Creative Photography and Multimedia

Steve Jobs

marlake — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 23:29:41 +0000

Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years—as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues—Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing.

At a time when America is seeking ways to sustain its innovative edge, and when societies around the world are trying to build digital-age economies, Jobs stands as the ultimate icon of inventiveness and applied imagination. He knew that the best way to create value in the twenty-first century was to connect creativity with technology. He built a company where leaps of the imagination were combined with remarkable feats of engineering.

Although Jobs cooperated with this book, he asked for no control over what was written nor even the right to read it before it was published. He put nothing off-limits. He encouraged the people he knew to speak honestly. And Jobs speaks candidly, sometimes brutally so, about the people he worked with and competed against. His friends, foes, and colleagues provide an unvarnished view of the passions, perfectionism, obsessions, artistry, devilry, and compulsion for control that shaped his approach to business and the innovative products that resulted.

Driven by demons, Jobs could drive those around him to fury and despair. But his personality and products were interrelated, just as Apple’s hardware and software tended to be, as if part of an integrated system. His tale is instructive and cautionary, filled with lessons about innovation, character, leadership, and values.

Roxio Creator 2011 3D features

marlake — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 13:56:30 +0000

Finally, you can create 3D images by using Roxio Creator 2011 with 3D features for still images and video, without hassle. You won’t believe your own eyes. Start converting your images to 3D by Roxio Creator 2011 with 3D features.

Easily enhance, preserve, and share your digital media with Roxio Creator 2011. Turn your standard videos and photos into 3D masterpieces, and playback 3D movies on your PC–includes free 3D glasses.

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Edit video and create DVDs. Fix and enhance photos; create photo slideshows, cards, and panoramas. Copy music; digitize LPs and tapes. Convert audio and video files for mobile playback. Burn, back up, copy, and preserve files to CD, DVD, or Blu-ray Disc. New features include video stabilization and rotation. Plus now you can access the media on your home PC–from the Internet–while you’re away from home. Built-in video tutorials make it easy to learn everything that Creator can do.

New in this version

Turn your standard videos and photos into 3D masterpieces to playback on your PC or TV. Creator also lets you view Hollywood’s 3D movies on your desktop or laptop PC. Now you can access the content on your home PC while you’re away–through the Internet.

New! Turn your 2D videos into stunning 3D movies
New! Edit in 3D and create 3D DVDs
New! Create amazing 3D images even from photos taken with a standard camera
New! Transform your 2D photos into 3D works of art
New! Play back 3D movies on your PC or 3D TV–3D glasses included in non-downloadable version
New! Stabilize shaky video taken with a handheld camera
New! Rotate video with one click
New! Access and share the digital media on your PC from the Internet

Also included in Roxio Creator 2011:

Fast and versatile HD video editing and encoding
Create movie magic with a few clicks
Capture streaming web videos take TiVo DVR shows to-go
Create Hollywood-style DVDs
Rip, mix, burn, and share digital and analog audio
Capture Internet audio, whatever the source
Powerful Sound Editor
Convert CD audiobooks for your iPod
Preserve old LPs and tapes
Create mixes an identify your audio…automatically

Upload photos & video to You Tube & Facebook
Create slideshows, cards, calendars, and more
Create dazzling online PhotoShows
Restore old photos with a few clicks
Create panoramas from individual photos
Drag, drop, burn–right on your desktop
The industry standard for burning
Copy CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray Discs* with one click
Create custom DVD video compilations

Now with 3D Features

Edit in 3D and create 3D DVDs

Edit 3D videos and create Hollywood-style 3D* movies on DVD or 3D Blu-ray discs.

Enjoy 3D movies on your PC or TV

Experience the magic of 3D right away on your PC or in the comfort of your living room–on TV.

Create 3D pictures

Create amazing 3D images even from photos taken with a standard camera. Or transform your 2D photos into 3D works of art.

Burning and Copying

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The industry standard for burning

Roxio delivers the best and easiest tools for archiving and sharing your irreplaceable media files on CDs or DVDs. Span large projects across multiple discs. Archive up to 50 GB on high capacity Blu-ray Discs.

Safe and sound backup

Back up your files to CD, DVD, Blu-ray Disc or network drive. Schedule unattended backups or do it manually. For added security, you can even protect your data with encryption and password protection.

Convert video for portable devices.

Copy with one click

Easily copy* data, audio, photo or video CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray Discs.
*Does not rip or copy encrypted or copy-protected content or discs.

