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The Best Of Adobe Photoshop Tutorials

admin — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 04:57:35 +0000

Article From http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/01/10/adobe-photoshop-tutorials-best-of/

When it comes to graphic design, Adobe Photoshop is usually the first option to consider. However, the software itself is a quite tough nut to crack ??? and definitely extremely hard to master. For instance, the concepts are not always intuitive and it???s not always clear when to use what tool and how to use it effectively. In fact, in Photoshop it usually takes pretty much time to achieve something you have never done before.

However, you don???t need to muddle through numerous Photoshop features and extensions for every design problem. You can use professional suggestions instead, e.g. professional step-by-step tutorials which provide excellent results and thus can save you a lot of time.

One year ago we???ve presented a hand-picked collection of Photoshop tutorials. Now it???s time for a fresh portion of healthy Photoshop learning material. This article provides professional Adobe Photoshop tutorials which can enrich your design skills and improve the quality of your works. Although the authors of the tutorials rarely provide the information about the used version, we tried to pick only those tutorials that can be used with both CS 3 and older versions of Adobe Photoshop.

Photo- and Picture Editing and Processing

MP3 Player Design
In this tutorial you will learn how to design a product in Photoshop. The product is a RCA Lyra X3030 portable media player. Although the chances are, you are thinking “why would I need to make it?”, the reason for this tutorial is to teach people the techniques used for mocking up a product design.
Magic Lighting Effect
How to create a nice light and magic effect.
Beautiful Lady Effect
Learn how to combine some brushes and color adjustment to make a beautiful lady effect.
Selecting & Extracting Hair - Masking Tutorial - Extraction Tips
One of the most challenging montage or masking jobs in the profession of post-production editing is the hair lift. When the model has long flowing hair and the subject needs to change location many post-production artists call in sick.
Add a Dreamy or Misty Effect To Your Photos
This quick tutorial will show how to add a really cool dreamy or misty effect to your photos. This tutorial works best with nature related images.
Improving the Quality of Photos
Improve the look of your photos by playing with some simple Photoshop techniques.
Fake Model Photography
With a very little effort, you can take existing photographs of everyday scenes and make it look like they???re actually of miniature models.
Displacement Water
Creating a realistic water surface in Photoshop is quite a challenge because it is the distorted reflection of the surroundings that makes the water look liquid. The displace filter is an excellent tool for making this distortion.
Making Skin Beautiful
Not everyone has a beautiful skin. This tutorial will help the photographer put their models in the best light so to speak.
Photoshop tutorial and Post-producted glasses
To save your time think to photo retouch especially frosted glasses.
Professional “glamour style” photo retouch
This is the first chapter of a main tutorial divided in six parts. In this one you will learn how to photo retouch the skin of a model in a few steps. Better results can be obtained by using a graphic tablet instead of a mouse.
iMouse ??? creating Apple mouse
Simple and elegant. Apple mouse. Is there anyone, who doesn???t want graphic like that? Let???s have a look at creating this mouse in Adobe Photoshop. 3 pages.
Give Your Photos a Retro Comic Book Effect
How about a fun effect for your incredibly boring photo albums? Creating a old comic book effect for your photos is easy and the results are visually appealing. More fun is achieved when adding captions to your photos using comic book fonts and design elements.
Space and Planet Tutorial
The techniques below will show you how to create an image similar to the final result I have obtained below although the image below took 3 hours to paint with alot of fine detail work, you will still get the idea.
Faking HDR in Adobe Photoshop
This HDR tutorial shows quite easy way to fake HDR foto in Photoshop. You don???t need to shoot into RAW or take photos with different exposure - one JPEG is enough. If you can work with masks in Photoshop, you have an advantage. Part of tutorial is HDR action for download.
11 Super Awesome Photoshop Movie Effects
11 most-favorite movie-effect tutorials. From Scarface to Sin City to Pirates of the Carribean to 300, we???ve got 11 great ways to go Hollywood on your photos.
A movie-effect with Photoshop
This tutorial explains how to turn your photo into the movie-like image using Adobe Photoshop.
Visual effects in the style of 300
Here???s a little Photoshop guide to mimic the 300 style. The effects could also be applied to video in After Effects with a similar setup.
Reflective Bubbles
For my most recent work I wanted to create bubbles that would reflect my subject in a believable yet magical way.
Bringing a Stone Statue to Life
Learn how to take a stone statue and alter it to look life-like.
4 Easy Photoshop Techniques to Make Your Pictures Pop
???In this tutorial I will be demonstrating some quick, easy methods for adding drama and/or interest to your shots. As far as I know, these methods should work for both Photoshop and Photoshop Elements.???
Devil???s Eye
Some eyes are just too pretty, but I bet some of you would change that if you could. I am going to try to explain how to make eyes look more sinister, And remember this is coming from a begginer,so bare with me. Photoshop CS2.
Beautiful lighting FX effect in Photoshop
This tutorial will show you how to make a beautiful lighting effect on scatters by using Photoshop. Keep in mind that I only provide the basic guidelines to creating this type of effect. There are tons of possibilities if you spend time to play with the settings and keep your creativity wide open.
Water Drops
So simple, and realistic, these water drops (and optional ice drops) are also simple to do anywhere, anytime.
Creating a glass ball
In this tutorial you will learn how to create a glass ball in photoshop using some simple tools and techniques. Any version of photoshop can be used.
3D Ice Cube
In this tutorial we???ll try to build a realistic 3D ice cube. Usually this kind of stuff is done with the help of some 3D software like Maya or 3DMax, still we???ll try to use Photoshop tools to do the work.
Alienize: Transform a person into an alien
In this tutorial is written how to create a very cool looking alien using Adobe Photoshop. Grab a picture of someone and get ready to alienize it.
Water Spirit - Drawing Fire
This tutorial will show You how to place a fire on someone???s hands.
Creating a 3D effect with image editing software
Here???s how to make a neat effect to make it look like the subject of a photo is popping out of the background. This can be done with GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) or Photoshop.
How to use Photoshop to create Product Box?
How many times you wanted to create cool product box for some of your products? Sure, there are many ways, and with new Photoshop you have even more options to create boxes.
Super Fly Box Maker
These boxes can be used to advertise almost anything (not just software). This is great if you want to catch a viewers attention, and it also gives your product display a more professional look and feel.
Flaming Hair
Tutorial with some simple brushing techniques, and a bit of color tweaking, you can spice up your photo.
Create a Realistic Torn Paper Effect
Torn paper is one of the key elements to achieving the distressed / collage look. This tutorial covers a few simple steps in Adobe Photoshop to create a realistic looking torn paper effect taking you on your way to Destroying the Web 2.0 Look.
Creating a Mac-Type Background in Photoshop
This tutorial is about making a ???mac??? style background. You can use these in all sorts of situations, including the obvious ??? your desktop as well as part of your designs or for corporate work (powerpoint presentations, flash work etc). Naturally you wouldn???t want to use this exact set of steps, but following them will give you a good idea of the technique. Good luck!

