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- &Else... February 2003
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- 00 Fly a Kite and Win
- 02 The smartest way from bitmap to vectors!
- 03 Spam Is 'A Thousand Times More Horrible Than You Can Imagine
- 04 Typographic Aficionados
- 05 Free Preflight for Quark Users
- 06 Invisible Secrets 3.2
- 07 Create Online Image Galleries with Ease
- 08 Painting teaching tool / image editor for Windows
- 09 Capture Digital Video (PC)
- 10 System LifeGuard 1.2
- 11 Atmosphere Lite
- 12 MacLorem
- 13 Handheld Bluetooth Receiver
- 14 European Glamour Images
- 15 Open Source Convention Call For Participation
- 16 Art that Talks
- * Don't forget to see the February Editor's Column
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- Fly a Kite and Win
- Graphic design professionals and students across North America have the opportunity to see their work hanging at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., in Spring 2003. Forty winning designs of the SMART Papers Kite Contest will be shown at the Smithsonian beginning in late March 2003. Kites do not need to be able to fly to win, but they must be graphically compelling. The contest is particularly significant for graphic design professionals and design students because it provides them with a rare opportunity to get their work exhibited in the Smithsonian, one of the world's most prestigious art and science institutions. A panel of respected graphic design judges will pick 40 of the most creative designs based on a well-executed solution, innovation in aesthetics and materials and presentation. Entries must be postmarked by February 3, 2003. There are separate categories for graphic design professionals and design students. The top 10 grand prize winners -- each with one guest -- will be flown to Washington D.C. for the exhibit and the festival. Guests will stay at the luxurious Hay Adams Hotel for 4 days and 3 nights, compliments of SMART Papers. A reception will be held for the winners at the Arts and Industries Building on Thursday, March 20.
Sent in by: Erik Godchaux Department: Editorial: News & Else Get the details at: http://www.smartpapers.com/kite/ [top]
- The smartest way from bitmap to vectors!
- Discover Silhouette, the new vectorization plugin for Adobe Illustrator that converts bitmap images to vectors images with a complete set of unique correction tools. Download a free demo version today! (I haven't tested this product yet, but will let you know when I do!)
Sent in by: Renaud Pattyn Department: DTP - publishing, printing, output, etc. Get the details at: http://www.silhouetteonline.com/ [top]
- Spam Is 'A Thousand Times More Horrible Than You Can Imagine
- Mitch Wagner writes in this "Spam White Paper" ....
"We're victims of crime, and nobody gives a damn. That's a nice feeling -- your business is being pounded into dust by criminals, and people say, 'Live with it,' ...the spammers are calling the shots, the spammers are in charge of my time, and they are in charge of the Internet."
Everyone should read this article!
Sent in by: Mitch Wagner Department: Online: email, web, browsing, resources Get the details at: http://www.internetweek.com/breakingNews/INW20021219S0003 [top]
- Typographic Aficionados
- The Society of Typographic Aficionados (SOTA) launched a new website, designed by type and graphic designer Christina Torre. The site includes a wealth of information about the organization and its annual conference, TypeCon. SOTA is a not-for-profit, international organization dedicated to the promotion, study, and support of type design, typography, and the related arts.
Sent in by: Tamye Riggs Department: DTP: Font related Get the details at: http://www.typesociety.org [top]
- Free Preflight for Quark Users
- GLUON's QC 5 offers Quark XPress users a comprehensive and automated package to catch and eliminate document problems. This free offer also includes the QC Collect and QC Bureau utilities. The combination represents an outstanding opportunity to add powerful business capability within minutes of installation. QC is in use around the world and has earned 5 star ratings. QC 5 generates an interactive list of problems in an action-oriented palette. Clicking on any discovered problem item instantly takes you to the problem location. The Auto-fix feature enables one-click problem fixing for many common problems. QC can also run automatically when triggering events occur, such as importing pictures. Also, by including the QC Collect and the QC Bureau utilities free of charge, GLUON delivers a powerful package that offers a significant quality improvement for the business of publishing. Once the document has been checked by the QC 5 user, QC Collect gathers all the elements to release the job and itself can perform an exhaustive preflight utilizing the QC engine. Platform = MAC: OS/8 and above ONLY
Sent in by: Valeriya Tuz Department: DTP Utilities: pre-flight, config, printing and imageing, etc. Get the details at: http://www.gluon.com/freeform.htm [top]
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- Invisible Secrets 3.2
- Keep those prying eyes out of your communications and prevent unwanted people from reading your private files. Invisible Secrets not only encrypts your data and files for safe keeping or for secure transfer across the net, it also hides them in places that on the surface appear totally innocent, such as picture or sound files, or web pages. These types of files are a perfect disguise for sensitive information. Nobody, not even your wife, boss, or a hacker would realize that your important papers or letters are stored in your last holiday pictures, or that you use your personal web page to exchange messages or secret documents. With Invisible Secrets you may encrypt and hide files directly from Windows Explorer, and then automatically transfer them by e-mail or via the Internet. Invisible Secrets features strong encryption algorithms, a wizard that guides you through all the necessary steps needed to protect your data, a password management solution that stores all your passwords securely and helps you create secure passwords and a shredder that helps you destroy the originals after encryption. Platform = PC: Windows all versions
