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• The New “Buzz” On The Net

  Here is a piece of news for people looking for a good online word processor. Adobe has acquired Virtual Ubiquity’s BuzzWord, a word processing application that is easy-to-use and full of features. BuzzWord is perfect if you are looking to work with a team. You can grant what role they will have by clicking on the “share” button on the bottom left of the document and entering their email address and role. You can see each other while online and checkout the changes they made. This online word processing application lets you work with your team in real time. There are three roles that you can assign to other collaborators – co-author, reviewer and reader. The co-author has full editing access while the reviewer can only add comments and the reader, as the name implies can only read the article. One important feature of this word processor is that, when you take a printout, the page looks just the same as it looks on-screen! Even the popular Google docs sometimes fail to print the page as it looks on your PC screen. The reason is, BuzzWord is built with Adobe Flash and hence can bypass the problem HTML has with the layout of the page. As a result, you can work on your file online and get a hard copy, if needed. BuzzWord also keeps track of different versions of a document so that if needed, you can revert back to any previous version. The best part of this application is definitely the fact that it is free! It is still in developing stages and Adobe is hoping to bring an offline version pretty soon. - 13 months ago

• Make Your Photo Editing an Easy Job With Bling! It

  When editing a photo, you must have experienced that changing the background often takes a lot of time. Especially if you are editing a photo for any auction sites like eBay or Amazon, it becomes a headache for any professional. This is also true if you are an online businessman and need to edit your website to include nice and attractive images for the products you sell. The background has to be made attractive as well as it has to be done in minimal time possible. If you are in the business of any kind of photo editing, then you will surely love Bling! It. Developed by Vertus, this software makes photo editing easier than ever even for novices! All you have to do is to cut the item you are editing, and then just put it in a new background. It is true that you can do it all with any photo editing software but the advantage of Bling! It is that it traces the key edges of the image! You can just use the red delete brush (96 – pixel) and define the porting of the photo you wish to delete (basically all the area outside the key edges). You can see the progress in the right-hand side window, called The Paintway Viewer in real time. If you think that the delete brush is too big, you can use a smaller Delete Brush or an Exact Delete brush to extract the image from the background. Now you can choose any of the background from the “special effects” tab. The collection is huge; you will surely find something of your liking. If not, you can always create it or import it if you want. You can drop a shadow, sharpen the image (and they won’t look jagged or ragged) or change the resolution if you wish. Your photo is ready to be auctioned off! Highly recommended. - 13 months ago

• Blender 2.46 – The Power-packed 3D Animator

  Blender is an immensely popular cross platform 3D animation creator. The latest version of this software Blender 2.46 has been released on May 17th this year and till date the software has been downloaded almost 158,000 times from Download.com. This information is enough to mark the popularity of Blender. Basically Blender is a 3D animation program released as free open-source software. This is no doubt a powerful weapon for the 3D animation professionals. Some of the features it offers are advanced simulation tools including rigid body, fluid, and soft body dynamics, modifier based modeling tools, powerful character animation tools, node based material and compositing system and Python for embedded scripting. To some extent Blender is as powerful as other advanced 3D software like Softimage|XSI, Cinema 4D, 3D Studio Max, Lightwave and Maya. Learning the application of blender is easy thanks to various community tutorials and discussion forums available on internet. You can also learn by downloading the software and studying the ready-made Blender models. Such models are easily available on the resource sites like Official Blender Model Repository. There are other useful tools as well like free downloadable BlenderArt Magazine. Each issue of the magazine covers a particular area in 3D development. You can also refer to BlenderNation, the central news site with all the required information, new techniques and features on Blender. You can use Blender for modeling, UV unwrapping, texturing, rigging, water simulations, skinning, animating, rendering, particle and other simulations, non-linear editing, compositing, and creating interactive 3D applications. This can be operated with different OS including Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris and many more. For some specific type of websites like sites related to kids, a small 3D animation can increase its visual impact several times. So if you own such a website and want to edit your website by adding some animations, Blender can be a good option. It will save your money not only because it is free, but also you can create some animations on your own with the help of online resources along with some basic technical knowledge. - 13 months ago