Create custom DVD video compilations

Copy an entire 9 GB DVD movie onto a standard 4.7 GB DVD. Create custom DVD compilations with up to 4 hours of DVD video on a single disc, while maximizing available disc space and video quality.

IMPROVED! Convert video for portable devices

Convert DVD video, web video or any other video file automatically to a preferred format for easy playback on your mobile phone, iPad, iPod or other portable device.

Video

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NEW! Stabilize shaky video taken with a handheld camera

NEW! Rotate video with one click; auto-adjust color, brightness and contrast

Turn raw video into a polished production

Easily edit your standard and HD videos. Add picture-in-picture effects, titles and scrolling credits.

Capture streaming web videos

Save video from YouTube and other popular sites on your PC and convert them to play on your TV, iPhone, iPad, and other portable device.

Create Hollywood-style DVDs

Personalize your finished movies with custom standard and high-resolution menu styles, animated themes and music for any occasion.

Stabilize shaky video taken with a handheld camera.

Fast video encoding

NEW! Now you can render and encode your video even faster thanks to supported OpenCL, ATI Stream, and nVidia Cuda technologies. Use the full power of your PC’s multi-core processor.

Take your TiVo to-go

Archive your TiVo shows and movies to DVD and Blu-ray Disc and free up your TiVo space. Remove commercials or unwanted episodes, then convert for playback on iPad, PSP and more.

Music

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Capture Internet audio, whatever the source

Create mixes for any occasion

Create hot music playlists for any occasion. And, to keep everybody dancing, Creator’s beat matching feature will automatically synchronize the rhythm from song to song.

Powerful Sound Editor

Trim unwanted parts, combine multiple tracks together, normalize the volume across the mix and add fun effects. Create advanced playlist projects with crossfades, transitions and audio mashups.

Preserve old LPs and tapes

Digitize your classic analog LPs and cassette tapes – even clean up pops and hissing. Then automatically convert into a preferred file format for sending to your iPod, mobile phone or use in custom CD mixes.

Identify your audio…automatically

Automatically add title, artist and genre information to your audio files–without retyping. Great for audio captured from Internet radio, LPs, tapes or streaming music services.

Create custom ringtones

Why buy a ringtone, when you can create one for free from any audio you have on your hard disk? It’s quick and simple.

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Photo

Give new meaning to words “picture perfect”

Edit multiple images at the same time; fix red eye, erase wrinkles and blemishes, correct color, add effects like transparency and edge fading.

Create dazzling online PhotoShows

Try for free Roxio PhotoShow service to create stunning multimedia slideshows and easily share them online with friends and family. Make a PhotoShow now.

Restore old photos with a few clicks

Easily remove scratches and dust from a photo, adjust exposure, crop ragged edges, straighten a photo and adjust color.

Create sweeping panoramas

Turn routine snapshots into sweeping vistas by stitching together two or more pictures side-by-side–perfect for depicting landscapes, crowd scenes and architectural photos.

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Collages made simple

Create collages for use in a scrapbook, as wallpaper on your computer or for printing or emailing to friends and family.

NEW! Share on Facebook and more

What have you been up to lately? Let the world know by posting your photos and video stories to Facebook, YouTube, or other popular online sharing destinations.

Kindle DX For Doctors

marlake — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 02:11:44 +0000

Say Hello to the Newest Kindle DX For Doctors

All New, High Contrast E Ink Pearl Screen: Our graphite Kindle DX for Doctors display uses the latest generation E Ink Pearl technology with 50% better contrast for the clearest text and sharpest images

Beautiful Large Display: The 9.7″ diagonal E Ink screen is ideal for a broad range of reading material, including graphic-rich books, PDFs, newspapers, magazines, and blogs

Read in Sunlight with No Glare: Unlike backlit computer or LCD screens, Kindle DX’s display looks and reads like real paper, with no glare. Read as easily in bright sunlight as in your living room

Slim: Just over 1/3 of an inch, as thin as most magazines

Books In Under 60 Seconds: Get books delivered wirelessly in less than 60 seconds; no PC required

Free 3G Wireless: No monthly payments, no annual contracts. Download books anywhere, anytime

Long Battery Life: Read for up to 1 week on a single charge with wireless on. Turn wireless off and read for two to three weeks.

Carry Your Library: Holds up to 3,500 books, periodicals, and documents

Buy Once, Read Everywhere: Kindle books can be read on all your devices. Our Whispersync technology saves and synchronizes your Kindle library and last page read across your Kindle(s), PC, iPhone, Mac, iPad, Android device, and BlackBerry device

Share Meaningful Passages: Share your passion for reading with friends and family by posting meaningful passages to Twitter and Facebook directly from your Kindle

Global Coverage: Enjoy wireless coverage at home or abroad in over 100 countries. See details. Check wireless coverage map.

