Hide Your Text From Search Engines With HideText

You post your email address on a discussion forum and next thing you know, your inbox is spammed with all sort of jargon. This potential problem always remains whenever you post any sensitive information online. One option is to restrict yourself from posting information online, but that is more of a compromise than a solution.

A proper solution is to convert all your sensitive information, such as email address, into an image and post it on the internet as an image. This way, humans will still be able to get the information but it would keep all the spamming bots away. A great tool for this purpose is HideText.

Simple enter the text you want to convert and choose the font details. HideText will convert your text into an image that you can use anywhere fearlessly. No need to post your email address in crazy formats like john AT gmail DOT com any more. Just convert it into an image using HideText and you are all set.

Once done, you can either link to the image directly or download it to your local drive.

Yahoo Messenger 10 Beta Available for Downloads

The Yahoo messenger team have officially released the Yahoo Messenger 10 beta for downloads.

The Yahoo Messenger 10 beta has several exciting features available for including;

• High-quality video calls
• New "Y! Updates" view of your contact list
• Change your language easily
• New ways to sort your contacts
• New icons in the IM window

If you want to learn more about the other features in YM 10 don't forget to read the YM 10 review we did earlier.

Download Yahoo Messenger 10 Beta

Introducing Yahoo! Messenger 10 Beta [Official YM Blog]

Windows Live Movie Maker

Windows Live Movie Maker (WLMM) or Movie Maker 14 was released recently and is a huge improvement over its predecessors. Some if its salient features are:

• Auto Movie: You have thousands of pictures, but don't have the time to manually create a video presentation using them? Don't worry. Simply use Auto Movie and WLMM will create a neat looking picture slideshow within a minute.
• Live Preview: If you like Microsoft Office's Live Preview, then you are going to love this. WLMM allows you to preview all transition effects by simply hovering your mouse over them.
• Ribbon Interface: Microsoft has been introducing it to more and more applications (which are definitely a good thing). And Windows Live Movie Maker is the latest application to join the club.

• Fit content to music length: Another really nice touch by Microsoft. With WLMM you can match your video and audio length with a single click.
• Publish Content Online: Uploading videos just got a lot simpler. You can now upload videos directly from WLMM. Windows Live Movie Maker supports YouTube, Facebook as well as file sharing websites like Windows Live SkyDrive.
• Save Content in HD: If you are using Windows Seven then you can save your videos in HD 480, 720 and 1080p.
• And More: WLMM comes with lots of other neat stuff including new video and transition effects and photo animations.

Windows Live Movie Maker is aimed at casual users looking to create nifty looking videos quickly and easily. The latest edition adds a host of useful features without compromising on ease of use and intuitiveness.

Windows Live Movie Maker for Vista and Seven

17 Image Manipulation Tools You Should Know About

We have previously covered a lot of image tools that included everything from image editors to image converters. This post is about a different kind of image tools. Tools that can let you add, transform or manipulate your images to give them a totally new look. All of these tools are free and require no registrations or downloads.

1. Watermark-Images: Batch watermark your images online. Add up to 20 images, customize the text and font of your watermark and apply it to the images within no time. You can adjust the position of you watermark and add a shadow affect to it.

2. FixRedEyes: Remove the red eye effect from any photo with this simple tool. Simply upload the image, adjust the red eye area and click fix.

3. ImageSplitter: Slice up your images in rows and columns. Just upload an image and specify the number of rows and columns you want. Then choose output format and resolution and click process.

4. ImageMerger: Merge two images online using this tool. The first image is treated as a background image and the second one is added on top of it. Useful for adding watermarks to images.

5. Pic2Color: Extract colors from any image. Just upload an image or provide the URL and Pic2Color will provide you with a color palette of colors used in the image.

6. MirrorEffect: Add mirrored effect to any picture. Choose reflection size and the direction of effect (bottom, top, left or right).

7. TextImage: Convert a photo into a text image. Choose from HTML, ASCII or Matrix text images.

8. Pic2Graphics: Recolor pictures by transferring the mood of one picture to another. Simple select two pictures, one to recolor and other to grab the mood from.

