Monthly Archives: April 2008

How to Find Any Sound Instantly

How to Find Any Sound Instantly

  In need of a good sound effect?  FindSounds is a free service that allows you to… well… find sounds :) What it does is it crawls the web and indexes sound files, then as a user you can filter by file format, quality, and file size.  The result is a search engine with probably…

How to Instantly Improve Images Online

How to Instantly Improve Images Online

When it comes to organizing pictures, I only ever use Google’s Picasa photo organizer.  Now, one of my favorite features from Picasa is something called ‘I’m feeling lucky’ where it enhances dark and bright colors in a photo and adjusts both color and contrast to optimal levels in one click.  No fiddling around – just…

How to Learn Linux Commands

How to Learn Linux Commands

I’ve always had a soft spot for the command line interface since the good old DOS days.  (I started out using DOS 2.1).  No clicking through multiple menus, no hassle – just type it in, and watch it go.  Command lines, though more user-unfriendly…are in many cases, a more powerful way to go about operating…

5 Steps to Take When Your Phone Drops Into Water

5 Steps to Take When Your Phone Drops Into Water

Accidents happen.  If you’re ever in a situation where your phone is giving you problems because you got caught in the rain, or dropped it in the sink or toilet, here are 5 steps you can try: Turn the device off and do not charge it – You want to keep the phone non-operational while…

Top 5 Ways to Attain Perfect Color Coordination

Top 5 Ways to Attain Perfect Color Coordination

Whether it’s deciding on the colors of my room, web page, or posters, I find that coming up with a color scheme can be quite a challenge.  For all you design-challenged-individuals (like me!), here are 5 free tools which will help you make the right decisions when it comes to colors. 1. Derive a color…