60-Second App - Apple

Amazing Wallpaper HD for iPad review

#93 / 2011-05-12 12:00:00 / 1:14 min.

If you have trouble finding wallpaper for your iPad, then why not try

find HD wallpaper images

and easily save them for use on your

iPad's home screen

or lock screen.

Using the Flickr app for iPhone

Searching for photos on the iPhone Flickr app

#4 / 2011-03-03 09:00:00 / 1:21 min.

The Flickr iPhone app makes it easy to

find your friends' Flickr photos

using a couple of different methods. You can do a general

photo search on Flickr

to

find photos

that relate to your chosen topic or you can

search through your contacts

or your own photo stream. Once you find what you're looking for you can

Top Secrets - Bing iPhone app

Bing photo search

#3 / 2011-02-02 09:00:00 / 1:20 min.

If you want to

find photos online

through your iPhone, then a good way to do so is by

using the Bing iPhone application

. Like running an

Internet photo search

, Bing allows you to

find images based on a topic

. You can then bookmark the photo, share the photo or visit the website that the photo came from.

Top Secrets: Google Docs tricks

Using Google Image Search within Google Docs

#3 / 2011-01-12 09:00:00 / 1:20 min.

In this episode, we show you how to perform a

Google Image Search

while

find images online

that that you can use in your documents and share with others when

collaborating on files

.

Ten Killer Google Tricks

Finding desktop wallpaper that fits

#2 / 2010-11-23 09:00:00 / 1:09 min.

Here, we show you a great way to

find desktop backgrounds

using

Google Image Search

. By performing an

advanced search

, you can

find images

that match your desktop size. You can even refine your search so that you can sort your results by color.

Expand your iPhone use using myPhoneDesktop

Sharing images using myPhoneDesktop

#5 / 2010-10-15 09:00:00 / 2:42 min.

In this episode we show you

how to use myPhoneDesktop

to

send images to your iPhone

. You can choose to either display the pictures, copy the pictures or

save pictures to your iPhone

directly. This can save you time and make

sharing images with your iPhone

even easier.

Expand your iPhone use using myPhoneDesktop

Introducing myPhoneDesktop for the iPhone

#1 / 2010-10-11 09:00:00 / 1:30 min.

In this episode, we give you an overview of the

send text to your iPhone

from your computer, whether it's a long URL or a

text message

. You can also

transfer pictures to your iPhone

the same way and you can

use myPhoneDesktop

from any computer with the desktop client.

How do I use a digital SLR

An overview of digital SLR cameras

#1 / 2010-07-26 09:00:00 / 5:17 min.

What is a digital SLR

, you ask? Well in this first episode, we will answer that question by explaining the

components of a digital SLR

or

DSLR camera

and explain

what separates a DSLR camera

from an SLR camera. We'll go through some of the

features common to DSLRs

and show you

how DSLRs work

and what you might notice if you examine one closely.

How do I use a digital SLR

How do I use a digital SLR camera?

#6 / 2010-07-26 09:00:00 / 19:01 min.

In this five-part series, we'll explain to you

how to use a digital SLR

or DSLR camera. We'll teach you about the

components of a DSLR

and show you what

functions are common to DSLRs

. We'll also be telling you

how to take pictures

using a DSLR

and help you to

understand your DSLR's features

.

How to use MyHeritage.com to make a family tree

Filling in information about your family members

#3 / 2010-07-07 09:00:00 / 2:06 min.

Once you've successfully added family members to your tree, you can

view your family tree

and see if they've uploaded photos. If they have not, you can

add photos of your family

members

using MyHeritage.com

. You can even

add relatives for your family

if you'd like in order to

expand your family tree even further

.

Tutorials

How to find photos downloaded from the web on your Android phone

#732 / 2010-06-04 09:31:00 / 1:36 min.

While

browsing the web on your Android

phone you might see images that you'd like to download. After you

download images to your Android

you might even want to find those pics. Although it might seem tricky at first, it's actually not that difficult. We'll show you how to

find images on your Android

in this tutorial.

Tutorials

How to use Flickr from your Android phone

#707 / 2010-05-19 09:30:00 / 2:01 min.

If you use Flickr to manage your photos online then you'll be happy to know that you can also use

Flickr on your Android

phone. It's a simple application called

Flickr Droid

and it's available on the Android Market! We'll show you how to get started so that you can

manage your pictures

from your Droid.

Tutorials

How to have Thunderbird automatically save images

#706 / 2010-05-18 09:31:00 / 1:48 min.