Sent in by: Alin Merches Department: PC File Management: backup, disk utilities, rescue, security, etc. Get the details at: http://www.invisiblesecrets.com [top]
- Create Online Image Galleries with Ease
- Express Thumbnail Creator lets users create image galleries using a wizard style interface. This makes the process quick, simple and relatively self-explanatory. Guided by the program, users simply add the pictures, click the preferences and the gallery is completed. Express Thumbnail Creator keeps the creation process simple and understandable for users of all skill levels, with or without any knowledge of the web or HTML. An extensive help system is accessible through pressing the F1 key, which explains every function and detail of the program is available in the unlikely event that users get stuck. $39.95 for the full version. This evaluation version is fully functional for a period of 30 days. For Windows 95/98/ME/NT 4.0/2000/XP
Sent in by: Alexey Surkis Department: Web Design and Dev Get the details at: http://www.express-soft.com/etc/ [top]
- Painting teaching tool / image editor for Windows
- NaturePainter Digital Canvas is a realistic painting software program that makes it easy to learn how to paint with oils and acrylics. For the novice artist, NaturePainter is a great introduction to art, and is perfect for helping one learn different natural painting techniques before investing in buying expensive supplies. More experienced painters can use NaturePainter to create rich paintings or illustrations, and to experiment with ideas and colors before committing them to canvas.
NaturePainter is powerful, yet very easy to use. It is packed with helpful tutorials and features such as real-time paint rendering engine, different paint brushes and paint tools, a realistic paint mixer / palette, and an inspiration button and sample galleries to help jump start your creativity.
DOWNLOAD http://www.naturepainter.net/secure/npswsetup.exe (3130 Kb)
Sent in by: Brian Shin Department: Graphics Get the details at: http://www.naturepainter.net/ [top]
- Capture Digital Video (PC)
- The FERRO - Digital Video is designed for capturing video and audio data and for playback multimedia files. Thanks to Direct-X libraries used to render video streams the higest possibble video playback smoothness has been achieved. The smoothness is much more reliable than other plugin-players for Windows Media Players. Smooth screen zoomings allow to more precise watching of small, sometimes even invisible details when watched in normal-screen playback. The program allows movie watching with subtitles, which are before showing on the screen filtered (antialiased). This makes very unique effect almost identical to this watched in the cinema. Ferro has such mechanisms that automatically change the length of particular movie dialogues to make sure each and every subtitle is read. Having TV CARD or other capturing device (VIDEO CARD or USB CAMERA) You can write audio - video data to hard disk. The program supports almost 90 popular TV Tuners. It supports older 16-bit Video drivers for Windows as well as fast, 32-bit WDM versions. Platform = PC: Windows all versions. Direct download: http://www.ferro.com.pl/shared/FerroInstEN.exe
Sent in by: Pawel Kania Department: Multimedia Video: TV, DVD, capture, edit, author Get the details at: http://www.ferro.com.pl/ [top]
- System LifeGuard 1.2
- System LifeGuard is designed to protect your data and ensure your computer or LAN - runs like the day it was new. Every time you use the internet or run programs on your computer, unwanted files and procedures are stored on your hard-disc. Regular computer use accumulates old material that begins to slow down the operation of your hardware and software. LifeGuard will help you: find and delete junk and duplicate files; organize your data; clean your registry; fully uninstall unwanted programs; empty temporary folders; find and remove invalid links and protect your internet privacy. You will be able to split large files into manageable sections and then reassemble them. LifeGuard can be scheduled to completely organize the layout of your personal and business files. It can be set to regularly tune the performance of your computer and will create reports of all activity for your records. Test drive the FULL program free for 30 days - Platform = PC: Windows all versions
Sent in by: Alin Merches Department: PC File Management: backup, disk utilities, rescue, security, etc. Get the details at: http://www.systemlifeguard.com [top]
- Atmosphere Lite
- Brings the sounds of nature to your desktop. Relax while you work to soundscapes that you create. Choose from background and random sounds or alternatively choose a preset such as thunderstorm, tropical, seashore and many others. We've even included an alarm clock in case you drift off at your desk. Platform = PC: Windows all versions
Sent in by: nick moulds Department: Home Personal: entertainment, travel, health, sex, fitness, etc. Get the details at: http://www.relaxingaudio.com [top]
- MacLorem
- MacLorem is a freeware program that generates random text. Beyond the traditional "lorem ipsum," you can generate up to 100 paragraphs of text in 15 different languages and export to text or HTML. Platform = MAC: all versions of OS
Sent in by: Gilly Rosenthol Department: Wordprocessing: text editors, editing utilities, plug-ins, filters, etc. Get the details at: http://www.fika.org/davew/judebear/MacLorem/ [top]
- Handheld Bluetooth Receiver
- Mantis is a low-cost, wireless receiver designed specifically for identifying, installing and verifying BLUETOOTH wireless devices and connections. The instrument locates any nearby Bluetooth devices, identifies them and follows their frequency-hopping signature allowing detailed RSSI measurement in true dBm, Packet Error Rate breakdowns as well as other device parameters and identification. Mantis? houses a receiver ideal for quick service sweeps and installs when device status (transmit, receive, ID, etc) must be instantly acquired. Mantis also features a built-in backlit display, simple, keypad menu navigation and removable, rechargeable Ni-MH batteries with quick-charger for true portability. Available now for under $1,000.
