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20th February 2009
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Arnold Schwarzenegger: A Biography
 From his role in The Terminator to his more recent work as "Governator" of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger has played a major role in American popular culture. This biography traces the fascinating trajectory of Arnold's career-sports figure turned movie star turned entrepreneur turned politician. Elected as governor of California in 2003, Arnold Schwarzenegger now dramatically and vividly represents the determination and, to a great extent, the relentlessness necessary for achieving great fame, political power, and iconic status. Arnold's life has been characterized by public notoriety. While many readers will have heard or read about his benchmark achievements, this biography will reveal the surprising complexities behind the public scenes and put them into a larger cultural context. Photos and a timeline of significant events round out this entertaining and insightful biography.  Code:
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#12
20th February 2009
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Diana, Princess of Wales: A Biography
 Long before her tragic death, Diana, Princess of Wales was a beloved modern icon, relatable to the general public in a way that transcended the barrier between royal and commoner. As a member of the royal family in an age of mass media, her fairy-tale wedding to, and painful divorce from, Prince Charles was played out on the world stage. Later, her humanitarian work for the Red Cross, her campaigns against landmines, and her work with the sick, especially AIDS victims, added a compassionate element to the royal family in the eyes of the world--and the world, ten years later, still hasn't gotten enough of Lady DI. This objective, accessible volume explores Diana's fascinating life, including her aristocratic upbringing, her whirlwind engagement to Prince Charles, their rocky marriage, her role as mother and her sons' coming of age in her absence, her post-divorce status as global humanitarian icon, the media's frenzied treatment of her death, and her charitable legacy. A timeline of key events, vibrant images, and a bibliography of print and nonprint sources supplement the work. Code:
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#13
20th February 2009
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How to Make Brilliant Stuff That People Love ...and Make Big Money Out of It
 What we've got in this little book is a great approach to creating products and services that people will love. The approach is great because it's holistic and integrated. It looks at people in their entirety and at products and services in their entirety. There are only three steps, but it is extremely thorough. It requires that we get to know our users in great detail and to make a real commitment to understanding them and addressing their needs, wants and desires in the products and services that we create for them. Last edited by cpl_chitchat : 16th July 2009 at 09:11 PM.
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#14
20th February 2009
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Pakistan and The War on Terror
 This monograph seeks to provide an analytical understanding of the problems associated with Pakistani performance in the combined counterterrorism operations currently under way in the FATA and in Afghanistan. The discussion that follows underscores the fact that, although Pakistan is a conflicted ally in the war on terror, it faces difficult counterterrorism challenges that cannot be overcome quickly for good reasons . The campaign against al- Qaeda and the Taliban,accordingly, will be a long one requiring considerable patience on the part of the United States. Further, the analysis suggests that there are no easy choices for Washington, but it also emphasizes that Islamabad’s approach to defeating terrorism is sufficiently risky and could end up transforming Pakistan into an object of U.S. wrath should a major attack on the United States in the future reveal Pakistani origins, neglect, or, in the worst case,connivance. Code:
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#15
20th February 2009
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Pizza Recipes - 212 Hot and Delicious Recipes
 There are a few "secrets of the trade" in making your own pizza; once you know them, it is not hard to make your own and it takes very little time. In fact, after you make it a few times you'll wonder why I made such a big deal out of it.. The word "pizza" is from the Italian word pizza (IPA: /pittsa/), with plural form pizze (IPA: /pit:tse/). The term was originally used to refer to a range of dough-based dishes, and is thought to be derived from pinza -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pizza has become an international food since the toppings can be extensively varied to meet local variations in taste. These pizzas consist of the same basic design but include an exceptionally diverse choice of ingredients, such as anchovies, egg, pineapple, grilled lamb, coconut, sauerkraut, eggplant, lamb, couscous, chicken, fish, and shellfish, meats done in ethnic styles such as Moroccan lamb, kebab or even