Taking a photo that is blur can be disappointing especially when you know that are probably never going to go back there again. As for forensics, fixing a blur photo is also important so that they can gather evidence which are probably missed by a naked eye. It is possible to fix a blur photo by sharpening the image but you cannot expect to get a fully clear image but just an image that is acceptable quality. One way to easily and automatically fix blur photos is by using Unshake.
Unshake requires Java to run. After downloading Unshake, extract it and run Unshake.jar file which is an executable Jar file. It can only be executed if Java is installed. To determine whether Java is installed on your computer, go to Java.com. When Unshake is launched, click the Open button to load the blur image. Then you get to select the level of amplification, normal or severe blur, and quality estimation of basic, portrait or scenic.
Unshake is free and because it runs on Java, you can expect it to run on operating systems other than Windows such as Linux and Mac OS.
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It is nearly impossible to browse the web without using the mouse because a website has so many elements from images to links. To jump from one element to another you will have to press the TAB key and if you are at the top of the page and wants to click on the link that is at the bottom of the page, you probably need to press the TAB button many times. One way to browse the web using Firefox without a mouse is by installing an extension called Vimperator.
Do note that Vimperator is not really that easy to use for people that has never used Vim text editor before because the key bindings are the same from there. After installing Vimperator, it strips all the elements including the address and status bar to make it look like a text editor. To go back, all you need to do is type :set guioptions+=mT and then press the F button on your keyboard which will display numbers on links which can be accessed. Press the number on your keyboard to access the link that corresponds with the number.
You can head on to the official site of Vimperator to check out the available key bindings.
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Every web browser has the capability of logging the list of websites that has been visited and it is called history. It is meant as a convenient so that the user doesn’t need to type the whole address and can easily access it by clicking on the address bar drop down button. Other than that, parents can also use it to monitor what website has their children visited although it is not a good method as it can be easily erased. When it comes to monitoring, exporting and selectively deleting history for Internet Explorer browser, one of a good third party tool to use is IE History Monitor.
As what we have tested, it doesn’t really monitor the histories but instead if displays all the visited website history at a clean interface with the title, url, last visited, last updated and expired columns. The links can be copied, opened or even selectively deleted from the program via right click. Finally, it can be exported as a log file to an external HTML for further inspection or recordings.
IE History Monitor last revised 5 years ago but it worked perfectly on Internet Explorer at Windows 7 32bit. It is free and portable which doesn’t require installation.
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We have previously covered an easy tip where you can use Microsoft Office 2010 trial period for 6 months without activating your product key. All you need to do is run the OSPPREARM.exe tool located in the Common Files folder in Program Files. Whenever the 30 day trial period is up, all you need to do is run the file. Microsoft allows the tool to be ran a maximum of 5 times which gives you a total trial period of 180 days.
If for some reason you are unable to find the file, you can use this portable and simple tool to do it. This application is called Office 2010 Trial Extender and it does the same thing as the manual method. Simply run the tool and click the Rearm button.
Office 2010 Trial Extender requires .NET Framework 3.5 or higher to run and it works on both Microsoft Office 2010 32 bit and 64 bit. Although the rearm feature was made for corporate users and not for home users, there is nothing illegal about it since after installing Microsoft Office 2010, the rearm tool is installed together with it.
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Facebook is the largest social networking website where you can probably find a lot of personal information about people. It is useful in a way to keep in touch with friends that you have lost touch with but if you did not configure your privacy settings properly, you will end up leaking a lot of your personal private information which you don’t want people that you are not so closed with to know about it.
One easy way to quickly check if you have a privacy risk on your Facebook account is by using the free online service ReclaimPrivacy. If you are using Firefox web browser, all you need to do is drag the “Scan for Privacy” link to your bookmark toolbar, then login to your Facebook account and then click on the bookmark which you have just added. ReclaimPrivacy will automatically inspect your Facebook privacy settings and warn you about settings that might be unexpectedly public.
If your Facebook account has privacy risk, there is a button which seems to be able to fix the privacy setting automatically but we have tested it and it doesn’t seem to work. However there are direct link which brings you to the setting so you can turn it off.
Facebook Privacy Scanner
