1/9/2024 0 Comments Nik collection for mac 10.6.8![]() ![]() Black and White-Give photos a classic look with this darkroom-inspired filter. ![]() ![]() Frames-Add unique borders to photos by choosing styles and textures.Vintage-Nine unique nostalgic films, plus controls like saturation, textures and vignettes make any photo look like a vintage color film photo from the 50’s, 60’s or 70’s.Drama-Add custom effects to a photo which range from subtle enhancements of textures to wildly creative and artistic effects.Grunge-Explore styles and textures without limits and give photos a totally unique look.Crop & Straighten-Rotate or straighten with simple slider controls and select from a variety of standard aspect ratios while cropping.Details-Enhances details with traditional sharpening as well as Nik Software’s unique Structure control found in the professional Nik Software product line.Tilt-Shift-Creates a narrow in-focus area designed to simulate depth of field, common in a Miniature Scene look.Control Points-Make precise selections and enhancements in seconds with Nik Software’s revolutionary U Point technology.Auto Correct-Automatically analyzes your photo and adjusts color and exposure, or you can use the sliders to add or reduce the enhancements.Tune Image-Quickly correct photos shot in difficult lighting situations, create depth and vibrancy with Ambience, or adjust White Balance, Saturation, Contrast and more.A video showcasing the power and fun of Snapseed can be viewed at Key Features With this new version of Snapseed, users can capture, enhance, edit, and share their photos via social networks, email and even print in just a few seconds. High quality results are now fast, fun, and easy. Snapseed is a new generation of photography software that inspires everyone to enjoy photography. Filters like Grunge, Vintage, Tilt & Shift, and Drama can give any photo a new look. One-click adjustments quickly and automatically improve photos. Snapseed for the Mac is even faster and more powerful, combining filters, textures, and other enhancements, in real-time. “By bringing Snapseed to the Mac App Store, we’re able to quickly extend our reach to a worldwide audience of creative amateur photographers while offering our existing mobile users the fully-featured Mac experience they’ve been asking for.”Īnyone can create amazing photos with Snapseed by using its innovative filters and tools, including the company’s revolutionary U Point technology which enables precise selective enhancements to be made to any area of a photo. Slater, President and CEO of Nik Software. “We’re thrilled with the success and worldwide recognition of our popular mobile app and are excited to bring the Snapseed experience to Mac users for the first time,” said Michael J. Designed exclusively for the Mac and available now on the Mac App Store, this new version of Snapseed combines Nik Software’s professional photography tools with its award-winning interface to deliver a powerful new photography app to Mac users. Snapseed is an innovative photo enhancement and sharing app with a powerful suite of imaging filters and tools for anyone, anywhere to transform any image into an extraordinary photo. Nik Software ( has announced Snapseed® for the Mac. ![]()
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1/9/2024 0 Comments Sony 90mm macro![]() There is definite focus hunting at times, which is reduced by using the focus limiter switch. So definitely getting some benefit from the stabilization, but not as extreme as some other lenses.Īutofocus has some issues but this is expected by the large focal range covered by macro lenses. In real world shooting, I’d keep the shutter speed at 1/50th of a second or higher. At 1/10th, very few of my images were acceptable. At 1/25th of a second, I got a lot of “almost sharp” images. Any slower, it became harder and harder to get a sharp image. At 1/40th of a second, most of my images were quite sharp. Personally, I did not find the stabilization system worked quite as well as some of Sony’s other lenses. The effectiveness of the stabilization will depend on your own steadiness and technique. Stabilization, 1/10, possivle to get fairly sharp image but mostly unusable Some crops shooting between 1/40th of a second and 1/10th of a second Considering that when shooting macro, even the tiniest movement can throw off the shot, stabilization is handy for doing any handheld macro shooting. The Sony 90mm F/2.8 G features optical steady shot (OSS), which works in hybrid with the Sony A7riii’s IBIS system. It is really nice to have when shooting portraits. I re-program the focus hold button to be used for Eye-AF. The focus is by wire and the focus ring as a nice ridged grip. The focus limiter switch has three options: near, far, and full focal range. ![]() The lens also has traditional switches for Optical Steady Shot and focus limiting. ![]() I’m surprised this system isn’t implemented on more lenses as it allows switching to manual focus in one fluid motion. You clutch and pull back the focus ring to switch to manual focus, and extend it back into place for autofocus. So you end up with a slightly shorter and slightly lighter lens).