And the Most Ridiculous Photochopping Award Goes To…

…Al-Ahram! Egypt's state-run and largest newspaper, whose editors weren't happy to see their Big Boss—President Hosni Mubarak—in the last place of this photo at the White House. Thankfully, Photoshop made him win the race, even beating President Obama.

The photo was taken by Pablo Martinez Monsivais of the Associated Press, during last Wednesday peace talks in Washington, D.C. The Middle Eastern leaders—Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Palestine President Mahmoud Abbas and King Abdullah of Jordan—were being
guided to the East Room of the White House by President Obama.

In Egypt, however, Mubarak was guiding all of them, which is what happens in a country where they have a state-run newspaper and the President is President since 1981. The editors of 1-million-reader Al-Ahram could have put him leveled with King Abdullah II of Jordan—on the right of the image—but no, they wanted their beloved leader to be ahead of Obama himself.

Send an email to Jesus Diaz, the author of this post, at jesus@gizmodo.com.

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Labor Day weekend is a traditional blowout-sale holiday, and Capcom's chuckalicious “Greene's Hardware” party at PAX 2010 provided the fuel for our latest call for entries. Here are your winners!

Leading off, Bouzi smooched some buttcheek with his Kotaku Shop ‘shop, genuflecting to Crecente's hair, McWhertor's shirt biz, and my appearance in Glamour. Let me tell your Bouzi, Glamour, Hamm's and summer sausage is a lot more than thirteen bucks, with the ladies' mag comprising the bulk of the purchase.

diedan had a utilitarian but smart take on Zork; plastic slug and aynoobynoobers filed the requisite homages to two NES classics; Eight_Bit_Remix took on 4chan, and psykofaze clocked in with an entry based on last week's challenge, but given his record, the subject matter, and the fact it was funny, I'll allow it.

But the winner is Rokeden, whose 'Shop is equal parts perfect setup and perfect joke.

Congrats to the winners, thanks to all who participated, and we'll have a new challenge for you tomorrow at 10 a.m.

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Offering Photoshop features at a fraction of the price, Photoshop Elements 8 is a great way to get more advanced photo editing tools than most free tools offer while not spending hundreds of dollars for the latest version of full Photoshop.  Photoshop Elements offers you many of Photoshop’s best features, while making difficult touchup tricks simpler with one-click brushes.  It also includes an advanced photo organizer that lets you backup your photos online.  These features and more make it a great tool for consumers who want more features than their free photo editing tools offer.

Key Features

• PSD, PDF, RAW, and EPS file support, as well as most other standard picture formats such as JPG, PNG, TIFF, and GIF
• Full Layers, filters, and brushes support give you lots of editing potential
• Guided and Basic editing modes help new users get started
• New Photomerge, Recompose, and one-step brushes make touchup a snap
• Create Calendars, photo books, cards, online photo albums, and more quickly with professional templates

Installation

Photoshop Elements is fairly easy to install.  If you’ve purchased it as a digital download or downloaded a trial, you may first have to run an extractor to extract the download for installation.

Then, you’ll be able to use the installer, which is what you’ll see by default when you install Photoshop Elements from a DVD.  Select the language you want to use for setup, and click Ok to continue.

The installer works like most installers you’ve likely used before, so it shouldn’t be hard to get it installed.

You’ll be asked to enter your Photoshop Elements 8 serial number during the installation.  If you’d rather enter it later, or are installing it to try it out, click Install the trial version to continue without entering your serial number.

If you do enter your serial number, Photoshop Elements will automatically activate online during the installation.  Otherwise you can activate later when you enter your serial number if you chose to install as a trial.

Setup took less than 5 minutes for us, and we were soon greeted with the Photoshop Elements 8 Splash Screen.

Photoshop Elements Launcher

By default, Photoshop Elements will load a launcher when you run the program.  This lets you access information about getting started with Photoshop Elements, and also lets you launch the photo organizer and the Editor, which is what most people would think of as the real Photoshop Elements.

The tours can help you quickly learn the latest features in Photoshop Elements.

If you’d rather just launch the Photoshop Elements Editor directly without opening the launch screen, you can make a new shortcut to C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Photoshop Elements 8.0\PhotoshopElementsEditor.exe (or just Program Files if you’re using a 32 bit version of Windows).

Here’s the Photoshop Elements 8 Editor, which as you may notice looks fairly similar to Photoshop CS4 or CS5.