Drawings, Paintings, Cartoons

Sexy Girl Comic With Photoshop
This tutorial describes a way to create a sexy comic girl from a paper sketch.
Skin Painting Tutorial
Learn how to paint a realistically looking skin with Photoshop.
Making of The Blues Singer Leaves Town
This picture was done in a hot summer day, in the memory of an old anime series I used to watch as a kid, about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. Historically, it???s off from that period, but it???s the feeling of summer, childhood fascination and nature that I wanted to re-create. It???s also a tribute to music. 4 pages.
Fox Fire Tutorial
Converting from hand-sketched picture to a digital masterpiece.
Easy Watercolor Painting Effect
In this Adobe Photoshop tutorial, we???re going to learn how to easily make a photo look more like a watercolor painting. This photo effect works best on images where maintaining rich colors and strong contrast is more important than keeping any fine details, since you???ll be losing a lot of detail with this effect.
Soft Cell Shading
Learn how to paint softlry, as a variation of cell shading, eventually going through a total of seven stages.
Sketch to Paint
Digital artist David Cousens reveals how to develop a sci-fi art sketch in Adobe Photoshop using the airbrush and a few nifty tricks.
Portrait Painting
Learn how to draw a portrait from a hand-drawn sketch.
Drawing a Cute Boy
Drawing from a reference photo
The original photo: I locate it on the bottom layer to use for some initial tracing, primarily to save time and get the perspective correct. Some people prefer not to trace.
Comic art style
This is a method that you can use to produce abstract art using Adobe Photoshop. Randomness, detail, colors and contrast plays of course important roles now.

