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Photoshop CS5 Trickery & FX
Posted by Julian Stone in General Thoughts, Resources on September 1st, 2010
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Photoshop CS5 Trickery & FX
With Photoshop CS5 Extended, Adobe has turned this potential into a reality. Photoshop CS5 represents the most significant upgrade yet to the Adobe product, bringing together the functionality of 2D, 3D, and video into one interface. In addition, Adobe has added the capability to create custom 3D objects through Repoussé. |
YouTube: Teach Yourself in 10 Minutes
Posted by Julian Stone in General Thoughts, Resources, Training & Tutorials on August 26th, 2010
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YouTube: Teach Yourself in 10 Minutes YouTube is full of videos, millions of them. Entertaining videos. Informative videos. Instructional videos. You name it, somebody has probably uploaded a video about it. But how do you find the videos you want to watch? And how do you share the videos you find? And what about uploading your own videos—and managing the videos you upload? Just how do you figure out this whole YouTube thing, without spending hours and hours of your precious time? |
Glenn Beck is a Chloroplast
Posted by Julian Stone in General Thoughts on August 26th, 2010
Glenn Beck is to moron as my foot is to kicking his ass. Yes, you are right that made no sense but neither does Glenn Beck. I strain to find another TV/radio personality who is as obnoxious or ignorant as this man.
For those of you who don’t know who he is, consider yourself lucky. He is conservative radio personality and host of a news/”comedy” show. I first became aware of his existence when they stuck him in the middle of my Headline News. I have to point out that I may be the only 20 year old in the world who watches Headline News religiously. Anyways, he starts spewing some noise about how he hates Muslims or how much he hates 9/11 families. Yup. He hates 9/11 families. And hey…don’t forget those Hurricane Katrina victims! They are black and poor. You have to hate that!
Look at this gem!
“…this is horrible to say, and I wonder if I’m alone in this — you know it took me about a year to start hating the 9-11 victims’ families? Took me about a year.”
And this one!
“But the second thought I had when I saw these people and they had to shut down the Astrodome and lock it down, I thought: I didn’t think I could hate victims faster than the 9-11 victims.”
The ignorance doesn’t stop there. He once said to Keith Ellison, the first Muslim ever to be elected to the United States Congressman, that he wanted him to “prove to me that you are not working with our enemies.” Glenn Beck always says ” Now it might just be me…” or ” Nobody else will say this but….” and this is usually followed by some racist, bigotry filled comment or generalization. He honestly believes that he is the voice of America and he’s only saying what people are thinking. Well he is speaking for a few inbred Americans who are burning crosses and wearing white hoods. I hate any television host who talks about the “real America”. Glenn Beck acts as if he is just one of us. Yup…making a seven figure income and sucking off corporate sponsors is exactly what American’s in the heartland do.
WordPress Design & Training
Posted by Julian Stone in General Thoughts, Training & Tutorials on August 26th, 2010
I am now offering beginning to advanced wordpress training. I am also helping people design their wordpress blogs. Here is my latest wordpress design:
Shutter Stock – Vector Illustrations
Posted by Julian Stone in General Thoughts, Resources on August 25th, 2010
If you see anything you like, please comment or email me with request.
Shutter Stock: http://www.julianxstone.com/files/Images/Vectors/Shutter.Stock/
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Designer Resources
Posted by Julian Stone in General Thoughts, Resources on August 25th, 2010
Looking for a template, vector or design resource? Look no further, I am sharing my entire library and will have it only in its entirety very soon. If you see something you want, please email me the file name, etc and I will email it to you. Please provide name and email address in your request.
Web Design Templates: http://www.julianxstone.com/files/Templates/Web.Design/
Graphic Design Templates: http://www.julianxstone.com/files/Templates/Graphic.Design/
Image Resources: http://www.julianxstone.com/files/Images/
iPhone: The Missing Manual
Posted by Julian Stone in General Thoughts, Resources on August 23rd, 2010
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iPhone: The Missing Manual In the first year of the iPhone’s existence, Apple sold 6 million of them; brought the thing to 70 countries; and inspired an industry of misbegotten iPhone lookalikes from other companies. By the end of Year One, you could type iPhone into Google and get 229 million hits. |
Israel in view of Iran’s Nuclear Threat
Posted by Julian Stone in General Thoughts on August 23rd, 2010

The president of Iran said recently that Israel should be wiped off the map. How serious is this when you combine it with Iran’s urgent developments of nuclear weapons?
Most important, is Iran’s leadership belief that their Shiite-Muslim faith is superior to all other Muslim’s, and definitely to non Muslim creeds. They also believe that they must propagate their extremist creed to all people, worldwide, BY ANY MEANS AVAILABLE, INCLUDING WAR. With these convictions you have a very volatile, unyielding , and dangerous nation. Therefore, Iran is essentially isolated politically from most Western countries, has no friends among the Arab nations, besides Syria. Iran is economically weak, however, its large oil sales gives it political clout, especially with China, and a large national budget to do what it wants.
Now, when we listen to the President of Iran telling the world, Israel must be wiped off the map, we must take it seriously. These are not idle words. Similar words were uttered before, may be in more moderate words, by other Iranian leaders. From the creation of the State of Israel many Arab leaders believed it was their destiny to destroy Israel, tried and failed. No world leader objected, (except the US), and several helped the Arabs. I am gratified that so many world leaders condemned Iran president’s attitude now. Their condemnations came because we are now facing nuclear weapons and this a completely different story. No country can defend itself from nuclear attack. And after attacking Israel, what if Iran is determined to wipe England next?
The naivety of the US in offering Iran rewards to stop its nuclear development is a game where the Iranians are masters in, and have been playing the West to give them more time to finish their nuclear weapons.
Deterrence does not work with unstable and irrational leaders. The MAD, mutual assure destruction, that kept the US and the USSR from using nuclear weapons, works only with rational people who love life more than the destruction of their enemies. This is not the case with terrorists, neither, it seems, with the Iranian leadership, in my judgment.
Most Iranian political elements support the push to a nuclear Iran. The previously labeled “moderate” leadership of Iran was not moderate, it continued the nuclear weapon program, and lost the last election. The future of Iran nuclear weapons is beyond our control.
Only a powerful and universal cessation of all commercial and diplomatic contacts with Iran could possibly open their eyes and change their militaristic attitude. And this is not possible in our “every country for itself” world attitude.
My conclusion is: Iran is determined to posses nuclear weapons and no one can stop them. If they find any practical way, Iran will consider seriously destroying Israel with these weapons. There is little that can be done now to reliably stop this process.
It is extremely difficult to accept these conclusions, but remember the 9/11 Commission observation that the FBI and CIA were unable to prevent the attack partially because of their “failure of the imagination.” The global community must be aware and alert, no matter how difficult it is to face. We must develop effective international tools to deal with dangers of this nature. After all, Iran would not be the last rough nuclear nation.










