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  1. Found this list at mashable.com, all free software. Paint, Drawing and Graphics Programs Gimp – Very powerful image manipulation program, great for photo retouching and image creation. There are other downloads, GTK and runtime environment for this program to work properly. This program currently runs on Linux, Windows (XP and Vista), Mac OSX, and some Unix based systems. Ultimate Paint – Image creation and manipulation program for Windows systems. This is a pretty compact and fast running graphics program with plenty of features. Skencil – An interactive vector drawing program for Unix and Linux operating systems built on the Python language. This program has tons of features like gradient fills, bezier curves and you can bend text along paths to name a few. Pixia - Originally a Japanese only edition, Pixia is a very nice paint tool with full layers support and many other features. The English version website does lack information and support so you will likely need to search the web for information on learning to use this tool. This is currently a Windows only program and does support some drawing tablets. InkScape – If you have been looking the free answer to Adobe Illustrator or CorelDraw, IncScape is a great alternative. This is a full featured vector graphics editor. The website has a tons of information, tutorials and galleries of work created with the program, to give you a good idea of what you are getting involved with. Paint.net – A free image and photo editing software for Windows based PC's. This program was voted #19 out of the top 100 programs of 2007 by PC World. It has full support for layers and special effects, the tools are top notch and highly recommended by many users. There is a strong online community for support and frequent updates to the software. Comparable to Adobe Photoshop. SmoothDraw NX – A freehand drawing tool designed for use with tablets. Several choices of brushes and pencil strokes for creating realistic drawings. Also auto smoothes lines if you are using a mouse to draw with. ImageForge – An image editing and creation program for Windows systems. Although this program is a little rougher than some of the others it still has some nice features like easily creating 3D text, red-eye removal and you can easily create your own Windows screen savers. Brush Strokes – Free graphics editor, with support for many of the popular and common image formats. It isn't as full featured as some of the other programs but it is a good choice for less technical or light users. Project Dogwaffle – A painting and drawing program developed for the PC. Has a nice set of tools and very functional, although does lack features of some large programs. Sodipodi – This is a vector based drawing program that operates on most Unix and Windows systems. It has a ton of features like out of center gradients, patterned lines, dynamic xml editor and you can easily create vertical text. Karbon14 – Another nice, full featured vector based drawing program released under the GNU license. This program comes as part of the Koffice project which includes a whole suite of tools in KDE. ArtWeaver – A freeware paint and drawing program for Windows designed to simulate natural brush tools and effects for artists used to working on canvas. It supports most common file formats, has the standard editing tools like found in many popular graphics programs and offers a few effects filters. GimpShopdotnet – This is a modified version of Gimp, designed to work and feel more like Adobe Photoshop, allowing Photoshop users a comfortable free alternative. ImageMagick – A nice command line program for editing and creating images. There are a whole bunch of useful features like shearing and transforming images, flip, mirror and rotate images and a whole lot more. Animation & 3D Terragen – Create amazing scenery and photorealistic images with this program. This program comes with a lot of features including, terrain sculpting tools, water and cloud generators, realistic sunlight creation and so much more. Works with Windows and Mac OS systems. Google SketchUp – A powerful 3D software that allows quickly build 3D models. The program is pretty easy to use and you can design and build everything from your dream house to a favorite skyscraper. Works on Windows and Mac systems. Art of Illusion – An open-source 3D modeling and rendering studio written in Java and usable on most Java Virtual Machines. On the website you