As a computer guru of your life circle you may have been asked by your friends how to solve a technical problem, or how to use an application, but, usually you drive a long way to make them understand what you are talking about. As a beginner you may have a lot of questions to ask, but not sure about the terms to describe your problem or the things happened on your screen. Here, you will get ideas of removing the obstacles. Everything could be so easy. Communication is a piece of cake.

Imaging this, you learned using some complicated software in the summer vacations and want to share with your friends.

The wonderful software experience may excite you to share it with your classmates or friends when you back to school. You can add many instructions and tips for the tutorial and make the operations more clear. And also you can visualize the experience and upload it to your blog to enrich the content. DemoCreator helps you to easily create dynamic software tutorial. It records the screen when you take actions on an application, and then you may add annotations and other visual aids to the captured screenshots.

How can I copy the music in the computer to the Cell Phone by Bluetooth? How can I add a new account in Microsoft Outlook Express?

If these are the questions you are often asked by friends and families, sometimes you may tired to tell the details on the phone again and again or take piles of screenshots and then send them out. It will be boring to repeat same things every time. DemoCreator empowers you to solve these kinds of problems. It records all your screen actions and enables you to create Flash-based troubleshooting demo with rich media. Since SWF is the most web friendly format, you can easily share your professionals online with your friends.

What’s wrong with my computer/this tool?

When you have problems of trying new applications or system, and have no idea how to describe what happened, you may need DemoCreator to mirror you operations, and then send it to a computer guru or technical support. It saves your time to show exactly what you have done and how can this happen, so the technical staff can understand you clearly and give you the quick solution within minutes. It’s efficient for you to get the quick response.

Maybe you meet those problems every day, but it’s really difficult for you to solve these problems by yourself. Wondershare DemoCreator is easy to use, powerful and affordable for solving these kind of problems.

Feature highlights of Wondershare DemoCreator:

• Easy to use, just by several clicks you can finish your own tutorials

• Support various interactive elements added to the capturing screens (Shape, Button, Callout, Text, Image, etc.)

• Support Sound recording and editing (By microphone or exist mp3 file)

• Record the keystrokes and mouse moves, and the mouse actions is editable

• Support various demo output (FLASH,CD,EXE,LMS,E-MAIL)

You may try it free and see the online demo from the following information:

http://www.sameshow.com/demo-creator.html

Many of you have asked how I and many others take pictures of Smoke. Here, I will walk you through how to do it.

 

 

 

So, what do you need?

Camera

External Flash/Bright Light

Incense Sticks (with a holder, a small glass will do)

Lighter/Match

Stool/Table

Tripod (optional but preferred)

Remote trigger (optional but preferred)

Macro Lens (For best results, but normal lens will do)

Black Background (Bigger the better eg. Studio bg, A2 Card, Black Sheet etc)

An Assistant (If you haven’t got a support for your Flash/Light source)

 

Got everything! Now What?

Ok, now you have everything that you need to start, you now need to set it all up! The diagram below shows how you should setup your kit. Also check out the picture for a clearer idea =] Place the flash/light source somewhere between the side and behind the smoke. The light needs to cover the area where the smoke might be, and it shouldn’t be so close that the smoke is unevenly lit. Also do not let the light flood onto the background.

Setup Your Camera on the tripod in the form of portrait (at a 90degree angle), this ensures you can capture as much smoke as possible. Set it up approximately 60cm’s away from the smoke (this will vary).

Brilliant! I’m all set up, what next?

Pre focus on the area where the smoke is going to be. I leave auto focus on. Try and keep a fast shutter speed, and an Aperture of between F11 and F16, also shoot at the lowest ISO setting you can (smoke is already quite noisy, so a higher ISO will make it worse). Also shoot in Raw if you can.

The Image Below should help with your settings (screen shot from a Canon 400d)

Light your Incense sticks (I Use two, the heat from one, effects the other and produces nice effects), and then blow out the flame, the smoke should now be flowing. Make sure that you have something to catch the ashes.

Now start focusing on the smoke and shoot…. LOTS. Keep checking the LCD and if its too dark either…. Increase the ISO, Reduce the F Number or slow the shutter Speed. Try to keep a healthy F number and a fast shutter speed. If the smoke seems undefined and dull, increase the flashes power (if you can).

Ive taken loads of shots and confident they are alright, what do I with them?

