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May 22 2008

Web Resources to find Free Images Online

Is finding Free Images Online is always a problem for you? Looking for useful high resolution images online that are free for use such as for your computer wallpaper, blogging, study, website design, presentation, etc.? Here I have presented a list of open source stock photography websites that are really useable and can save a lot of your time while searching for the best sites offering free images online.

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SXC.hu
SXC (Stock.XCHNG) is a leading free stock photos site. You can share images with this website and can browse a huge image gallery for your requirement of free images through web. SXC provides over 350.000 quality stock photos by more than 30.000 photographers. SXC really have huge stock of useful high resolution images that are free for your use such as wallpaper, blogging, website design, presentation, etc.

Freefoto.com
FreeFoto.com is a collection of around 115995 images with 148 sections organized into3250 categories. It is one of the largest collection of free photographs available online on the Internet.Images on FreeFoto are free for online use (see free use rules) with their higher quality versions for sale. Go and search through a large database of images available with freefoto.com

Picsearch.com
Picsearch is an image search servie offering more than 2,000,000,000 pictures online. Its connects its users to the large visual resources of the internet. When a search requested to Picsearch it crawl the web to show the requested query. It results a set of highly relevant thumbnail of images. After clicking a thumbnail user goes to the original website where the image is located. The site is very user friendly and is perfect for having images for personal use.

Openstockphotography.org
Open Stock Photography is another good source for free photographs online. The site has been created to help designers / students to find free stock photography online to use in their projects.Open Stock Photography is a multilingual system where you can search for stock photography in virtually any language. There is also an option to submit photographs you would like to share with the world.

Fotogenika.net
Fotogenika is another good source to find free photos online for personal, educational and non-profit use. The site holds good number of images available in various categories such as Animals, Architecture, Clouds, Computers, Plants, Sunset, etc. You can also contribute images through online submission form available on site.

Freemediagoo.com
FreeMediaGoo was created for developers by developers. The site offers good number of free photographs online that can be used in print or online both for commercial and personal use. The site also offers a free collection of Audio, Textures and Flash Visuals.

Morguefile.com
The site contains stock images online freely contributed by many artists to be used by visitors of the site in their projects. You can use search on this site to find quality images required in your projects.

Stockvault.net
Stockvault.net is another stock photo sharing website where anyone like photographers, designers and students can share their photographs and images with each other. You can share and collect high resolution photographs that can be used for personal and non-commercial designs.

PDPhoto.org
Another online resource that provides royality free images is PDPhoto.org . You can use the photos for anything, including commercial uses, other websites, school projects, articles, ads, whatever.

Freeimages.co.uk
You can also find good photographs on this site, high quality of images are available for use by all. Images available on site are free to use both online and offline with some Terms.

Free-Photographs.net
The another link to find nice royalty-free stock photographs online for non-commercial use is free-photographs.net You can submit the images you want to share with world and can use the images freely shared with other on this site.

Freephotosbank.com
You can find good number of free stock photos online on this site.You can search for high quality images on the site, can rate the image, can print the image and can also send images to friends. So go and search for a large number of good images available on freephotosbank.com

Bigfoto.com
Bigfoto.com offers good free pictures online from around the world including America, Asia, Europe, Africa, and Pacific. It has another section of Themes including Human, Nature, Background, Aviation, etc. and a Miscellaneous section of free images.

Hope you all find this list of websites offering free photographs online useful. Have i missed something that should be there in the list, please mention in comments.

May 19 2008

Google adds 10 new languages in its language translation tool

Search engine major, google add 10 more languages in its language translation tool for the smooth and efficient flow of information. The newly added languages include Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Finnish, Hindi, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian and Swedish.

By using google translation service, the users can translate web pages and text as well as perform cross-language searches between any two languages. The company has also added a “Detect Language” option, which helps the viewer to automatically identify the language of the text you’re trying to translate.

It really is a good news for Internet users around the world using translation services for their work and was not getting the language translation for their particular language, hope they will find their desired language in these added 10 languages.

May 10 2008

WiMax for faster mobile Internet access

WiMAX, the Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access, is one of the few telecommunication technologies that will provide the users a fast way to access the Internet with their communication devices or laptops. For end users, this revolutionary technology means there will be new devices that will easily connect to the Internet.

WiMAX is based on the IEEE 802.16 standard and also known as WirelessMAN. In this technology, WiFi-like data rates are easily supported, but the issue of interference is lessened. It operates on both licensed and non-licensed frequencies, providing a regulated environment and viable economic model for wireless carriers.

Recently US leading wireless broadband internet and phone service providers Clearwire and Sprint Nextel tie up their hands to develop a high-speed mobile network based this kind of technology. The companies are planning to launched their WiMax network launched by the end of this year and covers approximately 10 to 15 million people in the United States.

