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"In this tutorial, we'll learn how simple it is to texturize objects using different fusion mode layers, adjustment layers, color tweaks and some very simple filters in Photoshop. You can use this simple technique in more complex illustrations of your own creation. Let's get started with learning these techniques!" Sergio Ordonez

Created by Gavin Steele.

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Track your machine's resources

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In this episode, I demonstrate a few simple text treatments using Inkscape 0.46.

Nothing too technically challenging here, just a few treatments I’ve done on text in the past that I find valuable. Hopefully it will help spur people to use typography more in their designs.

At the start of this screencast I point to a great web site called The League of Moveable Type. While they only have a few fonts on there at the moment, they are committed to providing a collection of high-quality open source fonts. I commend them for that. Thanks to Troy for pointing me to that site. I’ve already found a couple of fonts there that I’ve used in some of my projects.

by Richard Querin

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Explore Windows 7's new integrated screen capture tool!

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Photoshop Hall of Famer, Eddie Tapp guest hosts this week with Bert Monroy at Photoshop World in Las Vegas. Learn about skin softening techniques and the controlling of color and tones.

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Jimmy Bogard makes his dnrTV debut with an introduction to his AutoMapper. AutoMapper is a object-to-object mapper to help move data between two layers such as the model and view layers of the MVC pattern.

Bio
Jimmy Bogard, software developer with Headspring Systems out of Austin, TX. He is co-author of ASP.NET MVC in Action, along with Jeffrey Palermo and Ben Scheirman. He is a member of ASPInsiders and was awarded the Microsoft MVP award for ASP.NET in 2009.

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Flip through your apps

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Say hello to your new operating system!

We're kicking off the release of Windows 7! Veronica shows off a few features to make your OS experience easier, more fun and more productive!

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There are a lot of tutorials out there for “The Other Program”, also called Adobe(R) Photoshop(R). (I hope I got the Rs right, can’t find the page where Adobe(R) told the world how to call this program.) A lot of that stuff is easily translated to GIMP, but there are some serious differences. One are the “Adjustment(R) Layers(R)”. This is a way of applying a curve, gradient, hue or saturation change…..  without changing the real image. You can come back later and tweak the curve or the slider – non destructive editing.

There is an easy way to work around this: make a new layer of the visible image and work on that. You have to redo that, if you decide to change something in the lower layers.

To show how to do this I have ripped out a part of John Arnold’s Photowalkthrough podcast and redone the same in GIMP. Photowalktrough is a really good resource for everybody who is into the digital darkroom – independent from the program used. And John has his #100 out! Congratulations!

GIMP will have non destructive editing in a year or two – it’s the main reason for getting GEGL into GIMP and making this big effort of writing a lot of the program again.

In the second part of the show I get the blackboard out and start a new segment in the show. I try to explain how  film and sensors are working. I’ll expose you to some of these lessons for about 5 to 190 minutes and will then decide upon your reaction if I should keep this on. I’ll have them at the end of the show – if you are bored you can just skip the rest.

Sorry, there is no TOC up to now.

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"Have you ever come across a photo where all the highlights and shadows seem just too good to be true? If it's not HDR processing, it's pen tablet magic. Find out in this tutorial how to give a regular image a subtle, artistic feel with some clever brush work. Read more after the jump!"Alex Beltechi

Created by Alex Beltechi.

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See how serious the flu threat is in your area

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Easily send links to your friends

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"In this tutorial, we'll combine simple vector shapes, layer styles and generous amounts of shininess to create the perfect magnifying glass for all your search icon needs. Let's get started!"Andrea Austoni

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"In this tutorial, I'll show you how to create a 3D Blocks text effect. You need to have Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended to practice this tutorial. This will be fun and I'm sure you can do lots of cool things using this technique. Let's get started!" Eren Goksel

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Add some eye candy to your OS

Getting bored of your desktop? Veronica shows you how to add some personality to your Finder window with a photo or custom color on today's Tekzilla Daily.

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Julieanne Kosts guest hosts with Bert Monroy this week in Las Vegas at Photoshop World. Learn how to change the focal plane of images and check out tips on creating custom edges!

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Angel Hernandez makes his dnrTV debut this week. Angel shows us how to use native code to manage large portions of memory and listen for events of any .NET application.

Bio
Angel Hernandez works as a Technical Solutions Architect for Customware in North Sydney - Australia. He's been working with computers since his early 12 years of age when wrote his first program, from that moment he got stuck onto a keyboard and in front of a display. During the years, Angel read almost any available software development book he could find. Started to work a as teenage freelance developer at age 16 (Starting from Basic, COBOL, Clipper, C ANSI, C++, Visual FoxPro, Visual Basic and Visual C++). Currently develops in C#, C++ and VB.NET. He’s been supporting Developer Community in Venezuela and Latam since 2002 and he expects to do so in Australia too. He’s a frequent speaker in events such as Developer Days, MSDN Regional Tour, MUG Meetings and some other Microsoft Technical events. He encourages his other peers to share knowledge and experiences. Angel holds a Bsc. Information Technology. He's fluent in Spanish and English.

