Value your mind » Computer Graphics http://rangit.com Interesting. Informative. Tue, 03 Jan 2012 10:31:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 36 Of The Most Wicked Tux The Linux Penguin Images http://rangit.com/operating-systems/36-of-the-most-wicked-tux-the-linux-penguin-images/ http://rangit.com/operating-systems/36-of-the-most-wicked-tux-the-linux-penguin-images/#comments Mon, 23 Jul 2007 14:37:50 +0000 Chris http://rangit.com/operating-systems/36-of-the-most-wicked-tux-the-linux-penguin-images/ Tux the penguin. The official mascot for Linux. It was originally drawn by Larry Ewing but later branched out into different designs by many different people. Below are 32 of the coolest images of Tux pictures mostly as either a bully or a tattoo on hot mamas. Some of the tux images below would make a great wallpaper. =)

  1. Confused

    2. confused

  2. See No evil, hear no evil, speak no evil

    3. see hear speak

  3. Tux Wars

    4. tux wars

  4. Violent Tux

    5. violent

  5. Thirsty Tux

    6. thirsty

  6. Tux The Gangster

    7. gangster

  7. Tux On The Ass

    8. ass

  8. Tux On The Tummy

    9. tummy

  9. Tux On The Heart

    10. heart

  10. Spaghetti Strap Tux

    11. sp

  11. Semi Naked Tux On Tummy

    12. semi

  12. Tux On Hips

    13. hips

  13. Surfboard Tux

    14. surfboard

  14. Partially Hidden Tux

    15. partially hidden

  15. Tux On Santa Rina

    16. santa

  16. Shoulder Tux

    17. shoulder

  17. Spaghetti Strap Tux 2

    18. sp2

  18. Tux In Kill Bill

    19. kill bill

  19. Tux At The Privates

    20. crotch

  20. Tux Nested Between The Valley

    21. valley

  21. Cute Tux Triplets

    22. triplets

  22. Tux Quadruplets

    23. quadruplet

  23. Think Tux

    24. thinking

  24. Jumping Tux

    25. jumping

  25. Tux In School

    26. chool

  26. Urinating Tux

    27. urinating

  27. Tux In The Matrix

    28. matux

  28. Baby Tux

    29. babytux

  29. Tux In Shoes

    30. shoes

  30. Tux Sleeping

    31. sleeping

  31. Ninja Tux

    32. ninja

  32. Tux The Apple

    33. apple

  33. Tux Infected

    34. infected

  34. DJ Tux

    35. headphone

  35. PikaTux

    36. pikatux

  36. iPodTux

    37. ipod

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  1. If Owen Wilson was a sheriff

    2. owen wilson

  2. Sean Connery the doctor

    3. dr

  3. Ellen Degeneres the happy housewife

    4. housewife ellen

  4. Captain Orlando Bloom

    5. captain

  5. Pilot Keanu Reeves

    6. keanu

  6. UN Delegate David Letterman

    7. letterman

  7. Jim Carrey on ballet with Clinton

    8. ballet

  8. Hair spokesman Affleck

    9. affleck

  9. Nurse Kournikova

    10. kournikova

  10. Samuel Jackson the porter

    11. potter

  11. Jack Nicholson the teacher

    12. nicholson

  12. Snoop Dogg as a police?

    13. police snoop

  13. Fireman Clooney

    14. fireman

  14. Ben Stiller the astronaut

    15. stiller

  15. Angelina Jolie in a helicopter

    16. heli

  16. Brick layer DeNiro

    17. deniro

  17. Nicholas Cage the border patrol

    18. cage

  18. Police Cruise

    19. police

  19. Samuel Jackson the porter

    20. potter

  20. Conductor Connery

    21. connery

  21. Bill Clinton the magician

    22. magician

  22. Father Anthony Banderas

    23. father

  23. Drew Barrymore as a police officer

    24. police

  24. Nurse Jessica Alba

    25. nurse alba

  25. Sgt. Ryan Seacrest

    26. seacrest

  26. Harry Potter in the office

    27. office potter

  27. Will Ferrell the wrestler

    28. wrestler

  28. Brad Pitt the waiter

    29. waiter

  29. Hugh Heffner the pope

    30. pope

  30. Sean Connery the painter

    31. painter

  31. Vin Diesel the garbage collector

    32. garbageman

  32. Bruce the fireman

    33. fireman

  33. Christina Aguilera the sexy maid

    34. sexy maid

  34. Orlando Bloom the soldier

    35. soldier

  35. Clooney the butcher

    36. butcher

  36. Bill Gates at Apple Centre

    37. apple

  37. Zidane and Materazzi taking it to the ring

    38. boxers

  38. When Bruce Lee became a barber

    39. bruce barber

Worth1000 Photoshop Contest
Top creative competition and photoshop contest site

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beryl

Pretty cool huh? However, it is only available in Linux. If you are on Linux, you should get it. If you are on Windows, here’s a Beryl like program that you should look at while waiting for the Windows version to be ported.

