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Nokia 5230 is a highly hyped low cost touch screen smartphone which will be released in January 2010. It comes in a variety of colors and is targeted primarily at the youth. With the Nokia 5230, Nokia aims to grab a share of the segment currently dominated by LG Cookie and Samsung Corby. It is expected to be priced at around $150, which will attract a large number of customers .
Nokia 5230 is being seen by many as a stripped down version of the highly popular and successful Nokia 5800 XpressMusic. The 5230 is very much similar to the 5800 in terms of looks. The 5230 has only a standard 2 megapixel camera and does not possess wifi connectivity unlike its costlier cousin, which is justifiable considering the difference in price between the two. However, the 5230 still comes which with 3G connectivity which is indeed pretty cool.
It has a standard 3.5 mm audio jack. This resistive touchscreen phone comes with proximity sensor for auto on/off, handwriting recognition and an accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate. Nokia has decided to do away with any tag such as XpressMusic or N series, which is pretty surprising considering that nokia has been releasing all phones(other than low-end ones) from its stable with some tag or the other for quite some time now.
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I thought you would like to know that Adobe Systems Inc. today introduced Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 beta software for Macintosh and Windows, a public preview of new and improved functionality to be delivered in the next major release. Available as a free download on Adobe Labs, Lightroom 3 beta delivers a preview of new tools that will be in Lightroom 3, including more intuitive importing, unparalleled noise reduction and sharpening tools, enhanced slideshow capabilities and direct publishing to online photo sharing sites like Flickr. Adobe encourages photographers to test this early selection of new features and provide the product team with their feedback.
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Lightroom 3 beta has been completely redesigned with under-the-hood efficiencies to better handle growing image libraries and improve responsiveness with a higher-quality processing engine. In the Library module, a rebuilt import system makes bringing photos into the software more intuitive. Users can easily specify the source and destination of their images, and save common processing, metadata or destination settings as easy-to-reuse presets.
The Library module also includes new capabilities to publish collections on popular photo-sharing sites. Flickr users now have direct access to their accounts from within Lightroom and can drag and drop images directly into their Photostreams. Flickr Pro account users can automatically synch their images and even view comments made on Flickr directly within the Library. This functionality can be extended to additional sites by adding them as new plug-ins once they become available.
In the Develop module, an overhauled processing engine allows users to create the highest quality images. Improved Capture Sharpening and Color Noise Reduction tools provide superior results while still preserving an image’s edge detail and contrast. A new Grain tool adds a film-style grain to images, and two new Vignette modes help photographers get a more natural look.
Lightroom 3 beta also offers advanced output options, including the ability to export slideshows as videos with audio and title screens that can be posted to video-sharing sites or optimized for mobile media. New watermarking capabilities enable photographers to embed text or graphic information directly on an image and then adjust the size, position and opacity. In addition, photographers can customize print layouts and save settings for future use, giving them refined control over their images.
Some of the functions that it offers are
Cutting subtitles in several files
Change the frame-rate
Taking off the dialog line, if is not a dialog
Multiplying the beginning/ending time of the subtitle
Display the times in format- frame of time
Append another subtitle
The program is a freeware and works on almost all the version of Windows.
DeKnop is a free graphics editor using which you can create simple navigation buttons for your website without requiring any graphic design experience or knowledge. It provides you with a step by step interface using which you can create the buttons by entering the text, selecting the Font, 3d bevel, style etc.
All the changes that you make can be previewed in real time so that you can select what you want. Some of its features are
multiple buttons creation
gradients
text style raised or recessed
3D Look
magnifier and color picker
textures for button and text
You can save the buttons as JPEG, PNG and Gif. It is a freeware and works on Windows.
Mipony is a Free download manager which is especially useful while downloading files from file sharing websites like Rapidshare, Megaupload, Filefactory etc. Mipony takes care of almost everything while downloading the file. It will automatically go to the respective website which is hosting the file and it will also wait for the specified amount of time if required. You can queue files in it and it will automatically download them one by one. It also checks whether the file is available for download or has been deleted from the server. The program also works with free as well as premium accounts. It supports lots of file sharing websites.
So if you download a lot of stuff from such sites, this is definitely a good download manager to use. The program is a freeware and works on almost all the version of Windows.
The program also offers customization options. You can choose between variety of instruments and also adjust several settings to smooth transition between notes, duration of each note, extend of the analysis, and much more. It analyzes the hue (color), the saturation (intensity) and the brightness of each pixel then i2sm translates that information into a note and adds it to the song file which it them plays in the Media player. You can then export it as a .mid file.
So if you are getting bored, you can use the time to paint a wonderful song. It is a freeware and works on Windows.
Free Video to MP3 converter is a freeware which allows you to extract music from your video files. If you have some video files and you want to extract the audio from it so that you can put it on your music or mp3 player, then this program is right for you.
The program has got a very simple interface which is very easy to use. Just add the video files that you want to extract the audio from. Select the audio output folder and hit the Convert button. You can also change the conversion settings or use the presets that are provided. The program supports a wide range of video formats which include avi, *mpg, *.mpg, *.mp4, *.m4v, *.mpeg, *.dvr-ms, *.wmv, *.asf, *.mov, *.qt, *.amv, *.3gp, *.3g2 and *.flv. You can save the audio files in mp3 or WAV lossless format. It automatically includes the title tags and artwork taken from the video.
The program is very simple and easy to use. It is a freeware and works on Windows XP/Vista/7.
