Adobe Released 3D Modeling Application

Why should video gamers alone have the fun of creating a 3D, realistic avatar? Now the designer users of Adobe Photoshop CC, can use a preview version of Adobe Fuse, a creative application acquired from Mixamo, and now part of the Creative Cloud family.

While Fuse is the biggest Photoshop-related update, the image editor itself gets an interface refresh today, with more touch support for devices such as Microsoft's Surface Pro 4£946.50 at Amazon tablet, and the ability to customize the program's iconic toolbar buttons. Adobe announced the updates on the Photoshop Blog and briefed PCMag.com in advance.

"There are a lot of things we've done to the user experience to improve it for our users, and also greater efficiency and expanded creative possibilities, with significant improvements to design and photography-focused features," said Adobe's Senior Product Manager for Digital Imaging, Stephen Nielson.

Photoshop itself presents a new start experience—thumbnails of your recent files and access to presets and libraries from the start page. The page will also show personalized tutorial content at the bottom. Those who'd rather stick with the start experience they're used to can switch back to that in settings—Adobe has apparently learned from the user backlash that followed its total redesign of Lightroom's import experience.

In a less-drastic interface move, Photoshop's icons have all been redesigned in the flat, 2D, non-skeuomorphic style that started with Windows 8, later landed in iOS 7, and is all the rage these days.

"We've done a significant amount of work in unifying the look and feel of the UI," said Nielson. New touch support includes gestures such as two-finger swipe to undo or three-finger swipe to move through images. Windows touch-screen users can use soft Shift, Ctrl, and Alt buttons for keyboard combinations.

The update includes several new Creative Cloud Library features: You can now create a Library of assets from a document you're working on, and then access the assets from anywhere you've logged into your Adobe account. Libraries also let you edit an item once and have it update anywhere it's used. You can search Libraries for items, or even search for Adobe Stock content. The Library panel supports drag and drop, including for brushes.

Design Space is another new feature in Photoshop this time around. This is a workspace tailored to designing Web and mobile interfaces. It's still in preview, but now available by default from the Window menu. It produces HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript code.

Another relatively new Photoshop concept that helps designers of Web and mobile interfaces is the Artboard, a superset of layers that only apply to certain boundaries in your document. An Artboard can include smart objects, layers, layer groups, and more. New for this release are per-Artboard guides and better integration with the Layers panel, along with other improvements to the feature.

Working with typography has also been improved. You can now filter searches for fonts with attributes like serif, script, and blackletter, and you can even tell the program to show you similar fonts to one you've selected. You can also designate fonts as Favorites—which seems really handy—and hover over a font choice to see it previewed in your document—nifty!

The real-time healing brush is a recent tool that lets you remove unwanted objects from a photo. It gets a diffusion adjuster to remove artifacts. Finally, new export options include exporting multiple sizes of an image and separate output for each Artboard in a doc. The new export is faster and higher-quality at smaller file sizes than the frequently used "Save for Web" option.

Adobe Fuse CC Preview
Now for the body parts! Drawing or sculpting the human form has for centuries been one of the more demanding artistic endeavors, but Fuse makes it easy enough for designers of any skill level. Fuse lets you craft human forms and faces in minute 3D detail. In fact, it lets you customize a whopping 380 attributes of the human figure.

Not only does it let you create faces and body shapes of infinite variety, but you can also apply clothing and texturing options. And once you've created your faux human, you can change the facial expression and posture, and then insert him or her into a Photoshop layer, animate them, and even 3D print them.

How to re-enable Task Manager when disabled by virus

Many virus and Trojans in the network are infecting your computer and they modify the system files. The most common Trojans rewrite the system files or the registry file to disable some mandatory services of your computer. Suppose your computer is infected by virus and you want to remove the virus manually from your computer.

At first you need to know which process are causing the problems. You can identify it from the Task Manager. But the virus programmers are much aware about this system and they make their program such that it disables the Task Manager from the registry.

In such case when you try to open the Task manager by pressing “Alt + Ctrl + Del”, a message appears like “Task Manger has been disabled by your administrator”. So your first object is to enable your Task manager to identify the harmful services that are running in your computer. Next you can kill the processes to stop running. Here I have described some easy and simple way to re-enable The Task Manager.

