Photoshop is the most well known and widely used graphics editing software out there - But it’s price tag prevents alot of people from using it. 

Luckily, there are quite a few open source/free Photoshop Alternatives. Here’s my favourite 5:

1. Paint.Net

Once a replacement for Microsoft’s Paint application, Paint.Net has grown into fully fledged graphics editing suite. I enjoy using it because it is relatively easy to use.

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Revisor

Revisor enables you to customize and compose your own Fedora based installation and live media. It does so by presenting you a GUI with all options you can click you way through, and a CLI and extended configuration files for the more advanced users.

Features that Revisor has vary from customizing the packages available during the installation and/or installed on the live media, to fully customizing the desktop environment for the live media.

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An energy potion for gamers eh? Here’s a snippet from the Mana Potions website:

What is it going to do to me? 

It will bump your mana or your HP up +160 (real world humans have about 100 mana, by the way). It’s 5-8 hours of smooth, jitter-free energy. When it comes to caffeine content, this potent shot is equivalent to about two 8-ounce Red Bulls® or four cups of crappy office coffee.

Yes that’s right kids - you have mana…..100 of them. And don’t get me started on the tagline - “less filling, more killing”.

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Just came across another great video by the guys over at Common Craft which I wanted to share. 

A short explanation of what makes the World Wide Web work: browsers, packets, servers and links.

Note from Ace: Thought I’d inject a humorous post into this site today. Done a fair few how to’s lately…

So we’ve seen a Mac’d out Apple car but what about the rest of the geeky cars out there? Ranging from having pi on your number plate to a car covered with Homer Simpsons face (made of computer keys!), we here at GizmoStyle have compiled what we hope is a pretty cool selection of nerd automobiles. Enjoy!

iPhone controlled Mazda RX-8

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Liking the look of Windows 7? Still using XP or Vista but want the look of Windows 7? Well, you have come to the right place.

Windows XP

SevenVG Refresh
Vishal Gupta has done a fantastic job with this theme. It’s simple to install, looks great, and features both normal taskbar buttons and iconized mode.

Windows 7 Complete
User DopeySneezy calls this one Complete, and he’s not wrong. Includes Windows 7 style system properties, display settings screens, and more.

Seven Remix 2.0
Niwrad Soft recently updated his theme, and it’s even more convincing than V1.0. 

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With the inclusion of such a powerful JavaScript engine, V8, in Chrome, Google have really paved the way for the next generation of web applications to perform faster in the browser. Now, the development of these next gen apps are still in its early days, but we here at GizmoStyle have compiled a list of the top 10 best Google Chrome experiments so far. Here they are:

1. Social Collider

The Social Collider reveals cross-connections between conversations on Twitter.

This experiment explores these possibilities by starting with messages on the microblogging-platform Twitter. One can search for usernames or topics, which are tracked through time and visualized much like the way a particle collider draws pictures of subatomic matter. Posts that didn’t resonate with anyone just connect to the next item in the stream. The ones that did, however, spin off and horizontally link to users or topics who relate to them, either directly or in terms of their content.

2. Browser Talk

Speak into your microphone and through browser personas

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