įocus switch is unique on the Sony 90mm F/2.8 Macro G. (For comparison, the Nikon 105mm F/2.8 is 720 grams and the Canon 100mm f/2.8 is 625 grams. It balances quite nicely on Sony full frame bodies. As depicted in the photographs, the lens has a decent amount of bulk but it is low weight considering the size, at 602 grams. It is a solid metal construction with weather sealing. ![]() 1/9/2024 0 Comments Stardew farm layout riverside![]() ![]() This farm is great for those of you brave enough to fight off these creepy creatures in the darkness of the night. Fighting what you may ask? Well, the Wilderness Farm spawns monsters at night that will start attacking the player when they are spotted. The Wilderness map is an amazingly scary map that will have you fighting for your life. Overall this farm lets players level their mining up early on and has minimal cons making it a great choice for anyone who wants a change of scenery from the other maps. This Farm Map contains 1,648 tillable spaces and 930 non-tillable spaces making it great for both farming crops and animals. Although it appears that the river on this farm promotes fishing it only allows players to catch fish 50% of the time and trash the other 50% making it more efficient to just go to other parts of town to collect fish. This map’s focus is aimed primarily at mining, this can be seen quite easily in the quarry as it respawns ore and geode nodes every 4 days. The Hill-top map may just be one of the most interesting maps in the game as it features one large river flowing through the center of the farm at an angle and has a large quarry on top of one of the three hills. This map is also great for harvesting Hardwood in the early game, you can learn more about Hardwood here. While this map has fewer tillable spaces than non-tillable spaces, 1,413 vs 1,490, it’s still a great choice for anyone who loves the aesthetic of the secret woods or who just enjoys foraging around the map. Foragables will spawn depending on the season allowing for Dandelions, Leeks, Morels, and Horseradish in the Spring, Common Mushrooms, Grapes, Spice Berries, and Sweet Peas in the Summer, and Chanterelles, Common Mushrooms, Purple Mushrooms, and Red Mushrooms in the Fall. This map transforms your farm into the secret woods, giving you 8 harvestable Hardwood Stumps a day and allowing forageable items to spawn in the grass on your farm. The Forest Farm gives players a well-balanced experience in the game as it does not change the map too much, however, it makes gameplay just slightly different. The Riverland Farm map is an amazing challenge if you feel like you are bored with the basic farm layout in Stardew. While fishing on the farm players will have a 70% chance to catch river fish and a 30% chance to catch forest fish. While the farming area is extremely small compared to other farms, it allows players to catch both river fish and forest fish without having to leave the farm. ![]() This map only contains 1,578 tillable spaces and has 516 spaces that are not tillable. The Riverland Farm offers players a unique way to play the game as its land is sparse and covered in winding rivers making this farm ideal for those who just want to fish and harvest crab pots. They are best used to refill watering cans or to place Crab Pots as they will catch freshwater creatures like crawfish and snails. ![]() Although this land does have two ponds they are not for fishing as all you can catch is trash. This makes the Standard Farm a great choice for those that want to focus on farming as their main source of income as they can build a good amount of farm buildings while still having land to farm crops and animals on. This map features a total of 3,427 tillable spaces and only 235 spaces which players can’t till, however, they can still build or place items on them. The Standard Farm map is the basic starting farm in Stardew, it features a large amount of farmable land which makes it ideal for beginners or those that want the original Stardew experience. ![]() Overall your choice of Farm Map is down to personal preference, hopefully, this list will help you decide which map is right for you. By default, the farm map is a large farmable area however by selecting certain farm types you can cover your farm in rivers, and forests, or even turn your farm into a beach! Each of the seven Farm maps in Stardew has its own strengths and weaknesses which make them better for certain aspects of the game and worse for others. So Which is The Best Farm Map in Stardew?įarm maps in Stardew Valley are options for what your farm will look like when you start the game. ![]() 1/9/2024 0 Comments Quake remastered physical![]() ![]() It's still the low-pressure fun and worth your time if you're into gaming history. They're not there to add anything to gameplay or atmosphere but to create buzz and pander to the goth demographic of the 90's.