Here’s a list of the top 5 Open Source Image Editors:

Paint

Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. An active and growing online community provides friendly help, tutorials, and plugins.

Project Dogwaffle

Project Dogwaffle 1.2 is a freeware version of the paint & animation program Project Dogwaffle and PD Pro Digital Painter, developed by Dan Ritchie – version 1.2 is based on a subset of version 2.0

Inkscape

An Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.

Inkscape supports many advanced SVG features (markers, clones, alpha blending, etc.) and great care is taken in designing a streamlined interface. It is very easy to edit nodes, perform complex path operations, trace bitmaps and much more. We also aim to maintain a thriving user and developer community by using open, community-oriented development.
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Picasa by Google
Picasa is a free software download from Google that helps you:

* Locate and organise all the photos on your computer.
* Edit and add effects to your photos with a few simple clicks.
* Share your photos with others through email, prints and on the web: it’s fast, easy and free.

GIMP / GIMPshop

GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages.

For those that are familiar with Photoshop the GIMPshop will be a better option,GIMPshop is a modification of the free/open source GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP), intended to replicate the feel of Adobe Photoshop. Its primary purpose is to make users of Photoshop feel comfortable using GIMP.

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The 2.0 megapixels NX-6000 has a hard casing, scratch resistant, and given a brushed metal appearance that matches the color scheme of many laptops available on the market today. The webcam is also great for video conferencing.

Get the full review here.

The LifeBook S2210 is the latest laptop offering by Fujitsu and it’s light and thin.The laptop comes with a 1.6GHz AMD Turion 64 X2 dual-core processor, 13-inch display, 4GB RAM, 100GB hard drive, dual layer DVD burner, and ATI Radeon X1150 graphics card with up to 256MB memory.

The S2210 has Atheros Super AG Wireless LAN, Gigabit Ethernet, a 56k modem, as well as variety of ports and slots including PCMCIA slot, three USB ports, external monitor and TV outputs, FireWire and Memory Stick PRO/Secure Digital card slot.

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I remember the good old days when photoshop tutorials were just plain text and some accompanying images to help you brush up your photoshop skills.

But during the closing of last year the trend of video based photoshop tutorials are blooming all over the net, but most of them don’t allow you to download the videos, instead they rely on YouTube and MetaCafe to deliver their tutorials, however at photoshop tutorials you will get to wtahc the tutorials online or choose “Download tutorial” to save the Quicktime or Windows Media Files to your computer to watch them later.

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One thing that immediately comes to mind is that it resembles a mobile phone but in fact it’s just an MP3 player.If it was a phone it would have been a good rival to Apple’s iPhone with it’s sexy looks.

This lightweight MP3 Player has a heavy portfolio including an innovative touch screen, FM radio receiver, and built-in speakers. The K5 enables you to share your music experience with others. A mini boom box, this revolutionary MP3 player defies engineering forces of nature by squeezing a high-end music player complete with a slide-out speaker into a slim compact form.

Gizmodo and CNET has done in depth reviews of this products (with video) so check out the links:

Gizmodo

CNET

Michal Birecki from PCN, the guy who sold a white PS3 for $1000 on eBay is set to release red and silver colors of the PS3 soon.

“After seeing how our White PS3 sold on eBay, PCN got the idea to start producing its own line of colors for the Playstation 3. We will be working on a silver model in the coming weeks and we have decided to make a more unique looking PS3 as well. Introducing the world’s first Red Playstation 3 (design only). This will be the 3rd color we will be making, so stay tuned to see some exciting PS3’s appear on the net for sale,” he said.

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It turns out that Miss Dewey is the more attractive part of Microsoft Search.I was just talking to a friend on Gtalk and he pointed out to me some keywords to ask Miss Dewey, some of these words produce hillarious outburst by Dewey and some were a little more serious. i’ll share a few words i found that have attracted some attention, if you have anymore words please do comment below so i can add them to the list.

Who is the real Miss Dewey?

In real life Miss Dewey is Janina Gavankar a classically trained pianist, vocalist, and orchestral percussionist.

