The open source community The GIMP have been working hard to develop a polished, user-friendly, and freely distributed image editor. Gimp's interface is divided into seperate windows so you can move them around to your ultimate desire.  As with any complex software there is a learning curve but it has a good community support and is well worth the time.

Gimp remains has one of the most powerful image editors around.  The lastest version pushs this software even further into the top tier and is very comparable to photoshop.  You will find it has most of the same features and is organized rather nicely.

The application provides professional tools that can stand against the big boys without the hefty price tag. Even the installation process has gotten simpler over the years. Extremely powerful and easy to work with, GIMP is ideal for both amateur and pro photographers, Web designers, or anyone who wants to create and edit professional-quality digital images on a budget.

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Donald Kerr says its time for people to change there views on privacy.  No longer should we worry about collecting specific information but the safegaurds on that collected information.  These comments come from the fact that Congress is evaluating the foreign surveillance intellegence act.  

The biggest issue in the new legislation is the debate on whether to shield telecommunications companies from civil lawsuits for allegedly giving the government access to people's private e-mails and phone calls without a court order between 2001 and 2007.

Intel who usually keeps release dates secret has said that its new penryn family of processors will be released November 12, today!  This new family hold 12 new quad core versions of its xeon server processor and a core2 extreme desktop chip.  These chips not only are on a 45nm platform but revolutionize the materials used to make transistors.  For the first time in 40 years the materials used in making transistors is changed to Hafnium with a combiniation of 2 secret metal oxided instead of silicon dioxide.  With the smaller size and new materials these chips not only perform better but also use less energy.  The new chips range in price from $177 to $1,279 and the Core 2 Extreme QX9650 will be $999. 

The speeds of the chips are also very impressive. The 12 new quad-core chips boast clock speeds ranging from 2GHz up to 3.20GHz, with front side bus speeds (FSB) up to 1600MHz, and cache sizes of 12MB. The three new dual-core chips feature clock speeds of up to 3.40GHz, an FSB of up to 1600MHz, and cache sizes of 6MB.

Sony CEO Howard Stringer gives some interesting comments about the ongoing format wars between sony blue ray and toshiba created HD-DVD.  It says that the wars are at a stalemat right now.  This comment is interesting seeing how many company have jumped ship from blue ray to HD-DVD and we now see HD-DVD players on sale at walmart for less then $100.  Stringer has the heavy job of repositioning Sony back to the top of the pack.  He also tryes to downplay the format war commenting “We were trying to win on the merits, which we were doing for a while, until Paramount changed sides, It doesn't mean as much as all that.”  This doesn't sound like a war that is at a stalemate it sounds like someone is loosing support.  Stringer states that he wishes he could go back in time to unite the 2 formats before going to launch.  Well here is to wishing, Toshiba when to the DVD consortium and got approved as the HD, DVD successor and Sony formed the blue-ray consortium.  Sounds like it didn't have much support from the start.

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The new rage has been the bluetooth option for new cars.  Most states are implementing a ban on cell use inside cars and this solves that problem.  Bluetooth headsets are nice but i'm always loosing mine that why i got a bluetooth car kit.  I bought one and installed in myself but nowadays it comes as a factory option.  I'd imagine that almost every car in the near future will have this handy option.  Most people are savvy enough to understand how link there phone with the car bluetooth so its just a great idea. 

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The iphone is causing quite a stir on the other side of the pond today.  Even a day before you can buy it people are lining up outside of stores.  Even with the rain poring down apple supporters are waiting for there first chance to use the Iphone.  Is it worth it 'Idon't' know?

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Oh how we forget when phones didn't simply stay on forever, you could watch video, write email, and see pictures of the next celebrity downfall in real time. The first GSM mass produced phone came out 15 years ago on November10, 1992. I remember the days of the almost indestructable nokia phones, even though they didn't have any features they were great phones. This wasn't the first gsm phone, that was an unnamed nokia phone made for finlands radiolinja netowrk in 91.

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Welcome to the next level of cool. NZXT's Zero doesn't need any fancy words to show its edge of cool, one picture is more than enough. But don't think this is just another pretty face. With 5 external 5.25" drive bays, two 3.5" external drive bays, and six internal 3.5" drive bays, this case has room for whatever you need of it. All of the external drives and the USB, Firewire, and audio ports are protected behind a stylish door that is part and parcel of the Zero's hot looks.