Gadgets and Tech in the Philippines

SanDisk has just released an iPhone dock with a very interesting twist to it.  The iXpand is designed primarily to be an iPhone dock and charger, the new concept behind it though is that it also serves as a backup for all the data on your iPhone.  The idea behind the iXpand is that the data on your iPhone is being backed up while you charge your phone, usually at night.   The iXpand backs up your photos, videos and contacts.  Although most of us already backup to iCloud , it still is a good idea to have multiple backups , aside from that, iCloud has limited free storage.  So you have the option of completely backing up locally to the iXpand and backup whatever can fit in iCloud. The top of the iXpand is made of soft rubber for you to lay your iPhone on, then a wrap-around groove to keep the Lightning cable neat.  The iXpand is capable of fast-charging with 15W of power. The iXpand comes with a companion app for backing up and restoring your iPhone's contents. T

There are many uses of cutting out portions of an image, one of them is to remove the background and probably replacing it with a plain background color, others want to add the cut out to another image, the needs vary and the list goes on. I'll be showing you the exact steps on cutting out a specific portion of an image and saving it to another image file .  This is using the freeware photo editor GIMP . So here is the original image, and let's say I would like to cut out the car from the whole image: Open the file in GIMP, click on Layer-Transparency-Add Alpha Channel. Now, select the Lasso or Free Select Tool   .  You can now trace the shape you want to cut out, return to the starting point of your tracing to complete the selection. Click on Select-Invert then press CTRL-X to cut out the selected area.  This is how the cut out area will look: You can now use the cut out image however you want. Related articles Photographer of the Day: Francesco