iPAD 2

How is the iPad 2 different than the original iPad?











 The iPad 2 is different from the iPad in several ways, both inside and out. The most noticeable difference is the new design. Apple has incorporated the same unibody design principles which we have seen on the MacBook Pro and MacBook Air laptops into the iPad 2. This means the iPad 2 is 33% thinner than the original iPad and also comes in .2 pounds lighter. The iPad 2 measures 8.8mm thick and weighs in at 1.33 pounds.
The iPad 2 also comes with two cameras, one on the front and one on the back, which can be used to take pictures and video as well as support FaceTime and video calling. The rear camera is capable of recording in 720P at 30 frames per second and can also take still images with a 5X zoom. The front facing camera is designed mainly to support video calling and supports a VGA resolution at 30 FPS as well as the ability to take still images of VGA quality. You are able to control the exposure by tapping on the screen and the photos can be geotagged when connected to WiFi so that you know where you took them.
Another exterior difference is the availability of a white iPad 2. Previously the iPad was only available in black. With the launch, users will now be able to choose from black or white.
Inside, the iPad 2 has a new, faster, dual core A5 processor which delivers two-times the performance of the original iPad and nine-times the graphics performance. The new processor will allow developers to create richer, more immersive, applications that provide even greater visuals.
The iPad 2 will also be available with a Verizon 3G connection, a change from the original iPad which was available with a mobile data connection from AT&T.
Also inside the iPad 2 is a three axis gyroscope which has previously been added to the iPhone 4 and allows for more sensitive motion controls in apps.
Hidden inside the iPad 2 are a number of magnets which allow the iPad 2 to be used with the Apple Smart Cover and eventually third party cases that connect to the iPad with magnets, allowing for protection without giving up a slim form factor. The Smart Covers can also be used to place the iPad 2 into positions for typing and viewing content.
iPad 2 Features:
The inclusion of two cameras on the iPad 2 brings photography to the Apple tablet and Apple is including two new apps that will allow user to take advantage of the cameras. The first new app is FaceTime which allows you to video chat with other iPads, iPhones, iPod Touchs and also with Mac users.
Apple is also including Photo Booth for the iPad. Photo Booth makes it easy to take pictures of you and your friends and edit them in fun, and funny ways. There are a collection of built in filters, ranging from X-Ray to Light Tunnel, to tweak your photos and then you can share them via the mail app, in a slide show or in your photo library where you can share photos using other iPad apps.
Like the original iPad, the iPad 2 has a 9.7″ IPS display which is LED backlit. The display provides a very crisp image for both photos and videos. The IPS (in-plane switching) technology offers a wide 178 degree viewing angle, which means you can share the screen with a friend.
The iPad 2 has a multitouch screen which is how you interact with the iPad. Users can flip through images, pinch to zoom or flick across the screen to control the iPad 2. When you need to type an onscreen keyboard pops up and allows you to compose documents and emails. When you’re done, the keyboard slides off the screen until you need it again.
The iPad 2 ships with iOS 4.3, Apple’s latest operating system which is what powers the iPad experience and includes access to the 65,000 iPad apps. There are a collection of new features in iOS 4.3 including faster browsing, access to your iTunes content over your home network, improvements to AirPlay streaming and the ability to have the iPad switch control the orientation lock or to act as a mute switch.
iPad 2 Apps:
The iPad 2 ships with a collection of built in apps including the new FaceTime iPad app and the Photo Booth iPad app. The FaceTime iPad app allows you to make FaceTime video calls to other Apple devices and the Photo Booth app makes it easy to make fun edits to photos you take while hanging out with friends, as if you were in an actual photo booth.
Other built in apps include the Safari web browser which is now faster than on the original iPad and allows you to visit anywhere on the web. You can have several webpages open at a time with support for tabbed browsing.
Notably, it does not support Flash, so you won’t be able to play every online video, but most websites now support a video format that the iPad 2 can play.
The Mail app allows you to check your work and personal email accounts with support for major web email services, and Exchange which is used at many companies. The Mail App can connect to Pop3 and IMAP accounts as well. There is support for reading, responding and opening attachments right on your iPad.
iBooks, Apple’s eBook and PDF reading app is also installed giving you access to a wide variety of books. You can also install many other eBook reading applications like the Kindle iPad app or the Nook iPad app.
The iPad 2 ships with the Videos app and Photos app which allow you to watch your purchased or downloaded videos as well as those you take with the iPad. The Photos app can be used to play a slideshow on the iPad, or wirelessly to your Apple TV.
The iPad 2 also has a built in iPod app, which is where you control your music, choose playlists and flip through your albums. You can be playing music in the iPad app while you use the iPad for other activities.
For purchasing content and apps you can use the iTunes and App Store apps which provide access to movies, music and TV shows as well as over 65,000 iPad apps.
Rounding out the included apps are Maps, YouTube, Find My iPad, Game Center, Notes, Calendar and Contacts. The Find my iPad app can help you track down a lost iPad. Game Center will keep track of how you are doing on the numerous iPad games and compare your progress to your friends. The rest of the apps so pretty much what the name implies; Map, show you YouTube videos, allow you to take notes, and display your calendar and contacts as synced from various online accounts.

