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Photoshop: Wonderful Tool used for Creating Cool Designs

August 13, 2009 By: bretthexum Category: Software

Photoshop: Wonderful Tool used for Creating Cool Designs

Image editing today has become very important. It is required everywhere, like in advertisement, personal use, modeling and photography. The best software available in the market is Photoshop created by the company called Adobe. Photoshop can also be used for creating cool designs.

Photoshop shows a new world of design and graphic. One can alter the pictures, change the background, merge different pictures, make a dull picture brightened and etc. This software is also used to create new graphics. Graphics which can be further used in advertisements and designing. This software has a vast demand in every segment. Photographers also use this software to correct the mistakes in the photo like red color in the eye and shape of the finger. It also used by advertisement companies to create banners and brochures.

Photoshop is considered to be the best in market because it gives a lot of option to its user with simplicity. The software is very easy to learn and grasp in comparison to other software’s available in the market. It provides you with a lot of tools that helps its user to customize its photograph, according to his wish and it also gives a professional output.

Adobe Photoshop: The best Graphic Designing and Editing Program

August 12, 2009 By: bretthexum Category: Software

Adobe Photoshop: The best Graphic Designing and Editing Program

Adobe Photoshop is the best graphic designing and editing program developed and introduced by Adobe Systems. It is a market leader in manipulation/editing of the images and bitmaps commonly used by the graphic professionals.

Photoshop supports a lot of formats like bitmap and jpeg. It also has good ties with most of the Adobe software, which helps the user in the field of editing, authoring and animation. Photoshop creates file in PSD format, which can be further exported to and get back from Adobe software like Illustrator. After effects, Premiere Pro and Encore can provide special effects, non-linear editing and standard DVDs, such as textures, backgrounds and etc for websites, film and television.

Photoshop is current leader in the market due to its variety in tools along with the simplicity in its usage. It is used by various professionals like graphic designers, photographers, advertisement agencies and fashion designers. It is not only editing software, but can be used to create and make new designs. The latest version of Adobe Photoshop is Adobe Photoshop CS4.

The major problem with this software is its piracy due to its high retail price. This is the reason why the company started including SafeCast DRM with its software and this started with the CS version.

3D Animation: Meet the Demands

August 09, 2009 By: bretthexum Category: Software

3D Animation: Meet the Demands

The journey of the computer animation has been long. It has covered a long way from 2D images to 3D, then to 4D and 5D. The process is a continuous one and every time, it comes up with an innovative idea. 3D animation was one of the most innovative ideas to portray a real moving object including all the three axes: X, Y and Z (breadth, height and depth). 3D animation, today, is very important and its software has got worldwide recognition.

3D Animation

With 3D animation software, one can improve the quality of the design because the software improvises the design process. 3D software has gained a lot of popularity due to usage in different sectors. Professionals like directors and production designers use this software to pitch the concept effectively. Animation has got a boom in the entertainment sector and it is expected to grow more and more.

The most difficult thing in 3D animation is choosing of the right software when there is a lot of option available in the market with the same set of features. Some of the important factors to keep in mind while choosing the software is the software should be easy to learn and use, it should meet the demands of the profession that you are in and it should be easy to handle.

Bing has a new jingle…

August 06, 2009 By: bretthexum Category: Personal IT

Bing has a new jingle…

Bing Internet Search

And its the worst song I’ve ever heard. This guy actually won a contest and $500 for Microsoft for creating a new jingle song for Bing. It must be some kind of sick joke for whoever voted for this.

I don’t get it… See for yourself.

Enjoy… ;)

Bing Goes the Internet

Free Software Part 5

August 05, 2009 By: bretthexum Category: Software

Free Software Part 5

HTML Editors:

1st page 2000 -http://www.evrsoft.com/download.shtml
AceHTML -http://freeware.acehtml.com/download.html
Aracnophilia -http://www.arachnoid.com/arachnophilia/
FoxEditor -http://foxeditor.sourceforge.net/
HTML-Kit -http://www.chami.com/html-kit/
NVU -http://www.nvu.com/index.html
Selida -http://www.amaryllis.8m.com/
Trellian webPAGE -http://webpage.vendercom.com/
TSW WebCoder -http://www.tsware.net/

Image viewers:

Ahaview -http://www.aha-soft.com/ahaview/ahaviewfree.exe
FastStone Image Viewer -http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm
Irfanview -http://www.irfanview.com/
Picasa -http://www.picasa.com/content/download.php
Shell Extension -http://www.firmtools.com/products/shellextension/
SlowView -http://www.slowview.at/
XNView -http://www.xnview.com/

Instant Messengers:

AMSN -http://amsn.sourceforge.net/index.php
Gaim -http://gaim.sourceforge.net/
Google Talk -http://www.google.com/talk/
IM2:http://www.im2.com
Mercury Messenger -http://www.mercury.to/
Miranda IM -http://www.miranda-im.org/
Pandion -http://www.pandion.be/
PSI -http://psi.affinix.com/
qip -http://www.qip.ru/
Skype -http://www.skype.com/
SIM -http://sim-icq.sourceforge.net/
TerraIM -http://terraim.sourceforge.net/
Trillian Basic -http://trillian.cc/downloads

