Vector drawing online Tweet

Ever been fascinated by those vector drawings. Just by looking at the complexity of the strokes one may wonder how tough this art is. Well its in fact way easier than using a paint. Let me show you some vector drawings.



Well you might be wondering, in what way actually is a bunch of lines going to appeal. Vector art is a form of expressing one's self through monochromatic or sometimes colorful depiction of rather prominent straight lines. 


Too much literature huh? Its simple. Instead of struggling to draw a scenery which most of us can't, which requires a lot of talent, a vector allows you to play with your imagination and create your own art.


In a way, the art you have created is personal and is always your single master piece. There are no two alike vector.


In this post i am reviewing such a site i found where you can create your own vector drawing.

The site is built on simple flash and doesn't use up much of the bandwidth. 

What you see in this picture is the editing box which is the only page in this website. It is quit popular and many chrome themes have been created with bomomo.

You see 7 small circles dotting your pointer and revolving and swiveling randomly. These circles are your brushes.

You get different styles of strokes so by combining you get really explosive arts which may even fetch you a bit of popularity online.

Click and just let it rip!

I have done some of my own art, although it doesn't look great, it is a perfectly unique drawing technique in which anyone can become a Picasso!

Here are some samples:

The usual...

 The simpleton....

 Circles!..

 Random...

 Hatching technique...

 Dot matrix!...

As you can see these are some designs i made in just about 10 seconds. I have no clue about fine arts but i am pretty sure i have done a stunning piece of art here. 

Not only is this great for you PC back ground, You may even include it in your presentations with each slide shows a unique art from the others.

Don't forget to post your comments.....

To visit this website, click here

An assault on counter strike! Tweet

Months of trials and now addiction has led me to write the review of this little game, The Assault Cube.

Increasing GPU performance: Part II Tweet

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Remember my earlier post on increasing GPU performance?
Well i got some more of those in this new post. This time its way more than just updating drivers and stuff. It more of hardware over-clocking.

While i was hunting for programs to increase the computer performance i stumbled on some great software that could just do the trick to squeeze the extra juice out of your rig.

Read more right here... [Click the heading]

Software Reviews - AVG 2011 Tweet

Well sorry for a long gap between my posts. Hectic week...


So i was quite curious with the latest AVG 2011 anti-virus and fooled around a bit with it. Its never too late to review about a software as there is aways something different. 
Keeping this in mind i thought i will go ahead and review this one.

Read more...

How to Make a bootable USB device Tweet

In case you are wondering what this post is about this post is to enable you to make your pen drive bootable. Which actually means that if you have a live operating system you may use your pen-drive to directly load from that. 
Well this is actually a slow process coz a pen drive supports only 10 Mbps file transfer rate. 
This tutorial is just to help you reload OS and install it directly from your USB device rather than a DVD.


Very useful in case your DVD drive is not functioning.
Read more. Click heading>>

Acer Iconia targeting Toshiba Libretto? Tweet

Physical keyboards are old news, right? They will be come January 28, which is when Acer intends to make its dual-screen Iconia laptop available for public consumption. 

A Comparison Between Alienware and Assembled Computer Tweet

We all have heard of the legendary gaming computer Alienware. And today i thought i will compare the Alienware to an assembled gaming rig.
The new Alienware launched called the Alienware Aurora ALX.
With a price of INR 3.00 Lakhs  i don't think that we can see this PC in every home. But then with a little planning and careful selection we can get even more powerful rig for an even lesser price. Which is exactly what i am going to emphasize in this post.

Mobile Review - Nokia C3 Tweet

Hi there fellow tech freaks. Its time to get the dirty work done! Yes reviewing a mobile.Not any mobile this is the Nokia C3 i am talking about guys.You are wondering if there is a phone like this or if this is a new launch or anything.Well Nokia C3 has been there in the market for quite sometime now and it is safe t say that this is the BUDGET PHONE of 2010.Well there is this class for smart phones but the problem is they actually don't come with a low price tag.C3 is purely a phone worth for its money.

wanna know the pros and cons ? Read On!

