If you want to create images but Photoshop does not appeal to you and you find traditional art materials are too expensive and messy, your prayers have been answered. ArtRage 2.5 from New Zealand-based Ambient Design is a elegant little package that gives you the tools for painting on your computer. With realistic-looking painting tools, you can create and print as you please. The free Starter Edition has eight painting tools including oil, pencil, and felt pen. You can also trace existing images with ease. The Full version has four additional paint tools, layers, metallic paint, and many other additional features for $25. It also has stencils and rulers to help you with lines and curves. The interface has been improved and support for Photoshop PSD has been added, as well as for importing and exporting capabilities for other image formats. See what millions of users have been raving about now.
September 9th, 2009 in
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You can get almost anything free online these days, including these impressive 3D software that give an added dimension to your screen or artwork.
DAZ Studio 2.2.2.15 from DAZ 3D is more stable than its previous releases. It features Lip-Sync to integrate sound files from Mimic. It also provides the new Smoothing Angle and the added your favorite tools to the morph panel.
Blender Foundation’s open-source Blender 2.46 gives you all the tools you need to become a 3D animator. Like DAZ Studio above, this is a bug-fixing release, with added features such as cloth and fur simulation, shading, glossy reflection and refraction, soft shadows, improved rendering features, amongst others.
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August 13th, 2009 in
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The Microsoft line of Operating Systems has been around since the beginning of the personal computer and is considered to be one of the earliest forms of user-friendly operating systems around. It allowed non-technical people and even kids to learn how to use them without being a programmer as opposed to the command line interface most older generations of pc’s had. The first inn ovations of GUI or Graphics User Interface or the use of graphics icons to signify the many parts of the computer began with the early days of Apple when Jobbs was handling all the marketing of the first prototypes as well as the first generation of the Mac. Read the rest of this entry »
Despite lukewarm news regarding the coming of Windows 7, Microsoft has announced that they will be offering free upgrades for those people who have just recently purchased copies of Vista. The other pricing guides for upgrades and pre-ordering is out but still people are wary of the added strain of having to buy a new Operating System while the old one still works. The details between the types of Windows 7 have also emerged, a bit less than the previous release of Vista which had six, Home/home premium, Professional/premium and of course the Ultimate/ultimate premium versions that spawned confusion to the real versions people had. They were actually the same product, packaged with different add-ons to answer to the different needs people had. Read the rest of this entry »
Universal Accounts Control is the pop-up or rather the program that monitors if you are about to do something that may influence the system’s overall stability. It is the ever present pop-up that tells or asks you that you should have administrator access or privileges in order to do what you are about to do. One thing that has surfaced during the time Vista has been in the wild is that this very program that has been designed to protect you indeed does, in certain cases. One thing that happens behind the scenes is the fact that any program that has valid security certificates can and does go through without UAC ever noticing. This fast-tracking of hidden applications is what people are fearing the most for it can possibly be hijacked by malware for it to do it’s thing with you left in the dust, not knowing a thing was happening. Read the rest of this entry »
Everybody seems to have a need for their upcoming operating system to look and feel like XP which Microsoft has partly allowed, sort of. There is a so-called XP compatibility mode that would allow the operating system, in this case Windows 7, to have the look and feel of XP in a sense but that goes only on the surface. Familiarity is the main reason for this odd request form the many users who face an uncertain future with the upcoming Windows 7. Fear of having to again learn the work-around of the system is the main factor why the developer, Microsoft has released news that it will indeed in the front have the ability to look like XP. Read the rest of this entry »
Multi-core computers that is and it seems Vista still lacks luster compared to XP and surprisingly even against the RC of the upcoming Windows 7. The world as it seems still belongs to Xp even with it being repetitively announced for ending it’s support cycle. The system is stable and has withstood the test of time which compared to Vista that has all but flopped it may still outlive the rest of the operating systems out on the market. Read the rest of this entry »
One of the most neglected tasks in Windows Vista (or any other Windows version for that matter) is running Disk Cleanup. As the name implies, Disk Cleanup cleans out your Temporary Files folder and all other trash (not to be confused with the Recycle Bin) that’s scattered throughout your system.
To run Disk Cleanup, you can go to your Start Menu > Program Files > Accessories > System Tools > Disk Cleanup. You then select the drive you want to clean up – which is usually your boot drive, or C: – and then check the sections you want cleared of digital debris. Another way is to type ‘cleanmgr’ into your Run box in the Start Menu to take you directly to Disk Cleanup.
After this you can enjoy a faster boot and general speed as well.
The leakage of screen shots of the much rumored upcoming replacement for Windows 6.0 or Vista is raising speculation on Microsoft’s drive to re-gain ground due to their many commercial mistakes from the ill-performance of Vista which failed to get more than enough support from the many skeptical XP users. Called too nosy, too complicated and more, Vista has angered a lot of users that most had to revert back to XP which has reached ideal stability that was the status of Win98 when they pulled the plug when XP was introduced. They have been criticized a lot for the move but the resistance was short lived when they worked hard enough to get it downright stable enough to satisfy their customers. Read the rest of this entry »
January 12th, 2009 in
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ウィンドウズ・ビスタにパッケージされているバックアップと復元センターはあなたのOSの重要なファイルやイメージをバックアップし、復元させる優秀なツールです。
「バックアップと復元センター」ユーティリティを立ち上げる方法
- スタートボタンを押す。
- バックアップとタイプする。
- バックアップと復元センターを選択する。
ファイルのバックアップ方法
バックアップファイルをクリックし、画面に出るプロンプトまたは指示に従ってください。 ディレクトリを選び、あなたがバックアップしたいファイルを選択してください。 そしてバックアップファイルを保存したい場所を探してください。 理想的には外部のハードドライブまたはDVDが良いでしょう。
ファイル復元の方法
バックアップと復元センターのアプリケーションを立ち上げ、ファイル復元を選択してください。 DVDを挿入するか、外部のハードドライブを付け、バックアップファイルを探し、画面に現れるプロンプトの指示に従ってください。
レジストリのバックアップ
時折あなたのPC を調整すると、知らず知らずのうちにレジストリの値を変更していることがあります。 そしてこれが、あなたのオペレーションシステムの機能を不良にすることがあります。 そのため、レジストリをバックアップする必要があります。
January 6th, 2009 in
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