Texteffects

3D typographic effects
Photoshop is an astounding post-production tool ??? and here Nik Ainley of Shiny Binary shows you how to add the wow factor to 3D text using Photoshop???s art tools.
Slow shutter text effect
Learn how to create this stunning slow shutter text effect using just Photoshop.
Create a Spectacular Flaming Meteor Effect on Text
Take typography one step further by having text falling from the sky in a burning inferno. Yes, this is the text-on-fire tutorial to end all tutorials. It uses a little Illustrator for the text and a lot of Photoshop to burn up the screen!
Smooth Glass Type
Here???s a quick way to create some nice looking translucent glass type that???ll work great on any background, made completely with layer styles.
Recreate the ???Bee Movie??? Text Effect
In this quick Photoshop tutorial we???ll be recreating the ???Bee movie??? text effect, you know, the one you???ve seen all over the place over the last few months?
Plastic Jelly Style
In this tutorial we???ll be using layer styles to make a plastic-gel type style that you can easily apply to text and shapes. You can download the PSD file from the link at the bottom of the tutorial to just copy+paste the styles.
Combine 2 text layer styles
Learn how to apply a combination of multiple text effects.

Buttons, Logos & Menus

Create A Leopard ???X??? in Photoshop
With the recent release of Mac OS X Leopard, I???ve decided to create a tutorial where you can create your own ???X???. This tutorial is a great exercise in using the dodge and burn tool as well as working with selections.
Orb Button Effect
This set of tutorial will show on how to create a very basic mouse over effect in html/css. Therefore this tutorial will spilt into 2 parts:
Interface Orbs
Shiny glass orbs have been popular fixtures for web interfaces and application skins for quite some time. In this tutorial, we will be going over a technique for making a standard interface orb.
Creating Logos on Glass Surfaces
In this mini tutorial you will learn how to create a convincing logo that is embossed in the surface of a beer glass.
Photoshop Button Maker
In this simple tutorial we???re going to create a clever little way of making little buttons using a couple of layers and one interchangeable image layer. As always you can download the sample PSD at the bottom of the tutorial to follow along and copy layer styles out of.
Design Watercolor Effect Menu
This is a two-part tutorial on how to create an artistic and un-typical CSS list menu as seen on Web Designer Wall.
100% Satisfaction Guaranteed Seal/Badge Photoshop Tutorial
In this quick Photoshop tutorial I???m going to show you how to design a sweet-lookin??? a golden badge, pretty much like this one I???ve designed below. For this tutorial I???ve used the example ???100% satisfaction guaranteed seal/badge.
A Little Window???
Glossy-Style Carbon Fibre Navigation Set
This is a kind of glossy, carbon fiber navigation set.
How to Design Mini Icons
Numbers of people have asked me how to design my popular Mini Pixel Icon pack. In fact, they are relatively easy. All you need is just some basic Photoshop skills.
Designing a Safety Icon
Eye-Popping Banner Ad Tutorial
Nobody clicks on them, but they still exist. This tutorials shows how you can create iPod nano Ads with Photoshop.

Adobe Photoshop Techniques

Color adjustment tutorial
This tutorial shows how to get more mood into your pictures via Adjustment Layers and some other effects.
Vector Polishing Techniques
This tutorial includes 9 Photoshop techniques that will show you how to add more depth, color, contrast, and texture into your vector art.
Advanced Black and White Conversion
In this tutorial, we will convert an RGB image to Black and White using Photoshop CS3???s new improved Black and White features.

