Tag: effects

How to Search for and Use Camera Filters and Effects on Instagram

Spice up your pictures on Instagram.

By Alexandra Arici – Aug 24, 2022

How to Disable iMessage Effects on Your iPhone

iMessage effects can be fun or annoying. Luckiily, you can turn off the iMessage effects, which will prevent them from playing on your iPhone.

By Shujaa Imran – Feb 7, 2021

Apply Prisma Effects to Your Photos from Your Desktop

Prisma is an app that uses artificial intelligence to apply filters to photos. Here’s how to apply Prisma effects from your desktop using Telegram.

By Mahesh Makvana – Aug 7, 2016

How to Use Face Swap in SnapChat

Face Swap is a Snapchat feature that allows you to do something cool, yet creepy at the same time. Here’s how to swap faces with friends or family to bring out your silly side.

By Judy Sanhz – May 21, 2016

Adding Image Effects to Preview in OS X

Adding image effects to Preview is a simple three step workflow, combined into one. In this article, we will show you how to do it.

By Phil South – May 3, 2015

Advanced Image Processing with GIMP and G’MIC

You may have heard of GIMP as the alternative to Photoshop, but do you know that you can perform advanced image processing on GIMP with G’MIC? Today I’m going to show you just a few of the things you can accomplish with GIMP and G’MIC together.

By Rebecca “Ruji” Chapnik – Jan 16, 2013

In August 2006, naturalists Chris Atkins and Michael Taylor waded into a remote grove in Redwood National Park and pointed a laser rangefinder at a tree that turned out to be 380 feet tall, and the National Park Service has refused to disclose its location ever since, fearing the foot traffic alone would kill it.

Jun 2, 2026

Female engineer testing sound waves in an anechoic chamber with a monitor.

Inside a six-walled wedge-foam chamber on Microsoft’s Redmond campus, the background sound is so far below human hearing that visitors start to perceive the grinding of their own joints, the rush of blood in their ears, and eventually a faint ringing that turns out to be the firing of their own nerves.

Jun 2, 2026

Psychology suggests people who browse social media but never post or comment aren’t passive — they’ve simply opted out of the performance while retaining access to the information, which is a sign of quiet self-awareness

Jun 2, 2026

In 1964, IBM risked its entire corporate empire on the System/360, a chaotic gamble to make all of its future machines compatible with the same software — and the architecture proved so robust that modern enterprise mainframes today are still running sections of binary code written more than sixty years ago

Jun 2, 2026

In 1982, a Soviet pipeline suddenly exploded with the force of a tactical nuclear weapon, and the disaster was traced back to a stolen piece of Canadian pipeline software — and years later, it was revealed the CIA had intentionally allowed the KGB to steal the code, after subtly altering the software’s logic to trigger a catastrophic pressure surge months down the line.

Jun 2, 2026

In the early 1980s, a Dutch radio broadcaster figured out how to transmit video games over standard commercial radio broadcasts — and teenagers across Europe would sit with blank cassette tapes waiting for the local station to broadcast a series of high-pitched squeaks and buzzes that they could record and load into their home computers

Jun 2, 2026

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