Iyaz and Leo tell you “How To” make your tech life more secure.
- Setup two factor authentication in Google,
- How to set up 2-step verification on Facebook,
- Backup and lie. (learn more) Read More→
Archive for Tips
In Windows 8 sifting through all of the apps in the store to find what you want can be very difficult. Here’s Veronica of Tekzilla to show you an easier way. Read More→
Veronica Belmont from Tekzilla shows you how to free up disk space in windows 7
Did you get a new computer for Christmas or Festivus. If you did your computer may not be ready yet. Robert Heron and Patrick Norton of Tekzilla have some tips for you most of which I completely agree.
There is a lot of talk about Windows maintenance. What services should turn off? Which utilities should I use? To sleep or hibernate? Here’s a article from Lifehacker. It is the best article I have seen on the subject. Read More→
There are several programs that may start up when your Ubuntu computer starts. Many of these programs are not needed. You can turn these off by going to “System, Preferences and Startup Applications”. You can turn off some of these but first you must know which applications do not have to start up so I made a list.
- AT SPI Registry Wrapper – The Gnome a11y infrastructure allows end user assistive technology (AT) programs such as screen readers to get rich information about an application’s UI state. In most cases it’s OK to disable it.
- Bluetooth Manager – If your computer does not have Bluethooth or you don’t use it it is OK to turn it off.
- Check for new hardware drivers – keep this enabled
- Disk Notifications – keep this enabled Read More→
Here is a recently restored photo that I have been working on. A lot of what was wrong with this photo was not fixed by Photoshop. It was very stained and very dirty. I had to remove the dirt covering the picture first. If you Google cleaning photos it will tell you much better techniques to do this. I was doing this for free so I did not want to spend any money so I used alcohol. I stared in a corner of the photo to see if there was any problems before using it before cleaning the entire photo. After cleaning the picture and scanning it into Photoshop as a color image I then used a “Hue and Saturation adjustment layer” to to take out the yellow cast. I used a second “Hue and Saturation” adjustment layer to adjust the the lightness of the yellow around the wheel area to remove a big yellow blotch. I fixed the contrast and brightness with a “Levels adjustment layer”. Then used the “Clone Stamp Tool” and finally the “Healing Brush Tool” to take out smudges, and scratches. That’s it! More Photoshop tips!
As you may know there is a new version of Windows (Windows 7) coming out October
22. What you don’t know is there are already books on the subject. One of these is Windows 7 Secrets by Paul Thurrott (co-host of the Windows Weekly poadcast on the TWIT network and creator of the Supersite for Windows). Windows 7 Secrets is one thousand pages of instruction, tip, tricks and (Can you believe it?) secrets. This is a great book for anyone that wants to learn all they can about Windows 7 or anyone who just needs a quick reference book.
I found many GIMP tutorials on Youtube. If you don’t know about GIMP it is a great image manipulation (like Photoshop) program that is very powerful and absolutely free.