In addition to these built in apps you have access to over 65,000 iPad applications already released. The iPad apps made for the original iPad will work with the iPad 2, and you can use iPhone applications on the iPad 2. If you use an iPhone application though, the app will either take up a portion of the screen, or will be scaled up to fill the screen.

Apple announced two new apps today that will launch with the iPad 2. First is iMovie which is a portable movie editing studio that will let you edit the video you take or import to your iPad and then share it with your friends. Next up is Garage Band which can help you learn how to play music, or be used to create tunes on the iPad 2 with up to 8 tracks mixed in.

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WHAT IS i7 Processor?

2nd Generation Intel® Core™ i7 Processor

The Intel® Core™ i7 processor delivers best-in-class performance for the most demanding applications. This quad-core processor features 8-way multitasking capability and additional L3 cache. With adaptive performance and built-in visual capabilities this 2nd generation processor brings more intelligence to your PC.

2nd generation Intel® Core™ i7 processors feature Intel® Turbo Boost Technology 2.0◊ and Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology◊, enabling required security applications and protocols to run efficiently in the background without compromising productivity.

Today's more visually sophisticated communication needs will be met with Intel® HD Graphics 2000 Technology, integrated into 2nd generation Intel Core processors. This eliminates the need for a discrete graphics card, reducing power consumption and system cost.

FEATURES AND BENEFITS

With 2nd generation Intel Core i7 processors, you get the following features built in:

• Intel® Turbo Boost Technology 2.0◊ dynamically increases the processor frequency as needed by taking advantage of thermal and power headroom when operating below specified limits.
• Intel® HT Technology◊ allows each core of your processor to work on two tasks at the same time.
• Intel® Smart Cache is dynamically allocated to each processor core based on workload, which significantly reduces latency and improves performance.
• Advanced Encryption Standard New Instructions add hardware acceleration to AES algorithms and speeds up the execution of AES applications.

 

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Multimedia Design - The principles of Organization

1. Harmony

• The first of the principles of organization, may be defined as a pleasing relationship between different sections of a composition. It occurs when elements or independent parts have characteristics in common – such as repeated colors, similar textures, shares edges, and so forth. These areas become vitally linked; their commonality makes the visually related or “pulls the together”. Harmony, then may be thought of as the factor of cohesion that relates the various parts of a composition to each other.
• Event vastly different areas or images will begin to harmonize if they are related in a similar manner. For example, an artist can begin to relate two different kinds of lines, vertical and horizontal by making them all straight. If they were all the same length, they would harmonize even more, and if they were all drawn with an ink pen on damp paper, their similar character would relate them even further.
• We will look individually at the many ways an artist may create harmony, including the repetition of a pattern or motif, and the creation of visual groupings through closure, visual linking , and linking through extensions.

2. Variety

• Variety is the counterweight to harmony, the other side of organization essential to unity. While an artist might bring a work together with harmony, it is variety arouses the viewer’s curiosity and holds his or her attention.
• It is a factor of visual contrast – an isolation of elements and images. Like a good sheepdog that singles out one animal from the flock, the introduction of variety actively separates areas or images to make them more exciting and let them stand apart.

3. Balance

• Gravity is universal, and we spend our daily lives resisting its influence. While walking, standing on one leg, or tipping back in a chair, we experience its effect and intuitively seek a state of balance. When we are off balance, we have a strong fear that gravity will pull us over and we will fall down.

4. Proportion

• Proportion deals with the ratio of individual part to one another or to the whole. For example, the length of an arm in comparison to the length of an arm in comparison to the length of the whole body is a proportional relationship.
• In works of art, appropriate proportions are often difficult to determine and the relationships of part are hard to compare with accuracy because proportion is often a matter of personal judgment. When the ratios of parts to the whole seem logically related, the proportions created harmony and balance.

