when five teenagers from Australia uploaded their Harlem Shale video in response to a video by YouTube vLogger Filthy frank to YouTube. YouTuber TheSunnyCoastSkate as their YouTube name goes uploaded the first video on Feb 2 which has in less than a month more than 40,000 spinoffs. Their original video meme has been so popular that it is sure to end the long reigning Gangnam Style as the most popular meme on the internet. Surprisingly 'Planking' the greatest meme of 2011 also has its origins in Australia. The original music for 'Harlem Shake' is by Baauer. 30 seconds of which is used for the meme. That's right this meme is short, funny and exhilarating. The lyric - do the Harlem shake is taken from the 2001 track 'Miller Time'. The dance involves shaking the shoulders and the torso as seen in the videos below. Thi...

Now this must be the coolest AMA on planet earth. We write a lot about some of the really cool AMA's done by people and this seems to be one of the finest and coolest. If you're wondering where Chris Hadfield is while doing his AMA - when asked by one Reddit users. He said he was now off the western coast of Australia in the Indian Ocean. when asked which part of earth looks coolest from space he replied that the Australia Outback looks coolest and the Bahamas looks most beautiful. He is now aboard the Space Station ISS. If you're wondering what the ISS space station is - Wikipedia says that the International Space Station is a habitable artificial satellite in low orbit earth. There are many interesting questions answered by him - like, what does space smell like, What's the funniest thing that happened on the ISS?, what's the scariest thing he has seen in space. He answered saying watching a meteorite burn up between me and Australia. Now this is something conside...

Everyone is familiar with the word phone and tablet but what about Phablet. Well, a phablet is a cross between a phone and a tablet - designed primarily to combine the functionality of a smartphone with that of a tablet. Screen sizes of a phablet typically range between 5 - 7 inches. Phablets are usually larger in size that most smartphones but smaller that a regular tablet or for that matter of fact a miniature tablet. A good example being the Samsung Galaxy Note series. In fact they have grown so much in popularity that ABI research expects 208 million of them to be sold in 2015. In fact the Samsung Galaxy Note with its 5.3 inch display sold more than 5 million units in its first 5 months of being released. The popularity of these devices stems from the fact that people are able to pocket than and move around. A tablet might be too large and the screen of a smartphone much too small. Since the devices are primarily used for media consumption. There is a lot of debate as to the use o...

Facebook Graph Search is still in beta opt-in and the engineer (pointy-haired engineering director for Facebook's search team, AMA) did a Reddit AMA (Ask me anything). The AMA section on Reddit allows people to post am IAMA ( I am A) and other users can ask that person questions related to their AMA. This weeks popular AMA was done by Lars Eilstrup Rasmussen - director of Facebook Graph Search. In the AMA Lars answers questions like 'Why he joined Facebook after leaving Google', is there free coffee at the office, did Mark Zuckerberg take him on the famous long walk and a few questions about the technical aspects of Facebook Graph Search. He speaks about the structure of Facebook Graph search and although the product is still young, it will get rolled out to all users once it's matured enough. Here are some of the questions and answers about Facebook Graph Search       ELI5 - explain like I'm 5 - you can read the complete AMA on Reddit here . Link to Lars Facebook P...

Facebook Graph Search has been released to a limited audience, and if you want to try it out - you would need to join the waiting list. This is if Facebook Graph Search Has not yet reached your Facebook profile. Graph Search on Facebook is a supercharged way of looking for people, places and things. You can search for just about anything and anybody - although it might be more a Facebook kind of thing. The search has more to do with Facebook and people, unlike Google search where you search the entire web. With Facebook Graph Search you do get queries answered with web results, but these results are powered by Bing. To get Facebook Graph Search you would need to join the waiting list as it is still in beta and being slowly rolled out to audiences across the globe. Graph Search itself is very fast and accurate and will definitely allow you to explore more on Facebook. There are parts of Facebook that have been left undiscovered, with Graph Search all this is now available. If you are a...