can find some comprehensive tutorials on creating a human figure, working with triangle meshes and more to give you a little better understanding of how to use this nice program. Blender – A top of the line 3D graphics program available for most operating systems. This is a very powerful tool but does have a strong learning curve if you are not familiar with these types of programs. On the website you can find a bunch of great tutorials, galleries of previous work created with this application and a busy community to answer any questions you may have. 3D Canvas – A real-time 3D modeling and animation tool. Easily create 3D scenes with drag-and-drop controls. Customizable toolbars and interface and frame by frame animations are only the start of this programs features. Graphix – An open source graphics editor built to edit and create both raster and vector images. Works one WINE and WinXP operating systems. 3D Plus – This program definitely lacks some of the features of other full scale 3D programs, but it is very ease to use and works well for small quick jobs. You can also purchase the extended version for $9.99. Daz 3D – Calls itself a figure posing and animation tool, basically you can use pre-created people, animals, vehicles, scenes and more, to edit and manipulate them to create your own 3D and animated scenes. The program itself is free, however most of the additional add-ons will cost you money. With that said this is a very nice program to use for people of all skill levels and highly recommended by many. Anim8or – A 3D modeling and animation program, that is available for download, but kind of a still in progress program. It does have its bugs but is a very nice program created by one person to handle what they wanted out of 3D software. Some of its features include, a built in 3D object browser, true-type font support, 3D modeler, jointed character editor and a bunch others. Synfig – A very powerful, well developed 2D vector animation program. This program was designed for studio quality animations, why it was released under the GNU license for free, I have no idea, but I am glad it was. It is currently available for Windows, Mac and Linux operating systems. BRL-CAD – A cross platform 3D modeling program that includes ray-tracing for rendering, interactive geometry editor and more. This program is not recommended for non-tech users. MindsEye – A nice freeware 3D modeling and rendering suite for Linux users. Features include a multi-scene/user concept that allows multiple people to work on the same scenes or visa-versa, object oriented modeling, network support in the MindsEye kernal and more. Maya Personal Learning Edition – Maya is an excellent, although expensive 3D graphics program. This is the free edition developed to give you the opportunity to learn and use the program before purchasing. This edition has most every feature available as in the standard version but it is for non-commercial use and your images will be watermarked among other things. http://mashable.com/2007/10/27/graphics-toolbox/
  2. Sounds fun, gonna try these out.
  3. I'm glad I don't remember that movie.
  4. It's even funnier imagining he was listening to this song
  5. Are you able to open up the case? Would be interesting to see what it looks like on the inside, take a few pictures if you can... Or just use this free tool and post some screens here? http://www.piriform.com/speccy
  6. Yeah, I mean cheap in comparison... What are your specs? This is from the box that I still keep Doesn't require much, but then it's just a controller. The software for drawing (PS, Corel Draw/Painter, Sketchbook etc.) often need a lot of RAM and some CPU power. A good graphics card is needed for rendering some of the more advanced effects etc. What are you planning on using?
  7. Nice! This is the tablet I've used the last couple of years, I can really recommend it. It's cheap but it isn't limiting in any way I can think of. http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B005HGBEZ2?pc_redir=1401497449&robot_redir=1
  8. Something I made in tribute to the Meshuggah album called "Catch 33". A conceptual album that I keep close to my heart. I love it.
  9. Sadly, it's exactly what Steve says... Almost no one cares if the artist isn't well known. Personally I hate how overrated some of the old artists like Da Vinci, Van Gogh etc. are. I see nothing special in their works and there are people way more talented alive today that will never get any recognition whatsoever.