Features

Photoshop Elements is fairly easy to use, as it works very similar to many applications you may already be used to.  Open images usually are displayed in individual windows inside Photoshop Elements, though you can drag them to the top of the window to display them as tabs.

As mentioned before, you can find many popular Photoshop tools in Elements.  Most of the tools will be found in the pallet on the left, or in the menus at the top.

Click and hold pallet items to see more options.  The Lasso tool also includes a Magnetic Lasso tool, which works amazingly good for selecting individual parts of a photo.

The Spot Healing Brush tool is another great feature that lets you quickly remove small blemishes in your photos.  Not as impressive as Photoshop CS5’s object removal, but it’s still a great way to touch up your pictures.

You’ll also notice effect filters and actions on the right side of the window.  Drag an effect onto a picture to instantly add it to your image.

If you’d like to edit pictures in a simpler interface, click the arrow beside the orange Edit button on the right.  Here you can select the Quick or the Guided editor.

The quick editor mode reduces the options and tools to let you focus on the most popular photo touchup tools.

The guided editor, on the other hand, changes Photoshop Elements into a wizard based interface that can step you through a variety of photo tasks.

Photoshop Elements also makes it easy for you to create professionally styled photo books, calendars, and more from the Create tab.

Once you’re ready to share your photos, you’ll find a variety of options available for your use on the Share tab.  The Online Album option helps you create beautiful flash based photo galleries you can showcase on your website or blog.

Photoshop Elements can also help you create new images, and we were able to follow a wide variety of tutorials aimed at professional Photoshop since Elements is so similar.  You can also create a new Panorama or group shot from the Photomerge feature.

The Photomerge tools work very good in our texts.  Here we used it to create a panorama of the front of a dam, all from pictures shot from the top down.  We were very impressed that it was able to stitch the images together so good, and it only took 3 clicks to make it!

You can also quickly organize, touchup, and create photo products with the Photoshop Elements Organizer that’s included with Photoshop Elements.

It also includes a full screen editing mode where you can touchup and preview your pictures without any distractions.

One nice bonus you get with Photoshop Elements is a wide variety of popular and high-quality Adobe fonts.  By default, these are stored in your Program Files folder.  If you’d like to see what fonts are included and how to use them in other applications, check out this article about the Fonts Included with Photoshop Elements 8.

If you’re not a fan of dark interfaces, you can choose a lighter gray color scheme from the Options pane.

Photoshop Elements worked very fast on our system, but if you find it’s bogging down your computer too much you can choose the max amount of memory Photoshop can use.  You can also change the drive Photoshop uses for its scratch files, and select how many history states are saved.

Support

Adobe offers excellent online help for Photoshop Elements along with all their other products.  You can learn how to use many of the programs features.

You can download the help as a PDF, or install an Adobe Air application that will display offline and online Help information for all your Adobe products.

If Photoshop Elements crashes, you may be prompted to send a crash report to Adobe.  Photoshop Elements was very stable in our experience, but if you do have problems you can add your email at the bottom of the crash report to get notified if an update or hotfix is available.

Adobe also offers free phone-based support for setup and activation issues if you need help getting started.

Conclusion

If you’d like to expand your design and photo editing capabilities without spending hundreds of dollars, Photoshop Elements is a great option.  It’s very similar to the full versions of Photoshop, but is much more budget friendly for casual users.  Pro users will, of course, still want full Photoshop, but for most people’s needs, Elements hits the spot.  Plus, almost everything you learn in Elements can help you work in full Photoshop if you ever step up.  Photoshop Elements offers far more features than most free photo editors, and since it works seamlessly with other Adobe products you’ll feel at home working with colleagues using full Photoshop.

Photoshop Elements 8 is available for purchase as a download from Adobe or a boxed product from major retailers.  You can download a 30 day free trial with an Adobe account, and then a full version retails for $99.99 and is often available discounted for around $69.  If you’d like more online photo backup space and premium templates, you can purchase Photoshop Elements Plus for $139.  Alternately, Photoshop Elements is commonly purchased as a set with Premiere Elements, a popular video editing suite; the combo retails for $149.99.  If you ever decide you’d like to upgrade to full Photoshop, you’ll get a slight discount as an Elements owner as well.

Works on Windows 7, Vista, and XP, as well as Mac OS X.

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Do you read or work with PDF files often? If so, you’ve probably needed the ability to either combine multiple files into one or split one into many at some point.

