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There are few things that Google don't do well and this even extends to making 3D art accessible to the most inexperienced artist in the form of Google SketchUp.
Google SketchUp bucks the trend of expensive 3D modeling software such as 3DSMax and Cinema4D and presents a free, easy to use alternative with which you can even post your creations onto Google Earth for the world to see. The latest version has been integrated with Google Maps too so that geo-tagging your creations is easier than ever.
There's a refreshing lack of technical jargon in Google SketchUp and unfamiliar terms to beginners such as the 'Extrude' tool have been renamed to the more obvious 'Push/Pull' for example. There are plenty of helpful hints and guides throughout too helping you get to grips with 'snapping' when you draw rectangles, circles and other shapes. Google Sketchup intelligently predicts where you want endpoints to meet and snaps them shut for you, saving lots of time messing around.
SketchUp doesn't lack in functionality though despite its ease of use and includes all the usual collection of drawing and filling tools you'd expect, neatly accessible in the toolbar across the top of the screen. Instructor hints pop out on the right of the screen when it thinks you need them. Other options can be accessed via the menu system, or you can choose to place extra palettes on the workspace to save wading through menus. Of particular note is the 'Materials'palette, which contains over 100 different preset swatches, such as vegetation, metal and glass. The Shadow Settings palette is also worth keeping to hand, as it allows you to apply realistic shadows via simple sliders.
The real fun however is when you export your Google SketchUp drawings into Google Earth. You can send images of your 3D designs via email or upload them for free storage at Google's 3D Web Warehouse. Alternatively, you can geo-tag them in one-step using Google Maps which has now been integrated into Google Sketchup. You receive a snapshot when you add a geo-location to your model which now includes 3D terrain data plus color aerial imagery.
There are some problems with Google SketchUp however. Most annoying is when trying to create domed surfaces because of the cumbersome nature of the Extrude tool, although pushing and pulling straight lines is considerably easier. Being free, it also obviously lacks some of the advanced features of many of its heavyweight rivals.
Google SketchUp provides a refreshingly simple approach to 3D graphic design and modeling and is ideal for non experts in CAD technology.
Pros
Makes 3D drawing much easier
Lots of tips and hints
User friendly
Upload your creations to Google Earth
Integrated with Google Maps
Cons
Lacks advanced features of major CAD apps
No export to CAD format in free version
Can't add text and images to designs in free version
Operating system: Mac OS X 10.5/10.6/10.7/10.5 PPC/Intel
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Disk Drill for Mac is an easy-to-use data-recovery tool with a limited free version and more-robust (and more expensive) Pro, Expert, and Enterprise packages. The free Disk Drill Basic can help you protect your computer from future data loss (whether accidental trashing or as the result of more serious hardware problems), while you'll need to pay for at least Disk Drill Pro if you've already lost data that you need to recover.
What sets Disk Drill apart is its slimmed-down interface and almost painfully user-friendly documentation. If you're looking for a data recovery app with a good feature set and some reassuring hand-holding, Disk Drill is a solid choice--and you can't go wrong installing the free version to take advantage of Disk Drill's "Recovery Vault" feature, which can make recovery much faster and more reliable, by tracking a "smart history" of your files (including file names, locations, and activity). When you're recovering a file, Disk Drill's workflow is dead simple: you switch over to "Recover data mode" (from "Prevent data loss" mode), then with a couple of clicks you can choose the drive and then type of scan you want to run, which vary in terms of speed and thoroughness. As with similar apps, Disk Drill also offers S.M.A.R.T. monitoring, backup to disk images, and both quick and deep scan options. Disk Drill can help you recover data on HFS/HFS+, FAT, and NTFS drives, as well as flash drives and memory cards (although Recovery Vault only helps with HFS/HFS+ and FAT).
If you haven't already experienced data loss, you will--and in the meantime, Disk Drill Basic is a great, free way to help ward off the inevitable. If you've already lost data, one of the paid Disk Drill apps can be a good option for getting it back, especially for less technically inclined users.
