Monthly Archives: March 2010

News

Apple products loosing its uniqueness

Does any of you remember the time when you see an apple laptop being used and you just go “ahh! that’s beautiful and they must be expensive”. Well now you don’t or atleast I don’t as I feel that apple products are getting common after the revolutionary introduction of the iPod. It was a bang and they kept making more and now what happen is they have become commercial.

If apple has gone commercial who are replace them and be unique? Well I haven’t found one till now that has great design, expensive price tag and good spec. This all falls down to the reason that there are just 2 giants – apple, microsoft. So to have the new company grow is a tough job.

So thats not possible.

I want apple to be the unique company it was. Here in Thailand few years back there were not many apple iStudio’s but now its crowded and everyone is switching to apple. This makes it less unique. I’m not sure if I’m the only one feeling this way buying a Macbook Pro that everyone has or it is really true that Apple is becoming Microsoft ?

News

Looking for freeware try Sourceforge

As an internet geek I really love freebies and they are one the best form of softwares that tend to help people like me who are poor. While looking for a POS (Point of sale) software for my friend I found it very difficult to find a free software he could use and that was up to date. I say this because if you google for free POS software all you find in that is grandfather old software.

SourceForge.net is an open source community where people post whatever they make and want to share it with the world. Of course I know that free softwares are not the best but in some cases when I was looking for a “batch file renamer” I couldn’t find a free software, but tried it on sourceForge I had quite a lot of entries in there. Basically it has lots of stuffs in it and I highly recommend it when you are looking for a freeware!

Nice free POS software that I found even supports touch screen, isn’t that a lot for a free software? Well its called OpenBravo POS. It’s a good software as my friend is being using it for the past 2 weeks and it works like a charm.

News

Top 10 best iphone 4G Concepts

I have got an iPhone 2G and my next phone that I will buy will be the iPhone 4G. This made me curious how it would look so I went googling and looked for the best concepts that are there on the internet and found 10. Thats quite alot and my favourite one is #9. It looks something close to that I can expect from apple. Here I present to you the TOP 10 best iphone 4G concepts till now. Who knows apple usually come with a bang and I love that punch on my face. I hope you like these. Another main thing I would like to make clear is that these images have no connection or link with apple.

Coutesy of the images goes to following sites and if there is any mistake please let me know and I will change them as it was kind of difficult to find who made it.

  1. iphoneroot.com
  2. thegadgets.net
  3. geekandhype.com
  4. gizmodo.com
  5. gizmodo.com
  6. mobilemag.com
  7. braincork.wordpress.com
  8. phones-online.org
  9. siluko.com
  10. adr-studio.it

Thank you guys !

Thailand

Red shirts sign boards for Thaksin

I’m not sure if you are from Thailand, but if you are you would have seen some signboards with the same style put up by the UDD, “United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship” stating “Peace, Non-violence, parliament dissolution is the choice for Thailand”. Just riding down the street my friend found this board stating “Peace, Non-violence, Thaksin dead is the choice for Thailand”. I feel that this is really funny and also stupid. What do you think?

Tutorial Videos

Gemstone Photo editing with Photoshop

Many people have asked me how to edit gemstone as it is one of the difficult job as the colour of the gemstone in the photo and the colour of the gemstone in real would be completely different.  This is because we have different lighting and settings when the picture was taken. So to correct the colours there are 2 quick adjustments you can do to the image other than Brightness/Contrast.

They are Levels and Curves. These are better than Brightness/Contrast because brightness contrast will not bring out the black colour in the image and rather increase the lightness. This is a key difference as the colour of the image change. After using Curves and Levels if the gemstone is still too brightly colours you can use the Image > Adjustment > Hue/Saturation method and correct the saturation which is the second horizontal scroll to get the perfect colour of your gemstone.

Design

Scott Hansen retro style

Scott Hansen is an Artist / Musician from San Francisco. He has got a special style to his designs which stands out. This style is liked by many designers and is called the Retro Style. Retro Style is where there is a lot more yellow to the design which creates a fell of faded colour.

If you really like this style and would like to purchase some tshirts and posters you can visit his site.

blog: http://blog.iso50.com/

store: http://www.merchline.com/iso50/

Copyright of pictures belongs to ISO50.