WordPress  is the most popular and widely used blogging platform out there. That does not mean that it does not come with its little glitches and headaches. With the latest update 3.5.1 - there seems to be some known issues and one issue we faced is the loss of a line break or a new paragraph. So once the post was ready and published. it looks like one big mass of letter with no proper line spacing or paragraphs. No one wants to read an article which does not contain paragraphs. It becomes  nightmare to read. These are issues that WordPress need to fix automatically but that does not seem to be happening. The solution however is very simply but still a minor inconvenience. When writing your post, you usually hit the 'return' or 'enter' button to create a new paragraph or a line break. This is something that is done in all text writers and editors like 'Word' and 'Notepad. Something everyone is used to -- this post is for WordPress users who do not have progr...

There are many reasons why you might want to delete some of the apps you might have installed on the iPad Mini . Maybe some of the apps you were very enthusiastic about and you installed a whole bunch of Apps. You want to clean up now and therefore have decided that some of them you no longer use, and you would like to delete them. It's a very easy and simple process to delete apps on the iPad Mini, and you can do so with just a few simple steps. Once you decide to delete an app it will be completely removed from your device and if you so choose, you can re-install the app at a later time. Instructions below on how too delete apps on the iPad Mini. How to delete, remove or uninstall and app on the iPad Mini The first method. 1. On your device simply hold down on any app 2. All the apps start wiggling 3. Tap on the 'X' mark that appears on top of the app 4. Confirm that you want to delete the app 5. You're done the app gets deleted along with all of its data. The second...

The   Samsung Galaxy Note 2 comes with a really cool feature called multi-window. With multi-window you can do full screen multitasking on the Note 2. A feature that was not available on many previous devices from Samsung. Once you enable multi-window on the Note 2, you have a small ticker at the bottom of your screen which you can scroll through to find the apps you want to open in full-screen mode. Not all apps are supported but works on most anyway - you can try this and see how it works on your device. It is a really cool feature since you have a list of all your apps at the bottom and you can open any one you want to view in full screen by just tapping on the app. This way you can work on many apps at once - you could be writing mail while watching a movie or playing a game. Quite a cool feature on the Galaxy Note 2. How to activate, turn on or enable multi-window on the Samsumg Galaxy Note 2. 1.On your device long press the back button and it should slip into multi-window mode. ...

If you've got a new device then this post will help you get started downloading apps on the Samsung Galaxy S2. To download apps you will have to access the Android Market now known as the Google Play Store . There are a lot of apps available and a lot of them are free. If there is a free app you find all you need to do is to hit the download button and you can get the app on your device. So here's how to get started on your new SmartPhone. How to download and install apps on the Samsung Galaxy S2. 1. On your home-screen tap on the 'Market' icon. 2. If this is your first time at the Google Play store you will need to accept the terms and conditions. 3. Search for a specific app by using the search bar or browse through the selections on the front page 4. Once you find an app you like, you have the option to tap install if it's a free app. If the app is a paid app you would need to tap on the buy icon. enter details and purchase the app. clicking on a free app will do...

If you've not yet started using Gmail's New Compose -- this might be reason enough to start now. Gmail New Compose is the ability to write or compose more than 1 email at the same time. This was something not available in the old compose. The old Gmail compose would open up an entire page and you can only write one email at a time. With the new compose you can work on multiple emails at the same time. All the more reason to get started using the new compose. In addition to spice things up there are now over a 1,000 new emoticons added to the new compose page. The new emoticons have the entire range of Google's similes  animals, trees, vehicles, figures, numbers and what have you. The list is endless and there is sure to be an emoticon for everyone out there. How to use new Gmail Compose. If you haven't already started, you would need to click on compose and on top of your message. Click on the link which says 'Try the new compose experience'. Once you do this ...

Siri is the voiced based personal assistant available on almost all Apple products. If you get yourself an iPhone 5 you would need to turn on, activate or enable Siri -- before you can start asking questions. Once Siri is activated on your device, you can then have a lot of fun with this your one voiced-based-personal-assistant. You can ask Siri about the weather, which movies to watch over the weekend, driving directions and the possibility is limitless. Siri does not come turned on in auto mode, you would need to follow the below steps to set it up. On your iPhone 5 you can turn Siri on and off as you choose. One very handy time to have Siri is when you're driving. This way you can just speak your search request and Siri will answer you. How to activate Siri on iPhone 5. How to activate, setup or configure Siri on the iPhone 5 All you need to do is to go to Settings > General > Siri . Repeat the process to turn Siri on or off . Now that you have Siri setup, how to ask or ...