* Click Start
* Click Run
* Enter gpedit.msc in the Open box and click OK
* In the Group Policy settings window
o Select User Configuration
o Select Administrative Templates
o Select System
o Select Ctrl+Alt+Delete options
o Select Remove Task Manager
o Double-click the Remove Task Manager option

And as I mentioned above, since the policy is Remove Task Manager, by disabling the policy, you are enabling the Task Manager.

How To Partition A Hard Drive Using Windows XP

Do you need to know how to partition a hard drive using Windows XP? Well, help is here. Microsoft Windows XP can be used to partition and format a hard drive. Why even bother to partition a hard drive using Windows XP? Well, the answer is pretty simple. If you choose to organize your hard disk data and applications into separate partitions, you will greatly simplify backups and also improve your computer's performance.    Learning how to partition a hard drive is an important skill    Step 1: Get The Tools You Need There are several ways to partition a hard drive using Windows XP. If you're planning to partition a new and blank hard drive, then it is easy. Just use the Windows setup CD-ROM - it will list out options for partitioning your hard drive during installation. However, what if you don't want to erase your existing data, or you want to do partitioning on an existing hard drive? Then you will need a partitioning utility such as Acronis Disk Director. The key benefit of this tools is that it allows you to change partition sizes and formats without the need to wipe out existing data.   Step 2: Defragment Your Existing Hard Drive Let's assume we are planning to partition data on an existing hard disk. Before starting, we will want to make sure we run a Disk Defragmenter program. This optimizes the hard drive to prepare it for partitioning.   Step 3: Plan Your Partitions Planning for your hard drive partitions is an important step. Do you want two partitions or three? Should they all be in NTFS or FAT32 format? Consider the size of the partitions too, and whether you plan to run different operating systems (e.g. Windows and Linux dual boot systems).   Step 4: Run The Partitioning Software The next step in partitioning a hard drive using Windows XP is to run the partitioning software. In Acronis Disk Director, there are simple wizards to help you through the process. Make absolutely sure that you check (and double-check) the source and target partitions, as well as the partition sizes before confirming.   Step 5: Reboot The System Rebooting the system is the last step in learning how to partition a hard drive using Windows XP. Once rebooted, you can do whatever you want to move data around this or that partition. You may need to specify new file locations for different applications. I like to store my operating system in one partition, while my personal files and data are stored on another partition.   Conclusion I hope this tutorial has taught you the tricks for partitioning a hard drive using Windows XP. It's not that complicated a process - but you do need to be careful since your dealing with your critical data. If you don't want to mess with partitions, one other option is to buy a new hard disk and install it as a secondary drive. This is something I like to do since I also spread the  risk of hard disk failure to two drives instead of one.  Create A Mirror Image Of Your Computer If you're worried that your computer will get filled with virus or malware, the best thing to do is to create a mirror image of your computer after its initial use or directly after a reinstallation. That way, you'll always have a clean copy of Windows with your frequently used programs, set up just the way you want. Among the best mirroring packages is the $50 Acronis True Image, which is simple to use and can be customized to fit your requirements.

HOW TO MAKE YOUR PEN DRIVE BOOTABLE USING COMMAND PROMPT

Hello friends,

               In this post, I will show you how to make your pen drive bootable to install Windows Vista/7 and 8 using only Command Prompt. Follow the step by step tutorial below:

1. Insert your USB (4GB+ preferable) stick to the system and backup all the data from the USB as we are going to format the USB to make it bootable.

2. Open elevated Command Prompt. To do this, type in CMD in Start menu search field and hit Ctrl + Shift + Enter. Alternatively, navigate to 

Start > All programs >Accessories > right click on Command Prompt and select run as administrator.

3. When the Command Prompt opens, enter the following commands:


DISKPART and hit enter.

LIST DISK and hit enter.

Once you enter the LIST DISK command, it will show the disk number of your USB drive. In the below image my USB drive disk no is Disk 1.

4. In this step you need to enter all the below commands one by one and hit enter. As these commands are self explanatory, you can easily guess what these commands do.

SELECT DISK 1 (Replace DISK 1 with your disk number)

CLEAN

CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY

SELECT PARTITION 1

ACTIVE

FORMAT FS=NTFS

(Format process may take few seconds)

ASSIGN

EXIT


Once it is done, copy the windows DVD contents to the pen drive.

You are done with your bootable USB. You can now use this bootable USB as bootable DVD on any computer that comes with USB boot feature (most of the current motherboards support this feature).

Note: This bootable USB guide will not work if you are trying to make a bootable USB on XP computer.

