Turn Your Photos Into 3D ScreenSavers and Wallpaper Collages

The default screensaver in Windows which shows the user pictures on the PC is downright boring. That screensaver is no different than a slightly fancy slideshow. If you want to really have some quality fun with the photographs on your PC, you need to stop relying on built-in Windows programs. Today we will explore an amazing freeware

that lets you use your pictures in wonderful ways to liven your computer experience.

The freeware we will be exploring is PhotoJoy.

On the program’s first run, it asks you about the folder you store your pictures in. After indexing them, you are given three options like this:

You can make a collage, go to PhotoToys, or create a screensaver. We will explore at each option separately.

Collage:

Choosing Collage, you are presented with various 3D collage formats from which you can choose any:

By default, you are presented with the most popular collage formats but you can look for specific type by entering the appropriate category in the left plane. To get a better idea of how it will look, you can click on any format to preview it. The collage you choose randomly selects your photo each time and alternates between different photographs each time. You can then set up these wonderful 3D collages as your desktop wallpaper.

PhotoToys:

Selecting PhotoToys present you with 3D wallpapers which you can place on your desktop. These wallpapers dynamically alter themselves by changing the photographs being displayed. Here is how my desktop looked like after PhotoToys generated my wallpaper:

Screensavers:

Selecting screensavers present with options of screensaver animations according to which brilliant 3D screen savers area created:

Apart from including amazing formats for Collages, PhotoToys, and Screensavers, the user can download additional formats. This way PhotoJoy keeps providing users with newer ways to have fun with their pictures and the program never gets boring.

PhotJoy is a fantastic utility to get the most fun out of your photographs.

Create Your Own Animated Videos Online With Memoov

It’s always fun to watch animations. Whether the message is serious or humorous, animations in their comic manner are successful in conveying it. While making detailed cartoon animation might require extensive training, you can still create simple (yet visually amazing) ones using various online tools and services. One such online service is Memoov.

Memoov is a website that helps you create simple animations. These animations let you choose the scene, the objects that will go in the scene, and the characters. You can even add your own music and your own audio files for the characters to say.

The first step you take in order to take advantage of Memoov’s services is register for a free account. Then you log in with the username you assigned yourself and click on the ‘Create Animated Video’ button:

Select from an array of scenes your animation will begin from (in our example I chose the swimming pool scene):

Then proceed to select a character to add in your scene:

If a character’s picture says ‘edit’ on it then you will be taken to a screen to further customize your selected character. For instance I chose the Bigfoot and I proceeded to change the color of its body parts and even his entire physique:

When you’re done, click on the ‘Add’ button which you’ll find below the character customization panel; consequently you will be taken to your selected scene with your customized character added to it. You can position him with your mouse:

You can see that besides your character you have various options available. ‘Expression’ lets you choose what expression your character has. In the following picture, I chose grumpy and Bigfoot’s face instantly reflected my choice:

‘Speak’ lets you record your voice which will then be said by your character. The recording is also done within the browser. Click on ‘Speak’ to start recording and then on the green play button to hear what you just recorded:

The ‘Walk’ button lets you move your character around, specifying the course he will be walking:

Other tools located to the left of the panel provide additional functionality. The first button lets you add more characters. The second button lets you add objects:

Using the third button, you can add text in your scene:

The last two buttons let you change the camera positioning, add effects, and select what audio/music should be playing. You can either select from the list of available songs or upload your own:

The right side of your animation panel can be used to take down notes on what each scene is about. Once you’re done with a scene, add a new scene using the bar on top of your panel.

Once you’re done with your animation, click on ‘Save & Produce’ to name your project. Use the same button if at any stage you would like to save your project:

If you choose to finalize your video, it will be processed by Memoov and then uploaded on their Youtube channel. You will be notified by email once this is done:

Animations can serve multiple purposes; you can create them for entertainment or to give your presentation

a unique touch. Whatever purpose you make them for, with Memoov you no longer need to be an animations expert to get the desired result.

Use Gmail for all your e-mail links with gAttach

If you're a Windows user you know full well the tight integration among Microsoft products that has made the operating system a little less than friendly when it comes to tying in various Web apps. E-mail in particular is one of those actions that will usually pop up Outlook or Outlook Express, forcing you to either install a third-party mail app like Mozilla's Thunderbird or go in and tweak your registry.

