I have found a very good trailer and a video of a game play reviewed by Patrice Desilets from the E3. So have decided to share it with you leave a comment on the post and enjoy! on the side not The graphics are stunning!
Damian Gaslawski...signing off.
To make the new iPhone, apple must had many concepts to decide which one is best so I have found two cool videos of some rumour concepts that show some pretty nice and some pretty amusing concepts of the iPhone's new design. So here they are:
iPhone 4G Concepts Video 1
iPhone 4G Concepts Video 2
Don't to you think some of them are really cool I personally find iPhone shuffle quite amusing but anyway I can't wait till the real one will be revealed to us, leave a comment tell us wat you think. Damian Gaslawski...signing off.
I thought that some of you'll be interested in the news about the top 10 new iPhone apps so here they are:
1. The Sims 3
It is a fun game to test yourself if you're an idiot or not it is very similar to a game idiot test. Very good value for money as it is $0.99! You can have a laugh with your friends and family by making them do a test.
3. StickWars
4. Pocket God
Quoting from the apple website: "Episode 17: Surf's UpGenerate a tsunami by pushing the water from side to side. This opens up a new underwater area with a new danger. A mysterious statue protects ancient ruins." Price: 0.99
6. Bloons
8. Sonic the Hedgehog
Sonic now can be experienced on iPhone and iPod touch the game brings you back down to genesis era! Price: £5.99
10. iFighter
At our school I often find that more and more of our fellow pupils use pivot as their primary animation software, but do not be deceived by the propaganda that's out there it is one of the worst if not the worst animator soft wares that are there on current retail market. I seen many people use it i even tried it my self although some people may find it fun to play with and it is easy to get a hang of, but it is just crap; in the sense of the animation quality and the creativity you can create. It is the most limited software that there is. None the animators should ever use it for animations. Instead use a very cool useful, creative software called Flash- I have used it a lot and I just admire it for the functions it has to offer. and how easy it is to use you can animate with flash about 35% faster than pivot. Also filing saving in pivot is limited to .gif files and .piv(pivot) files.
I understand that the point of pivot to create stick fighting but even for that is does not manage the task it was designed for the design quality and edibility of the animation is very limited and you cannot add as many special effects. So in a nutshell Never NEVER EVER use Pivot instead us a better quality soft wares like flash. Overall rating: 2/10. Judge for yourselves get a demo version try it out an you'll see what I'm on about. Damian Gaslawski...signing off.
Previously I have mentioned dreamweaver as the proper software for web design. Today I am going to review it properly. Dreamweaver CS4 is the best software there is for web design. I know professional coders, web designers and even amateur web designers use it. The code the dreamweaver uses is just beautiful. it doesn't add as much useless fluff to the code as it used to. The old fashioned feature that dreamweaver decided to get rid off is layers(hurray) as layers are useless and just mess up the code I'm glad they gone you wont' believe that ta my school for our e-portfolios we had to use layers we had no choice! Anyway, you don't have to know css or javascript off by heart as a lot of that stuff you can do it manually through dreamweaver and the software nits the code for you ;)
Dreamweaver is not a hard software to use it is very easy to get a grip of. The uploading procedure is now easier than it used to be and managing your website is even more easier than it used to be. I like the dreamweaver because you don't get screw ups in your layout as the dreamweaver works very precisse. With dreamweaver you can create a log in script, members database, pod casts, forms and polls. I use dreamweaver and my friend who manages his 4 websites professionally uses it too. I recommend it to evryone who wants to do web design via professional software. I rate it 10/10 as it is just a Great product you can but dreamweaver for about $399 but if you don't have that kind of money get dreamweaver CS3 or CS2 they are awesome is well. Test it out download trial from http://www.adobe.com/products/dreamweaver/ and see for yourselves. Damian Gaslawski...signing off.
Photoshop is the best software if you want to be a professional designer. I've never met a person who wasn't pleased with what photoshop has to offer. Photoshop has many features too long to list but some of them are the extended number of effects, also it is now easier to create better designs. Editing images is extremely easy with photoshop you can create more crazy stuff without being limited. My good friend of my who does photographing at important events he uses photoshop to edit and add crazy stuff for videos. People often don't use photoshop because they say that it is too complicated to use and you will be limited and also they complain about the file size of their designs. They are just talking a load of rubbish I guarantee that their designs wont be nearly as good as they will create them on photoshop.
