Posts Tagged ‘Space’

50 Photoshop Tutorials For Sky & Space Effects

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

Humans have always had an infatuation with the air above us and the space around our planet. With Adobe Photoshop we can create new images or enhance existing photos to include the sky and space as a backdrop. There is virtually no limit to what can be done with some Photoshop skills and a bit of creativity.

As you will see from the tutorials featured here, some of the most entertaining and practical Photoshop creations and manipulations deal with the sky and space. Whether you are looking to make adjustments to the sky in the background of a photo or if you want to create an exploding space scene from scratch, Photoshop can meet your needs.

Link: Smashing Magazine

GParted: Resize Your Partitions

Sunday, September 21st, 2008

GParted is an industrial-strength package for creating, destroying, resizing, moving, checking and copying partitions, and the file systems on them. This is useful for creating space for new operating systems, reorganizing disk usage, copying data residing on hard disks and mirroring one partition with another (disk imaging).

GParted

Inside The Linux Boot Process

Saturday, September 20th, 2008

The process of booting a Linux system consists of a number of stages. But whether you’re booting a standard x86 desktop or a deeply embedded PowerPC target, much of the flow is surprisingly similar. This article explores the Linux boot process from the initial bootstrap to the start of the first user-space application. Along the way, you’ll learn about various other boot-related topics such as the boot loaders, kernel decompression, the initial RAM disk, and other elements of Linux boot.

Link: IBM

Open Source Home Automation System

Thursday, September 18th, 2008

Not too long ago, Marc Fleury went public with his newest venture, an open source home automation “project” (not yet officially a company) called OpenRemote. Marc describes it as “an open community in the Home Automation or Domotics space”, that “promote[s] open standards, open collaboration, and open implementations in the field.”

Fleury continues to stress that what makes OpenRemote different from other home automation systems you may have seen is that it focuses solely on the software aspect of things. To help users who want to use the OpenRemote system in their own home, he and the community at OpenRemote have published a Bill of Materials and many other references to assist in the design, construction and implementation process.

You can sign up and join the conversations in the forums to get involved, or just learn a bit more about the system at the official website.

Link: ArsTechnica