May 10 2008

Hitman: Blood & Money

Hitman: Blood & Money is a game created by IO Interactive, published under Edios Interactive and directed by Rasmus Hojengaard. It is the fourth part in the Hitman game series and it came out on May 26 in Europe and in Usa it came out on May 20, 2006 for the Playstation 2, Xbox and Xbox 360. This game was also made available for Mobile Phone but with different gameplay, graphics and overall style.

The story is about the life of a professional Hitman Agent 47, which is being told by a former FBI director to a journalist who is interviewing him at his own home. This story is told in short scenes in the game. The former FBI director is on a wheelchair and he recounts his memory on how his agency tracked Agent 47 over a period of two years. The tone of the Hitman: Blood & Money, is completely different from the previous versions of the game like: Hitman 2: Silent Assassin. The game is also different in many other ways from previous three versions like: the “covert ops” settings of Silent Assassin, Codename 47 and Contracts missions.

Gameplay

The concept of the game Hitman: Blood & Money is somewhat similar to the previous versions of the game in which the player character (Agent 47) has to kill one or more individuals in order to accomplish the mission. In order to stop him from completing his missions there are many obstacles such as: security checkpoints, armed guards and many more. In order to guide the Agent 47 through various levels in the game he can take the help of a satellite map whenever he wishes too. The map shows the layout of every topographical area in the various levels, in which he can see his main targets, and other CPU-controlled characters. In order to complete his missions, Agent 47 can take any measures without thinking about witnesses or other people (Innocent People) which gets killed during his mission. In the series rewarding stealth over bloodshed was traditional but Hitman: Blood & Money also includes a feature in which the player is directly penalized for making too much ‘noise’.

Various new features were included in Hitman: Blood & Money. These are: able to climb through more obstacles, improved hand to hand combat, able to use an NPC as a human shield, more detailed features for a character (Face, Eyes, etc), a new game engine and also able to upgrade weapons and equipment. Well, only five of the featured weapons along with some assorted pieces of equipment such as bombs and armor, can be upgraded. Every level contains some kind of a method to make a target’s assassination look like an accident for example, grills are being tampered so that they can be made to explode when they are turned on, making a chandelier to fall on a target, or the target ‘accidentally’ falling of a balcony. There some other things which can also be used as weapons, like a nailgun or a pair of hedge clippers.

A new gameplay feature was also added to the Hitman series, the “Notoriety” system. Suppose, if the player, during his mission, kills an innocent person, gets caught on CCTV or is witnessed during the killing, the notoriety of Agent 47 will rise. On the contrary, if the player completes his mission without committing any of the mistakes mentioned above, then his notoriety level will be less. It gets easier for NPC to identify, Agent 47 when his notoriety level is high. Agent 47 can also use the bribery system to negate accumulated notoriety. In the “Rookie” mode, the notoriety system is not enabled, it also allows you to make unlimited saves and the general difficulty is also lower.

A newspaper article is displayed regarding the hit, in which the investigation information is available along with the Agent 47 (Player’s) notoriety, when each mission is accomplished. In detail, it shows the most frequently used weapon, how perfectly was the weapon used, the number of civilians, security and police killed or injured, and if there was any witness for the crime. Injured people are counted as witness. The number of witnesses will also affect Agent 47’s (Player’s) Notoriety. Sketch drawings of Agent 47’s (Player’s) face gets more accurate with the rise in the notoriety. The article’s title relates to the Agent 47 (Player’s) mission rating. The best possible rating for a mission is “Silent Assassin” in which you kill the target as cleanly and quietly as possible, and without drawing any unnecessary attention to yourself (blow your cover, leave no extra bodies, etc).

Hitman: Blood & Money has also improved the melee weapons system, which allows Agent 47 (Player) to throw certain things at NPCs (i.e. Kitchen Knives, Stilletos, etc.). Once these things are thrown on to anybody, then they cannot be retrieved.

Hitman: Blood & Money also has a rival assassin for the storyline.

May 07 2008

Now a headset, to control video games through mind

The world of technology changes every day. The Oz scientists have now introduced EPOC headset that allows the player to control their video games by the power of their minds. So, the joy sticks are becoming the part of the history. Australian technological concern Emotiv Systems will release this revolutionary range in US market this year at a price tag of 299 US dollars. However, Australians can buy this headset online.

emotiv_epocThis headset works on the principles of voice recognition. Embedded with 14 sensors for measuring electrical impulses from the brain, the headset - which plugs into the PC’s USB port - will enable games to register facial expressions, emotions and even cognitive thoughts, allowing players to perform in-game actions just by visualizing them.

This technological innovation enables the player to perform those same thoughts in the game the software knows to associate them with the correct action, such as rotate object or push object. (Agencies)