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Evolution of Dance 2007-02-26 12:35:10 This is the most viewed video on YouTube. At the time of this post it had about 43 milion views. It’s pretty nice but I’m not sure why it made that many views. Anyway here it is :
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Oscar 2007 winners 2007-02-26 11:58:20 We’ve got all the winners from this year’s Academy Awards, where The Departed was the big victor, taking home four awards, including Best Picture and Best Director (finally!) for Martin Scorsese. Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland) and Helen Mirren (The Queen) were the expected winners for Best Actor and Actress, while Alan Arkin (Little Miss Sunshine) and Jennifer Hudson (Dreamgirls) won the Supporting honors; Pan’s Labyrinth won three awards (though, surprisingly, not Best Foreign Language Film). See the entire list of winners and nominees here
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Single-lens reflex (SLR) cameras 2007-03-01 01:45:22 About
The single-lens reflex (SLR) is a type of camera that uses a movable mirror placed between the lens and the film to project the image seen through the lens to a matte focusing screen. Most SLRs use a roof pentaprism or pentamirror to observe the image via an eyepiece, but there are also other finder arrangements, such as the waist-level finder or porro prisms.
Cross-section view of SLR systemThe shutter in almost all contemporary SLRs sits just in front of the focal plane. If it does not, some other mechanism is required to ensure that no light reaches the film between exposures. For example, the Hasselblad 500C camera uses an auxiliary shutter blind in addition to its in-lens leaf shutter.
The cross-section (side-view) of the optical components of an SLR shows how the light passes through the lens assembly (1), is reflected by the mirror (2) and is projected on the matte focusing screen (5). Via a condensing lens (6) and internal reflections in the roof pentaprism (7) the image
Tahiti - everything you need to know 2007-03-01 01:18:03 Maeva! Welcome!
Tahiti
– Moorea – Bora Bora – island names that evoke a wonderful state of mind, seducing honeymooners, romantics, adventurers, and vacationers looking for escape.
Here, around these South Seas isles, a romantic sunset sea sends giant curls of turquoise breaking onto the colorful reefs that protect the tranquil lagoons of warm, bright-emerald waters and white coral-sand beaches.
Closer Than You Think
Easier to travel to than you might imagine, Tahiti’s Faa’a Airport is under 8 hours by air from Los Angeles LAX airport, with daily nonstop flights and starting in the summer of 2005 – 3 non-stop flights a week from New York’s JFK airport.
As far south of the equator as Hawaii is north, Tahiti is halfway between California and Australia, on the same side of the International Date Line as North America, and in the same time zone as Hawaii - (only three hours behind California April-October and two hours behind California November-March).
What is Tahiti
SweetBuzz - Wordpress theme 2007-03-01 00:49:54 Good Wordpress
theme. A great grey and green combination.
CrazyLeaf Design Rating - 9/10
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Robocop vs. Terminator 2007-02-27 23:13:33 Here’s a nice video I found on MSN Soapbox. It represents a fight between Robocop
and Terminator
spiced up with a little Predator. Nice video. Good editing.
Watch the video
No right click script - Javascript 2007-02-27 22:17:39 This tutorial does not allow users who visit your page to right click in that page. This is useful if you want to protect your copyrights for images and the source.
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Free texture packs 2007-03-03 14:14:30 Spiral Graphics just released their third texture pack. The collection of 150 seamless crystal and liquid textures is available as a free download.
The texture packs
available for download are :
Floor and Wall - 127 high quality seamless textures designed for floors and walls of all types. Includes bricks, stones, wallpaper, marbles, tiles, fantasy surfaces, and more!
Metal and Stone - 150 stunning metal and stone materials, all perfectly seamless. Includes gold, aluminum, copper, brass, rust, sandstone, granite, slate, and more!
Crystal and Liquid - 167 scintillating seamless textures. Add sparkle to your scenes with crystals, jewels, fluids, semiprecious stones, snow, ice, and more!
For aditional information and download see the Spiral Graphics website
Adobe to launch Apollo beta later this month 2007-03-03 13:35:14 Adobe Systems Inc. later
this month plans to launch the beta of a new runtime that will allow rich Web-based applications to run offline, technology that could threaten the popularity of programming platforms such as Java and Microsoft Corp.’s .NET.
The release of a developer preview of the runtime, dubbed Apollo
, will coincide roughly with an ApolloCamp event Adobe will hold in San Francisco on March 16, according to sources familiar with the company’s plans. ApolloCamp will give developers a chance to kick the tires of the new runtime.
Apollo delivers on the promise of technology Macromedia originally introduced in 2003 called Macromedia Central. Adobe purchased Macromedia in December 2005. Macromedia Central was an environment that allowed Flash-based applications to run offline so they didn’t need to make continuous calls to servers on the back end, allowing them to run more quickly and efficiently.
“Macromedia Central was an early [version] of Apollo,&rdquo Read more:Adobe
Robotic Beer Launching Refrigerator 2007-03-04 12:35:48 Watching a game ? Want a beer, but don’t want to get up ? No problem … the fridge will get it for you. The ultimate boytoy : The Fridge that throws the beer to you.