It’s called Yod’M. Looks almost the same but the difference lies in function simplicity. Here’s how it looks like.

yodm

Basic commands include :

  • CTRL + SHIFT + Left/Right = Next/prev desktop
  • CTRL + SHIFT + Up = Activate and show a “far” view of the current desktop, Left and right to turn the cube
  • CTRL + SHIFT + Down = Activate and show a “near” view of the current desktop, Left and right to turn the cube
  • Hold down CTRL+SHIFT to use the mouse to turn the cube. (The rotation is possible only horizontally)

Yod’m 3D
Beryl like alternative for Windows

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(Click on the link at the lower right of the pictures for a bigger screenshot)

  1. Vienna XP

    2. Download Now!

    High contrast wallpapers go well with this skin as it blends in well with the transparency features. It’s just so cool!

  2. Vista Perfection X4

    3. Download Now!

    One of the most beautiful Vista skins for XP. Assembled by Kayeirene.

  3. MoonFlower 3.0

    4. Download Now!

    This one looks a lot like the second one. Also put together by Kayeirene.

  4. Jadaero 1.2

    5. Download Now!

    This nice, clean theme is made possible by Flahorn.

  5. Eminence

    6. Download Now!

    This theme is dark ashed crystal styled with 4 different substyles. The brilliant work of rjsmith.

  6. Novum OS Final

    7. Download Now!

    Wow. Has its own throbber, special sidebar effects, special 2 layer support and slight but slick transparency everywhere you look. Da man behind this theme is da-flow.

  7. Glitch

    8. Download Now!

    2 words describe this theme best. Brilliantly simple. Great piece of work by OmART.

  8. Prototype

    9. Download Now!

    Prototype is a high contrast gray scale skin with orange highlights by Uladk.

  9. Thalos WB

    10. Download Now!

    The start menu is compact, the icons are so, so, so cool and it has super cool transfer file animation. All made possible by -kol.

  10. Delta

    11. Download Now!

    2 words for this. Absolutely smooth! Another devious creation by OmART.

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Brajeshwar
Collector of Windows Vista wallpapers

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]]> http://rangit.com/computer-graphics/touch-screen-technology-2/feed/ 2 9 Reliable Image Directories For Websites And Blogs http://rangit.com/web-development/9-reliable-image-directories-for-websites-and-blogs/ http://rangit.com/web-development/9-reliable-image-directories-for-websites-and-blogs/#comments Tue, 27 Mar 2007 12:55:40 +0000 Chris http://rangit.com/web-development/9-reliable-image-directories-for-websites-and-blogs/ When I first started work in my first company, I was assigned to redesign the entire web portal of the business presentation site. It was a bit of a challenge for me as I had no prior knowledge on using the tools given to me. I only learned about MySQL and PHP during my uni days, not Oracle. However, I had no choice but to get the job done.

Part of what I learned was on where to get free, open, copyleft images. Surely I wouldn’t want to land any party in any legal tangle. I found many, many useful image repositories during the 6 months on the project and it has widen my knowledge. Here are 9 of the most reliable sites to get re-usable, high quality, free images for your website, blog, adverts, banners, etc.

  1. PicSearch

    2. Picsearch

    One of the most accurate and fresh image search on the web that indexes over 1,700,000,000 pictures! Picsearch connects its users to the vast visual resources of the internet by using its own technology to crawl the web and create a searchable index of images. When a user sends a query to Picsearch the returned result is received as a set of thumbnail images that are sorted to ensure that they are as highly relevant as possible. When the user clicks on a thumbnail they are linked to the original web site where that image is located.

    Parents, relax, because Picsearch is family friendly so children are able to surf in safety as all offensive material is filtered out. The site is also very user friendly as it’s designed to be simple, fast and accurate. Good stuff!

