The easiest way to prevent your computer from overheating is by simply keeping the fan free from dust. You can blow out a lot of the dus...

Suppose you are writing a blog post that you want to upload to Blogger or Wordpress. Maybe you are just writing a long email to a friend ...

Purchasing a Used Car from a Private Party by Monty Hawkins Purchasing a used car allows you to have a quality automobile without p...

While one million views for a website is nothing too special, 10 or 100 million views probably will not come for a very long time (if ever),...

As of today, Yunio has updated their website, software, and services. They are offering 1TB free to anyone who joins. You would have to b...

Occasionally in Gimp my toolbox icons will become spaced out (see image above). Not only does this bug look bad, but it also makes it s...

Gimp provides a few tools for removing and adding elements to your image. This tutorial will show you examples of when and how to use the...

I have been using Google Drive ever since it came out as Google Docs many years ago. While I love just about everything about Google Dri...

This post is not a tutorial or tip or anything like that. I just wanted to let the world know that I finally got married! Yay for me! T...

I first tried Photivo a few years ago. My initial impression was that it was quite feature rich but a bit difficult to use. Now that I ha...

Photivo is an open source RAW photo editing program that is cross platform (Windows, Mac, Linux). I have known about Photivo for quite ...

Pro and Con lists are useful any time we need to make a decision, especially when there is no clear choice what the better decision is. ...

Yesterday I bought a pizza. Because I had to carry it home on my bicycle, I decided to get a medium instead of a large. I immediately reg...

This week I have had a lot more alone time and bicycle riding time than usual which means I have had more time for deep contemplation. T...

I teach English to seven year olds in China. One point of English grammar that is especially difficult for a native Chinese speaker is wh...

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I teach English in China to seven year old students. We have been learning phonics and if effort to help my students pay attention to ph...

Before image: With heal selection, we can remove elements such as the tree branches. After image: I used the heal selection tool to...

The printable view of my resume. Here is the situation: You have begun the tedious job search process. You are trying to spice up you...

UPDATE: The Mass Text App has had a major update. You can see the review I did on the app here, or just download the new app from the G...

My very first tutorial on this website was drawing a tree in the sunset (similar to the image you see above). That tutorial shows sign...

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Perhaps the thing I most often use the Gimp for is to remove a background. It is quite simple and fast once you are familiar with how to...

Imagine this situation: Your spouse/significant other/roommate/etc comes into your room while you are wasting time on the computer readin...

This is a recipe for making a no bake cheesecake. The recipe is only simple ingredients and can be made almost entirely in a blender.

Recently I have been making a few cheesecakes (I am in China where decent cheesecakes don't seem to exist, when I found a place to c...

I have always been a fan of doing things the quick and easy (lazy) way. I will show you how to whip cream using a blender. (Note: I just...

Here is the problem: You are trying to take a photo with your Canon DSLR camera . The lighting is a bit dark, so the flash should pop ...

Another Valentines day (or "single awareness day" as many people like to call it. It is this time of year that I make chee...

Don't know why it took me 20+ years to figure out how to eat popcorn this way. The photo above basically speaks for itself. I don...

By now, everyone uses cloud storage. Whether you knowingly download a program (Dropbox) to sync certain files you deem important, or unk...