Archive for July, 2009

entourage-online

Update: Watch Entourage season 7 Online for free Entourage is a dramedy broadcast on HBO and created by Doug Ellin. By Dramedy, I mean a mix of drama & comedy. Entourage revolves around Vincent Chase (Adrian Grenier), a young, up-and-coming actor who eventually becomes an A-list star. His experiences are loosely based on those of Mark Wahlberg, who is also executive producer on the show. His best friend and manager is Eric Murphy (Kevin Connolly). "E", as his friends call him, is based on Wahlberg's friend and executive producer Eric Weinstein. He's also been reported to be inspired by Stephen Levinson, Wahlberg's manager. Entourage features many recurring characters. Sometimes these characters are played by celebrities such as Malcolm McDowell as Terrance McQuewick while other celebrities, such as Mandy Moore and Seth Green appear as parodies of themselves. Entourage typically has at least one celebrity guest per episode. Appearances include Ali Larter, Jimmy Kimmel, Luke Wilson, Kanye West, Michael Phelps, Martin Scorsese, Gary Busey, Snoop Dogg, Leighton Meester, Larry David, Jessica Alba, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, Fran Drescher, Chuck Liddell, Phil Mickelson, Lamar Odom, Ben Silverman, Tom Rothman, Mary J. Blige, Anna Faris as well as many...

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Anime Studio 5 is an excellent cartoon creation software, with a full key framing and boning system to fully develop characters. Anime Studio is laid out a bit like Adobe Photoshop with controls on the left side of the screen and more detailed tools such as layers, etc on the right side. The Anime Studio interface is simple with separate floating palettes for Tools, Style, Layers and Timeline features. All of these palettes surround the working area where you can turn a grid on and off. There is also a grid snapping feature that helps you to quickly build precise objects. anime-studio-box Anime Studio is essentially a 2D vector graphics drawing package linked to a keyframe animation engine. By no means limited to the Japanese style from which its name derives, Anime Studio can handle several different types of animation – including point and layer animation. But its main strength lies in its proprietary Bone animation method. This involves constructing a virtual skeleton for each character, the bones of which you then move around to make the character move. The technique is based around keyframe animation principles, where you set...
I am not at all a movie-buff. Rarely enough I feel the urge to watch a good movie but more often than not I waste too much time in deciding which movie to watch until the urge dies down. But not anymore, I found out a damn good site which I can use for getting my movie fix and is just fun to browse. Hello Movies lets you easily search for different movies and shows you where to watch them. The site is nicely laid out and finding movies is easy with their search features.

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As you can see in the snap-shot above, you can narrow down your search using different criteria like a particular genre, movies recommended by friends etc. Oh! I forgot to mention that you can have your own network by inviting your friends or adding new friends on the website.

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The best part is, it will let you know where you can watch the movies as well, like, Hulu, Veoh, Youtube, Fancast, Apple TV, Netflix etc. So, effectively you can watch the movies online for free. And yeah, all of...
fatal-error Last night when I was moderating some comments on TechPP, I was shocked to see an error page instead of the admin panel dashboard. The error read something like this - PHP Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 49545216) (tried to allocate 77824 bytes) in /home/xxxxx/public_html/xyz/admin.php(1758) on line 40 The first thing I could think of was to restart the Apache httpd service. This immediately solved the issue. but I knew this is not a permanent fix for the issue. When I researched further, I got to know that the error comes when certain PHP scripts require more memory than PHP was allowed by default. So the solution is to increase the memory allocated for PHP. How to do that? There are 4 possible ways - 1. Try looking for the php.ini file. You might find some redundant php.ini files, so make sure you have got the one which is actually being read by PHP. o be sure, create a new php file in your root folder, say "check.php" and have phpInfo(); within the php open and close tags. Execute this file to get the information on where the php.ini is residing. Normally...
I got a quick heads up from Bezplatny Net regarding a free promotional offer from Avanquest for ArcSoft PhotoStudio Darkroom 1.5 (worth 100$) and Panorama Maker 4 Pro ((worth 80$).

ArcSoft PhotoStudio DarkRoom 1.5

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ArcSoft PhotoStudio Darkroom 1.5 is an exciting, new software application that focuses on non-destructive imaging processing for RAW, JPEG and TIFF image files. The program offers both professionals and hobbyists a complete set of enhancement tools and export options inside a thoughtfully-designed, professional user interface. It has a built-in photo browser and provides features like Exposure adjustment, White balance adjustment , Lens correction etc. You will be able to import from camera or removable drive with Batch export supported. It works on both Windows and Mac.

Panorama Maker 4 Pro

panaroma-maker-4 Professional quality photostitching turning any series of overlapping photos into a gorgeous panoramic image quickly and easily. RAW format support, so you can be sure it will work seamlessly with your latest digital camera. Supports unlimited photo counts for stitching horizontal, vertical and 360° panorama pictures
  • Creates horizontal, vertical, 360°, and tile (4x4) panorama pictures
  • Selects a whole group of photos with one click
  • Automatically orders and stitches...

free-vpn

Using a Free VPN is the best idea if your answer is 'Yes' for any of the question below.
  • Do you have problems in opening certain websites like LinkedIn and Twitter at work?
  • Has your school blocked social networking sites like Facebook and Myspace?
  • Do you require to work anonymously online?
Using proxies is highly risky. May be you can use one of these 8 innovative ways to access blocked websites. But then, there is no guarantee that all of them will work. So, what can you do? Use a VPN client.

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Image courtesy: Cisco inc. Few days back when I wrote a tutorial on how to access Hulu and Sling outside US, some readers were mentioning how Hulu has blocked Hotspot Shield proxies. But the fact is, HotSpot Shield is just one of the many Free (or cheap) VPN services available on the internet. So, this post is an effort to list out the Top 10 Free VPN Clients currently.

Top 5 Free VPN Clients

(Updated : July 2011)

1. OpenVPN - Free VPN client

openvpn-free-vpn OpenVPN.net is...

google-microsoft

Google has just announced the launch of Google Chrome OS and I was one of those who thought it would impact Microsoft more than anyone else. But then, will it actually spell doom for Windows or will it backfire on Google?

Why I think Google Chrome OS can be a Windows Killer?

1. Open Source - Google Chrome OS is an Open Source operating system and is being projected as ideal for netbooks. The netbooks these days run on Windows XP which is like 8-9 years old. 2. Fast and lightweight - Google is targeting to build Chrome OS in such a way that it beats other operating systems (including Windows) in terms of Speed, Security and Simplicity. 3. Hardware - Google Chrome OS is tipped to run on both x86 as well as ARM chips which are much better and faster than the old Pentium 3 & Pentium 4 processors. 4. Improved Security - As per Google : "And as we did for the Google Chrome browser, we are going back to the basics and completely redesigning the underlying security architecture of the OS so that users don't have to deal with viruses, malware and security...
google-logo This is absolutely exciting news - Google has just announced the launch of Google Operating System - Google Chrome OS. Microsoft has always targeted Google's search business and had recently started BING search engine to cut into Google's revenue considerably. And now, Google has struck a super-blow with the announcement of Google Chrome OS.

What is Google Chrome OS?

Quoting directly from the Google blog-
Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010. Because we’re already talking to partners about the project, and we’ll soon be working with the open source community, we wanted to share our vision now so everyone understands what we are trying to achieve

Also Read: Google Chrome OS : Windows Killer or Google Killer?

Below is a screenshot of "rumored" Google OS desktop. Though I believe its nothing more than a rumor, I can't out rightly reject it as well.

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Google Chrome OS is aimed to provide speed, simplicity and security....
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