Drawing Day is a worldwide drawing event encouraging everyone to drop everything and draw for the sake of art. The success of Drawing Day is a direct result of artists spreading the word. Whether you’re a professional artist or you just enjoy scribbling, the biggest contribution you can make is letting all your friends know about Drawing Day. Check the site out for more info. http://www.drawingday.org/

Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Skinning.net are having a Community Suite Project and are inviting all SDN members that wish to participate to leave a comment with what they would like to contribute to the Suite. Atthe moment we are looking for a WindowBlind, Dream, Wall, LogonVista,Weather Widget, Rainlendar. Other items could possibly be included inthe Community Suite. So far, Jimbo, 2of3 and lovely62 have agreed to participate. Please leave a comment he...

A twitter member posted links to some Photoshop tutorial sites that may interest the budding skinner and possibly some of the information contained in the links may be of use to Master skinners. It's amazing what can be done with graphic software.           10 Websites To Make You A Photoshop Ninja - Alltop

Sumo Paint is a ' free ' online image editing application. High-end image editor SUMO Paint is a fairly impressive clone of Photoshop's major features inside a browser window.  Sumo Paint is designed more for image creation rather than image editing. If you're without your favorite desktop editor and in need of photo-tweaking power, SUMO can load images from uploads, URLs, and do its own in-browser copy and paste. SUMO Paint is free to use. Check it out ..... Sumo Paint

The big three players of the nearly $37.5 billion video-gaming industrywill reveal their most secretive products in LosAngeles next week at the E3 Media and Business Summit. Each year at E3, game developers and publishers come together to unleash what they hope will become the next big thing. Rumors have swirled about the possibility of Microsoft introducing awireless motion sensor device to rival the Wiimote from Nintendo. Perhaps even a new HALO game. E3 2007 introduced such hits as "...

CD Art Display (formerly Winamp CD Case) is a free desktop program that shows the current song cover in a skinnable display. CD Art Display 2.0 Beta 4 is now available for all users. The new beta 4 is in fact a major upgrade with many new features including a screensaver and slideshow. 100% real time preview Skin Editor pack a skin using Skin Editor zip feature drag and drop a zip or rar file over CD Art Display to install a skin custom picture slideshow when player is sto...

Software giant Microsoft has walked away from its bid to buy Yahoo,saying the latest asking price of US$53 billion, or $37 per share, istoo high. The decision came after Saturday morning talks between Microsoftchief executive officer Steve Ballmer and Yahoo chief executive officerand co-founder Jerry Yang. "Despite our best efforts, including raising our bid by roughly $5billion, Yahoo! has not moved toward accepting our offer," Ballmer saidin a statement late Saturday. Do you bel...

Microsoft Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform, and cross-device plug-in for delivering the next generation of .NET based media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web. Silverlight 2 beta includes innovative new features like Deep Zoom,more than 40 new controls and a rich .NET base class library offunctionality. For a look at some of the applications using Silverlight check the following - Silverlight Showcase Silverlight 2 Beta

It's been 30 years that Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker'sGuide to the Galaxy has been broadcast on BBC radio and yet its most famousmystery is still waiting to be resolved. Douglas Adams died in 2001 without revealing the meaning of "42". Stephen Fry, a close friend, and the voice of the audiobook claims that " Douglas told me in the strictest confidence exactly why42. The answer is fascinating, extraordinary and, when you think hardabout it, completely obvious " and " But sadly I ca...

A group led by a Princeton University computer security researcher has developed a simple method to steal encrypted information stored on computer hard disks.  When the computer’s electrical power is shut off, the data, including the keys, is supposed to disappear.  Seems a fast-freeze of DRAM chips keeps the data in memory including the keys to modern data-scrambling algorithms even when the power has been shut off. Laptops are especially vulnerable to the attack when the mac...

I was checking through some articles on PC World and came across this one. Considering the advancements in the past 5 years can you imagine what we can look forward to in the next 25 years. To quote from the article: "The future ain't what it used to be. In the pre-PC era, futuristspredicted huge changes in transportation. By 2008 we would be flittingabout in personal jetpacks and taking vacations on the moon. But thecommunications revolution spurred by personal computers and theInte...

Nothing like getting kids started early learning to draw and paint using a fun program called "Tux Paint". This easy-to-use interface has fun sound effects and a cartoon mascot to guide children as they use the program. This open source program is available for both the Windows and Mac OS. Bring out the creative genius in kids or kids at heart and maybe a starting point for a future "Master". Check out the " Children's Art Gallery " You can get info and download Tux Paint here...

Windows/Mac/Unix: Free, open source program Jajuk (Just AnotherJukebox) is a music management app chocked full of interesting features. For example, Jajuk boasts integration with Wikipedia, severaladvanced playlisting and filtering tools, automatic cover finder andmanager, and tons more. You can also try a "Live" version. Jajuk Site

ASUS Wraps up Four Prestigious 2008 International CES Innovations Design and Engineering Awards At this years CES 2008 show four ASUS products have been chosen as recipients of International CES In novations Design and Engineering Awards. These include the ASUS Eee PC, the ASUS R50A Notebook, the ASUS P527 Cell Phone and the ASUS Internet radio. ASUS has been known primarily for it's motherboards and these new products are expected to significantly impact the industry. Take a l...

CNET chooses Philips' Eco TV Best in CES Show It appears the the Phillips 42-inch, 1080p resolution, flat-panelLCD Eco TV has impressed CNET as they have chosen it as the CES 2008 Bestin Show. This Eco TV has the ability to dim the backlight--by up tofive times peak brightness in response to program material whichshould reduce the power consumption greatly. There have been some great gadgets introduced at this show andwell worth investigating. Check the article out – CNET CES 2008 ...