Organic Radical Battery: The future to a cleaner planet! Tweet

For all you Eco-freaks, i got a great news! The Japanese electronics giant NEC has developed a new thin and ultra flexible organic radical battery... A bright future for the Eco-concern people as this will very well be the end of the Li-on battery...which has been littering mother earth since the beginning of mobile boom..

Virtual drive in your computer from Gmail! Tweet

Now have a virtual drive in your desktop and access the extra space from Google's GMail. 

GMail drive allows you to store up to 6000MB of data in its mail box. This space is useless to keep all your mail but with this software you can use this space to store most of your backup files and even your favourite songs and short videos. 

Nokia N8 becomes the most popular NSeries mobile in company history Tweet

According to Nokia survey which took place on7th this month, N8 was found to be the most successful NSeries model from Nokia till now.

Nokia asked its followers to vote for their favorite models and this Pie chart does all the explaining!


With 371 comments, (200 in the first hour!) they most definitely weren’t short of opinions.
They’ve sliced, diced and polished the data and the results can be seen in the form of a word cloud.

The Six Best Apps For Getting Shit Done Tweet

To-do lists of the past were scribbled in notebooks, on sticky notes or on whiteboards. Today, they live in our smatphones. Or at least they should.

Worlds Fastest Supercomputer Tweet

China now has the worlds fastest supercomputer called the Tianhe-1A system(meaning Milky way) at the National Supercomputer Center in Tianjin. Read on to find out more..

Mobile Review - Samsung Wave Tweet

Old news but i took some time to review this one here.

How to adjust the amount of hardware reserved ram in windows 7 Tweet

We all have this little problem of Windows 7 screwing up our RAM capacity.


This happened to me when i got my new computer. I had installed Windows 7 ultimate and checked out my hardware configuration in task manager. When i checked out resource manager, i was quite shocked to find out that about 2070 GB of my RAM was reserved for hardware. This was a huge waste of RAM as they couldn't be alloted for any other purpose. 


And i couldn't find out a way to get those wasted RAM. 


After some trial and error i found out a method to get that wasted ram.
This works only if u have RAM combinations. For example if you have 2 2GB RAM.

10 techie gifts for Christmas Tweet

Here's a run down of our choice of 10 gadgety, techie things to give or receive this holiday season:

Mobile Review - Nokia N8 Tweet

Hi guys!!

Here is the all awaited review for the Nokia N8-00 AKA N8. We got our hands dirty of this little bastard yesterday and made a real long review on it. Dont be frightened by its length coz when we compared with other android phones we found quite interesting facts that we thought we had to share with you! Read on...

Dimensions
Size: 113.5 x 59 x 12.9 mm
Weight (with battery): 135 g
Volume: 86 cc

SCREEN AND RESOLUTION
It has a 3.5" AMOLED screen not a SUPER AMOLED like a galaxy s though. It has a resolution of 16:9nHD or 640x360 pixels.Yeah like expected 16.7Million colors with Accelerometer,Magnetometer,Proximity Sensor and Ambient light detectors and of course the capacitive touch(so no more nails or stylus or anything).So this is what the nokia N8 has delivered in terms of  screen and resolution.








APPEARANCE
Well hmmm i should give it Nokia they've really given it all for the looks and appearance of this phone.It has a matte silvery finish at the back,with the prominent 12MP carl zeiss camera,The flaunted scratch proof,dust,shock proof gorilla screen and loads of hard buttons and slots around the phone,its just packed!
But its a thumbs up for appearance.


POWER MANAGEMENT
The N8 uses a BL-4D 1200 mAh Li-Ion battery which can give you a maximum talk time of 720mins ie 12hrs of talk time if used in GSM mode or approximately 6hrs of talk time if used in WCDMA AKA 3G.Video playback time (H.264 720p, 30 fps, maximum): 6 h (via HDMI to TV)
And of course the MEMORY, it comes with a 16GB internal memory and an 32GB expandable MicroSD.

Well the hard buttons and slots around the phone are a lot,The menu key on the bottom left,The MicroSD slot and the SIM card slot and the dedicated USB slot on the left,the power button mini HDMI slot and a 3.5mm audio jack on the Top,Dedicated volume keys and a Dedicated camera key.So all this together make the phone on the outside!








