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Windows: Screen Capture “Prt Scr” Current Window Shortcut
For many years I would hit the "Prt Scr" key on my keyboard and then paste the screen capture into Photoshop or whatever to play with. Even with multiple monitors the "Prt Scr" key captures everything displayed on all your monitors in one giant graphic. The tip is to...
Light and Fluffy Perfect Rice
We've come to that point in time my friends that I'm posting a food tip on my site. A completely odd topic and non-tech related, though the blog sidebar does say "the odd life pro tip"—and this perfect rice recipe is a game changer! First off, this recipe is very...
750 FREE + 96 NEW Material Design Icons to Use, Remix or Share
In October of 2014 I blogged about Google releasing 700+ free categorized icons. Well they've just updated their collection with an additional 96 new icons that you can use personally or commercially without attribution whatsoever. Their license (CC-BY 4.0) does...
Photoshop: Quit Adding “Copy” To My Exported JPGs
I was recently creating an action in Photoshop that would alter my original JPGs and then at determined steps throughout the altering process save a JPG to certain folders on my hard drive; kind of a "save large version JPG, alter further, save medium version, alter...
FREE Open Source Password Manager: KeePass
Unless I'm mistaken and you don't use the Internet much at all, YOU NEED a password manager. Here's the gist. KeePass is free, open-source, cross-platform, light-weight password management program for Windows. If you aren't using Windows but rather have a Mac, iPhone...
Crashplan Automatic Cloud Data Backup
I pay for my data to be backed up nightly to the cloud. At the end of each day the Crashplan software compares all the folders and drives I've selected and looks for new, or updated files, and then uploads them to the cloud. Whew. What a load off my mind. I used to...
Kuku Klok: Online Alarm Clock
I can only imagine that there are many online alarm clocks. That may be. But I wanted to share with you one that I have been using for a very very long time. So handy. Made even more handy when I work at the computer for many hours a day. Need a reminder to pick up...
Sending Mail Using The PHP Mail Function: A Simple Test To See If Your Server Supports The Function
You should not be using the PHP mail function within your site as mail being sent from the server can be faulty at reaching the intended email address. In fact I've recently found out that there are many web hosts that in fact disable this function entirely (on shared...
Adobe Bridge Viewing SVG File Format and Windows Explorer Extension
After not being able to get Adobe Bridge to be able to view SVG's I went in search for an alternative. For Windows, it would look to be (I didn't spend a long time searching) the number one solution is an extension that allows your Windows Explorer thumbnail view to...
Been There Before? Type In Your Address Bar
I take it for granted that everyone knows how to use a web browser (Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer, etc.) But almost certainly we all don't use them the same way. Of course we open our web browser, visit a search engine (or maybe that's your home page) and go...
What Is Bleed?
I find myself regularly communicating to clients why they need a print-ready file that has "bleed" surrounding their design. Here's the scoop! What Is Bleed? Bleed can be defined as "extra area" outside of your final design dimensions. As in the graphic shown, even...
Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams
I was researching some web-work last night and embedded in the article was this presentation by Randy Pausch. I began to watch, realized it was an hour and a quarter, gasped... and proceeded to watch the whole thing intently. Randy's talk had nothing to do with the...
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