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A Closer Look at Online Photo Editors

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Do you love taking digital photos but want to have more control over how you edit them? Common fixes most of us need to do are photo lightening, taking out the red eye, and maybe smoothing out a blemish here and there. (You know you do that too.) Thankfully, there's a new batch of online photo editors that work via your web browser. Just upload your digital photos and crop, resize, or enhance your photos to your hearts content. With so many different photo editors to choose from, I've filtered them down to what I think are the top three and placed them in categories from beginner to advanced.

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Reinstalling Applications on Your New Computer

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The software you transfer to your new computer has two parts: the programs you have accumulated – programs you want to install on the new system – and the data you have created, as well as your email address book, favorite Web pages, and personalized settings, for example. You may want to keep all that stuff as well – which, in many cases, is probably more important than all that old software anyway!

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Reading and Replying to Outlook E-mail

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Outlook has several of ways of telling you when you have an email message that you haven't read:

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Organizing Information with Outlook 2007 Categories

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A good collection of information has a lot of value. However, you can't squeeze full value from a list of contacts or tasks if you can't get a quick handle on which items are important and which aren't. The Categories feature in Outlook is designed to help you distinguish what's urgent from what can wait.

Assigning a category

When you first set up Outlook 2007, you can find out what categories are available by clicking the Categorize button at the top of the Inbox screen, just to the right of the Forward button, or by choosing Actions > Categorize.

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Microsoft Office Timesaver: Compressing an Image

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When you need quality prints, it's nice that your new digital camera can take 2.5MB e-pictures, but when you need to stick a handful of those pics in a document or turn them into a PowerPoint slideshow, those file sizes can make you feel like the ringmaster at an elephant show. To compress a picture (or all the pictures) in a Word document, Excel spreadsheet, or PowerPoint presentation, do the following:

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Knowing Google Images Basics

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Because nearly one billion images are floating around on the Web, finding the picture you need for your research can be pretty tricky. Google Images helps you manage this difficult feat.

Understanding how Google Images works

Contrary to what you might expect, Google Images has no ability to actually analyze a photograph or other picture on a Web page. Instead, Google Images uses the context of an image to determine the image's relevance in your search results. That's right! The picture itself is not considered.

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