If you want to get into web design or image creating photshop is a software right for you it is very good for creating rollover buttons, banners, logos and templates. It work really well with software's like BB Edit and dreamweaver. In addition the designs created ,in photoshop will add a lot of contrast to your web designs. The work that is produced in photoshop is also very well presentable in Internet browsers such as Internet explorer and Mozilla FireFox.
One day I will create a video review of some cool features photoshop CS4 has to offer. If you think photoshop will be too hard for you to grasp then watch some video tutorials by Lynda.com or just google some and I'm sure you'll find a lot of them. I rate this software 10/10. Judge for yourselves download a trial version from adobe website the price of Photoshop CS4 is about $700. Damian Gaslawski...signing off.
- OLED screen
- 3G Data Speed
- True GPS!
- iChat Camera!
- Removable battery(which is just a great improvement)
- Standard Headphone jack (finally yay!)
- 3.2 Mega pixel camera video cape able
- 32GB capacity
- Messaging Light
I think this is the device of the year and it will be perfect for business men as well as people who will use it as a device to play around a bit. But although there are so many cool new features this will affect the battery greatly the new iPhone's battery will probably last no longer than 2-3 days. Still this is an awesome device. Unfortunately I don't have enough details about it to rate it but now we just have to wait till that beauty comes out! Damian Gaslawski...signing off.
Fruity Loops is the easiest software to make music
comparing to garage band is far better. You don't need to be an expert musician to use it you just add simple notes on the beats. One of the nice features I like in FL8 is that you can add better effects and compose more professional compositions. If you are a person who seeks for a good software to create sound track for your rapping. Or if you like more pop music or disco this is a great software to produce your tracks here.
If you like playing with it just for fun is the best software there is in terms of how easy it is to use but if you want to take it more towards professional level this software may have some limits in terms of creativity. I used to enjoy playing with the older versions but I felt that i was limited in producing more rock style of music. My favorite feature in FL8 is the range both plug ins you can use to 'spice' up your music.
Overall I think it is great software for beginner and for those more advanced, but for professionals I recommend soft wares like Sibelius. Judge for yourselves download demo version for free (but the only problem with the demo version is that you apparently cannot save your work). Go to http://flstudio.image-line.com/documents/download.html to download the demo version. You can buy FL studio 8 for about $100 or £80. Looking closely at this software I rate it 8/10. Damian Gaslawski...signing off.
Super Talent recently has produced its new solid state drive called ultra drive. Solid state drives have several advantages over standard hard drives, they work at lower temperatures, faster access times, they're much more reliable as they don't don't have any moving parts, are tougher and silent. In addition they are also light weight, they don't use as much power. Unfortunately solid state drives have still some disadvantages over standard hard drives for example they have low capacity, they're much more expensive and the CPU usage are higher.
These are the results compared to standard hard drive and ultra drive:
Standard HD: Read access time: 6.8ms; Read CPU usage: 6.3%; read result: 178MB/s; write access time: 6.8ms; write result time: 171MB/s; Write CPU usage: 3.8%.
Super Talent Ultra drive 126GB SSD : Read access time: 0.1ms; Read CPU usage: 7.3%; read result: 199MB/s; write access time: 0.1ms; write result time: 182MB/s; Write CPU usage: 7.9%. So overall as you see the performance from this solid state drive is awesome. If you have the money and you not that much concerned over lower capacities I defiantly recommend with no doubt getting this ultra drive. I rate it 9/10- Great product. Price: you can buy Ultra drive ssd 128GB for about $299. Damian Gaslawski...signing off
Unfortunately I'm disappointed that it doesn't support Mac OS X. When used as an external DAC, the X-Fi produces an increase of audio quality. Setup is easily accomplished through plug-and-play drivers. X-Fi Crystallizer technology is an equaliser, designed to improve the sound of compressed audio formats by restoring some of the higher frequencies of audio that are usually lost in the compression format process. Overall I recommend it to all notebook users who wants something more of their notebook. I think it is a good product and that any notebook user I guess, will be happy with it. I rate this product 7/10 mainly because it doesn't support the mac's. The price is about $120- 150. Damian Gaslawski...signing off.
As I have written before about serif web plus X2 and how scummy it is so history repeats its self with this software is well. at school it is not used as much but is used as a primary software for animation. My old I.T. teacher told me to use it I hope he told me to use it the=n because flash would be too complicated for me but still. this nasty so called "software" claims to be outstanding for its graphic drawings- what a load of rubbish brush strokes don't look as good as most of us probably expected you cannot have a grey scale tool colour cubes are gone and there is no Gradient! that's ridiculous anyone knows that any professional design now days have gradients any professional knows that.
