An illustrator is a graphic artist who specializes in enhancing written text by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text. The illustration may be intended to clarify complicated concepts or objects that are difficult to describe textually, or the illustration may be intended for entertainment, as in greeting cards, or cover art or interior art for books and magazines, or for advertisement, as on posters.
Microsoft, eat your own dog food
Tue, 26 Aug 2008 08:06:12 -0700
"Eating your own dog food" is an odd software development-related term that describes the importance of ensuring that your own developers use the technology they are creating. When Microsoft has hewed closed to this principle, their products have achieved dominant market shares. Unfortunately, Microsoft is not applying this...
MSI Eclipse - First X58 motherboard for Intel Core i7
Tue, 26 Aug 2008 07:50:27 -0700
MSI has unveiled details of its new Eclipse motherboard - the company's first X58 motherboard for Intel Core i7. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
Intel teases shape-shifting programmable matter
Fri, 22 Aug 2008 07:46:30 -0700
Intel CEO Justin Rattner teased his Intel Developer Forum audience with technology of the not-so-disant-future that could take an object design of any imaginable shape, 'hit the print command,' and see the matter take shape. SAN FRANCISCO, CA--Mobile phones in future could be thumb-sized in pockets, and in practically...
Nokia and Sun confirm S40, Java ME vulnerabilities
Thu, 21 Aug 2008 11:21:26 -0700
According to published reports, Nokia and Sun have both confirmed the existence of serious security problems in the Series 40 and Java Platform Micro Edition Java ME , giving instant credibility to the claims by Polish hacker Adam Gowdiak. Gowdiak left, one of the four LSD researchers...
Pulse provides novel training and tools configuration resource to aid in developer education, preparedness
Thu, 21 Aug 2008 08:08:42 -0700
MyEclipse maker Genuitec developed Pulse last year to monitor and update the most popular Eclipse plug-ins, but Pulse also has a powerful role in making Java training and tools preferences configuration management more streamlined, automated and extensible. by Dana Gardner
Intel backs Microsoft's concurrent-computing play
Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:10:50 -0700
On August 20, Intel rolled out new parallel-processing tools that support Microsoft's concurrent runtime environment that is expected to become a central component of Redmond's next-generation computing model. by Mary Jo Foley
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Hot Door - Transparency 1.01 turns artwork into edited transparent lenses in Illustrator 8 for Mac or Windows.
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Illustrator Answers - Downloads of symbols, styles and brushes, actions, and seamless texture and map patterns. Illustrator 9 PDF white paper and FAQs. Links to other related Illustrator sites.
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from aDVD that accompanies the book Fashion Illustration for Designers by Kathryn Hagen. Ms. Hagen is a fashion ...