PERFORMANCE
The nokia N8 is typically a MULTIMEDIA phone which truly keeps its word up. The N8 has a separate Broadcom GPU alongside its ARM 11 processing core, which takes over when things get graphically intense and delivers performance that rarely left us feeling underpowered.You would be wondering why a GPU for a mobile device but i am told that the games and the camera require intense graphics.

Now the processor,in the time when Samsung equipping all its smart phones with a 1GHZ processor why did Nokia go with a 680MHZ processor?Well they are sure that their latest Symbian^3 with 680MHZ would give a 1GHZ Android  a run for their money.
But come on who are we kidding?


Symbian and Android? 


Is that even a question? 


well i do know my answer i hope you guys do too.If not try out Android and you will know.
And the RAM too,Nokia has somehow cut down on performance to increase its attention towards camera and looks.

Now coming to the best thing about the Noki N8,The CAMERA,12MP and a Carl zeiss lens and xenon flash just makes photography truly remarkable.If your looking put for a camera i would recommend this phone anytime because the clarity is simply amazing.But coming to reality,how many of us are ready to compromise on performance for Camera or a stylish exterior?
Of course i wouldn't.In a smart phone i want the SMART factor to be dominant and nothing else,No compromise.
Now coming to other features,Nokia has somehow managed to do something that samsung or any Android phones have not.The FM transmitter and receiver.This has been with Nokia for quite sometime now as we saw it growing in the early N series.Its has its pros as well as cons.The thumbs up is that you are allowed to transmit in any frequency and you can tune your beat box to the same frequency and start listening to music.But mostly there is a certain disturbance unless kept in a right position which screws with your patience.


Before i go to why you shouldn't be wasting money on this i'll try telling you the pros.The HDMI,the dedicated USB,the camera,the appearance of the phone,the gorilla glass.Nothing else is appealing enough for you to be all gaga over this phone!

Now why you shouldn't! why will you spend so much compromising on performance?


Why get a 12MP camera when a normal 5MP camera would do the job?


12 MP is only when you zoom and if it pixelates or not.The phone is kinda bulky and the menu key is placed in a totally inappropriate place.When you keep the phone horizontally it lies on the protruding camera part and hence causes huge wear and tear over time. The camera is in the place where people usually keep their fingers while talking.This does not cause any problems but rises the issue o cleaning the lens frequently from finger prints.And last but not the least,the Symbian^3.Symbian has always disappointed customers, A constant phrase in all the Nokia Service centers would be 'Software problem' .You would agree with me because of the firmware problems and the virus vulnerability.Although reinstalling the SW is not a big deal but having to do it over and over again is quite unacceptable. You would be wondering why i hate Symbian or NOKIA so much,well from past experiences of owning a Nokia 5800XM.Trust me i was thinking Nokia would do something about it but it never happened then i switched over to Samsung and now i own a Galaxy, i am literally OVERWHELMED by the performance!That is why i am asking you not to take up Symbian phones!Moreover the battery for this phone is not removable takes a really complex process for removing which involves removing screws and all.So this again is a disadvantage.The apps suck big time to, as the OVI store is no way close to the istore or the Android market.
But still if your Nokia family or have an attachment to it its understandable, Go for it!! It is good in many ways,Not as good as Galaxy is most ways but still its acceptable!
Its good value for your money.For 24K this is quite the phone you'll love to own!


Ashwin
For Technomaniacz.

How to record your screen without using a camera Tweet

We have all been in that situation where you are playing the game of your life showing off all your skill so that you can put it on youtube and impress people. But then how do we take that video?
We garb our trusty old DV cameras and keep it inn such a position that your game is no longer an enjoyment but checking wether the video is getting captured perfectly.


Well leave that tension to Fraps!


Its the all new software that record your computer screen live.
Fraps can record videos of upto 1152x864 and even 100 frames per sec!!! It takes screen shots too.


Best of all. There is no time limit. It depends solely on your computer memory.