Top Ten Tech Treasures

admin — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 23:37:33 +0000

Hey Everyone At AGeniusBlog.com

I found this Cool post From Digg.com

Original Article at http://blogs.motortrend.com/6406579/editorial/top-ten-tech-treasures/index.html

What might have been the biggest tech headline of the year “Technology Investment Saves Auto Industry” didn’t quite happen. The Senate shot down the House’s $15 billion compromise plan to loan the money that Congress originally appropriated in Section 136 of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 for fuel-efficiency technology development to be used as a bridge loan to see GM and Chrysler through the liquidity crisis. But there was plenty of other news being made in the tech arena. Here were my favorite stories of 2008:

1. Cellulosic Ethanol’s For Real! Early in the year we reported on Coskata’s plans to produce ethanol by superheating any carbon-rich feedstock (corn stalks, wood chips, plastic bottles, tires, etc.) to turn it into carbon-monoxide and hydrogen, then feeding this “syngas” to special microbes that breathe it in and sweat out pure ethanol at an estimated?? production cost of under $1/gallon. Plans were announced for a demonstration plant to be located at the Westinghouse Plasma Center near Pittsburg, opening in early 2009, followed by a full-scale operation in 2011, but economic woes have appear to have pushed back the timing of the demo plant.
Technologue: Booze Clues

2. Cellulosic Ethanol’s REALLY for Real! Then we reported on Mascoma’s totally different Consolidated Bioprocessing (CBP) method of breaking down the lignin in various non-food plant materials and fermenting it into ethanol using designer microbes that mimic what happens in a cow’s digestive system in breaking down. Production cost is estimated at $1-1.50/gallon, demonstration plants are in the works in Rome, NY and Kinross, MI, with full-scale production targeted at 2011.
GM Partners with Mascoma on Cellulosic Ethanol

3. Cellulose is For Real! The third piece of the puzzle — economically viable plant materials to feed these ethanol facilities — came from Ceres. The first bio-engineered high-yield switchgrass and sorghum varietals tailored to suit different climates and ethanol production methods went on sale in December. They boast high-yield density, require little fertilizer and less water than most crops, and they can grow in marginal soil. Keep your fingers crossed that the processing plants get built in time to turn these plants into fuel.
Technologue: Whiter Lightning

4. If not Ethanol, Maybe Methanol? Lotus trotted out a methanol-powered Exige concept car at the Geneva show that encouraged the world to have another look at the world’s simplest alcohol. With only one carbon, CH3-OH can be produced more easily than ethanol, so the scientists say. Its high-octane rating would allow engines running on pure methanol to run diesel compression ratios for better output and efficiency. Cold-starting is a problem, but hydrogen generated by using exhaust heat to crack the Hs of the methanol molecule could solve that problem and boost efficiency too. There are even some fuel cells that run directly on methanol.

Technologue: First K.I.S.S

5. Greenhouse-Gasses-to-Methanol. Imagine turning that CO2 everyone’s always moaning about into fuel and driving a mile in someone else’s carbon footprint! There are several technologies in the works: big louvered scrubbers coated with sodium hydroxide that absorb CO2 are said to be capable of offsetting coal-generated power equivalent to twice as much as the windmill could generate. Exotic catalysts are in the works that might one use solar energy to mimic the way chlorophyll breaks down CO2, which could then combined with hydrogen split from water, perhaps using sunlight and titanium catalysts. It’s tech worth watching.
Technologue: Reusing CO2

6. If Not Alcohol, Maybe Ammonia? Pure NH3 boasts a 110 octane rating and burning it in a combustion engine releases pure nitrogen and water — no CO2, ‘cuz there’s no carbon. Ammonia is the second most widely produced chemical, it stores and transports like propane (liquid under light pressure at room temperature) and is already distributed nationwide for use as fertilizer. A slow flame front means you need multiple spark plugs and the engine won’t rev all that high, but it could be the perfect way to remove agriculture from the Global Warming debate.

Technologue: Stinky Clean

7. What About Electric Power? If vehicle electrification manages to take off like Congress and the environmentalists hope, we’re headed for a potential neodymium-supply shortage. This rare-earth metal is used to make permanent-magnet motors. But the Chorus Meshcon electric motor is an AC-induction type motor that manages to deliver the efficient low-end torque of a permanent magnet motor with the light weight, lower cost, and better high-speed performance of an AC induction motor, thanks to a mesh-connected winding that can change the number of magnetic poles and the alternating-current frequency. Look for it next year on the nose-gear of Delta’s new Boeing 737s, and on cars in the near future.
Technologue: Flying Hybrids!

8. Race-Ready Hybrids? Kinetic Energy Recovery Systems (KERS) will be permitted in Formula 1 in 2009, so most teams are reportedly working on “hybridizing” their cars. My favorite was a small flywheel that connected to the transmission’s output shaft via an infinitely variable toroidal friction-drive transmission. Gear reductions along the way allow the flywheel to reach 64,500 rpm (it operates in a vacuum, using special high-speed bearings that reportedly seal tight). Storing the FIA-mandated maximum of 400 KJ of energy keeps the flywheel small and light enough to be safely contained (unlike the one in the still-born Chrysler Patriot prototype). As of press time we’re unaware of any team using this system by Flybrid Systems LLP, of Silverstone, England at the start of the season, but watch for it.
Technologue: Blessing & KERS

9. VVT For Smarties. Ford has come up with a better (more elegant) way of achieving variable valve timing by capitalizing on waste energy. Most cam phasers rotate the camshaft using oil pressure delivered by the engine-oil pump, but this can be problematic at low engine speeds and at low temperatures during vehicle startup. Ford engineers noticed that the oil pressure in the chambers that rotate the cam fluctuated just before and after the nose of each cam rotated past its valve tappet, and decided to harness these little pressure spikes. Voila. Less oil pressure is needed and more cam rotation is possible as low as 1500 rpm, all of which helps boost economy and performance.
Ford Gets Phased — Using Free Energy

10. Lights, Cameras, Action. Digital CMOS cameras are becoming so cheap that we’ll be seeing a lot of them on cars in the very near future, starting off with high-end luxmobiles like the next Mercedes E- and S-class sedans. Cameras keep an eye out for traffic ahead of the vehicle and tailor the lighting pattern to reach as far as possible without blinding oncoming cars; an infrared camera provides an enhanced night-view image in the dash that also identifies and highlights pedestrians; and the various cameras will also inform the lane-keeping assist and Pre-Safe systems to warn a distracted driver of impending doom.

Gphone, Is it for real?

admin — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 19:36:48 +0000

Hey Everyone at AGeniusBlog
I was reading a pc mag, and found an article of the Gphone vs iPhone.

I couldn’t open it as it was in a store plus it was sealed, so I researched it on the Internet.
It seems like it might be a rumor, as there are very different degsigns.

Here are some articles to sum up your research:

http://www.last100.com/

http://www.sizlopedia.com/

http://www.techcrunch.com/

Feedburner: Boost Your Feed Subscriber Count

admin — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:37:56 +0000

Hey Everyone at AGeniusBlog.com

I have found a website to Boost you feed subscriber count.
It generates an opml file you need to boost your feed

Website: http://www.feedboostr.com/

If you don’t know how to use it, go to this address and watch the tutorial:
http://ageniusblog.com/2008/08/feedburner-hack-how-to-get-2500-subscribers-overnight-video/

Quake 3 Now On Ur Smartfone!

admin — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:20:40 +0000

Article from Symbian-Freak.com

Did you know it`s now possible to run the QUAKE III Arena on your Nokia smartphone? And that`s not all - you can also use a Bluetooth keyboard or mouse for playing. The only condition is to have a S60 3rd Edition smartphone equipped with a TI OMAP 2420 processor (Nokia N95 8GB, Nokia N82 and Nokia E90).

Developer of the first ever QUAKE III Arena port is Olli Hinkka who is also the developer of some of the best previous QUAKE ports for Symbian phones. This time he decided to enable a full Bluetooth keyboard and mouse support to achieve a better gameplay, which is otherwise unreachable due to the rather uncomfortable phone controls.

There`s also a possibility to run a game server on the mobile phone to enable multiplayer gaming.

Compatible with the QUAKE III Arena port are the S60 3rd Edition phones powered by a TI OMAP 2420 processor. Those include the Nokia N95 8GB, Nokia N82 and Nokia E90.

Despite having the same chipset, the now elderly Nokia N95 isn`t among the compatible models as it has less RAM than the N95 8GB (half the amount, actually).

Ok, Ranger, go draw some blood - QUAKE 3 style!

