And the time-slot it was on turned out to be a disaster. I don't know about the writing because it was all in Japanese, but apparently it didn't connect with the kids, they didn't like it. So the TV show was not a success, it was not a good show. I always wanted to work in animation, to see my characters on a TV show. They only let me design characters, they didn't let me write or be part of the show's production, and I felt as if I was kicked, in a way, out of something I always wanted to do. And I was "okay, but let me write some of the episodes that these new characters will be in" and they didn't let me do that. Then they wanted me to design other characters for the show. But wanted to sell toys, so made a little kids version of PaRappa. "I wasn't into that, because I was like "Everyone knew teenagers loved PaRappa, so let's do a teen show". In an interview with Gamasutra, Greenblat voiced his frustration about the production of the anime. He was not allowed to work on the anime at all aside from the character design, as the anime team did not want anyone pulled away from the production of the second game. He was against the idea of the show being aimed towards children and instead wanted it to be aimed towards teenagers, but this did not end up happening. Rodney Greenblat, the art director for the PaRappa games, was asked to design new characters who would appear in the anime. The series was a joint production effort between Fuji TV, SME Visual Works, and J.C.Staff. These include Matt Major, PJ's friend from Club Fun, Paula Fox, Sunny's friend who was rivals with Katy, Pinto, PaRappa's little sister, and Gaster and Groober, a villainous duo who cause all sorts of mischief.ĭuring the production of PaRappa the Rapper 2, Sony wanted to develop a PaRappa anime aimed at children in order to boost merchandise sales. Along with various characters who make returning appearances from the video games, the anime introduces several new characters who are exclusive to the TV series. The series focuses on PaRappa, a cute and happy dog who enjoys music and dancing and often spends time with his friends PJ Berri, Katy Kat, and his love interest, Sunny Funny. Episodes 29 and 30 aired together as a 1-hour special. The series was produced by J.C.Staff and aired in Japan on Fuji TV between April 2001 and January 2002, running for thirty episodes. PaRappa the Rapper ( パラッパラッパー, PaRappa Rappā) is a 2001 Japanese anime television series based on NanaOn-Sha's PaRappa the Rapper video game series created by Masaya Matsuura and Rodney Greenblat.
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Fonte walks the red carpet accompanied by his mother. His simple, genuine manner has won the hearts of Calabrians as well as the greater Italian community. Interestingly, Fonte is quoted as saying in an interview with Italian RAI television, “We are what we choose to be in life.” 1978), one of the writers, together with fellow calabresePaolo Tripodi (both of whom also directed the movie) and Giuliano Miniati. The criminal element has nothing to do with the film but may give a bit of context for the formative years of Marcello Fonte (b. Photo courtesy of his friend Rosalba Vazzana next to him on the saxophoneĪs with the young protagonist in the film, Archi has had its ups and downs, with a history that has left behind a Hellenistic necropolis, a climate that favors agricultural production, including the region’s famous bergamot, and a housing project where numerous ‘ndrangheta killings took place in the 1980s. Marcello Fonte playing the snare drum as a young boy in the Archi band. MARCELLO FONTE AND ARCHI, REGGIO CALABRIA, CALABRIA The movie is rated PG, although I’m not sure why a child would need guidance, except perhaps to read the subtitles. He befriends the local gypsies and his sheer strength of character gains the admiration and friendship of those around him. Maurizio talks with an even-tempered donkey, who doles out advice like a benevolent grandfather, and a quarrelsome hen, like a spiteful aunt always on the attack. The film gives a brief glimpse of a world with seemingly insurmountable challenges, that when faced head on, manage to be overcome. His simple determination to be part of something so basic and the ways he goes about reaching his goal, his ups and his downs, are touching. One day, he gets the idea in his head to join the local band, but his parents can’t afford the music book, no less the purchase of an instrument. The piccolo Maurizio doesn’t want for imagination. Left to his own devices, he plays with objects he finds in a dry riverbed used as a local dump, converses with a wise donkey and argues with a rather malicious hen. Donkey Flies tells the story of an energetic little boy growing up in a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of Reggio Calabria in Southern Italy. In the coming weeks, I suspect this is a question we will all be forced to answer. For make no mistake: this is no fringe movement. Their advocates are among the most regular faces in broadcast media Professor Devi Sridhar, one of its most outspoken advocates, has appeared on Channel 4 News 21 times during the pandemic - more than any other expert. There’s a UK ZeroCovid chapter, which last month hosted its own well-attended online conference the Scottish government is committed to their campaign, alongside Independent SAGE, British trade unions and Labour MPs such as Jeremy Corbyn and Diane Abbott. Meanwhile, influential Tory MPs like Jeremy Hunt advocate a strategy of “zero infections and elimination of the disease” and routinely refer to the Asian model. Google search results in the UK and US for “ZeroCovid” are at an all-time high. Judging by last week’s conference, it is easy to see why. The campaigners are, for the most part, an impressive, sincere and eloquent group. Many of them are young, telegenic