PHOTOSHOP:Make Photoshop Your Default Image Editor In Mac OS X

Written by Steve Patterson. In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to easily replace Apple’s Preview program with Photoshop as your default photo viewer and image editor in Mac OS X. Even though every copy of Photoshop includes a free and powerful file management program called Adobe Bridge, many Mac owners still use the Finder to locate and open their images. While there’s nothing terribly wrong with that, there is one small problem. Mac OS X, at least by default, ignores Photoshop when we open images directly from within a Finder window. Instead, it prefers to open them in Apple’s own Preview app with its basic and very limited set of image editing features. Since Photoshop is obviously our image editor of choice, let’s learn how to easily configure Mac OS X so our photos will automatically open for us in Photoshop every time.

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First, navigate to a folder on your Mac that contains one or more of your photos. Here, I’ve opened a folder that’s sitting on my desktop. Inside the folder are three photos that were saved as standard JPEG files. How do I know they’re JPEG files? I know because of the ".jpg" extension at the end of their file names:

Open a folder that contains some photos.

If all you’re seeing in your Finder window are the names of the photos with no file extensions after them, go up to the Finder menu in the top left of your screen and choose Preferences:

Go to Finder > Preferences.

This opens the Finder Preferences dialog box. Along the top of the dialog box are four tabs – General, Labels, Sidebar and Advanced. Click on the Advanced tab to view the Advanced options, then select the Show all filename extensions option by clicking inside its checkbox:

Click the Advanced tab, then check “Show all filename extensions”.

When you’re done, click the red "x" icon in the top left corner of the dialog box to close out of it. You should now see the file type extensions listed at the end of your file names inside the Finder window.
Let’s open one of the photos and see what happens using the default Mac settings. I’ll double-click on the “three_kids.jpg” photo in my Finder window to open it:

Opening a photo by double-clicking on its thumbnail.

Even though I have the latest version of Photoshop installed, and even though Photoshop just happens to be the world’s most powerful image editor, Mac OS X completely ignores it and instead opens my photo in the much less useful Preview:

Preview has a few image editing features, but it’s no Photoshop.

That’s obviously not what I wanted, so I’ll close out of Preview by going up to the Preview menu at the top left of the screen and choosing Quit Preview:

Selecting Quit Preview from the Preview menu.

So how do we tell Mac OS X to automatically open our photos in Photoshop? It’s actually very simple. First, right-click on the photo’s thumbnail inside the Finder window:

Right-clicking on the photo’s thumbnail.

This opens a menu with various options. Choose Get Info:

Choosing “Get Info” from the menu.

A long, narrow Info dialog box will appear full of details about the image. Look for the section that says Open with:. You’ll need to click on the small arrow icon to the left of the section’s name to twirl it open if it’s collapsed. This section tells us which program is currently set to open our JPEG files. By default, it’s set to Preview:

Preview is currently our default image editor.

Click on the word "Preview" to open a list of the other programs currently installed on your Mac and choose Adobe Photoshop from the list. If you have more than one version of Photoshop installed, choose the most recent version. Here I’m selecting Adobe Photoshop CS6:

Choosing Photoshop CS6 as my new default program for opening JPEG files.

There’s just one step remaining. We want Photoshop to become the default program for opening all JPEG files, not just this one image, so click on the Change All button:

Clicking the Change All button.

Photoshop will ask if you’re sure you want to open all JPEG files (that is, files with the ".jpg" extension) with Photoshop from now on. Click Continue to confirm it:

Confirm the change by clicking Continue.

And that’s all there is to it! You can close of out the Info dialog box at this point by clicking the red “x” icon in the top left corner. Photoshop is now set to open all of our JPEG files. To make sure everything was changed correctly, I’ll open my “three_kids.jpg” photo once again by double-clicking on it in the Finder window:

Opening the same photo again.

