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Breathtaking: New Year’s Fireworks Shows For Celebrating 2010
Happy New Year to all of you. We wish you best of luck and all the success for you in 2010. This is the celebration day everywhere so we thought why don’t we share the colors and creativity of fireworks ceremonies of 2010. In this post, we featured few breathtaking and wonderful videos of fireworks shows from few cities of the world. In the next few hours we will be adding more fireworks ceremony videos from other cities as well. At this moment, I am sure these would be good enough to get inspired.
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Sydney’s New Year’s fireworks display
2010: New Zealand welcomes the new year
2010 Taiwan UP Fireworks Show Taipei
London Fireworks on New Year’s Day 2010
15 Most Popular Free Software I Am Thankful For
Today, we are going to say big Thank You to everyone who support us, appreciate us, love us and always be there for us when we need them. So, how can we forget those that makes our computer life easier and did the tremendous work for us. They delivered us those applications/softwares that help us to get the routine work done for our daily use. There are many that we can not count and list down exactly but we are tried to make a list of 15 Most Popular Free Software I Am Thankful For. And Yes! Happy Thanksgiving all of you too…
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WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.
With a large and highly customisable set of key features coupled with a standards compliant interface, phpBB will grow with, and complement your website. With millions of installations worldwide, it is no wonder phpBB is one of the most popular ways to create and support a community.
Firefox 3.5 sets the pace with dozens of new features, including the smart location bar, one-click bookmarking and blindingly fast performance. Avoid online scams, unsafe transactions and forgeries with simple site identity. View Web pages faster, using less of your computer’s memory.
Drupal is a free software package that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website. Tens of thousands of people and organizations are using Drupal to power scores of different web sites from personal weblogs to large community-driven websites.
GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.
Ubuntu is a community developed, Linux-based operating system that is perfect for laptops, desktops and servers. It contains all the applications you need – a web browser, presentation, document and spreadsheet software, instant messaging and much more.
Wine is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X, OpenGL, and Unix. Think of Wine as a compatibility layer for running Windows programs. Wine does not require Microsoft Windows, as it is a completely free alternative implementation of the Windows API consisting of 100% non-Microsoft code, however Wine can optionally use native Windows DLLs if they are available.
FileZilla is a cross-platform graphical FTP, FTPS and SFTP client a lot of features, supporting Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and more. FileZilla Server is a reliable FTP server for Windows. It has a powerful Site Manager and transfer queue and drag & drop support.
Notepad++ is a free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. Running in the MS Windows environment. This is based on a powerful editing component Scintilla, Notepad++ is written in C++ and uses pure Win32 API and STL which ensures a higher execution speed and smaller program size. By optimizing as many routines as possible without losing user friendliness, Notepad++ is trying to reduce the world carbon dioxide emissions. When using less CPU power, the PC can throttle down and reduce power consumption, resulting in a greener environment.
TightVNC is a free remote control software package. With TightVNC, you can see the desktop of a remote machine and control it with your local mouse and keyboard, just like you would do it sitting in the front of that computer.This is a cross-platform, available for Windows and Unix, compatible with other VNC software.
Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems. It includes tools for modeling – fast subdivision surface and polygon tools, multi-resolution mesh sculpting, metaballs, NURBS, vector fonts, and curves; uv mapping; shaders and texturing – both paint based and node based; ik and fk animation tools with rigging, constraints, skinning, morph targets, drivers, deformers, and modifiers; simulation tools including hard bodies, soft body, cloth, and fluids; and particle systems including hair. Blender has integrated rendering with both its native renderer and the raytracer Yafray as well supporting many external renderers; and python based scripting.
Audacity is a free, easy-to-use and multilingual audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. You can use Audacity to record live audio, convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs, edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, WAV or AIFF sound files, cut, copy, splice or mix sounds together etc.
VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, …) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.
BitTorrent 6 is a client that transfers large videos, audios or softwares in a faster and cheaper way. A ‘client’ in this case is a computer program that follows the rules of a protocol. The BitTorrent 6 client will give you access to the world of content on the protocol in a lightweight, fast and reliable package.
OpenOffice is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It is available in many languages and works on all common computers. It stores all your data in an international open standard format and can also read and write files from other common office software packages. It can be downloaded and used completely free of charge for any purpose.
OpenOffice is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It is available in many languages and works on all common computers. It stores all your data in an international open standard format and can also read and write files from other common office software packages. It can be downloaded and used completely free of charge for any purpose.
Mozilla Firefox As An Open Source Faster, Safer And Smarter Web Browser
Firefox 3 sets the pace with dozens of new features, including the smart location bar, one-click bookmarking and blindingly fast performance. Avoid online scams, unsafe transactions and forgeries with simple site identity. View Web pages faster, using less of your computer’s memory.