Sent in by: Craig Schober Department: Computers, systems: utilities, interface, security, networking Get the details at: http://www.bvsystems.com/ [top]
- European Glamour Images
- RoyaltyFreePhotos.com, has announced the addition of an entire collection of 'Classic' EUROPEAN GLAMOUR IMAGES. You can search thousands of images and do immediate downloads of the photos you select. The images are now available in 3 standard sizes 2" by 3" 72dpi; 5" by 7.5" 72dpi; and 5" by 7.5" 300dpi. The best news of all is that there has been NO PRICE INCREASE. The 5" by 7.5" 72dpi images are still $19.95 and the 5" by 7.5" 300dpi images are still $69.95. The NEW 2" by 3" 72dpi images are only $8.95.
Sent in by: Bill Hansen Department: BOOK: graphics, images, painting, Photoshop, Corel Get the details at: http://RoyaltyFreePhotos.com [top]
- Open Source Convention Call For Participation
- O'Reilly & Associates invites programmers, developers, strategists, and technical staff to submit proposals to lead tutorial and conference sessions at the 2003 Open Source Software Convention, slated for July 7-11 in Portland, OR. Proposals are due February 15, 2003.
The open source community has counted its enterprise successes pretty darn sweet of late--Linux and other open source tools are being adopted by supercomputing institutions and by governments around the globe; Perl is a cornerstone in emerging fields such as bioinformatics. Proprietary software vendors are setting aside their supercilious attitude towards open source, and have begun incorporating open source aspects into their product offerings. This melding of the open source and the commercial in operating systems and applications is becoming the norm, for financial and technical reasons, making open standards for data exchange and service interoperability essential.
The O'Reilly Open Source Convention is the central gathering place for the open source community to exchange ideas for resolving integration issues, pushing technical boundaries, and maximizing the benefits of both open source and proprietary software.
All presenters whose talks are accepted (excluding Lightning Talks) will receive free registration at the conference. For each half-day tutorial, the presenter receives one night's accommodation, a limited travel allowance, and an honorarium. Proposal deadline is February 15, 2003; speakers will be notified by March 15, 2003.
Sent in by: Suzanne Axtell Department: Programming Dev Get the details at: http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/ [top]
- Art that Talks
- Tapart News is based on published letters, articles and editorial art and cartoons by Ray Tapajna and others dedicated to renewing the American Dream, Human Dignity in the workday and fair trade starting with the need for real jobs for real people and not wars. The selective topics are mixed with art that talks the issues too. Topics include The American Worker is Hancuffed - Who has the key?, America in Terror by Chuck Harder, House of Cards economy by Paul Donovan, No accounting for the Federal Reserve Bank, updated commentaries from the Federal Trade Commission site, Globalism sells out workers, Free Trade is a Trap, NAFTA and GATT act as a Pearl Harbor attack on workers - Bush joins the ride, Real unemployment rates and more. Viewing art includes Cross 9/11 Tangle of Terror, The Clinton Years, The American Dream Reversed, The American Dream is Burning, Workers bearing their cross locked out of their jobs and more.
Sent in by: Ray Miller Department: Art and Creative: Gallery, portfolio, techniques, art products Get the details at: http://www.yestapart.bizland.com/tapartnews/ [top]
...have fun
Fred Showker
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