  2. Woophy

    3. woophy

    Woophy stands for World Of Photography. The website is founded by a Dutch collective of photo aficionados and internet designers who believed that navigation on internet can be more visual, logical and associative.

    With the help of (amateur) photographers across the world their objective is to ultimately cover every inch of our world map with images that represent the world’s beauty and peculiarity from all different cultural perspectives. You can search by city, country, category keywords or member to find photos. The categories are animals, culture, landmarks & buildings, objects and people. You can also limit the search results by date and sort by number of views. Thumbs up!

  3. Free Stock Photos

    4. free stock photos

    Download images and use it for personal or commercial design projects as many as you want for FREE! There are some restrictions in using photos from the site such as retaining the domain name when you use the photo for your website or blog.

  4. YotoPhoto

    5. yotophotos

    Originally an experiment to facilitate easier image searching of the Wikipedia, Yotophoto eventually expanded to index over 250, 000 free images. Yotophoto is a search engine for free-to-use stock photographs and images. These are images that are either in the Public Domain or released under generous Creative Commons, GNU FDL or similar licenses. Yotophoto’s goal is to help people locate, remix, republish open and copyleft images.

  5. Stock Xchng

    6. stock xchng

    Stock.XCHNG was launched in February 2001, as an alternative for expensive stock photography. The idea was to create a site where creative people could exchange their photos for inspiration or work. In about two years the site evolved into a massive community indexing over 1.000.000 registered users and more than 250.000 photos online!

    The site encourages users to share photos with fellow designers! The aim is to keep SXC as a friendly community of photography addicts who generously offer their works to the public free of charge.

  6. MSN Search Images

    7. msn

    MSN, one of the top 5 search engines. The returned results are almost as good as Google’s or Yahoo’s. Just click the image to get its details like the source and the image availabilty. There is a written term saying that ‘MSN Search is not affiliated with the contents or authors of the page displayed below. We are not responsible for its content. The image may be subject to copyright laws.’ So check the image’s page to find out if it’s copyrighted or not before using it.

  7. Yahoo! Images

    8. yahoo

    It’s good! No doubt about it! However, images appearing in the results may or may not be copyrighted. What you can do is, if you find a picture that you want to use, review the site and contact the owners to find out about using it. Yahoo! Image also lists popular image searches by web surfers so you can check out the top search by everyone.

  8. Google Images

    9. google

    Relax, and be happy for this is the mother of all image searches. You will MOST likely find the image you are looking for, here. There’s a lot that you can do besides keying in the keyword and press ‘search’. You can also limit images to a specific size, a specific format or even colors! Once you find a picture, check the site or contact the site’s owner to find out about using it.

    Again, the important thing to understand in using this search is that the images come from all over the Web and there’s no guarantee they’re free. What I usually do is just send a mail and offer a backlink as ‘appreciation’ for using the images. I have had 100% approval rate using this method as every website appreciates backlinks that boosts their search engine rankings. Everybody is happy that way. =)

  9. Flickr

    10. flickr

    Flickr’s 2 main goals:

    • To help people make their photos available to the people who matter to them.
    • To enable new ways of organizing photos.

    Flickr has tons of features, very easy to use and a community of world contributors. This is definitely the BEST and COOLEST online photo repository in the world. I could spend an hour doing nothing but checking out the ‘last 7 days‘ section. What’s even cooler? Flickr lets you search for only Creative Commons-licensed images in the advanced search tool to save users the trouble of having to sift through thousands of images to find the ones free for re-use. Brilliant work by the Flickr team!

Other Image Repositories
List of small to large directories

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Angelina Jolie

I decided to print an Angelina Jolie as an example. Below are the 3 steps taken.

  1. Step 1

    2. Step 1
    All you need to do is just pick an image file that you would like to have as a poster. Just any image would do. I picked *yummy* Angelina Jolie.

  2. Step 2

    3. Step 2
    Determine how big you want the poster to be by choosing the number of pages to print on and the orientation (portrait or landscape).

  3. Step 3

    4. Step 3
    Download your file and print it out. You’re done!

I only have a laser printer and so it came out black and white. Anyway, here’s how my Angelina Jolie looks like.
Angelina Jolie

Try it out! Once you’re done, leave a comment by sharing how proud you are of your block poster. =)

Block Posters
Print your own posters

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‘Click to play’ and let it buffer for awhile if it’s lagging.



Click To Play

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epic

ginko

discovery

4th

ruincity

Mathias Verhasselt
Amazing computer graphics

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