Pusher – Troubleshooting

Just a quick post to help with troubleshooting problems you might encounter while running Pusher. Problem: Name resolution fails Things to Check: Sometimes DNS cache on the SysAdmin workstation can become stale. You can try opening a command prompt, and typing the following: IPCONFIG /FLUSHDNS This will flush out the local DNS cache. Problem: Ping Fails Things to… Read More »

A Guide to Touching Up Your Digital Photos

One problem I faced when starting out with digital photography was how to touch up my raw digital images. Perhaps an image was slightly dark, perhaps it had to be rotated or cropped. Digital photos usually require some form of manipulation before final output. So here’s a short guide which I’ve compiled to help you touch up your… Read More »

Using Photoshop and Illustrator

Unless you have tons of money to burn, every consumer wants to be as smart as possible when buying their goods.  We want value for our money.  If there’s a cheaper alternative that can deliver the same results, of course we would rather have that!

The Difference Between JPEG and GIF

JPEG and GIF image formats are both compression based formats. They are the most widely used and supported image formats for web. They take an uncompressed image such as bitmapped image and compress them to a smaller file size. A lot smaller image size is moreover the result of this conversion. It may seem that one compression may… Read More »

Color Basics

Do your print ads or web pages seem so flat that no one ever bothers looking at it? How would you like to make them more unique and attractive?

Simple 3D in Photoshop

You can use your Adobe Photoshop in creating 3D images. Since 2Ds are obsolete and 3Ds are in, you might want to start enhancing your skill in computer graphics.

Cleaning Images with Photoshop

Time is precious and we don’t want it to slip away that easy without taking advantage of its significance. To circumvent waste of time, Snapshot can be a great help to us.

What is VOIP?

For those who have never heard about the potential of VoIP, be prepared to radically change the way you think about your current long-distance calling plan. VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) is very simply, a method for taking ordinary analog audio signals and turning them into digital signals that can be sent over the Internet.  

What is Computer Security?

Although the term ‘computer security’ is used a lot, the content of a computer is actually vulnerable to only a few risks unless the computer is connected to others on a network. As the use of computer networks (especially the Internet) has increased dramatically during the past few years, the term computer security is now used to describe… Read More »