Loonapix: Create Funny Photos Online for Free!

Here’s your chance to make your photos funny and unique by using the free photo editing online service - Loonapix. Just embed your face from a photograph to any of the templates you like from their library, add a unique photo frame to it or maybe just stylize it with some effects and you have some creative pictures ready within minutes!

 

Loonapix offers 4 different image processing services you could choose from:

 

The Effector

This lets you embed your photos into different unusual interesting situations, letting you create funny pictures of yourself or others.

The Facer

With the Facer, you can add your face or someone else’s into various different templates, like those of celebrities, sport stars, etc. This also has special category with templates for children.

The Framer

Framer lets you easily a frame to a photo from the variety of 160 different frames. Frames are divided into categories like Friends, Emotions, Occasions, New, Top rated, Baby and Others.

The Trimmer

With the help of Trimmer, you can select a template and cut or trim a photo in different ways, in form of clouds, corners, stars, hearts, blobs, geometry, organic, etc.

 

 

 

Get a funny picture in 3 easy steps:

1. Select the service (from the list above)
2. Upload a photo to the website (formats accepted: JPG, GIF and PNG, and size not more than 5Mb)
3. Select the effect of your choice and click “Save” for the final output.

 

 

 

Things you could do

Once the picture has been created, you can:

1. Add it to the Loonapix gallery for others to see
2. Send it to your friends and family and enjoy a good laugh
3. Download it to your computer from the website and add it to your personal photo album.
4. You also get an html-code, that you can put on your blog, website or social networking sites like Facebook, Orkut, Hi5, MySpace, etc and share them with the whole world.

 

 

Try it out for yourself. Get creative!

Link: Loonapix

Picture Collage Maker: The fast & easy way of creating a collage!

Now you would never have any hassles in making collages for your daily use! Picture Collage Maker will handle it for you! It is a very simple to use program which can turn your ordinary photos into stunning keepsakes. You can also share them with your family and friends! With some few clicks, you can create digital collages, scrapbooks, posters, invitations, calendars, and greeting cards. Amazing, isn’t it?

 

Features

• Build collages quickly and effortlessly in 3 easy steps
• Over 2,300 collage resources (frames, masks, clip arts, backgrounds)
• Already includes 48+ templates to help you in building collages
• You can also share your collage through any medium - including desktop wallpaper, printed copies, email, etc.
• Extremely powerful, fast and easy

You can view the full feature list here. Mouth buttering features, aren’t they? Then what are you waiting for, go and download the free version

! You can also upgrade to professional edition

at a small cost or view the comparison

between the free version and professional edition.

 

 

System Requirements

You need the following requirements to install this software:

• Microsoft Windows 98/Me/NT4/2000/XP/2003 Server/Vista
• DirectX 8.0 or higher
• Pentium 4 or higher
• 128MB RAM or more
• 20MB hard disk space for install

Screenshots

You can view more screenshots here

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YouTubeSnips: Easy ways to download high definition videos from YouTube

 

We all know that YouTube makes it possible for anyone who could use a computer to post a video that millions of people around the world could watch within a minutes. It covers a wide range of topics and has turned video sharing into one of the most important parts of our Internet culture.

Here is yet another convenient option for you to consider to download high definition videos from YouTube.

YouTubeSnips is a free tool that allows you download the highest definition videos off YouTube. You could also download the video in mobile 3GP format, MP4 format, and FLV format.

 

You could do this in three different ways:

• URL Download: By entering the Youtube URL or the URL of any public webpage that contains a YouTube video in the “Get DL Link” on their website.
• Direct Download: After viewing a video on YouTube, in the URL location box, type snips after youtube, and click enter to download video.

For example, change:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bap-oZI-Grc to

www.youtubesnips.com/watch?v=bap-oZI-Grc

 

• Bookmark downloader: You can make a direct download by bookmarking the site’s downloader

Now download your favorite videos in a simple hassle free way!

Link: YouTube Snips

Microsoft Office 2010 Technical Preview Registration

Microsoft Office 2010 is the upcoming version of office suite which is currently under development. A technical preview of Office 2010 will be available for Tech-Ed attendees. Attendees of Tech-Ed will get the first opportunity to participate in the invitation-only Microsoft Office 2010 Technical Preview program, which will be available in July 2009. Microsoft has launched a new website called Office 2010 the Movie

 

 

where you can register for a technical preview.

 

 

Using the link in the website, you can register for the preview which is slated for July 2009, 49 days from now to be exact. Technical preview will have Word 2010, Excel 2010, Outlook 2010, PowerPoint 2010, OneNote 2010, Communicator 2010, Access 2010, InfoPath 2010 and Publisher 2010.

 

The Microsoft Office 2010 wave of products boosts productivity by giving users a familiar experience across the PC, phone and browser. For IT professionals, Office 2010 will offer more choice and flexibility in how they buy and manage their IT assets, helping them reduce costs. For developers, it will provide a platform for building innovative, connected Office-related applications with greater ease.

