Friday, December 30, 2011

3D Avatar Chat in Virtual Worlds


With advance of the computer technologies, the games characters more and more remind those from the real world. The graphic quality and operational speed sometimes cause you to forget that it is your computer and not reality show.

Moove is offering capabilities for advanced chat, but chat, enhanced with almost real virtual representation. Actually, Moove gives you a key to a freely customizable 3D world. You have an unlimited number of 3D rooms that you can always create anew for private communication with full control access to these rooms and your privacy. You can easily paint your rooms, furnish them with usable furniture, and decorate them with your own pictures and graphics.

The unique Actor Studio allows you to easily create your very own 3D actors (avatars). The actors' gestures and movements are completely life-like and natural - the actors can laugh, kiss, hug, walk around, jump, pull faces, and execute many more interactions and actions. All members can visit each other, chat, show their rooms, and much more!

To do this all members will get the free revolutionary software “moove Roomancer”. Note that your 3D rooms (the 3D software "moove Roomancer") is not dependant on a server and is installed on your own computer, therefore your house can be used both online and offline.

Just click a name on the member list sorted by your interests and you are coming together instantly. You can chat, laugh, kiss, hug your friends, exchange files with them, show your own pictures, marry virtually. Use cam and voice to get to know your chat partner even better. Find friends from all over the world and fall in love - "Anything goes".

Some screenshots:

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Saturday, December 24, 2011

Create Funny Images with Scrapface


Scrapface, in line with several other free online services, fills a very important niche on the Web. You are able to make personalized funny images from your pictures, using readily available templates. Scrapface offers also several animated templates, which can be used for various purposes, like B-day eCard, posts on Facebook or MySpace, or just be sent to your friends by email to introduce some funny moment to the busy day.

The site has several sections to make it easy to find a right solution for your photo-joke:
  • Section Effects allows adding seamlessly you image to the attractive theme. Some of the themes are similar to those on other competitive sites, other are completely unique. The loaded image should be in one of the following popular graphic formats as JPG, GIF, or PNG, and not to exceed the size of 4 Mb. After image uploading, you may choose the best area of the picture, resize, or crop. As ready, resulting image can be downloaded on your Hard Drive or shared directly online.

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  • Section Tools offers more capabilities of enhancing your creative products. Among the tools are glitter stamps, glitter background, artistic frames, glitter or standard non-animated text, and other photo effects. The requirements for the input image are the same as in the previous section.
  • Section Magazines allows you to put your portrait, or portrait of your friend on the magazine cover.  
  • Section Faces traditionally proposes to place your face inside the other body, while multiple fictional and real popular figures are available for your manipulations. To improve the smoothness of the transition, you can drag, resize, or rotate you photo. You can also adjust brightness, contrast, hue and saturation to make your results perfect. When you are happy with the result, click button "S" and download the image on your hard drive.

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  • Ecards section devoted to the nice electronic greeting cards preparation. It is similar to the first section, but offers particularly romantic themes for your creation.

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Site is accessible with several languages, including English and Ukrainian.


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Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Books should be Free: Three Sources of Free Legal Audio Books


Several years ago, I got hooked on Audio Books. While my commute to work is not very long, it might be quite unpleasant due to the occasional bad traffic. But now, in a company with good book, even light morning traffic jam is not so annoying. As you think in the evening about interesting book, waiting on the pillow, the same way you will be expecting to get in the car to continue the new audio book journey.

If you love to read books, but do not have time, audio books are the nice alternative. It may not replace the book, as the genre is slightly different, and the book perception is largely depends on the reader.

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There are multiple resources on the Web offering you free and commercial opportunities to download all kinds of books recorded as audio files. Not all of them are strictly legal, so you if are law obedient citizen of the virtual world, you still may enjoy really free audio files from web sites, who offer classic and other recorded books whose copyrights have expired, including many works from popular writers as Jane Austen, Edgar Allen Poe, H.G. Wells, Ayn Rand and more.

In this post, I would like to present three featured web sites, offering free legal audio books for downloading:

  1. Librophile (http://www.librophile.com/)
Librophile offers a simple interface for finding audio books and eBooks for further review and downloading. You can browse the latest books, search by keywords or choose more broadly by genre. You can often listen to chapters online, download a whole book, play a sample or subscribe using iTunes.

  1. Books Should be Free (http://www.booksshouldbefree.com/)
Books Should be Free – website dedicated to offer its visitors free downloading of audio books from the public domain in mp3, iPod, or iTunes format. Public domain means that no one holds a copyright on these books and therefore anyone including BooksShouldBeFree.com is free to distribute them.

  1. Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg makes audio eBooks available for some of the same great literature available in plain text. The listings are divided into two categories: Human-read (http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/categories/1) and computer-generated (http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/categories/2) audio books. Definitely, the computer-generated voices used in these books are similar to those on automated systems used by the blind, as well as some telephone automation systems, and not as pleasant as human voices, but these books are still free… And there are no late fees…




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