Adobe Photoshop CS3

Adobe Photoshop, or simply Photoshop, is a graphics editor developed and published by Adobe Systems. It is the current market leader for commercial bitmap and image manipulation, and, aside from Adobe Acrobat, is the best-known piece of software produced by Adobe Systems. It is considered the industry standard in most jobs related to the use of visual elements. Latest version of Photoshop, version 10, was released to the public recently as a part of Adobe Creative Suite 3.

New Features in Photoshop CS3/CS3 extended:

• Native support for the Intel-based Macintosh platform and improved support for Windows Vista
• Revised user interface
• Feature additions to Adobe Camera RAW
• Quick Select tool
• Alterations to Curves, Vanishing Point, Channel Mixer, Brightness and Contrast, and the Print dialog
• Black-and-white conversion adjustment
• Auto Align and Auto Blend
• Smart (non-destructive) Filters
• Mobile device graphic optimization
• Improvements to cloning and healing
• Faster launching

Adobe Flash CS3

Since its introduction in 1996, Flash technology has become a popular method for adding animation and interactivity to web pages; several software products, systems, and devices are able to create or display Flash. Flash is commonly used to create animation, advertisements, various web-page components, to integrate video into web pages, and more recently, to develop rich Internet applications. Adobe Flash Professional is used to create content for the Adobe Engagement Platform (such as web applications, games and movies, and content for mobile phones and other embedded devices).

New features in Flash CS3

• Full support for Actionscript 3.0
• Allows tweens to be converted into Actionscript
• Adds better integration with other Adobe products
• Provides better Vector drawing behavior

Adobe Dreamweaver CS3

Adobe Dreamweaver, or simply Dreamweaver, is a web development tool, originally created by Macromedia. Initial versions of the application served as simple WYSIWYG HTML editors but more recent versions have incorporated notable support for many other web technologies such as CSS, JavaScript, and various server-side scripting frameworks. The software is available for both the Mac and Windows platforms, but can also be run on Unix-like platforms through the use of emulation software such as Wine. Dreamweaver is currently owned by Adobe Systems which purchased Macromedia in 2005.

Language Support:

• ActionScript
• Active Server Pages (ASP)
• ASP.NET
• C#
• Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
• ColdFusion
• EDML
• Extensible HyperText Markup Language (XHTML)
• Extensible Markup Language (XML)
• Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT)
• Java
• JavaScript
• JavaServer Pages (JSP)
• PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP)
• Visual Basic (VB)
• Visual Basic Script Edition (VBScript)
• Wireless Markup Language (WML)

VideoLan 0.8.6b Final

VLC Media player is known as 'the thing that plays everything, and it's not false. It will play every multimedia file format which you can find on the net. It even plays KVCD images on the fly. Above all, it is highly customizable and feature rich. The fact that it being an open source project helps these aspects greatly. 

Features

• Ability to play the video content of incomplete, unfinished, or damaged video downloads before the files have been fully downloaded. For example, files simultaneously downloading through BitTorrent or eMule.

• Ability to use libcdio to access .iso files so that the user can play files on a disk image, even if the user's operating system does not have the capability of working directly with .iso images.

• VLC supports all codecs and all file formats supported by FFmpeg. This means that DVD Video and MPEG-4 playback as well as support for Ogg and Matroska (MKV) file formats work "out of the box".

• VLC media player has some filters that can distort, rotate, split, deinterlace, mirror videos, create display walls, or add a logo. It can also produce video output as ASCII art.

• VLC media player can play high definition recordings of D-VHS tapes duplicated to a computer using CapDVHS.exe. This offers another way to archive all D-VHS tapes with the DRM copy freely tag.

• Through a simple FireWire connection from cable boxes to computers, VLC streams live unencrypted content to a monitor or HDTV.

• On Microsoft Windows, VLC also supports the Direct Media Object (DMO) framework and can therefore make use of some third-party DLLs.

Readable formats

Input

UDP/RTP unicast or multicast, HTTP, FTP, MMS, DVDs, VCD, SVCD, CD Audio, DVB (Only Linux), Video acquisition (via V4l and DirectShow), RSS/Atom Feeds, and from files stored on your computer.

