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Free tools for Engineers

2011-02-22T11:17:00.001+08:00

I found this over the weekend and recommended it to the team engineer is the office.
Hopefully it is useful to others.

Microsoft Mathematics 4.0
http://www.microsoft.com/education/products/student/math/default.aspx#overview
From basic math to precalculus, Microsoft Mathematics 4.0 can help you visualize and see mathematical concepts as you’ve never seen them before. This free downloadable tool includes step-by-step instructions and explains fundamental concepts. The wide range of tools to help students with complex mathematics includes a full-featured graphing calculator that’s designed to work just like a hand-held calculator and ink handwriting support to recognize hand-written problems.

For personal development, mainly because officially we have other software to use.

To play and learn more about 2D drafting
DoubleCAD™ XT is an AutoCAD LT® work-alike. But free.
For info: http://www.doublecad.com/Products/DoubleCADXTv3/tabid/1100/Default.aspx

To play and learn basic of a Project Management Software
OpenProj is a free, open source project management solution.
http://openproj.org/openproj
OpenProj shares the industry's most advanced scheduling engine with Project-ON-Demand and provides Gantt Charts, Network Diagrams (PERT Charts), WBS and RBS charts, Earned Value costing and more.

Both software does try and “Up Sell” you to paid software, generally with nags but no other disruptive tactics.

Again the last two software is for learning, and not as primary tools for current projects.
Hope this helps.

Vue 3D Test

2010-07-02T08:18:00.004+08:00

Trying to get the hang of building good water and sky with Vue. This is one of more enjoyable test render.

Open and Free Sourced Software

2010-05-07T17:38:00.002+08:00

As I have been doing more setting up of computers of late than doing art works. So let me share some essential softwares for any machines, expecially those that need work done on them.

1. 7-zip found at http://www.7-zip.org/ - this is an amazing utility, I don't know how I could work without zipping files and uncompressing the large of files this software works with.

2. PDF Creator found at http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/ - not to be used for professional printers, but for normal distribution of PDF via email or just saving it for future reference, this software is great.

3. CCleaner + Defraggler found at http://www.piriform.com/ - great for cleaning up the mess windows makes after itself.

4. Firefox found at http://www.mozilla.org/ - everybody knows this software, I use it because I do feel its safer online than its alternatives.

5. Google Earth + Sketchup found at http://earth.google.com/ & http://sketchup.google.com/ - a great place to play with 3D.

6. K+Lite Codecs found at http://www.codecguide.com/ - safer to pick up a codec pack than download codecs as you need it. This one seems to be the most complete one.

7. Paint.net found at http://www.getpaint.net/ - for systems that does not have photoshop but needs some of the tools.

Thats for it for now.

Moving back in

2010-05-04T00:18:00.001+08:00

Okay its been a while but I am planning to start posting again.
So be ready for my return :)

Cheers, jags

jagarts' logo mark

2008-10-05T23:47:00.003+08:00

Finally completed my mark. Its not really a big jump from my old mark but just update of details. Now of to the work logo for it.

All-One Foundation Site

2008-09-03T13:39:00.003+08:00

Its finally up :)
A Pro-Bono project I have been working on for the past few months. The site was for a friend who has a great cause, check out the site to learn more.
This site besides helping me get a good feeling inside (for doing good) also helped me work with wordpress and its template. The new version of wordpress is far far more better, it has improved to make it easy to work with and also hand over for the team on the other side to maintain.

Making a comeback

2008-08-24T10:21:00.003+08:00

Changing jobs, the last one that lasted 3 months did not suit me. Too many things went wrong... sigh ... that is life for you.

The new one is more hands on design and development. Hopefully I can start posting here regularly. Wish me luck!

More photos for SXC

2008-05-21T08:50:00.003+08:00

Four new images for SXC.hu, and I think I am getting the hang of things. No rejection this time around and I also started completing the keywords properly.

To complete it all, the lessons from Lynda.com about sharpening images makes them far more stronger.

3D test again

2008-04-19T12:18:00.002+08:00

Carrara Pro 5 test render. Nice

Energy Burst

2008-04-10T17:26:00.003+08:00

Not fractals this time, just abuse of photoshop. I love that software. The colors ended up with so much energy ... hope i can repeat this again :)

Factal Light

2008-03-30T12:17:00.003+08:00

Bright colors and strong motions ... don't you just love it :)

Photoshop and Apophysis

New Design - Strawberry eDM

2008-02-11T16:51:00.000+08:00

Simple Render

2007-12-13T11:02:00.001+08:00

More play time with blender, this is just a test to see if I really have figured out how to set HRDI and Yafray for render :)

GMAPS eCard

2007-12-04T13:14:00.000+08:00

Its been a while since I last posted. Been busy with real work, but I am back again. First up is an eCard designed for my brothers company. This is a simple card that he could forward using Outlook with space to place a special message for the particular client.

Simple design, with focus on projects completed.