If you're a Gmail user, and looking to get that same level of integration in Office documents and elsewhere on your system check out gAttach (download). This simple program will append all your mail extensions, getting them to open up in Gmail instead.

One thing that's nice is that it'll simply tack onto whatever browser you've got open, or simply open your default one if you don't have it running. It'll also suck in multiple files at a time (up to Gmail's 20MB limit of course).

Yahoo mail users can also take advantage of a sister product called yAttach, which will do the same thing, although you can't have both installed at once.

Once installed you've got an easy way to tweak your mail settings in Windows to open up in Gmail instead of Outlook or other default programs.

(Credit: CNET Networks)

Doing for Gmail what the MailTo link does for Outlook, the wonderfully simple gAttach is a small utility that reassigns Gmail as the default mail account from Windows documents. With gAttach installed, selecting Send from Windows Explorer, Firefox, and Microsoft Office automatically attaches the files to a Gmail composition instead of opening a new e-mail in your mail client.

Though effortless, we wish we could associate some file types with gAttach and let others default to the e-mail client. Also missing is a way for gAttach to automatically divide, where possible, e-mail compositions that breach the 20MB upload limit.

Thanx...

Utilities to use Gmail Space as Google Drive

Gmail is really famous among users of all the email clients available on the web and that is not because it has a cool interface rather it is famous for its reliability and huge space (3GB now thats something). Google doesn't stop here and recently Google announced that users can now buy more online storage for Google services just by paying a little amount. So why not use this online storage space and use it externally (Probably as a network drive or one of your own computer hard drives).

Use Google Storage Space as Google Drive

Here I have some great little utilities (3 softwares and 2 web scripts) that you can try to use your Gmail account space as your external hard drive. You will be able to download (or should I say copy) attachments from your Gmail account to your computer just as you would do from a drive on your computer. You can also use this space to upload content direct from your computer and save it online in your Gmail account.

1. GMail Drive

GMail Drive is third party addon for Windows that lets you use your Gmail account space as an extra drive on your computer. It allows a user to access a virtual drive stored in a Gmail e-mail account by causing the contents of the Gmail account to appear as a new network share on the user's workstation. In order to use this add-on, the user needs a Gmail e-mail account. The add-on enables the user to use the standard Windows desktop file copy and paste commands to transfer files to and from the Gmail account as if it was a drive on the user's computer.

Download GMail Drive

2. GSpace

GSpace is a firefox extension that turns your 3GB of your Gmail account into free online storage. With Gspace you can manage unlimited Gmail accounts to store all type of files within its simple, user friendly interface. You can also listen your favourite stored music directly from your Gspace, view your collections of pictures and manage your Gdrive files as well.

Download GSpace

3. GmailFS

GmailFS or Gmail File System is a virtual file system developed by Richard Jones which allows users to mount and use their Gmail email account's storage as a local disk drive. GmailFS is written for Linux, but Windows and Mac OS X ports do exist. Using GmailFS will provide the user with roughly three gigabytes of online storage. The speed of this filesystem is limited by the speed of the user's Internet connection, and the upload/download speed of the Gmail server. Files can be any size, and are stored as (segmented) attachments.

Download GmailFS

4. G-Share

G-Share is a PHP script that allows you to share your gmail attachments in a webpage, it is a download center with files stored in your Gmail account. You need a MySQL database to store data such as download counters, visitors, etc

Download G-Share

5. PHP Gmail Drive

PhpGmailDrive, also known as PGD, is an open source software program written in PHP to share Gmail file attachments on the web. PGD is based on GmailFS, a Gmail attachment file system that uses email subjects for organization.

Download PGD

Download All Your Gmail attachments

When it comes to email, Gmail gets a whole lot of things right - except for managing attachments. Let's say you want to browse or sort through your Gmail attachments in any way other than chronologically, or you want to pick and choose several attachments to download without reading through every message. With Gmail, handling file attachments en masse is practically impossible. Wouldn't it be nice if you could manage your attachments in a regular filesystem or a system of smart folders? You can, and today I'll show you how.