Even if there is a glitch in your computer and you wanna solve it. Video it with fraps and show it to your friends or computer technician. This way explaining has never got any easier.


to download FRAPS 3.2.4 click here

Go Green with these gadgets.... Tweet

Here’s our list of eco-friendly gadgets! Most notable are the 100mpg CityCat Airpowered Car and the Kill-A-Watt power strip/meter.

1. The Voltaic Solar Backpack
   
   
   This solar powered backpack produces 4 watts of solar power to charge any of your gadgets pretty quickly. It also has a battery pack which can store the electricity for when the sun don’t shine. The solar panels also protect fragile items inside.
2. The Recyclable EarthDrive USB Drive
   
   
   This USB drive has been built with the maximum amount of bio-recycled materials. It is waterproof, dustrpoof and shockproof. If you ever decide you don’t want it anymore, simply recycle it. A portion of every EarthDrive sale goes to planting new trees around the world.
3. Antec Earthwatts, Energy Efficient PSU - 
   
   
   This Power Supply Unit from Antec claims to be 80% efficient, meaning that only 20% of the electricity you feed it gets transformed into waste heat. This is cool, literally, as less heat means less cooling which means less fan noise and less wattage. Sounds like a good deal to me 
4. USB Rechargeable Cell, AA Battery with USB! - 
   
   
   A really convenient gadget, these rechargeable batteries actually have a 5V DC USB plug attached to the cell, allowing you to recharge them from your laptop or any other USB Source. Perfect for recharging any digital camera that uses AA Batteries without the need for bulky chargers and cables.
5. Bamboo Computers, Casings Do Grow on Trees! -
   
   
   Plastics are really bad for the environment, and with the millions of gadgets disposed of each year, plastic cases are really going to fill up landfills for decades. Bamboo on the otherhand is a sturdy, biodegradable material that is produced rapidly by the fast-growing bamboo plant. Whilst we can recycle the computer’s innards, a bamboo casing would allow us to recycle the casing as well! My only gripe?: Doesn’t that make the notebook heavier?
6. Kill-A-Watt, Powerstrip -
   
   
   If you have way too many gadgets and computers, the kill-a-watt powerstrip might just help you monitor your energy consumption. The digital LCD lists the amount of wattage you’ve used so that you can make wise decisions about managing your utility bill.
7. Kill-A-Watt, Appliance Power Meter -
   
   
   This device from P3 International enables you to check the energy usage of any appliance in your home. It measures in kWh (kilo-watt-hours) and gives you a good idea of which inefficient gadgets to recycle, and which ones to keep.
8. Kindle, Wireless E-Paper Reader -
   
   
   The amazon post claims that its “the future of reading and that it will be everywhere”. No doubt, but at US$359, that is an expensive piece of paper. The device comes with wireless, a long battery life and can store up to 200 titles from Amazon. Beats carrying around 200 paperback novels though, and is better for your friends, the trees.

Upcoming Green Gadgets

1. CityCAT Air Powered Car, Zero Pollution Motors -
   
   
   This air powered wonder is set to hit production sometime between 2009 and 2010 in the United States. The company, Zero Pollution Motors has confirmed this with Popular Mechanics magazine, stating that its price would be sub-$18000. ZPM is the US licensee for the France-Based MDI (Motor Development International) headed by Guy Negre, the inventor of Formula One engines. The promise is that the airpowered car will be able to go 1000miles at 96mph on one tank of air…The European version of the vehicle, the CityCat, is already undergoing safety and crash tests in Europe. This could be the first >100mpg non-electric, non-gas car that you could purchase. ZPM/MDI have entered their car into the Progressive Automotive X-Prize.
2. M2E Kinetic Batteries, Michael Faraday would be Proud -
   
   
   The M2E (Movement to Energy) kinetic battery is an improvement of the idea of generating energy using your daily movements (no…not bowel movements). Basically, the average American spends almost 2 hours of their day moving about. The M2E battery converts your movements into electricity using a magnet and coil to trickle charge a lithium-ion pack. M2E claims that 2 hours of light movement can charge the Li-Ion pack for about 1 hour of talk-time in a cellphone. Available in 18-24 months.
3. LG Phillips, 16.7 Million Colors E-Paper -
   
