What are the market shares for the three main search engine giants on the internet for the 3 months from February to April of 2010? Here are some data from COMSCORE:
Search engine rankings from February to April 2010
Google continues to enjoy the lion’s share of the search market at around 65% for each of the three months from February to April 2010. Yahoo comes in second with about 17% while Microsoft’s Bing brings up the rear at 12% (percentages averaged and rounded).
And this is the parody on Adobe’s sneak peek video on Content-Aware Fill. I thought it was rather humorous.
This was the original sneak peek video that Adobe uploaded onto YouTube just 3weeks before the official launch. It gave a good idea of what the feature would be capable of.
Before: Two Spanish boys frolicking on a beach in Altea
After: The two boys removed using Content-Aware Fill
Yesterday, I showed how Photoshop CS5’s new Content-Aware Fill can be applied using the Spot Healing brush. The second way of using the powerful feature is to use the Content-Aware option when applying the Fill command.
I took the photo of two local boys at the Spanish beach at Altea, just 10 km to the north of the famous beach haven of Benidorm on the Costa Blanca. I like the way these two boys added life to the beach scene. But just to test out the Content-Aware Fill, I decided to “remove” them from the photo.
Before: Ugly clothes-line in front of charming traditional Japanese shophouse
After: Clothes-line removed with Spot Healing brush using Content-Aware
The most hyped feature in Photoshop CS5 is the Content-Aware Fill. The feature enables you to remove an object in your photo and see it automatically replaced with pixels that match the lighting, tone, and noise of the surrounding area so that it looks like the removed object never existed. Previously, you would have to painstakingly use the Clone Stamp tool to manually copy pixels from surrounding areas to replace the unwanted object.
There are two ways to use Content-Aware Fill. The first is to paint with the Spot Healing Brush (which I will demo today) while the other is as an option of the Fill command to replace content in an active selection.
Vol 3 2010, May/June issue of MIS-Asia
More than 40 senior IT heads and managers in the industry gathered in Raffles Hotel on 6 Apr 2010 to get an idea of the actual IT implementation and planned future investment planning among enterprises in Asia. The results of IT Nation survey conducted by MIS-Asia was presented to attendees, who also heard from a slew of presenters from Novell, Quest, Sophos and NUS. Topics covered included Cloud Computing, Desktop Virtualisation, Information Security and a study of different mentalities of technopreneurs.
An account of the seminar is available on the May/June issue of MIS-Asia.
Before: Nice sunset over Siloso beach marred by the flying fox cables overhead.
After: Cables removed with Spot Healing Brush and straightened
I chose a brush size slightly wider than each of the flying fox cables. Dragging over the cables got Photoshop to replace them seamlessly with pixels from the sky around. To straighten the photo, just select the Ruler Tool (nested below the Eyedropper Tool), drag along the horizon and click the Straighten button (new in CS5) on the options bar at the top of the screen.
Photoshop provides many ways of removing unwanted people or objects from your photos. In this article that I wrote for Digital Life on 12 May 2010, I illustrate the use of some of the tools in Photoshop CS5 in different situations. The article is the first of a new 12-part series that will run in Digital Life every Wednesday.
Get Adobe CS5 at S$3925 or Photoshop CS5 at S$1057 instead of the street prices of S$5036 and S$1354 respectively. JK Technology is offering the roadshow promotional prices until end of May 2010. I have listed the prices for the other components of CS5 at the end of this post.
Adobe CS5 launched on 12 Apr 2010
The Singapore leg of the 5 nation promotion took place from 0900 to 1720 hrs at Suntec City Ballroom. Judging by the agenda and the selection of presenters and keynote speakers, it is clear that Adobe sees Singapore as the most significant market in South East Asia, followed by Thailand, Malaysia and the Philippines, and Indonesia. The Thailand stopover, supposed to be the first stop, was postponed indefinitely in view of the political situation there.
Anybody can make music using Apple's GarageBand
A relaxing evening at Bedok Regional Library catching up with fellow creative crew on the local scene. “Sushi chefs” Ivan Chew and Stefano Virgilli put their heads together to produce a short 2-min video slideshow of 40 digital photos, complete with self-composed instrumental soundtrack.
Linus Lim kicked off the evening’s program by waxing lyrical about Adobe Fireworks’ usefulness as a prototyping tool and revealed that the splash screens for the software in Adobe’s CS5 suite were made using Fireworks. He briefed on the enhancements in the CS5 version of Fireworks.
Smartphones have become the next battleground for the technology behemoths to seize pole position. Exciting times lie ahead with the rivalry between Apple’s iPhone/iPad and smartphones based on Google’s Android, while HP plots its next move with the newly acquired Palm’s WebOS, and incumbent leader RIM seeks to preserve its market share.
Google & Android vs Apple & iPhone
According to the NPD Group, smartphones sold during the first quarter of 2010 in the United States stands had the following OS (operating system). NPD’s sales data are based on large consumer surveys:
