tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86610138938677902902024-02-02T00:14:01.679-08:00The Design SepositoryAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00815167051979262864noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8661013893867790290.post-73801256173371110552010-01-06T15:46:00.000-08:002010-01-06T15:46:14.182-08:00Jason's Recommend Utilities - PC edition<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><br />
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<li><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1262821318714"> </a></span></span></span><a href="http://www.auslogics.com/en/">Auslogic Defrag</a>; Free defragging tool, also a version that only defrags when your screensavers running. defragging machines is always good for them. Also worth looking at their other free system cleaning apps.</li>
<li><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><a href="http://www.codesector.com/teracopy.php">Teracopy</a>; Free software that replaces windows copy function with something that works. gives accurate timeframes and claims to be faster. on the whole I have found it a lot more reliable.</li>
<li><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><a href="http://download.live.com/wlmail">Windows Live Mail</a>; free download for windows, less fuss than outlook and allows for all your email accounts to filter through one program. great for those of us with too many email address. also see Mozilla Thunderbird.</li>
<li><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><a href="http://handbrake.fr/">Handbrake</a>; free dvd ripping software, with a little tweaking can produce high quality rips.</li>
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JasonAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00815167051979262864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8661013893867790290.post-86346073683976903862009-09-29T01:40:00.000-07:002009-09-29T21:19:43.837-07:00A few freeking awesome artists:<br />
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<a href="http://john-nevarez.blogspot.com/search?q=paul+felix">http://john-nevarez.blogspot.com/search?q=paul+felix</a><br />
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<a href="http://paperwalker.blogspot.com/">http://paperwalker.blogspot.com/</a><br />
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Just found him today-kind of oldschool style, just really well done<br />
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<a href="http://creaturebox.com/">http://creaturebox.com/</a><br />
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And my favorite of the moment-their book is stunning!<br />
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Found this for PC, will allow you to read Mac formatted external hard drives. goodbye FAT32 and your stupid file limit.<br />
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JasonAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00815167051979262864noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8661013893867790290.post-62787780339072168012009-09-24T11:24:00.000-07:002009-09-24T11:25:48.694-07:00brushes /vectorsanyone got any good sites for brushes / vectors for photoshop illustrator?<div><br /></div><div>dany carlyle</div>exit23http://www.blogger.com/profile/06499731038264528056noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8661013893867790290.post-10789067567789009102009-09-24T04:05:00.000-07:002009-09-24T08:32:55.432-07:00edit detector after effects<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMi3jm_OHlao3m1Th9gzmSnJ7937tyD8RwokkINbuGKfnREz0VJ93SlerRTtPxpuCF_05OqA3koflw-Txq-JLESyuvbNybTs4T4uIiB_N68BjkrmTw65QosqoSFFlEpe_LFSb7vUXr5vg/s1600-h/magnum-pi-cast.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 295px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMi3jm_OHlao3m1Th9gzmSnJ7937tyD8RwokkINbuGKfnREz0VJ93SlerRTtPxpuCF_05OqA3koflw-Txq-JLESyuvbNybTs4T4uIiB_N68BjkrmTw65QosqoSFFlEpe_LFSb7vUXr5vg/s320/magnum-pi-cast.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5384990873178092194" /></a><br />Hi Maggots - <div>for anyone working with After Effects and large chunks of footage with scene changes </div><div>Tom Sellick is the man for you - well magnum pi-the script</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://aescripts.com/magnum-the-edit-detector/">http://aescripts.com/magnum-the-edit-detector/</a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>this is a script that detects edits in footage and automatically cuts em up for you </div><div>freeing you up to watch old re-runs of Magnum P.I while wearing hawian shirts and drinking pina colada's</div><div>p.s kris twitch is just a phone call away</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/exit23a/">Dany Carlyle</a></div><div><br /></div>exit23http://www.blogger.com/profile/06499731038264528056noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8661013893867790290.post-64181879897349172732009-09-24T02:02:00.000-07:002009-09-24T02:20:33.409-07:00Creating a Similar Effect to the 'Twitch' Plug-in<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0JLEvJf1peKLQQ6_wwiLlWc1odc9NI4VcFR1ygZk-9Dnr6b9BvCDO05qd6MB0zDniQ6RligHi_DsY6j1vLS6Am-ggX0VfTJPu6UsUzrgqml5sGMBts1fgSLiSMP3hZsr7pHKzWRtqFo8N/s1600-h/Preview.jpg"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 182px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5384959154792384850" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0JLEvJf1peKLQQ6_wwiLlWc1odc9NI4VcFR1ygZk-9Dnr6b9BvCDO05qd6MB0zDniQ6RligHi_DsY6j1vLS6Am-ggX0VfTJPu6UsUzrgqml5sGMBts1fgSLiSMP3hZsr7pHKzWRtqFo8N/s320/Preview.jpg" /></span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"><br /></span><div><div><span style="font-family:arial;">I found this tutorial a little while back when I was working on animation and for the life of me couldn't manage to get a copy of the twitch plug-in.</span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;">Its a long work around but good fun with building up groups of effects.</span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;">It can be found at -</span><a href="http://www.projuice.org/BuildingEffects.html"><span style="font-family:arial;">http://www.projuice.org/BuildingEffects.html</span></a><br /></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;"><br>Christian</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;">Kworx Media </span></div><div><a href="http://www.kworxmedia.co.uk/"><span style="font-family:arial;">http://www.kworxmedia.co.uk</span></a></div></div>Kworx Mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11339989205176124456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8661013893867790290.post-28345863441090969902009-09-23T04:46:00.000-07:002009-09-25T16:37:31.226-07:00Rotoscoping in After Effects<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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-JasonAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00815167051979262864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8661013893867790290.post-72633408911497822902009-09-23T04:03:00.000-07:002009-09-23T04:03:47.041-07:00iTunes ReOrganiserHere is a lil' itunes wonder (not that creative) but I'm sure it'll help people.<br />
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<a href="http://www.tuneupmedia.com/index">http://www.tuneupmedia.com/index</a><br />
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-DanyAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00815167051979262864noreply@blogger.com0