Now we need to process the images. Open up the selected Pictures raw file in your Raw editor and bring out the blacks to that the background is as dark as possible without losing the smoke. I personally like increasing the contrast, tweaking the brightness and playing with the highlights. It’s all about tweaking until you get the desired effect. Click Ok and open up your shot in Photoshop.

Create a new Layer. (Shift+Ctrl+N) and set the blending mode to Hue.

Then select the Gradient tool.

Select your colours and drag it across your image. Now is the time to experience with your pictures! If you want a white background, simply invert the image. (Image>>>Ajustments>>>Invert).

So thats the basic technique. Any questions, just contact me. Just remember, Saftey First and if you dont get it right first time, just try again another day!

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Do you know that you can play flash games on your PSP? How cool is that? Now not just you get to enjoy PSP games, but also hours of entertainment flash games. You can find thousands of free, yes free flash games on the internet. Just type in ‘free flash games’ on google and there you will be astonished by the number of free flash games available on the internet.

But the problem is, how can you put in flash games on your PSP? Seems complicated? It is actually quite easy if you follow the steps I will be showing you.

Firstly, find the flash game which you would like to play on your PSP. View the game as you would normally play on your browser. What you want to do now is to click ‘Save Page As’ on your browser and save your game on your desktop. This will work mostly using Mozilla Firefox browser. If you have problem with Internet Explorer, trying using Firefox.

Connect your PSP to your computer using USB cable. Open your PSP drive and create a new folder called ‘Games’. Go to the game which you have saved on your desktop and find a file with a “.swf” extension. Rename the title of the game or even better, give a short and simple name. You can delete the rest of the irrelevant files.

Copy the flash game and place is inside the ‘Games’ folder that you have just made. Now safely disconnect your PSP from your computer. Boot your PSP and head down to the ‘Internet Browser’. What you are going to do now is type the address of your game on your PSP internet browser address bar. Example file:/games/tetris.swf. That’s about it. Enjoy your flash games on PSP.

If this guide seem complicated to you, head down to my website and watch the video tutorial.

Flash is an interactive platform that has a powerful design and animation tool along with a dynamic scripting engine, bitmap rendering, as well as advanced video and audio playback. There are three main aspects: the player, the file format, and the authoring tool/IDE. Flash games can be developed for websites, interactive TV, as well as handheld devices. There is no need to adopt multiple programming languages to build games.

It is the universal tool that permits the development of multimedia driven complex games. Games means fast, furious, efficient with rich graphics.

Flash enables developers to build the most popular games for online gamers. It just needs to support:

• Rich engaging graphics.• Smooth download of files from the net.• A playback device that can interpret downloads.

There are three main areas: design, development, and hosting.

The first step is creation of graphics. One must use Fireworks as well as Freehand for this aspect. The tools are compatible and fireworks allows the addition of Java script to images.

The game development will be done in Flash by importing graphics created in Freehand and Fireworks. The graphics are then placed in Director the parent tool of Flash.

The next part, hosting, uses a Web server. Dreamweaver MX is the tool that will create Web pages to host the game.

And, finally Action Script is used to provide enhanced functionality.

Advantages:

• Integrates almost all features needed for developing a game. It is a great interactive tool.• Can be used anywhere does not need additional software or plug ins.• It is Mac friendly.• Permits conversion from a full game to web version and vice versa.• Low cost and free to distribute. Licenses for decoders MP3 and Sorensen Spark are included.• Artists that can use flash easily are in plenty.• Flash delivers broadcast quality images over the Internet. • Permits embedding of game in power point for use in presentations. • Plenty of information as well as guidelines can be accessed as well as understood by all -tutorials, articles, as well as blogs.• The size of the game file remains small as the vector graphics and sound files are compressed.• Learning Flash language is easy.• Permits copy-paste to test components

There are traps one must be wary of and a few cons. Know the system well to maximize its use. There are plenty of tutorials inline that can be used as guides. Flash interface is ideally suited to both designer as well as developer, you can have fun while creating the game.

Flash is simple to use and a game can be developed in a few hours in a packaged form that can run on a PC, Mac, or Linux. One can make use of a browser or run the game as a stand alone.

The use of Flash in web site design has brought about a sea change in the way web sites are being developed today, a far cry from the static graphics and text heavy web sites of the yesteryears. With the help of this latest technology, a web site can now have its audio and visual content displayed creatively with much more appeal and impact .

