Review: Insight on a Gamer

The electronic gaming industry is huge with many games earning as much as blockbuster Hollywood movies. The industry brings in billions of dollars, which at times is more than the movie industry. There are many fans of electronic games, for which I am one, so it is by no coincidence that there are many blogs dedicated to this topic.

This week I look at the first gaming focused blog, since I started writing free reviews, called Insight on a Gamer.

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How to Separate Multiple Photos from a Single File in Photoshop

I do quite a bit of scanning whether it be slides, negatives, or printed photographs. For slides and negatives I can easily scan multiple items at one time. Scanner applications are able to save each image to a separate file with slides and negatives.

Scanning multiple photographs is a different story. Many times people would scan multiple photos in at one time and then manually separate them. My scanner software can do that, but with automated settings only. Photoshop includes an automated action that can do this for you after the scan, and straighten your photos automatically.

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What You Need to Secure Your Computer

Secure Computer

I have written many posts regarding securing a computer in the past. Many of the posts have gone into detail about using specific software and hardware to secure your computer. In this post I will provide a more quick overview of the main components that you should have if you want to secure your computer.

Review: Makoy’s Memoirs of a Certified Blogger

I have reviewed a few personal blogs since I started offering free reviews in November 2007. They are probably the most difficult to review since they aren’t usually focused on a single niche.

This week I review a personal blog from a blogger in the Philippines who apparently will be moving to Singapore.

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How to Display Recent Post Titles in Blogger

Blogger Logo

Most blogs display the last few posts on the home page, and Technically Easy is no exception. I like to display the last five posts that I have written so that visitors have a choice. If a visitor doesn’t visit the home page, but rather is redirected to a post, I wanted to display the last five posts in the sidebar.

For those with Blogger blogs, it is very easy to display the last few posts you have published to your blog.

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How to Create Printable Web Pages

When I started Technically Easy the one thing that I wanted to do was make sure that my posts were printable. By this I mean I wanted the printed pages to not include the menubar and sidebars, only the content.

Those who are just starting out in Web development may just create a second copy of the current page, and then create a text link to this page for printing. I wanted a more simple solution and realized the same task can be done easily with CSS.

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Review: Caribbean Web Development

There are many technology blogs on the Web today, such as my blog – Technically Easy. I haven’t reviewed many blogs that are focused on technology, and most blogs, such as this week’s review, are focused on the Web.

This week I take a look at a technology Web blog that is described by the author as helping to “improve the skills of Caribbean Web professionals.

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