and skilled communicators. But there was a mood - a unanimity of world view - that was unsettling a fusion of overt progressive-Left politics with an ironclad certainty about their interpretation of the science. They referred to people who disagreed with them as needing to be “educated”: “deniers”, “right-wingers”, “conspiracy theorists”, or, perhaps lowest of all, “herd immunity apologists”. More striking, however, was the time given over to messaging, organising and communications. I haven't had any issue with either, but if OP can post some example pics we could get a better idea what's going on. I have a v750 with the 4x5 holder and I usually just use that, but sometimes I want to get the film borders and I'll use the wet mount holder. So I just do a raw scan of the entire area, then I open that in HDR, make all the frames, and bulk export the tiffs which I can do while the scanner is busy scanning the next group of images. Its also nice for 35mm because it takes way too long to set up all the scanning frames when the scanner has to do a pre scan every time you zoom in. The Epson Perfection V850 Pro cannot compete with proper film scanners such as the Reflecta RPS 10M, which yields an effective 4300 ppi for small format films, or the Reflecta MF5000, which manges to pull 3050 ppi from a. This is the only way I've been able to find in their programs that lets you actually get 16bit files. Alltogether, SilverFast Ai Studio retrieves about 30 information from a film template than EpsonScan and SilverFast SE. My workflow is to scan HDR raw from silverfast, then open it in Silverfast HDR and bulk export to 16 bit tiffs. I might go back and try the epson software based on this thread though. Digital ICE Technologies remove surface defects, while two sets of film holders and an energy-efficient LED array help boost productivity. +1 to silverfast being really annoying and buggy, I've been using it for a year and a half and haven't switched because my short time trying out the competition was even worse. This may be needed in the event on your website (maintenance, technical problem, inventory, etc.). This new feature allows you to temporarily put your site "out of service" directly from your Backoffice, without needing TOWeb, by using your smartphone for example. These two optimizations can be used at the same time and are available in the new "Publish > Performances" screen. and in WebP format which offers an even higher compression rate without loss of quality and supported by modern web browsers.in Progressive JPEG format allowing to obtain files smaller than standard JPEG ones and be displayed progressively as they are downloaded.The images on your site can now be automatically converted by TOWeb As for other resources used in your site (such as scripts, CSS files, and fonts), there are new options to preload them, reduce page rendering hangs in modern web browsers, and also ensure that your texts stay readable while web fonts are loading.Īll these options improving the performance of your site are available in the new "Publish > Performances" screen. TOWeb 9 offers you to use this (or not) on your site with 2 possible operating modes. The "lazy loading" technique displays pages faster by downloading images only when they are visible. Several options, such as the shape of the flag (rectangular, circular, etc.) and its size, will allow you a better integration into the theme of your multilingual site. In your multilingual sites, the language button and its drop-down menu can now display country flags so that your visitors can easily locate and select the language they want. It becomes possible to set a "Download" click action on an image displayed in reduced size on your page so that it can be directly downloadable in large format by a simple click of the visitor.Ĭountry flags in your multilingual website TOWeb offers predefined buttons with different styles for leading social networks, but if the social networks you use are not listed or if you just want to add more buttons pointing to your secondary sites or those of your partners, you can now do that by adding more buttons from the "Theme" screen. It is possible to choose a display on 2 or 4 columns, adjust the spacing and choose a maximum width. The new "Portfolio Grid" option for the index page of a photo album allows a display like a "wall" by presenting the photos nested one in the other and thus minimize the wasted spaces. By using such introductory images, you will allow your visitors to better differentiate your pages at first glance and facilitate their navigation on your site.Īll you have to do is add all your photos in the "Slider" of your "Theme", and then select each photo to indicate which page it corresponds to. TOWeb 9 themes now allow you to display a different image at the start of each page on your site. Lottie files are animated images in SVG format that adapt to any screen size. You can now add Lottie animation files very easily in paragraphs of your web pages to bring dynamism to your site. Whether it is a single page of your site or an article (composed of several pages), you can now export your topics (including unpublished ones) to a file in PDF format directly from the "Save as PDF" button located at the bottom of their content and also decide for each paragraph whether or not they should be included in your PDF file. Such a configuration for your site can be done from the new "Options > Cookies & Privacy" screen.Įach paragraph can now be positioned to the left or right of its background image with customizable width, margins, opacity and background color so that your texts always remain readable. By activating this, your visitors will be able to accept or refuse certain cookies used on your site in order to preserve their privacy. It is now possible to offer a personalized cookie consent policy on your site to be in compliance with GDPR. For example, you can send a tracking number when shipping, or mark a Click & Collect order as "Ready for Pickup" to let the customer know they can pick it up at your store.