Container formats

3gp, ASF, AVI, FLV, MKV, MOV, MP4, NUT, Ogg, OGM, Wav, MPEG-2 (ES,PS,TS,PVA,MP3), AIFF, Raw audio, Raw DV, FLAC

Video codecs

Cinepak, DV, H.263, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, HuffYUV, Indeo 3, MJPEG, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 Part 2, RealVideo, Sorenson, Theora, VC-1, VP5, VP6, WMV

Subtitles

DVD, SVCD, DVB, OGM, Substation Alpha, Advanced Substation Alpha, MPEG-4 Timed Text, Text files, Vobsub, MPL2 , Teletext

Audio codecs

AAC, AC3, ALAC, AMR, DTS, DV Audio, FLAC, MACE, MP3, QDM2/QDMC, RealAudio, Shorten, Speex, Vorbis, WMA

Output formats for streaming/encoding

VLC can transcode into several formats depending on the operating system.

Container formats

ASF, AVI, FLV, MP4, Ogg, Wav, MPEG-2 (ES, PS, TS, PVA, MP3), MPJPEG, FLAC

Video codecs

H.263, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, MJPEG, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 Part 2, VP5, VP6, Theora, RealVideo, DV

Audio codecs

AAC, AC3, DV Audio, FLAC, MP3 ^[15], Speex, Vorbis

Streaming protocols

UDP, HTTP, RTP, MMS, File

How to get it:

This is available as a direct download. No crack needed coz it's free.

Get VLC player 0.8.6b Final:

Download Now! (Direct Download - 8.9MB)

EnJoY!

How to make a bootable Vista Ultimate Upgrade DVD

This post is related to a previous article. A lot of users had emailed us asking how to create a bootable Vista upgrade DVD as Vista setup was giving errors (for some users only) when run from within a Windows environment. Unfortunately the directly burning the 3 files to a CD wont make it bootable and solve all your problems. But there is a way.

This is how you create a bootable Vista Ultimate Upgrade DVD using the 3 files available.

1. Locate the downloaded files (boot.wim, install.wim, X13-49120.exe)and copy them to your root drive (Ex- C:\) Do not create a folder, just put them in the root drive.

2. Run x13-49120.exe, this will extract files to a folder named 'Vista' in your root drive. (Ex- C:\Vista, where C is the drive letter in which you placed the files in step 1 )

3. Download CDImage program. Extract and place cdimage.exe (place only the exe file, dont create a folder) in your root drive (same drive where you put the files in step 1).

4. Open command prompt. (Start Menu-->Run -->cmd.exe . Press Enter)

5.In command prompt navigate to C:\ drive (assuming C is your root drive). If you dont know how to do this, type 'C:' (without quotes) in command prompt and press enter. Then type 'cd\' (without quotes) and press enter once more.

6. Type the following command exactly as displayed below, in command prompt.

"cdimage -m -u2 -b C:\Vista\boot\etfsboot.com C:\Vista C:\Vistax86.iso" (without quotes)

Command prompt will display the progress of Image creation.

7. Once it shows 100% complete, you will see a new file created in the C drive (Vistax86.iso) This is a Vista Ultimate Upgrade bootable image.

8. Burn the newly created image using an image burner (Nero, PowerISO etc). Make sure you burn it using the 'burn image' or 'disk image or saved project (in Nero)' option in your Burner app. Burning the iso file to a single using normal burn wont work.

9. Once the image is created, you can safely delete boot.wim, install.wim, X13-49120.exe files, Vista Directory (created in step 2), cdimage.exe file and  Vistax86.iso files from your root drive.

You can now use the newly created bootable DVD to install Vista Ultimate Upgrade.

Be back in 2 days!

Yo,

We'll be gone for two days (if anyone was wondering why, it's the holiday season down here in Srilanka).

We'll be back with a bang on the 17th. Till then, crack on!

Windows Vista retail direct download links leaked!

Tired of downloading Vista from a slow torrent? Well, good old Microsoft has gone through the trouble and solved the problem for you! If you know the right place, you can download the retail version of Vista Ultimate upgrade directly from Microsoft. Yes! It's been leaked.

It works like this. Microsoft provides an option to purchase Vista online, After payment, the customer is given a download link which enables them to directly download Windows Vista from Microsoft server. (in fact MS uses a 3rd party software distributor to host the file; DigitalRiver) These download links have beeb leaked to the web and anyone can paste the links in a download manager or a web browser to begin the download of an original, untouched version of 'Vista Ultimate Upgrade'.

There are 3 files required for download:

• boot.wim
• install.wim
• X13-49120.exe