Animations- crap there is nothing worse the frames are not smooth you cannot have like in flash a motion tween that saves you about 45% of your time in producing your project. if you want a nice drawing look like live objects designs use illustrator if you want animations use flash. I refuse to talk more about this scum of the soft wares but google it test it and I'm sure you'll see my point. I rate it as 2/10 one of the worst graphics studios of the year.
Damian Gaslawski...signing off.
I thought it is about time to review a mobile phone so here it is the new Meizu mobile phone for which we have been expecting for a long time now. Unfortunately it has not been announced to the public yet. The phone I must say has a very nice touch screen, very sensitive, multiple touch resizeble screen so you can move things about with 2 or 3 fingers at the same time when you resize the photo for example. The touch screen its self is very smooth indeed. It has a 3.5 Mega pixel camera which is at a very good quality.
The screen i must say it is very nice also it is a cool design I have to give them that. The media player though its crap, I am very disappointed the resizing is rubbish also. It took them 2 years to develop this phone and I am not at all impressed with the media player. The games are very nice just like with an iPhone you can tilt. It has a loud speaker with an awesome quality sound I will have to give them that. The phone is principled with windows 6 it is the best interface phone I have seen so far.I recommend it highly lets just hope that it will soon come out with multiple improvements including the media player. So far I cannot rate it as I believe the M8 is not finished yet so we'll have to wait for it till comes out fully with all of its features. Damian Gaslawski...signing off.
So I thought that today I should write about some anti viruses so the best antivirus that came into my mind was not Norton 360, not McAffe, but Avast 4.7. I think that it is by far the best antivirus there is on current retail market. Avast comes from Czech security vendor company calle Alwil. Which has quietly been producing the avast products for many years. Avast comes with 2 editions, Home Edition and Professional edition; to be honest both are excellent at the job they do.
What I personalty think makes Avast special is unlike other viruses e.g. Norton 360 doesn't slow down your PC's performance, but however avast lacks some useful tools like antirootkit protection, antispyware, and antiphishing protection. Still avast has pretty cool features like P2P and IM shields for blocking viruses transmitted other than through infected Web sites and e-mails. One of my favourite features is Virus Recovery Database (VRDB), which captures information about the current state of a given file and saves that information. That way, if your system gets attacked with a virus, Avast can go back to the infected file to a version that it's saved- the one that is not infected. Avast is amazing as it is very efficient in protecting your files really well so there would be practically no chance of virus infections. About Malware- Well I think Avast does its best job at finding the annoying think and kill it before it does anything crap.
I was pretty much stunned by what avast has offered us in this version. Although it misses some bits and pieces I only hope that in the future versions it will improve on the features that are missing especially protection against root kits. I rate it as 7/10. The price of it is about $0 as you can download it for free! So check it out and kill your threats. Damian Gaslawski...signing off.
Its not hard to use as some people say, but it is easy and accurate you will create your job 75% more efficiently, accurately and faster than some cheap crappy so called "web design software's". I use dreamweaver myself and if you are a professional you should still use it. I have a good friend of mine who is an excellent web designer and he uses dreamweaver and his websites are amazing. On his websites he gets thousands of hits a day. I myself am really attracted to his design and they are in someway an inspiration to me. If you think you're too good or too crap for dreamweaver you are not.
What if I can't get a dreamweaver? Well then I recommend BB Edit. It is also an excellent web design software and I even seen it used by some Lynda Tutorials time ago. But if you can get a dreamweaver then trust me you want a dreamawever. Judge for your selves my friend google it get a trial and have fun using it. Damian Gaslawski...signing off.
Eee box is a tiny little desktop PC very nice budget price low performance 1.6GHz. The idea of how it is meant to work is that it is a basic web browsing processing system maybe a secondary system or a PC for a person who is not that comfortable with computers it is also good for office presentations. Eee box comes with Windows Vista home edition preinstalled. With a laptop it is still a better idea because you don't have to plug it in anywhere but with this if you want to take it somewhere you have to plug and unplug all the cables.