5. Dominance

• While developing an image, an artist strives for interest by creating differences that emphasize the degrees of importance of its various parts. These differences result from compositional considerations within the medium – some features are emphasized, and others are subordinated.
• This creates primary focal points and secondary areas of interest that help move the eye around the work.

6. Movement

• Many observers do not realize that in looking at artwork, they are being “taken on a tour”. The tour director is, of course, the artist, who makes the eye travel comfortable and informative by providing visual pathways and areas of rest. The roadways leading to the rest stops have certain speed limits established by the artist, and the rest stops are of a predetermined duration.
• The artist’s roadways are, in fact , transitions between optical units, and the time required to negotiate them depends on the amount of harmony and variety applied to each. The eye movements dictated by these transitions are produced by the direction of lines, shapes, and shape edges (of contours) that seem to relate and “connect” to one another.
• The lines, shapes and shape contours are generally pointed at one another or in the same general direction. They may be touching but are normally interrupted by gaps over which the eyes skip as they move about. Sometimes “leaps” are necessary, requiring strong directional thrusts and attractions.

7. Economy

• As a work develops, the artist may realize that the solution to various compositional problems are resulting in unnecessary complexity. This situation is frequently characterized by broad aspect of the work deteriorating into fragmentation, and it commonly results from the artist’s working on one segment of the composition at a time.
• While this may be a necessary part of the developmental phase of the work, such isolated solutions may result in a lack of visual unity in the overall composition. 
• Employing the principle of economy means composing with efficiently – expressing an idea as simply and directly as possible with no arbitrary or excessive use of the elements. Economy has no rules but rather must be an outgrowth of the artist’s instincts. If some thing works with respect to the whole, it is kept; if disruptive, it may be reworked or reject. 

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Six Important Things To Consider When Finding A Domain Name

Importance of Having a Domain Name

As compared to the real world wherein strategic techniques are of great importance in order to achieve success, in the business industry, an effective domain name is considered a primary factor to achieving rankings, traffic and sales online.

Characteristics of a Domain Name

If you are planning to find a domain name for a future website, you must first take a look at the following characteristics to filter out the undesirable results:

• Short

In finding a domain name, you need to bear in mind that the shorter, the better. The reason behind this is that people will remember it easily. In this case, your target name must range between 5-20 characters or maybe at most three words.

• Easy to Remember

A domain name that is easy to remember allows people to simply type it in the address bar in case they need some information from your site. Although bookmarking features are available, most users do not utilize them. Therefore, if you have a complex domain name, the tendency is that you will lose a valuable number of visitors.

• Easy to Spell

Always keep in mind that while a misspelled domain name will potentially bring visitors to your website, but the search engines no longer favor misspellings as they did years ago and the saavy internet users tend to mistrust these types of websites. In this case, you need to ensure that you are not using strange combinations of letters and numbers, foreign words, words that are difficult to pronounce or something that can be misspelled by your visitors. It is better to use simple and familiar yet striking words for the users to remember and spell out easily.

• Make use of a “.com” extension

There are numerous reasons why you should use a .com extension. First, .com extension is by far the most popular extension all over the world, meaning it is what a lot of internet users type after the domain name. Next, it is a great help in partially reducing promotion efforts. When trying to find a domain name, .com extensions are ideal, even if you must incorporate a brand keyword with your target keywords to secure one.

• Descriptive

Since visitors come from anywhere, an effective way of dragging them to visit your site is the way your domain name describes your website. For instance, if your site is about “do-it-yourself” crafts, you must include “diy” or “crafts” in your domain name.

• Avoid the Use of Numbers and Hyphens

A lot of visitors tend to ignore the numbers and hyphens in the domain name. For them, it is considered as an additional burden in finding websites. For example, if your domain name is “do-it-yourself.com”, most probably, visitors will just type “doityourself.com” and ignore the hyphens. If your website becomes sucessful, you can bet someone else will take advantage of your traffic with your domain name minus the dashes.

The Key to A Great Domain Name

In the end, in order to find a domain name that will cater to the niche of your website, consider the abovementioned characteristics. This way, you can persuade a lot of people to visit your site and still come back for updates, therefore, generating traffic.  Remember, you need not to follow all of the characteristics, but starting out by filtering out the undesirables will lead you first to the most eligible candidates. Four or five of the guidelines above will still lead to a good and effective domain name.
Theresa Happe works with ByDomains.com, the largest marketplace for finding a domain name for your online business. Search for .com domains in any niche, utilizing the filters to sort out the most valuable domains for your business first.

