Archive for June, 2010
Photobie is a layered light weight Photoshop alternative
Jun 30th
I use Photoshop daily and until today I have never used a free application that would allow me to kick Adobe’s Photoshop to the curb.
Being able to use Photoshop filters and the ability to use masks and layers were a necessity and sure enough those are both features of this application called Photobie.
Upon discovering Photobie 7.2.1 I think I have a major contender in the graphic design freeware war. First of all the download was a mere 4.4 MB. That’s right a full fledged layered graphic editor weighing in at under 5 MB!
Easily Make An Awesome Digital Photo Collage With Collage It
Jun 25th
Do you have the urge to create a collage out of your digital photography collection? Maybe you have an upcoming event that you would like to show off your images for or to create a nice sign or banner. Well now we found a very cool, tiny, easy to use application that will make your dream a reality.
Using the program’s built in options and your own images and a background you can create awesome collages in a manner of minutes or seconds.
We can start by visiting their website and downloading the application. The download is 4.79MB and once it gets installed, run it and you will see the screen below.
Force Windows to open your application either minimized or maximized easily
Jun 21st
Today I had the need to launch an application in a minimized mode. This meant I needed to change the shortcut of the application I wanted to launch using my batch file. I also found out that you can launch a application maximized. This is great for those programs that you open and then automatically click on the maximize button.
Hopefully this will save some users grief over getting rid of the extra clicks.
Gmail updates its chat interface – smoother, cleaner chat window…
Jun 9th
Gmail's new chat window
Hey Boys and Girls,
Commodore 64 here to give a quick heads up about Gmail. Seems they’ve upgraded their chat window to look smoother and cleaner than ever. Hopefully it will be more compliant.
I’ve been using gmail for a while, and so has my wife. In her place of work, they haven’t gotten around to updating their browsers, so she is stuck using good old IE6, which doesnt offer many options along the lines of gmail chat. Most of the features are disabled, save for actually chatting.
My hope is that they’ve given her some more features to play with…
In the meantime, i just thought it interesting to point out this slight facelift on the good old Gmail chat box.
Oh and by the way, Gmail has added some animated emoticons as well, namely the rocker dude emoticon, which you can get by typing the following characters:
\m/ x-( \m/
-enjoy
Commodore 64 (the one you used to play Bruce Lee on),8,1
Shortcut key deletes entire words… Admin baffled
Jun 3rd
So apparently I missed a shortcut key combination way back when and when it was shown to me today I was impressed. Seeming it is probably 20 years old I was a little embarrassed. Well here it is:
Pressing "Ctrl + Backspace" deletes entire words so you don’t have to hold down "Backspace." I went years without knowing this. Hopefully this is enlightening for some!
I came across this tip on Reddit and while typing this post used it in:
- Windows Live Writer
- Firefox
- and Word 2003
So chances are it works everywhere. I will never get my lost productivity back but maybe there is still time for you! Did you know about this? Why didn’t you tell me?
How To Hack Wireless using a GUI in Linux!
Jun 2nd
Greetings fellow geeks, and techno-freaks! Karl is graciously letting me post another episode of Bauer-Power here at AskTheAdmin.com. If you recall, the last time I posted a Bauer-Power video, it was how to hack Windows passwords using Bauer-Puntu linux. Well, I know you all love to hack, so I thought I would post another hackilicious video for you. This time I show you how to hack wireless access points using a GUI called Grim Wepa in Bauer-Puntu Linux!
In this video I will show you how hacking WEP is now so easy that your Grandma could probably do it. Sure, there are lots of videos showing you how to hack WEP, but not too many show you how to do it using an easy to use GUI in Linux! Not to mention that this GUI will also let you crack WPA! Take a look:
I want to apologize about the audio at the beginning. My mic was turned off, so I had to use the camera’s mic. I fixed it in the second half though. I would have gone back and re-filmed, but I didn’t have the time. Either way, I hope you learned something from it, and if you haven’t yet, perhaps you will try out Bauer-Puntu!
Have you been known to hack wireless? What programs/tools do you use? Do you do it in Windows, Linux or Mac? Does someone you know (Company, neighbor, or relative) still use WEP? Let us know in the comments!
By El Di Pablo of Bauer-Power
