How to create a Magnifying Glass effect in Photoshop

http://photoshop-stuff.org/tutorials/tutorial-create-a-magnifying-glass-in-photoshop--2166/

WebMail Notifier Gmail fix

Gmail changed the login from https://www.google.com to https://accounts.google.com

To get WMN working again with Gmail accounts do the following:

1. Close Firefox
2. Go to:

C:\Users\{your username}\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\{yourProfile}.default\extensions\{37fa1426-b82d-11db-8314-0800200c9a66}\components\scripts

3. Change the following 2 1 lines in gmail.js:

Line 13

FROM
this.loginData=["https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLoginAuth?service=mail",

TO
this.loginData=["https://accounts.google.com/accounts/ServiceLoginAuth?service=mail"


/* NOT NEEDED

Line 20

FROM
this.loginData=["https://www.google.com/a/"+ar[1]+"/LoginAction2?service=mail",

TO
this.loginData=["https://accounts.google.com/a/"+ar[1]+"/LoginAction2?service=mail",

*/

How to fix when Google Talk Freezes with Show current music track

When you activate "Show Current Music Track" in Gtalk while using Windows media player or Winamp 5.5 or higher versions, your Google Talk will freeze or stop responding. 

To overcome this problem there are two different methods, one for each type of player.

Note: Remember to close both Winamp or Media Player and Google Talk when doing this.

For Winamp 5.5 or Higher Versions :

• Go to the root directory of Winamp (Usually in C:\Program Files\Winamp)
• Select Tools -> Folder Options -> View (Tab) 
• Uncheck the hide extensions for known file types and click Ok.
• Create an empty file (Right click -> New -> Text document)
• Name the file "winamp.m3u" and save.

For Windows Media Player :

If this problem occurs in Windows Media Player( WMP) it just needs an activation of the plugin.

• Go to the Now Playing in your player.
• Select Plugins -> Options
• In the window select Plugins -> Background on the left side
• Select Google Talk Music Plugin
• Click OK and you are done.

Bring Misplaced Off-Screen Windows Back to Your Desktop (Keyboard Trick)

Set your "hidden" window to focus (using alt-tab for example), then press Alt+Space, then M, and then hit any of the arrow keys (Left, Right, Up or Down), move your mouse and the window should magically "pop" back onto the screen. This should work on any version of Windows.

Update: You can also right-click on the taskbar and choose to "Cascade" your open windows, which will often help bring the windows back onto the screen.

Taken from HowToGeek.
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Bypass Youtube Regional Filtering

Some videos are only available in certain parts of the world. Your IP Address is used to determine your location and then allow or deny access to the video.

Change the url from:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=code
to
http://www.youtube.com/v/code

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How to create an ISO on Mac OS X

1. Put the CD or DVD into the drive
2. Open Disk Utility (Applications -> Utilities)
3. Select the inserted disk
4. Select File -> New -> Disk Image (It should be the name of the disk you want to make an ISO of)
5. Select CD/DVD master from the “image format” drop down menu
6. Click save
7. This creates a .cdr extension which is the same as a .iso

Just rename the file to .iso and your all done.
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How to install Flash in Firefox without Administrator permissions

1. Download the XPI archive of the Flash Player Plugin to your hard disk (right click on the download link then "Save link as.."). XPI archives are only ZIP files containing the files used by the plugins.
2. So you can safely rename the file you just downloaded, called flashplayer-win.xpi, into flashplayer-win.zip (you are changing its extension from .xpi to .zip)
3. Extract the files in the archive. You can use any program capable of opening .zip files (WinZip, WinRAR or the free and great 7-zip). There are also websites which can uncompress archives: wobzip.org.
4. Copy the files flashplayer.xpt and NPSWF32.dll to %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Plugins\
   • %APPDATA% is not a real folder. It's an alias. By inserting it in your windows explorer address bar, you'll be redirected to the real folder which holds your applications profiles and settings. The location of this folder depends on various setting that's why we need the alias and not an absolute path.
   • You can open this folder simply choosing "Start → Run → Type in %APPDATA% → OK".
   • In case you don't have a Plugins folder you can create one and place your files there.
5. Restart Firefox

Taken from HERE.

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