In fact Flash web site templates have become a convenient and rather quick way to add a dash of glamour and attraction to any website. Flash templates not only serve as a readymade solution to have your web site look good and be up and running within a very short time, they help the web site grab the attention of the visitors, make them stay on the web site and explore it more deeply.

Flash web site design when used in combination with catchy and appealing content provides a polished and complete look to a website. But both the design elements and the content part must be complementary to each other. Flash templates are perfect for web sites which need to look trendy and classy such as web sites devoted to interior decor, music, beauty care products, software, electronic gadgets, design consultancies, photo galleries and so on.

Some key benefits of using Flash:

1. It helps in grabbing the attention of the visitor.

2. The marketing message of the web site is conveyed in a more effective and efficient manner.

3. Flash gives designers the opportunity to use their imagination and creativity in an innovative manner to come up with an appealing and interactive web site design.

4. Attractive flash designs help one to avoid jamming the web site home page with text. The moving images and effects are able to convey more information with less copy.

5. Flash is highly effective in designing tutorials, training courses, web based training modules and so on.

6. With Flash application, videos can be watched in a very convenient way without the requirement of any OS-dependent plug-ins.

7. To view flash, the required plug-ins can be downloaded and installed without any difficulty.

Even with so many benefits, one must take care not to go overboard with excessive use of Flash in web site designing. Too much use of Flash slows down the loading procedure of the web site. Moreover, terribly lengthy Flash movies become boring for the visitors.

Here are some points that must be kept in mind while designing a website with Flash.

1. The option to skip must always be provided so that users can skip the Flash movie if they wish to and directly proceed to browse the web site.

2. The text to be used in Flash movies must be used in HTML text format for better visibility in search engines.

3. Always include a loading bar in the Flash intro that indicates how much Flash has been downloaded.

4. Use HTML links for important web pages of your web site either on the top or the bottom of the Flash intro. This way the visitors can visit the other web pages they want to explore.

5. Put questions or some animated messages in order to keep the visitor engrossed till the Flash is downloaded.

6. Lastly use Flash only when it can add some extra attraction to the web site design and its overall purpose and not just for the sake of adding gimmicks.

Photo Shop is the most widely used image manipulation program in the world today. It should be no mystery therefore that so many people know the basics of the program. However, not many people know the full capability of Photo Shop.

This is partly because every person has a limited time to devote to this program. In order to compensate for this, many people are putting up Photo Shop effects tutorials. This is in order to share what knowledge they have and maybe gain a little more. Here are some of the different types of Photo Shop effects tutorials you can find today:

1) Retouching - this type of Photo Shop effects tutorial attempts to teach people how to accomplish the basic goal of Adobe Photo Shop -fix pictures. The retouching Photo Shop effects tutorials helps people get rid of red eye, fix skewed angles and basically make the picture presentable. This is done through the various tools offered by Photo Shop.

Majority of the people who look for Photo Shop effects tutorials go with this first because, let’s face it, everyone wants to look perfect in their pictures. By learning this Photo Shop effects tutorial, you will be able to take what you can see in nature and give it a whole new reality. Some people eliminate wrinkles, scars, and some actually erase people from group pictures!

2) Lighting effects - a change in the lighting can dramatically alter the mood of a photograph. In the past, photographers either had to wait for the sun to be just perfect or make use of special lighting in order to achieve the effect that they need. With lighting Photo Shop effects tutorials, you can adjust the lighting of a photograph even after it is taken.

Think of the possibilities! You can take the picture of a sunset even in the middle of a cloudy day. You can light up the subject of a photograph even without using a flash. Photo Shop effects tutorials will even teach you how to make it look like you are living on an alien planet, by adding 2 different colored suns to your picture. The great thing about this is that, unlike other image editors which just paste a sun into the background, Adobe Photo Shop can really make it seem as if the addition does affect the lighting within the image.

3) Presentation effects - want to place your image inside a glass sphere? You can find Photo Shop effects tutorials to do precisely that on the internet. You can find different ways to manipulate your images. You can put an object in space, traveling at light speed. You can place yourself in field of flowers. You can turn your picture into an oil painting. A Photo Shop effects tutorial will teach you how to do these things and more. With Photo Shop, your imagination is the limit.

