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How To Create a Collage Using Photovisi

Posted on 23. Dec, 2009 by Sharninder.

Photographs make up an important part of many of our lives.  They capture a moment in time that we want to relive again later in life.  We get to see these moments and remember them through photographs.  We all have lots of photographs, and we often want to do something fun with them.

Collages are a great way to get lots of memories in one place.  You can make one of your European vacation or that great summer you had with all of your friends.  It really doesn’t matter.  It just needs to be fun.  One of the problems with traditional collages is that they take work.  You need a big sheet of paper, some glue and time.

Photovisi is a great online service that makes it super easy to make a collage out of your favorite pictures.

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5 Excellent File Sharing Websites

Posted on 17. Sep, 2009 by Sharninder.

There was a time when the only way two computer users could share files between them was using a bunch of punched paper cards. And then came the tape drives which revolutionized file sharing and of course, who can forget the clumsy floppy disks. Those were the days!

By the time the USB flash keys came on to the scene, I’d officially started believing in miracles. I had to! How else could one explain the fact that something so tiny could store much more data than an entire data center, back in the day?

Well, in these days of broadband Internet, sharing data has become even easier. I don’t even think about sharing data physically anymore. File transfers via IM, email and file sharing websites have taken over the business of file sharing. Today, we’ll be talking about 5 free file sharing websites which let you share data with your friends without worrying about clumsy floppy disks, tiny USB keys or punched paper.

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Clean Up the Windows Registry with PowerTools Lite

Posted on 24. Aug, 2009 by Sharninder.

In my humble opinion, the Windows registry is the weakest and the most poorly designed part of the Windows system. If you’ve ever noticed how your windows based PC becomes slower and slower as it grows older, then you know what I mean.

The registry is essentially a database which Windows uses to store information about various installed programs, users and their settings and just about anything that Windows might later have a use for. The problem is that when a program is removed, all entries about the program are usually not removed from the registry.  That’s what makes the registry bloated over time and the system appears slower (and prone to hangs and crashes).

There was a time when I used to spend a lot of time trying out utilities which I could use to clean up and optimize the Windows registry, then for a long time, I forgot about those tools, because I started using Linux more and more.

Now, that I’m back to using Windows, at least for part of the day, I found the need for a registry cleaning utility and found exactly what I was looking for when I came across PowerTools Lite.

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