ĭespite all that, I'd still recommend it for the sheer nostalgia value alone. Basically, Nine Inch Nails is the equivalent of the Ewoks from "Return of the Jedi". And, the environments have a deliberate try-hard-ness about them. It isn't bad by any means but it's there to show off the visual effects and 3D environments (much like Half Life 2, now that I think about it) rather than make an engaging experience. Developed by the award-winning id Software, Quake® is the ground-breaking, original dark fantasy first-person shooter that inspires today’s retro-style FPS games. Quake II Remastered has been officially announced during QuakeCon 2023, available digitally right now, with Limited Run Games offering physical versions. Rockstar have shown zero respect for their own franchise let alone the dedicated fans crying out for a proper remake. Doom (Empire Strikes Back) was a groundbreaking shift in graphics and gameplay which broke into the mainstream. Quake 2 is a remaster for 7.99 and rdr is daylight robbery. W3D (Star Wars) was a new variation on a standard theme - even back then, WWII-themed games were almost cliche - which put FPS on the map. Wolfenstien 3D, Doom and Quake are kind of like the Star Wars Trilogy. Quake (2021) is clearly a lot nicer than the original, even if the basic material is the same. If I'd caught it back then, though, I think I might have been disappointed. I guess after 26 years a lot's passed it by and it still holds some nostalgia for that era. All the more a letdown because of it's legendary status. To me, it's the "London Calling" of video games. ![]() ![]() Complete with visual enhancements, a new expansion, multiplayer, and the. As it stands, id, Bethesda and Microsoft have incentives to keep producing Quake remasters - they keep the first-person shooter in the limelight and make it playable on modern platforms without resorting to unofficial modifications and ports.Despite being a huge Doom fan, I only got around to this recently. To kick off QuakeCon 2023, Bethesda and ID Software have released a remaster of Quake II. Billbil-kun also saw documents for North American (ESRB) and European (PEGI) ratings. The very first release was heavily focused on the single-player mode (competitive online play even took place on single-player maps), but it quickly became a go-to game for multiplayer thanks to updates and third-party upgrades like ThreeWave's Capture the Flag.Īn introduction won't be surprising.given that a Quake II Remastered game went through South Korea's game rating authority in June. It introduced a semi-open world, objective-based gameplay and visual effects upgrades like colored lighting. Quake II was originally released in 1997 and represented major strides forward in technology and gameplay over its predecessor. The 2019 tweak was meant to showcase NVIDIA's newer computer GPUs with ray-traced lighting and improved textures, but didn't include truly new content or hardware-agnostic visual improvements. Details of the upgrade arent available, but the classic sequel. This won't be the same as Quake II RTX, provided the rumor is accurate. 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In the Preferences there’s a new option Show Results Early. Hence, this is not an entire replacement for Spotlight but it can come handy in certain, if not many, situations. But even on mounted network volumes of a Mac OS X server it can still be surprisingly fast. On the other hand, it may take a little longer than Spotlight, and it is only fast on HFS(+) volumes. Hence it is great for finding system files, for example. This allows you to find any file, even those inside packages and others excluded from Spotlight search. Unlike Spotlight (i.e., the Finder’s Find command), it does not access a pre-built database but searches the chosen volume directly. Has a new hierarchical view of the found items, making it much easier to browse 100s of items (see the screenshot).Ĭan run as root user, finding really any file on your disk, even those that are hidden from normal users.Ĭan save queries and run them again later. Find Any File searches your local disks for files by name, creation or modification date, size, or type and creator code (not by content, though).Īs there are other tools with a similar search operation, here are the special features unique to Find Any File: ![]() 1/8/2024 0 Comments Best pdf readers ipad![]() ![]() Imo notability is fine of your document is short and there’s a lot of writing involved (e.g. I use OneDrive for cloud storage, but most services work just as well. I would think as an English major this one would be particularly useful. I had several articles I was referencing and using to support my proposal, and Liquid Text let me connect ideas and text from across different documents. I got Liquid Text when I was writing a grant proposal for my research. You can buy an upgrade that lets you edit text of PDFs too. PDF expert let me import the lab report documents, annotate my answers on top, save as a flattened copy, and then turn in digital copies, or print physical ones if needed. I’m a biology major so had lots of labs and stuff. I