Built-In PDF Reader: Carry and read all of your personal and professional documents on the go. Now with Zoom capability to easily view small print and detailed tables or graphics

Auto-Rotating Screen: Display auto-rotates from portrait to landscape as you turn the device so you can view full-width maps, graphs, tables, and Web pages

Read-to-Me: With the text-to-speech feature, Kindle DX can read newspapers, magazines, blogs, and books out loud to you, unless the book’s rights holder made the feature unavailable

Large Selection: Over 950,000 books and the largest selection of the most popular books people want to read, including 107 of 112 New York Times® Best Sellers, plus U.S. and international newspapers, magazines, and blogs. For non-U.S. customers, content availability and pricing will vary. Check your country.

Out-of-Copyright, Pre-1923 Books: Over 1.8 million free, out-of-copyright, pre-1923 books are available to read on Kindle, including titles such as The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Pride and Prejudice, and Treasure Island. Learn more

Low Book Prices: New York Times Best Sellers and New Releases from $9.99.

Free Book Samples: Download and read first chapters for free before you decide to buy

See full details here

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USB Drive banned from US Military

marlake — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 08:57:41 +0000

Stealth Technology – USB Monitor is completely hidden and undetectable. It covertly monitors the system and the advanced stealth technology makes the program invisible to Windows Task Manager, Windows Process Viewer, and even any thrid party process viewing programs. Opening the program is as simple as a keyboard shortcut, but impossible for those that don’t have access!

Monitor Sensitive Information – USB Monitor is the complete package. Simultaneously protect sensitive files and folders, monitor files brought to your computer, and block copying all together. For added protection USB Monitor starts automatically with Windows. Feel safe traveling on business with your laptop, leaving the office, or working from home. With USB Monitor… you’re protected.

Prevent Data Theft – USB Monitor‘s interface is extremely easy to use. The heads up display lets you know your level of protection any time at a glance. Select from copying the entire drive or simply certain file types such as images, videos, music, and more… all with a click of the mouse.

Trace and Prevent Viruses, Malware, and Adware – Recently the U.S. Department of Defense banned USB drive use for security reasons. Adware and malware slow down and stop production, increase load times, and open your computer to even larger threats like trojan horse viruses! Recent studues show that roughly 25% of viruses in business come from poor USB security and unauthorized use of USB drives.

Protect Your Folder!

marlake — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 08:41:48 +0000

Folder Lock® is a fast data encryption and password protection software for Windows. It can simultaneously encrypt, lock and password protect your files, folders, drives, USB drives and even CD/DVD-RW.

Folder Lock creates encrypted storages called ‘Lockers’. You can keep as many of your private files & folders in your Locker and password protect it with a single click. You can transfer, secure and backup these Lockers. Lockers are portable, you can keep them in USB Flash Drives, CD/DVD (R-RW), & notebooks or transfer them via email or upload. Lockers are even undeletable on the computer where Folder Lock is installed.

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You can treat Lockers just as you would treat them in physical world. Each user can have their own Locker. However, a single user can create multiple Lockers with different passwords as well. With Folder Lock, you can choose either to encrypt using 256-bit AES on-the-fly encryption or lock files, folders and drives anywhere on your computer. Each Locker can contain your encrypted files as well as your personal list of locked items.

Furthermore, Folder Lock’s options like hack attempt monitoring, stealth mode, data shredding, history cleaning and auto protection can enhance data security beyond anything ever achieved. In addition, a locker’s delete, move and rename are password protected to prevent data loss.

eBooks for iPad

marlake — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 04:39:32 +0000

Heavy enough to carry your books around? Well, time has change for eBooks. For those iPad users, here is the best solution for you.

Try myPadMedia.com which has unlimited eBooks for you to download. All your favourite genres are there. Why waiting?Download now!

Unlock your iPad

marlake — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 04:03:03 +0000

Jailbreak your iPad!

The brand new iPad unlock solution has undergone some of the most intense and rigorous tests worldwide.

This is why Jailbreak are now able to GUARANTEE that the solution will unlock any iPad 1 & 2 in the world, any model (Check compatibility first).

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Xbox Kinect for Doctors :)

marlake — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 02:06:11 +0000

You are the controller. No gadgets, no gizmos, just you!

