The Elite weblog has a tutorial on Photoshop — specifically how to master Photoshop in just one week. It is the first of three parts. It looks very good, so if you are looking at trying Photoshop, this may be a good place to start.
Read more at Elite [via Lifehacker].
It takes on average 64 seconds to recover from an email interruption:
Another study, carried out last year, revealed that it takes an average of 64 seconds to recover your train of thought after interruption by email. This means that people who check their email every five minutes waste a whole working day - or 8.5 [...]
Once you start using the command line, it is amazing how many things you can do that were difficult in a GUI system. A common task is to extract data from text files. The text files may be the output of some program, or they may be written documents like saved emails. Here are some [...]
Read more »As you surf the web you probably find many interesting pages that you would like to read at some point — but just not right now. You could bookmark the pages, but in many cases that is overkill if you only want to read the page once. Bookmarks work better for pages you want to [...]
Read more »Renaming multiple files in Windows can be a challenge. Windows has very limited support for it — I’m only aware of shift-right-click trick as mentioned on Lifehacker a few years back. Luckily there are plenty of programs out there to help you. And most of them are available for free.
The Bulk Rename Utility has tons [...]
The clipboard in Windows can only hold one entry at a time. This has been the way Windows works since, well, forever. Luckily there are ways to super-charge your clipboard.
Clipomatic is a small program (only 96kb to download) that captures whatever you copy. To paste use CTRL-ALT-V instead of the usual CTRL-V. Clipomatic will show [...]
Earlier today Google released (in beta) a new browser called Google Chrome. It is currently available for Windows Vista and XP. Google describes it “as a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier.” The bloggosphere has been buzzing with the news, and quite a few [...]
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