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Download Free Books for your Amazon Kindle

Amazon’s Kindle store has more than a million books that you can download and read on your Kindle e-book reader.

Find and Download Free Books for Kindle

While most eBooks available on the Amazon Kindle store are paid, here are some simple ways by which you can find and download free Kindle books for your reading pleasure.

#1. Sources for Downloading Free Kindle Books

Project Gutenberg, Open Library, Google Books, ManyBooks and FeedBooks
are some popular websites that offer a large collection of classics and public domain (copyright expired) books in standard formats like MOBI that you can easily transfer to your Kindle over USB or Wi-Fi.
Google Books are available in ePUB format which is incompatible with the Kindle but you can use the free Calibre software to easily convert Google ebooks from .epub to .mobi, a format that Kindle can understand. Calibre does not however support conversion of DRM protected ePUB files to Kindle format.
Also, the Internet Archive website mirrors the free eBooks that have been scanned and digitized by the Google Books program and here they also offer the same title in MOBI format that you can read on your Kindle without conversion.

#2. Find Free Kindle Books on Amazon

Amazon.com isn’t just a place to “buy” stuff, they free eBooks as well and unlike Google Books where you’ll mostly find public domain books, Amazon may sometimes even offer some of the newer ebooks as free downloads. Here’s how you can discover free Kindle books on Amazon:
#2.1 Top 100 Best Sellers – This is like a Pinterest style listing of Kindle Best Sellers that are currently available for free and the deals are generally good for 2-3 days. You can also keep track of this list on Twitter (Zero Dollar Books) and get alerted when new Kindle title are added to the freebies list.
#2.2 Kindle Book Search – Add the Kindle search engine to your web browser and you’ll be able to find free books on Amazon directly from your browser’s search box. Alternatively, you may use the search box at hundredzeros.com to search Amazon for free Kindle books.
#2.3 Sort by Price – When you search for a Kindle book on Amazon.com, it displays search results by relevance.

If you change this default sort order from “Relevance” to “Price: Low to High”, you’ll get a list of all Kindle books that match your search keywords but are available for $0.00 (see the above screenshot).
#2.4 Popular Classics – This is an official listing of all ebooks that are available as free downloads on the Amazon.com website. These are Public Domain Books that have been converted from print to digital format by Amazon.
#2.5 Listmania - This is another resource where you can discover Kindle books that are available for free.
Listmania Lists are basically a list of products compiled by Amazon users. You can use search phrases like “free kindle books”, “kindle freebie”, “penny kindle book”, etc. to discover lists that are built around free books you are looking for. For instance, here’s one Listmania List of classic books for Kindle that are absolutely free.

#3. Use Google to Find Free Kindle Books on Amazon

Here’s an unofficial method to help you find Kindle books that are available for free on Amazon.com.

You can use the following search query in Google to search the Amazon store for free Kindle books – just replace the search-phrase in green with the name of the book, author, book category, etc.

intitle:kindle site:amazon.com "you save * (100%)" search-phrase

For instance, here’s a list of free Kindle books related to Abraham Lincoln while here’s a list of Kindle books on Shakespeare that are again free.

#4. RSS Feeds for Free Kindle Books

Here are some RSS feeds that you can subscribe to and get alerts when new titles are available:

• Top 100 Best Sellers (Free)
• Hundred Zeros – Twitter Books (Twitter feed for free Kindle Books)
• Gutenberg Feed (Books recently added to Project Gutenberg)
• Official Amazon RSS Feed (Free)

Kindle eBook Pricing for International users

If the price of a Kindle book is mentioned as $0.00 on the Amazon Store, it may sometimes show up as $2.00 if the country associated with your Kindle account is not United States. This happens because Amazon charges a $2 roaming fee for “international downloads”.
If that’s the case, you can either temporarily change your Kindle country to US or transfer via computer and you may not be charged that extra $2 Whispernet fees.
Read Kindle Books without the Kindle Reader
If you don’t have the Kindle device (i.e., the hardware), you can still download any of these Kindle books and read them in your web browser (read.amazon.com) without having to install any software. Amazon also offers reading apps for your Windows PC, Mac, Android, iOS, etc. so you can enjoy your favorite books on your desktop computer, tablet or mobile phone without having to buy the Kindle Reader.

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HFS ~ Http File Server : the other way to share your files

What is it?