Twitter now showing your most important tweets from the time you joined. Anyone who has ever used Twitter is aware that up until now whenever you search for your own Tweets. You see results from only the past week. In general searches on Twitter older Tweets were never shown. If you wanted to see all your past Tweets and activity you had to click the 'Me' icon on Twitter. This would show you and only you all your past tweets and Retweets etc. Now when someone searches for a particular username on Twitter. They get to see a whole list of Tweets that go as far back as the time the person actually joined Twitter and started Tweeting. You need to review your Tweets and remove some of them if they are not relevant anymore. Maybe they should not be seen at all -- we all know those Tweets, the ones that might have been sent out after a night out at town. How to search for old Tweets more than a week old 1. Login with your Twitter account 2. use your username in the search bar on Twitt...

Mailbox the new iOS app is now available for free at the Apple iTunes store. You can get it for free; however there is a waiting list or reservation list, you would need to join. The App is available for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. With the app you can get an easy to use Inbox that works like a breeze. Currently available only for Gmail, the app radically transforms your Inbox into a clutter free zone and you can handle all you mail with only the swipe of your thumb. it is easy to use and has already become popular. So don't waste time, just go and download the App right now. Mailbox for iPhone and iPad - How does it work. 1. You would need to first download the app on to your device. 2. add the various email addresses you use. 3. you now get a unified Inbox where all your email is visible. 4. You can choose to browse through all of them or jump into individual accounts 5. Tap on any message to view it - swipe right and the color changes to green if you would rather archi...

We have all seen those videos of concerts that have horrible sound quality. Knowing that videos recorded at concerts using your iPhone, Android phone or Windows Phone comes with bad sound quality, we still like to watch them. Since some of us might have missed the concert. This is a common recurrence and a problem. Concerts are usually loud and with good reason too. Organizers need to be sure that everyone attending can hear the sound properly and with the way sound travels. It is imperative to make sure that sound is loud to enable it to reach everyone. This creates a problem for people standing, raising their hands and clutching their small phones, which usually come with small microphones. Reddit user SK1990 has come up with a simple and smart solution -- while recording your video, cover the microphone with your hand. This way not all the blaring sound gets in but part of the audio. The end result is that when you playback your video later it has clearer sound with better recorded...

These days head phones are better than ever with amazing clear sound and quality. One thing however that users need to get used to are the long cables. When you want to sit away from your TV, PC or Device it's fine -- what happens however if you are close to your device and want to continue working with your headphones on. The cables might be a bit too long and keep coming in your way. This can be quiet distracting. There is however a easy way to deal with the problem. Try braiding your cable using something known as '3 String Braid'. This is something you might have tried if you have long hair. Works just as well for long cables on all you tech accessories like your microphone cable, long USB cable and other tech extensions. How to manage long headphone cables by braiding -- came across this video on YouTube uploaded by user - BJ Tormon . This is what is instructed. 1. Arrange you long cable in thre shorter lines 2. follow the 3-string braid 3. Reduces your long cable into...

There are many reasons why people want to delete a Direct Message sent on Twitter . Maybe you sent a message after a long night out and now you want to unsend it. Maybe you were angry when you sent the message and have now cooled down enough to make amends. Whatever might be the reason to cancel the direct message, there is good news for you. Once a DM is deleted on Twitter it is removed from your your inbox as well as the recipients inbox. This means there will be no trace of it once you're done deleting the DM. Unlike other services that allow deletion but the mail stays in the recipients inbox. Twitter will delete the message your both parties' mail boxes. So if you sent the DM that you so badly want to delete, go ahead and do so and hopefully the person you sent it to has still not yet seen it. How to delete or unsend a Direct Message on Twitter 1. login to Twitter 2. Click on the gear icon and then select direct messages 3. Find the message you want to delete and click ...

