Smart Installer Pack Automatically Installs Your Favorite Software to a New PC - Installers @sprik2323: Why do people keep mentioning portable apps. This is a different problem. Even with "portable apps" you have to download the installer for different applications. Even with portable apps the applications update and you have to either download the installer again, or hope the application has a built in update facility. Don't get me wrong, portable apps are great to carry around and use on other PCs, but on my own desktop I actually want to install some of these applications. Another reason I like actual applications is security. @johnsmith1234: You do have point. The main goal of SIP as mentioned on their website is to "incorporate a handful of software* usually installed on new computers, reinstalled operating systems, etc.". For me, personally, I can achieve this goal using PortableApps. However, a lot of users want to have the applications installed. This is a valid concern as well.
30 Excellent Pixel Art Tutorials For Pixel Lovers If you’re born in 90s, I am sure that you have witnessed the glorious age of the pixel art. It exists on the old-school gaming platform, mobile phone and other digital devices. It’s one of the greatest technological inventions that dominate the digital world for several years, and now it rises again as a definitive art form within the artist community. Doing the pixel art could mean that you’re striving for perfection, as you even need to manually craft out the shading, dithering and even anti-aliasing. Today, with the aim to provide you a solid understanding of the pixel art and its essential techniques, we want to showcase to you 30 detailed and inspiring tutorials by talented pixel artists to help you carve out possibly one of the most detailed works in your life. Try on them and you’ll know, full list of tutorials after jump! Recommended Reading: 50 Beautiful and Creative Pixel Arts Shading Of A Rock Textures Tree Adding Pattern Ever wanted to explore the ways to create cute pixel art?
5 Quick Steps To Manage Software Updates With SUMo When you open a program to work with it, do you have the nerve to download and install an available update first? I didn’t think so. But will you do it after you’re done? Keeping all of your software up to date is essential for several reasons. SUMo, which stands for Software Updates Monitor, is such a tool. There are five quick steps to secure a top notch system when it comes to software updates: 1. To benefit from SUMo, you must make sure that you will actually use it. Tim recently explained how to Run Programs Automatically Using Windows Task Scheduler. Pick a time when you will likely have the time and patience for this task, and don’t forget to test whether your scheduled task works properly. 2. When SUMo pops up for the first time, hit the Scan button, so that SUMo can detect installed software. 3. Now, hit the Check button and come back in 3 to 5 minutes to see which software requires your attention. A green checkmark is a good sign indicating that the software is up to date. 4.
Hexagonal Grids This page includes interactive diagrams that require your browser to have SVG and Javascript enabled. Hexagons are 6-sided polygons. Regular hexagons have all the sides (edges) the same length. I’ll assume all the hexagons we’re working with here are regular. Hexagons have 6 edges. Angles In a regular hexagon the interior angles are 120°. function hex_corner(center, size, i): var angle_deg = 60 * i + 30 var angle_rad = PI / 180 * angle_deg return Point(center.x + size * cos(angle_rad), center.y + size * sin(angle_rad)) To fill a hexagon, gather the polygon vertices at hex_corner(…, 0) through hex_corner(…, 5). The difference between the two orientations is that x and y are swapped, and that causes the angles to change: angles are 0°, 60°, 120°, 180°, 240°, 300° and angles are 30°, 90°, 150°, 210°, 270°, 330°. Size and Spacing Next we want to put several hexagons together. Switch to or back to hexagons. The width of a hexagon is width = sqrt(3)/2 * height. Offset coordinates Cube coordinates
Download the Microsoft Web Platform Overview The Microsoft Web Platform Installer - WebPI provides a simplified installation workflow for installing common open source web applications and web platform technologies The Microsoft Web Platform Installer is a free tool that makes it simple to download, install and keep up-to-date with the latest components of the Microsoft Web Platform, including Internet Information Services (IIS), SQL Server Express, .NET Framework and Visual Studio. Web PI also makes it easy to install and run the most popular free web applications for blogging, content management and more with the built-in Windows Web Application Gallery By clicking the Download links below, you agree to the license terms for the Microsoft Web Platform Installer. Download WebPI 5.0 English: x64 installer / x86 installer
FontForge Ninite: One installer, multiple programs OK so you’ve just reinstalled Windows for whatever reason (update, clean slate etc). Now you have to sit there for about an hour just downloading all your favourite programs again and installing them. Well not any more. Ninite is a revolutionary new way of installing the software you want. [Editor’s note: this review was written by Freewaregenius contributor Carbonize. Ninite is also clever and it will not install toolbars or anything else that the programs try to install. Ninite has only supports a limited number of programs at present (66) but does offer some of the more popular and better known software. The only problems I have with Ninite are just little niggles. Compatibility: WinAll. Go to the program home page to download. MonsterFace Games: Creating a pixel font for your game I recently sunk about two full days into using FontForge to develop my own custom pixelated font. Most font tutorials weren't designed for pixelated fonts, so there was a bit of a learning curve. I thought I'd post a tutorial outlining what I'd learned, both for posterity and for myself when I inevitably forget all of this in a month or two. My font currently looks like this: You'll notice that I've replaced a lot of the latin-1 character set with standard RPG symbols like swords, shields and potions. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to create a font, how font sizing works, how to draw glyphs by outline, and how to use the bitmap strike editor to draw your font pixel-by-pixel. We'll be using FontForge, a free font editor that's quite powerful and easy enough to use once you get the hang of it. After you install and start FontForge, you have two choices: either use an existing font as a starting point, or create everything from scratch. pixel width = (glyph width / em size) * font size
Windows Software Deployment With TGUP Computers that are bought in stores and those that are build individually do not come with software preinstalled usually. A few options are available to deploy software on those new computer systems like installing each program manually, using custom operating system setups that install applications during the regular OS installation or running a program like TGUP after installation that offers to install multiple software programs without user interaction. TGUP, which stands for The Great Unattended Project, is a Windows software deployment application that can be used to install popular free software in Windows. The program can be used to either download and install the selected software or to only download it and create a silent installer. The second method can be used for multiple installations on different computer systems or to prepare the setup for a computer without Internet connection. TGUP is a portable program that will launch a command line window upon execution.