One simple setting in Photoshop can make your life a little easier and your work a little smarter. That may be a bit of a hyperbole, but altering the sample size of the eyedropper tool in Photoshop from the default setting makes sense most if not all of the time. The how and why of this easy configuration setting will be covered in this Tech-Recipe.
Explorer.exe is the user shell on your Windows system (taskbar, desktop, etc.) and periodically it requires a restart to resume proper functionality. Additionally, if you do a lot of tweaking to your system registry like I do, it’s much easier to restart explorer.exe to reload the registry instead of restarting the entire system. By creating a .bat file, you will have a quick 2 step solution that will restart explorer.exe and get you back to computing in just a few seconds.
People typically like either use light text on a dark background or dark text or a light background. With the invert feature in OS X, the user can quickly jump from one to another. This is frequently nice when trying to use your MBP in direct sunlight.
If you work extensively with layers in Photoshop, you may be suffering from layer-palette-thumnail-squintitis, a condition resulting from squinting at the tiny little thumbnails in the layer palette. Until medical treatments are available, you can just make them bigger using the steps in this short but sweet recipe.
Since the early days of windows, users have realized that rebooting explorer will frequently save a whole system reboot. With vista, you can shutdown and restart explorer very quickly with these shortcuts.
Much of Vista’s bloat comes from the Aero interface. By turning off some of these features, the user can improve the performance of the system.
If you have many users that use one computer, it is quite likely that one of those people will be a disk space hog. The administrator can limit maximum disk space usage by setting a quota.
If you have upgraded your Outlook to the 2007 version, you will need to perform an upgrade to Color Categories to maintain a consistent look for marking and categorizing your emails. If you don’t, you will have a mixture of bars and squares that make for a confusing Inbox.
With the latest version of Apple TV, the user can stream any audio from iTunes to the Apple TV. This includes internet radio! Plus, you can stream audio while you perform other tasks on your Apple TV device. No hacks required. This is a new, easy to use feature from Apple TV Take Two.
With Leopard, Apple introduced the translucent menu bar effect. Many people did not like this because it is difficult to see on some backgrounds. With the release of 10.5.2, this is easily turned on or turned off based on your preferences.
Using free software, ripping your movies or TV episodes to your Apple TV is simple. These directions and screenshots will help you get your collection on your Apple TV in no time.
Printing nine slides per printed page is a common way of making handouts from powerpoint or keynote presentations. In Keynote, finding this printing option is difficult. Here is where to find it…
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