Test upload

2007-12-01T16:52:00.000+08:00

This is a quick one to upload my site

Another Lot of Free Stockphoto

2007-11-15T09:04:00.000+08:00

With a new camera and new resolve I was able to have 3 more images accepted in stock.xchng. The problem now is to pass this mark. 5 uploads, I have submitted quite a number of other ideas but they have been rejected. Sigh ... have to dig deep down for ideas on this.

It looks like I will be moving back to sketching for a while to clear my head. Then hopefully I can come up with some more ideas to try out with this.

Fractals rock!

2007-11-01T22:24:00.000+08:00

Another fractal piece and texture photo, and I almost forgot the most important ... some photoshop magic :)

Playing with fractals - Explore

2007-11-01T11:34:00.000+08:00

Got a new software to play with, called Apophysis. Its a fractal generator and this is my first piece that is rooted in this software. I can see many more fun projects with this :)

Contributing to sxc.hu

2007-10-31T00:37:00.000+08:00

Finally did it, contributed back to sxc.hu. after years of using the site to be source of my Photoshop work I am giving back to the community.

One conceptual piece and 3 textures (strong and bold textures). Do visit the site and if you do like them, register and download. Its free :)

update: I only got 2 of them through (the top two) the bottom two are something that they did not need (subject matter wise). Sigh will try again later. Now have to figure out other photos I can make.

End of the World

2007-10-06T23:25:00.001+08:00

This a piece done for urban collective website. Theme driven art, an unusual thing for me, considering I love doing things randomly. Photoshop digital work with stocks from Stock.XCHNG.

Me looking on

2007-09-24T17:31:00.000+08:00

Bored today, so tried to make a new caricature of me looking on ....

2 RAWS

2007-09-23T18:44:00.001+08:00

These two pieces were done randomly while I was alone in a bar. The place was cool, with nice jazz music, but I was alone and needed to do something. Took out the old pencil and tracing paper and started building stuff, these two stood out ... well in the raw form. I could not let it go and ended up playing with it in photoshop. It looks nice now :)

Color Flow

2007-09-10T10:21:00.001+08:00

Permanent Marker + Highlighter, trying the big bulky strokes and mixing colors. Still experimenting. Hope you like it :)

2007-09-07T22:36:00.000+08:00

Jags Flow, taking this style and adding my name in it. Seeing were it will take me. Names are cool and maybe will start trying to add symbols icons too. In fact I have a T-Shirt idea some were I am going to work on, wish me luck.

Flow 3

2007-08-19T12:58:00.001+08:00

Another one of the flows, this time at A4 size. Still marker for black and highlighter for the orange. Don't know how long this is going to be, but I enjoy making it :)

2nd Flow

2007-08-16T00:12:00.001+08:00

2nd Piece, I like it but did it on smaller paper so the strokes feel smaller. More crowded in fact compared to the first one. A5, with Markers and highlighter for color.

2007-08-13T12:27:00.000+08:00

Celeris Homepage
One of the completed website I designed in Pepper that I am quite happy about. Quite elegance :)
Design was by me but development was done by Jens Neubert

Flow 070810

2007-08-10T08:44:00.000+08:00

Marker plus color pencil on paper. One of the first piece on paper that I took from beginning to end. My disappointment is that I did not plan anything. Its a good start, in fact I hope to do more :)

BioHazard

2007-07-02T12:47:00.000+08:00

Click on it and view it the way its suppose to be viewed. Big!

How to start

2007-04-15T11:06:00.000+08:00

Contributed this short article in my friends blog, thought it would be good to post it here too:

The best way to become a good digital designer is to practice. Now I cannot help much in helping people focus and work hard (since I have problem with them myself), let me instead help you find free resources.

Fonts:
http://www.dafont.com/
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2006/10/11/17-more-free-quality-fonts/

Photos:
http://www.sxc.hu/
http://www.morguefile.com/
http://www.stockvault.net/
http://www.cgtextures.com/

Templates:
http://readytemplates.blogspot.com/
http://www.oswd.org/

Sound:
http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/index.php
http://www.opsound.org/index.php

Filler copy:
http://www.lipsum.com/
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page

One thing to always remember, free does not always means free. The owner/creator is giving you the right to use for some reason. Charity, Glory or they just got bored. Find out the reason and how to repay them for their kindness, most of the time, in these sites, its not about money, but giving them the due credit.

If you want to contribute to this kind of life style, learn about your options first at:
http://creativecommons.org/learnmore/

Trying the Mind Map thingy

2006-12-28T02:27:00.000+08:00

Trying this brain map thingy and figuring out which way to go to improve my skills. I know what I can do, but I need to know what I can do better. This hopefully helps me understand what I need to improve on.

Season's Greetings from Jags

2006-12-21T23:39:00.000+08:00

Happy Holidays
To a joyful present and a well remembered past. Best wishes for Happy holidays
and a magnificent New Year.