Instructions For Installing Quake 3 are at:

http://koti.mbnet.fi/hinkka/installation.html

Good Luck and have fun!

Windows Running On iPhones

admin — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 08:31:05 +0000

Hey Everyone at AGeniusBlog.com

As you can see, I haven’t done a post in a while, due to lack of internet connection.

I have found this article on

http://iphonehelp.in/2008/10/14/is-this-windows-running-on-an-apple-iphone/

And I thought you would like to see it.

Yes, you heard it right - Windows Mobile running on an iPhone! Norwegian developer Erik Kristiansen claims to have done it. The video below shows the iPhone 3G booting with WIndows Mobile and also the Erik showing a demo of phone and other WM apps.

With the hack currently running in beta, he hopes to release it by January next year.

See the video at

http://iphonehelp.in/2008/10/14/is-this-windows-running-on-an-apple-iphone/

Burning Game CDs to read as the Original

nordybaby — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 18:56:32 +0000

I burned a CD for a monopoly game i downloaded. When i put it in it initiated autorun and i installed the game. However, when i’m ready to play the game i get a message saying, “Wrong disc inserted. Please insert the original “Monopoly” CD/DVD.”??

How do i get around this or reburn the CD to seem like the original, so i can play the game.

22 Best Of The Best Greasemonkey Scripts For Better Web Experience

admin — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 10:45:01 +0000

Original Article From:
http://www.techiesouls.com/2008/09/28/21-best-of-the-best-greasemonkey-scripts-for-better-web-experience/

I have added 1 More Of My Favorite Greasemonkey Scripts to this List

First few words for those who want to know what greasemonkey is and what wonders it can do, Greasemonkey is Firefox add-on which let you edit the way web looks and works with the help of wide variety of already available scripts and you can also write your own. Greasemonkey works simply scripts available are assigned for specific urls where it will only work and javascript change the functionality or visually the way webpage looks (it depends for what script was made)

To use Greasemonkey first you need Firefox then Greasemonkey (install) simply click on install script and Greasemonkey will do rest of the job simply enjoy changing the web your own way.

According to BlogsDNA

Whenever you will download any Greasemonkey script, your Greasemonkey Firefox add-on will automatically detects site for which that script is applicable and applys that script to the site as soon as you open it.

As promised the following are 21 most useful and best of the best Greasemonkey scripts which can change the whole user experience of any specific web application. (i chosen them from best lists out there worth 2 hours i found some new and better ones)

1. Youtube Googler (Install Script)

This script is so useful when you always want to see videos in bigger size still not full screen but moderately large so pixel don???t explode in the video. This greasemonkey script makes youtube more look like Google Videos making the video area covering most of the screen (which is obviously a user concern on that page) striping comment area and video suggestion all together on the left just like a sidebar image reference available below.

2. Youtube Alternative Video Player (Install Script)

Do you hate auto playing of youtube videos like i do? when I am searching for some videos i open 3 or maybe 4 videos at once then i have to manually pause them to see any one of them which is totally un acceptable. we have another option with this script, it replaces the stock Youtube Video Player with one that keep the video paused until ???Play??? button is pressed but it keep buffering the video without playing them so when you press play you get already loaded video.

3. Download Youtube Video III (Install Script)

If you are everyday youtube user you must came across videos that you badly want to save on your hard disk for future usage. If yes give this script a try it will fulfill all your video downloading needs very nicely when you click on download video icon (that appears with icons under video after installing script) the download pop up will come up from where you can take video to your download manager if you want faster downloads. Linux users need to Right Click and choose ???Save as???.

4. Youtube ???Lights Out??? (Install Script)

This script is eye saver I say sometimes video is too dark or too light that you literally want youtube page???s base colour to be black so??you can concentrate on video and watch it properly without hurting your eyes. well now you can do something about it this script gives you a little button to switch the lights off and watch the video easily when you click on ???Lights Out??? button everything on the page (except video) turns dark gray when you click again everything turns Black. When it???s too dark and you can find ???Lights Out??? button don???t panic clicking anywhere on the page will turn lights on.

5. Flickr ???Lights Out??? (Install Script)

Flickr Lights Out works same as ???Youtube Lights Out??? so you can watch pictures easily when lighting condition is not all good matching with picture the only difference is ???Light Out??? button is on top of picture.

