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How to create a polished 3d text effect in Adobe Illustrator

Give 3D effects in Illustrator to your vector text and images. Through this you can give your text in Illustrator a perspective which can be used for different design purposes.
To understand how to create a polished 3d text effect in Adobe Illustrator follow the steps below.


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How to clip the contents of a layer in adobe illustrator

You can use Illustrator create clipping mask feature to combine various Illustrator objects and to use it to crop images. The characteristic of creating clipping masks in Illustrator allows you to hide or mask the portion of the image that you do not wish to use. Follow this step by step guide in order to learn how to clip the contents of a layer in Adobe Illustrator.


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How to burn ISO files to CD or DVD in Windows 7

ISO burn is an inbuilt option in Windows 7, which is used to burn image files onto your CD or DVD while reducing their size. It is an effective tool as it is a simple two step process and the image file can easily be burned onto the CD.
Access to this option can be taken by searching in the Start Menu or simply by right-clicking on the file that you wish to burn onto the CD.
Follow this step by step tutorial to learn How to burn ISO files to CD or DVD in Windows 7


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How to add and turn strokes in illustrator

While using Adobe Illustrator, adding strokes basically allow you to see your path. When you apply a stroke to your path, it becomes visible in print and in web view. Therefore, in Adobe Illustrator cs5 it is always important to know your way around the Adobe Illustrator stroke options. There are also various options to this tool which can enhance your design. Hence, it is always beneficial to know how to add and turn strokes in Adobe Illustrator.


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God Mode in windows 7

Windows 7 control panel has been organized by categories and in those categories there are sub categories. If you want to search for an option in control panel you will either have to browse through 2 or 3 options or you will have to search for the option in the search box. There is another way to access the control panel options and that is through entering a code and making a new folder.
Follow this step by step tutorial to learn How to access all Control Panel options in one place in windows 7.


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How to sync Bookmarks in All Browsers?

There are various internet browsers available nowadays. All these browsers offer competent services and latest features of browsing. People usually prefer using more than one browser to avail maximum features. However it’s a bit hard to keep track of your bookmarks in all browsers at the same time. With the advancement in technology, it has become very easy to synchronize bookmarks across browsers by using synchronization applications. Here in this tutorial, we will guide you on using Transmute Pro to transfer bookmarks between different browsers.


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How to do Private Browsing in Mozilla Firefox?

Whenever you visit any website on the internet, your browser stores certain information in its record. This information contains details about your session time, visited web pages, passwords, website preferences and many other similar facts. These details can be easily tracked and restore by anyone who can access your computer. If you are using a public computer then it is better to use the private browsing facility that allows you to browse any website without saving it in the history of your browser. This feature is very useful in such cases like you are planning to buy a surprise gift online and don’t want to disclose this information to anyone.
There are many applications available which provide you a private browsing facility, however in this tutorial we use Mozilla browser which comes up with a built-in private browsing feature. It is important to note that private internet browsing doesn’t mean surfing the internet anonymously. Internet Service Provider or the website which you are visiting can still record your browsing activities.
Follow this step by step tutorial to learn how to browse privately by using Mozilla Firefox.


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How to Open Two Yahoo Messengers at the same time?

Yahoo! Email is the most popular email service around the world. You can find many helpful and exciting features in a Yahoo! Email account. Yahoo! Messenger is one of its best features. It gives a facility to send instant messages to your contacts. Windows only allows only one instance of Yahoo! Messenger to run at a time. However by modifying few options in windows registry, you can run more than one Yahoo! Messengers at the same time.
Learn How to Open Two Yahoo Messengers at the same time by following the below given steps.


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How to Download and Use Additional Emoticons and Audibles?

It’s a known fact that pictures and animated images can represent a feeling in a more expressive way than words. This is the reason to drive every messenger service to offer emoticons in their chat windows. Most of the time people use emoticons to demonstrate their feelings in a simple way rather than typing it. Besides the default emoticons which are available in messengers, there are also free emoticon applications available. Such applications provide additional interactive audible and animated emoticons for msn, yahoo and other popular messenger services.
In this tutorial we are using Bandoo Emoticons which is a free application and offers lots of additional emoticons.


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How to set Time Usage on Computer?

Children and teenagers mostly spend hours playing computer games or surfing the internet. Too much of this activity is neither educating nor healthy for the kids. People who care about their children should consider it to be necessary to put a limit on the usage of computer. There are various computer control programs available to help you out in this situation. User Time Control Center is a perfect solution to put user time limit on your computer system. In this tutorial we will guide you to learn how to set time usage on computer by using the User Time Control Center.


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