... it's file sharing
... it's webserver
... it's open source
... it's free
... it's guaranteed to contain no malware

Features

Download and upload, Virtual file system, Highly customizable, HTML template, Bandwidth contro, Easy/Expert mod, Log,  Accounts, Dynamic DNS updater


DOWNLOAD

 

HFS is a single executable file.
No need to install.
Download and run... it's up & ready!
Working on Windows (all 32bit-versions), Wine/Linux.

Beta versions available on the forum.
For programmers: download sources (created with Turbo Delphi).
Do you support PADs? Here you go!
Please, if you make link for downloading HFS somewhere, use the link you find here above, don't link the file directly, this way i can count downloads.

Reference : http://www.rejetto.com/hfs/

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Access Files on your Computer from Anywhere

The problem: You have documents, photos, music and other important files on the home computer. How can you “remotely access” these files from your office computer or, when you are travelling, from your mobile phone?

The solution: The simplest solution would be that you copy all your data from the home computer on to a portable hard drive and carry it around but this is obviously a bit cumbersome approach as it requires you to manually sync the home computer and your portable disk.

Access Files on your Computer over the Internet

There are couple of ways by which you can retrieve files stored on your home computer from anywhere else using a regular Internet connection.

Option 1: Using Online Backup
You can use an online backup service like SugarSync, Carbonite, SkyDrive or even Dropbox – they provide desktop utilities that will automatically upload files on your home computer to the Internet and you can then access these files through the web browser of any other Internet connected computer.
The upside is that your files will always be available to you even if the home computer is not running. SugarSync and Carbonite have a mobile optimized website so you can access files from any mobile phone as well.
The downside is that if you are using any of these services for the first time, you’ll to wait until they upload all your data to the cloud and this process may take long if you have too many files on the home computer.

Option 2: Using Desktop Sharing Software
There are free desktop sharing software like TeamViewer and UltraVNC that also let you remotely access your computer files from anywhere else. LogMeIn Pro is another good option for transferring files from a remote computer but these are paid services.
If all your computers are running Windows, you can use the built-in remote desktop connection feature of Windows (available in XP and later) to access your home computer from another Window computer over the Internet.
With Desktop Sharing software, you’ll always have access to all your files but one big limitation is that it requires that the remote computer stays on. Also, none of these options will help you access files on a mobile phone except LogMeIn which has an iPhone app.

Option 3: Access Files Directly through the Browser
Online backup services, discussed above, will copy files to their own servers before you can access them for anywhere else. Screen sharing services are often slow and they won’t work on most mobile devices. Let’s now explore another set of services that allow you download files directly from the home computer.
Copernic, like Google Desktop, is a popular desktop search software that you may use to find emails, documents and other files on your Windows computer. They have a paid component called myCopernic on the Go that lets you remotely search for content stored on the home or office computer. You can preview the search results and then download them to your mobile phone or remote PC.
With Opera Unite, you can easily turn your computer into a web server and instantly access files and folders on that computer from any other web browser (including that of mobile phones). Opera Unite is a standard web server and therefore you’ll be downloading files directly from the computer – they’re not uploaded anywhere else.
Another option is GBridge that lets you setup a virtual private network using your existing Google Account. Companies use VPNs to let employees access corporate data over a public network (Internet) and with GBridge, even home users can build their own VPNs to access remote files more securely.
Windows Live Sync at sync.live.com is another great choice for remotely accessing files over the Internet. Just install the Live Sync client on your computer and you can then access the entire hard drive of that computer simply through the Windows Live Sync website.
Finally, you may also want to check out HomePipe – this is an extremely easy and free service that lets you access your home files and media from any other computer or mobile phone. Install the HomePipe Agent and all files on that computer will instantly become available through the web. They also have apps for iPhone and Android phones.

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Easily Share Large Files over the Internet

 
If you are to share a large file with someone over the Internet, there are generally two options – you can either attach the files to an email message or, if the files are too big to fit in an email program, you can upload them to an online storage service and then share the download links with the recipient.
Let’s now explore some of the popular services that’ll make it easy for you to transfer large files over the Internet without any hassles or costs.

A: Share Large Files over Email

The Gmail service cannot handle email attachments that are larger than 25 MB but the recently-revamped Hotmail service is a much better alternative as it lets you send email messages as large as 10 GB.
The maximum size of an individual file that you can attach to an Hotmail message is only 50 MB but you can use a file-splitting utility like HJ-Split to break a big file into smaller chunks and then attach them all to a single message. The recipient can then join these chunks to restore the original file and he can do without requiring external programs.

