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FaceBomb: Add Effects to your Photos

FaceBomb is an online photo enhancement tool where you can do a lot of neat stuff with your photos automatically. You need not be a Photoshop ninja in order to make your photos stand out. Just upload them at FaceBomb, select which enhancement tickles your fancy and watch it do the work for you. No signing-up and registration required. You can add effects on your photos in a matter of minutes.

Once you have uploaded your photo, just select an area, crop it and add your desired effect. There’s a wide variety of effects that you can choose from. You don’t have to bother with the technicalities of knowing the name of each effect. Just view the sample photos and choose which effect best interests you. You can also add text and other images on your photos.

This is an easy and painless way of enhancing your photos without taking too much time editing and adding effects manually on photo editors. You can use this to quickly tweak your photos for use on your social networking profiles. This works best on profile pictures but you can also try experimenting using other images. Have fun with your photos.

Tags: effects, FaceBomb, Photo Enhancement, Photos

TwoQuick: Real-Time Search Meets Traditional Search

TwoQuick is a search engine that provides search results from both Google and Twitter. You can view the results from the search engine giant and the most popular micro blogging slash social networking site side by side. The search engine offers nothing too flashy, just simple and direct to the point results from two great sources of information that is presented in a single page.

The search engine displays simple Google results which are similar to how the search engine giant used to do it in older times. There’s no images and video recommendations, just the link and the short description of the page is included. The Twitter search results are presented in a manner which includes the Tweet and URL (if included) along with the avatar and Twitter user who published the tweet. It also displays the duration of the tweet’s existence which comes in very handy when you’re tracking the time of release of the information that you’re looking for.

Combining traditional search and real time search side by side using one search engine comes in handy when you are researching for fresh topics. You can view the most recent discussions that are found on Twitter and compare them with older articles that can be found using Google. Twitter is becoming more popular as a source of real-time information. Combining Tweeter data and Google search results in a single, simple and easy-to-use search engine is not a bad idea.

Tags: Google, search-engine, twitter, Twitter Plus Google Search, TwoQuick

Photoshop: Easily Adjust Brush Size and Softness using Shortcut Keys

This very short tip shows us how to work with Photoshop efficiently by using short-cut keys to change the brush size and adjust its softness. It also has an additional short-cut key tip if you are using Photoshop CS4. Watch the video and try it on your Photoshop and watch your work efficiency improve.

Tags: Adjust Brushes, Brush Size, Brush Softness, Photoshop, Short-cut keys

TwitLogo: Create Your Own Twitter Logo in a Snap

TwitLogo is one of those applications that make it easy for you to mimic a logo of a particular brand and produce your own. In this particular case, this simple tool allows you to generate your own version of the Twitter logo. You can put in your name, dog’s name, car’s name, blog name, etc; and make it look like a Twitter logo.

If you are a Twitter fan and want your name or your own brand produced in a fashion like your favorite micro blogging site, try this one. It only takes a few seconds to produce. All you need to do is type in the text you want to appear on your Twitter-like logo and press the “make” button. That’s all there is to it.

This could be used in creating customized T-shirts, stickers and other stuff that you would like the customized logo on. Bloggers can also use it to produce text graphics for their blogs that sports the Twitter-like logo. You can even generate full sentences using the tool.

Tags: generator, logo, TwitLogo, twitter, Twitter Logo Generator

JokeyPhone: A Funny Video Hosting Service

Got a new joke? Share it on JokePhone. It’s a site where you can upload or record a joke or a funny story and share them with everyone for some laughs. Of course, you can also enjoy minutes of laughter hearing others tell their jokes online. The site is dubbed as the YouTube of jokes where every shared video is supposedly funny and entertaining.

Like most video streaming sites, you are allowed to rate the videos depending on how entertaining they are for you. The videos are categorized by channels, competitions, most viewed, highest rated and recently added. The usual social media features like comments, add to favorites, tagging and sharing are also included. There’s also a small feature similar to the video reaction feature in YouTube that allows you to tell your own version of the published joke. If you think that you can dish out a funnier version of a particular joke, just hit the button and upload or capture your very own version.

Whether you want to share some laughs or hear jokes from others, JokeyPhone is definitely the site to visit. Check it out for yourself to find out.

Tags: Jokes, Jokey Phone, videos, youtube

Ring2Skype: Get a Free Skype-in Number

Ring2Skype is a service that allows you to receive phone calls on your Skype from the phone network. The best thing about this service is that it’s free. What the service does is provide you with your own number with an extension and link it with your Skype account. Any calls to the phone number assigned to you will then be forwarded to the Skype username that you have assigned.

Signing-up for the service gives you a phone number and a private extension. All calls to your extension will be forwarded to your Skype. You are required to hand out a small amount of information when signing-up. Aside from the usual username, email and password, you’ll need to let them know the country where you want your number, the region for your extension number and of course, your Skype username. This will allow Ring2Skype to forward the calls to your Skype account.

The developers of Ring2Skype intend to provide a free service forever. The expenses for keeping the service open will be provided by advertisements and donations from grateful and generous users. This service is a great Skype enhancement. Whit Ring2Skype, you can publish a country and region-specific phone number that forwards to your Skype account without revealing your own phone number or Skype username. One can easily setup a new Skype account and link it with Ring2Skype to provide a more secure and private phone to Skype communication.

Tags: Free Skype Number, Skype, Skype-in, Skypein