Helversmith's Thoughts

Wolfenstein

noreply@blogger.com (Helversmith) — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 23:41:00 +0000

SWEET! I played this game as a youngster and had a blast with it.

Video Games - E3 2009 - X-Play

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Batman Arkum Asylum

noreply@blogger.com (Helversmith) — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 23:09:00 +0000

Video Games - E3 2009 - Video Game Trailers

This game is going to be awesome and I cannot wait to get my hands on it.

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Window Live Writer

noreply@blogger.com (Helversmith) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:22:00 +0000

I know that there are a few really well known desktop blog publishing programs out there and some of them are better than others. The one I use is windows live writer. This program is excellent. I have been using it for several months now and it does everything I want it too. It allows me to update blogs from the desktop, save drafts, spell check, insert content etc. I don’t have anything negative to say about it. I can publish the same blog to different accounts easily and I very happy with the way that it transitions between the different blogs that I work on. I would suggest this program to any blogger that wants to publish to multiple blogs from their desktop.

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Gimp

noreply@blogger.com (Helversmith) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:14:00 +0000

I don’t even know why I feel like I need to put my two cents in on this program. Yeah I do It’s freakin awesome that’s why. It’s a lightweight free graphics manipulation program that is able to do most everything you want a graphics program to do. It is available on both Linux and Windows platforms.It’s easy to transition from a program like photoshop to this or any other similar program. So if you know one you can basically figure out the other. You can use it to create some awesome artwork. It is more robust than just about any other free graphics program out there. For the price tag you just cannot beat it.

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Across the tubes

noreply@blogger.com (Helversmith) — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:14:00 +0000

This is my first, “I Did Not Like” on this review blog. It’s a novel idea to show the best from each tube service, but ultimately this is a bust. It still needs a lot of work to make it user friendly. No matter what I tried to look for I received results for news and most of that was political ramblings about right or left wing political views on a situation. I was looking for entertainment and instead I get stuff about the Obama admin. Just my thoughts, but that wasn’t to entertaining. For those that are entertained by the news, especially news on politics, I am so very sorry that you cannot find anything else to enjoy. My point it that I would rather watch a funny video of rednecks flinging squirrels into trees with a shot flinging device than visit this website again. I like squirrels. For those who are interested in going to one website that scans across all video hosting tubes like YouTube this would be a good sight to follow.

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Want to write an online book?

noreply@blogger.com (Helversmith) — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:45:00 +0000

So how many of us would love to be online writers? Or Fancy being part of some collaboration. I have been to a lot of community sites that promise something similar, but they fall short on delivering the goods often. This website does much more than that. It delivers the goods without the promises. It is a simple sight that lets you add a bit of text to an ongoing story. Then the next guy can add some and so on and so forth. The beauty of this service is that there is no sign up and no registration. It’s free and it’s fun. You don’t have to adhere to any kind of content etc. The possibilities for good and for bad are there. This is definitely a sight for anyone who is stuck and just needs to jot down a few lines of nonsense. The sigh name Write Something.

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Contails

noreply@blogger.com (Helversmith) — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:00:00 +0000

This is one awesome and free web service. It allows a person to sync their address books across platforms fairly effortlessly. I was able to transfer, condense and then add all of my contacts to this service then put them back on a newly created email account. The service downloads your contact lists from desktop email programs also. I suggest this for someone who has contacts across multiple email accounts that wants them to be condensed. One of the best features is that it will sync with your cell phone, unfortunately that feature doesn’t work with all cell phones yet, but for blackberry and iPhone users this feature is exceptionally helpful.

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Unfortunately

noreply@blogger.com (Helversmith) — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 18:01:00 +0000

I have not been able to get Cute PDF to work so that may be it’s review. On the upside I do have good things to say about open office. It is intuitive and very much like Microsoft Office in many ways. For the average user The ways it differs are probably not a problem. In the text document creator (open office’s version of word) there is a direct to PDF creator. I really like that function. I could not get this program to open existing PDF documents so that I could edit them. I’m not saying that it cannot do this, I’m just saying that it won’t for me. Ultimately I like this program for it’s simplicity and functionality, but I think I will stick with Scribus for my PDF needs.

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Scribus 1.3.3.13

noreply@blogger.com (Helversmith) — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 15:07:00 +0000

That is one heck of a title. The software is a good desktop publisher. It is solid and seems to work good for organizing content and the layout of anything that you want to publish. Since I am looking at it as a PDF creation tool that will be my focus.

The program makes PDF’s nicely. It allows for changeable content. It even edits them without fuss. This tool is definitely a good start. The only negative thing I have to say about it is that is uses an image editing program called gimp and unless you have that installed you cannot easily resize and manipulate images for your PDF.

Scribus program is not a direct create from existing document program. For that we will look at Cute PDF. However, for a free alternative to actually creating PDF documents from scratch I give this one a thumbs up.

PDF PROJECT

noreply@blogger.com (Helversmith) — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:24:00 +0000

I am currently looking into different free (and I do mean free) PDF creation programs. Of course Adobe has the best program out there for creating PDF files. However, not all of us can afford to buy a three hundred dollar program to edit or create a document like that. I have three that I am looking at right now. The first is a program called Scribus. The second is Cute PDF. The third is the PDF creator in Open Office.

I have just started to look into creating a document with Scribus. So far I like it. I write a full review on each of the three programs I mentioned as I look into each of them.

Carbonmade.com

noreply@blogger.com (Helversmith) — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 23:01:00 +0000

This is an online portfolio for creative persons that do anything two dimensional or able to be photographed. The website is easy to use and intuitive. There is subscription and free option to this website. It is also a community driven website which means networking for you if you are using this as a portfolio in anyway.

There are some drawbacks, which are not many and aren’t really drawbacks. The tools used to create the portfolio limit you slightly in you customization abilities. The free account only allows for five projects and thirty-five pictures. All in all, for what you get these are not really drawbacks.

I would suggest that anyone who is a creative person and would like to share their work create a portfolio on here. The site does not allow persons to easily copy your work. It has the ability to display work done in video, flash, photographed and scanned work. The portfolio looks fantastic once completed. I cannot say enough how this site is a must for any creative persons that works in two dimensional, video, or sculpture.

Live Mocha

noreply@blogger.com (Helversmith) — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 01:54:00 +0000

Today is my first post. YAY! I started a new account with the Live Mocha social webservice. It provides a social network like myspace or facebook for persons of different languages to come together and help teach one another. So far I am a fan. It allows you to connect with others of the languages that you want to learn without being bogged down with a long profile creation process. There seem to be a lot of free content and the subscription or paid content is resonable.

The idea is that you do exercises then get other persons of the langauage you are interested in the read and grade the exercise. You can also friend the different people from different places so that you can learn about culture etc. Overall this is a pleasant experience. Within a few minutes of creating my profile I had a request to assist with grading a persons exercise. You earn points based on your acivity. You use those points to increase your ranking. Also, Live Mocha offers you the option of begginer, intermediate, and advanced levels of learning.

Overall this seems like a rewarding way to educate yourself should you want to learn more about another culture or improve your skills in french or spanish. I definitely suggest this site for anyone who hs those goals. This isn't a casual or professional networking site and should porbably be avoided by persons who are looking for flashy layouts and games like flirt.