   
   After almost 20 years in the making, a full color, high resolution e-paper screen of ungodly thinness has been created by LG and Phillips. The advantage? It’s just like paper, only it can be reused countless times saving trees. The e-paper also uses less energy than traditional LCDs to refresh itself, and requires no energy at all to maintain the image. Lets hope they get integrated into ultra portable notebooks soon.
4. Air Powered Moped, Vrrrooom! Poof! -
   
   
   Air power has been around for decades, but only now are we seriously looking into it to power vehicles. Part of the problem was compressing the air safely. For example, to get enough mileage you might have to compress the air to 300 times standard atmospheric pressure. Such high pressures can literally cause the tank to explode. However with newer materials and alloys, the air powered vehicle has become a reality.
5. Embedded Solar, Solar Panels beneath Touchscreens - 
   
   
   Apple Computer has recently filed a patent for placing solar panels beneath touchscreens similar to those used in the iPhone. Though personally I doubt that solar technology is efficient enough to fully charge an iPhone in a reasonable amount of time, it might just add an hour or more of use. Also it may not be wise to leave your precious mobile in the sun! But having the panels on the upper-surface yet beneath the screen is a good idea - since you’ll be able to charge as you use it.
6. Gravitas, Gravity Light ** -
   
   
    The basic idea here is to utilise gravity as a power source (no we’re not talking space-time bending or quantum fluctuations). The person lifts the weight to the top of the lamp, and as it falls, generates electricity to run the lights for 4 hours. You might develop really strong biceps too using this thing…invented by a Grad Student.
7. Bamboo Mobile, Mobile Bamboo Phone -
   
   
   Some people go through mobile phones faster than they do a roll of toilet paper. Enter the Bamboo Phone! Once you’re totally done with it, return the innards to your manufacturer and stick it’s casing into your compost pile and very soon a lovely shady bamboo tree will sprout. Be wary though, bamboo grows fast and the manufacturers are probably not going to be held responsible for the plant taking over your backyard.
8. Aperture, Volume-Aware Shower Head -
   
   
   Alot of flaming has been going around recently for energy usage…but why not water as well? A volume aware shower head might just be the thing to put a cap on unecessarily long showers. Maybe they could make it such that once a preset volume of water has been dispensed, the bather has to enter a password to restart the shower: “Dear bather, the toilet should be submerged by now. If you are still in need of more water, please enter password.” (May not be too useful if your house in on fire though)
9. eNutrition, Gadget Facts -
   
   
   We all know about what we eat. How about what we buy? The eNutrition Facts proposal lists the chemicals and materials used to manufacture a gadget. Thus you only buy gadgets that are manufactured via environmentally responsible means.
10. Youlet, Glowing Wall Outlet -
    
    
    Someone should have thought of this high-visibility gadget a lot sooner. If I could see that my socket was glowing I’d know that I had forgotten to turn something off. Great idea, and simple too!
11. EcoTap, Twist-Off Power Socket -
    
    
    The EcoTap physically cuts power to devices by separating the electrical contacts at a wall socket. This method of turning off ensures that even devices that draw power whilst idle/off are completely disconnected.
12. GreenCell, Standardised Li-Ions -
    
    
    Just walk into any cable/electronics/connector shop and you’ll be absolutely amazed by the sheer variety and volume of proprietary connectors, plugs and battery types. The GreenCell Project aims to make your life easier by standardising Li-Ion batteries and mobile a/c adapters. By standardising, we also eliminate waste and improve the ease of recycling. So the next time you forget your charger, just go down to the battery vending machine!
13. Flower Pod, Visual Power Meter -
    
    
    The flowerpod power meter is a digital plant who’s health responds to your household electrical usage. If your usage is above average, the digital flower withers and dies, if it is below, the flower blooms and becomes more beautiful. The idea here is that if people could visually see the effects of power wastage on the environment, they might become more responsible of their electrical usage. This visual-feedback also enables home members to optimize their power usage by seeing if the flower withers.