B: Share Large Files without Email

The downside with email attachments is obvious – most ISPs and web-based email programs (including Gmail) will reject incoming messages that have big attachments and therefore, if you are sending a bulky file via email, the recipients also have to be on Hotmail as well in order to receive that file.
One of the best options for sharing large files without email is Dropbox. Once you install the the Dropbox utility on your (Windows, Mac or Linux) desktop, you can upload files of virtually any size to the Internet – it’s only limited by the size of your Dropbox storage which is 2GB in the case of free accounts. Alternatively, if you don’t want to install Dropbox, you can upload files straight to the Dropbox website from your browser but the limit in this case is 300 MB per file.
You can even consider using Google Docs to share those big files over the Internet. Google Docs lets you upload files up to 250 MB in size and they can be in any format. You have 1 GB of free storage space for storing all the non-Office files on Google Docs but you can also buy more space for a reasonable fee.
Unlike FTP servers, services like Google Docs and Dropbox don’t support resumable downloads. That means if the connection breaks while the recipient is still trying to download your “huge” file, he or she will have to resume the download from scratch. That can be a deal-breaker for lot of people.
SkyDrive, part of the Windows Live family, can solve this problem in a way.
The service offers 25 GB of free online storage, with individual files limited to 50 MB. To upload a large file, split it into chunks of 50 MB each and then upload them all to a single folder on SkyDrive. The recipient can download the entire folder as a ZIP or, if he’s on a flaky connection, he can download files one by one and then join them all at his end.

C. Share Files without Registration

Finally, if you are looking for something quick and simple that doesn’t even require registration, talk to YouSendIt or WeTransfer (if the file size is really big). Just upload the files via the browser, enter the email address of the recipient and hit send. WeTransfer lets you send files up to 2 GB in size while the maximum allowed limit is 100 MB in the case of YouSendIt (free version).

Chart: Comparison of file sharing services

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How to Edit PDF Files without Adobe Acrobat

he PDF file format was originally created by Adobe in the early ’90s and there are now over 700+ million PDF documents on the Internet according to Google (search for filetype:pdf).
There are several reasons why the PDF file format is so popular for exchanging all sorts of documents including presentations, CAD Drawings, invoices and even legal forms.

• PDF files are generally more compact (smaller in size) than the source document and they preserve the original formatting.
• Unlike Word and other popular document formats, the content of a PDF file cannot be modified easily. You can also prevent other users from printing or copying text from PDF documents.
• You can open a PDF file on any computer or mobile device with free software like Adobe Acrobat Reader. Google Chrome can read PDFs without requiring plugins and it can create PDFs.

Edit PDF Files using Free Alternatives to Adobe Acrobat

While PDF Files are “read only” by default, there are ways by which you can edit certain elements* of a PDF document for free without requiring the source files or any of the commercial PDF editing tools like Adobe Acrobat.
We will primarily focus on tools that let you alter the actual contents of a PDF file>. If you are looking to manipulate the PDF file structure itself like rearranging pages or merging multiple PDFs into one, please refer to this detailed Adobe PDF Guide.

An Online PDF Editor for Basic Tasks

Sometimes you need to make minor changes to a PDF file. For instance, you may want to hide your personal phone number from a PDF file before uploading it online or may want to annotate a page with notes and freehand drawings.
You can perform such edits in a PDF easily with PDFEscape.com, an online PDF editor that is free and also lets you edit password-protected PDF documents in the browser.
With PDF Escape, you can hide* parts of a PDF file using the whiteout tool or add annotations with the help of custom shapes, arrows, text boxes and sticky notes. You can add hyperlinks to other PDF pages / web documents.
[*] Hiding is different from redaction because here we aren’t changing the associated metadata of a PDF file but just hiding certain visible parts of a PDF file by pasting an opaque rectangle over that region so that the stuff beneath the rectangle stays invisible.

Change Metadata of PDF Files

If you would like to edit the meta-data associated* with a PDF document, check out Becy PDFMetaEdit. This is a free utility that can help you edit properties of a PDF document including the title, author name, creation data, keywords, etc.
The tool can also be used for removing PDF passwords as well as for encrypting PDF documents such that only users who know the password can read the contents of your PDF files. And since this PDF metadata cum bookmarks editor can be executed from the command line, you can use it to update information in multiple PDF files in a batch.
[*] If you planning to post your PDF files on the web, you should consider adding proper metadata to all the files as that will help improve the organic rankings of your PDF files in Google search results.