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Phantasm CS Illustrator Plugin Updated 2007-03-05 23:39:07 Phantasm CS improves on Adobe Illustrator
’s basic color adjustment options and works with gradients, meshes, tweens, bitmaps, Live Trace and Live Paint, with all color adjustments available as Filters and Live Effects. With this approach, users can permenantly change the colors or dynamically alter them, so they can be edited, deleted and re-ordered as desired.
New in version 1.5 is the ability to load and save Photoshop-compatible color adjustment settings files for Curves, Hue/Saturation and Levels. Related to this is the improvement of the Hue/Saturation Filter and Live Effect controls to provide precise control over which color ranges are adjusted.
Phantasm CS 1.5 for Windows and Mac Illustrator CS and CS2 can be purchased for $37.50 on the Astute Graphics site. Trial versions are also available for download.
Source : graphics.com
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YouTube Strikes a Deal with the BBC 2007-03-05 13:15:36 In a move that seems to run contrary to recent trends, YouTube
has
actually come to an agreement with a major content provider. The
BBC announced on Friday that it has struck a deal with the popular
video-sharing site that will see the UK based broadcasting company
share in advertising revenue generated by YouTube traffic.
After highly publicized breakdowns in negotiations with CBS and
Viacom, it looks like Google and YouTube have finally managed to
court a suitor into the video-sharing fold, avoiding any potential
copyright snares that might ensue with current BBC content on the
site.
The BBC’s Tim Weber has more on the particulars of the agreement:
“One of the BBC’s two entertainment channels will be a “public
service” proposition, featuring no advertising.”
“It will show clips like trailers and short features that add
value - for example, video diaries of David Tennant showing
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Yahoo Panama: Pros and Cons 2007-03-07 00:20:02 Near the end of 2006 Yahoo
officially unveiled the new back end for Yahoo Marketing Solutions, widely referred to as the ‘Panama
’ Update. Since then they have been slowly allowing the upgrading of accounts from the old into the new system. While not everyone has had a chance to have their accounts switched over, it is expected that all will be upgraded by the end of this quarter.
After several months of waiting, this new backend is a welcomed change as Yahoo finally moves into the future but as with any new system, it is not without its pros and cons.
New System Pros
The new system is certainly a great improvement over the old. While adjusting to a new interface and ranking algorithm may take a little time for advertisers, the end result will present more relevant ads to the searchers, which will ultimately mean a higher quality of visitor and should provide a better bang for one’s buck.
> Previously you were stuck with only one live ad for any given phrase; now you can create mu
Filter Forge Plugin for Adobe Photoshop Now Available 2007-03-07 21:12:06 What is FilterForge
? A plugin for AdobePhotoshop
that allows you to build your own filters.
On the surface, Filter Forge is just a Photoshop plugin, a pack of filters that generate textures, create visual effects, enhance photos, process images. However, there are 3 things that make Filter Forge unique:
1. You can create your own filters. Filter Forge comes with a visual node-based editor allowing you to create your own filters – textures, effects, distortions, backgrounds, frames, you name it. All filters automatically support 16- and 32-bit modes in Photoshop, real-world HDRI lighting, bump and normal maps, huge resolutions and seamless tiling.
2. Anyone can submit filters to our online Filter Library where other users can download them – for free. This means that the more people use Filter Forge, the better it gets. Currently, the library contains 1738 user-created filters.
3. Contributors get Filter Forge for free. You submit filters, they get popular with the users, we send Read more:Plugin
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Adobe Creative Suite 3 To Be Announced March 27 2007-03-07 21:04:26 The release will reveal the features of what is being called “the largest software release in Adobe
’s 25 year history.”
It’s hard to find a visual creative who doesn’t rely on one or more of the applications within Adobe’s cross-platform Creative Suite
. Anticipation of the upcoming CS3 version has been building for some time, in part due to the extended open beta of Photoshop CS3. There are also many users who are waiting for the Suite’s ability to run on Intel-based Macs, and will couple that with an Apple hardware upgrade.
There have a been a few recent hints about the March
27 announcement date, which was first floated last month by a financial analyst. A teaser video for the upcoming release (shown at right) was later posted on YouTube, while a related promotional mini-site was create by Adobe’s UK wing. The launch will take place at an event in New York City, which will be webcast live at 3:30 PM EST, during which the application fea Read more:Adobe Creative Suite
Adult spam reaches all-time low 2007-03-07 21:00:22 The amount of adult spam targeting inboxes has reached an all-time low, according to Symantec’s most-recent State of Spam report.
The security firm said that adult spam — which it describes as offensive and inappropriate emails targeting over 18s — accounted for just 3 percent of the total spam sent during February.
Health-related spam accounted for 24 percent of all unsolicited messages during the period, while financial made up another 24 percent.
Overall, Symantec said that spam levels remained fairly consistent during February, and only increased slightly. It said spam accounted for 70 percent of all emails sent during the month.
Source : ITWorld
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5 Ways - You Haven’t Even Thought Of - To Kill Trees 2007-03-07 19:50:14 1) Use the Internet.
