How to create icons with photoshop

Photoshop is a very great tool for graphical designs. With photoshop, one can create images and designs that can be regarded as a masterpiece. Its not only graphical designers that need photoshop though but also web designers and developers. Today we'll be talking about how to create an icon using photoshop. An icon is a small image mostly of 64x64, 32x32 and 16x16 dimensions. It has the .ico file extension. Icons are generally used for programs and stuff but web designers also use it as a favourite icon, popularly called favicon.
Unfortunately, Adobe Photoshop does not originally present one with the option to save any image with the .ico extension. But in order to do these, we'll have to download the .ico plugin for photoshop. Click here to download it. After download, extract and copy the contents to the plugins folder of your photoshop application. This is most likely to be in your program files. To do this, open your Photoshop folder in your program files, then Open Plugins => File Formats, and paste it in the folder. Now restart or open your photoshop application, design the image you want, set the appropriate dimensions i.e width and height. Now Click on File -> Save As, and you'll now have the choice of saving images as an icon. Don't forget to share.

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The Power Of Exploration

Exploration! Exploration!! Exploration!!!
People seem to over-underestimate the power of exploration, this time, I'll be referring to the world of computers and technology. Exploration is a great tool that builds up confidence, skills and general ability of a computer user. Like i enjoy saying, "A computer system or laptop is only as good as its owner". This quote simply means that even if you have the latest technology and trends of computer systems and software and you can't use them, then its all totally useless.

This short article is basically contained of my idealism because i think every minute you spend with your laptop or system watching movies, or playing games can be used to learn something huge that will make you proud of yourself. Research shows that stuffs you discover yourself stick to your memory better than those you read from one place or the other, This is just my thoughts, invest your time wisely....

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Change Windows Password With Command Prompt

Today we'll be talking about how to change your Windows password, be it Windows7, Vista, Xp etc without knowing the former password.
This short but educative tutorial we'll guide you through the steps necessary. Lets begin

• First you'll need to run command prompt as an administrator. You can do this by typing "cmd" in the start menu search box
• Upon displaying results, right-click on it and select "Run As Administrator".
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• Now type "net user" in the prompt and press enter. It will display all the user accounts on the system
• Now pick the name of the account you would like to make changes on and type
  net user acekyd to find out more about the user account or type
  net user acekyd passwd to change the password of the acekyd user account to passwd.
Note that you should replace the username and password used above to the one used on your system.

• If you already know the name of the user account you wanted to change its password, you can type
  net user acekyd passwd straight up from the beginning with no need to first checknout the accounts. Hope you find
  this tutorial helpful. Dont forget to share.

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How To Delete a hard disk partition

I have come across situations where after creating partitions, i later find them no longer useful and i feel the need to delete them.
I know most people have also been in this situation so i'm gonna shed some light on it.
Before you can delete a partition from your system, then obviously you've got to have created a partition at one time or the other.
To find out to create a partition, click here.
To begin, you must be logged on as an administrator to perform the following steps.
When you delete a hard disk partition or volume (the terms partition and volume are often used interchangeably), you create empty space that you can use to
create new partitions or add them up to old or already created partitions using utility tools like Easeus Partition manager.
Note that if your hard disk is currently set up as a single partition, then you cannot delete it. You also cannot delete the system partition, boot partition,
or any partition that contains the virtual memory paging file, because Windows needs this information to start correctly.
Warning: All data on a partition will be lost when you delete it. Be sure to back up any files that you want to save to a different location before you
continue.
Open Computer Management by clicking the Start button Picture of the Start button, clicking Control Panel, System and Maintenance, then
Administrative Tools, and finally double-clicking Computer Management. Or you could just type in the start menu search bar "computer management".
Administrator permission is required. If you are prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.

• In the Navigation pane, under Storage, click Disk Management.
• Right-click the volume, such as a partition or logical drive, that you want to delete, and then click Delete Volume.
• Click Yes to delete the volume.

The resulting empty space is called unallocated space if you deleted a primary partition, or free space if you deleted a logical drive within an extended
partition. You can now use the empty space to create additional volumes or add them to old partitions as mentioned previously. Dont forget to share.

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Resizing Partitions With GParted

Have you ever wished to allocate part of the memory in one partition to another partition among the partitions you have on your system? You can actually re-size your partitions without causing any damage or reformatting your system. the need to re-size partitions comes when one partition is almost full and you need more memory space in the partition. Resizing partitions can easy be done using different software like GParted:


About
GParted is a free partition editor for graphically managing your disk partitions.

With GParted you can resize, copy, and move partitions without data loss, enabling you to:

• Grow or shrink your C: drive
• Create space for new operating systems
• Attempt data rescue from lost partitions

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Renaming Jar Applications

Have you ever been in a situation where you happen to download a mobile application or mobile game using some browsers like UC web browser, Opera Mini and countless others? Most of the time, after downloading with these browsers, you find out that the application you just downloaded is not supported by your phone. Keeps telling you 'file format not supported'? Most of us end up deleting this applications thinking they are not working. Not to worry, here's what to do.

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Microsoft Launches New Logo

It’s been 25 years since Microsoft last updated the Microsoft logo and now is the perfect time for a change. This is an incredibly exciting year for Microsoft as they prepare to release new versions of nearly all of our products. From Windows 8 to Windows Phone 8 to Xbox services to the next version of Office, you will see a common look and feel across these products providing a familiar and seamless experience on PCs, phones, tablets and TVs. This wave of new releases is not only a reimagining of their most popular products, but also represents a new era for Microsoft, so the logo should evolve to visually accentuate this new beginning.

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How to Overcome Recycler Virus

In this tutorial, i will be taking you on how to tackle recycler virus on your Storage device.(You might not know how important this Article is until you're in a Recycler Mess).
The recycler virus has dealt with quite a number of people, resulting them to lose important files and documents on their storage device.
When ever you Notice that all the Files on your Storage Device (External Hard-disk, Flash Drive or Memory Card) changes into a Shortcut and you try to open it but its not opening, just bear in mind that you have been infected by the recycler malware..

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How to Download from Rapidshare Without Limits

Rapidshare is one of the world's largest and most popular file-hosting sites where people upload files and other stuffs for downloads. Unfortnately, rapidshare places a limit on how many files you can download at a go, that is, time restriction. In this tutorial i'll be teaching you how to bypass that.
What rapidshare does is save cookies on your system anytime you download so they can be able to monitor your download activities and restrict you.

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My Travel Affairs (Website Review)

My Travel Affairs as the name inplies is centered around the travels and adventures of an adventurous woman that lives her life travelling and enjoying the beauty of life.

First let me give you a little insight to Maria.
Maria Machiocha is a woman that has quite a passion for traveling. When she's not traveling, she's partying.
She enjoys exploring the world in search of amazing people, unique places and immersing stories and takes her followers along in her quest for adventure.
But... I am not here to talk about her but her website, My Travel Affairs

My Travel Affairs located at http://www.mytravelaffairs.com was designed using Wordpress,
a content management system that enables easy building and laying out of modern websites. This site definitely appeals to the average person because the layout is so simple but very VERY effective. It is a clean site with a flawless look, and someone without any technical background would definitely appreciate it. The layout makes anyone feel comfortable because it is so well done and clean looking. You feel as if you are in good hands and you know that you will be able to find anything you need on this site.

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