Often we find excellent wallpapers or photos which either do not fit in our monitor screen (w/o losing or distorting data while we try to resize them in photoshop or other image editors) OR often we want a custom size of images OR we get our hands on excellent images with weird unacceptable resolutiion, Siggraph 2007 presentation of an all new way to automatically resize images tracing 'seams' with the least amount of energy. The eraser thing at the end is totally worth it.

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10 Speed Tweaks that can make a huge difference in Vista performance

1. Turn off Windows Search Indexing Windows Vista search indexing is constantly reviewing files on your system to make their contents available for quick searching. This is handy, but can severely impact system performance. To disable constant indexing:

• Click Start then Computer
• Right Click the C: Drive
• On General Tab, Uncheck Index this drive for faster searching
• On the subsequent dialog box, Select

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