Photoshop CS6
Posted on | March 19, 2012 | No Comments
1
Camera Raw has been improved again. More new settings for you to fine-tune your raw image. Now I feel like Camera Raw is just closer to Photoshop instead of a broken part of a small application.
Sometimes your image border color is same as background color, you can change to Black, Gray or Custom color in CS5. Now in CS6, you have more preset choices.
Not many people know that you can change the brush/erasure size/hardness by using the mouse. Even you know how to use it, you don’t know what is the current value of the hardness. In CS6, it is shown on the brush as you change it.
2
background save for large file to save your time in waiting and the most powerful liquify tool can now support large file. There is a big problem in many old filters that they do not support large pixels. Most likely Adobe is not going to fix all filters but hope them fix it in new filters.
3
Creating dashed and dotted lines with Transparency with just one click in Photoshop.
4
See more advanced features of Photoshop Content-Aware technology.
In CS5, if you move an object, the original place will be empty. In CS6, you can just move an object and Photoshop will fill up the original area by use Content Aware Fill.
In CS5, if you use Content Aware Fill, it only finds surrounding content to fill the selection. In CS6, you can fill the area by selected content with using Patch Tool.
5
Adobe has many preset brushes, styles, materials, etc in Photoshop where many people do not know. Even you know it, you still need to append one set at a time which takes lots of time to append all. In CS6, you can add all by one click. Better than that, you can all your add-in to share to others.
Adding color to the multiple layers.
Automate has a new feature to change your Photoshop file into a PDF presentation.
6
We have been using Gaussian in the early years, then we use Lens blur for these years. In CS6, we have 3 new blur effects – Field Blur, Iris Blur, Tilt-Shift. Lens Blur cannot pretend Depth of field as our eyes has less blur for closer objects and more blur for far objects. With Iris Blur, now you do not need a DSLR can do beautiful deep depth.
7
3D capabilities to come in Photoshop CS6 Extended, including enhanced performance and the ability to change the position, color, material, shadow, and light source of a 3D image in an easier way than CS5. In CS5, you need to find the mesh to move each object which is the same idea as any 3D program. But in CS6, they bring it back to Photoshop layers idea. It’s so much nicer to bring 3D to Photoshop instead pushing me to 3D world, a horrible world.
Remote Desktop shortcut keys
Posted on | February 24, 2012 | No Comments
Remote Desktop has some really handy shortcuts that are documented right there in the help file:
| Shortcut key | Description |
| ALT+PAGE UP | Switches between programs from left to right. |
| ALT+PAGE DOWN | Switches between programs from right to left. |
| ALT+INSERT | Cycles through the programs in the order they were started. |
| ALT+HOME | Displays the Start menu. |
| CTRL+ALT+BREAK | Switches the client between a window and full screen. |
| CTRL+ALT+END | Brings up the Windows Security dialog box. |
| ALT+DELETE | Displays the Windows menu. |
| CTRL+ALT+Minus (-) symbol on the numeric keypad | Places a snapshot of the active window, within the client, on the Terminal server clipboard (provides the same functionality as pressing PrintScrn on a local computer.) |
| CTRL+ALT+Plus (+) symbol on the numeric keypad | Places a snapshot of the entire client window area on the Terminal server clipboard (provides the same functionality as pressing ALT+PrintScrn on a local computer.) |
Functional Dependency Diagram
Posted on | February 21, 2012 | No Comments
Normal Forms: 1NF →2NF →3NF
First Normal Form –1NF
A table is in 1NF if and only if it satisfies the condition that it contains atomic values only.
Second Normal Form –2NF
A table is in 2NF if and only if it is in 1NF and the table shows no partial dependency.
Third Normal Form –3NF
A table is in 3NF if and only if it is in 2NF (and thus also 1NF) and the table shows no transitive dependency.
Different of multi-tasking and multi-programming
Posted on | February 18, 2012 | No Comments
The concept of multi-tasking and multi-programming and the advantages in modern operating systems :
Multiprogramming: In a multiprogramming system, multiple programs are loaded into the memory at the same time, but they are executed one by one sequentially.
- The advantage of a multiprogramming system is to maximize the usage of the CPU.
Multitasking: In a multitasking system, the CPU executes multiple jobs at the same time by switching among them. The system switches from one user to another user rapidly. Each user only owns the system for a very short CPU time slot. The users can interact with the system at the running time.
- The advantage of a multitasking system is to minimize the response time of each user. The multitasking system is also called as the time-sharing system.