6. Text Areabackup (Install Script)

Remembering everything you write on the web is not as easy as it sounds this script gona ease your mind. Text Areabackup work as a remembering machine while you browse the web and putting your emails, website addresses in short everything you write will be save in a virtual memory of this script. (Note: this script don???t work with Gmail)

7. Google Image Relinker with Mouseover (Install Script)

This is one of my favourite script because of its function and how much ease it gives when you searching for images in Google Image Search. Normally you when you search for images you have to do a lot of mouse clicks to get to the actual image but now things are a little bit interesting when this script is installed you just ???Mouse Over??? or we say ???Hover??? over any image thumbnail and see the image preview first then click on it and you get to the image directly instead of clicking again for ???full size image??? its mean only one click and you get the image. How sweet!

8. Google Account Multi-Login (Install Script)

I am using more than two gmail accounts one for work purpose and one my personal so i had to find this script for multiple account usage at once because signing out and signing in again isn???t as easy as it sounds and waste bit of time too. After installing script your ???Sign Out??? will turn into drop down box with a couple of options there you can add as many accounts as much you want and switch them with a single click of mouse.

9. GoogleTagCloudMaker (Install Script)

GTCM is really very useful script when you can???t decide proper keyword of your desired search result. It makes a tag cloud at your right pane with suggestion of many relevant keywords to choose from this also help you finding related search results of what you are looking for.

10. Google Ads Remover+ (Install Script)

Sometimes ads are really annoying specially when your connection is slow and web page stuck when it???s loading ads. Now you can remove Google ads from any website you want for faster browsing as a side note I won???t recommend disabling ads because sometimes you really find good resources and considerable product offers out of them so if you have no problem with them then leave as they are. Other usage of this script is to configure it to disable ads from a specific url not the whole web just like i did it with my website so I don???t accidentally click them and penalize for click fraud.

11. Google Image Auto Pager (Install Script)

This is another script for google image search to make searching images easier. Google image auto pager makes ???image search page??? advance by giving you option to load next set of images on the second page loads on the very same page where you start. When you search for some image you get a lots of results when you are done with first page simply ???Double Click??? any where on the page to load next set of images doing this again will stop the loading process.

12. Disable Text Ads (Install Script)

I know I know sometimes text ads (Contextual ads) are so much annoying that you badly want them not to disturb and make hurdles during browsing. This script work simply you install it and get rid of text ads forever. Currently this script is removing ads from following Advertisement networks ???Vibrant Media (IntelliTXT), AdBrite, Infolicious (lingoSpot), Kontera, Linkworth, EchoTopic, Targetpoint and MediaText.???

13. Pre-fill Comments (Install Script)

Pre-fill Comment is really a life saver script because the one???s who comment on blogs, products or webpages will love this script for life. I know no body likes to write his name, e-mail and url everytime he want to visit a new blog then how about just pressing ???Alt+C??? and the fields will be filled automatically sounds very easy, yeah obviously it is.

14. LookItUp2 (Intsall Script)

This script is more than just a greasemonkey script because when i first saw this i never believed just a script can do this much. You can add whichever website in it to look up what ever you want to just like add wikipedia and search for ???Al Pacino??? now you get information without exploring all over the website. Many search sources comes when you install the script and you can add many more according to your choice i prefer you to visit this script???s homepage so you know all information about it because features are vast and I can???t review it all here.

15. Digg Friend Easier (Install Script)

Making your digg profile healthy is all about friends, and users becomes friends when you regularly digg their submissions. This script make things a lot easier than you can ever think now you can digg your friend???s submissions in bulk you do it everyday and they???ll consider making you mutual friend someday. When you install this script submission pages ???/friends/submissions??? and ???/friends/shoutsin??? will be having ???digg it??? shortcut under every submission so you just click on it and ajaxly it will be dugg instantly. Keep on digging ???easily???

16. Always Open New Windows in Digg (Install Script)

If you are a regular digger spend hour or two just digging then your your left hand always picking up CTRL key (there are also other ways to open new window except holding CTRL key while clicking link) to open external links in new window well now you don???t really need to worry about this problem just install this simple little script and click the links in digg they???ll open in new window always.