think GoodNotes would fill this need as well, but I’ve never used it because I believe it requires a subscription. I like its notebook system and have tons of documents and references there. I use OneNote for keeping stuff organized. It can import PDFs, so can handle pretty much any document and PPT. The best feature is recording audio & syncing it with your written notes so you listen to what the prof said when you wrote a particular item down. It handles writing with the pencil as well as any app out there. Notability is a great app for lecture notes, but I’m not a fan of it’s organizational capabilities. Writing papers where I need to reference other documents - liquid text Retaining Documents and organization - OneNoteĪnnotating documents that I will turn in (lab report or something that needs a signature) - PDF Expert ![]() I know there are a lot of suggestions here, and I use more than one of the apps mentioned for different things that I feel they are particularly suited for. Thank you for reporting spam and other rule-breaking content. If you have any suggestions regarding subreddit or community improvements, you can message the moderators at any time. Exceptions may be made and the final say goes to the moderators. Self-Promotion is prohibited unless posted and presented as self-promotion, and only in the General Discussion Thread. ![]()
![]() ![]() Notably, with the emphasis on the low end, there is no sign of rumble, which is often associated with noise and vibration from the motor arrangement, and this is a positive observation.įor a 45 RPM record, I chose Ed Sheeran’s multiply which is a double album. I will add the bass presentation from the Pro-Ject is excellent with the REL supporting the Kudos speakers. The only problem with a 10” double album, is I’m up and down every 10 or 12 minutes or so flipping the vinyl over in a trance. My favourite track, The Pyramid Song, is towering, wide and emotional. It has a clean delivery too in Packt Like Sardines. Turning to my 10” copy double LP copy of Radiohead’s Amnesiac, I immediately have a sense of an energetic presentation from the Pro-Ject Debut Carbon EVO. 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There is also a clear plastic dust cover included that slots on the plinth elegantly. Pro-Ject claim this delivers a “quieter and noiseless operation with less wow and flutter”.įinally, the phono output cable is detachable (and therefore upgradeable?) with a grounding wire alongside it. The metal-based platter is heavy at 1.7kg, it features a thermoplastic elastomer damper on the inside rim that creates a flywheel effect. The Pro-Ject Debut Carbon EVO has three big metal feet The Pro-Ject Debut Carbon EVO can turn to 78 RPM if required, with a belt change. On the front underside is an ON (33.3 RPM) – OFF – ON (45 RPM) switch that controls the speed, and this clever idea avoids changing the belt to adjust the speed. The motor for the turntable is suspended below the plinth to prevent mechanical noise transference to the cartridge and tonearm assembly. The metal feet have a felt pad on the underside. The turntable is mounted on three adjustable circular metal feet making levelling a simple task. The carbon fibre offers a stiff but lightweight tonearm for the cartridge, claim Pro-Ject. The Pro-Ject Debut Carbon EVO has a classic turntable look with the single piece 8.6” carbon fibre tonearm looking every inch the part. Pro-Ject has a century-old relationship with Ortofon and the turntable is supplied with their well-established Ortofon 2M Red moving magnet cartridge. Owner, I have unboxed the Pro-Ject Debut Carbon EVO noting the differences in design but reflecting that the two are similar in price and tactile operation, though they are an audio generation apart. Pro-Ject Debut Carbon EVO with Ortofon 2M Red cartridge ![]() 1/8/2024 0 Comments Walmart ebooks![]() ![]() Walmart eBooks will be accessible through co-branded iOS and Android apps, which also launched today, and on Kobo eReaders. In 1,000 stores, we will offer the Kobo Aura starting later this week. Access to Kobo’s eReaders online and in-store – Starting today, customers can choose from a variety of Kobo eReaders on.These cards will roll out to stores beginning this week. The ability to purchase digital book cards in 3,500 Walmart stores – We’ll offer nearly 40 titles including The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle, Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse-Tyson and Capital Gaines by Chip Gaines.A new monthly audiobook subscription – Customers will be able to subscribe to our audiobook service for $9.99 per month, which includes one audiobook per month.Kobo’s library of more than six million titles – from New York Times best sellers to a wide variety of indie titles and children’s books.Walmart eBooks will complement our vast physical book assortment and offer customers a comprehensive digital book solution, introducing an entirely new category that hasn’t been previously available at Walmart. 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