AnyBizSoft has two applications that can do just that. Their PDF Merger allows you to combine multiple PDF files into one for better organizing, archiving, and batch printing, while their PDF Splitter enables you to split PDF files–even encrypted ones–by pages, bookmarks, and page ranges.

In this article, I am going to review both of these applications, emphasizing how simple they are to use. I will also tell you where you can get these apps for free (for a limited time).

PDF Merger

PDF Merger is a standalone program that doesn’t require Adobe Reader or Acrobat to be installed in order for you to use it. It allows you to set properties and security for your newly created files, and it can remove passwords from protected files that prevent you from copying, editing, or printing.

To begin merging PDF files, you have to start by installing the program and running it. From the application’s main screen, you simply click Add Files… to select the files you would like to merge. You can import up to an astounding 200 files at one time with this program.

After adding your desired files, select any one of them and click Method. A screen will appear that allows you to select your page range and sort method. Available options include the merging of all pages, odd/even, or specific pages you type in.

Once you’ve made your selections, click the Options button to customize the properties and security for your soon-to-be merged file. Then, you can return to the home screen where you can set the file name and destination folder for the exported file.

If you’ve got everything situated just the way you like, all that’s left to do is to click the Merge button to begin the process of combining your PDFs into a single file. Check the folder for the your new document once completed.

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To use PDF Splitter, you first have to open the program to the home screen. Clicking Browse will allow you to select the PDF file you want to split.

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Click the Split button and PDF Splitter will go to work for you. Simply check the folder when you’re done for your newly created files.

Where Do I Get These Apps?

For a limited time only, AnyBizSoft is giving licenses to these apps away for free. All you have to do is navigate over to their Facebook page and fill in your information to be sent a free license for both apps. Once you have a license, you can download the apps from their respective pages and enter in your code to begin using them for free.

Aside from the limited time offer, AnyBizSoft is also constantly giving away free licenses for their flagship app, PDF to Word Converter 3.0.0. More details on their Facebook page.

If you’re an academic user, you can also check out their Back to School special offer page for more great deals.

The Adobe Acrobat Blog has a new post up reveling in the 1 million downloads their Reader app for Android has garnered in the two months since its release. With over 4,000 rating the app also sits at a healthy four stars, and with all the success the PDF viewer has had Adobe promises there is much more to come. I’ll take any enhancements as a bonus as I’ve been pretty pleased the the experience Reader for Android has offered since day one. It isn’t the most light-weight PDF reader on the Android Market, but for all of its features it really makes the viewing experience that much better on Android. If you haven’t checked it out I highly encourage you to check it out.

[via TalkAndroid]

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Do you read or work with PDF files often? If so, you’ve probably needed the ability to either combine multiple files into one or split one into many at some point.

AnyBizSoft has two applications that can do just that. Their PDF Merger allows you to combine multiple PDF files into one for better organizing, archiving, and batch printing, while their PDF Splitter enables you to split PDF files–even encrypted ones–by pages, bookmarks, and page ranges.

In this article, I am going to review both of these applications, emphasizing how simple they are to use. I will also tell you where you can get these apps for free (for a limited time).

PDF Merger

PDF Merger is a standalone program that doesn’t require Adobe Reader or Acrobat to be installed in order for you to use it. It allows you to set properties and security for your newly created files, and it can remove passwords from protected files that prevent you from copying, editing, or printing.

To begin merging PDF files, you have to start by installing the program and running it. From the application’s main screen, you simply click Add Files… to select the files you would like to merge. You can import up to an astounding 200 files at one time with this program.

After adding your desired files, select any one of them and click Method. A screen will appear that allows you to select your page range and sort method. Available options include the merging of all pages, odd/even, or specific pages you type in.

Once you’ve made your selections, click the Options button to customize the properties and security for your soon-to-be merged file. Then, you can return to the home screen where you can set the file name and destination folder for the exported file.

If you’ve got everything situated just the way you like, all that’s left to do is to click the Merge button to begin the process of combining your PDFs into a single file. Check the folder for the your new document once completed.

PDF Splitter

PDF Splitter gives you a way to split large PDF files into smaller ones quickly and flexibly. Like PDF Merger, it is a standalone program that doesn’t require any other software to be installed. It allows you to split one large PDF file in multiple ways, including into several files with equal page number.

To use PDF Splitter, you first have to open the program to the home screen. Clicking Browse will allow you to select the PDF file you want to split.