From Jags :)

2006-10-27T01:38:00.000+08:00

This is a test to see if this works

Using this Post Blog Entry software in Ubuntu. Looks cool but lets if it works.

This is part of my grand plan to use linux. I did choose the easiest to install and use. Slowly it will grow.

The future has linux or variation of it in its horizon.

Blender Particle Test 02

2006-08-21T10:54:00.000+08:00


Okay two testing today. 1) the particle function in blender 3d (which by the way is cool!!!) and 2) uploading videos in the blog (simple but the compression is disappointing). One more coming up soon.

Glass render in blender

2006-08-09T01:00:00.000+08:00

Rendering Balls

2006-08-07T15:09:00.000+08:00

Rendering the classic balls to test lighting and reflection. Getting there ... getting there but still need quite a bit of figuring out with this one. Yafray with blender is the tool of choice for this one. Free and relatively simple way of reaching good quality work.

jagarts in blogger

2006-08-03T11:10:00.000+08:00

Moved back to Blender3d, some parts of Shade just make it difficult for me to work on it. I had problems with some of blender's interface strategies before but with the growth of the software hopefully it has changed (or at least I have changed) making it easier to work with. The next few post will tell. First strategy is to learn the rendering capabilities so when I start modelling it would look good at the end of that cycle.

nothing happening

2006-07-28T14:16:00.000+08:00

Wanted to post something for a while now but nothing is coming out of my mind and hands. Don't even know if i should take a photo, photoshop something or finally do some real 3d. Feel lost ... but then I should be used to that feeling by now.

Never did accept that I am good at any of the above.

Next week I will do it ... yes i will ... positive thinking do your magic.

Starting again

2006-07-05T02:40:00.000+08:00

Trying to start doing 3D works again. Using a free copy of Shade 7LE from one of the magazines. Something simple and easy to make, which I think I did well with, lets hope i sustain this interest to a real great work.

Bulb

2006-07-04T17:47:00.000+08:00

Turned out simpler that I originally planned but hey it still looked good. Nothing elese could add to the image that could enhance it.

Colors

2006-06-14T16:35:00.000+08:00

Started with just a clock and layered it as all my grudge style work but decided introducing strong bold colors. More graphic than usual but an interesting result (well for me at least :p )

Light 2 Dark

2006-05-24T18:30:00.000+08:00

Trying to get back on the grove again. This is another play of pictures and finding more of a texture than an actual image.

Fire

2006-05-17T18:50:00.000+08:00

Work kept me busy from bloggin more picture.
This is something to help me get back on the swing.

Double Vision

2006-04-21T10:30:00.000+08:00

A more graphic design exercise than digital illustration.
Broke my warm color infatuation :)

Silence

2006-04-17T15:22:00.000+08:00

Another experiment from photoshop. To much earth tone images of late, have to try and move away from it soon.

Fight

2006-04-12T12:16:00.000+08:00

Trying out a new technique I just learned.
Building up images with stamp versions of photos.

Wine

2006-04-10T11:39:00.000+08:00

Red Alarm

2006-04-04T14:57:00.000+08:00

Been doing to many of the grundgy collages ...
might have to start a new direction soon.

Old

2006-03-31T15:56:00.000+08:00

Control

2006-03-28T12:12:00.000+08:00

Inspired by green today :)

Old Song

2006-03-27T11:41:00.000+08:00

Listening too many old songs lately :)

Looking

2006-03-24T12:21:00.000+08:00

trying with out text ... as recommended by a friend :)

Waiting Wondering

2006-03-23T16:22:00.000+08:00

Striking

2006-03-21T12:44:00.000+08:00

Vibrant colors and strong images, does this catch your attention?

Losing

2006-03-16T12:30:00.000+08:00

Looking for ideas

2006-03-13T15:37:00.000+08:00

I am out of commision for the next week,
so it gives me time to look for ideas.

Change

2006-03-10T13:58:00.000+08:00

I might be a bit sad today :(

Wayout

2006-03-08T15:08:00.000+08:00

Trying to find a nice way of presenting the yellow color.

Sometimes

2006-02-28T14:44:00.000+08:00

Sometimes I wonder a lot of things,
mostly about the future and if I am heading somewere

Reflection

2006-02-24T18:27:00.000+08:00

Classic digital goth style work.

Understanding it all

2006-02-23T16:55:00.000+08:00

Highnoon

2006-02-20T17:02:00.000+08:00

Another old classic photo that I took a while back.
Waiting for time to move.

Spin

2006-02-20T12:35:00.000+08:00

No idea man just following the flow.

Arrow

2006-02-17T16:39:00.000+08:00

I think i need to travel some were soon :)

Red

2006-02-16T14:57:00.000+08:00

Started with the picture of the hand
and it just went its own way after.

Coffee

2006-02-16T12:33:00.000+08:00

An old favorite photograph.

Burst

2006-02-16T12:11:00.000+08:00

First post in the new blog. Burst of energy and color,
good work to start a new outlet for my work.