About MatthewA
Matthew is a freelancer who has produced a variety of software articles for sites such as Bright Hub and Captured Snapshot. He has an A - Level in ICT, at grade C, and is proficient with a number of software packages. Matthew also has a golf blog http://amateurgolfer.blogspot.com/.
Check out his book at http://battlesofthepacificwar.blogspot.co.uk/. Battles of the Pacific War 1941 -1945 recalls where, when and how the Pacific War was won and lost within the battlefields of the Pacific.
This post covered how to add wave effects to text. You can also add wave effects photos in Paint.NET. With Paint.NET’s SinWaves plug-in you can add waves to images. Save the plug-in’s ZIP from this page. Click Here is ...
Paint.NET is a freeware image-editing package that already has a built-in gradient tool. However, you can add better gradient options to it with a couple of plug-ins. One is the Gradient plug-in that adds alternative color gradien...
Red ochre is a Paint.NET plug-in pack that includes a variety of options. Among those options is Slinky, which adds rendered ellipses, or circles, along a line. With the plug-in you can add colorful, rendered line effects to image...
VLC Media Player is one that VideoLAN has recently updated with version 2.2, which you can add to Windows, Mac OS X and Linux platforms from here. Version 2.2. is a notable enhancement that includes new resume playback video optio...
This article told you about Windows 7 Button Changer. However, that software only switches the Start button to alternative orb templates. With StartOrbz Studios you can add custom Start buttons to Windows 7 that include your own i...
When you add lots of extensions to Google Chrome, the toolbar overloads with add-on buttons. Sure, you can always remove the extension buttons from toolbar, but then you lose the direct access to them. To remove the buttons, but r...
You can pin folders and applications to the Windows Explorer Jumplist on the Windows 7 taskbar. However, there aren’t any options you can select to add line separators to the pinned folders and applications section of that J...
There are plenty of third-party software packages that you can use to check your Windows system resources. But remember that Windows also includes its very own tools to check and optimize RAM, CPU, etc. These are four of the tools...
There are plenty of themes you can add to Firefox. You can also customize the browser’s default theme with a few about:config settings. With about:config you can switch the default theme to a dark alternative and remove the ...
Browser tabs hog RAM. As such, it’s best not to open too many tabs. There are various extensions you can add to browsers to reduce tab RAM allocation such as Dustman – autoclose tabs. That’s a Firefox extension which a...
The Mozilla Firefox logo is the default icon on Firefox’s windows. However, you can customize the icons included at the top of the Firefox windows with Change Profile’s Window Icons. With that you can add new icons to ...
Vivaldi is a new browser that this article covered. One thing this browser includes, which some of the others don’t, is a tab search tool. With that you can quickly search page tabs open in Vivaldi and your bookmarks. To ope...
Firefox, like all the other browsers, has back and forward buttons so that you can flick through pages opened in the same tab. However, there aren’t any toolbar buttons to select pages on the tab bar with. The Active Tab Swi...
Firefox’s Bookmarks Toolbar gives you more direct access to bookmarks. However, it can also take up a more space on the Firefox UI. As an alternative to the Bookmarks Toolbar, add the Bookmarks menu extension to the browser....
To open Firefox themes, you would usually select Open menu > Add-ons. It would be better if you could select themes directly from the toolbar. You can do exactly that with the Themes Menu add-on. First, open this page to add Th...