Hitler's Reaction to Apple iPad

Few days ago (January 27 to be exact), Apple officially announced its new product - the iPad. By now, we would have already seen a lot of videos and read a lot of information about it especially that a lot of rumours have been going around before January 27 as to what the new product truly is.

I am sure we all have our own opinions about the iPad. But what about Hitler's reaction to it? Here's a funny take on how Hitler would have reacted to the new Apple iPad (enjoy watching this comically subtitled video):

GIMP 2.68: Free Alternative to Adobe Photoshop

If you are looking for a very good alternative to Adobe Photoshop, you can try GIMP. 

GIMP stands for GNU Image Manipulation Program. What it is capable of doing is practically everything that Adobe Photoshop is capable of doing. The best thing about this computer program is it is FREE.

Most likely, a lot of us have been very accustomed to using Adobe Photoshop. If you know how to use Adobe Photoshop, surely, using GIMP should not pose any trouble. It basically operates in much the same way as Adobe Photoshop. All you have to do is explore a little and find out more about the functions... and stuff, which are not much different from those in Adobe Photoshop.

Here are some of the features and capabilities of GIMP as stated in the GIMP website:

• Painting
  • Full suite of painting tools including Brush, Pencil, Airbrush, Clone, etc.
  • Sub-pixel sampling for all paint tools for high quality anti-aliasing
  • Extremely powerful gradient editor and blend tool
  • Supports custom brushes and patterns
• System
  • Tile based memory management so image size is limited only by available disk space
  • Virtually unlimited number of images open at one time
• Advanced Manipulation
  • Full alpha channel support
  • Layers and channels
  • Multiple Undo/Redo (limited only by diskspace)
  • Editable text layers
  • Transformation tools including rotate, scale, shear and flip
  • Selection tools including rectangle, rounded rectangle, ellipse, free, fuzzy
  • Foreground extraction tool
  • Advanced path tool doing bezier and polygonal selections.
  • Transformable paths, transformable selections.
  • Quickmask to paint a selection.
• Extensible
  • A Procedural Database for calling internal GIMP functions from external programs as in Script-fu
  • Advanced scripting capabilities (Scheme, Python, Perl)
  • Plug-ins which allow for the easy addition of new file formats and new effect filters
  • Over 100 plug-ins already available
• Animation
  • Load and save animations in a convenient frame-as-layer format
  • MNG support
  • Frame Navigator (in GAP, the GIMP Animation Package)
  • Onion Skin (in GAP, the GIMP Animation Package)
  • Bluebox (in GAP, the GIMP Animation Package)
• File Handling
  • File formats supported include bmp, gif, jpeg, mng, pcx, pdf, png, ps, psd, svg, tiff, tga, xpm, and many others
  • Load, display, convert, save to many file formats
  • SVG path import/export
• Much, much more!

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CLICK HERE FOR THE DOWNLOAD LINK (For Windows XP SP2 or later)

*Click the Download Gimp 2.68 link

Or you may Click here for the homepage of their website for more information on the software.

How To Increase Your Farmville Level Fast and Easily

By Amir Fikri

The nation of Farmville-ers are increasing each day that would soon reach billions of players sooner or later!The 'farmers' out there are competing each other to get to the top rank in Farmville. The game gives a sense of ecstasy that activates every each player's addiction towards it and there are plenty of reasons why and how. Players can get out from their usual daily boring activities that gives stress to them. Farmville provides a natural and lively 'farm' environment to players to soothe the stress and depression that we go through daily. Relax your toes, plant some seeds, grow them and level up. If you do this in repetition, you'll advance in levels thus discovering more about the world of Farmville.

But sooner or later, you'll get the feeling of wanting to get more from the game-to advance your levels and achieve better rank in the Farmville ranking lists. You'll unlock new items, decorations and will be given bonuses each time you level up. This can be concluded that, in order to get those bonuses and items, you have to level up quickly and of course, strategically and not struggling each day playing Farmville figuring out how to do it.

The Basics

So how to do it? Experience points is vital in order to level up. The faster you gain your experience points, the faster you level up!As an example, each plot of land you plow gets you 1 experience point. When you start playing, you get plenty of experience points for each time you plow so that you could advance in a steady pace and motion. This will eventually will continue for some time until you realise something different because after the easy part is done, you'll be needing more and more experience to level up.