Most of the Doctors don’t have enough time for exercise, entertainment, movies and so on. Here is the solution for you at home. Try Xbox 360 4GB Console with Kinect which allows you to use full body control on the console. Thus Kinect will improve your skills and navigation on your professional working environment. Here are the informations taken from Xbox Kinect website. Hope this will help and entertain our beloved Doctors out there

Kinect brings games and entertainment to life in extraordinary new ways without using a controller. Imagine controlling movies and music with the wave of a hand or the sound of your voice. With Kinect, technology evaporates, letting the natural magic in all of us shine.

Getting started with Kinect is easy. Click here to learn more about how Kinect works and how easy it is to set up.

Kinect Sensor with Kinect Adventures!

Kinect gets you off the sofa and into the game. Click here to learn how you can work up a sweat and get your synapses snapping by playing Kinect.

Full Body Gaming

Controller-free gaming means full body play. Kinect responds to how you move. So if you have to kick, then kick. If you have to jump, then jump. You already know how to play. All you have to do now is to get off the couch.

Kinect Sports

You Are the Athlete

Forget the buttons and controllers, now you can play 6 full sports games just as you always have, using your entire body. Become the Heavyweight champ of the living room with boxing or take to the sand for some high-flying beach volleyball action.

KungFu Panda 2

Do the Panda. Be the Panda.

Embrace your inner Po with the Kung Fu Panda 2® video game. Utilizing Kinect, players will seemingly transform into Po as they block, dodge, duck, punch and kick, no controller required!

UFC Personal Trainer

Fight for Fitness

Only with Kinect for Xbox 360 and UFC Personal Trainer will you experience the same high impact, intense, controller-free work outs as today’s renowned UFC fighters.

Dance Central

Connect with the Music You Love

Every routine has authentic choreography for beginners and experts alike to master, alongside a killer soundtrack that spans today’s current pop, hip-hop and R&B artists.

Your Shape : Fitness Evolved

Personalized Fitness, Real Results

Personalize your workout, challenge your friends, and share your progress online while acheiving real results. And they’re all designed by fitness experts to provide precise and effective real-time feedback.

Body & Brain Connection

Flex the Power of Your Mind

Solve problems related to math, memory, and critical thinking. The difference this time is that you solve these problems through physical motions, doing things like kicking a soccer ball at the correct sum of two numbers.

EA SPORTS Active 2

Work Out. Measure Up.

EA SPORTS Active 2 includes a new suite of fitness programs and the Total Body Tracking system that utilizes a heart rate monitor to ensure the best possible workout with accurate, measurable results.

National Geographic’s The Photographers

marlake — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 09:29:49 +0000

The Photographers includes a behind-the-scenes look into the lives of National Geographic photographers and how they get the shot presented in a compelling one-hour program; plus the bonus half-hour film on wildlife filmmakers Dereck and Beverly Joubert entitled A Passion for Africa; an assortment of photographs in the Photo Gallery; biographies and photos of the photographers; an interactive trivia quiz; and trailers of other related National Geographic programs.

Click here for more info : National Geographic’s The Photographers

The Ultimate Workshop For Doctors, Photographers and Students

marlake — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 05:34:54 +0000

If you already have a good knowledge of Adobe Photoshop and are looking to advance your skills, Adobe Photoshop CS5 for Photographers: The Ultimate Workshop is the book you’ve been waiting for.

Renowned photographers Martin Evening and Jeff Schewe impart their Photoshop tips and workflow, showing you how to use a vast array of rarely seen advanced Photoshop techniques. Whether the subject is serious retouching work, weird and wonderful compositions, or planning a shoot before you’ve even picked up a camera, you can be sure that the advice is based on years of practical experience.

Full of inspirational photographs and hundreds of full-color screenshots to show you how it’s done, this book features:

-Advice on becoming a retouching master with advanced masking and compositing techniques -A detailed workflow for preparing your images for the best possible output, showing you how to meet both deadline and budge without sacrificing quality -26 movie tutorials on the included DVD, offering over 3 hours of movie content.

All the example files are on the DVD so you can work alongside the text.

I don’t see a list of chapters in the book description, so here they are:

1. Before you shoot
2. Camera Raw workflow
3. Raising your IQ
4. Mending and blending
5. Now you see it, now you don’t
6. Retouching people
7. Masking and compositing
8. Photoshop after dark
9. Photomerges
10. Cooking with Photoshop
11. Robo Photoshop
12. Photoshop output
13. Minding your own business

The ideal companion to Adobe Photoshop CS5 for Photographers: The Ultimate Workshop, this is a must-have resource for any serious user of Adobe Photoshop.