By Denny Whipple
If you use Windows 7 and you find that you can no longer see the sound icon in your system tray, here's a quick way to fix the problem. First, though, probably the system policies have been changed on your machine. Who cares? You just want the damn icon back so you can adjust the volume. There are a ton of registry modifications that you can go through but if you're not interested in going this risky route, then simply go to this link (Download RestoreMyTrayIconsPlease Registry Hack) and download the file. Unzip it and run it. Log off and log back in to Windows and your sound icon will be replaced.
Here you'll find information to keep your computer running smoothly as well and tips and tutorials for Photoshop.
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Friday, March 18, 2011
Create an Etch‐a‐Sketch Drawing in Photoshop
Find a picture of an etch‐a‐sketch. Google Etch a Sketch.
Open an image that you want to have in the Etch‐A‐Sketch. I’ve used a raccoon image.
Remove the background of the image using any method (selection, erase, etc).
Then use Levels to darken the image slightly. Access Levels by Control‐L or Image/Adjustments/Levels.
Then desaturate (Control‐Shift‐U).
Then choose Filter>Sketch>Graphics Pen.
You can experiment with the settings but these seem to work best.
Then select all (Control‐A) and copy (Control‐C).
Go to the Etch‐A‐Sketch image and paste.
Use Free Transform (Control‐T) to resize the image and position it over the Etch‐A‐Sketch layer.
Now, change the blending mode of the top layer to Linear Burn. That’s it!
Open an image that you want to have in the Etch‐A‐Sketch. I’ve used a raccoon image.
Remove the background of the image using any method (selection, erase, etc).
Then use Levels to darken the image slightly. Access Levels by Control‐L or Image/Adjustments/Levels.
Then desaturate (Control‐Shift‐U).
Then choose Filter>Sketch>Graphics Pen.
You can experiment with the settings but these seem to work best.
Then select all (Control‐A) and copy (Control‐C).
Go to the Etch‐A‐Sketch image and paste.
Use Free Transform (Control‐T) to resize the image and position it over the Etch‐A‐Sketch layer.
Now, change the blending mode of the top layer to Linear Burn. That’s it!
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Problems with Gmail security in Chrome
by Denny Whipple
A couple days ago I noticed that when using the Google Chrome browser and accessing my gmail account, there was a red slash through the https: portion of the address in the address bar. My email account was not secured and after doing some research online, I determined that the problem was being caused by an extension that was installed in Chrome. The article that I read said the problem was being caused by an extention in Chrome called fastestchrome. I checked my extensions and I didn't have that particular extension installed but I did have one called the GamePlayLab plugin. I disabled this and whoopdedoo, gmail is now encrypted in Chrome.
This is how to check your extensions and then disable extensions in Chrome. Go to the wrench icon on the right side of the address bar at the top of the browser window. Click it and then choose Tools and then choose Extensions. When you click Extensions the browser will open a window that shows the extensions you have installed. If you don't see the two extensions that I mentioned earlier in this article, you'll have to experiment by disabling one extension at a time and checking gmail until you get the right one disabled. When you get the correct one disabled gmail will now be encrypicted again in Chrome.
This problem only happened to me in Chrome and not IE or Opera. It's something that Google needs to address but at least you can use this method to get gmail encrypted again.
A couple days ago I noticed that when using the Google Chrome browser and accessing my gmail account, there was a red slash through the https: portion of the address in the address bar. My email account was not secured and after doing some research online, I determined that the problem was being caused by an extension that was installed in Chrome. The article that I read said the problem was being caused by an extention in Chrome called fastestchrome. I checked my extensions and I didn't have that particular extension installed but I did have one called the GamePlayLab plugin. I disabled this and whoopdedoo, gmail is now encrypted in Chrome.
This is how to check your extensions and then disable extensions in Chrome. Go to the wrench icon on the right side of the address bar at the top of the browser window. Click it and then choose Tools and then choose Extensions. When you click Extensions the browser will open a window that shows the extensions you have installed. If you don't see the two extensions that I mentioned earlier in this article, you'll have to experiment by disabling one extension at a time and checking gmail until you get the right one disabled. When you get the correct one disabled gmail will now be encrypicted again in Chrome.
This problem only happened to me in Chrome and not IE or Opera. It's something that Google needs to address but at least you can use this method to get gmail encrypted again.
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