If you find that you're getting lots of

images in your email

you might wish there was a way that you could save those images to your computer automatically. Fortunately for Thunderbird users there is a relatively easy way to do just that. We'll show you how to tell

Thunderbird to save images

that are sent to your email instantaneously in this short tutorial!

Tutorials

How to browse photos on your Android phone

#679 / 2010-04-29 09:30:00 / 1:59 min.

One benefit of having lots of storage on your Android phone is that you can take lots of data with you. If you have photos on your device you can browse through them with

Android's handy, built-in, Gallery application

.

Tutorials

How to use Bing on your iPhone

#666 / 2010-04-20 09:31:00 / 2:10 min.

Bing, the "decision engine" from Microsoft, has become very popular. If you've used it and liked it then you'll be happy to hear that you can now

use Bing on the iPhone

!

Web Watch

Top five Twitter visualizations

#39 / 2010-04-06 12:00:00 / 3:20 min.

We're all bombarded by a wall of text every day; email, social network updates, news sites and Twitter feeds. Stacy Reed finds a new way to look at and interact with Twitter content with

five awesome Twitter visualizations

. There are many interactive visualizations online that relay information and conversations on Twitter in fun and interesting new ways.

Web Watch

Five incredible heat map visualization tools

#38 / 2010-03-30 12:00:00 / 3:45 min.

How would you like to learn where your audience focuses on your images and web pages? Would you like to find out how to increase ad sales, simplify site navigation, or plan for the zombie apocolypse? Stacy Reed explains how you can do all this and more with colorful visualizations called heat maps.

Web Watch

The Top 5 interactive Flickr visualizations

#37 / 2010-03-23 12:00:00 / 4:50 min.

Flickr visualizations give you a whole new way to interact with photos. Stacy Reed shows off five of her favorite Flickr visualization sites that offer a new perspective on the millions of Flickr photos online. Flickr is a popular social netwoking site where anyone with an account can post photography, art and even video. Stacy Reed shows us how these interactive visualizations take a good thing and make it better.

The Sweet Stuff: Software

Five free image conversion programs

#29 / 2010-02-04 12:00:00 / 4:20 min.

Sure, you could drop several hundred bucks on Adobe's flagship, Photoshop. If your

photo editing

needs are a little lighter though, consider one of these

awesome free Windows image converters and editors

.

Convert an image from one format to another with free software

, add some photo effects and

crop and resize photos with free software

.

Web Watch

Five free Twitter background sites

#28 / 2010-01-19 12:00:00 / 2:53 min.

Your Twitter profile isn't really your Twitter profile until you

customize it with a background image

. Stacy Reed show us

where to find Twitter background images

with her picks for

top five free Twitter background sites

. Hit up the show notes for a link to a tutorial on

how to customize your Twitter profile

.

Create Your Own Web Site 101

Optimizing images for your web site

#6 / 2009-12-07 09:00:00 / 3:54 min.

Images can really add to the impact of your Website. You can include pictures of products, family, friends, gadgets or just about anything else you want. When using images on a Website, however, you want to follow certain guidelines so as not to get stuck with a

slow web page load

for your visitors.

Web Watch

Finding Free Stock Photography

#19 / 2009-10-27 12:00:00 / 2:58 min.

Get beautiful, unique and in many cases, completely free stock images for your desktop or webpage. In some cases, you can even

download free stock photos for commercial projects

. Stacy Reed shows us where to find the best

free stock photos

.

Tutorials

How to use Cooliris image and video search on your iPhone

#455 / 2009-10-26 09:31:00 / 1:51 min.

Cooliris is a fantastic way to interact with photos and video on your desktop. Now, a similar Cooliris experience is available to mobile users with the Cooliris application for iPhone. Perhaps best of all, Cooliris is a free download from the App Store.

Photo Editing Tips with Picnik

Making a photo collage in Picnik

#9 / 2009-09-24 09:00:00 / 2:17 min.

Picnik has built-in tools to help you

make a collage quickly

and easily. Select from the different layout options, arrange your pictures the way you'd like them to appear, choose a background color, tilt your images and so on and create a fun photo collage to commemorate an event or vacation. You can even

add effects, stickers, text

and other elements we looked at in this series.

Photo Editing Tips with Picnik

Easy photo touch-ups in Picnik

#8 / 2009-09-23 09:00:00 / 3:30 min.

If your teeth aren't as white as they could be and your skin not as tanned as you'd like, Picnik has some fun

photo touch-up modes

for you. Just don't overdo it or you'll end up looking like George Hamilton.

