Archive for June, 2006
Tuesday, June 20th, 2006
MySpace, the ultra popular & ultra controversial social networking site owned by News Corp’s Fox Interactive Group, is looking to expand its US success into the European Union and Asia with the hiring of David Fischer as its UK and European Managing Director.Along the lineup of highly targeted countries by MySpace include France, Germany and possibly India, expanding MySpace into Central Asia.
MySpace, a bit of a shake & mix between Google, YouTube, Friendster, Yahoo Mail and Match.com (without the fee), still seems to be growing in terms of popularity here in the United States and has become an intricate part of Fox Television and the FX Network’s online marketing and TV to net integrated marketing.
With nearly 100 million registered users and growing at a rate of around 250,000 new members a day, MySpace has grown beyond its music fanbase and teenage roots to the essential online profile, meeting and hangout spot. MySpace has become The Place to keep up with your friends online.
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Monday, June 19th, 2006
Ever wonder what an image-editing program would be like if Adobe Photoshop had never existed?
The new Nikon Capture NX software is probably the closest thing. A co-project of Nikon and the similarly named (but unrelated) Nik Software company, this program uses what they’re calling U Point technology to allow you to make quick adjustments to the zones of influence you choose. That means you can saturate certain areas, desaturate others, and color-correct in the places that need it, all without painstakingly selecting them. The other good news: None of these changes are permanent. They all happen as a list of deletable and modifiable steps that leave your original alone.
Nikon shooters who love RAW may be the most pleased with the $150 program ($90 for the upgrade), because their RAW adjustments are built into the process. Everyone else can import TIFFs or JPEGs, but won’t be able to work on RAW files. (No, it doesn’t work on Adobe DNG.) Other useful features are built in: A file browser pops up on the left; you can soft-proof at will from a menu at the bottom of the image; and the histogram, if you like to use one, sits on the bottom right corner.
More information is available at NikonUsa.com.
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Monday, June 19th, 2006
Layers magazine Tip of the Day
Adobe InDesign CS2 Tip – The Control palette Accounts for Stroke Thickness.
Usually I like a “bold†look but not the unintentional kind that you get when type is wrapping around an object with a Drop Shadow. Whether you’ve seen this problem in a proof or not, here’s how it happens and how to avoid it. When an object with a Drop Shadow is stacked on top of type, the glyphs (characters) that come in contact with this Transparent Effect will be Rasterized or Outlined in the Flattening process. This makes the affected text bolder than the unaffected text. To avoid this issue, simple move the Text Frame above the Transparent object that’s causing the problem (Object > Arrange > Bring Front). Or create a separate Layer for type that’s the top Layer in the Layers palette.
Tip provided by Jeff Witchel, Certified Adobe® Training Provider
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Sunday, June 18th, 2006
First let me apologize if you recieved any emails earlier today and the link directed you to an un-known zone. I was currently switching from Blogger to Wordpress for more conviniences. I comes to be that WP is a more stable application and the best thing about it is that I can host it myself. Unlike blogger, I still have to go into their login menu and do my thing.
Don’t get me wrong, blogger is a good program/blog…but not for me. I want it ready when I want it. So that is why I decided to host my blog myself.
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Saturday, June 17th, 2006
(PRLEAP.COM) MyHTMLpage.com was created to service the student population as well as those wanting to enhance their computer knowledge with necessary resources to compete in today’s job market. Offerings of text books and software used by major colleges and universities bring the frustrating book store hunt to a more palatable online home. A centralized location with an easy search is the driving force of the simple book store site design. (more…)
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Saturday, June 17th, 2006
I just applied for the 9Rules NetWork. 9Rules is a community of weblogs that provide information of all kind on the web. Only a selected few ever make it. These weblogs, or should I say Blogs are huge in information, whether it’s cooking or sports, 9Rules has the best blogs that provide up to date content in their community. They make it easier for the readers (bloggers) to find what they are looking for, so 9rules brings together the very best of the independent web all under one umbrella.
Go and try for yourself, find a subject your interested in and surf around… I promise you’ll find something of your interest.
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Friday, June 16th, 2006
BILL GATES’ ANNOUNCEMENT on Thursday that he was phasing himself out of Microsoft’s day-to-day operations drew the predictable round of cheers from Microsoft bashers, of which there is no shortage. Even some of the company’s backers had yearned for a management shake-up at the company, whose marquee product — the next version of Windows, dubbed Vista — has suffered repeated delays and whose once-unstoppable stock has languished. (more…)
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Friday, June 16th, 2006
DreamsTime.com is known to be one of the top Stock Photography resources on the web. Here is a free image supplied free.zip by Dreamstime on a weekly basis. If interested in joining Dreamstime click here to find out more on them.
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Friday, June 16th, 2006
Advanced PSD Repair(APSR) is a powerful tool to recover corrupt Photoshop image(PSD, PDD) files. It uses advanced technologies to scan the corrupt or damaged Photoshop image files and recover your data in them as much as possible, so to minimize the loss in file corruption.
Some key features:
* recover PSD and PDD files produced by all versions of Adobe Photoshop.
* recover the image as well as the separate layers.
* recover pixels, dimension, color depth and the palette of the image and layers.
* recover uncompressed and RLE comressed images.
* recover PSD image with depth of 1, 8, 16, 32 bits per channel.
* recover PSD image with color mode of bitmap, grayscale, indexed, RGB, CMYK, mutlichannel, duotone, lab.
* repair PSD and PDD files on corrupted medias, such as floppy disks, Zip disks, CDROMs, etc.
* repair a batch of Photoshop image files.
* integration with Windows Explorer, so you can repair a Photoshop image file with the context menu of Windows Explorer easily.
* find and select the PSD and PDD files to be repaired on the client computer.
* drag & drop operation.
* command line parameters.
Credits to heathrowecs.com for the article
Find out more about PSD-Repair here.
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Thursday, June 15th, 2006
Adobe has issued a statement of response to recent reports that it has been unable to agree on licensing conditions with Microsoft regarding the inclusion of PDF support in a future version of Office.
The company says that Microsoft has been an important partner to Adobe, adding: “Adobe is one of the largest commercial developers of Windows software and we share millions of customers around the world.â€The statement continues: “While we typically do not publicly discuss our negotiations with customers, partners or competitors, Microsoft recently made a decision to share with press the fact that talks with Adobe were ongoing. Therefore, we feel it is important to provide additional background and clarification on a few of the resulting issues that have been raised in the coverage.†(more…)
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