15 January 2014

Perform These 7 Awesome Photoshop Tricks in GIMP



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Do advanced photo tricks, for free. It’s possible, thanks to The GIMP. The GNU Image Manipulation Program, or GIMP, is a capable open source and free alternative to Photoshop. While it’s not quite as easy or powerful as Photoshop, you can still make anything happen with GIMP, some know-how, and a bit of elbow grease. If you’d like to keep yourself from burning a major hole in your wallet in exchange for a bit more work, grab a copy of GIMP and check out these seven great Photoshop tricks you can do with it! Layer Styles Layer styles are various...


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Perform These 7 Awesome Photoshop Tricks in GIMP



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Do advanced photo tricks, for free. It’s possible, thanks to The GIMP. The GNU Image Manipulation Program, or GIMP, is a capable open source and free alternative to Photoshop. While it’s not quite as easy or powerful as Photoshop, you can still make anything happen with GIMP, some know-how, and a bit of elbow grease. If you’d like to keep yourself from burning a major hole in your wallet in exchange for a bit more work, grab a copy of GIMP and check out these seven great Photoshop tricks you can do with it! Layer Styles Layer styles are various...


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Finding Free Movies on YouTube Made Easy



Use Instant Movie Search or browse the catalog by year of release

Use Instant Movie Search or browse the catalog by year of release



Introducing Zero Dollar Movies, a new site for movie buffs that will help you find and discover movies that are available on YouTube for free. These are full-length movies and there are no trailers or partial uploads.


The catalog includes a collection of 15,000+ movies, organized by their year of release, and new titles are getting added every day. You can find movies in English, Hindi (Bollywood) and few other regional languages.


Instant Movie Search


One of the most useful feature of Zero Dollar Movies is Instant Search – you type a word and the site will instantly bring all the matching films that are available on YouTube for free viewing. The search feature is location aware and will only show movie titles that are available in your current geographic location.


The red-green ratings bar near the video thumbnails indicate the ratio of likes to dislikes and offer a visual clue on how popular that particular movie is on YouTube. If the red color is prominent, you may as well skip the video.


The movie data was sourced from YouTube using their data API and also /r/fullmoviesonyoutube, one of most active Reddit community where members post links to free movies on YouTube. I used Google Scripts to scrap Reddit and a copy of this movie database can also be downloaded from Github.


The Instant Search feature internally uses the YouTube Search API and queries the YouTube database directly instead of the Zero Dollar Movies database so the results are always current. The one caveat is that results may sometimes include paid movies as the YouTube API doesn’t offer a way to exclude rentals in search results, at least yet.


Switch to Hindi in the dropdown and find bollywood movies that are free on YouTube

Switch to Hindi in the dropdown and find bollywood movies that are free on YouTube



This is the initial version and, going forward, I do plan to add more features including integration with other popular movie databases like IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes.


Also, a little request. If you encounter a video on the site that has been removed from YouTube, maybe because it was not uploaded by the original owner or YouTube terminated the owner’s channel, please use the “Flag Video” button to report the video. [Zero Dollar Movies ]




This story, Finding Free Movies on YouTube Made Easy, was originally published at Digital Inspiration on 15/01/2014 under YouTube, Internet

Online Dating – Men Don’t Get It And Women Don’t Understand



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Do online dating websites work? Okay, it’s time to have an open and frank discussion about the battle of the sexes and the dating game. It’s far too complex, scary and difficult for mere mortals – so let’s bridge the gap by asking both men and women what doesn’t work when it comes to online dating. To explore this topic, I pulled aside two individuals who I knew were hunting for a long-term relationship using online dating websites, and asked them about their experiences with the services. The two services used by these individuals were OKCupid and Match.com, two of...


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Technophilia 96 Live From MakeUseOf



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This week: net neutrality is struck down by a US appeals court, meaning the companies that make the richest country on earth suffer through some of the slowest Internet access among developed countries now have even more power. What could possibly go wrong? An academic paper says killer robots are all but inevitable, barring the leaders of the world putting their own interests aside in order to work for the common good of humanity. So yeah: all but inevitable. And, on the lighter side of things, EA did what it said was impossible: offer an offline version of SimCity, a...


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Thinking Of Moving Abroad? 4 Tips To Do Your Online Research



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We’ve all dreamed the dream: dropping all of our responsibilities at home and moving abroad, traveling to new places and living a different kind of life. It’s a deeper commitment than a short-term vacation and it can be frightening – even if you stay connected back home – but the experience is often rewarding. What’s the best way for you to prepare for such an endeavor? There’s more to moving abroad than simply hopping on a plane and winging it, at least if you want the experience to be as smooth and pleasant as possible. Without doing the proper research,...


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No Net Neutrality, Winamp Lives, Kanye Kills Coinye [Tech News Digest]



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Today in Tech News Digest, net neutrality suffers a loss, Winamp lives to fight another day, Beats Music is revealed ahead of launch, Tumblr adds Mention alerts (finally), Kanye West succeeds in killing Coinye, a man dies trying to save his phone, and the Internet is given the honor of naming a baby. Court Rules Against Net Neutrality http://ift.tt/1iU3r3S Net neutrality has suffered a huge defeat in court, with a ruling stating that the FCC’s rules on the matter are “invalid.” As GigaOM reports, an appeals court in Washington rejected most of the FCC’s Open Internet Order designed to keep...


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Windows Live Tuner: Free Tool To Quickly Speed Up Windows



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One of the best things of Windows operating system, unlike other computer operating systems, is that there are plenty of free tools out there to tweak, customize, and fine-tune the operating system. Earlier this week, we posted about the 15 free tools tweak and customize Windows 8.1 version. When it comes to the tuning the […]

Cook with Jamie Oliver On Your Windows 8 PC or Tablet



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Cooking with recipes found online can be a hassle when it comes to printing or writing recipes down. How does British celebrity chef Jamie Oliver’s Recipes app for iOS and Windows 8 help? Jamie Oliver… Who? Available from the Windows 8 Store, Jamie Oliver’s Recipes is a free app that helps you to cook some amazing dishes (this app is also available for iOS). But who is this Jamie Oliver? If you’re not based in the UK, then there is a good chance that you haven’t heard of Jamie Oliver, a TV chef who shot to fame in the late...


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Windows 8.1 Preview Expires Today, Upgrade To 8.1 RTM Now



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To all PC users who are running Windows 8.1 Preview; the Preview version of Windows 8.1 expires today, January 15th 2014. The preview release of Windows 8.1 was released on June 26th, 2013 with over 50 new features, including Start button, new tile sizes, slide to shut down, and more. Starting tomorrow, January 16th, Windows […]

Music Makes The World Go Around [We Ask You Results]



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A love of music is one of those things inbuilt into all humans. Our tastes vary wildly, but being pleased by a combination of pitch and rhythm is almost universal. This means there will always be a market for music, with artists (and Miley Cyrus) creating melodies for our listening pleasure. The way we obtain music has changed massively over the years. Vinyl has given way to first cassettes and then CDs, physical formats have been superseded by digital formats, and programmed radio has given way to you’re-in-charge streaming services. And then there is music piracy. With all this going...


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Taking Screenshots On Your Chromebook: All You Need To Know



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If you’ve just got a new Chromebook, such as the HP Chromebook 11 or Samsung Chromebook Series 3, you may be wondering how to take screenshots. So, here’s a quick guide for you. We’ll show you how to take a screenshot, then find it and use it. We’ll also show you a couple of great apps for taking great screenshots and editing with annotations in the browser. If you’re new to Chromebooks (or still not sure whether to get a Chromebook or not), it might also be a good idea to read up on everything you need to know when...


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