Picnik touch-ups

let you remove blemishes, get rid of forehead shine as well as have some fun with Zombify and other such modes.

Photo Editing Tips with Picnik

Adding effects to your photos

#6 / 2009-09-21 09:00:00 / 3:52 min.

Within

Picnik

, you'll find a whole series of fun and useful

photo effects

you can apply to your image. These great photo effects can drastically

change the look and feel of your photos

. You can add drama to an image, make your picture look like it's from the 1960s, convert a photo to black and white or sepia and much more. Experiment with the fun effects in Picnik to find the ones you like best.

Photo Editing Tips with Picnik

Removing the dreaded red-eye

#5 / 2009-09-18 09:00:00 / 1:58 min.

Forget the scientific explanations of how

red-eye

happens... it's just weird and you want

red-eye removed

from any pictures where it appears. Fortunately, Picnik has an excellent

red-eye removal tool

that'll get rid of this freaky phenomena in your photos. You can also fix some slight focus problems by adjusting the sharpness of your photos.

Photo Editing Tips with Picnik

Picnik fixes for color and exposure

#4 / 2009-09-17 09:00:00 / 2:38 min.

That landscape you saw while on vacation was gorgeous. The sun setting over the ocean, boats in the background. So why doesn't the picture do it justice? In

Picnik

, you can

fix a photo's color profile

and even compensate for some under or over exposure. These and other

photo fixes

are easy in Picnik.

Photo Editing Tips with Picnik

Cropping and resizing pictures in Picnik

#3 / 2009-09-16 09:00:00 / 3:06 min.

You don't need to fire up your software editor to do simple

cropping and resizing

. With the online

Picnik photo service

you can freeform crop, crop to a bounding box to make pictures a certain dimension like 4x6" for printing, you can even set a cropping ratio like 4:3 or 16:9. It's also easy to

resize pictures

for posting to the Web, sending via email and so on.

Photo Editing Tips with Picnik

Uploading your photos to Picnik

#2 / 2009-09-15 09:00:00 / 1:56 min.

Now that we've

signed up for Picnik

, it's time to start

uploading some photos to edit and share

. Picnik can link up with a variety of online services like MySpace, Flickr, Photo Bucket, Facebook and many more to automatically grab images. The

free Picnik account

allows you to upload up to five pictures at a time from your computer. For the ability to batch upload more pictures at once, consider a paid premium Picnik account.

Photo Editing Tips with Picnik

Free online photo editing with Picnik

#1 / 2009-09-14 09:00:00 / 1:52 min.

Picnik is a

free and easy online photo editor

that lets you add effects to pictures, share, save, resize, crop photos and much more. You don't even need to install any software on your computer; just

sign up for a Picnik account

, upload your pictures and start photo editing.

Web Watch

5 great Twitter photo-posting services

#5 / 2009-06-12 12:00:00 / 2:28 min.

The raison d'etre for

Twitter

is to allow users to share thoughts and pics as they happen. In this episode of The Sweet Stuff: Web 2.0, Stacy Reed takes a look at her

top-five

services that make it easy to

post pics to Twitter

whether at your desk, on the road or half way around the world.

Tutorials

Search for Images and Video with Bing

#256 / 2009-06-09 09:30:00 / 2:23 min.

Bing

returns oodles of relevant thumbnails to your

searches

, so you can sit back in your chair and gleen a lot of information visually as you scroll and scroll through Bing's results... kinda makes you feel like the 5th Element!

Tutorials

How to create a Slideshow in Preview on the Mac

#137 / 2009-03-17 09:31:00 / 1:44 min.

Going through pictures is always fun. You can sit and enjoy them as you page through. Another way to enjoy your photos is to create your own slideshow. On the Mac it's easy to create a Slideshow in just seconds using Preview.

Tutorials

Resize lots of images at once for free

#129 / 2009-03-11 09:30:00 / 2:35 min.

Posting large images online can take a long time hog your bandwidth, so before you post all those high-res photos of your family vacation to Flickr or Facebook, consider resizing them first. We'll show you how to resize multiple images at once, quickly and easily with Fotosizer.

Introduction to Flickr

An introduction to Flickr

#11 / 2009-02-13 09:00:00 / 16:45 min.

Meet Flickr. You're soon to be best friend. Part social site, part photo gallery and image host, Flickr is arguably the best way to store, share and see your photos online. If you already have a Yahoo! account, you already have a space reserved on Flickr. If not, it's easy to get one and start

sharing your photos

and viewing your friends pics online.

