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A Shattered Collection of My Best Memories: An Immediate Solution Thanks to Stellar Photo Recovery

Who doesn’t love creating new memories and saving them as photos on a smartphone, PC, or any other digital media? While many of us share some on social media, we keep the most precious and private ones to ourselves. Sadly, my hard drive of photos became corrupted, which held images…

LAPD Smart Tasers Connect To Video Recorders
Recently President Obama made a call for more police to wear body cameras. In response to the Presidents’ request Los Angeles Mayor, Eric Garcetti has vowed to bring approximately 8,000 cameras to the LAPD. If this was the end of the story, then it wouldn’t really make waves in... Read more
Want To Try A New Media Player? Get AIMP
Are you getting a bit bored with your current media setup? Isn’t it time for a change? Sometimes we all need to freshen up our setup and give it new look and feel.  Check out AIMP. AIMP is a free audio player with support for large number of formats... Read more
Need A Smart TV? Why Wait? Get MedialPortal Instead
Do you own a Smart TV? Good for you! What if you don’t? Well, there are a couple of little tricks that you can pull out of the bag. One of which is the ability to use your big television as Smart TV! All you need to do is... Read more
Netflix Will Trick Your Kids This New Year’s Eve (If You Want)
Let’s face it – New Year’s Eve is cool and all, but sometimes parents don’t want to wait up with their kids until the ball drops at the midnight hour. Sometimes, parents are tired and don’t want to wait up at all; they just want to go to bed.... Read more
Apple Creates iTunes Tumblr Blog
This week Apple has launched a Tumblr blog for iTunes. The ‘blog’ is a highly customized theme, which closely reflects Apple’s own website rather than a typical Tumblr page. The page features music, movies, TV and book content. The individual posts consist of images, videos and animated GIFs of... Read more
How to Rearrange Instagram Filters
Here at Techbeat, we reported last week that Instagram had announced a, well needed, update for both the iOS and Android app. Top of the change-log list was the addition of five new filters.  All of these take a more subtle approach to enhancing your images. There is a... Read more
Need to Create 3D Models? Try SketchUp Make
SketchUp Make is software that you can use to create 3D models of anything you like. SketchUp lets you get started right away. Most people get rolling with SketchUp in just a few minutes. Dozens of video tutorials, an extensive Help Center and a worldwide user community mean that... Read more
The Most Amazing NASA Photos Ever Taken
NASA began operating on October 1st, 1958 and just look what it has achieved in those 56 years! We’ve picked our favourite photos ever taken but if your favourite hasn’t made the cut then tell us and we’ll add it to the list! Beautiful Planet Earth! Image 1 of... Read more
Try your Hand at Pro DVD Menu Editing With Voilabits
Have you ever seen a DVD menu and thought it looked so cool that you wished you could edit your movies to look just as good? Or maybe you want to choose a few movie files and want to edit them into one movie? Well now you can! Voilabits DVDCreator... Read more
How to Set Up a Chromecast on a HD TV
In the last few weeks Chromecasts have been available in online sales for as little as £18, making an already inexpensive media streaming device an even more tempting proposition, and take up of the device has seen a spike with new adopters jumping on the bandwagon. It’s advertised as... Read more
Get Spotify Premium for 3 Months for $0.99
In this day and age, you’ve probably already found yourself a music streaming service you really like, but if not, Spotify is offering a pretty awesome deal for the time being. From now until the end of the year, they are offering their Spotify Premium service basically free for... Read more
VMware Player Version 7.0.0 is Now Available
A virtual machine is a computer defined in software. It’s like running a PC on your PC. This free desktop virtualization software application makes it easy to operate any virtual machine created by VMware Workstation, VMware Fusion, VMware Server or VMware ESX, as well as Microsoft Virtual Server virtual machines... Read more
Why you Should Never Take Photos Using iPads!
It wasn’t until Apple released the iPad 2, with its front and rear-facing cameras, that people started taking photos with iPads. Now it seems to have become an epidemic with people thinking it’s ok and cool to thrust a large rectangle device into the air, blocking everyone else’s view.... Read more
Need To Master Your Movie’s Audio? Get AudioDirector 5 Ultra
CyberLink’s AudioDirector provides you with complete control over editing, mixing and mastering your video’s soundtrack, sound effects and dialogue. The cutting-edge restoration tools let you restore and work with files, which have audio glitches or imperfections. AudioDirector gives you perfect integration with PowerDirector, which allows faster complete editing, therefore... Read more
How to Share a Photostream with Non Apple Devices
I find using Apple‘s iCloud Photo Sharing service really useful for sending your favourite moments to all you favourite people. The service not only lets you share Photo Streams with other people using an iOS device, i.e. iPhone and iPad owners, but the service also provides you with a... Read more
Need A Photo Editing Suite? Get PhotoDirector
Corel’s PhotoDirector is a complete suite for all your photography needs. The application includes photo management and advanced adjustment & creative editing tools. PhotoDirector’s photo management software will give you the tools that will assist you to rapidly sort through your images and locate the ones you need. PhotoDirector provides... Read more
How to Use the Gradient Editor in Photoshop
Using gradients of colour in Photoshop often produces very pleasing, professional results, mainly because producing nice smooth transitions between the colours is something a digital platform does very well. The Gradient Fill Tool in Photoshop, located on the left hand sidebar, sharing the same button as the Paintbucket Fill... Read more
How to Use the Extrude Filter in Photoshop
In recent versions of Adobe Photoshop, more geometrical effects have been added to the default filters library. One of the eager newcomers is the Extrude filter. This takes any selection, image or layer and pushes it outwards using a series of cubes or pyramids. It’s one of those new... Read more