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.