 

A new blog has also been started for Office 2010, so in case you want to get updates, follow this blog.

 

Register for Technical Preview

Advanced and Powerful Device Manager for Windows

Windows has its own build in device manager to install and uninstall drivers for devices or update them with the latest ones. Device Remover

 

 

is an advanced and powerful Device Manager for Windows which has host of features which are not available in the default device manager for Windows. This powerful device manager is compatible with Windows 2000/XP/Vista/Windows7. It requires Microsoft .Net framework for running and provides command line parameters to control the functioning of devices.

 

 

 

 

Features of Device Remover:

• In-Depth view of all installed Devices, Device Classes, Drivers and Services on a Windows System (Hidden, Detached, Current installed, Problematic Devices)
• Easy mass removal of multiple Devices On-The-Fly
• Modification/Manipulation of Devices, Drivers and Services on the System
• Live detailed View of Device Detections on the System
• Multiple Device Problem solving Features and Functions

The application also has a DeviceRemoverCleanup.exe which can help you to unload the Driver and cleanup possible temporary Data. Overall Device Remover is a good application to manage your device drivers.

 

Download Device Remover

Create Photo Collages with Picture Collage Maker

If you are planning to share your photo with family and friends, then creating a photo collage would be a great idea. Picture Collage Maker

 

 

Free version is a simple and easy-to-use Windows application which can turn ordinary photos and pictures into stunning keepsakes to share with family and friends. With this utility, you can also create design scrapbooks, digital collages, invitations, posters, calendars, or even greeting cards.

 

 

You can select the photo collage template category from the list of build in templates. The templates are available in different categories like calendar, greeting card etc.

 

 

 

Features of Picture Collage Maker;

• Build Collages quickly and effortlessly.
• Step-by-step wizard help you create photo collages in 3 easy steps.
• Over 2300 Collage Resources(Frames, Masks, Cliparts, Backgrounds).
• Includes 48+ templates for building collage.
• Share your collage through any medium, including desktop wallpaper, printed copies, email and more.
• Extremely Easy-to-Use: Powerful, Fast & Easily.

 

Download Picture Collage Maker

Free Partition Managers for Windows

If you want to have more options, you will need to use third party applications for partitioning hard disk. There are quite a number of free tools for partitioning in Windows. Hard disk partitioning tools allow you to create additional partitions, resize existing partitions and also to extend the partitions. Although these applications does not change any data in the drives unless you format the drive, it is always advisable to back up the data. Here is a list of top free partitioning tools for Windows.

 

1. GParted Live

: GParted Live is a bootable GNU/Linux distribution which can used for creating partitions, reorganizing disk usage, copying data residing on hard disks and mirroring one partition with another.

 

2. Partition Logic

: Partition Logic is a free hard disk partitioning and data management tool.  It can create, delete, format, defragment, resize, and move partitions and modify their attributes.  It can copy entire hard disks from one to another. It boots from a CD or floppy disk and runs as a standalone system, independent of your regular operating system.

 

3. Cute Partition Manager

: Partition Manager is an advanced hard disk partition management utility. Using Partition Manager, you can easily add, edit, delete and manage the partitions in your computer. It lets you preview the changes before you save them. It lets you edit the boot flag, partition type and other advanced parameters. It gives you total control of your system during the partition process.

 

4. Test Disk

: Although test disk is a free powerful recovery software, it can also be used as a partition manager. It can search for lost partitions, and allows you to repair errors in the partition table, create a partition table, create a new MBR, etc. We had used Test Disk to recover one of the lost partitions and also to repair the partition table entries.

 

5. EASEUS Partition Master

: EASEUS Partition Master is a comprehensive hard disk partition management software for Windows Server 2000/2003/2008 and Windows 2000/XP/Vista partition to Resize and Move, Copy, Create, Delete and Format, Convert, Explore, Hide and Unhide server and non-server partitions.

 

6. eXtended FDisk

: eXtended FDisk, is a free DOS FDISK replacement that offers more comfort and comes with a bootmanager that allows you to have more than one operating system installed on your hard disk. With XFDisk you can partition your hard disk or install and configure the bootmanager, which will be located in the first 17 sectors of your first hard disk.

 

7. Ranish Partition Manager

: Partition Manager is a powerful hard disk partitioning tool. It gives users high level of control for running multiple operating systems,
such as Linux, Windows 98/XP, FreeDOS, and FreeBSD on a single disk.

 

8. SwissKnife

: With SwissKnife can create, delete and format partitions on your hard disk drives in one smooth, simple process. SwissKnife allows creation of FAT32 & NTFS partitions. Supports Internal interfaces such as IDE and SCSI and External interfaces such as Hi-Speed USB, Parallel port, PCMCIA, USB On-The-Go, Firewire®, SATA interfaces etc.

If you have any more recommendations or if we have not included your favorite partition tool, please do share it in comments, we will add it to the list.