Photo Black and Color

Photo Black and Color

Photo Black and Color

Photo Black & Color allows you to make a partial desaturation on an image by selecting the colors 

to keep. The partial desaturation is when you preserve a colored subject and let the rest of the image

grayscaled.. 

download Photo Black & Color 1.0 (english) 

Principle of use 


To get good results, better choose images with one main subject with colors different from the
background colors, such as flowers, fruit or other. Using the pipette tool, click on the colors you 
want to keep -they will be displayed in the color list. In general, 3 clicks on the dark areas, 3 clicks 
on the intermediate ones and 3 clicks on the light ones are enough for a first approach. 


after the execution is done, a new image is displayed. It contains greyscaled areas and areas 
which colors were kept according to different parameters you selected.

Photo Flash Maker

With Photo Flash Maker Platinum, you can use your photos, FLV videos and songs to create gorgeous flash slideshows in SWF format for watching on computer, burn the auto-run flash photo album to gift CD/DVD, build a web gallery with amazing flash slideshows with dynamic SWF + HTML + XML files, or upload the slideshows to our free web album Go2Album, and then embed the slideshows to MySpace, Blogger, Friendster and many other social networking websites.
Photo Flash Maker Platinum allows you to add FLV videos as slides. Photos and videos can be mixed in a flash album.

Download Photo Flash Maker Platinum

Celestia "lets you explore universe"

Celestia

The free space simulation that lets you explore our universe in three dimensions. Celestia runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.

Unlike most planetarium software, Celestia doesn't confine you to the surface of the Earth. You can travel throughout the solar system, to any of over 100,000 stars, or even beyond the galaxy.

All movement in Celestia is seamless; the exponential zoom feature lets you explore space across a huge range of scales, from galaxy clusters down to spacecraft only a few meters across. A 'point-and-goto' interface makes it simple to navigate through the universe to the object you want to visit.

Celestia is expandable. Celestia comes with a large catalog of stars, galaxies, planets, moons, asteroids, comets, and spacecraft. If that's not enough, you can download dozens of easy to install add-ons with more objects.

poppaping says : download this :

Celestia 1.6.1

Please select the appropriate Celestia 1.6.1 package for your computer from the list below. 

Downloads are all hosted by SourceForge, meaning you are required to select a download server after clicking on the link. As a result, right-clicking on a link and selecting "Save as..." may not work as expected.

• Windows
  The Windows package of Celestia is a self-extracting archive; download it to your computer and then run it.
  
• Mac OS X
  The Mac OS X package is a disk image. Download it to your computer, double click it, and follow the instructions in the README.
  
• Linux (x86) Version 1.4.1
  If you are running Linux, you should check first with your distribution; there is a good chance that the package is available to you in the format best suited to your installation. A pre-compiled 32-bit version is provided in the autopackage format. It should run on any distribution that has OpenGL and GTK+ 2.6.
  
• Source Code
  Celestia is an open-source project. As such, its source code is provided and is freely modifiable and redistributable as per the GNU Public License. Installation instructions are provided in the INSTALL file. 

technology that gives anyone the power to create amazing comics on the web

 Pixton Comics

Pixton is honoured to be named an Official Honoree in the "Youth" category of the 2011 Webby Awards!

Pixton introduces the world to Click-n-Drag Comics™, a revolutionary new patent-pending technology that gives anyone the power to create amazing comics on the web.

From fully posable characters to dynamic panels, props, and speech bubbles, every aspect of a comic can be controlled in an intuitive click-n-drag motion.

Winning over 10 prestigious awards, Pixton Comics was named a “leading Web 2.0 pioneer” and “one of the 20 companies driving innovation and changing the way we use the Internet” by Backbone Magazine / KPMG.

Pixton is the invention of husband-and-wife team Clive & Daina Goodinson, based in Parksville, British Columbia, Canada.

Arclab Thumb Studio

Arclab Thumb Studio
Web Album and Slideshow Software

Thumb Studio is an easy to use image gallery, thumbnail, slideshow and web photo album creator for everyone. Its also an image converter, which allows you to create 3 different image sizes at once, convert them to a different format.

The program not only contains several drafts, which could be customized, the software also allows you to create a custom album or slideshow in the design your homepage. It is very easy - all you have to do is to select the position in your custom template and the program does the rest. It allows a seemless integration, were you can define exactly how it should look like. 