Once selected, you can go under Select Split Method to choose your split settings. You can split by any amount of pages, split by bookmark, by page range to a single file, page range to multiple files, and averagely across multiple files. Customize the output folder and you’re done!

Click the Split button and PDF Splitter will go to work for you. Simply check the folder when you’re done for your newly created files.

Where Do I Get These Apps?

For a limited time only, AnyBizSoft is giving licenses to these apps away for free. All you have to do is navigate over to their Facebook page and fill in your information to be sent a free license for both apps. Once you have a license, you can download the apps from their respective pages and enter in your code to begin using them for free.

Aside from the limited time offer, AnyBizSoft is also constantly giving away free licenses for their flagship app, PDF to Word Converter 3.0.0. More details on their Facebook page.

If you’re an academic user, you can also check out their Back to School special offer page for more great deals.

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The Adobe Acrobat Blog has a new post up reveling in the 1 million downloads their Reader app for Android has garnered in the two months since its release. With over 4,000 rating the app also sits at a healthy four stars, and with all the success the PDF viewer has had Adobe promises there is much more to come. I’ll take any enhancements as a bonus as I’ve been pretty pleased the the experience Reader for Android has offered since day one. It isn’t the most light-weight PDF reader on the Android Market, but for all of its features it really makes the viewing experience that much better on Android. If you haven’t checked it out I highly encourage you to check it out.

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The Adobe Acrobat Blog has a new post up reveling in the 1 million downloads their Reader app for Android has garnered in the two months since its release. With over 4,000 rating the app also sits at a healthy four stars, and with all the success the PDF viewer has had Adobe promises there is much more to come. I’ll take any enhancements as a bonus as I’ve been pretty pleased the the experience Reader for Android has offered since day one. It isn’t the most light-weight PDF reader on the Android Market, but for all of its features it really makes the viewing experience that much better on Android. If you haven’t checked it out I highly encourage you to check it out.

[via TalkAndroid]

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It’s not like traditional paper sheet music was ever able to turn itself, and in my mind, hitting the arrow key on a laptop or swiping your finger across the iPad seems a lot easier than re-shuffling a stack of pages while playing an instrument. But since I’m no musician, who am I to question if this Bluetooth foot pedal from AirTurn actually makes things easier or not?

The device itself is basically a BT transmitter which connects to a handful of foot switches from the likes of Boss or Roland, and it seems to work with pretty much any application you’d need it to including Acrobat, Word, PowerPoint, Keynote etc. The transmitter is powered by a couple of AAs which should keep it running for a few weeks, and it has a range of up to 100 feet which seems a bit overkill. For $39.95 you can get the AirTurn transmitter and receiver by itself, but the company also sells bundles with Boss forward and back foot switches and their Music Reader software which pushes the price tag to close to $200.

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By Andrew Liszewski

It’s not like traditional paper sheet music was ever able to turn itself, and in my mind, hitting the arrow key on a laptop or swiping your finger across the iPad seems a lot easier than re-shuffling a stack of pages while playing an instrument. But since I’m no musician, who am I to question if this Bluetooth foot pedal from AirTurn actually makes things easier or not?

The device itself is basically a BT transmitter which connects to a handful of foot switches from the likes of Boss or Roland, and it seems to work with pretty much any application you’d need it to including Acrobat, Word, PowerPoint, Keynote etc. The transmitter is powered by a couple of AAs which should keep it running for a few weeks, and it has a range of up to 100 feet which seems a bit overkill. For $39.95 you can get the AirTurn transmitter and receiver by itself, but the company also sells bundles with Boss forward and back foot switches and their Music Reader software which pushes the price tag to close to $200.

[ AirTurn BT-105 Bluetooth Foot Pedal Page Turner ] VIA [ eCoustics ]

Microsoft has been helping Adobe develop a sandbox similar to the Protected View in Office 2010. Adobe Reader Protected Mode, a sandboxing technology based on Microsoft's Practical Windows Sandboxing technique, is a new mitigation feature scheduled for the next major version release of Adobe Reader. In addition to working with the Microsoft Office security team, Adobe also learned from the Google Chrome team as well as third-party consultancies and other external groups that have sandboxing knowledge and experience.