And sure enough, instead of opening in Preview as it did before, this time the photo automatically opens for me in Photoshop:

Photoshop CS6 is now my default image editor.

And there we have it! That’s how to easily set Photoshop as your default photo viewer and image editor in Mac OS X!

Under-represented' women seek Davos equality

One of the most noticeable aspects of the World Economic Forum in Davos, a gathering of the world's top CEOs, politicians and officials, is the male dominance on the various panels.
Of the 2,500 movers and shakers who have descended on the picture-postcard Swiss ski resort, a mere 17 percent are women -- a discrepancy that organisers tried to address on Friday by holding a top-level panel on gender equality.
While speeches by the likes of Angela Merkel, Germany's chancellor and Forbes magazine's world's most powerful woman, and Christine Lagarde, head of the International Monetary Fund, are highly anticipated, many believe Davos needs more equality.
"Only 17 percent of Davos participants are women. That is just a reflection of reality," German Labour Minister Ursula von der Leyen told AFP in an interview.
"Only the leaders of the world are here and women are represented far too little worldwide in positions of leadership," complained the minister, 54, a close ally of Merkel and sometimes touted as a possible successor.
"Women are brilliantly educated, they have the ability but the glass ceiling is still very strong," she added.
Artist Fernando Morales-de la Cruz has captured the inequality at Davos by creating a poster with 18 high profile women who attended last year's shin-dig interspersed with just four men, to show what reality would be like if the gender balance was reversed.
Lagarde urged women to "speak out" against inequality and said obtaining more inclusion for women was an economic as well as a moral imperative.
"Gender inclusion is critically important, and, frankly, too often neglected by policymakers. In today's world, it is no longer acceptable to block women from achieving their potential," stressed the IMF chief.
"Think about it: women control 70 percent of global consumer spending," she noted.
"The evidence is clear, as is the message: when women do better, economies do better," added Lagarde.
The World Economic Forum (WEF) itself has put in place a quota since 2011 to address the problem, said Saadia Zahidi, a senior WEF director in charge of equality and it is beginning to show results, especially among younger participants.
Leading companies are required to select at least one woman executive among the five top-level representatives they send to Davos and Zahidi noted that while the situation was not ideal, it had at least improved.
"At the Annual Meeting 2013, approximately 17 percent of... participants are women, up from nine percent in 2002," she told AFP.
Viviane Reding, from the European Commission, which aims to have a binding 40 percent quota for women on the boards of listed companies by 2020, hailed EU figures out on Friday showing female representation in business had risen.
She said that while quotas had been effective, she wished they were not necessary. But without them, it would take until 2060 to have equality in Europe's boardrooms, she added.
German minister von der Leyen noted that quotas introduced in German politics had been successful and that they had given women "access to positions of leadership."
"I think in a few years, we won't need them any more," she forecast.
And for her part, Lagarde, one of the world's most influential women, said: "We must tear down all obstacles in the path of women, even the subconscious obstacles of the mind."

An oeuvre of artistic excellence Alamgir Karim's solo art exhibition at Zainul Gallery

“Country Image” is the first solo art exhibition of Alamgir Karim Bhuyain (Mafi) that began on January 22 at Zainul Gallery-2, Faculty of Fine Arts (FFA), University of Dhaka.
Vice Chancellor of Dhaka University, AAMS Arefin Siddique, inaugurated the exhibition as chief guest. Dean of FFA, Professor Abul Barq Alvi, presided over the opening programme.
The constant search for beauty influences and enriches our experiences. Our eyes and mind primarily help to this end. One has this perception while viewing Alamgir's artworks. Several still lifes at the exhibition represent the untainted beauty of realistic drawings.
Soft colours, rhythmic lines and an element of serenity are the highlights of most of his watercolours. The artist has washed the paper and gently brushed the colours. Each painting (watercolour) took him around a few months to complete.
This oriental style was popularised by Abanindranath Tagore (nephew of Rabindranath Tagore) who was inspired by the aesthetics of Ajanta and Mughal miniature paintings. Abanindranath Tagore initiated the Nabyo Bongiyo Chitrareeti (Neo Bengal Painting Style) that upheld Swadeshi (patriotic) values.
Lemon, yellow and vermilion are the colours that dominate one of Alamgir's paintings, showcasing Radha and Krishna. The painting reminds one of the distinctive Greek mythological styles. Another miniature watercolour by the artist portrays a female figure embracing the blissful gentle breeze that wafts through her lonely room through a window, tossing aside the curtain. With minimal expressions, meticulous lines and forms, and downward focus of an exquisite light, Alamgir's depiction of a woman, busy adorning herself, is a rather typical representation of rural life.
The depiction of a patient etherised upon a table (pencil sketch) engages the viewer to contemplate the power of metaphors and symbolism.
The exhibition ends today (January 27).