Edit the Text of a PDF File

If you want to edit the text in a PDF file but don’t have access to the source documents, your best bet is that you convert the PDF file into an editable Word document or an Excel spreadsheet depending on the contents of the PDF.
Then edit these converted PDFs in Microsoft Office (or Google Docs) and export the modified files back into PDF format using any PDF writer.
If your PDF document is mostly text, you may use the desktop version of Stanza to convert that PDF into a Word document. If the document includes images, charts, tables and other complex formatting, try the online PDF to Word converter from BCL Research or the one from NitroPDF – the former offers instant conversion while the latter service can take up to a day though its yields more accurate results.

Advanced PDF Editing (Images, text, etc.)

Now that you know the basic PDF editing tools, let’s look at another set of PDF editors that are also free but can help you do some more advanced editing like replacing images on a PDF file, adding signatures, removing blocks of text without breaking the flow of the document, etc.
First there’s PDF XChange, a free PDF viewer cum editor that you also may use for typing text directly on any PDF page. PDF XChange also supports image stamps so you may use the tool for signing PDF files or for inserting images anywhere on a PDF page.
Then you have Inkscape, a free vector drawing tool (like Adobe Illustrator) that can natively import and export PDF content.

Video: How to Edit PDF Files with Inkscape

With Inkscape, you can select any object on a PDF page (including text, graphics, tables, etc.) and move them to a different location or even remove them permanently from the PDF file. You can also annotate PDF files with Inkscape or draw freehand on a page using the built-in pencil tool.
The next tool in the category of advanced PDF editors is OpenOffice Draw with the PDFImport extension. OpenOffice Draw supports inline editing so you can easily fix typos in a PDF document or make formatting related changes like replacing color, increasing or decreasing the text size, replacing the default font-family, etc.
Like Inkscape, the OpenOffice toolbox also includes support for annotations, shapes, images, tables, charts, etc. but here you have more choices and the software also looks less complex.

 

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Audio Editing Software : Audacity® is free, open source, cross-platform software for recording and editing sounds.

Audacity is available for Windows®, Mac®, GNU/Linux® and other operating systems. Learn more about Audacity... Also check our Wiki and Forum for more information.
The current release of Audacity is 2.0.1. It replaces 2.0.0 and all previous 1.2 and 1.3 versions. See New Features for more information.

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June 29, 2012: Audacity 2.0.1 Released

The Audacity Team is delighted to announce the release of Audacity 2.0.1 for Windows, Mac, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. It replaces 2.0.0 and all previous 1.2 and 1.3 versions. Among several improvements, keyboard shortcuts can now be allocated to effects, and Nyquist plug-ins can be added to Chains. See the 2.0.1 Release Notes for detailed changes.

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Looping : conditional statements

Conditional Statements
The owner of SAYANG restaurant distributes brochures to his customers informing discounts
offered on selected menu for the month of July. To be eligible for the discount, a customer
must order any three items of the menu. The discount for each item in the menu is shown in
the table below.
Item
No. Menu Discount
1. Appetizers 10%
2 .Salads 10%
3 .Soups 20%
4 .Seafood 8%
5 .Chicken/Beef 15%
6 .Noodles/Rice 20%
7 .Vegetables 25%
8 .Pasta 15%
9 .Beverages 20%
10. Lunch Special 25%
11 .Healthy Food 15%
12 .Others 5%
The restaurant owner has requested you to write a program in C that reads the three ordered
items and their normal prices. The program calculates the total amount to be billed to the
customer based on the discount given for each item.

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New Module MPKK - Manual Pentaksiran Kerja Kursus ICT SPM

Information And Communication Technology 
Code : 3765/2
 Download here.

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Tutorial to use Ms Access 2007

This tutorial is only for beginning Microsoft Access users or beginning users to database software in general. This tutorial shows how to open a new database, set the tables for the database, enter data into the table, and save the database.

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WavePad Audio Editing Software

Studio Audio Editing Software Anyone Can Use

This audio editing software is a full-featured professional audio and music editor for Windows and Mac. It lets you record and edit music, voice and other audio recordings. When editing audio files, you can cut, copy and paste parts of recordings, and then add effects like echo, amplification and noise reduction. WavePad works as a wav or mp3 editor, but it also supports a number of other file formats including vox, gsm, wma, real audio, au, aif, flac, ogg, and more.

