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May 4 Tech news roundup: Arc Browser released for Windows, Netflix discontinues Basic plan, OneDrive gets an offline mode

News May 4, 2024

A new desktop browser is available for Windows 11. Netflix is discontinuing its cheapest ad-free plan. Let’s find out what else happened in this week’s tech news roundup. Netflix asks Basic users to move to other plans Netflix has begun prompting users who are subscribed to its Basic plan to…

Multimedia

Commercial 3DMe Photo Booth Announced

News Photo and Image November 29, 2014

Imagine having a 3D model of yourself to send to your parents to keep on top of the television, fireplace or even their dresser! Gone are the days where you took photos with your friends in a photo booth. Now you can print a 3D selfie/groupie. 3DMe Photo booth... Read more

Vinyl Records are Making a Comeback!

Music November 28, 2014

Vinyl records, it seems, are now more popular than they’ve been since the 1990’s, and in a day and age of digital music, that’s saying something. In the UK alone, they’ve sold over 1 million vinyls this year, which hasn’t happened since 1996. And in case you’re curious, it’s... Read more

Need Quality Video Conversion? Get Handbrake

Conversion Software Software Reviews Video November 27, 2014

I have used Handbrake for a long time now to convert my DVD files to MPEG-4 files. The video conversion quality is second to none and the choice of options is very good. HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multi-platform, multi-threaded DVD to MPEG-4 converter, available for MacOS X, Linux... Read more

Apple to Force Beats Service to All iPhones in 2015

Internet Mobile Music November 26, 2014

Do you like it when things are pushed on you? No doubt you don’t. If you own an iPhone though, it looks as thought you are not going to have a choice next year. According to a report in the Financial Times newspaper Apple is planning to push its... Read more

Rescue Your Bad Blu-ray Discs with ISOBuster

Software Reviews Video November 25, 2014

Have you ever needed to rescue or recover lost files from a bad or trashed CD or DVD disc? What about rescuing important documents, precious pictures, family videos or your only system backup? Look no further than IsoBuster. IsoBuster is an award winning , highly specialized and easy to use... Read more

How to Position Elements in Photoshop

How To Photo and Image November 25, 2014

A place for everything and everything in it’s place, said someone a long time before Photoshop was even thought of, but it applies as much now as it ever has. Placing elements correctly is essential for a polished final product. How many times have you noticed a misaligned element... Read more

Adobe Lightroom 5.7 Released

News Photo and Image Editing Software Reviews November 23, 2014

Lightroom is Adobe’s state-of-the-art professional photo development, manipulation and organization software. Lightroom’s powerful features enable users to transform RAW photographs into beautiful images of any kind. Sharpness, contrast, tone, white-balance and color can be adjusted in fine detail manually or through a large range of default and downloadable presets.... Read more

How to Create Preset Templates in Photoshop

How To Photo and Image November 22, 2014

When you open a new document in Photoshop, do you take advantage of the preset document options? Or do you do what many users do and just click OK, set your image name as Untitled-1 and then change your image options later on in Photoshop itself? If you are... Read more

Prynt: Polaroid Printing Smartphone Case

Mobile Photo and Image Software Reviews November 21, 2014

We all love our Smartphones don’t we? And with the amalgam of phone and camera we are now all budding shutterbugs. Whether your choice of weapon is iOS, Windows or Android, you always keep your favourite handset close by, just in case you need to snap that perfect picture.... Read more

How to use Custom Brushes in Photoshop

How To Photo and Image Photo and Image Editing November 20, 2014

Many users only ever use the circular brush tool in Photoshop and miss out on one of the most satisfying ways of freehand digital drawing and a quick, simple way to create interesting effects. Click on the brush tool on the left hand toolbar, it’s the eighth one down,... Read more

How to use Photoshop History States

How To Photo and Image November 19, 2014

We all make mistakes, unfortunately life doesn’t have an undo button, but don’t worry Photoshop does, so at least when it comes to images you can go back and change your mind. This can be particularly useful if you are working on a complicated image and just want to... Read more

Need to Save Audio from Youtube? Get YouTube to MP3 Converter

Audio Software Reviews November 19, 2014

Have you ever watched/listened to some content on YouTube and really wanted to grab the audio files from it but didn’t know how? The YouTube to MP3 Converter allows you to save the audio files from videos on YouTube or Vimeo for playing later, offline. The application is superior... Read more

Need to Copy Your Blu-Ray Collection? Try DVDFab 9

Software Reviews Video November 18, 2014

DVDFab 9 is a DVD/Blu-ray/video processing application. The application allows you to copy any DVD/Blu-ray disc to a computer HDD and then burn it to blank media, or convert it to a variety of video files to be played on either a computer, portable devices or other compatible display. DVDFab... Read more

Download the Latest Version of Cdex

Audio Software Reviews November 17, 2014

CDex is capable of extracting the data from an audio CD and providing you with a WAV file that can be used to create compilation audio CD’s or the audio data can be compressed using an audio encoder. CDex supports numerous encoders. WAV files on the hard drive can be... Read more

How to Create Animated GIFs in Photoshop

How To Photo and Image November 17, 2014

There’s still room on the internet for an old school animated GIF, especially if you can create your own bespoke ones to slip into emails or instant messages, and it doesn’t take much technical knowledge to create one, in fact Photoshop does it with ease. Open any image in... Read more

How to Navigate & Zoom Images in Photoshop

How To Photo and Image Photo and Image Editing November 14, 2014

With the mega pixel count on cameras getting higher and higher, and the display resolutions on monitors and televisions increasing to suit, the image sizes we now work with are significantly higher than they ever used to be. This can bring with it a few navigation issues when you... Read more

Improve your Audio Library with MediaInfo

Music Software Reviews November 13, 2014

If you love audio and you are a stickler for information, then MediaInfo is the app for you. MediaInfo provides you with a rapid access to the inner values of your audio and video files. Whether you want to glance at the set-up of tracks included in a file... Read more

Street Photographer Proves Smartphones are Conversation Killers

Internet Mobile News Photo and Image November 11, 2014

When was the last time you were out with friends and family and managed not to look at your phone even once? Most of us will probably not be able to remember. It does raise the issue of whether technology is making us all anti-social, a point that street... Read more