Padma awards for Rajesh Khanna and Sharmila Tagore

Rajesh Khanna and Sharmila Tagore, who were one of the most celebrated on-screen couples in Bollywood in the 1970s, were honoured by the Indian government with this year's prestigious civilian awards last Friday.
While Rajesh Khanna has been posthumously chosen for the Padma Bhushan, India's third highest civilian award, Sharmila will receive Padma Shri title, the fourth highest civilian honour.
Khanna, Bollywood's first superstar, who died in July last year, and Sharmila had starred in several hit films including “Aaradhana” and “Ämar Prem” (a Hindi remake of the Bengali film “Nishipadma” starring Uttam Kumar and Sabitri Chattopadhyay, based on novelist Bibhutibhusan Bandopadhyay's book).
Another leading Bollywood personality chosen for the Padma Shri award is director Ramesh Sippy who has churned out several blockbusters including “Sholay”.
Actress Sridevi, who made a grand comeback with “English Vinglish” last year after a long hiatus, will also receive the Padma Shri. “I am honored and humbled by this recognition. Would like to thank my fans for the love and faith they have always given me,” she said.
Actor Nana Patekar has also been chosen for the Padma Shri honour.
Padma awards are given to distinguished people across a spectrum of fields, including science, technology, arts and social work, every year on the eve of India's Republic Day on January 26.

DS Café

Rosy Siddiqui, known for her acting prowess, maintains a strong presence on stage, TV plays and films. Rosy continues to be active in TV plays, while she has been working in theatre for 23 years. She is the featured celebrity of this month at DS Café. She will be on the hot seat and will take your calls at The Daily Star Centre on January 28, between 4 and 5 pm. Readers, fire away all your questions at her! The best 10 questions will be featured in the transcript to be published later. Call 01711623915 and 01711623917 to speak to Rosy

New design for Padma bridge in 6 months: PM

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday said her government must kick off the construction of the Padma bridge within its tenure whether the World Bank gives fund or not.
"We have already asked Bangladesh Army, Buet and Bridge Division to complete a fresh need-based design for the bridge within six months. Then we will begin the construction works," sources quoted the PM as telling a meeting of Awami League Parliamentary Party at Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban.
This means, the AL-led government will at least begin the construction works of the much-talked-about bridge before the next parliamentary election scheduled to be held before January 24, 2014.
After cancellation of the loan agreement by the World Bank on charge of "conspiracy of corruption' in the project, it has become a prestige issue for the government to construct the bridge. It remains uncertain whether the WB will fund in the project.
Earlier, the premier said that they would look for alternative fund for the Padma bridge project if the main financier World Bank does not give its decision about funding the project by this month.
On WB's allegation against former communications minister Syed Abul Hossain, the premier said the agent of SNC Lavalin, a Canadian firm, went to meet then communications minister Abul Hossain and if it was a corruption, then it was Abul Hasan Chowdhury who should also be blamed for it.
"I have said if the situation comes in the investigation, both Hasan and Hossain will be arrested," AL MP Sadhan Chandra Majumder quoted Hasina as saying.
About the next parliamentary elections, the premier said the general election must be held before January 25 of 2014. "We will not allow holding any questionable election. If any of my MPs tries to interference in the election, the election in that area will be stopped," she said.