Introduction to Flickr

Finding friends and creating groups

#5 / 2009-02-06 09:00:00 / 3:23 min.

Flickr is fine as an online repository for all your images. However, the true power of Flickr comes when you connect with other Flickr users, friends and family to share images, join groups and just generally connect.

Introduction to Flickr

Organizing with Photo Sets

#4 / 2009-02-05 09:00:00 / 1:52 min.

As your image collection grows on Flickr, the importance of keeping things organized will be apparent. Best to get started with the practice of organizing your photos before your gallery becomes a potpourri of photos or a seemingly random mish-mash or images.

Introduction to Flickr

Uploading your photos to Flickr

#3 / 2009-02-04 09:00:00 / 1:46 min.

As Flickr is a photo storage and sharing site, the first thing you'll want to do after carving out your own little space on Flickr is to start uploading some pics.

Introduction to Flickr

Sign up for Flickr

#1 / 2009-02-02 09:00:00 / 1:32 min.

Meet Flickr. You're soon to be best friend. Part social site, part photo gallery, video and image host, Flickr is arguably the best way to store, share and see your photos online. In this first installment of our 10-part series on the go-to online photo site, we'll focus on getting set up with an account.

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CES 2009 - Photo frame gone wireless

#28 / 2009-01-12 10:30:00 / 2:11 min.

HP is shows off a digital photo frame that requires next to no configuration, is simple and easy to use and can even display yours or others' online photo streams from popular photo hosting services like Picasa, Snapfish and Flickr. It's high tech with none of the setup and configuration woes that sometimes go with it.

In Depth with IrfanView

Altering images in IrfanView pt.2

#6 / 2008-12-29 09:00:00 / 3:13 min.

Have graphics or photos you'd like to alter? Then take a good look at IrfanView. It's got all the tools most of us need. In this second part of Altering images in IrfanView, we'll look at more image editing options including converting images to black and white, turning pictures into negative images, adjusting the colors for a more pleasant (or amusing) result.

In Depth with IrfanView

Altering images in IrfanView Pt.1

#5 / 2008-12-26 09:00:00 / 2:35 min.

Have graphics or photos you'd like to alter? Then take a good look at IrfanView. It's got all the tools that most of us will need. It allows you to rotate, flip, change the background, resize, resample you images and more. And it's free to boot!

In Depth with IrfanView

Working with effects in IrfanView

#2 / 2008-12-23 09:00:00 / 2:40 min.

Tired of the same, old photos. Want to add a little spice to your pictures? Create a jazzy album cover or holiday card? IrfanView gives you a cool (and free) way to do all this and more.

Lab Rats

RAW rah rah

#150 / 2008-12-08 17:00:00 / 18:40 min.

You may have heard of the RAW file format as it pertains to digital cameras. This file format is found mostly in digital SLR (single lens reflex) cameras and is sometimes called a "digital negative." It allows a lot more room for editing on your computer but comes with some trade-offs in file size and camera-side image processing. Tune in as the Lab Rats demystify RAW to find out if RAW is right for you.

Tutorials

Understanding Windows Explorer view modes

#45 / 2008-11-13 13:27:37 / 2:12 min.

The way Windows presents your files and folders isn't always the best way. In addition to the default icons view, you can have Windows list your files as a list; useful for folders containing a lot of files, as a series of thumbnails or as a filmstrip, useful for folders containing pictures.
When you're working with Windows Explorer you can view files in a variety of ways by toggling through the different view modes.

Tutorials

How to convert images online

#39 / 2008-11-11 12:03:58 / 1:28 min.

To change an image from one format to another, you may not need an expensive image editing program. The aptly named Online Utility website features an image conversion utility among its bag of tricks.

Tutorials

Rename multiple files in Windows

#17 / 2008-10-30 10:37:07 / 1:08 min.

Rather than make you go through the trouble of renaming a hundred files one at a time, Windows allows for batch renaming of a group of selected files. These could be image files, documents or any other file type.

Tutorials

Change an image format in Mac preview

#6 / 2008-10-25 00:00:00 / 1:15 min.

Different image file types have different applications and can offer unique benefits. If you'd like to change the graphics format of an image on your Mac, you can do so with Preview in just a few simple steps.

Introduction to Flickr

Meet Flickr. You're soon to be best friend. Part social site, part photo gallery and image host, Flickr is arguably the best way to store, share and see your photos online. If you already have a Yahoo! account, you already have a space reserved on Flickr. If not, it's easy to get one and start sharing your photos and viewing your friends pics online.