Today, I'm going to teach you how to first simply create a black and white image from a color photo, then to selectively colorize any portion of the photo. I'm not going to directly adapt a Photoshop tutorial because this

Opera has signed an agreement with TeliaSonera International Carrier to provide Opera with colocation in establishing a new data center in Poland. As Opera's fourth data center worldwide, the facility will operate as the server hub for Opera Mini, allowing

is a safe and easy-to-use privacy protection tool, that allows you to erase common Internet and computing tracks, including browser cache, cookies, visited websites, typed URLs, recent documents, index.dat files and more.

Stefan Lippers-Hollmann has announced the availability of the first preview release of sidux 2009-02, a desktop-oriented distribution based on Debian's unstable branch: "We have the pleasure to announce the availability of the first preview for sidux 2009-02 'Aether', shipping with

Fabio Erculiani has announced the release of Sabayon Linux 4.2 "GNOME" edition, a Gentoo-based desktop distribution and live DVD: "On the behalf of the Sabayon Linux team, we are happy to announce the immediate availability of Sabayon Linux 4.2 GNOME.

Fixstars has announced the release of Yellow Dog Linux 6.2, a CentOS-based distribution designed for the Apple PowerPC and Sony PlayStation machines: "Fixstars today announced the immediate availability of Yellow Dog Linux 6.2, delivering several updates and improvements making it

This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Report: LinuxTag 2009 News: Updated kernel for "Lenny", Slackware install guide, Fedora 12 "Constantine", free articles by BSD Magazine Released last week: Linux Mint 7 "x86_64", Tiny Core Linux 2.1, linuX-gamers Live 0.9.5 Upcoming releases:

Joe Brockmeier has announced the availability of the third milestone of openSUSE 11.2 "The openSUSE project is pleased to announce the release of openSUSE 11.2 milestone 3. Images are ready for download and testing. This release includes the 2.6.30 Linux

blackPanther OS is a Hungarian desktop Linux distribution with RPM package management. The just released version 9.1 is a major update, featuring many new technologies, Linux kernel 2.6.29.1, KDE 4.2.0 and OxygenOffice 3.1. Besides the live CD, the distribution provides

Bill Reynolds has announced the release of PCLinuxOS 2009.2, a beginner-friendly distribution and live CD for the desktop: "The quarterly ISO image updates of PCLinuxOS 2009.2 and PCLinuxOS GNOME 2009.2 are now available, featuring a fully updated ISO image with

Danfoss Electronic Controls & Sensors, one of Denmark's largest industrial companies, today announced it has selected Sun Microsystems' MySQL database to help power its air conditioning software application AKM, Adap-Kool Monitoring. The AKM software enables commercial facilities, such as grocery

Comm-Unity Networking Systems releases FTPit Pro 2.0.3 for FileMaker(R) Pro. FTPit Pro is a FileMaker 7+ rewrite of our Classic FileMaker 6 FTPit plug-in. With this plug-in you can transfer files, text, and entire directories to and from your computer

Troi Grabber Plug-in 2.0 is a very powerful tool for grabbing images from a video camera and putting them directly into a FileMaker container field... - (Troi Automatisering)

June 29, 2009 The leading Russian anti-virus vendor Doctor Web launches the "Green light"offer for users willing to protect both PC and Mac. If a customer already has a license for Dr.Web Security Space and also wants to shield his

June 29, 2009 Doctor Web released another update of its Dr.Web anti-virus scanner included in such products as Dr.Web Security Space, Dr.Web anti-virus 5.0 for Windows, Dr.Web Enterprise Suite, Dr.Web for Windows Servers and in Dr.Web AV-Desk service software supplied

In All About Symbian Insight 77 (AAS Podcast 137), there is news of Truphone's extended support for Nokia and the 5800 continues its best selling streak. Rafe talks about Nokia and Intel's strategic tie up and reports back from the

just got itself a profile update - ignore the claimed compatibility in their flash widget - if you update your Mac's Nokia Multimedia Transfer now you'll get the new configurations. It definitely now works with the N86 (screenshot proof below)

Rafe and I present , directly affecting still photo and video capture in a wide range of lighting conditions, and with special reference to the output of the N95, of which the N86 is something of a spiritual successor. See

AMF Bowling: Pinbusters is the latest N-Gage game on the block and Ewan . Despite a sensible control system, decent graphics and (shock, horror) support for multi-player gaming over the N-Gage Arena, Ewan brands it 'repetitive' and 'ultimately unfulfilling'. Still,

Nokia is previewing its upcoming , over on Beta Labs. This is the only S60 phone (so far) with permanent full access to Nokia Messaging as a service, but presumably functionality from this will spread in the coming months, as