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Are We Too Obsessed With Facebook? [INFOGRAPHIC]

chris — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 08:13:20 +0000

Introducing the Adobe Digital Magazine Workflow

chris — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 18:22:18 +0000

See how you can use InDesign CS5 and the new Digital Publishing Platform from Adobe to add media-rich content and interactivity to a magazine, and then distribute it to a wide range of screens and devices. – Can’t Wait!

Sneak Peak Filterforge 2.0

chris — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 17:17:11 +0000

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 most filters can be seamlessly tiled.

2. You get free access to 7249 user-created filters. Anyone can contribute their textures and effects to the online filter collection so it grows with every submitted filter. This means the more people use Filter Forge, the better it gets.

3. Contributors get Filter Forge for free. You submit filters, they get popular with the users, we send you a free copy of Filter Forge. Sounds simple but don’t expect a giveaway, you will have to earn it.

Features

Filter Editor

The most important feature of Filter Forge – a visual node-based editor which lets you create your own visual effects and procedural textures without a single line of code.

Online Filter Library

Filter Library is a free online repository of filters submitted by Filter Forge users. You can access the Library directly from the user interface of Filter Forge. Users who contribute good filters can earn rewards, including a free copy of Filter Forge.

Seamless Tiling

Most filters in Filter Forge support seamless tiling, even for non-square textures. A simple one-click operation, Seamless Tiling works no matter whether you have downloaded the filter or created it yourself in Filter Editor.

Bump and Normal Maps

Filter Forge can generate diffuse, bump, specular and normal maps for its filters – most seamlessly tiled, and all fully anti-aliased and perfectly matching each other – a real life-saver for artists working on textures for next-gen games.

Resolution Independence

All filters in Filter Forge are generated procedurally and don’t depend on external bitmaps; therefore, they are resolution-independent. You can render the same filter in any resolution without losing any detail.

Gallery

Fragmentation by Skybase

Another Street by Skybase

pink roses in vintage teepot by barmarhedhof

White Blossums 09 by Kraellin

filterforge.com

Listen to all your favourite Music – Online – For Free

chris — Wed, 05 May 2010 09:53:38 +0000

First, No This Article is not Sponsored. On my daily 20 Minute Twitter Research, i found something very…very…very cool Grooveshark!.

Grooveshark allowes you to listen to all your Favourite Music online for Free – crazy!

Grooveshark – The Music Service

At present, Grooveshark is the most inclusive and fully-featured on-demand music service on the Web. With an unmatched catalog, millions of users flock to the site to listen to their favorite artists as well as discover music and share tracks with friends. Listening to any song instantly, creating playlists to return to later, and quick access to a one’s Favorite songs are ever the fundamentals of Grooveshark’s offering.

Grooveshark also includes song downloads from MP3 store affiliates, and ringtones from Thumbplay, ensuring that users can take their favorite music with them wherever they go in whatever preferred format and rights holders get paid.

Any track or playlist on Grooveshark, whether uploaded by a user, discovered via Radio, or simply searched for is easily shared across the most popular social networks. Users can post songs to Twitter, Facebook, StumbleUpon, export as a widget to post to blogs, MySpace, and other sites, or email a link directly to friends.

GET INSPIRED BY MUSIC RIGHT NOW

O and you also can create a Widget for your Website or Blog!

Check out widgets.grooveshark.com

Hard Facts for all your GEEK’s out there

Founded: 2006 by Sam Tarantino and Josh Greenberg
Location: Based in Gainesville, Florida but has friends all over the globe
Goal: To be synonymous with music on every device in the world, anywhere in the world
Number of employees: 32

What do you think about Grooveshark? Myself, got a BIG Fan and User