Arclab Thumb Studio is freeware for private and commercial users!

• Version: 2.13
• Release: 11-JAN-2012
• Operating Systems:
  MS Windows 2000 , MS Windows XP, MS Windows Vista, MS Windows 7, MS Windows 8

Download Locations

 Primary Download (Exe)

CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X6 & new enhanced features

Poppaping peeping from Corel official website and here the Summary of new and enhanced features CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X6 :

 The following is a list of the new and enhanced
features offered by CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X6.

Work faster and more efficiently

• Work faster than ever before with large files in 

CorelDRAW and large images in Corel PHOTOPAINT thanks
 to native support for 64-bit processors.
• Export files, print multiple documents, or copy
and paste large objects without delay, thanks
to increased support for the latest multicore processors.
• Take advantage of greater flexibility when
organizing assets for multiple projects by
working with several trays concurrently
in Corel CONNECT X6.

• Instantly extract images from a client’s web site

by using the new Corel CONNECT search

toolbar.

• Easily remove unwanted areas from a photo
and simulateously adjust the photo’s aspect
ratio with the new Smart Carver in
Corel PHOTO-PAINT X6.
• Explore new creative possibilities for refining
your vector objects by using the new Smear,
Twirl, Attract, and Repel tools.

• Save time and gain control when selecting
objects by using the new Freehand Pick

tool, which lets you drag a freehand marquee

around the objects or shapes you want to select.

• Apply a clip mask on a group of objects
without modifying the individual objects within
the group with the new Create Clip Mask
option in Corel PHOTO-PAINT X6.
• Enjoy greater control when applying a lens of
effect to a group of objects by using the new
Pass Through Merge Mode in
Corel PHOTO-PAINT X6.

EARTH BAG CONCEPT FOR MAKING YOUR DREAM HOUSE

EARTH BAG CONCEPT FOR MAKING YOUR DREAM HOUSE.....

POPPAPING  READ THIS FROM :http://earthbagbuilding.com/projects/uganda.htm 

During August and September, 2008, Sunny Tsai volunteered to assist a team of two architects and eight professors, under the direction of Akio Inoue of Tenri University, Japan, to construct an ecovillage by Lake Victoria, Uganda, East Africa. The East African Community is an organization formed by citizens of Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi, the five countries surrounding Lake Victoria. This ecovillage was designed to alleviate poverty and demonstrate sustainable building with earthbags. There are more than three million poor people living along the coastline. These domes provide good protection from bullets, fire, wind, and rain.much better than the conventional thatched shelters or tents.

This project won the support of the East African Community, and the plan was summarized in the above pamphlet. This was submitted at TICAD4 that had been held in Yokohama City, Japan in May, 2008.

Akio Inoue, the project director is shown above with some of the local people.

Uganda ambassador to Japan (left), Sunny Tsai (center), and architect Kikuma Watanabe (right) at the site, disscussing the Ecovilliage project. Sunny Tsai (who is responsible for most of the photos reporduced here) is an architect, Associate Professor at the University of Science and Technology, in Beijing, China, and has specialized in the study of earth architecture. Kikuma Watanabe is an associate proffessor at Kochi University of Technology in Japan and is responsible for the overall design of the ecovillage project. Some of the photos reproduced below and all of the conceptual drawings are his. There are few pictures taken by assisstant Kawaguchi Takashi.

Architect Kikuma Watanabe's floor plan and sectional drawing of one of the units.

The Ecovillage is composed of three clusters of buildings, including a water tower at the center. This arrangement is designed so that each cluster can enjoy precious water resources equally and reasonably comfortably. Each cluster is composed of four living units, each one with a living room, two bedrooms, a kitchen, toilet, shower room, and meditation room. All the buildings are built with Earth-bag Construction Technology.

Each unit has a biomass latrine and a Bird Wing Wind Power Generator that supplies electricity. In order to lead the wind effectively, bamboo groves have been planted as wind corridors for each generator.

During their one-month stay, they trained the local people in the essential aspects of earthbag building techniques. They say that it is better to teach people how to fish rather than to give them fish. So hopefully what they have done will indeed teach them how to continue with the process of building more such buildings.

