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Photoshop CS6: Create Smoke Text

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Using only one set of brushes and some elementary Photoshop skills, you can create your own cool, semi-realistic smoke text effect. Follow along closely to achieve this spooky effect for yourself in under ten minutes.

Windows Phone 8: Set a Password for the Lock Screen

By default, Windows Phone 8 does not provide any security to the lock screen. That means anyone can unlock your phone and use it by sliding the lock screen picture upward. It is highly recommended that establish a lock screen password for better security.

Windows 8: Make Everything on Your Screen Bigger

With higher resolution displays, many users are looking for ways to make graphical elements appear larger on the screen.

How Do I Remove My Credit Card from Google Play Store?

Once you provide a payment method to buy games or apps in the Google Play store, the credit card information will be attached to your account. That means, if someone else has access to your Google account, he can use your credit card as well. To avoid this situation, make sure your account is safe, and remove your credit card information from any Google accounts that are no longer actively used.

Facebook: Turn Off Facial Recognition Photo Tagging Suggestions

Facebook has introduced (actually reintroduced) a new feature which suggests a photo tag based on facial recognition. From your previous uploaded photos, it recognizes your identity and suggests a tag when you or your friends upload a photo of you onto Facebook. If this bothers your sense of privacy, you can disable this feature through the following steps.

Windows 8: Group Applications under a Single Pinned Folder

Create a custom folder with an unique icon that contains all of your go-to applications. In my example below, we will create a custom folder on your Start screen that contains a list of all your installed Office applications. However, you can use these same steps to group any number of applications to a single pinned folder. Continue

PowerPoint 2013: Convert Presentation to a Word Document

Handout are a great visual aid for your audience. Creating handouts of your presentation can really help your audience stay on track and follow along. By converting your PowerPoint presentation to a Microsoft Word document, you can easily edit, print, and distribute your information.

Excel 2013: Create Sparklines to Visualize Trends

Inserting sparklines next to your data set provides a simple way of viewing a trend for a set of data points. Sparklines are tiny, free-flowing graphs with no axis or labels.

SQL Server 2012: How to Use CHOOSE() Logical Function

SQL Server 2012 introduced the powerful new CHOOSE() function. This tech-recipe will explore its use and common mistakes through some simple examples.

Windows 8: Bring Back the Old Windows 7 Style Task Manager

As you may have noticed, the new Task Manager is quite different from the older version. The most straight forward functions have remained the same but may be difficult to access for new users because of the completely redesigned UI.

Windows 8: Use Calculator App to Perform Date Calculations

Are you counting down the days until that concert you have been dying to see? Do you want to know how many days you have been alive? Whatever your motives are, the Windows 8 calculator application comes with a built-in date calculator.

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