17. Advanced Search Options on Digg???s Search Forms (Install Script)

Sometimes while searching on digg you get a lot of irrelevant results but now that wont be a problem any more with this tiny script search forms are advance more than ever and have a lot of options that a search form needs. you can also customized the way search results show look the following screenshot for reference.

18. SU Visual Editor Plus (Install Script)

This script enhance the way your text editor of your stumble upon page looks and works. Installing ???SU Visual Editor Plus??? won???t do such any wonders but it can increase functionality such as increased width, increased height, background colours matched of the editor etc

19. Stumbleupon Avatar Bubbles (Install Script)

This script works so simple yet interesting and i thought every stumbler would loving using it. After installing SU Avatar Bubbles you get option to see Avatar images bigger when you hover your mouse over them so you dont need to open profile then click profile image to see actual size of the avatar.

20. AJAX Twitter Refresh (Install Script)

If you use twitter from web then you won???t be able to see new tweets unless you refresh the page. After installing this script your twitter page will be automatically refresh every after a minute (70 times per hour) this twitter page refresh scripts is better from others because you won???t notice when page refreshes actually its ajaxly refreshed.

21. Endless Tweets (Install Script)

If you are a die hard twitter and use to tweet everyday and explore people twitter timeline then this script is surely for you. The script automatically loads next set of tweets when you scroll the bottom of the timeline page unlike you click ???Older??? button and read the tweets on second page. Endless Tweets saves a lot of time and preloading of tweets is also very fast.

22. Cavern Links Checker (Install Script)

Some other resources for the betterment of human kind

If you are interested in making your orkut profile more interesting you should visit this post at BlogsDNA where he tells you how to theme your orkut profile and some good orkut themes too.

If you don???t like using Firefox (i doubt though) you should visit this post at Techie-Buzz where you know how to use Greasemonkey Scripts with IE, Opera and Safari.

Configuring XP to Automatically Login

admin — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 10:33:25 +0000

Okay, I have a temporary internet connection for a few days, so I won’t write this myself.
Original Post comes from http://www.techiesouls.com/2008/08/26/489/

If you have a Personal Computer which no one else you use then you really don???t need putting password at windows login instead you can configure it to directly pop in you desktop whenever you switch it on. It can strip a few seconds from your total boot time if its really not necessary.

Configuration is so easy and takes 10 seconds max and 3 steps:

1. Go to Start button in your taskbar > Click Run > and type ???CONTROL USERPASSWORDS2??? and click Ok.

2. User Accounts window will be opened Select the User which you want to be automatically logged in every time windows starts (in my case it???s Administrator) after selecting Uncheck ???User must enter username and password to use this computer??? just click ok now.

3. Another window will open asking you Username & Password just enter you login information and hit Ok. You are done now your windows will always be automatically login and won???t ask you for password.

Use your EyeToy as a webcam

admin — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 10:18:21 +0000

Article From:

http://www.iplayplaystation.com/eyetoy-as-webcam/

I have used an Eyetoy on my playstation for a very long time, until the Eyetoy Play 2 disk got too scratched, so I decided, why can’t I use it as a webcam, I googled it and found this:

It???s easy to install the EyeToy as a webcam for Windows, and it???s actually worth doing - the picture quality is excellent, and equals many of the more expensive webcams made specifically for computers. The EyeToy will work for video messaging, making movies, MSN, and also for PC webcam games such as Camgoo. We???ve used the EyeToy as a webcam on lots of desktop and laptop computers without any problems - but of course, installation is entirely at your own risk!

If you know what you???re doing, then you won???t need to read the instructions below, just plug in your EyeToy, get the appropriate driver and install it however you want.

Download Namtai Drivers: (my eyetoy is a Namtai) (518kb)

http://www.mediafire.com/?nyzexi44yc5

Download Logitech Eyetoy Drivers: (519kb)

http://www.mediafire.com/?e4lnh9dompz

If you don’t know what make you eyetoy is, plug it in, look at the bottom right havd corner.
This is what it said for me:
Found new hardware: Eyetoy cam namtai (or something like that)

Also the make will be found on the bottom of your eyetoy, just look!