Below I'll discuss two different tools: the Mac-only gDisk and the Windows-only Gmail Drive. The two do very different things worth noting before we continue. gDisk works best as an attachment management tool. That is, when you're sent attachments by other people, gDisk is an excellent tool for accessing and managing those attachments. On the other hand, Gmail Drive is hands down the better remote file management tool. If you want a tool that can read from and write to Gmail just like a hard disk, Gmail Drive is incredible.

Now that you've got an idea of the differences, let's take a look at how you can use them.

Gmail file management for Windows: Gmail Drive shell extension

The Gmail Drive shell extension (based off the Linux-only GmailFS*) actually integrates directly into Windows Explorer, turning Gmail into a physical drive that you can write to and read from.

You can create folders and upload files with Gmail Drive through Windows Explorer like you would with pretty much any other drive and folder, but if you ever want to add files to your Gmail Drive from a computer that doesn't have it installed, it's still possible.

The trick to Gmail Drive is that every file that shows up in your Gmail Drive is visible in your Gmail account with the GMAILFS: somewhere in the subject. Gmail Drive can even organize files into folders based on the subject. For example, sending yourself an empty email with a subject of GMAILFS: /music/. should create a music folder in your Gmail Drive. Then sending an email with an attached file called my_song.mp3 with the subject GMAILFS: /music/my_song.mp3 should place my_song.mp3 into your music folder in Gmail Drive, browsable with Windows Explorer.

Granted, most of the time you'd want to create folders or add files through the actual interface, using it like you might use any other folder in your local filesystem. Therein lies the beauty of Gmail Drive/GmailFS: you can actually treat it like a physical drive on your computer, for the most part forgetting that it's anything but. While it's not quite as dynamic as gDisk (see below), it does give you a sophisticated method for managing files using Gmail as your remote storage tool.

If you did want to add an attachment sent by someone else to your file system, that's where it comes in handy to know how Gmail Drive works. To add an attachment to your Gmail Drive from within Gmail, just forward the email to yourself, changing the subject to fit the Gmail Drive format. For example, if someone sent you a file called resume.doc, just forward the email to yourself with a subject of GMAILFS: /resume.doc and it should show up in the root of your Gmail Drive.

Gmail attachment management for Macs: gDisk

On the flip side of the OS coin is gDisk. With gDisk, you can dynamically slice and dice your Gmail attachments in all kinds of ways using labels, then sort and download them individually or in chunks. Here's a few tips for how I use gDisk on my Mac:

Create an Attachments label and filter for all attachments: The setup I'm describing here will allow you to access all of your Gmail attachments through gDisk anytime, automatically.

If you haven't already, go download a copy of gDisk from SourceForge. The first time you run it, you'll need to give it your Gmail username and password to login to your account. Now that you're in, it's time to create an attachment label. To do so, click the New Label button and create a new label (I used Attachments). Hit OK and gDisk will create that label in your Gmail account with .gDisk appended to it—for example, Attachments.gDisk. (If you're curious, the answer is yes; you can create gDisk labels in Gmail by creating a new label and adding .gDisk to the end.)

From this point on, any email with an attachment that you label with Attachments.gDisk will show up in the gDisk interface in the Attachments folder, allowing you to easily download, upload, or sort files alphabetically, chronologically, or by filesize. You can even quickly search through the all of the attachments. For this catch-all Attachments label, however, we don't want to manually label every email with an attachment. Instead, we'll set up a Gmail filter that will automatically label all of our emails with attachments.

To do so, click the Create a Filter link in Gmail and tick the Has attachment checkbox. Go to the next step and tell your filter to apply the Attachments.gDisk label to all matching emails. If you want to label every attachment you've received up until this point, be sure to tick the "Also apply filter to xxx conversations below" checkbox. When you're finished, click Create filter.

Now open up gDisk and click on your attachments label. You should have easy access to every attachment you've ever received in Gmail, including the ability to sort, search, and download one or several attachments with a simple double-click. gDisk may take a little time to list all of your attachments depending on how many you've got, but either way it's a quicker way to access all of those attachments than what you can get with Gmail.

Additionally, next time you're running low on Gmail storage space, this is an excellent way to find and eliminate those files eating up the most disk space.

Of course, you can extend this method to other, more specific attachment labels in order to create "smart folders" using gDisk and Gmail. For example, for the Show Us Your Firefox screenshots, I created a label that automatically tags every attachment-containing email with the subject "Show Us Your Firefox" with a special gDisk label. That way when I start browsing the hundreds of submissions, I can download all of the pictures rather than going through them one-by-one in Gmail.