Fire at Brazil nightclub kills 245

A fire swept through a crowded nightclub in southern Brazil early Sunday, killing at least 245 people and leaving at least 200 injured, police and firefighters said.
Police Major Cleberson Braida told local news media that the 245 bodies were brought for identification to a gymnasium in the city of Santa Maria.
That toll would make it one of the deadliest nightclub fires more than a decade.
The cause of the fire is not yet known, officials said. Officials earlier put the death toll at 180.
Civil Police and regional government spokesman Marcelo Arigoni told Radio Gaucha earlier that the total number of victims is still unclear and there may be hundreds injured.
The newspaper Diario de Santa Maria reported that the fire started at around 2 a.m. at the Kiss nightclub in the city at the southern tip of Brazil, near the borders with Argentina and Uruguay.
Rodrigo Moura, whom the paper identified as a security guard at the club, said it was at its maximum capacity of between 1,000 and 2,000, and partygoers were pushing and shoving to escape.
Ezekiel Corte Real, 23, was quoted by the paper as saying that he helped people to escape. "I just got out because I'm very strong," he said.
"Sad Sunday", tweeted Tarso Genro, the governor of the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul. He said all possible action was being taken and that he would be in the city later in the day.
Santa Maria is a major university city with a population of around a quarter of a million.
A welding accident reportedly set off a Dec. 25, 2000, fire at a club in Luoyang, China, killing 309.
At least 194 people died at an overcrowded working-class nightclub in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 2004.
A blaze at the Lame Horse nightclub in Perm, Russia, broke out on December 5, 2009, when an indoor fireworks display ignited a plastic ceiling decorated with branches, killing 152.
A nightclub fire in the US state of Rhode Island in 2003 killed 100 people after pyrotechnics used as a stage prop by the 1980s rock band Great White set ablaze cheap soundproofing foam on the walls and ceiling.

Facebook's search has been found

With “Graph Search,” Facebook's newsearch engine announced recently, the world's largest social network has finally begun to index a trove of Big Data that's been piling up for years. Even Facebook
probably doesn't know what's
been deposited in by its 1 billion members. Suddenly there is a way to find out.
For all its popularity, Facebook has lacked something that could be described as “purpose.” For co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg, sharing isn't a platitude ‑ it's world-altering. As he once said: “By giving people the power to share, we're making the world more transparent.” Yet Facebook is, for the most part, fun and games. It's also, in the opinion of some, including me, a Faustian bargain that gives the company valuable information with which to make money, and its members the ability to do things they can do any number of other ways.
For all the information Facebook members share with one another �" pictures, opinions, “likes,” preferences, the companies and celebrities they follow �" none of it has been searchable. So if you have friends who like science fiction and live nearby, you wouldn't have known it (unless you, you know, knew it), and that Avatar movie night wouldn't have happened �" or, worse, would have happened alone, like always.
The sum of all that information makes it much more valuable than its parts, not only to Facebook but also to its members. That's why Graph Search makes Facebook membership an entirely new proposition, compelling not just because of some raw network effect ‑ all my friends are there, so I have to be ‑ but because you can now be discovered by strangers who can do things for you, like offer you a job.
This new relationship could go a long way toward tempering privacy concerns at Facebook, which maximises sharing and minimises discussion of sharing's pitfalls. I suspect the vast majority of Facebook members are blithely indifferent to the extent to which their lives are open books, even as they do things on the larger Web, not realizing they're being logged on Facebook. It's pretty clear that Facebook's members largely don't care about the consequences of a privacy breach until it happens.
Graph Search may be just the gentle persuasion Facebook
members need to seriously manage their privacy settings, and thus give Facebook more cover in the privacy tango.
And if profile management becomes a more rigorous pursuit, then Facebook's internal search transforms Facebook into a more professional-oriented site. “Facebooking” yourself may replace “Googling” yourself as the gold standard in vanity search, if only because you'll be more concerned about seeing yourself as others see you. Your social life would become more compartmentalised to a small circle of confidants �" Graph Search is designed to respect individual privacy settings �" while you give your professional identity, and all of its poise and polish, more prominence.
Facebook with Graph Search could remain a playground for the college crowd while giving grown-ups a bigger reason to stay and share even more about themselves. And now it needn't be a deal with the devil but a collaboration, where the payoff is simple and direct. You wouldn't just be the product anymore, fodder sold to third parties, but a full participant in a market made and facilitated by Facebook.
Graph Search is still in limited beta release, so it will be some time before the competitive threat to Google or the business-focused social network LinkedIn can be assessed. Share prices in both companies fell after Facebook's announcement.
With the development of Graph Search, the irony of Facebook's own timeline continues. Once the most exclusive private network in the world, it's now the biggest public network the world has ever seen. And after years of prodding, cajoling and tricking people into sharing, Facebook is finally sharing back.