The Internet is really big. I have only seen about half of it. Anything so big cannot be good for trees. Trees
are small in comparison to the Internet.
Most of you are probably convinced by now that using the Internet kills trees. However, for those sceptics out there, I will produce more evidence.
Where do they make the internet? Silicon Valley. Where do they get the silicon? Other places that aren’t Silicon Valley. What do they use to ship all of this silicon? Trucks.
Truck fumes kill trees, thus the internet kills trees.
2) Talk about what happened on Jay Leno last night.
No, Jay’s chin doesn’t kill trees. But, when you talk about what Jay Leno said, you are killing trees. Why?
Because, you aren’t talking about tacos. And almost everyone knows that the subject of tacos is the only thing that can be talked about that doesn’t kill trees.
When was the last time you talked about tacos? When you were hungry. What did you do after you tal Read more:Haven
Bugatti Veyron crash 2007-03-09 15:00:13
Within a week of receiving the delivery of his car, Kumar’s brother crash
ed the car into a Vauxhall Astra.
John Morrison, who sold the car to Kumar, said: “He is in mourning. That car was his baby and he is grieving for it.”
The BugattiVeyron
costs 1 million (!!!) euros, has 1,001 horsepower and can accelerate from 0 to 100km/hr in 2.6 seconds.
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Terabyte CDs In the Works At Harvard Labs 2007-03-08 23:26:48 While the prospect of soon-to-be-standard 50GB Blu-ray discs is impressive, researchers at Harvard
University are working on a process that could cram as much as 3,000 gigabytes onto a single CD.
The key innovation is a nano antenna, which, by attaching to a commercial optical disc laser, can focus the, laser?s surface area from 830 nanometers down to just 40.
As smaller laser sizes mean significantly larger amounts of data per square inch, discs produced by the process could contain as much as sixty times more data than even the highest capacity products available today. According to Federico Capasso, head of the project and Professor of applied physics at Harvard:
“You’d be able to pack more than three terabytes [3,000 gigabytes] worth of data onto something the size of a CD.”
Currently it?s impossible to cram that much data into optical storage media because industry standard lasers are capable of focusing light to only half of their wavelengths. Capasso and his te Read more:Terabyte
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Samsung - 8 GB flash chip for mobile phones 2007-03-12 19:22:50 Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has begun shipping samples of an 8 G-byte flash memory chip, enough to store up to 2,000 songs on a mobile phone, the company said on Monday.
It expects to begin mass producing the moviNAND chip, which it called the highest-capacity embedded flash memory device developed so far, by the end of the year.
Samsung’s moviNAND line combines flash memory and firmware in an embedded chip for mobile phones and other portable devices. The chips use the widely-used MMC (multimedia card) interface, allowing manufacturers to integrate them into devices faster and more cheaply, Samsung said.
The MMC also allows for fast data transfers. The new chip can process 52 M-bytes of data per second, double the performance of Samsung’s 4 G-byte chip, the company said.
Samsung started producing 1 G-byte and 2 G-bytes moviNAND chips last September. It expects worldwide sales of the chips to reach US$4 billion [b] by 2010, it said.
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Adobe : Two Editions of Photoshop CS3 2007-03-12 17:41:32 Adobe has just announced not one, but two versions of Photoshop
CS3. The new Photoshop CS3 Extended is designed for cross-media creative professionals.
Extended adds a new set of capabilities for the integration of 3D and motion graphics, image measurement and analysis, as well as simplifying workflow for those in the domains of architecture, engineering, medicine and science.
In their own words :
Photoshop CS3
Photoshop CS3 extended
Photoshop CS3 accelerates your path from imagination to imagery. Ideal for photographers and designers, the professional standard delivers new features such as automatic layer alignment and blending that enable advanced compositing. Live filters boost the comprehensive, nondestructive editing toolset for increased flexibility. And a streamlined interface and new, timesaving tools make your work flow faster.
New to the Photoshop family, Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended delivers everything in Photoshop CS3 and more. Render and incorporate 3D images int Read more:Adobe
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Men like to aim 2007-03-13 22:21:42 Studies have proven that when going to the bathroom, spillage is reduced by 80% if men find somethinf to aim in the urinal. Hmmm … could it be ? Check this urinal from a public restroom in Amsterdam :
QuarkXPress doesn’t run on Windows Vista 2007-03-16 00:17:44 QuarkXPress users updating to WindowsVista
have been surprised to find that the current version simply won’t run, in contrast to the pre-Vista version of competing publication application Adobe InDesign. Quark has now announced that a free update that allows XPress to run on Vista will be available for download on its site within the next 30 days.
According to Terry Welty, Quark Senior Vice President of Corporate Marketing, “Customers will benefit from the combined user interface enhancements of both products such as the ability to drag and drop images from the Windows Photo Gallery directly into QuarkXPress 7. In addition, users with Windows Vista
will be able to take advantage of the unique new features of QuarkXPress 7 such as picture effects and Composition Zones.”
QuarkAlliance developers are also apparently testing their XTensions software for QuarkXPress 7 on Windows Vista.
Source : graphics.com
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