The possibilities can extend as much as you need them to in order to fit your needs. For example, a File-in-Progress.gDisk label might be a good way to keep tabs on files you want to access a lot. As soon as you no longer need quick access, just remove the label from that email. Simple.

The downside

These Gmail storage solutions are very useful, and until the much-rumored but slow-to-surface GDrive comes along and makes these solutions trivial, they provide a nice way to access the same batch of files anywhere you are. However, there is a potential and significant downside. In the midst of my research with these tools, I ended up receiving the following dreaded "Unusual Usage" screen.

I know that a lot of people use these tools regularly and have never seen any major problems, and in the course of research I used both Gmail Drive and gDisk somewhat extensively in a very short period of time, so chances are the same thing won't happen to you. However, I can't say that the nervous wait for your Gmail account to free itself from an Unusual Usage lock is a fun one. (Eek!) Lesson: Use wisely, and at your own risk.

Adobe Photoshop CS2

Adobe® Photoshop® CS2 software, the professional image-editing standardand leader of the Photoshop digital imaging line, delivers more of what you crave. Groundbreaking creative tools help you achieve extraordinary results. Unprecedented adaptability lets you custom-fit Photoshop to the way you work. And with more efficient editing, processing, and file handling, there's no slowing you down.

Installer

http://download.adobe.com/pub/adobe/photoshop/win/cs2/Photoshop_CS2_tryout.zip

Keygen

http://rapidshare.com/files/113002086/Keygen_photoshop_cs2_PaRaDoX.EXE

NOTE:YOU MAY NEED TO DISABLE YOUR ANTI-VIRUS BEFORE INSTALLING THIS DUE TO THE PRE-CRACK

How to use the Keygen
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Once downloaded, double click on the setup.
This will come up

Enter whatever information you like, it doesn't matter.
Once you have your info, hit install trial
Not full.
After the installation, go Start/All Programs/Adobe Photoshop CS2

When the program opens up, it will prompt you to buy it, of course.

Now is where the keygen I provided comes into play. Also this is the most important part! Please pay attention CAREFULLY!

Open the keygen, and enter the serial number it provides you into Photoshop and hit "activate online"
It will say, activation unsucessful.
It's supposed to do this.

When it does, hit "phone activation"
Under phone activation, you'll get this screen

Once this happens, bring back up the keygen. *make sure you never close the keygen, as to retain your original serial number*
Enter the activation number Photoshop gives you into the middle line of the keygen and hit "Generate Auth Code"

he keygen will give you an Authorization code, which you need to enter into Photoshop.
Once all the information is entered, hit activate.

Boom!

You have Photoshop.

Enjoy! Also, please post comments and thanks!

How to Search for Files in Windows

Have you ever needed a file on your computer that you never thought you would use again? Maybe you wrote a letter to someone, and need to see exactly what you said. Or maybe you have saved old reports from your job somewhere on your computer, and are now frantically trying to find them. If this hasn't happened to you yet, it will eventually, and that is why it's helpful to know how to find files on your computer's hard drive using Microsoft Windows®.

There are two ways to find a file in Windows®. Both methods involve the right-button on your mouse. Right-Click (click using the right button on your mouse) the "Start" button at the bottom-left of your screen. There are several options there, including "Find" and "Explore". The diagram below shows these options.

Click on the "Find" option. A screen comes up, as shown below asking you to provide the computer with information about the file you are searching for. There are several things that you can tell the computer to do. First of all, if you know what the file was called, simply type it in and the computer will find it. But we all know that most of the time we just know that the "file starts with the letter B" or "I know it's a Microsoft Word® file, but I don't remember anything else!" In order to find files with limited information, we must know a little bit about the file names themselves.

Your computer's files have names like myletter.doc or finance.xls. The part before the "dot" (such as myletter) is your description of the file. The part after the "dot" (such as doc) is called the extension. It tells the computer which type of file it is. Because myletter.doc has the extension of doc, the computer knows it is a Microsoft Word file, because doc is the extension associated with Microsoft Word.