The best benefits I think that it is 1 environmentaly friendly, 2 space saving, and consumes only little power. But that is all that is really all even if you want to use it to carry movies to your friends houses it will work fine with HD 720p resolution on full screen but if you have 10p resolution the quality is rubbish get my drift? for that price i might as well by a second hand laptop and still it will probably have a high performance but what do you expect with a PC of that size. In addition there is no political drive which is a real pain in the neck but there are some memory card slots which are not as near as good as optical drive disks. It is a very limited system but it does do some small tasks well. you an buy it for approximately $299. Overall I rate it 4/10. Damian Gaslawski...signing off.
When core i7 first came out it was obvious that it meant new motherboards, new chip sets, new LGA 366 processor sockets and a load of more technologies came out with the platform.
Intel core i7 clearly is the new revolution of the processors as it comes with new technology of new design of integrated memory with several new features as having 3 channels per socket, having up to 3 DIMMs , Native DDR3, which supports both RDIMM and UDIMM. and also supports single, dual and quad-rank DIMMS. The most significant upgrade to the core i7, I think is the Quick path interconnect which replaces the inside bus which existed in previous generations. This new 20 lane both direction serial link provides communication to intel's IOHub.
Overclocking core i7 has a processor speed of 3.19 GHz and it has a system Bus Frequency of 133MHz. The QPQ Data Rate is 6.4GT/s The overclocking with core i7 is certainly different than with duo core processors when we adjust host clock frequency we also affecting quick path data connecting rate as well as the core clock of the processor and memory speed all with just host frequency clock. As well as that you can also adjust processors multiplier but with core i7 the processor has 4 individual ratios, and you can adjust 1 2 3 or even 4 of them individually isn't that great! You can overclock i7 up to 4.15 GHz!
Right so I thought that I should give you an update for the new game release for the next incoming month for PC Xbox . As It would take ma ages to just write out about each game and the article itself will be huge, so I thought that the list with the games will be better. But if you have a special request to review a particular game email me at this address qpctechmaii@googlemail.com
Games for xbox and xbox 360:
- Prototype; Release Date: 6 June 2009
- Red Faction Guerilla; Release Date: 6 June 2009
- Ghost Busters: the Video; Game Release Date: 6 June 2009
- Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10; Release Date: 6 June 2009
- Guitar Hero Smash Hits; Release Date: 6 June 2009
- Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen; Release Date: 23 June 2009
Games for PC:
- Sims 3 (the collectors edition for Mac and PC); Release Date: 2 June 2009
- Storm of War: Battle of Britain; Release Date: 2 June 2009
- Light of Altair; Release Date: 6 June 2009
- Prototype; Release Date: 9 June 2009
- Ghost Busters: The Video Game; Release Date: 16 June 2009
- Jump Gate Evolution; Release Date: 16 June 2009
- Vertigo; Release Date: 16 June 2009
- Overlord II; Release Date: 23 June 2009
- Spore: Galactic Adventures; Release Date: 23 June 2009
- Sudoku Ball - - Detective; Release Date: 23 June 2009
- Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen; Release Date: 23 June 2009
- Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures, Episode 3: Muzzled!; Release Date: 23 June 2009
- Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood; Release Date: 30 June 2009
- Cid the Dummy; Release Date: 30 June 2009
So I guess that's it some of those are real feast e.g. games like Call of Jurez, Prototype, Spore: Galactic Adventures. Remember If you have any request Just email me for my next review I will review the new Intel processor. Damian Gaslawski.... signing off.
As I recently found out. I used Fireworks for a lot of my image creating and editing. Its not like I've got anything against it, it just is limited to the things you can do e.g. You can't professionally design an object that would look like live one. The image editing is limited to the properties you can edit.
Although fireworks has some problems like every professional software there is on the current retail market. It's still out weighted by its pluses such as the tool of live marquee and the magic wand tool, the filters (although there aren't that many compared to Photoshop). One of the biggest pluses there is I think it's how easy a person can learn it to use. I've found it incredibly easy, I recommend it for beginner designers. Its compatible with kickass softwares such as flash, illustrator and dreamwever.
I recommend Fireworks as it is easy to learn, but for more professional designers who do not like to be limited and like freedom of designing all sorts of crazy stuff I recommend softwares such as Illustrator and Photoshop. Overall I think it is a very good product one of the first that a beginner designer should use. For more checkout:
http://www.adobe.com/products/fireworks/
Overall I think the ranking should be 7/10 for this product but as I say judge for yourselves get a trial version and test it out
Damian Gaslawski...signing off.
