Archive for April 6th, 2011
Hiding Data
One of the things we teach in class is about software called steganography. Steganography may be used by people who want to hide or protect data. OpenPuff is just one of these programs used in steganography.
Facial Recognition for your photos
Need to tag your photos? Microsoft’s facial recognition helps you go through your pictures and tag your pics. Once you confirm someone’s picture, you can batch tag all of your photos instantly. Microsoft Photo Gallery: Facial Recognition
Combine the best of two photograhs
Want to combine two or more photographs? Have you ever taken a photo where someone has their eyes closed and in another theirs are open but someone else in the picture has their eyes closed. Use Photo Fuse and fuse the two pictures together. This free Microsoft program helps you to get your pictures right.
Slipstream Windows 7 SP1
What is slipstreaming? If you have your original copy of Windows 7, you can download the full Service Pack 1 for Windows 7 and then take the two and make a new DVD that has SP1 integrated into it. This will save you a ton of time during any install or re-installation.
Here’s a good article on how to do this – link
Sort your photos
Have hundreds of photos you need to sort? Here’s a small program that can help you sort them. (Even batch renaming).
EconSouth’s Interview with James King, Vice Chancellor of Tennessee Technology Centers
EconSouth recently interviewed James King, Vice Chancellor of the Tennessee Technology Centers. In the interview, infomation about Harvard University’s graduate school of education published an article titled “Pathways to Prosperity: Meeting the Challenges of Preparing Young Americans for the 21st Century”.
Harvard PowerPoint - Pathways to Prosperity
Change the Speed of MP3s
If you need to change the speed of an MP3, this little program allows you to manage files by drag and drop or to add the MP3s by the interface. MP3 Speed is freeware and can be downloaded here.
Password Protect a Folder
Need to password protect a folder? Here’s a freeware program that will do just that. My Lockbox Pro
