I love Photoshop and for those like me that wait a long time to upgrade and end up having to pay full price. Well if you have the money that's fine but if you would like a cheaper option (free?), try Artweaver.

This is a program that my daughter was using and getting great results. I loaded the program to test it and wanted to know what the catch was. The program performs beautifully and it is a lighter weight program than Photoshop. This is a full featured Photo Editor that supports most Phot Shop plug-ins.

Check this out at www.artweaver.de.

Hope you enjoy this as much as I have

Labels: Free Alternative for Photoshop

In just three weeks, online gamers deciphered the structure of a retrovirus protein that has stumped scientists for over a decade, and a study out Sunday says their breakthrough opens doors for a new AIDS drug design.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/09/19/us-gamers-crack-puzzle-in-aids-research-that-stumped-scientists-for-years/#ixzz1YUo0yTLc



FTW!

Reports: Disney World to test software to limit refillable mugs

Walt Disney World is testing technology that would limit guests’ use of the refillable resort mugs.

RFID= the future of dieting? I can see where in the not to distant future people are put on strict diets by doctors and the the new government healthcare can use RFID to monitor a patients intake of food.
a black market for RFID-less food packaging?
All speculation of course but, here is a test of that type of control in the public sector.

read more:
http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/disney-a-mom-and-the-mouse/2011/07/reports-disney-world-to-test-software-to-limit-refillable-mugs/

If you have a MacBook get this software now!

http://www.hiddenapp.com

It helped a man get his laptop back in one piece.  Great story about the power of the Internet and technology to fight crime

http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/web/06/02/stolen.laptop.returned/index.html?iref=obnetwork<br>

Following the news of the demise of Bin Laden. The internet scam artists attack with full force.
Beware the warnings below...you have been warned..


"The world's most wanted criminal was found and killed Sunday. By late that evening, crooks had unleashed a wave of new spam emails, poisoned search results, and specially crafted websites -- all designed to mislead people seeking news.

Security analysts across the Internet Monday morning warned of the onslaught of new threats that inevitably follow a major news event. Leading security firm Kaspersky Lab began detecting spam e-mail campaigns and Web pages built specifically to game the major search engines within hours of the first reports of his death in a firefight with U.S. forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan.

President Obama announced the results of the top-secret operation late Sunday night, calling it the most significant blow to Al Qaeda to date. Within hours, the architect of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks that killed more than 3,000 people was buried at sea, the president said.

And within hours of that, warned Kaspersky analyst Fabio Assolini, the company began finding search engine optimized (SEO) Web pages offering news of bin Laden's death and claiming to offer photographs of the slain terrorist. Clicking those links directed Web surfers to malicious Web pages that try to install Best Antivirus 2011, a rogue anti malware program, Assolini said.

Another Kaspersky researcher uncovered a Facebook spam campaign offering "free subway rides and plane tickets" to "celebrate Osama's death." Users visiting the malicious page were asked to enter personal information to win a prize, but end up spamming their own friends with the solicitation, he warned.

This is only the beginning of what promises the be the usual onslaught of scams and trickery, warned experts.

"Within 24 hours we can expect in excess of 100 million spam emails," Symantec's Steve Martin told SecureComputing.com.

"Anytime there is a major event there are always scammers," he said.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/05/02/usama-bin-laden-death-joy-cyberscammers/#ixzz1LF5AewP9
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Curiosity calls on you from time to time to ask those number crunching questions like;
Compare the size and atmosphere of Earth and Mars or Jupiter.
What are the cultural comparisons between China and USA.
How do I calculate Gravity.

There is a site that has been compiling statistics and formulas and over the period of 20 of R&D has created a search engine style interface that recognizes your queries and generates results based on statistical data.
http://www.wolframalpha.com

wolframalpha.com contains components such as;
Linguistic analysis
Curated data
Dynamic computation
Computed presentation

Check it out!

All computers, of course :)

What software?

Adobe, Cinema 4D and some custom software written in C.

Check out the artists post here

http://jtnimoy.net/workviewer.php?q=178

Labels: tron legacy special effects adobe cinema 4d