4) Photography - many photographers today resort to using special filters and customizing their cameras to get different effects. They take pictures in ultra-red, monochrome, and other styles to give people a whole new perspective of the world. Some Photo Shop effects tutorials can teach you how to make it seem like you took a picture using the same techniques as professionals do. This is certainly something every person wants, right?

Gaming is popular world wide and most people play games without knowing how a game is actually made. It takes inspiration, verve, technology, and more to create a game that captures the mind and heart of players all over the world.

The first step to making a game is to have a story. The story or plot is thought about and developed by game designers or players. Once the game is conceptualized, writers and artists work together on the storyboard and create sketches of the sequence with instructions for the technology team. The sketches are then scanned on to a computer and the next step is to breathe life into the story and characters.

Among the many ways to create a game a popular solution is Macromedia Flash MX. This allows the creation of rich, graphic and multimedia driven gaming. Flash has a player, authoring tool, and a file format. Flash allows game developers to use:

• Rich graphics.

• Create files that are user friendly and can be downloaded over the internet.

• Allows the import of graphic formats. This means designers can use Photoshop, Illustrator, Freehand, or Fireworks to develop the game as long as the graphics are vector.

• Flash lends itself to the creation of quality graphics that can be broadcast over the internet.

Flash can be used to create action, adventure, educational, first-person shooter, puzzle, sports, or role playing games.

The actual process of creating a game is complex but involves:

• Creating the characters. Sketches are fine tuned until they are perfect. These are then transformed into 3D characters. The figures are scanned into a computer and a digital skeleton is created. This is what defines the size, shape, and movements of any figure in a game.

• Next the programmers use Flash to bring movement and emotions into the figures of the game.

• Movement and characterization of the figures is followed by special effects and creation of the environment. Skies, clouds, wind, reflections, shadows, and more add mystery and atmosphere to the game. Flash allows developers to produce realistic and complex environments. It is the environment that gives life and motion to a game. The 3D effects are created using polygons along with texture mapping.

• This is followed by coding. Codes are instructions written by developers that lends intelligence to the game and drives a game forward. The more complex a code the more thrilling a game. Codes establish logic to a game and generate the excitement and uniqueness.

• Once the coding is done the testing begins. The testing helps the developer fine tune the game before it is marketed. This is when the game is rated by the Entertainment Software Rating Board. The rating indicates the appropriateness of the game for different age groups.

Flash is user friendly and therefore popular software with game developers. The World Wide Web offers Flash Tutorials for those interested in developing games. There are articles and tips and guidelines as well.

The basic boot sequence for a Cisco router is:

Step 1: The router performs a power-on self-test (POST) to discover and verify the hardware.

Step 2: The router loads and runs bootstrap code from ROM.

Step 3: The router finds the IOS or other software and loads it.

Step 4: The router finds the configuration file and loads it into running config.

All routers attempt all four steps each time that the router is powered on or reloaded. The POST code and functions cannot be changed by the router administrator. The location of the bootstrap code, the IOS to load, and the configuration file can be changed by the administrator-but you almost always use the default location for the bootstrap code (ROM) and for the initial configuration (NVRAM). So, the location of IOS or other software is the only part that typically is changed. Three categories of operating systems can be loaded into the router:

• The full-function IOS image, which is typically located in Flash memory but can also be located on a TFTP server. This is the normal, full-feature IOS used in production; • A limited-function IOS that resides in ROM; and provides basic IP connectivity when Flash memory is faulty and you need IP connectivity to copy a new IOS into Flash memory. This limited-function IOS is called RXBOOT mode.

• A different non-IOS operating system that is also stored in ROM. This operating system, called ROM Monitor (ROMMON) mode, is used for low-level debugging and for password recovery. Unless you are performing password recovery, you would seldom use ROMMON mode.

The configuration register tells the router whether to use a full-featured IOS, ROMMON, RXBOOT mode. The configuration register is a 16-bit software register in the router, and its value is set using the configregister global configuration command. The boot field is the name of the low-order 4 bits of the configuration register. This field can be considered a 4-bit value, represented as a single hexadecimal digit. If the boot field is hex 0, ROMMON is loaded. If the boot field is hex 1, RXBOOT mode is used. For anything else, it loads a full-featured IOS.

A USB flash drive is thought to be a much better alternative than a floppy disc or a CD. It can be dropped or scuffed without being damaged due to the durable outer shell. They are also portable and can be placed anywhere, from your key chain to your pocket. The storage possibilities are endless and many people do not even use the whole amount that is available on the USB flash drive.