13 Fast And Furious Stick Figure Animations And Tutorials
Stick figures are often used in animations made with Adobe Flash. Stick figures are easy to draw and can be traditionally animated a lot quicker than full drawings. Today, we are listing here 13 Fast And Furious Stick Figure Animations And Tutorials to make you impress with these creative art that need lots of hard work to get it done. This list is not long in numbers but I promise you that when you start browsing them in details it will surely refresh you and force you to search out more stick figure animations.
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Animator vs. Animation
This is Sparta! Pivot Animations
Stick Em Up (Pivot Stick Figures Animation)
Rivalry (Pivot Stick Figure Animation)
How To Create Cool Looking Stick Figure Animations On GIF
How to Create Stick Figure Animations
21 Stunning Examples Of Creatively Done Stop Motion Animations
Stop motion is an animation technique to make a physically manipulated object appear to move on its own. The object is moved in small amounts between individually photographed frames, creating the illusion of movement when the series of frames are played as a continuous sequence. The disadvantage with this form of animation is that it can sometimes appear to ’strobe’, partly due to the lack of blur between the frames. Today, we are listing here 21 Stunning Examples Of Creatively Done Stop Motion Animations to make you impress with these creative art that need lots of hard work to get it done. This list is not long in numbers but I promise you that when you start browsing them in details it will surely refresh you and force you to search out more amazing stop motion animations.
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Warhammer 40k Stop Motion Movie
PSP Commercial Stop Motion Animation
Lego Millenium Falcon Stop Motion
Wooden model stop motion animation
Firekites AUTUMN STORY Chalk Animation
The Original Human TETRIS Performance by Guillaume Reymond
Stop Motion with a LOT of People
How To Split Your Monitor(s) Into Regions
MaxTo is a small Windows program that divides your monitors into regions. When you maximize a window, it will no longer fit the entire screen, but only the region it was maximized into. Your windows are neatly organized into the grid you have defined when they are maximized. MaxTo has been described as a tiling window manager.
MaxTo is light-weight, and works on both 64-bit and 32-bit versions of Windows XP and Windows Vista. The .NET framework version 2.0 or higher is required, it’s pre-installed on Windows Vista.
Features
- Easily change regions
- Easily disabled by holding Shift
- Move windows using shortcut keys
- Multi-monitor support
- Light-weight (less than 200kB to download)
- It’s Free
- No spyware/adware/badware
Launch A Free And Synchronized Document Collaboration Web-Meeting With Anyone
ShowDocument is a free service for online meetings with fully synchronized co-browsing of any document. It is a quick and simple way to share a document with other people at the same time. It is a web collaboration platform that lets individuals have a free online meeting. It is an alternative to various commercial desktop sharing applications. One can easily upload any file and during the session mark it up with a pen or a highlighter tool in addition to a text box tool and eraser.
There is also a chat box to discuss ideas and changes. Everyone’s cursor is tracked with their name as it moves around the screen. Show Document is a very effective collaboration tool. This conferencing tool requires no download or installation, just upload your document and launch a free online web meeting. The maximum session length is one hour. User is notified 5 minutes before the session timeout.
Document-types that you can upload to Show Document
PDF files (*.pdf)
Microsoft Word (*.doc)
Microsoft Excel (*.xls)
Microsoft PowerPoint (*.ppt)
Rich Text Format (*.rtf)
Images
JPG files (*.jpg;*.jpeg)
GIF files (*.gif)
PNG files (*.png)
BMP files (*.bmp)
Any text file like
Comma-Separated Values (*.csv)
Plain Text (*.txt)
XML files (*.xml)
Open Office documents
OpenDocument Text (*.odt)
OpenDocument Spreadsheet (*.ods)
OpenDocument Presentation (*.odp)
OpenDocument Drawing (*.odg)
Create Image Slideshows That Look More Like Videos!
Animoto is a web-based service that helps you create slideshows that looks more like videos. This is a web application that automatically generates professionally produced videos using their own patent-pending technology and high-end motion design. Each video is a fully customized orchestration of user-selected images and music. Produced on a widescreen format, Animoto videos have the visual energy of a music video and the emotional impact of a movie trailer. You can check them out with some example videos.
An Animoto Short is free but is limited to 30 seconds, whereas a full-length video is of an extended length with unlimited remixes. Just try it now!
Free! Convert Any Media File Format (Documents, Images, Audio, Video & Archives) Without Buying Or Installing Anything On Your PC
youconvertit it is an online file converter which supports many file formats, lets you send any file as an e-mail. You can also convert any online video and get it to your email. For example, If you want to get or convert any video from YouTube so just give link of the video and get it to your email add.