Type in this words in the search field at Miss Dewey :

Gmail

Google

Linux

You Are Beautiful

I Am Sexy

President Bush

Deviant

Art

Gun

Yo Mama – this has to be the best..click ‘search’ again and she will be cursing

WordPress is one of the best (if not the best) blogging software out there, and best of all it’s free and really easy peasy to install.

There are many plugins and themes out there that can help you achieve the function and look you want for your blog, but of course WordPress is such a sweet script that many have called it a CMS (Content Management System) and have used and modified the script to be more than a mere blog, so it’s really up to you to mesh and mix.

Well this post is going to focus on the theme aspect of WordPress (will be called WP from now on), to get started let’s view some beautiful looking WP powered sites:

exibit5a

Kitta

PhonoPhunk

Rebel Pixel

Binary Bonsai

Sidesh0w

Simplesis

Of course these sites are just a very very small fraction of WP powered sites out there.

FREE THEMES

FREE, just the mention of that word turns a whole community into a frenzy, WP is no different so here’s a list of sites that have compiled free themes to be downloaded by people like you and me

PREMIUM THEMES

I’ve also come across sites that charge a fee for themes, and some fof these are very professional looking indeed.

Template Monster

WPBoard

Rocket Theme *soon*

If you know of any other site please comment below so i can add that to the list.

Thanks

*P.S: If you liked the thumbnail theme used in this post you can download the theme here

As mentioned earlier Torpark runs off the Firefox Portable, an optimized version of the browser that can be run off a USB (Universal Serial Bus) memory stick on a computer.

You can find out more and download at : http://torpark.nfshost.com

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The exploit affects what’s called Flash remoting – essentially the provision of server-based application services via Flash, as opposed to via HTML, Active Server Pages or some other wrapper. Though an exploit itself has not yet been discovered, Adobe engineers found that a certain form of Flash remoting command sent to ColdFusion servers (another acquired Macromedia technology) triggers an infinite loop process that will not stop itself.

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Introducing the Hello Kitty laptop for all the kitty fans this is just what the doctor ordered.
It comes with Epson Endeavor NA101 powered by an ultra low voltage Celeron M 42 (1.06 Ghz) processor with 512MB of RAM. It has a 12.1 inch display (1024 x 768), DVD-ROM / CD-RW drive, 40GB hard drive and runs on Windows XP Home Edition. It has 3 x USB 2.0 ports, Ethernet, IEEE 1394 for connecting your digicam.

Perhaps one the best thing about this gadget is the fingerprint sensor feature so that you’ll be able to keep al those secrets of yours to yourself.

The unit measures 281×237×35mm and weighs 1.27 kg and there is also an optional Hello Kitty carrying bag available for 2,940 Yen whereas the laptop sells for 159,180 Yen ($ 1355) in Japan.

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Fed up of using post-it notes all over your cubicle or home? Well your in luck because there’s now Post-it Picture Paper
that gives you the chance to stick your face literally all over the place!

Of course it doesn’t have to be your face that get’s stickied as you can stikify (is that a word?) any digital photos.

find out more at Post-it Picture Paper

Sony will launched Mylo (My Life Online) next month, the Mylo is a personal communicator and we’re bound to see similar products poping up in the marketplace very soon.

With the Mylo you can now chat with your pals with Yahoo! Messenger®, Google Talk® or Skype®, check and send e-mails and even browse the net with an Opera browser via Wi-Fi.
It will also have a media player, a 2.4″ LCD display allowing to view videos on the move and comes with a flash based memory of 1GB which can be expanded with Sony’s Memory Stick Pro Duo cards.

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This is the excerpt from AMD & ATI’s site:

On July 24, 2006, AMD and ATI announced a plan to join forces, in a transaction that will combine AMD’s technology leadership in microprocessors with ATI’s strengths in graphics, chipsets and consumer electronics. The result is a processing powerhouse: a new competitor, better equipped to drive growth, innovation and choice for its customers in commercial and mobile computing segments and in rapidly-growing consumer electronics segments. The transaction, valued at US $5.4 billion, is expected to close in Q4 2006 subject to approval by ATI shareholders, court approval, regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions.

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