When the USB flash drive was first introduced by IBM, they were as simple in colour as they were in style and memory storage. You are now able to purchase one in any colour of the rainbow and any size of memory that you desire. The price that you pay will depend on how much storage the removable device has.

Not only does a USB flash drive save paper, but you can have all of your important programs at your fingertips no matter which computer you are sat at.

The technical words for USB are a “Universal Serial Bus” device. Making a bootable USB flash drive is not as easy it may look. It is much harder than making a bootable disc or a floppy disc. A bootable USB flash drive can come in handy, but creating one could cause you to become very stressed out. A bootable USB flash drive simply means that you can upload important programs to a computer from your removable memory storage device, or as we know it the USB.

The following are directions for a Windows computer:

Your first step should be to download and install the Windows Automated Installation Kit. This also contains Windows PE 2.0.

Open a command and execute the following:

- There should be a list of disks with information about each one. Select disk 1, assuming that the USB key is disk 1. This has to be correct or you could accidentally erase the hard drive instead.

- Clean or remove any information from the disk and create a partition primary.

- Select partition 1 and use format fs=fat32. You will then exit.

Your next step is to setup and customize Windows PE with the following steps:

- Click on the Windows Start menu, open “All Programs”, and then the Windows AIK program folder. Select and click “Windows PE Tools Command Prompt”. Run command: Copype.cmd x86 c:winpe_x86.

Insert the USB flash drive into the computer and run the following command to copy WinPE and its contents to the USB flash drive: xcopy c:winpe_x86iso*.* /s /e /f e:

A bootable USB flash drive also makes it easy to cancel out an old computer and switch in a new one. You do not have to have a boot disk if you have a bootable USB flash drive.

There are many tutorials out there that can help you to create a bootable flash drive; some are more successful than others.

The bottom line is that after you have created this, you will be able to boot all of your regular programs from an advanced menu. Plus you can still use your USB flash drive on any computer that you wish.

Flash games are quickly becoming the most popular choice for PC Gamers. They are easy to find, completely free, have incredible graphics, great story lines, are addictive, and just generally exciting to play. Flash Gaming is the pinnacle of online games.

Lots of sites have a humongous collection of the latest and greatest flash games, so it is extremely easy for you to be up-to-date with the industries latest updates and innovations. They are easy to play, require no downloads (Other than Flash Player,) and many have online high score tables.

The choice of flash games to play is quite literally endless, with new ones being released daily. On top of that, with a single click of your mouse, you can choose between thousands of adventure games, role playing games, arcade games, classic games, puzzle games, trivia games, and every other category you can think of! Many of them are rated by users, so you can also filter out the really, really horrible ones, and only play the thousands of high quality, extremely excitingly entertaining ones!

Be sure not to miss out on these free fun games. Go to an arcade website today to see the revolution in gaming! They cost nothing, you don’t have to download them, and you have the largest variety out of any kind of game! How can you beat that? Find your dream game now.

Programmers can also find their place in the exciting industry of Flash Gaming, and submit their games to many of the largest flash gaming sites out there, earning themselves publicity and fame. In a matter of days you can create and release your exciting contribution to the large world of flash gaming, and start racking up the play count. Tons of sites exist to network developers and share ideas to make challenging games, such as the Experimental Game Play Project.

The hard part about creating innovative, exciting, and entertaining games is learning how to use the Flash program, and to use Action Script; the Flash programming language. It also takes numerous hours to have smooth and exciting game play, not to mention the time it takes to make beautifully innovating graphics.

By just googling up ‘Flash Tutorials,’ you can quickly get your head start into the world of programming, and start becoming a famous indie game developer. Who knows, maybe someday you can get hired into a large team, and truly make the best flash games out there? Of course, once you know the basics of Flash, the rest is but a breeze. It’s just memorizing functions, learning the proper coding practices, and most of all, practicing your coding.

After learning to program, you can even form a team yourself! Teams are great ways to get good games done fast, by combining a large group of programmers, graphic artists, story writers, beta testers, and website designers all into a tightly nit group of experts. That will not only speed up your progress, it will add many views into the design of the game, and greatly heighten the quality of your games.

Have the time of your life– Play flash games, and consider learning to make your own.