Networking for web designers

Networking will become part of the future trends in Bangladeshi digital media industry.
In most developed countries networking has proven to be the most successful and effective ways of finding work and improving business opportunities.
Bangladeshi digital media industry is still in its infancy, thus there are very little work and career choices available for young media professionals. Many have chosen to become freelancers and work for off shore clients and businesses. Being in a professional network for freelancers can be a great way of finding prospective new clients.
People working in web design and development industry will find this particularly beneficial, as being
in a network can lead to meet
new clients and regular business through word of mouth and
referrals. BNI, an international Business Networking and Referrals organisation has done research on networking and found that web designers are one of the top five professions to benefit from joining networking groups.
In UK, Web Design Association currently has over 10,000 web designers and UK's web agencies have realised that networking meetings are one way to coupe with its current turbulent economy.
Many professional networkers from various sectors has found that being part of a structured networking group or organisation helps stay ahead in business and such networking groups don't just offer members a formal place to meet new business contacts, they also provide powerful training events both on and offline, including how to get prospective clients to talk to you and how to convert them into business.
Though, in Bangladesh business networking groups do exists online. However, nothing seems to be specifically available for the digital media professionals. Therefore, this is a great opportunity for young professionals to start something from the scratch. As the digital media industry evolves here in Bangladesh, we will see people in businesses are finding new ways of improving business prospects, and networking will become one of the top priorities.
Joining online business networking groups, or creating your own network group through established social networking platform such as facebook or LinkedIn can be a great way of exploring this idea and make yourself future proof for the Bangladeshi digital media industry.

Mozilla unveils preview smartphones

The Mozilla Foundation unveiled two preview smartphones as it recently invited developers to try its new open-source mobile operating system challenging Apple's iOS and Google's Android.
The announcement marked a major step forward for the new Firefox OS mobile operating system which is being built using open Web standards, like its Firefox Web browser.
The two preview phones being offered come from the small Spanish-based manufacturer GeeksPhone, the first in what the nonprofit group hopes will be a series of low-cost smartphones which can be sold around the world.
"This week we are announcing our new Firefox OS developer preview phones because we believe that developers will help bring the power of the Web to mobile," said a blog posting from Stormy Peters, head of websites and developer engagement at Mozilla.
The developer phones are being made by GeeksPhone in partnership with the Spanish carrier Telefonica.
By using the open platform, she said, "you're not locked in to a vendor-controlled ecosystem. You can distribute your app through the Firefox Marketplace,
your own website, or any other store based on Mozilla's open app store technology."
GeeksPhone said on its website that the two new phones were named Keon, with a 3.5 inch display, and Peak, with a larger 4.3 inch screen. Both will use Qualcomm Snapdragon chips.