Sometime soon, Microsoft will finalize its Service Pack 1 (SP1) release for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. Today, however, a near-final version of the service pack leaked online for both 32-bit (x86) and 64-bit (x64) versions of the OSes, and I took the time to install the build on my main Windows 7 [...]
As I’ve noted many times, platforms matter. And while Microsoft was able to set the platform agenda, so to speak, into the early 2000s with its introduction of .NET, since then, developers and users alike have looked elsewhere. Google executives noted at the company’s Google I/O show in mid-2010 that all major new application development occurred [...]
Clone out distracting backgrounds in Photoshop (and Elements) As promised, I want to give you more detailed explanation of some the fixes for bad backgrounds that I mentioned in my last post. In this post I will show you how to get rid of a distracting background.Let’s say that in the photo above we don’t [...]