A popular video website has become inaccessible (as of U.S. 12:00 EST) possibly due to the installation of a new spam filter. YouTube has been recently flooded with sex-related messages. This annoying phenomenon started about a week ago. The botnet attack with sex-related messages briefly stopped a couple of days ago, and it resumed again yesterday.
VideoLAN Project officially released its new version of a popular video player VLC two days ago. The new version of VLC, 0.8.6, fixes many bugs. It is currently very difficult to access the website to download the latest Universal version.
Click on the button to download a torrent.
Adobe Photoshop Creative Design #5: Designing a Water Drop
Here is a slender can of Coca Cola sitting on my desk. I was tempted to drink it, but it’s not cold enough. With Adobe Photoshop, I realized that I could design a water drop so as to increase other people’s temptation to drink it. Designing a water drop is not so easy because you have to distort the image inside the drop. Within 7 minutes… Voila! It’s not that difficult. Continue reading
Adobe Photoshop Creative Design #4: A Stormy Day
It’s an image of a beautiful late afternoon. It’s quite typical for special effects designers of movie and video game industries to use a combination of Adobe Photoshop and After Effects to turn an image like this into a storm scene. In a matter of 14 minutes or so, a beautiful late afternoon turned into a stormy day with dark clouds, rain and lightnings. Continue reading
Adobe Photoshop Creative Design #3: Making Flames
It’s a typical scene of America’s 4th of July celebration. A number of people showed up out of the blue. It looks like they could use our Photoshop assistance. We decided to make flames so that they could cook their foods more quickly. If we don’t do anything, kids can go hungry, start crying, and the whole celebration day can turn into a disaster. Continue reading