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This session takes an inside look at successfully delivering from concept to cash, showing the technical aspects of what's required to iteratively build a robust product that always performs, and the skill and discipline needed to deliver high-quality software to production every week. We know this because we wrote one of the busiest entertainment Web sites in the UK from scratch.

Bio
Kris Lander has strong sense of rigorous engineering principles and has sought out processes and technologies to support the development of high quality software. Gus Power is co-founder of Energized Work, a consultancy and software development shop. He brings together systems-level thinking with an uncompromising test-driven approach.

About the conference
QCon is a conference that is organized by the community, for the community.The result is a high quality conference experience where a tremendous amount of attention and investment has gone into having the best content on the most important topics presented by the leaders in our community. QCon is designed with the technical depth and enterprise focus of interest to technical team leads, architects, and project managers.

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In this interview taped at FutureRuby, Luke Galea talks about his experience with building sites using Ruby and Merb as well as integrating them using Erlang in the messaging layer.

Bio
Luke Galea is the Director of Development for Avid Life Media, a Toronto based company that owns several large dating sites. He is the author of the Hyperactive Resource plugin for Rails and is active in the Ruby and Erlang communities. His latest project is http://www.cougarlife.com [Editor's note: linked website might offend some readers]

About the conference
FutureRuby isn't a Ruby conference, but a conference for Rubyists. This is a call to order - a congress of the curious characters that drew us to this community in the first place. We have a singular opportunity to express a long-term vision, a future where Ruby drives creativity and prosperity without being dampened by partisan politics.

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Jake Sorofman talks on how to glue together the application development world and the business operations one in an automated, virtualized and cloud computing environment where everything moves faster than ever.

Bio
Jake Sorofman is Vice President of Marketing at rPath. He held several other leadership positions in the past: SVP of marketing and business development for JustSystems, the largest ISV in Japan, VP of product marketing with Mercury Interactive (now part of HP), marketing for two WebSphere products at IBM Software Group, and director of product marketing with Documentum (now part of EMC).

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Glue is the only conference devoted solely to solving the web application integration problem-set. People that should attend Glue include the architects, developers, administrators and integrators that have moved past the initial step of seeing the web as a platform, and are facing the real-world challenges of what "stove-piped" web applications mean for their overall strategy. Glue is about all of bits and pieces, APIs and meta-data, standards and connectors that will help us to glue together the varying applications of the new platform.

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In this talk from FutureRuby, Joseph Wilk gives an introduction to the BDD framework Cucumber and gives valuable tips for getting it adopted and used by customers and developers.

Bio
Joseph Wilk is a member of the core development team for Cucumber along with Aslak Hellesøy. He has been developing for the web for 10 years in both big and small companies and as an entrepreneur. After stints working with Java and Python he found Ruby. He now spends his time having more fun than is healthy working as a Software Gardener building web systems and working on open source projects.

About the conference
FutureRuby isn't a Ruby conference, but a conference for Rubyists. This is a call to order - a congress of the curious characters that drew us to this community in the first place. We have a singular opportunity to express a long-term vision, a future where Ruby drives creativity and prosperity without being dampened by partisan politics.

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A screencast showing a mashup using Google Analytics, Protovis, SVG, JQuery, Google App Engine, and GData. Done by Nick Mihailovski.

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Many read-world datasets can be characterized as follows: the "extrinsic dimension" of the data is high, but the "intrinsic
dimension" is low. Consider for example the data generated by a motion capture device. Such a device typically tracks a few hundred dots located on a special suit worn by the tracked person. Each time point corresponds to a vector consisting of the (x,y,z) location of each dot. The extrinsic dimension of these vectors is thus around one thousand. However, the vectors are highly constrained because the dots are placed on a human body that has only a limited number of degrees of freedom. We say that the "intrinsic dimension" is the number of the degrees of freedom of the data.

We are interested in learning algorithms whose performance scales with the intrinsic dimension of the data. We present the random projection trees algorithm which has this type of performance. Moreover, the algorithm is very efficient computationally and can be performed in a streaming fashion where each data point is seen only once.

This is joint work with Sanjoy Dasgupta.

Yoav Freund, UCSD.
Google Tech Talks
October 9, 2009

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Genescient is the world's first computational biology company founded on the use of artificial biological selection to cure the diseases of aging. Our laboratory animals have been selected for longevity through 750 generations for the equivalent of 15,000 human years. I will describe Genescient's multiple pathways toward accelerating human longevity, with parallel enhancements of vigor and function. Genescient applies 21st century genomic technology to identify, screen and develop benign therapeutic substances at precise doses, to defeat the diseases of aging. Our singular approach addresses the complex genomic networks that underlie aging and aging-associated diseases such as cardiovascular disease, Type II diabetes and neurodegenerative diseases. I shall display some results and our first product, due in 2009.

Gregory Benford is a Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Irvine, where he was a Professor of Physics. He is a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, a Fellow of the American Physical Society and was Visiting Fellow at Cambridge University and the Universities of Turin and Bologna. In 1995 he received the Lord Prize for contributions to science. With more than 200 scientific publications, his research encompasses both theory and experiments in the fields of astrophysics and plasma physics. His research has been supported by NSF, NASA, AFOSR, DOE and other agencies. He is an ongoing advisor to NASA, DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) and the CIA.