Focus on Experience

The secret way to gain experience points fast and easily is that, you have to supplement what you gain from your normal harvests with other activities. Renovate your farm like construct buildings to improve your farm's environment. This is because buildings yield the most experience points, but you can get experience from putting up just about any decoration or structure. Make a note to yourself to always watch over the experience points you get for every each action you take. Plan a research in doing so.

When planting crops, make sure you take the experience points you'd gain as consideration so that you know which is better to plant than just wasting your coins for no benefits. Crops that take less than a day to grow only yield 1 experience point, while crops that take longer yield 2. That doesn't mean you only want to plant crops that offer 2 experience points. However, there are ways to get more than just 2 experience points. Crops like strawberries give you advantage only IF you harvest them as soon as they are ready, it is like getting the right moment to harvest them when the fruits are still fresh and good.

You have to be on top of your harvesting and planting cycles in order to make progress this way though. Putting up buildings on your farm remains the best way to get big boosts in your experience quickly. Save up your cash for those, and you'll be well on your way to unlocking all of the available items in FarmVille.

There are more secrets that I would love to share you with-ways of speeding up your leveling goal other than just constructing buildings at your farm. These secrets are used by only smart players and believe me, you'll be shocked and amazed on how the process works! I, myself, could not believe my eyes when I found out about them. For more tips and information, email me at winter2autumn@yahoo.com

Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Amir_Fikri

Apple Unveils its Tablet

Several rumors have been going around these past weeks about the new product that Apple is going to bring to the market this year. It is a tablet for sure but nobody knew how it would look like and what its specs and features would be. Some said that it would look like a big iPhone, while some said that it would look like a Macbook with just the screen on. Others speculated that it would be called the iSlate, iTablet... or whatever they could think of.

Finally, Apple unveiled its new product this January 27... and it is called the iPad. Honestly, I would have preferred the name iSlate.

Watch this video for more information about the iPad:

How is this product going to fare in the market? I guess we'll find out in the near future.

Physiognomy Studio 1.2: Do Your Own Face Reading

Physiognomy is the art of reading faces and determining the characteristics and features of a person based on that reading. Well, it's one of those ancient arts - much like astrology and numerology - that still exist today.

Earlier, I found a free software called Physiognomy Studio 1.2 (download link at the end of this entry) which gives you the chance to do a face reading by yourself. All you need to do is open an existing photo (preferably a "face" photo) using the software then click Read Face.

Whether you believe it or not,  or whether it's true or not, it still is fun!

Here's the description of the software from the download site:

"Physiognomy Studio is the one and only face reading software program that can analyze your digital photo picture and give you immediate face reading session. You can learn the type of your face and personality traits of this type. You can also read other people faces and share the reading with friends."

DOWNLOAD PHYSIOGNOMY STUDIO 1.2 HERE (FREE)

Lenovo Skylight: Not Quite a Netbook but Not Quite a Smartphone

If you have been waiting for a gadget that you can carry like a regular phone but has the ability to keep you online all day long (or almost) with a convenient screen and keyboard just like any netbook, then wait no more because Lenovo Skylight is here.

At first glance, it looks like a very sleek netbook and one with a very attractive design. It is very slim and those curves are something we have not yet seen on any netbook. But Lenovo Skylight is NOT exactly a netbook. It seems to be a gadget with a soul of a smartphone trapped in a netbook's body. It is a SMARTBOOK.

Currently, I do not have a lot of information yet about the product. All I know about is what I have learned from this video:

Based on the video, I think that I would rather have a real netbook which can also allow me to go online virtually the whole day, thanks to power-saving technologies we have at present that allow our netbooks to last longer.

I believe Lenovo Skylight caters mainly to web browsing and it won't allow you to do other stuff that you can do on a regular netbook or notebook with its limited hard drive. But as I mentioned, I do not have much information yet on the product. I might be wrong. I'll just give an update on this as soon as I learn more about it. It will come out this spring.

Siftables: Computerized Blocks

We are very familiar with toy blocks - the ones with letters and numbers on them that kids play with... and learn with.

Well, imagine these toy blocks being small computers by themselves. Imagine them being able to do a lot of things other than show letters and numbers. Imagine them playing music, showing colors, computing equations, flashing images and videos... and most of all, interacting with one another in amazing ways.

This is what technology can bring us and Sifteo is taking advantage of this technology by harnessing its potentials. It has come up with what they call Siftables (the toy blocks that think... according to them, and I do agree).

Watch this video and see how amazing these Siftables are. I predict that we are going to see a lot of these in the field of education someday.