Yii
Posted on | January 16, 2012 | No Comments
Yii is a PHP framework best for developing Web 2.0 applications. Yii is a free, open-source Web application development framework written in PHP5 that promotes clean, DRY design and encourages rapid development. It works to streamline your application development and helps to ensure an extremely efficient, extensible, and maintainable end product.
word xml footer evenAndOddHeaders
Posted on | December 13, 2011 | No Comments
if you want to change the footer to “different in odd and even pages”, find pkg:name=”/word/settings.xml”, then add <w:evenAndOddHeaders/> under <w:defaultTabStop w:val=”720″/>
The benefits of using SharePoint as a CMS
Posted on | October 12, 2011 | No Comments
The benefits of using SharePoint as a CMS:
User can develop the website without writing HTML code. SharePoint has some built-in editor for users to use it as word. ei. WYSIWYG.
User can create workflow-Create the workflow to do the task automatically
User can use InfoPath Form Service to create a new form
Easy to manage user permission
User can share the document-can manage the read/write permission of the document, has check-in/check-out function and can check last publish by who
JavaScript set default selected option with PHP
Posted on | October 12, 2011 | No Comments
If I want to set the difference default value for the difference user at the select box, you can try to use this solution.
function selectCountry(str){ //Give a string that you what to select the value
var i=null;
var obj = document.getElementById(“country”);
for (i=0; i< obj.options.length; i++) //Use for loop to check the options value is same for the string or not
{
if (obj.options[i].value == str)
{
obj.selectedIndex = i;
return; //If same, then the select box will select the value and exit the function
}
}
}
<body onload=”selectCountry(‘<?php echo $_SESSION['country']; ?>’)”> //Set at body onload that it will run when the page loading
citi
Posted on | June 28, 2011 | No Comments
citigroup suffered about US$2.7 million in losses after hackers found a way to steal credit card numbers from its website and post fraudulent charges. Citi acknowledged the breach earlier this month, saying hackers had accessed more than 360,000 Citi credit card accounts of US customers. The hackers didn’t get into Citi’s main credit card processing system, but were reportedly able to obtain the numbers, along with the customers’ names and contact information, by logging into the Citi Account Online website and guessing account numbers. Until now, it wasn’t clear how much –if any –fraud had occurred as a result of the theft. But Citi confirmed Friday that there were losses of $2.7 million from about 3,400 accounts. The bank has said its customers will not be liable for the losses. Citi learned about the hack on May 10 and began notifying customers on June 3. The bank said other sensitive data, such as Social Security numbers, birthdates and the cards’ CVV (Card Verification Value) security codes used for online transactions, were not taken. In addition to the fraud losses, Citigroup will have to pay the cost of notifying customers and reissuing credit card numbers for the 360,000 affected clients. The Ponemon Institute has estimated the average cost of a data breach at $214 per compromised record. By that yardstick, the breach would cost the bank $77 million.
thousands of Citibank On Line Credit Card Accounts Hacked. Customers Name, Account Numbers and E-Mail Addresses Compromised.
Posted on | June 10, 2011 | No Comments
The Citibank hacking attack was in early May 2011 but made public on June 08, 2011 when a Financial Times.com news staff member inquired Citi about the bank’s hacking attack. Citi customers advised Financial Times that they tried to use the card and the transaction was denied. Close to 210,000 Citi North America accounts may have been compromised. After being confronted by the media, the bank acknowledged the hack and said that customers are being notified. Citi said that customers names, account numbers and e-mail addresses where compromised. This was not a run-of-the mill attack, it is a cybercrime operation directly aimed to a major world wide bank. Normally, these types of hacks are oriented to the third party transactions credit card handlers, such as private ATM machines providers and point of sales (POS) merchants. This time it is a direct hit to the bank on line credit card system. The target was a money handling operation and as such it is safe to say that there is a big percentage of probability that the intent of the hack was to steal money. Since money is involved, it is crucial that the victims be advised promptly. Even when the money is insured by the FDIC, the headaches and perils of identity theft are not to be taken lightly.
regulate the time lapse between the cybercrime incident and the notification of the event to the victims, the government is stepping in. The White House proposed, in a Cyber Security Policy last month a document titled “Creating Effective Information Sharing and Incident Response” this policy addresses the issue in paragraph IV, page 23. A separate bill, by Senator Patrick Leahy, would similarly make concealing a data breach a federal crime. We understand the fact that a hacking attack of this type should be kept confidential for a reasonable amount of time, to allow the computer forensics team to perform mitigation, prevention and investigative functions, but waiting to make public the event only after the media inquires about it, because victims are coming out in the open, is not acceptable and does not do any good to the industry and in addition, creates public distrust. That is the reason that the Government Administrative Branch and Congress are stepping in to regulate the computer data breaches notification procedures to victims. No one likes to know that his or her identity has been stolen while watching, listening or reading the media.
from: http://technorati.com/technology/article/thousands-of-citibank-on-line-credit/
keep looking »