Internet Explorer Front-Ends:

AM Browser -http://www.ambrowser.com/
AOL Browser -http://beta.aol.com/projects/aolbrowser/
Avantbrowser -http://www.avantbrowser.com/
Maxthon -http://www.maxthon.com/
SlimBrowser -http://www.flashpeak.com/sbrowser/sbrowser.htm

IRC Clients:

BersIRC -http://www.bersirc.com/
BitchX -http://bitchx.org/download.php
HydraIRC -http://www.hydrairc.com/
NodeIRC -http://node.sourceforge.net/
TinyIRC -http://www.tinyirc.net/
XChat -http://www.silverex.org/news/

Mail programs:

Foxmail -http://fox.foxmail.com.cn/english/
i.Scribe -http://www.memecode.com/
Mahogany Mail -http://mahogany.sourceforge.net/
Pegasus Mail -http://www.pmail.com/
PopTray -http://www.poptray.org/
Thunderbird -http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/

Anti-spam programs:

K9 -http://www.keir.net/k9.html
MailWasher-http://www.mailwasher.net/
POPFile -http://popfile.sourceforge.net/
SpamBayes -http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/
SpamPal -http://www.spampal.org/

Live Music:

http://livemusicstations.co.uk

Network Tools:

CMDTime NTP Utility -http://www.softshape.com/download/
Ethereal Protocol Analyzer -http://www.ethereal.com/
Gencontrol -http://www.gensortium.com/products/gencontrol.html
hamachi -http://www.hamachi.cc/
NetMeter -http://readerror.gmxhome.de/
NetProfiles -http://netprofiles.danielmilner.com/
NMap -http://www.insecure.org/nmap/
Ntop -http://www.ntop.org
PingPlotter -http://www.pingplotter.com
PuTTY -http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty
RAS Graph & Stats -http://forum.flashfxp.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2400
RealVNC -http://www.realvnc.com/
TightVNC -http://www.tightvnc.org/
Ultr@VNC -http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/
WinSCP -http://www.winscp.com/

Office Suite:

602PC Suite free edition -http://www.software602.com/products/pcs/download.html
AbiWord -http://www.abiword.com/
OpenOffice.org -http://www.openoffice.org/
qjot -http://www.xtort.net/xtort/qjot.php
TreeDBNotes -http://www.softviewer.com/treedbnotes/free_index.htm

Partition Managers:

Partition Resizer -http://zeleps.com/
Ranish Partition Manager -http://www.ranish.com/part/
SwissKnife -http://www.compuapps.com/Download/swissknife/swissknife.htm
TestDisk -http://www.cgsecurity.org/index.html?testdisk.html

PDF Utilities:

CutePDF -http://www.cutepdf.com/Products/CutePDF/writer.asp
Foxit PDF Reader -http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php
Free PDF -http://www.webxd.com/zipguy/frpdfdl.htm
Ghostscript/GSView -http://www.ghostscript.com/
PDF 995 -http://www.pdf995.com/
PDFCreator -http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/
PrimoPDF -http://www.primopdf.com/

Free Software Part 4

August 04, 2009 By: bretthexum Category: Software

Free Software Part 4

File Managers:

2xExplorer – http://netez.com/2xExplorer/
A43 – http://www.shawneelink.net/~bgmiller/
ExplorerXP – http://www.explorerxp.com
freeCommander – http://www.freecommander.com/index_en.htm
Gyula’s Navigator – http://www.wanari.com/
JExplorer – http://home.megapass.co.kr/~woosjung/
MeeSoft Commander – http://meesoft.logicnet.dk/

File repair and recovery:

PC Inspector File Recovery – http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/UK/welcome.htm

Firewalls:

Jetico Personal Firewall – http://www.jetico.com/index.htm#/jpfirewall.htm
Kerio (Kerio Personal Firewall is FREE for home and personal use) – http://www.kerio.com/kpf_home.html
NetVida Safetynet – http://www.netveda.com/consumer/safetynet.htm
Outpost Firewall (version 1 is free) – http://www.agnitum.com/download/outpost1.html
SoftPerfect Personal Firewall – http://www.softperfect.com/products/firewall/
Sygate – http://smb.sygate.com/products/spf_standard.htm
Wyvern Firewall 2004 – http://www.wyvernworks.com/firewall.html

FTP Clients:

CoreFTP – http://www.coreftp.com/
Filezilla – http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla
miFiles – http://www.simdata.com.au/mifiles.html
SmartFTP – http://www.smartftp.com/

FTP Servers:

Cerberus – http://www.cerberusftp.com/
FileZilla – http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/
Golden FTP Server – http://www.goldenftpserver.com
Quick ‘n Easy FTP Server – http://www.pablovandermeer.nl/ftp_server.html
SlimFTPd – http://www.whitsoftdev.com/slimftpd
TYPSoft FTP Server – http://en.typsoft.com/
WarFTPD – http://www.jgaa.com/