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Wish You A Very Happy and Merry Christmas

Suneel — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 19:45:03 +0000

It’s here again. The joyous moments in every person who shares love and cares for other human beings. The moments of remembering the person who has sacrificed His life for the well-being of Us, mortal souls.

Merry Christmas Folks. It does not get better than this. But, We live on Hope and Faith.

GNU Enhanced Image Editor For Apple Mac

Suneel — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 06:31:59 +0000

We love those tools which provide us innumerable options to work on and which add a little bit of fun with the mundane chores that are done related to it. We love to spend some time playing games and we get mesmerized by the beauty of the games and their visual environment. Ugh, it’s always hard for me to play this Crysis game which has got thousands of key combinations which makes playing, in itself a hard-core task. Ok ok , not a thousand, but at least a hundred key-combinations to remember when you are playing using a keyboard and mouse unlike a joystick. Hmmm,can we play this game with JoyStick? I donno.

Phew, such an exhilarating experience when you blast the evil daddies t othe sky. And, we are aware of the high-end graphics cards that we use in our systems to enhance the visual grnadeur but never use it for any other processor heavy work for which it is so eligible. So, why is that when tools are being developed to make use of that idle, resting, sleeping graphics card? Now, get to know a tool which absolutely does that. Meet Pixelmator.

Pixelmator is everything an image specialist would love to work on, on a Mac. Absolutely fine tuned features which enhance the working experience by providing the end user with multitude of features like variety of brushes, breath-taking filters which make those amazing changes, capability to work in filters, efficient color correction tools and with a multitude of plugin support, its an enthralling experience to watch an expert’s hand working on it.

A much loved feature is the support of tablet PC which makes the artist to create amazing pictures and use the tablet’s pressure sensitivity to blur or sharpen the image or erase the image where required. Also hail the famous Automator which enhances the work experience by doing all those routine and boring activities for which you have created actions and save the final image into any of the or all of the 100 different formats.

Here is the verdict over the first image editor which usees GPU.

Pixelmator is based on Core Image technology that uses your Mac’s video card for image processing. Core Image utilizes the graphics card for image processing operations, freeing the CPU for other tasks. And if you have a high-performance card with increased video memory (VRAM), you’ll find real-time responsiveness across a wide variety of Pixelmator operations. Pixelmator is blistering-fast on the latest PowerPC and all Intel-based Mac’s.

This is amazing. Mac surely rocks. The application can be downloaded from here to try and if you wish to make the most of its features, it costs $59 which is way cheaper than amny of the image editors doing the rounds.

Make A Trip To Mars using Google Maps-Choose a Picnic Spot

Suneel — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 14:56:45 +0000

Wanna have a look at the angry planet Mars? And do not mind choosing a picnic spot there. Because this would not be possible in the near future. Well, so how does Mars’ climatic zone look like in the IR camera’s view? Get a possible view of Mars at Google Mars Expedition.

Download Screen Capture Software to Save From Top to Bottom

Suneel — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 07:14:02 +0000

Such a lame title! Tch!

So, what are going to know now? Hmm, yeah, a tiny screen capturing software which reduces your pain in the a$$ to click ‘Print Screen’ again and again and paste into MS Paint, editing it, applying titles, applying visual styles such as arrows, rectangles, tool tips, speech texts and other amazing stuff that any image has. All these in one place and which has got numerous features and all that it asks is, CONFIGURE ME PROPERLY.

Once, you set the shortcut keys to serve the purpose, its a breeze to create a screenshot and you would literally love to have this nifty tool called ScreenShot Captor. It’s nearly a 9MB installation.

It’s a bit hard to get used to the shortcuts in one go, but once you get used to it. It’s just a correct combination and there you have a right image and multitude of image options which provides an option even to save multiple image formats.

Create PDF files From Any Windows Application or Documents

Suneel — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 06:46:13 +0000

Well, we are all aware if how hard it had been a few years earlier to create a PDF file from our documents and other applications. How hard it had been to create documents which spanned multiple pages and which consisted of images which had to be sent to a client or a friend intact! Even though there existed some tools from Adobe, they had been proprietary and using them was ultimately resource heavy and they costed more than the Operating System which were working on.

Welcome doPDF, a free tool which weighs nearly 2 MB 1.64 MB and can create PDF files virtually from any kind of document or office documents. Usage is so easy, just hit the Print button and select the output as a PDF file and you are done.

Ok, now that you have installed, what next?

Open any document, go to Print and select the following option:

Click OK to get your PDF file.

Do share with us if you have any similar kind of PDF creating applications which you use or aware of.