At school, many fellow pupils use a nasty little piece of software called Serif Web Plus, to do all their online web creation shizzlenits.
Great right? I mean, it's simple to use after all - but is it any good? Simply put... No. Not that I'm one to talk, but the code is shocking to hell, items are misaligned and misplaced, the code won't validate in a pigeon's nest (let alone in the official W3 validator), and heck.
If you're using the software's brother PhotoPlus, the chances are your designs will be so bleeding shocking no-one would approach your site with a ten-foot barge pole anyway.
The quote from the site rings rather hollow:
"Whether a novice or a seasoned designer, a hobbyist or commercial manager, WebPlus X2 offers interactive forums and blogs, polished animated photo galleries, podcast and cool YouTube videos, Flash animations, secure password-protected pages, easy e-commerce sites with partners including PayPal, and much more."
A seasoned web designer? They'd use Dreamweaver. They're not retarded. Sure it has fancy "Web 2.0" features, but in the scheme of things, if the site is absolutely horrific (shocking) then no-one will give a $*^% if you have a podcast or not.
You get my drift? Judge for yourselves. Google it. I refuse to link to such scum.
Overall I review this so called "piece of software as 2/10
Damian Gaslawski... Signing off.
For the fans of Max Payne, it has been a long wait since 2003 when the last game was realesed. In 2004, when Take-Two mentioned taht a new follow up will eventually arrive. In 2008 Take-Two chairman once again mentioned that another installement might be in working but again he didn’t provide any firm details.
Now Take-Two and Rockstar Games have publicly announced that Max Payne 3 is in development and will be out in winter this year. It will be released on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC. The game is developed by Rockstar Vancouver. Finish outfit Remedy, which developed the first two Max Payne titles is now currently developing Alan Wake, which will be published by Microsoft.
Vancouver apparently will not be going far off from Remedy’s original design, but as Max Payne 3 again sees the retired NYPD veteran officer fighting internal demons as well as those which plague the streets.
Rockstar cofounder Sam Houser stated: “we’re starting a new chapter of Max’s life with this game”. Unfortunaly Rockstar did not reveal any specific game play details such as bullet time and slow motion techniques. But the publisher noted that "the latest installment delivers more of the classic elements and hyper intense action that fans have come to love."There are a lot of expectations about this game so you can imagine that the game will be produced to a high standard for now what is left to do is wait for the game to be released. Damian Gaslawski...signing off.
While me and my team of ninja monkeys where looking for a new product to review suddenly I have found the new product from Antec A short while ago Antec released the world’s first full open air case. Skeleton is mainly made of steel and plastic. It is intended for reviewers, testers or I guess anyone who swaps hardware a lot; being easily able to install or remove any computer components is truly fantastic.
It contains 92millimeter fan the front and 250mm fan with multi colour led with customisation between high, medium, low speed. At the front there is a fire wire port 2 USB ports, external ATA port as well as headphone and microphone jack. Here 2 quarter inch drives can be installed and at the right is up to 2 HDD can be installed The 92 mm fan snaps right at the components tray so this then provides cooling for the components Installing a hard drive only takes one screw attached at the side of the hard drive, so the hard drive really only has to gently slip into its place an optical disk drive can also be installed in the very similar way. Both side panels have ventilation which can be easily removed. In addition 2 extra HDD can be installed on both of the side panels. At the rear of the case there are 8 expansion slots here I think it should not be plastic but steel again because it is to weak and is not looking “good”.
Also a standard ATX supply can be placed at the front on the special power supply cage. Here you can fit many ATX and standard ATX motherboards, and micro ATX. One of the reasons I just love this case is because the tray with components can just simply slide out which gives a lot of room to work on. This tray also fits video cards up to a length of about 11 inches which is just cool is well. At the bottom there are 4 soft rubber feet that prevent from any vibrations and scratches. One of the other amazing about the 250mm fan is that it is extremely quiet at low, medium and high speed! This Case is of course not for everyone but as a reviewer I think its just amazing and I just adore this case especially if you often swap your hardware it is extremely comfortable although it has a tiny problems and some people might have problem with EMF radiation since it is a fully open cover. Overall I believe it is truly a KICKASS product and it also received a certification from RoHS and AQ3 Overall rating Rating 9/10
Cost: $142.00 - $192.00 You can get it in mini version as well as the standard version.
For more go to: www.antec.com Damian Gaslawski...signing off.