Frequently there are “unwanted objects” in images we produce or in those we find on the internet to use in personal projects. Inpaint 6.2 is paid software designed to: Repair old photos Remove watermarks Delete unwanted people from photo Erasing wires and power lines Remove unwanted objects Digital Facial retouching Remove date stamps Erase wrinkles and skin blemishes Remove tourists from travel photos Fill black areas of a panorama Remove text or logo fr...
None other than Mary Jo Foley (she’s covered MS and computing for 30 years) has written to update her readers about Stardock’s Start 10 : “Start10 will allow users to add a classic or enhanced Start menu to Windows 10, and to access both desktop and Modern/Metro-Style apps from the Start menu. Start10 will enabled unified search for apps, settings and files and also provide a skinnable Start button. With the Start-menuless Windows 8, the need for a Start menu ...
We’ve discussed “wrapping” before…the inclusion of unwanted software/toolbars/search engine and home page switchers…and now in light of the Lenovo Superfish and PrivDog issues Google has upped protection from these gems in Chrome. “Two of the main sources for these bundled downloads are search engines and download portals. Search engines because of misleading ads and how they rank download sites, and download portals because many bundle offers with downloads automatically to...
More good news. Thanks to kryo, I went PrivDog hunting and lo and behold it fell into my lap - thanks to gHacks. PrivDog will install a self signed root certificate on your system enabling mitm attacks. So, here's the link with how to find if it's on your system...seems certain Comodo products shipped with it. Anyway, the test site for Superfish was giving "false positives"...and PrivDog seems to be the reason. The latest version of Comodo Dragon ships with Pri...
You can find part I here: https://forums.wincustomize.com/461686/page/1/#3524967 So, since that was published, Lenovo published a fix which you can find in the article part I. You might want to try anyone else’s fix in lieu of theirs…understandably. Lenovo’s products which they state may be affected: E-Series: E10-30 Flex-Series:Flex2 14, Flex2 15, Flex2 14D, Flex2 15D, Flex2 14 (BTM), Flex2 15 (BTM), Flex 10 G-Series: G410, G510, G40-70, G40-3...
Humor aside, these are great tutorials…from basic to pretty complex. I favor systematic approaches to learning…as it’s done on creativeLive – you’ll find that links to Photoshop Week, which starts in two days…free registrations, wonderful teachers. But sometimes you just wish to learn “something new” or hear the name of a certain effects or tool…well… Here are 122 Photoshop tutorials which are done very well in...
You should be warned that it ships with crapware (as many do to increase OEM profits)…but it also ships with Superfish on it. Superfish is adware which ‘sees’ the images on the webpages you visit and then offers ads compatible with them…for instance, if you look for a new table, it will try to insert ads with tables in them to “help” you. SO you say, All the sights I look at are https protected. Sad news: Superfish also installs a root certificate in your Windows certifica...
Mark Nottingham (head of the IETF Group – Internet Engineering Task Force) has announced that HTTP/2 has been completed…and Google Chrome is embracing it, dumping SPDY (in 2016). The whole web won’t convert to HTTP/2 all at once, though. Also, Nottingham said in 2014: “HTTP/2 isn’t magic Web performance pixie dust; you can’t drop it in and expect your page load times to decrease by 50%.” Once server admins get the hang of HTTP/2, however, it should boost web performance.” ...
Yesterday, Kaspersky revealed (report in pdf form) yet another spy program…this time it appears that it was very well disguised on the hdds of the top manufacturers (WD, Toshiba, Seagate, and more). It is an eavesdropper, “The targets included government and military institutions, telecommunication companies, banks, energy companies, nuclear researchers, media, and Islamic activists, Kaspersky said.” – Huffpost The way it was done was ingenious, and a...
“It’s My Party”. “You Don’t Own Me”…Lesley Gore, born in Brooklyn and raised in New Jersey died of cancer today. Gore was discovered by Quincy Jones as a teenager and signed to Mercury Records. She graduated from Sarah Lawrence College with a degree in English/American literature. She also played Catwoman's sidekick in the cult TV comedy "Batman." Gore co-wrote "My Secret Love" for Allison Anders' film "Grace of My Heart," releas...
You do have to agree to certain terms (you agree to receive promotional emails from OneDrive in exchange for that, but it’s possible to unsubscribe from those at any time). If you’re interested, here’s an article in gHacks about the offer: LINK . Source: http://www.ghacks.net/2015/02/10/get-100gb-onedrive-space-for-2-years-bing-rewards-us-only/?_m=3n%2e0038%2e1515%2ehj0ao01hy5%2e1kii
For the next 19+ hours, it’s free. “TwistedBrush has more than 5,000 brushes available, along with all the features that artists love to use: layers, realistic media, photo cloning, tracing, masks, particles, filters, script recording, scripts to AVI, drawing tablet support, brush shapes, patterns, textures, Adobe compatible plug-in support, integrated scanner support, image brushes, drawing guides, reference image views, dirty brushes, scratch layer, dynamic p...
If I had known about this file manager and if it had been as advanced as Directory Opus was back in 2008 (when I invested in it), I might not have gone with Directory Opus. Well, from what I can see, it now is, and can do pretty much everything I need DOpus to do…and for free. It has so many features, I really don’t know where to begin. So I’ll use their list. Layout Dual Panel Tabs Commander styled keyboard/mouse setup Windows Explorer styled keyboard...
The first edition got great reviews back in 2008…now, it’s 2.0.2, seven years later for 32 and 64 bit systems. The big difference? Image completion technology…what Adobe calls “Content aware fill”. It also supports video images. The newest of the new? The editor supports new projections and allows you to take a 360 degree panorama and turn it into a little planet image which also supports ‘auto completion’ (“Content aware”) ...
Since we’re coming up on tax time, I thought this review I found about receipt management software might help…if not this year, then next. It appears here: http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/five-apps/five-apps-for-managing-your-receipts/?tag=nl.e059&s_cid=e059&ttag=e059&ftag=TRE4e2523d The reviewer chose “Receipts” (Tidal Pool Software) from the 5 apps looked at, because it doesn’t require you to create an account…just start using straight away. Also ...