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How to add Image Reflections using PicReflect

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

Most of the blogs use images to convey the message of the post, even i do. But, i have seen few bloggers adding something to the image to give a good look like adding image reflection. I always wondered on how to do this. I don’t know how to use Adobe Photoshop or any other graphics App.

Recently, i figured out a web service which allows use to add reflections to the image. It is very simple, easy and can be done very quickly.
Picreflect - Add reflection to images
PicReflect is a free web app that allows you to add reflection effect to your images, with no Photoshop knowledge needed.

Just go to that site, select the right options and upload the image. Hit ‘Generate’ button and you are good to go. You can also configure options like transparency, mirror effect, height, rotation angle and background color.

If you know any other tool which has more options than this. Do share it!

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26.02.2009 How-To 16 Comments

Australia tour of South Africa Cricket Schedule – Match Timings – Channels Telecasting

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

South Africa and Australia will be playing 3 Test Matches, 2 Twenty20 Internationals (2 T20’s) and 5 One Day Internationals (5 ODI’s).

After their triumph in Australia, South Africa will be looking to get more Test series under their belt and also strengthen their No. 1 Test spot in ICC Cricket Rankings.

Channels telecasting South Africa tour of Australia Cricket Series

* Channel 9
* Super Sports
* Directv
* ATN CBN
* Sky Sports

Match Timings Australia v South Africa, 2008-09:

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26.02.2009 Cricket 7 Comments

Resize Images using PIXresizer

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

I have found lot of freeware tools and web services which offer image resizing and image conversion.

Today, i found a tool. I liked it and would like to share with you.

PIXresizer, a free photos resizer

With this you can easily create web and e-mail friendly versions of your images with reduced file sizes. It can automatically recognize image sizes to calculate the best fit and supports popular image formats like JPEG, GIF, BMP, PNG and TIFF.

When you resize an image, the new re sized image is saved in a different folder leaving the original image unchanged. It offers lot of resizing methods to choose from and can automatically recognize image sizes to calculate the best fit.

It has also a conversion in-built which can convert images to these formats (JPEG, GIF, BMP, PNG and TIFF), rotate images, convert to grayscale and resize multiple images in batch mode.

I found this very useful especially when i put images in the blog posts. The feature i like the most is Resize images in bulk
Resize Images using Pix Resizer

PIXresizer Features

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24.02.2009 How-To, Utilities 8 Comments

India’s tour of New Zealand Cricket Schedule – Match Timings – Channels Telecasting

Monday, February 23rd, 2009

India and New Zealand will be playing 2 Twenty20 Internationals (2 T20’s), 5 One Day Internationals (5 ODI’s) and 3 Test Matches.

India had won the Test series in New Zealand way back in 1967-68 (41 years back) [India vs New Zealand History]. It is a long drought. Hope we can win this time. It is a long tour with a jam packed iternary.

Channels telecasting India tour of New Zealand Cricket Series

* Sony SET MAX
* Super Sports
* Directv
* ATN CBN
* Sky Sports

Match Timings New Zealand v India, 2008-09:

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23.02.2009 Cricket 7 Comments

How to Kill Tasks from Command Prompt

Monday, February 23rd, 2009

Few days back, my laptop with Windows XP OS started giving problems. Moreover, i was unable to open the Task Manager. I rely on Task Manager to kill the non responding processes.

I started searching for other ways to Kill the Tasks (with out Task Manager). After a while, i found an alternative solution which works on Windows XP operating system. You can view all the processes running on your system via command prompt and kill them!

Kill Tasks or Processes from Command Prompt

  1. Open Command Prompt via Start -> Run… and type cmd and hit Enter.
  2. After Command prompt is opened, type “tasklist”
  3. Check below the list of processes or task running on my Laptop. Each row has process name and PID number.
    Kill Tasks from Command Prompt
  4. Note down the PID number of the Process you want to kill. For ex: PID number : 716, Process Name : GoogleUpdate.exe
  5. To kill the process or task, Type “tskill” (without the quotes) then space and the PID number.
    For ex: c:\> tskill 718
  6. The above command will kill the Process with PID number 718

In this way, you could kill the process or do lots of other things from command prompt that you can do with Task Manager.

Hope you liked this trick. If you have any other tricks. Do share by leaving a comment!

23.02.2009 How-To, Microsoft, TipsNTricks 19 Comments

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