Today, February 19, heralds the twentieth birthday of probably the world’s most famous image and photo editing software.
Photoshop
A new “celebrate” tab on the Photoshop Facebook fan page lets users who love the software that much to change their profile picture to the 20th anniversary logo.
Adobe TV will air a special demonstration of Photoshop 1.0 on [...]

Nokia has revealed the winners of its latest Calling All Innovators contest to find a range of innovative new applications for its Ovi Store.
The overall winner was the woZZon search engine application that gives access to a 60,000-strong database of geocoded venues and 90,000 unique events.
When used with Ovi Maps, it makes it easy to [...]

I hold my hands up and admit that I’ve been using a piece of shareware software without registering and paying for it.
In fact, I paid for an earlier version, lost the registration number somewhere along the line during a hardware upgrade, emailed the company for a new one and received it, lost it again, then [...]

Are you a budding DJ? I remember taking every opportunity I had, regardless of what hardware or even music I had around me, to create “proper” mix tapes and voiceovers. I’ve even DJed a few private parties, though I’m certainly no Armin Van Buuren.
I just love having the ability to mix together music and play [...]

How do you obtain legal software? Do you go out to a local computer store and buy off the shelf, order it from an online retailer, direct from the vendor, or do you download it?
According to a recent study (for Microsoft, no less) downloaded software is eight times more carbon efficient than its boxed equivalent.
Some [...]

Can you believe it? It’s been five years since this awesome Internet browser was first launched! I still remember using it for the first time – a couple of months after it was released – and vowing to myself that I would never use Internet Explorer again. Yes, that vow has been [...]

Come to think of it, being a geek does not mean that you just buy anything you set your heart on without thinking about the price, right? As a matter of fact, most self proclaimed geeks I know also pride themselves on being able to find the best bargains for their geek gear. [...]

Microsoft looks set to continue nipping at Google’s heels like an annoying little dog by getting you, the humble citizen, to do the hard work and help build Redmond giants answer to Street View.
In fairness, there’s a lot of technology behind GeoSynth, which will feed a huge range of geotagged photos into a Virtual Earth [...]

Thank goodness that I have not had to face this situation, and I am frantically crossing ALL of my fingers (if that’s even possible) that I would not have to find myself in such a bind – ever! Losing a laptop is not a remote possibility – it is an all-too-real possibility these days. While [...]

I know you’ve had the experience of looking for something for hours and hours and get frustrated that it’s no where to be found. I’ve had that recently when I was trying to look for a business card, a receipt & a few website snippets. Fortunately there’s a software tool that helps you “remember” everything, [...]

Ok, show of hands… and be honest. Who among you uses the same login name and passwords for practically everything? Much worse, who uses “password” as your passwords! LOL. There was a time when I was in that vicious circle of keeping everything the same too. Until I read about “identity theft” and how seriously [...]

The Asus EeePC is a thing of wonder. I got myself the first version the week it came out. It was an EeePC 701, with a paltry 4GB of storage, 512MB RAM and a seven-inch screen. But it was small, and it could fit my camera bag, and thus I could do work virtually anywhere [...]

Sometimes Firefox freaks out and for no reason at all, the downloads (Ctrl + J) stop working and it doesn’t allow you to download anything while using the browser. Be it a simple image, or an email attachment – nothing can be done.

This problem has happened to me before, and the solution to get the [...]

Here’s a nifty feature I recently discovered on FireFox 2: Recently Closed Tabs. It’s good that it has been standard for FireFox to warn you if you’re closing multiple tabs. After all, Control-Q (or CMD-Q for the Mac) is dangerously close to Control-W (or CMD-W). I’ve fallen victim to this mistake many a time with [...]

Really more for those that may be new to Firefox, CNet has posted an article with 10 tips for helping to keep Firefox running lean and mean.
Everybody who’s experienced the fun of customizing Firefox to his or her liking has a favorite extension. Whether it’s the improved navigation and session-saving friendliness of TabMixPlus or the [...]

If you use several computers, then you’re likely familiar with the frustration of having to re-input your settings, passwords, bookmarks, history, extensions, and form auto-fill information into your new Firefox installation everytime you re-install your operating system, or get a new computer altogether (lucky you!). I recently got my hands on yet another extra laptop, [...]