Sams Soundboard

November 8th, 2008 / No Comments » / by Jaap

Just could not resist copying this. Courtesy www.albinoblacksheep.com.

5 easy steps to create thumbnails using Irfanview

September 30th, 2008 / No Comments » / by Jaap

IrfanViewOn Windows, one of my favorite image-editors is IrfanView.  Among it’s features:

  • Many supported file formats (click here the list of formats)
  • Multi language support
  • Thumbnail / preview option
  • Paint option – to draw lines, circles, arrows, straighten image etc.
  • Toolbar skins option
  • Slideshow (save slideshow as EXE/SCR or burn it to CD)
  • Show EXIF/IPTC/Comment text in Slideshow/Fullscreen etc.

I mostly use it to create thumbnails of all images in a folder. Here’s how.
Read more…

Trading Vista for XP

September 24th, 2008 / No Comments » / by Jaap

A friend of mine recently got stuck on the Vista problem: he’d bought a laptop for his parents but they couldn’t get used to Windows Vista. So, he decided to install Windows XP. Guess what: XP couldn’t install because it could not find the harddisk. Read more…

Picnik

June 13th, 2008 / No Comments » / by Jaap

A shot of the Picnik Plugin pageJust saw a cool Firefox plugin at Lifehacker: Picnik. Lifehackers’ editor Gina Trapani wrote a short post containing a screencast about Picnik.

In short, Picnik enables you to grab a screen of a website and edit it to your needs. Great tool!

gallery

April 3rd, 2008 / No Comments » / by Jaap

MythXFace screenshot

After upgrading to 2.5, I am just playing around with some settings.