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Not Everything You See is True: 5 Tools to Create Funny Fake Screenshots

by Sonia

If you have been on a site like Lamebook or Damn You Auto Correct, you have seen amusing screenshots submitted by users who have seen funny things occur on their Facebook wall, on Twitter or though texts. They can be very amusing, sometimes cringe worthy and always entertaining.

But did you know that quite often they are fake? This is obvious from time to time, when little mistakes – or big ones – give it away. When that happens, you might be wondering how they went about making the fake ones in the first place. The answer to this is through tools that have been made to simulate these screenshots.

Here are five of the most popular tools for faking Facebook and Twitter wall posts, texts and even news stories.
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How to Disable Comments on All Images in WordPress

November 1, 2011

WordPress has long had a major problem, that has yet to be solved by the development team. Namely, the fact that there is no way to globally disable commenting on certain types of posts or pages – most notably images and media files. Spammers have been attacking blogs for a very long time and targeting [...]

Tutorial: How to Fish Wire Through Your Walls Using a Magnepull

October 5, 2011
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I fell in love with the Editor’s Choice Award winning Magnepull, a tool professional installers use for fishing cables through walls, and I wanted to give it a try. Since we figured this tool would make it easy for anyone to run wires – not just professionals – Mark Z. grabbed a camera and filmed [...]

TUTORIAL: How To Run TV Power Cables Through Your Wall

July 28, 2011
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Up at the office we had a TV that we wanted to mount on the wall in the reception area. Only problem is, the power plug is down at the bottom of the wall and we really didn’t want cables hanging down the wall looking all messy. So the solution was to route the cable [...]

WordPress PLUGIN: Enable REL= and Other HTML in Author’s Field (for Google+ and Google Search Listings)

July 5, 2011
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Google is beginning to roll out the ability to have your Google Profile linked to search results. This is an awesome new feature that my friend Trey Ratcliff worked with them on setting up. Do a search for “HDR Tutorial” and you can see what I’m talking about. In attempting to get this working with [...]

GeekBeat LIVE Hacks N’ Cheats Segment – How to Hack Your Homework

May 28, 2011
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If you’ve got a big paper due, but you need to buy yourself some time, here is a dirty, sneaky, unethical trick that you should NEVER do. But if you do it and it works out for you, you can give me credit. And if you do it and it DOESN’T work out for you, [...]

How to Search Twitter for Old Tweets – And How to Archive Them

April 27, 2011
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Let’s face it. Every once in a while, you grace the Twitter world with your brilliance. Well, for some people…like John P….it happens on a daily basis. The problem is, when you want to go back and admire said brilliance, it can be difficult to find! Twitter only lets you search so far back. By [...]

Tutorial: How To Do the Impossible “Nail-Through-the-Wood” Trick

March 9, 2011
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Sometimes if you are at a craft fair you can find these impossible little puzzles, and people wonder not only how in the heck to solve them, but how in the heck they were made! Well, here is the secret behind how the old “nail stuck impossibly in the wood” trick is pulled off. Its [...]

Discount Coupon for Trey Ratcliff’s HDR Video Tutorial

November 26, 2010
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Do you guys remember when I did the little video of uncrating that magnificent HDR Wall Art that my friend Trey Ratcliff created for me? Or maybe you saw when I posted his awesome video Japan: Heatbeats of Time? Or maybe you’ve just seen some of his awesome photography in general? He’s had over 44 [...]

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