Struggling with image manipulation softwares to cut the background off your photographs was the old method. It is not something you should do when you have Instant mask with you.

Instant mask is fairly easy to use and removes the background from pictures effectively. It works best when the background is of some distinct color or has a clear sharp boundary with the subject. It offers you a free version with lesser features and an Instant mask pro version with full features. The pro version can be bought or the trial can be used for 14 days before buying.

Again, Instant Mask offers a freeware version with sufficient features also.

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It Helps in building bonds with like minded people:

If you are a blogger and frequently comment on other blog posts, at some point in time the author will notice your interest in his/her blog. This helps you to build up your circle of like minded people (bloggers). You get a regular reader and also some good things to read regularly. Also helps to build up traffic in sufficient time. Shoutmeloud explains…

Constant bombarding of small comments never works. Commenting has a proper protocol, it must be something which adds to the content of the post. Or it can be a hearty acknowledgment. Criticisms are desirable if put forward in a polite manner.

It can get you a free ad slot:

AnimHut runs this great offer every month. End of every month the top commentator on the blog is awarded with a free adslot for the month. This month it is giving away two such adslots.

It helps to build backlinks:

Commenting makes an active link on the page you comment. This builds a backlink that is tracked by web crawlers if the link is dofollow type. Nowadays the search engines and ranking websites heavily depend on the backlinks to rate a website. It eventually helps to pump up your blog’s rank.

Google now will officially allow uploading any file into the cloud. If you used to use Gmail drafts to save some work online, you can now stop doing that and use Google Docs. You don’t have to carry a storage device with you anymore. All the data you need to access somewhere else can be simply uploaded to Google Docs. The file size limit is presently 250mb. This is a threat to other such paid services, which don’t allow storing more than 2GB without payment.

You can also use a shared folder to share the files with anyone else. For more information, check out our post on the Google Docs blog.

If we look in the past, Gmail changed the way we used our email. It came in with a serious blow to yahoo. The email storage space and attachment size it could provide at that time was the largest in the market and made people to shift to it. Even presently Gmail gives huge storage space which  increases every second. I can see a similar trend building up in the cloud storage section again.

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White noise is a random signal (or process) with a flat power spectral density. – Wikipedia

A white noise can help the brain to relax, aid sleep, suppress distractions, improve memory, soothe migraines etc. Due to its property to cut through background sounds, it can be used to cut unwanted sounds coming into a room. Thus, white noise is a soft noise to help you work in peace.

White noise is impossible to generate by any automated algorithm. But some complex algorithms can generate white noise quite closely. The random noise generated can be used to create totally random numbers. Simply noise is an online white noise generator which can produce white noise right on your browser. It is a flash based application, with a volume control slider for your custom comfort volume level.  Use the simply noise application while you are working or sleeping for a soft ambience that helps you.

[Simply noise]

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1. Veer

Collection of beautiful and unique wallpapers. A place which you can’t skip looking with google images as an excuse. No you can never find these through google image search.

Veer needs a free 2 minute registration process before you can download the full resolution wallpapers.

2. Vlad Studio

My personal favorite website to find great wallpapers. The drawing style wallpapers, you rarely find anywhere else. Vlad studio isn’t the place if you are searching for photo realistic wallpapers. The wallpapers they feature are more of a modern art type. It is a one man support website. All those come from the graphic skills of a single person.

3. Interfacelift

Then there is Interfacelift selected as the best by people. In a recent poll by lifehacker, interfacelift won. Interfacelift was voted the best by 36% of the lifehacker readers. Presently 2041 wallpapers, each handpicked.

4. Deviantart

Deviantart is a online art community. People share their piece of art or photography on the website. Search for wallpapers in the search box of Deviantart. The pictures that get a tag “wallpaper” among number of other tags, land on your search page. Deviantart scored 2nd highest number of votes on the Lifehacker poll.

5. PixelGirl

Not mentioned at many places, Pixelgirl hosts beautiful wallpapers. coolest Mac OS X Windows icons and desktop images for your computer and mobile gear as well as offering tutorials, articles and links.

Gaming geeky wallpapers: Desktopgaming

Windows 7 theme wallpapers: Howtogeek

Guitar wallpers: Howtogeek

Other great websites via Lifehacker I haven’t used till date: 4Chanwallpapers

SocialWallpapering

DigitalBlasphemy

and Mandolux