Calibre is a free and open source e-book library management application developed by users of e-books for users of e-books. It has a cornucopia of features divided into the following main categories:
Library Management
E-book conversion
Syncing to e-book reader devices
Downloading news from the web and converting it into e-book form
Comprehensive e-book viewer
Content server for online access to your book collection
Compact and fast image viewer with slide show and editor.Eye catching interface within blazing fast folder, file list and thumbnail viewer. Viewer includes also Image Info with Image EXIF meta data JPEG and TIFF support and IPTC
Source : http://www.brothersoft.com
Requirements : Windows 9x,Windows NT,Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows 2003,Windows Vista,Windows 7
Swype, the maker of the speedy keyboard software, that it has a new version of its beta that aims to make it even easier for those looking to enter text on their mobile devices.
The latest version of the software, Swype 3.0, adds two main features — predictive text recognition and the ability to select a word from a horizontal list as opposed to a popup window of word choices.
There is also a resizable and movable version of the keyboard designed specifically for Honeycomb tablets.
Swype, which allows people to enter text by tracing from one letter to another, says its software has now been installed on 50 million devices. The Seattle company nabbed $3.5 million in additional funding back in March.
Adobe has released an early public beta for its Photoshop Lightroom 3 in order to solicit "concise, constructive criticism" from its users. Lightroom is a workflow program in which you can sort, organize, develop, and publish your photos, or hand them off to Photoshop for finishing. With version 3, Adobe has improved the image quality of RAW processing and streamlined some workflow situations.
Importing into Lightroom offers more transparency so that finding and defining your source and destination is easier. For instance, the import interface reveals all attached drives but grays out all previously imported files to avoid duplication. Once you have defined your import naming convention, the type of import, the file handling, the metadata, and other options, you can save an import preset (or several different presets) to use in the future, with just a couple of clicks. To take advantage of the presets, the program offers you a compact view of import that implements your presets but also gives you control over editing metadata, keywords, and the type of import.
On first glance, the most obvious change in the Develop module is that it gives you access to all collections and recent folders, so you don't have to switch to the Library module. Under the hood, however, the biggest news for Develop lies in the updates to how it processes RAW files. Specifically, Adobe has rewritten the demosaicing, sharpening, noise reduction, and vignetting algorithms, and the program now allows you to add film-like grain to your pictures. Adobe claims that the new algorithms will produce much better image quality. For instance, the company says that the revised sharpening algorithm holds detail better, delivers finer gradations and tonality retention, and improves color saturation retention in highlights. And for image files that you previously processed in Lightroom 2.5, Lightroom 3.0 introduces versioning; you can choose to apply the new algorithms or use your old edits.
For this public beta of Lightroom, Adobe has turned off luminance noise reduction, because the company is more interested in feedback on the new color noise reduction.
The Slideshow module has simplified how it uses music. You can easily select your music file from any attached drive. Lightroom will automatically calculate the appropriate duration of each slide to have the show sync with the length of the loaded audio file; then, if you wish, you can customize your fade times. Lightroom now supports MP4 export of slideshows, as well.
Print options include a new Custom Package, which allows you to create a page with different background colors and place photos on it; you can use cells of specific sizes that are customizable, or just drag a photo from the filmstrip. You can make the cells overlap or abut one another, or arrange them as you wish. You can also fine-tune the placement of your identity plate by moving it pixel by pixel with the arrow keys.
Lightroom 3.0 hasn't made many changes to its Web module, but the software does now allow you to add watermarks. You can save several watermarks (such as a logo, copyright, or name), which you can then add to your Web pages or edit right there, when you need to use them.
For this public beta, Lightroom is offering the ability to publish to Flickr and manage published images, as an example of how it will work with other online services (depending on third-party plug-in development). Using the Lightroom Publishing Manager, you can keep track of what images have been uploaded; it will also tell you which ones have been modified since they were uploaded, so you can republish them.