After the design is layed out, a trench is dug and filled with gravel for the foundation.

Then the first course of bags are layed over the gravel. The soil used was from anthills near the site; there was no need to dig the earth or carry the soil from other places. Compared with the size of ants, what they have done is really a tiny thing. 

Two rows of barbed wire are being held down with bricks.

Installing temporary forms for doors and windows.

Up to 20 courses.

After a day's work, Sunny is ready to go home and rest.

Up 27 layers.

Finishing the last few layers of the dome.

Completion of the first dome. It's a great moment, with an exclamation of joy!

The work continues.

Project director Akio Inoue with some of the workers.

Completion of the second dome.

Setting the compass system for the big dome. This dome will go up to 9 meters...quite spectacular!

Initial cement stucco with mesh.

A door is being delivered.

Time in Uganda is up for Sunny and the others. Hopefully the local crew can continue the work smoothly.

This nearly finished photo was provided by the architect, Kikuma Watanabe.

So far as the number of earthbags used in this unit facing Lake Victoria amounts to approximately 8,000. The central dome is 8 meters in height, using 4,000 earthbags.

Michael Moore says hacking scandal could hit Fox News

Tribeca 2012:

Michael Moore has taken aim at Fox News for its politics countless times over his long career. But the provocateur filmmaker now believes that the News Corp.-owned cable channel could soon be caught up in something far more nefarious than simple ideological sins.

"I'm interested to see what happens with Fox News and phone hacking," Moore said, referring to the News Corp. scandal that has resulted in a number of arrests and high-level resignations within the British section of Rupert Murdoch's empire. "I really can't believe it just happens in Great Britain. Because really, who cares about just hacking phones over there?

"I'll make a prediction about something — I think the phone-hacking thing Murdoch is involved in ... is going to be investigated, and it will be found that it's been going on here too," he said. "I just have a gut feeling."

To this point, no U.S. subsidiary has been implicated, though U.K. prosecutors have explored the possibility of bringing suit in the U.S. because of the possibility that U.K. citizens' phones were hacked while they were on U.S. soil.

Moore spoke Sunday at a Tribeca Film Festival event with actress Susan Sarandon, with the two elaborating on their general fears of government and other forms of surveillance.

"I've gotten my [FBI] file twice," Sarandon said. "I know my phone was tapped. If they're not surveilling you, then everyone else has cameras on phones." She added, "I was denied security clearance to go to the White House [next week], and I don't know why."

Moore chimed in. "I never think about it," he said. "It would unwind me," before going on to say, "I assume everything I'm saying in an email or saying on the telephone is being looked at."

Never shy about voicing his feelings toward the right, Moore took aim at a host of other targets, particularly those who he said played on fear to boost the Republicans’ presidential chances this year.

"[Look at] the fact that Mitt Romney can be dead [even] with Obama in the polls ... even though his approval rating is at 35%," Moore said.  "It's amazing that that many people who don't like him will still vote for him because not" — Moore paused — “him," referring to Obama.

But Moore also went after some liberal sacred cows, notably Davis Guggenheim, whose "Waiting for Superman" is often regarded as a liberal-friendly cri de coeur about the state of the public-education system. "I hated that film," Moore said. "The point I was left with was that teachers and unions are the problem. And that is not the problem."

Hollywood studios also came into Moore's sights, particularly with how Paramount handled two recent movies. " 'Hugo' was marketed as a family film, and it's not a family film. It's not for kids," he said. “It's an adult film with kids in it. Same with 'Jeff, Who Lives' at Home," Moore said, referring to Sarandon's recent offbeat comedy. "If a studio doesn't get your work...."

"Or," Sarandon interjected, "they’re made for so little money that they don't want to invest the money ... [so] it disappears," she said, apparently referring to the marketing effort for "Jeff," made for a modest budget.

Moore has not announced the subject of his new film (he last directed "Capitalism: A Love Story" more than two years ago) and declined to specify Sunday what it might be about. But in response to a question about whether he’d make a film about immigration policy, he did allow that he thought it was a worthy subject.

"That's a film that needs to be done," he said......

POPPAPING got this from :

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/movies/2012/04/michael-moore-fox-news-mitt-romney-phone-hacking-tribeca-film-festival-sarandon.html