Dr. Benford is also the author of more than thirty books, nearly all still in print. His work has won many awards, including the Nebula Award for his novel Timescape. His non-fiction Deep Time received much praise in 1999 and he won the United Nations Medal in literature in 1994.

Gregory Benford became Emeritus form the University of California, Irvine, in 2006 in order to found and develop Genescient.

Gregory Benford.
Google Tech Talks
October 9, 2009

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Lauren Usui, Product Marketing Manager for the Google mobile ads team, gives a demo of the new AdSense for Mobile features for high-end phones like iPhone and Android.

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Learn more about the new features for the Google Search Appliance 6.

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In this interview at Agile 2009, Joshua Kerievsky describes how his team was able to transform their software development project once they found and used an appropriate system metaphor. Joshua also shares how his development team has let go of many traditional practices and continues to refine their skills such that they are delivering more value regularly.

Bio
Joshua Kerievsky has been programming professionally since 1987, and is the founder of Industrial Logic (http://industriallogic.com), a company specializing in Extreme Programming (XP). Joshua has been an active member of the XP and patterns communities, he wrote a book called RefactoringToPatterns and he created Industrial Extreme Programming.

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Phillip Ghadir presents a financial application that was initially built using SOAP, WSDL, WS-*, and was later migrated to use REST, Atom, and AtomPub, explaining the decisions made, the pitfalls and the lessons learned along the way.

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Phillip Ghadir, CTO and principal consultant of innoQ Deutschland GmbH, has built several systems and components for large scale, distributed, mission critical systems that are still serving continuously until now. He was involved in several projects, including a large development effort for building a Basel II- compliant rating service, where he was the lead architect.

About the conference
QCon is a conference that is organized by the community, for the community.The result is a high quality conference experience where a tremendous amount of attention and investment has gone into having the best content on the most important topics presented by the leaders in our community. QCon is designed with the technical depth and enterprise focus of interest to technical team leads, architects, and project managers.

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Peter Pilgrim makes an introduction to the Java FX platform, presenting its scripting language, the standard deployment method of applications, client integration with the server and what’s planned for its future.

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Peter is a Sun Certified Java Architect for Java EE5. He has delivered talks on JavaFX for the Erlang Exchange, CommunityOne , San Francisco and the ACCU Oxford Conference. He currently works for Lloyds TSB Corporate Markets, where he enjoys the role of Technical Leader for E-Channel Services. He has been involved with Deutsche, UBS and Credit Suisse to name but a few.

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QCon is a conference that is organized by the community, for the community.The result is a high quality conference experience where a tremendous amount of attention and investment has gone into having the best content on the most important topics presented by the leaders in our community. QCon is designed with the technical depth and enterprise focus of interest to technical team leads, architects, and project managers.

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Many organizations will tell you that they are "doing" continuous integration. A boat anchor of a PC in the corner running an old version of CruiseControl might tick a few boxes, but is it really effective? As we get better at CI, we should see our feedback loop extend out past development. But what strategies do we have for doing this and keeping the feedback loop tight for the developers?

Bio
Julian Simpson started his career in technical support. He has run his own business connecting people to the Internet, been a Unix systems administrator. Julian spent four years at ThoughtWorks doing build, continuous integration and deployment on large software projects. Presently he is working at a media company doing a mix of build and release management and production systems administration.

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QCon is a conference that is organized by the community, for the community.The result is a high quality conference experience where a tremendous amount of attention and investment has gone into having the best content on the most important topics presented by the leaders in our community. QCon is designed with the technical depth and enterprise focus of interest to technical team leads, architects, and project managers.

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Steve Eley presenting Mongo DB to the Atlanta Ruby User Group Created by tkadom

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Hank Beaver presenting Varnish to the Atlanta Ruby User Group Created by tkadom

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The results of the Book Challenge have been so interesting that I have made two shows out of them. This is the second part.

If you want to buy Akkana Peck’s book from amazon.com in the US, go to her website and use her link. She gets a bit more money out of it and you pay the same.

The TOC

00:50 Threshold tool revisited
02:40 Ityker’s image
04:00 Selective decolorisation
05:00 Layer mask for selective decolorisation
05:00 Layer mask shortcuts
06:00 Duotone
08:45 Sample points
10:00 Preventing tonal change of the colorisation layer
11:10 Sharpening layer
12:50 Fake view cam cassete shadow
14:30 Mathias’ image
15:50 Image sources
17:00 Layers for ressources
18:40 Combining different exposures
19:25 Healing spots and bra straps
20:30 Layers for sculpting the hair
22:40 The sky – overlay mode
23:50 The sign
24:00 Layer groups
25:00 Dodge and burn on a layer in soft light mode
26:00 Unsharp mask for enhancing local and global contrast
27:20 The John Arnold Style Vignette(R)

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Get more out of Google Maps with their improved places pages.

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