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Gimp’s Foreground Selection Tool

Making precise selections in GIMP is crucial in almost any project. GIMP has several tools to do this. Each has its advantages and disadvantages. There is no one tool for everything. The new kid on the block is “Foreground Selection Tool.” This tool lets you extract the foreground from the active layer or from a…

GIMP The Free Photoshop Alternative

GIMP is a free and open-source raster graphics editor used for image manipulation and image editing, free-form drawing, transcoding between different image file formats, and more specialized tasks. It is not designed to be used for drawing, though some artists and creators have used it in this way. Like photoshop, playing the piano, or anything…

Snappy Driver Installer

If you’ve lost your driver discs, you’re unable to find drivers on the manufacturer’s web site or Windows Update can’t configure your hardware, use Snappy Driver Installer to quickly find and install all missing drivers. Snappy Driver Installer is a utility that accesses a massive database of divers against the hardware on your computer, updates…

Amazing Features In Rufus

Rufus is a utility that helps format and create bootable USB flash drives, such as USB keys/pendrives, memory sticks, etc. Rufus is amazing at creating OS installation media form ISO files that you’ve downloaded from the Internet, but did you know that Rufus can download those ISO files for you? Rufus can also disable all…

Belarc Advisor

The Belarc Advisor s an application that displays a detailed profile of your installed software, hardware and security vulnerabilities in your Web browser. The Belarc Advisor is licensed for personal use only and is not permitted to be used for any commercial or government purposes. One use case for Advisor is to find the Windows…

Free Genealogy Tools

Genealogy is a fun and rewarding activity. Finding out where you come from is very interesting, but it can cost a lot of money. Ancestry.com is a great tool for research and family tree building but it can cost as much as $338 per year for all access. The basic membership is $119 per year….

Free Diagram Editor

Dia is an application for creating technical diagrams. Its interface and features are loosely patterned after the Windows program Visio. Features of Dia include multiple-page printing, export to many formats (EPS, SVG, CGM, and PNG), and the ability to use custom shapes created by the user as simple XML descriptions. Get Dia! Get more Dia…

Best Free Video Editor

Kdenlive is a powerful free and open source cross-platform video editing program made by the KDE community. Feature rich and production ready. I’m not a professional video editor therefore I’ve never used any of the paid editors like Adobe Premiere, or Final Cut Pro, but I have tried a lot of free ones. I’ve used…

How to use ChatGPT

ChatGPT is an artificial-intelligence chatbot developed by OpenAI and launched in November 2022. It is built on top of OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 families of large language models and has been fine-tuned using both supervised and reinforcement learning techniques. Chat GPT can assist with writing tasks by suggesting ideas for a blog post about healthy…

SVB Was A Bailout For Billionaire

We have now learned the the Silicon Valley Bank bailout was a bailout for billionaires. The 10 largest deposit accounts at SVB held $13 billion. The federal bailout is going to cover every penny. If you had $300, 000 at Mom & Pop Bank and M&P Bank felled to meet their fiduciary responsibilities you can…