Tips and tricks to increase uTorrent Download Speed

Starting from High quality movies, eBooks, mp3 audios, games and most of the software now arrive first on uTorrent sites because of download quality and better usability. Hence, a less downloading speed can be a really annoying one. There are some tricks by which you can increase uTorrent Download speed in a successful manner.

1. Disable Firewall – This is one of the easiest tricks toincrease uTorrent download speed by just disabling the windows firewall or just make it a point to turn ON the firewall exception. This will surely boost up the speed of uTorrent.

2. Save Port – It is very important to get the perfect port so that you can increase speed of uTorrent download. For this, you need to go to uTorrent options and then choose preferences.
Choose connection from a list of preferences that will appear in a new window. Then a small window will appear. Choose any one port, but make sure that the randomized port each start should remain unchecked. This will certainly helps in achieving your goal toenhance the download speed of uTorrent.

3. Hide your work from ISP – This may seem too tough right? It is a fact that many times ISP block any download from uTorrent and this poses a serious problem. You can use a connection encryption service like BTGuard for hiding from your ISP. Of course, this comes with a price tag but then allows you to download your files at a rapid speed. The set up process of BTGuard is quite an easy one. To do manual configuration, you need to open an account at BTGuard and then go to your torrent client and click Options. Then select preferences and finally connection. In this window, you need to feed the information about BTGuard like done in the below figure.

This is an excellent way to speed up the uTorrent download.

There are some terms like seeder and leecher that are quite common and you must have heard about these while on a torrent network. It is better not to become a leecher as they don’t have complete file and yet have joined the network for getting it. This can decrease your uTorrent downloading speed and must be avoided to boost up the speed.

You should first find that whether your ISP is restrictive or there is any other fault because of which you are suffering while downloading any file. However, overcoming this difficulty by employing these simpletricks of increasing uTorrent download speed gives an ultimate sign of relief. Isn’t it?

Tricks to Turn Your Old Smartphone into a Camera | Download Free Spy Camera Apps

These days changing a phone is very common amongst youngster and for all. Most of us are having at least one smartphone lying with us and with almost no use. We can smartly utilize it and turn old smartphone into a camerawhich will help us to monitor activities at home when we are away or at work.

How Easily Turn Old Smartphone into a Camera

Method 1: Download Free Apps to turn your smartphone into a spy camera

Though there can be lots of Free apps which will support your smart device to solve the current purpose, however I would like to suggest Free application called ‘Web of Cam’ and you may follow below steps to use it to turn your smartphone as camera.

Step 1: Download Free Application for your iPhone, iPad, Android device or Symbian

Step 2: Install this app on your old smartphone which will be acting as spy camera

Step 3: Login with Google username and password to Configure this app on your old smart device. Select “Camera” when it ask to select between “Camera” and “Viewer” options

Step 4: Find a best location to place your spy camera which should be in position to cover required area for monitoring.

Step 5: Install same application in your new smartphone or tablet which will be with you to view/monitor activities

Step 6: Use same Google credential to login and select “Viewer” option and you will find ‘available cameras’ and you may select the first (old) device as camera

You are all done. You can configure camera device tobe used for front or rear camera as well as when to put that device on stand by mode etc.

Since this app will work in background all the time, you have to make sure to get your camera phone connected with power supply all the time as battery may not last longer.

Though above method is very good to turn your old smartphone into a camera but there could be problem with your ‘camera’ phone as it will be on for 24×7 which can make your device heat up and may damage sometime. Also there will be utilization of Data/wifi connection all the time. Let me explain another method which can be used for same purpose.

Method 2: Use Skype or other video calling software to turn phone as spy camera

To avoid problems we have identified in method 1, we may use this method which will be using video calling software like skype to turn your old smart mobile phones into a spy camera.

Step 1: Install Skype on your old smartphone

Step 2: Create a new skype user and login with that.

Step 3: Goto settings and enable the option to answer the calls Automatically and to Answer calls only from the contact list.

Step 4: Add your personal (existing) skype ID into contact list of newly created skype on old phone

Step 5: Add your new skype ID in your existing mobile

There you go!! Now, whenever you need to monitor activity at home, you may call skype on new account and since we have setup “Auto Answer” it will start a video conversation without ringing and you may able to see the other side activities.

I hope these both methods will be useful to you to turn your old smartphone into a Camera. So simply follow methods demonstrated above and protect your house, corridors, balcony etc with a smart spy.