Friedbeef’s Tech

Join a Kiva Group – Change Someone’s Life Forever

Kiva.org, the Internet’s answer to helping poor people make a better life for themselves, made two significant moves yesterday.  If you don’t know about Kiva – check out this previous post on how it helps change lives.  1. Loan repayment system faster and better Kiva will now return repayments to lenders as soon as those [...]

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5 Tools To Revolutionize Your Flickr Experience

This is a post by one of our new contributors, Sumesh.  Flickr is undoubtedly the most popular image sharing website, and a whole community of passionate users have developed around the awesome web tool. Thousands of photographers, designers and web addicts flock to Flickr every day in the hope of finding something useful and [...]

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A Faster Way to Use Flickr Images In Your Wordpress Blog

A lot of the great pics you see on this blog actually come from Flickr, and there are usually several steps involved in the process of actually getting the picture up on the site.  This is how I usually do it: First, I’ll use FlickrStorm, which is my preferred search engine to find the picture I [...]

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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 the [...]

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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 [...]

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