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The Ultra-Minimal Mac Desktop

6:00AM The How-To Geek | Reader Ian Michael Smith’s desktop shows that you don’t need to have loads of add-ons to make a productive and attractive OS X desktop. More »
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Image Sharpening 101

9:00AM Angus Kidman | Using sharpening tools can significantly improve your images — but you need to know what you’re doing. Photoshop expert Helen Bradley has a useful guide to the basics of sharpening technique. More »
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Use Album Covers To Inspire Photo Editing

3:00PM Angus Kidman | Looking for some ideas on how to jazz up some digital images? Look no further than your CD collection. More »
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Improve Your Outdoor Portraits With An Eye For Lighting

3:30AM Adam Pash | The photog gurus at weblog Digital Photography School offer up 13 tips for improving your outdoor portraits, several of which explain how to best take advantage of whatever lighting conditions you’re shooting in. More »
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Image Resizer Powertoy Clone Resizes Pictures Easily

4:00AM The How-To Geek | Windows only: The Image Resizer Powertoy Clone adds an option to the Windows explorer context menu for quickly resizing pictures—without opening an image editor. More »
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Radical Image Optimization Tool Provides Side By Side Image Comparison

8:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | Windows only: Radical Image Optimization Tool makes it easy to see how compression affects the image quality of the pictures you’re optimising with a handy side-by-side interface. More »
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50 Swanky Icon Sets For Macs

6:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | While these eye-catching icon sets are distinctly Mac-centric, many of them are filled with stunning pieces that could be easily co-opted for another operating system. More »
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The Neon Rings Desktop

10:00AM The How-To Geek | Reader TDuck’s OS X desktop takes an attractive wallpaper and blends circular system information graphs into the background to create a sleek and unobtrusive overall theme. More »
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Force Firefox To Use Windows Vista ClearType Fonts

7:00AM The How-To Geek | Windows only: Reader Anonymous writes in with an interesting tip for making the web a more readable place—by forcing Firefox to use Windows Vista fonts, even on XP. More »
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Abstract Aurora And Colour Spectrum Wallpapers

6:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | If you’re looking for an abstract splash of colour to spruce up your desktop, the collections here should have something that catches your eye. More »