chicken tikka masala, and non-traditional spices such as curry and Thai sweet chili. Pizzas can also be made without meat for vegetarians, and without cheese for vegans. Breakfast pizzas are topped with ingredients such as scrambled eggs. Many Pizza Recipes to choose from. Find Pizza dough recipes and Pizza sauce recipes, as well as pizza for everyone's taste. There is Vegetarian Pizza recipes, Mexican Pizza, California Pizza, Cheese Pizza, Mushroom Pizza, Ham and Pineapple Pizza, and Dessert Pizza, too. There is even a special Diabetic recipe for Pizza. There is Hot Pizza's and Cold Pizza's, lots of Pizza's!! There are a few "secrets of the trade" in making your own pizza; once you know them, it is not hard to make your own and it takes very little time. In fact, after you make it a few times you'll wonder why I made such a big deal out of it. Inside you will find Hot and Delicious Pizza Recipes like... Bacon Cheeseburger Pizza Beefy Hash Brown Pizza Breakfast Pizza California Original BBQ Pizza California Thai Chicken Pizza Camper's Pizza Cheese Steak Pizza Easy Bake Oven Deep Dish Pizza Ground Beef Pizza Heart Shaped Valentine Pizza Hot 'n Sweet Pizza Low Carb Pizza Philly Cheese Steak Crescent Pizza Pop-Up Pizza Casserole Sloppy Joe Pizza Southwest Beef & Chile Pizza Super Stuffed Pizza Spam Pizza Supreme Pizza Spinach And Goat Cheese French Bread Pizza Three-Cheese Pizza With Mushrooms and Basil French Bread Pizza Truffle Pizza Upside Down Pizza White Pizza with Mascarpone and Smoked Mozzarella Barbecue Chicken Pizza Burrito Mexicalian Pizza Caramelized Onion And Gorgonzola Pizza Cheesy Pepper and Mushroom Pizza Double Filled Mushroom Pizza and quite a few more unique pizza recipes! And the following Pizza Dough & Crust Recipes: Amazing Whole Wheat Pizza Crust Recipe Several Basic Pizza Dough Recipe Boboli Pizza Crust Recipe Our Classic Pizza Crust Recipe Cornmeal Pizza Crust Recipe Deep Dish Pizza Crust Recipe Easy Pizza Dough Recipe Heart Shaped Pizza Crust Recipe Herb Pizza Dough Recipe Julia Child's Pizza Dough Recipe New York Style Pizza Dough Recipe New York Style Pizza Crust Recipe Pizza Dough (Bread Machine) Recipe Polenta Pizza Crust Recipe Pourable Pizza Crust Recipe Soft Pizza Dough Recipe Thin Crust Pizza Dough Recipe Whole Wheat Pizza Crust Recipe and more pizza dough/crust recipes. And the following Pizza Sauce Recipes: Several Basic Pizza Sauce Recipes Authentic Homemade Pizza Sauce Recipe Firehouse Pizza Sauce Recipe South Beach Diet Simple Pizza Sauce Recipe White Pizza Sauce Recipe and more pizza sauce recipes! Code:
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20th February 2009
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Recipe Cookbook 3.0 ( Freeware )
 “Simple cooking database with more than 2,000 recipes” SCREENSHOT IS OF NORWAGIAN LANGUAGE BUT YOU CAN SEE IN SCREENSHOT THAT PROGRAM IS IN ENGLISH YOU HAVE TO SELECT ENGLISH FROM THE LANGUAGE OPTION Recipe Cookbook is just a relatively simple database program for storing your favorite recipes. The program includes already approximately 2,448 recipes in its database, which you can print out or send by email to your friend or relatives. You can choose your own favourite recipes by just cheking the Favourite checkbox for the current recipe window. Then you'll be able to find it again more easily through the Favorites menu. You can also search for recipes using the program's internal search engine. Each recipe may include photos, author name, ingredients list and notes.NOT A COPY RIGHT MATERIAL< SO IT DOES NOT INFRINGE ANY COPY RIGHT LAWS> Code:
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#17
22nd February 2009
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The Adobe Photoshop Layers Book Harnessing Photoshop's Most Powerful Tool
 The Adobe Photoshop Layers Book: Harnessing Photoshop's Most Powerful Tool, (covers Photoshop CS3) Richard Lynch | Focal Press | ISBN: 0240520769 | July 30, 2007 | 288 pages | PDF | 30 MB Create, correct, and control with layers, the most powerful tool in Photoshop and Photoshop Elements Imagine yourself in total control of every adjustment to your photos. You've seen the illustrations in glossy magazines, the fine art reproductions in museum catalogs, the award-winning pictures of professional photographers. To produce this kind of magic, understanding how to use layers for your entire breadth of image correction is key. Discover the best ways to showcase your talent with the full power of layers from best-selling author/digital image specialist Richard Lynch. Learn what layers can do for you as an integral part of organizing image development, creating and storing image versions with nondestructive editing, and promoting a positive workflow. Timeless, not version specific, this book will help you take layers to a new level to increase your efficiency and produce better end results, whatever release of the software you use. Step-by-step instructions and practical examples illustrate how to: * Leverage layer power to correct and enhance color, fix problems in composition, repair damage or flaws, and isolate image areas for changes, adjustments and experimental concepts * Incorporate layers in a workflow that extracts the maximum from your camera, exploits the potential in every image and helps you organize your perceptions and ideas according to your unique vision * Recombine layers to form new images in a nondestructive process that preserves both the original image and intermediate layers for further editing - or tomorrow's inspirations Dont make your work harder than it needs to be when you can use layers to control any adjustment using multiple forms of blending concurrently transparency, clipping, opacity/fill, masking, modes, channel targeting, Blend If, and styles. Author Richard Lynch is a photographer, designer, editor, web developer, and author of the popular Hidden Powers series on Photoshop and Photoshop Elements. He also writes for PCPhoto, Popular Photography, Digital Photographer, and Digital Photography Techniques. DOWNLOAD LINKS (15MB EACH PART) Code:
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#18
22nd February 2009
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Photoshop Plugins
Extensis Beyondpress 4.0
Extensis Intellehance 4.0 Helps you enhancing all the color parameters of your images, either automatically (just push a button, the plugin does the whole rest), manually (then working as a combination of all the options available under Image -> Adjust...) or as a mix between the two. Among the great features of this product are the fact that you can simultaneously view different versions of the image, that there are a number of presets (for Flatbed scanners, digital cameras, magazines...) which you can customize at will. It is also closely integrated with the other Extensis products, and also with Photoshop, so you can access the various default settings from the Extensis menu without having to load the plugin itself. In the end, it does a great job, it does it fast and easily, you can create your own preferences or use the built-in ones, and it is far better than the version 3.0... One small regret though : working with multiple views of your image tends to slow things down a lot. Extensis Maskpro 2.0 this one helps you making masks : just select the colors you want to keep, the ones you don't want, use one of the tools to make your mask... too good to be true ! The Magic Brush is one of the most impressive tools I have ever played with in PS4 - ever painted masks with a brush that KNOWS what should get red and what should not ? The new functions in v2 include more precise color selection tools, plus the Edge Blender to soften the edges and remove unwanted halos, and a better integration in Photoshop. Only one regret : you will need some time before being able to really use it to the max, but once you're done... Extensis Pagetools 2.0x Extensis PhotoAnimator 1.0 Extensis Photoframe 1.0 This plugin makes it real easy to create artistic frames, whether they are elaborate or simple. You can add up to 3 colored frames at the same time, they can be presets sold with the plugin (a huge collection) or frames you create yourself (using non-prepared photos gives very interesting lighting and texturing effects), you can save your frame sets, tweak and manipulate them in anyway... The new version has added a considerable host of new features, such as the possibility to create the frame in a layer of its own, standard frames, a new interface closer to the standard Adobe interface, the possibility to have multiple frames at once, a number of effects such as glow and bevel, making it the ultimate tool for thejob ; the only thing I have not been able to test was the collection of frames which come with the product. Extensis Phototools 3.0 This one is a set of 2 extremely interesting tools : PhotoBars is a set of fully customizable toolbars for Photoshop that should content all those who regret that lack in their favorite app (they have been updated and are now fully working with PS5) ; there are also a number of very useful effects with presets and numerous parameters (PhotoButtons, PhotoGlow, PhotoCastShadow, PhotoEmboss, PhotoBevel) that perform very well all those standard effects, and are not much different from those in PhotoTools 2 ; but the PhotoTips by Deke MC Clelland Himself have been removed, as well as PhotoText (rendered useless by PS5). The new filters included are PhotoTexture, an amazing texture generator that fits perfectly well into PS, and PhotoGroove, an advanced beveller that is almost as good as Painter´s. The last goodie in the pack is PhotoAnimator, a standalone application for making animated Gifs, that works perfectly well with PS thanks to its support for layers, and can now be called directly from PS. In the end, nothing you will find no use for : everything here is both extremely handy and incredibly useful, even if the toolbars need some getting used to... and many others like............ Extensis Portfolio 4.0 Extensis Portfolio 4.0r Extensis Qxtools 4.0 DOWN LOAD LINKS Last edited by cpl_chitchat : 27th July 2009 at 10:48 PM.
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#19
22nd February 2009
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800 PS PLUGINS
FREE TO USE PLUGINS FOR PHOTOSHOP
Another set of 800 photoshop plugins just in 1 file Code:
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#20
22nd February 2009
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PLUGIN BUNDLE FOR ADOBE PHOTOSHOP
ANOTHER FREEWARE BUNDLE OF PLUGINS AND ADD-ONS FOR PS
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