Friedbeef’s Tech

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 largest collection of sound effects you could possibly imagine, all of which can be previewed and downloaded easily. 

No speech or music here though,  but it’s perfect for Windows sound themes, or phone message/ring tones (If your phones can use WAV files as ring-tones).

What sound audio tools do you use?  Let us know in the comments!

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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 instant editing. 

ImproveYourImages.com is a great piece of free web technology which allows you to get access that feature without having to install anything.

You just upload your image…

• …and it automatically adjusts the color saturation, temperature and lighting of your photo
• …and lines it up side by side with the original for a quick comparison.
• …where you can download your new and improved picture on the spot!

Perfect for quick edits - where you don’t have or want to fire up Picasa to make simple tweaks.

What other images tools do you use?  Let us know in the comments!

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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 your system and appeals to many techies out there.

If you want to start learning up on some Linux commands, you can try Web Articles’s  Linux commands directory.

What I liked:

• Web Articles is a site which only accepts original and useful content.  Articles in there were comprehensive and detailed
• If Linux is not your thing, the site also stores articles on many other different subjects

What I didn’t:

• I’m a visual person, so lack of screen shots sometimes really made it hard to follow at times
• Although the Linux articles while good - there were way too few of them to make the site really stand out as an authoritative resource fo Linux commands

All in all, it’s free so I’ll give it a quick read - especially since I’m contemplating running a Windows dual boot with Ubuntu pretty soon.

Disclaimer: ‘Web Articles’ have paid me to review their service, and to give an honest opinion.  Please note that all opinions expressed in this post are completely my own, and have not been influenced by ‘Web Articles’ in any way.

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