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Review: Picture Collage Maker helps you design and print calendars, cards, and more

Picture Collage Maker 3.3.7 is similar to an online photobook service like Mixbook, Shutterfly, or Snapfish, except it offers you more control when customizing your project. Even though Picture Collage Maker is a relatively small download (53.4 MB), it includes a number of backgrounds, templates, resizable clipart, and other embellishments. The 15-day free trial is really a feature-limited demo, as it adds watermarks to your art. Purchasing either the standard $30 Picture Collage Maker (which can only produce single page artwork) or the $40 Pro version will eliminate these watermarks from saved projects. A $70 commercial use license will do the job as well.

You can begin with a Picture Collage Maker template and customize the background (which is essentially the main theme of the template), add and remove photo frames and clipart, and add your own photos. The templates included with the trial version of Picture Collage Maker are themed for most common (and some unusual) Holidays and events, including April Fool's Day, Easter, Father's Day, Halloween, sports, and pets.

You can also download additional Picture Collage Maker templates from the program's website. The templates are free and range from 14 MB to about 20 MB. The template packs are grouped by theme, and include a wide variety of very nice styles, clipart, and layouts.

All three editions of Photo Collage Maker help you put images together, but you'll have to buy one to get anything usable: The free trial watermarks all images.

Picture Collage Maker is very easy to use, and has a few well-thought out features—such as buttons that make selected images the exact same size, or align them on your page. But even with these features, it seems pretty basic for the price. Picture Collage Maker doesn't warn you if your image is not sufficient resolution for your project. Plus, you need to manually change the orientation of the template: If you switch from a vertical template to a horizontal, for example, the new horizontal template will be distorted and display vertically. The photo editing tools are limited to Photo Size, Position, and Rotation.

Picture Collage Maker is best used for creating standard size photo collages, scrapbook pages, greeting cards, posters, or calendars. You can print them out using your home printer, and save them as a Picture Collage Maker's own .PMP file or as JPG, BMP, GIF, PNG, or TIF. Additionally, you can email your project using Picture Collage Maker's Wizard, which allows you to resize your project before you send it (although unfortunately doesn't give you a file size for each option). If you purchase the full license, you can also get your project printed on Custom Collage Products (t-shirts, bags, etc.), however, you may not use Picture Collage Maker for commercial use without first purchasing the commercial version of the license for $70.

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Today’s Deal: Resume Maker Pro Deluxe 17 for $29.95

It’s been a long time since the Great Recession spanked all of us into job search mode, but sadly, some of us are still on the hunt. What better tool to help you nail down a new gig than Resume Maker Pro Deluxe 17 (available now for $29.95 from our partner), a suite of tools that’ll help you build a professional looking resume from scratch or jump-start your CV with over 1,000 existing samples.

The handy job-hunting software even features a tool called Resume Examiner which can scan your document to verify your employment history has the correct dates, your titles/school names are formatted correctly, and even read the amount of numbers in the document before you hand it off. Why? Because some employees are picky that way, and every little bit helps.

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Facebook's Timeline Movie Maker Turns Users' Lives into Film

Facebook users can use Timeline, the site’s new profile layout, to turn their lives into a movie. Marketing Agency Definition 6 and Facebook have released Timeline Movie Maker, an app that automatically parses your Timeline profile to create about a 55-second movie from your memories stored in the social network.

Facebook is hoping that more companies will be encouraged to take advantage of Timeline and create more novel apps for people to view and experience their new profile. "We think there will be lots of companies that come up with fun, innovative ways for people to extend the Timeline experience," a Facebook official told PCWorld.

Of course, that may raise the hackles of privacy advocates concerned about how a Timeline app could misuse information it is allowed to access. But it's important to keep in mind that Movie Maker and any subsequent apps are completely optional and no one is forcing users to share their data with third-party companies.

If you want to give Movie Maker a try, here's how it works.

To get started, log in to Facebook and then point your browser to the Timeline Movie Maker site and press the green button that says "Make Your Movie." You'll then have to sort through two approval screens asking you for permission to access your basic information, e-mail address, other profile data such as hobbies, your posts, and your News Feed. The app does not ask for permission to post anything to your profile automatically.

After that you can just sit back and wait for the app to sort through your profile information to create your movie. Shortly thereafter, the video will start playing, showing you photographs and videos from your Timeline. If your personalized movie looks familiar, that's because the video is built on the same template as Facebook's Timeline introductory video released in September. Your video even uses the same soundtrack and even includes some generic photos from that original video when the camera is speeding past "your" Timeline.

After the movie is done, you'll have the option to replay it or you can swap out the music for one of four additional soundtrack themes including nostalgic, cinematic, romantic and playful. Once you choose a new soundtrack, you have to press the "Remake Your Movie" button at the bottom of the screen. The app will then go through the motions to rebuild your movie. But in my tests, the music was the only thing that changed.

There is also a filmstrip at the bottom of the page that lets you change any of the photos you don't like with new ones. But you can't drag and drop or easily swap out your photos from Facebook. Instead, you have to keep clicking on the photo as the app rotates through your Facebook collection until you find an image you like.

Movie Maker also has a share option after the movie is finished playing, but it's entirely disappointing. The only thing you can share is a link to Movie Maker, there is no option to post the finished product to Facebook, Twitter or your own website. There is also no way to download the finished movie.

But if you want to have a fun look at some of your profile information that is only viewable by you and the people crowding around your PC's monitor, then Movie Maker is a neat way to experience your Timeline.

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