Adobe Reader Protected Mode will be enabled by default and will ensure that all operations required to display a PDF file to the user are run in a restricted manner inside a sandbox. Actions not permitted in the sandboxed environment, such as writing to the user's temporary folder or launching an attachment inside a PDF file using an external application, are funneled through a “broker process,” which has a strict set of policies for what is allowed and what is not. This first release will sandbox all “write” calls, mitigating the risk of exploits that seek to install malware on Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, and Windows 7. In future releases of Adobe Reader, the company hopes to extend the sandbox to include read-only activities to protect against attackers seeking to read sensitive information from the user's computer.

Adobe's products are almost as ubiquitous as Microsoft's, and since Microsoft has been taking security much more seriously ever since Windows XP SP2, it made sense for cybercriminals to target software which had so many vulnerabilities waiting to be discovered. Last year, Adobe Reader took the crown away from Microsoft Office as the software with the most vulnerabilities. Brad Arkin, Senior Director of Product Security & Privacy for Adobe Systems, announced in May 2009 that a major Adobe Reader and Acrobat security initiative was underway: code hardening, incident response process improvements, and a shift to a regular security update schedule.

Microsoft's and Adobe's products compete on many fronts, but it makes sense for Redmond to help its partners in the area of security. The sandboxing approaches that Microsoft has pioneered in Office, including the sandbox for its search subsystem, the MOICE sandbox, and Protected View, are there to improve the overall state of security on Windows. The progress in security made by the Office team can thus be extended to other third-party applications for Windows, protecting the customers that Microsoft has in common with its partners.

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Microsoft has been helping Adobe develop a sandbox similar to the Protected View in Office 2010. Adobe Reader Protected Mode, a sandboxing technology based on Microsoft's Practical Windows Sandboxing technique, is a new mitigation feature scheduled for the next major version release of Adobe Reader. In addition to working with the Microsoft Office security team, Adobe also learned from the Google Chrome team as well as third-party consultancies and other external groups that have sandboxing knowledge and experience.

Adobe Reader Protected Mode will be enabled by default and will ensure that all operations required to display a PDF file to the user are run in a restricted manner inside a sandbox. Actions not permitted in the sandboxed environment, such as writing to the user's temporary folder or launching an attachment inside a PDF file using an external application, are funneled through a “broker process,” which has a strict set of policies for what is allowed and what is not. This first release will sandbox all “write” calls, mitigating the risk of exploits that seek to install malware on Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, and Windows 7. In future releases of Adobe Reader, the company hopes to extend the sandbox to include read-only activities to protect against attackers seeking to read sensitive information from the user's computer.

Adobe's products are almost as ubiquitous as Microsoft's, and since Microsoft has been taking security much more seriously ever since Windows XP SP2, it made sense for cybercriminals to target software which had so many vulnerabilities waiting to be discovered. Last year, Adobe Reader took the crown away from Microsoft Office as the software with the most vulnerabilities. Brad Arkin, Senior Director of Product Security & Privacy for Adobe Systems, announced in May 2009 that a major Adobe Reader and Acrobat security initiative was underway: code hardening, incident response process improvements, and a shift to a regular security update schedule.

Microsoft's and Adobe's products compete on many fronts, but it makes sense for Redmond to help its partners in the area of security. The sandboxing approaches that Microsoft has pioneered in Office, including the sandbox for its search subsystem, the MOICE sandbox, and Protected View, are there to improve the overall state of security on Windows. The progress in security made by the Office team can thus be extended to other third-party applications for Windows, protecting the customers that Microsoft has in common with its partners.

By Andrew Liszewski

It’s not like traditional paper sheet music was ever able to turn itself, and in my mind, hitting the arrow key on a laptop or swiping your finger across the iPad seems a lot easier than re-shuffling a stack of pages while playing an instrument. But since I’m no musician, who am I to question if this Bluetooth foot pedal from AirTurn actually makes things easier or not?

The device itself is basically a BT transmitter which connects to a handful of foot switches from the likes of Boss or Roland, and it seems to work with pretty much any application you’d need it to including Acrobat, Word, PowerPoint, Keynote etc. The transmitter is powered by a couple of AAs which should keep it running for a few weeks, and it has a range of up to 100 feet which seems a bit overkill. For $39.95 you can get the AirTurn transmitter and receiver by itself, but the company also sells bundles with Boss forward and back foot switches and their Music Reader software which pushes the price tag to close to $200.

[ AirTurn BT-105 Bluetooth Foot Pedal Page Turner ] VIA [ eCoustics ]