Download WavePad Audio Editing Software for Windows

WavePad is designed to be a very easy and intuitive-to-use audio editing package. Within minutes, you will be able to open or record a file and edit it. If you take time to explore the other features, you will find many powerful tools designed with the professional sound engineer in mind. 

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Audio Editor Features

• Sound editing functions include cut, copy, paste, delete, insert, silence, auto-trim and more
• Audio effects include amplify, normalize, equalizer, envelope, reverb, echo, reverse and many more
• Integrated VST plugin support gives professionals access to thousands of additional tools and effects
• Supports almost all audio and music file formats including mp3, wav, vox, gsm, wma, au, aif, flac, real audio, ogg, aac, m4a, mid, amr, and many more
• Batch processing allows you to apply effects and/or convert thousands of files as a single function
• Scrub, search and bookmark audio for precise editing
• Create bookmarks and regions to easily find, recall and assemble segments of long audio files
• Tools include spectral analysis (FFT), speech synthesis (text-to-speech), and voice changer
• Audio restoration features including noise reduction and click pop removal
• Supports sample rates from 6 to 196kHz, stereo or mono, 8, 16, 24 or 32 bits
• Works directly with MixPad multi-track audio mixing and Express Burn CD Recorder
• Easy to use interface will have you editing in minutes

Typical Audio Editing Applications

• Create ringtones from music files or recordings
• Trim sound bites out of longer audio files
• Reduce vocals from a music track
• Cut together audio for radio broadcasts or podcasts
• Save files for your iPod, PSP or other portable devices
• Record voiceovers for multimedia projects
• Restore audio files by removing noise, hissing or hums
• Normalize the level of audio files

System Requirements

• Works on Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7 and 8
• See Windows 98 and Windows 2000 for earlier versions
• Mac OS X 10.3 or later

Download WavePad Audio Editing Software

• Download Wavepad Audio Editing Software for Windows
• Download Wavepad Macintosh Edition for Mac
• Pocket WavePad Audio Editor iPhone App on iTunes
• Pocket WavePad HD Audio Editor iPad App on iTunes

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VideoPad Video Editor

Video Editing Software Anyone Can Use

Designed to be intuitive, VideoPad is a fully featured video editing program for creating professional looking videos in minutes. Making movies has never been easier.

Download VideoPad Video Editing Software for Windows

• Drag and drop video clips for easy video editing
• Apply effects and transitions, adjust video speed and more
• One of the fastest video stream processors on the market 

• Edit video from any camcorder
  Capture video from a DV camcorder, VHS, webcam, or import most any video file format including avi, wmv, 3gp, wmv and divx.
• Full of transitions and visual effects
  Over 50 visual and transition effects to add a professional touch to your movies.
• Create videos for DVD, HD, YouTube and more
  Burn your movie project to DVD for playback on TV, or as a standalone video file for enjoying on web and portable devices. 

Stunning Video Transitions and Effects Choose from a wide range of video clip transitions Preview video effects in real time Customize the duration of applied transitions Overlay text for captions and movie credits Chroma key green screen video production Stereoscopic 3D video conversion and support
Amazing Audio Tools Import and mix music tracks like a pro Make your own custom movie soundtrack with MixPad multi-track mixing software Record your own narrations with the click of a button Use sound effects from the free Sound Effect Library
Complete Video Optimization Fine-tune color and other visual effects Slow down, speed up or reverse playback of video clips Reduce camera shake with video stabilization Add photos and digital images to your sequences VirtualDub plugin support for added tools and effects
Share With Family and Friends Burn to DVD and watch on your TV Save for YouTube and share online Save to PSP, iPod, iPhone or 3GP mobile phone Export movies in standard definition or full HD (720p, 1080i or 1080p)

Technical Information

Supported Input Formats

• Import Video
  avi, mpeg, wmv, divX, Xvid, mpeg1, mpeg2, mpeg4, mp4, mov, vob, ogm, .3gp, H.264, RM and more
• Import Images
  bmp, gif, jpg, jpeg, png, tif, tiff, psd, tga, pcx and more
• Import Audio
  wav, mp3, mp2, mpga, m4a, ogg, avi, mid, flac, aac, wma, au, aiff, ogg, raw, dvf, vox, cda and more

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Trial STPM State 2009

Just click the hyperlink to download:

Paper 1

•  Melaka 
• Johor 

Paper 2

• Melaka
• Johor

If you want the answer, please email to me at : smkpjpg@gmail.com

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