  10. My nephew would absolutely love this.
  11. I know what you mean... That's why you practice the things you aren't good at Duh
  12. Surgeons from the UPMC Presbyterian Hospital in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, are set to begin suspended animation trials by dramatically cooling down trauma victims in an effort to keep them alive during critical operations. Twenty years ago, Peter Safar and Ron Bellamy proposed that the rapid induction of hypothermia could "buy time" for a trauma surgical team to control bleeding. Now, thanks to the work of Peter Rhee and Samuel Tisherman, this idea is officially ready for prime time. EPR-CAT "We are suspending life, but we don't like to call it suspended animation because it sounds like science fiction," noted Tisherman in a New Scientist article. "So we call it emergency preservation and resuscitation." The idea is to buy patients precious time during critical operations, such as after a massive heart attack, stabbings, or shootings. The technique will be used on 10 patients who would otherwise be expected to die from their injuries. The doctors on the project will be paged when a candidate patient arrives at the hospital; there's usually one case like this every month, typically with survival rates less than 7%. It's part a feasibility and safety study, called the Emergency Preservation and Resuscitation for Cardiac Arrest from Trauma (EPR-CAT). Because patients cannot give informed consent, the study will be conducted under theexception-from-informed consent process, which includes community consultation and public notification. So, if you live in the Pittsburgh area, and this seems too risky for you, you have to opt out (which you can do here). How It Works This technique involves internal rather than external cooling. A team of surgeons will remove all of the patient's blood, replacing it with a cold saline solution; the cold fluid is administered through a large tube, called a cannula, which is placed into the aorta, the largest artery in the body. This will slow down the body's metabolic functions, significantly reducing its need for oxygen. Then, a heart-lung bypass machine will be used to restore blood circulation and oxygenation as part of the resuscitation process. A state of profound hypothermia will be induced, at about 50ºF (10ºC), to provide a "prolonged period of cardiac arrest" after extensive bleeding. In other words, clinical death. The technique, which was developed by Peter Rhee, was successfully tested on pigs back in 2000 (his resulting study can be found here). Writing in C|Net, Michelle Starr explains more: After inducing fatal wounds in the pigs by cutting their arteries with scalpels, the team replaced the pigs' blood with saline, which lowered their body temperature to 10 degrees Celsius. All of the control pigs, whose body temperature was left alone, died. The pigs who were resuscitated at a medium speed demonstrated a 90 percent survival rate, although some of their hearts had to be given a jump start. Afterwards, the pigs demonstrated no physical or cognitive impairment. The technique, therefore, will only be used as an emergency measure on patients who have suffered cardiac arrest after severe traumatic injury, with their chest cavity open and having lost at least half their blood already — injuries that see only a seven percent survival rate. The survival rate of these patients will then be measured against a control group that has not received the treatment before further testing can begin. The human body can only be placed in this state for a few hours, so we're still quite a ways off from the suspended animation typically featured in sci-fi. But if this technique is any indication, we may get there just yet. Sources:
  13. I'm not saying this was a conspiracy, I believe what happened. That was just a joke.
  14. Maybe they would if it was a high capacity combat assault magazine knife... But then everyone knows that guns are insidious, evil tools that possess people and turn them into murderers!
  15. Scary. One summer when I was in 6th grade we went on a field trip in Stockholm. After a while the sky we saw black clouds coming pretty fast and it started to rain within minutes, the most rain I've ever experienced in Sweden... So we started leaving because we heard thunder and all our clothes were soaked. After walking 20 meters from the plain were we had been I just turned my head to look back and when I did, lighting struck the ground at just that particular spot were we sat. The sound was terrifying, like a bomb going off and you could instantly feel the air pressure changing... Closest I've ever been to lightning. It was about as close as the tree in the background in your pic.
  16. The problems with using conditioner only, is that it doesn't clean your hair. It traps most of the grease you have in your dirty hair. This will make your hair look and feel super greasy and it weighs it down. When you have greasy hair, sweat gets trapped below in your scalp. That hot and moist environment is a perfect breeding ground for bacteria/fungi. When I had long hair I used to skip the shampoo and only use hot water, sometimes conditioner. It got super greasy and I wanted that because it would get so frizzy otherwise. Guess what, after a couple of months I had fungal infection in my scalp, something I've yet to get rid of completely. It started 7 years ago when I suddenly felt itchy spots in my scalp and when I scratched them there were like soft and greasy scabs that came off just from touching them. And there was some sort of fluid coming out. Gross. They started stinging a whole lot. Especially when washing... Doctor said I got them most likely because my hair was greasy. Used medicinal selsun shampoo for a while but they never went away completely. They always come back but not as much. So that's why I wouldn't recommend not using shampoo at all. Having fungal infection in your scalp is 100 times worse than dandruff. There are lots of mild shampoos out there that won't damage your hair as much. Use baby shampoo if that worries you. Hair masks are really good too since they add a lot moisture back after using regular shampoo.
  17. Might be... My father is almost 70 and haven't had any hair loss. He has a beard too but wasn't able to grow any until he was in his mid-thirties.
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