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Amazon Prime Members Now Get Free Unlimited Photo Storage
I don’t know about you, but for me, the benefits of having an Amazon Prime account are starting to outweigh the benefits of not having one. I had a free 30-day trial some time ago and enjoyed it, but ultimately decided to save my money. I’m starting to reconsider.... Read more
Taylor Swift Yanks All Her Music From Spotify
There’s good news and bad news for the music world. We’ll get the good out of the way first. Last week, Taylor Swift released her new highly-anticipated album 1989. This album is apparently a radical departure from the Nashville music scene and is actually marketed as pop music. (Not that... Read more
How to Swap Heads in Photoshop
Sometimes you don’t want to spend hours creating the perfect image, you don’t want to carefully fix every small mistake and make the most convincing photo collage the world has ever seen, sometimes you just want to stick someone’s head on someone else for humorous effect. Here’s a quick... Read more
How to Mask Layers in Photoshop
All images, like onions, have many layers, in a photo these layers are flattened, but they are still there, the sky, the foreground, the subject, all fall into different planes and the mind splits them up. If you are trying to give the impression of layers in an image,... Read more
How to use the Stained Glass Filter in Photoshop
All graphics packages come with pre-set filters that new users like to play with when they first get the package, but then never use again. Let’s face it, if everyone used the default filters, with all images subjected to the same process, it would turn the internet into a... Read more
The Scariest Photobombs Ever!
We all know that photobombs can be fun, if not a little strange. However the following photos will teach you that sometimes they can go from strange, to downright scary! If nothing else, in future you’ll always check behind you before taking any pictures! 1 Image 1 of 14 Read more
Get Your Music Organized With MusicBee
Are you fed up with your music library being all over the place? Time to take charge and get it organized. MusicBee makes it easy to organize, find and play music files on your computer, on portable devices and on the web. The application allows you to play your... Read more
How to Use the Clone Stamp Tool in Photoshop
Arthur C Clarke’s third law of prediction states – “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” and if you’ve ever used the clone stamp tool in Photoshop, you’ll know exactly what Arthur was talking about. Using a very simple technique of allowing you to sample areas of an... Read more
How To Legally Download Free Music
It’s now 13 years since the first iPod was launched, and whether it’s on our Apple device, our phone or our MP3 player, most of us now have a portable music library we carry around with us. When MP3 players first came out people scoffed at the idea of... Read more
15 GIFs That Could Pass as 3D Images!
If you’ve been put off 3D TV because of the ridiculous looking 3D glasses, then take a look at these clever GIFs. There is nothing magical about these eye popping images, they are just standard GIFs, however by cleverly adding a couple of white vertical lines your brain is... Read more
Music Bleeper Will Clean Up Your Music
In this day and age, it’s getting harder and harder to find clean music. Now, this might not be a problem if you don’t have kids in the house, but if you do, than you know it’s tough to find good music that meets your approval. Your kids like... Read more
U2 Apologizes for Free iTunes Album
Last month I got a neat little unexpected surprise – U2’s new album, Songs of Innocence, for the gigantic price of free. Of course it wasn’t just me who was in on the deal. In fact, every single person with an iTunes account had the new album downloaded into their... Read more
Need Screen Recording? Download the Latest Version of Bandicam
Bandicam screen recorder allows you to video record a certain area of your PC screen, or you can record a program, which uses DirectX/OpenGL graphic technologies. Bandicam screen recorder works with a high compression ratio, whilst keeping the video quality close to the original and Bandicam provides performance far... Read more
How To Add Lens Flare In Photoshop
The film Easy Rider deliberately allowed natural light into the camera lens, the recent Star Trek movies added in CGI lens flare, some people hated it, some love it, it divided opinion and now so can you with Photoshop’s built in Lens Flare filter. For a long time, allowing... Read more
How to Create Custom Ringtones for your iPhone
When you get your brand new iPhone, un-box it and start to play with it, isn’t it great to start messing around with all your settings, set your apps on your home screen, just how you like them, you know, things like that?  Then you come to setting up... Read more
Hawk Vs. Drone: Who Wins?

Hawk Vs. Drone: Who Wins?

Video October 13, 2014

It seems you can’t visit any tech website without reading something about drones. Most of them all seem to say much the same thing: they’re awesome, they’ll be delivering your goods soon, they’re going to help make better movies, and they’re all kinds of fun to use. And while... Read more
How To Make Text Float In Photoshop
With the possible exception Peter Pan, everyone and everything has a shadow, as long as light is hitting it. Internal shadows appear where the surface contours towards and away from the light source. External shadows appear behind wherever the light source is. Multiple light sources cause multiple shadows and... Read more
How to Create Chromakey Effects in Video
We’ve come a long way since Star Wars. Where the ability to magically insert different video elements together was once the province of special effects studios, with expensive equipment that filled an aircraft hanger, most of us can now create complex and impressive chromakey effects on our home computers.... Read more