Friedbeef’s Tech

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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How Sit at Your Desk and Take up Astronomy

Previously only available as part of Google Earth, you are now free to browse through outer space directly from your browser with Google Sky!  Google Sky includes a number of different ways to explore the universe.  Select the thumbnail images at the bottom of the display to bring up the planets, the constellations, highlights from [...]

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How to Centralize ALL Your Online Communication

Keeping in constant contact with your friends online has never been easier.  We’ve now got a growing list of instant messaging, email, and online social networks that help us stay in touch.  The trouble is, the more points of contact we have, the more time it takes to manage our online presence. digsby is a [...]

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How to Find Out Who is Hosting ANY Website

  If you need to do some research on selecting a new web host, it’s always good to have a look around web hosting web sites to get a feel for who’s good, and who’s not.  Just do a quick search and you’ll stumble upon many, many websites which offer ratings, and more importantly – [...]

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How to do an Online Background Check

Want to do a check on someone just need to be extra sure that they are who they say they are?  Yes, you could just ‘Google’ someone, but that would barely be scratching the surface.  Since most personal profiles, public records and other people-related documents are stored in databases and not on static web pages, [...]

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