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Satyamev Jayate and Musical Derivatives
May 15th

This is the original ‘O Ri Chiraiya’ video from Aamir Khan’s hit show – Satyamev Jayate : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUjBxPvdUEs Sahil created a slideshow using music from this video and his own photographs and uploaded it to Facebook and YouTube. Here’s the derivative version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmUBDy-1r6o He didn’t have the license to use that song in his video and Satyamev Jayate’s official team could have easily asked Facebook to pull down that video but they took a reverse approach
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Satyamev Jayate and Musical Derivatives
How to find out where a picture was taken?
May 10th

Say you are exploring interesting places on the Internet and come across a gorgeous destination that you would like to visit sometime in future. The only problem is that the web photograph carries no text caption and you therefore have no clue of the location where that picture was possible taken.
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How to find out where a picture was taken?
The Kindle Best Sellers that are currently Free
May 8th

Meet Zero Dollar Books , a Pinterest style page that offers a visual listing of best-sellers that you can download on your Kindle, Windows PC, Mac or any mobile phone for free.
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The Kindle Best Sellers that are currently Free
Compare SkyDrive, Google Drive and Dropbox
Apr 24th

You have your files, photos and documents on your home computer that you would like to access from other locations on different devices. Dropbox has been the de-facto choice for long but that could potentially change as Microsoft and Google have just entered the arena with the launch of Windows Live SkyDrive and Google Drive respectively. The three services are very similar – you get online storage (you can access your files anywhere) and file synchronization – edit a document on one computer and the changes are propagated to all your other computers almost instantly
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Compare SkyDrive, Google Drive and Dropbox
Add a Green Screen Effect to Screencasts with Camtasia for Mac
Apr 24th

Chroma key is a popular technique used in news rooms and films where the video editing software replaces the background of a video with a different scene which could either be a still image, an animation or even a video. For instance, the news reader could be sitting in her television studio, in front of a green screen, but with Chroma keying, she can be virtually transported to any other location (like the White House ).
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Add a Green Screen Effect to Screencasts with Camtasia for Mac
How to Hide the Data on your Computer
Apr 17th

You may want to hide some files and folders on your computer for various reasons. Maybe you don’t want mom to accidentally stumble upon all the stuff that you have downloaded from the Internet.
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How to Hide the Data on your Computer
Set Bing Images as your Desktop Wallpaper
Apr 4th

The Bing homepage features a new image every day and there’s a new utility in town called Bing Desktop that will download and set these images as your desktop background automatically.
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Set Bing Images as your Desktop Wallpaper
Download the Audio Pronunciation of Words from Google
Mar 26th

Here’s a little tip that some educators and students may find useful. You can directly download the audio pronunciation files of English dictionary words from Google and practice pronunciation on the go.
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Download the Audio Pronunciation of Words from Google
How to Reduce the File Size of Google Fonts for your Website
Mar 26th

Google Fonts is a collection of open fonts that you can use in your websites, documents and other design projects without any restrictions around licensing. It takes a single line of code to embed any of the Google Font families into your website design
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How to Reduce the File Size of Google Fonts for your Website


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