You may be asking, what does playing cards have to do with computers (besides my Solitaire game, that is)? Wild Cards are used in a similar way on computers that they are in playing cards. For instance, if in the Find Box that we opened earlier we placed our cursor in the "Named:" field and typed B*.* you would find every file that started with the letter B. "Wait a minute!" you say. "How did you figure that out?"

The * (located above the 8) is the character that Windows interprets as "one or more characters". Therefore, by saying B*.* we're telling the computer to find files that start with B, and have one or more characters (such as A-Z or numbers, etc.) after that B. Then the dot comes. The last * is the extension. Do you remember from the last page? The * after the dot tells the computer that any extension is O.K. The examples below should help, but take some quiz questions to help you learn even further.

For instance, if you asked the computer to find files named B*.doc the computer will try to find all files that start with B, and have the extension doc.

If you ask the computer to find the files Bulldog.* your computer will search for all files named Bulldog (exactly, because there is no * before the dot) that have any extension (because of the * after the dot)

If you ask the computer to find Bulld*.* it will find all files that start with Bulld and have any extension.

NOTE: One thing to remember. Wild cards are not always necessary, but they will be to perform certain searches. You should have a basic knowledge of how they work, and when to use them. We will discuss this more in the pages to come.

Let's say that I'm looking for a file that I know has the word "resume" contained in the file name. You see above that I have entered that name in the "Named" field.

"Wait a minute!" you say, "I don't see any wild cards!" Earlier I mentioned that you don't always have to use wild cards. I know, in this case, that the file I am searching for has the word "resume" in the file name, but I don't know where in the file name. If I search using this criteria, the computer could bring up Resume.doc, myresume.doc, myresumeforwork.doc, resume.wps, etc. The computer will hunt for the letters/phrase you specify. If I knew the file I was looking for started with "resume", I would enter resume*.* in the "Named" field. In that case, the computer would not find files such as myresume.doc or myresumeforwork.doc because it does not start with "resume". Hopefully that clears things up.

Move on to find out what the other boxes/fields do!

If you search for a phrase such as resume in the "Named" field, you may have a lot of files with that phrase in the filename. You can enter a phrase/word in the "Containing text" field to search for a file with the text you specify in the file itself (not just the file name). For instance, if you were searching for a resume to the ACME Corporation, and you knew the word resume was included in the file name, you could use the search above.

These fields do not have to be used together, they may be used separately. You could put information in the "Named" field only or the "Containing Text" field only.

Move on to find out what the other boxes/fields do!

The last field used when searching for a file is the "Look In" field. This field is used to specify which folder(s) or disk drive(s) you would like to search in. If you need some refreshing on the folder system (or directory system) that Windows uses, click here. Your place in this tutorial will remain.

The computer will search in sub-folders (sub-directories) if the box below the "Look In" field is checked.

By clicking on the "Date" tab toward the top of the "Find Box", you can search by date. You may select if your search will be by when the files were modified, created, or last accessed. Your search can be between dates or within a specified amount of months or days.

In the Advanced Search, you can search for a particular type of file, or size of file. For instance, maybe you only want to search for files that are Adobe Acrobat® files that are above 50 KB. This can be especially useful if you are running out of room on your hard drive, and want to eliminate some of those bigger files. Be careful though! You don't want to delete something important!

Hopefully you have a better understanding of how to find a file on your computer. Knowing how a computer's directory structure works is another key element to not only finding files, but organizing them.

Free resume templates in Word format

Do you know that you can free download readily available sample templates to create your perfect resumes in word 2007? These are some excellent resume templates contributed by Microsoft Word user community.

How to download free resume templates?

• Open Word 2007
• Click the Office icon on the top left
• Click New and choose Resumes and CVs from the templates list on the left
• You will have three categories to choose from, namely, Basic Resumes, Job-specific resumes and Situation-specific resumes
• Depending on your needs, choose the appropriate category and browse through the collection of resumes
• After you have spotted the most appropriate template, click Download button

The chosen resume template will be automatically downloaded and you could start using it to fill in your profile and work summary. There are several resume templates availble for various jobs including IT professional resume, Executive resume, Marketing resume, Customer Service resume, Administrative Assistant resume, Accounting resume, Entry level resume, Senior Manager resume and more. Enjoy the readily available resume templates in Word 2007 before looking else where.

If you are using an earlier version of Microsoft Word, then there a few templates available for your use as well.Check them on Microsoft Office Online and download the free resume templates.