9. Montagerator: Create beautiful montages and mosaics online. Upload a photo or use one by providing a URL.

10. Speechable: Add speech bubbles to any image. Customize text and bubble size. Embed images on your blog or webpage.

11. WaterEffect: Add water effect to any image. No registration or downloads required, simply upload the picture and get a water effect in resulting picture.

12. RoundPic: Make your picture  more hip by adding rounded corners to it. This tool takes any image and turn regular corners into rounded ones. You can even add borders and shadows to the picture.

13. BeFunky: Add a digital-painting or cartoon-like effect to your images. Manipulate images by pulling and pushing any area of the image. Create cartoonized avatars by choosing different backgrounds and accessories. You can also add ink, stencil and pencil effects to your images. BeFunky alow works for adding a cartoon effect to videos.

14. PicBite: Annotate images online. Once done, you can download the annotated images or embed them on your blog or web page. Also allows you to crop or resize an image.

15. GIFup: Create animated GIFs online by simple uploading your images and choosing desired animation settings.

16. DoSize: Re-size up to 10 images simultaneously. Once resized, you can download the images or email them to your friends.

17. YearBookYourself: Give your photos a vintage look. Choosa an era like 1950's, 60's, 70's or 80's and morph it into a classic.

Automatically Adjust Monitor Color Based on Time

Many of us usually use the computers and laptops throughout the day including evenings and late nights, the darkness at nights cause computer screen to emit a glow that is not comfortable to look at. However adjusting the contrast and color over and over again could be quite a hassle and we usually leave the settings the same throughout the day.

If you feel uncomfortable watching the computer screen at nights, a really useful and freeware software called F.lux is what you should definitely be using.

F.lux makes the color of your computer's display adapt to the time of day, warm at night and like sunlight during the day.

It's even possible that you're staying up too late because of your computer. You could use f.lux because it makes you sleep better, or you could just use it just because it makes your computer look better.

Flu.x will automatically detect your location and apply different color schemes based on the the time, however you can change the location and color settings to suit your own needs, by clicking on the Change settings button.

Flu.x will work on Windows XP, Windows Vista and Mac, they also have a version that will work on Linux.

Download F.lux

Create An iPod AudioBook From Multiple MP3 Files

If you have ever tried to download a free audio book, you will know that it is usually split into multiple MP3 files; and even though you can import these multiple MP3 files into your iTunes, it ruins all the fun. You have to switch from one file to another and you always have to remember where you stopped. But, now you can get all the cool features of the iPod audio book format by merging multiple mp3 files together and creating an iPod compatible audio book.

To do so, simply download this free converter, choose the files you want to merge and click submit. It will take a few minutes but will provide you with a single audio book file for seamless listening. You would no longer have to remember which file you stopped on because when listening to an audio book, iPod automatically remembers your last position.

You can also use this to convert each MP3 file into a separate audiobook file. During the conversion, you will be opted to add tags to the file such as author name, genre and so on.

How to Create Bootable USB Drive

This tutorial will help you in creating a bootable USB drive of Windows which you can use to install Vista or 7 in any system. It might become very useful when you don't have access to DVD drive.

1. First format your USB drive in NTFS file system. You can do it by attaching your USB drive to your system and then format it from My Computer window.

2. Now open Command Prompt window from Start menu. Right-click on Command Prompt entry in start menu and select "Run as administrator" option.

3. Now type diskpart in Command Prompt window and press Enter. It'll launch DiskPart program:

4. Now provide following command:

list volume

It'll show a list of all drives in your system. Look for your USB drive entry. As in the below screenshot, the USB drive is "G" which you can determine from its "Type" entry.

Now you have to select the USB drive volume by providing select volume no. command. Since in our case volume no. of USB drive is "Volume 4", the command would be:

select volume 4

Now we have to make this drive active. So provide active command:

active

Now exit from DiskPart using exit command.

5. Now we need to create Boot sector on USB drive. We'll use "bootsect.exe" utility for this task. You can find this utility in Windows Vista setup disk. It'll be present in "Boot" directory.

Now provide following command in Command Prompt:

bootsect /nt60 G:

Here G is drive letter of USB drive. Replace it with the correct drive letter if your system has some other letter for USB drive.

6. At last, copy all files/folders from Vista Setup DVD to your USB drive and you have done.

Now you can boot using your USB drive and can install Windows Vista in any system.

Thanks to Dave Glover