Download VMware Server for Free

Download VMware Server for Free

Begin enjoying the benefits of server virtualization with the free VMware Server. VMware Server installs on any existing server hardware and partitions a physical server into multiple virtual machines by abstracting processor, memory, storage and networking resources, giving you greater hardware utilization and flexibility. Streamline software development and testing and simplify server provisioning as you utilize the ability to “build once, deploy many times.”

Japanese Style Illustration with Photoshop

Japanese Style Illustration with Photoshop

From the Gez Fry Interview:

How do you draw? Do you need a lot of sketches or do you go straight to the computer?

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I do pretty much everything in Photoshop.

Many people do, but I think that 99% of the Japanese illustrators still start on paper. If you have that ability to do a good drawing on paper, there is certainly a material satisfaction to it and it feels a lot nicer to have something solid. All I have is a paper print out – that is it. Doing everything in Photoshop has a lot of advantages, though and more and more people do the same.

Extensis Releases Universal Application for Suitcase Fusion

Extensis, a division of Celartem Inc., today released a free update to Suitcase Fusion – Extensis’ next-generation, single-user font manager. This update adds native support for Intel-based Macintosh and PowerPC systems. Extensis also adds support for Apple’s Migration Assistant and enhanced AppleScript support for Suitcase Fusion. Additionally, Suitcase Fusion now includes a Competitive Products Manager feature for eliminating unexpected font management issues and has added a Transportable Font Vault for empowering moveable backups of a user’s font library, including custom metadata.

Registered owners of Suitcase Fusion are eligible to receive the free upgrade immediately through the Extensis website at http://www.extensis.com/suitcase.

QuarkXPress 7.01 Universal Binary

Quark is about to release a Universal Binary for Mac users. The QuarkXPress 7.01 Universal Binary release will be available as a free update for existing QuarkXPress 7 customers at no additional cost.

Save a PDF file as a Word document, HTML file, or image

Save a PDF file as a Word document, HTML file, or image

Adobe PDF isn’t necessarily the end of the road for your documents. You can use a PDF document for a variety of purposes, and then pass it through various programs. For example, you can create a document in Microsoft Word, convert it to a PDF using PDFMaker, and then export it from Adobe Acrobat as an HMTL Web page that includes JPEG images.

Suitcase Fusion review from MacAddict

Extensis’ latest salvo in the battle for font-management supremacy is Suitcase Fusion, a hybrid that combines elements from Font Reserve and Suitcase with a few new features.

Read the review from MacAddict

Digital Camera Buying Guide: Parts 4 and 5

In this installment, you’ll learn how to evaluate camera basics (camera viewfinder and shooting speeds) and bells and whistles (histograms, panorama controls, and more).

Read part 4 of the series

You’ve reached the final installment of our guide to selecting the best digital camera. We’re down to the pivotal issue of image quality. Here’s how to evaluate cameras for color, noise, and other image essentials.

Read part 5 of the series

Adobe Education eSeminar Series

Adobe Education eSeminar Series – 07/11/2006-08/09/2006

During each of these one-hour online events, join Adobe Education experts as they conduct live, online product demonstrations for K-12 and higher education teachers, faculty, staff, and administrators.

Reconfiguring brushes in Adobe Illustrator

When you work with brushes in Adobe Illustrator, chances are you’ll want to customize them a bit to suit your own style, rather than conforming your style to the stock presets. But the customization process isn’t always straightforward. So in this tutorial, we’ll take a look at three different ways to make brushes your own and try to keep it as simple as possible.

Changing a brush’s scale, dynamics and other characteristics

Corel Unveils CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3 Curriculum at NECC

Corel Corporation today introduced new free curriculum for CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3. The first lesson plans are now available from www.corel.com and can be seen at the Corel booth (#3201) at NECC (National Educational Computing Conference) in San Diego this week.

CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3 curriculum is designed to teach students how to integrate graphics and images into virtually every aspect of their schoolwork, providing them with essential skills that will serve them in any field later in life. Created for students in middle and high school, this complete program features integrated lesson plans that link directly into core curriculum with unit studies and video training, as well as cognitive and interpersonal skills development. Each complete program includes lynda.com training videos, practice sheets, worksheets, lesson plans, and templates to help teachers prepare students for successful business careers.

Over the coming months, additional curriculum will be available from www.corel.com. Subject areas will include History, Geography, Science, Mathematics, Language Arts and Media Studies. The curriculum will be geared primarily to Middle School (grades 7 – 9) and High School (grades 10 – 12), although lessons can be adapted to younger grades.