The Google Play store for all your Android apps has something called 'Google Play - Movies & TV'. These are a large collection of movies and TV shows available to either download to view later or steam and watch it on your android device. These movies and TV shows purchased on Google Play will be available either for download to watch later or stream it to your device to start watching immediately. Once you start watching you get 46 hours to finish your film. Once you choose downloading you cannot then switch back to streaming. You can download and watch movies and TV shows on any of your devices like mobile phone tablets or PC. 1. How to watch Google Play movies on my computer Simply go to play.google.com/movies and click the play button below the movie 2. How to download Google Play Movies & TV Shows for offline viewing. Find the movie or TV show you want to download and then tap the circular pushpin grey button found at the bottom right-corner of your video. Your m...

We have already written about what happens when you block someone on Twitter . Blocking someone who is annoying you on Twitter is something simple and easy to do in just a few steps. There may be many reasons as to what you want to block someone on Twitter . Some people like to block their parents, teachers and other people. Twitter is a public forum and you need to remember that whatever is shared publicly is saved and visible to just about anyone. Keeping that in mind let's jump straight to it and find out how to go about blocking someone on Twitter. How to block someone on Twitter 1. Login to Twitter. 2. Click on the username of the person you want to block. 3. Click on the person icon and from the drop-down choose 'Block @ Username' 4. The Follow button beside the people icon now changes to 'Blocked' to indicate that the person has been blocked. How to unblock someone on Twitter 1. Follow the same steps above. 2. When you get to the person's profile from the...

If this is the first time you're sending a direct message or private message on Google+ , you might need some help to get started. Sending a direct message or private message is important and it very popular on other sites like Twitter and Facebook. On Twitter you can send a DM or direct message only to people, whom you're connected with. Facebook however let's you send a personal message to anyone -- unless they have disabled it on their profile. On Google+ you can send a message to people in your circles, people you are connected with and people who you're connected with. On Google+ you can message anyone you want and there is a really simply way of doing it. Yes you can send a message to a celebrity on Google+ -- you can send a message to anyone using the service, actor, actress, writer, photographer and just about anyone. How to send a message to anyone on Google+ 1. Login to Google+ 2. In your Google+ stream, the box that says 'Share what's new', start ...

Windows 8 or RT is the new windows OS and with it comes many uses. One being the ability to search of photos online which have been geotagged. Photos shared online through popular photo sharing sites like Flickr, Instagram , Panoramio and 500px automatically add location details unless turned off by the person uploading and sharing these images. If you are a photography enthusiast and like to find photos associated with a certain place that PhotoWhirl app for Windows 8 and RT is the app for you. With it you can search through services like Flickr, Instagram, Panoramio and 500px to find images and photos associated with a particular location. Photowhirl: How does it work. You simply download the App on your Windows 8 device -- PC, Tablet or Mobile Open the app and select the photo-sharing service you want to use. So if you select Flickr all photo are loaded on a map. Click on the location you want to search and find all associated photos and images. So when starting out on your next ph...

If you have a Twitter you know there is place for a nice photo of yours and a header image. The header image on Twitter is also being called a cover image. Yes, you can thank Facebook for that. Facebook has a cover image that spans your profile page and not long after Twitter decided to have their own. Twitter however called this a header image and not a cover image. The internet however still likes to call it 'Cover Image' anyway. There are a lot of options out there to get yourself a good cover or header image. TwitrCovers however have some of the best high-resolution images out there. Just head over to the app and find some really cool pics. Hover over any of these pics and see how your picture looks in the middle of it. Twitrcover: How does it work 1. Head over to TwitrCovers . 2. Use the categories to search for an image or just use one of the cover images on the front page. 3. Hover over the image you want to use and click on it. 4. Below the image you will find a link t...

There is enough news these days of Social Networking sites getting hacked. Once that happens you the end user stand to loos your account and maybe even your friends get spammed. Once an account is hacked you could also loose all your information and get your lists of friends etc deleted. This seems to be a problem generally on the internet and there seems to be only one way to fight all of this. Maintaining good password hygiene -- on social sites and else where on the internet. There is no company that is not susceptible to being hacked and till such time that permanent solutions are not found. The responsibility of keeping you account safe is left to you. So here are a few steps you need to follow to ensure good password management for your account, and keep your account secure. How to set your passwords and keep them secure 1. Your passwords should be at least 10 characters long 2. Should contain a mix of characters -- letters, symbols (^%#), upper case, lower case and numbers 3. Do...