Īll the management screens of the various i-Services have been grouped together in a new and unique centralized Backoffice from which you can now directly consult your sales statistics, monitor and modify the status of your orders, manage your online stock, your download files and also carry out the maintenance of your site. It is now possible to monitor and modify the status of your orders from your Backoffice but also inform your customers by email when the status of their orders changes. It includes a single default free delivery area and places orders directly in the "Ready to Pick" state in your Backoffice when chosen by your customers. This new delivery method works in conjunction with TOWeb 9's new Backoffice order status tracking system. Create a modern website or eShop without programming and without subscription. On the right hand side, you can see all of the images imported into Texture Atlas and click on each one to see the bounding box – another handy feature!Ī few notes about adding images using the Add Folder option, by the way. Texture Packer will load the images and intelligently lay them out within the sprite sheet as follows: Now, click the Add Folder button in the top toolbar and choose the TextureFun/TextureFun_Art/sprites folder. Agree to the license prompt and when you see the first popup that appears, choose “Test Pro for 1 week” to continue. When you download the DMG, and open the package and agree to the license, drag the TexturePacker icon to the Applications folder and follow the prompts to install Texture Packer on your machine.Īfter you finish installing, click on Texture Packer in your Applications folder to run it. There is a lite version that will work for this tutorial but you will quickly see the advantages of this great tool and want to use the full featured version. The first thing you need to do is download a copy of Texture Packer. Ok, now that you have a project template and some sample art to work with, time to make a sprite sheet using Texture Packer! Creating a Sprite Sheet with Texture Packer Download this sample artwork I gathered together, and after you unzip it, drag the entire directory as a subfolder of your TextureFun project source code folder, as shown in the image below. Next, you’ll need some images to make the sprite sheets. Expand the dropdown and select only the last four files ( main.m, AppDelegate.m, HelloWorldLayer.m, and IntroLayer.m), then click Check and finish the steps of the wizard. Just go to Edit\Refactor\Convert to Objective-C ARC. You are going to use ARC in this project, but by default the template isn’t set up to use ARC. Once you’ve got that installed, start up Xcode and make a new project with the iOS\cocos2d v 2.x\cocos2D iOS template, and name the project TextureFun. So first make sure that you have the latest “unstable” version of Cocos2D v2.x installed. Like I said, even though this is a Texture Packer tutorial, I wanted to show you an example of this working in an actual game, so we’ll be using Cocos2D for that. If you’re curious to learn more about Cocos2D, check out some of our other Cocos2D tutorials. If you are new to Cocos2D, you can still follow along with this Texture Packer tutorial, but there may be some missing gaps in your knowledge about Cocos2D itself as the focus will be on TexturePacker. This Texture Packer tutorial will show you how to use Texture Packer to create and optimize sprite sheets in your games, using a Cocos2D 2.X game as an example.Īlong the way, you’ll learn how to use pixel formats and Texture Packer wisely to make sure your games launch quickly, run smoothly, and use as little memory as possible – while still looking good! When making 2D games, it’s important to combine your sprites into large images called sprite sheets, in order to get the best performance for your games.Īnd Texture Packer is a great tool that makes it extremely easy to generate these sprite sheets – with the click of a button. Update : Fully updated for Cocos2D 2.1-rc0a, Texture Packer 3.07, and Modern Objective-C style (original post by Ray Wenderlich, update by Tony Dahbura). Split sheet tool.įree texture packer uses mustache template engine.Optimize texture usage with Texture Packer and Pixel Formats! Rotation, trimming, multipacking, various export formats (json, xml, css, pixi.js, godot, phaser, cocos2d). Only critical bugs will be fixed.įree texture packer creates sprite sheets for you game or site. IMPORTANT: I don't have time to imporove this app anymore. Some settings of MOZILLAFIVEHOME (including pointing to the appropriate xulrunner folder under /usr/lib for Lucid) causes RSSOwl to crash when trying to open a feed. RSSOwl/plugin. Highlights are saved searches, google reader sync, notifications, filters, fast fulltext search and a flexible, clean user interface. All in all, RSSOwl comprises an intuitive layout and advanced settings for reading feeds, which should be appealing to all types of users. all manner of possibilities, including installing what would appear to be necessary packages, changing MOZILLAFIVEHOME, etc. RSS Owl is a powerful application to organize, search and read your RSS, RDF & Atom news feeds in a comfortable way. It performed well during our evaluation, had minimal impact on computer performance, and didn't hang, crash or show error notifications. And second, if RSSOwl is consuming too much memory and suddenly crashes while using. Xmx512m (Prefer Xmx1024m in Windows) Start RSSOwlnix ( RSSOwl in Windows). RSSOwl offers multilingual support and a help file for less experienced users. Open RSSOwlnix.ini ( RSSOwl.ini in Windows) in the installation directory of RSSOwlnix ( RSSOwl in Windows C:\Program Files (x86)\RSSOwl) Change the line to a higher value, e.g. They can be restored to default at any time. You can select which online communities to show, configure the integrated web browser, manage stored passwords for feeds, redefine keyboard shortcuts, assign a master password, customize the notification settings, and so on. Configure app settingsĪ wide range of options can be modified from the Preferences screen. RSSOwl also lets you export labels, news filters and preferences to an external file (OPML or XML format), print content, undo/redo your actions, copy links, create filters, clean up feeds, manage add-ons, as well as customize the UI appearance (e.g. It is also possible to use a real-time search function for titles and contents, as well as share a subject on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Reddit and other online communities. Manage and share feedsįeeds can be marked as sticky, archived or labeled as anything you want. The utility's primary window has well-defined elements feed topics are organized in a folder structure, and you can access any of them to view the title, date, author and category for each subject. It supports RSS, RDS and Atom feeds.Īt startup you can use a wizard to import recommended feeds, from a file or website, or that match particular topics. RSSOwl is a feature-rich application that lets you read feeds in a user-friendly environment. Next, sign into the account with the corrupted profile and then create a new default profile for it.Select Yes and then close the Command Prompt and Registry Editor.Enter this command: wmic useraccount get domain,name,sid and press Enter.Sign into an administrator account that’s not affected by the corrupted profile and then open a command prompt.Note: Before using the steps below, create a system restore point, which you can use to undo any mistakes you may make in the process. You’ll then be able to copy files from the older profile folder to the new one. That way, when we reboot Windows, you’ll be able to log into the corrupted user account and create a new profile. To do this and keep the same user account name, we’re going to go into the registry and delete the profile for the corrupted user account. Creating a new user profile doesn’t delete the old, corrupted user profile. If you weren’t able to restore your user profile account using the previous method, try creating a new profile account to replace it. Restart your PC and sign into the account that had the temporary profile error to check whether it’s now fixed.Verify that the State DWORD value of the SID key is 0 and then close the Registry Editor.Double-click ProfileImagePath to modify its value name, enter the correct path of the user profile folder and select OK.bak at the end, select Rename and rename the SID key to remove. Open a command prompt by typing CMD in the search box and then select Command Prompt.If you find your old account with its files, back them up to an external drive or your preferred cloud storage so that you don’t lose them.If not, go to C:\Windows.old and check if the files were archived there. Before repairing your old user profile account, go to the Users folder in the local drive C:\Users, and check if you can see your old account with all its files.However, you may not want to use a temporary account because you’ll lose any changes you make to the temporary profile after signing off. In such cases, you’ll get a message that says, “We can’t sign into your account” and “You’ve been signed in with a temporary profile” notification. Sometimes, Windows may sign you into a temporary account (C:\Users\TEMP) if your user account is corrupted and can’t start. Repair the Old User Profile from the Temporary Account Windows has a good self-recovery process whereby it can repair the corrupt user profile, but it requires a few restarts. Try restarting your Windows PC about four times, each time letting your computer get to the Desktop before restarting it again. While this may seem silly, it’s not.Running a virus or malware scan may help detect and remove the malicious software that could corrupt your user profile. In such cases, Windows 10 cannot load your user profile to boot properly, and the loading process is halted. Virus or malware attacks may damage the file system of the hard drive. Native support for viewing and editing PDF files is provided by the Mac Preview application. Object creation with drawing, shape, and text tools.ĭownload Inkscape (Free): /release/inkscape-1.0/mac-os-x/.When you are finished editing it, just save it as a PDF file or another supported format. When you open a PDF file in Inkscape you need to ensure you select the “Import text as text” option. Inkscape is a free drawing tool that also can be used as a PDF editor. PDF files can be exported to other file formats for compatibility.Files of any type can be exported to PDF format.PDF documents are opened by default in the Draw tool where they can be edited.It is open-source software that provides users with a comprehensive set of applications including word-processing, spreadsheets, drawing, and presentation tools. Here is a free suite of office productivity tools that includes the ability to edit and export files in the PDF format. Magnification and smart cropping tools.Highlight important text within a PDF document.Add and edit notes on the files you are viewing.View PDF files and read them in full-screen mode.Unfortunately, it does not have a very user-friendly interface which will impact its viability for some users. The program can be used to view any PDF file. It was originally designed as a tool for viewing and notating scientific papers and serves that purpose very well. Skim is a free application that extends the capabilities of Mac’s Preview program. The ability to download a free trial of Acrobat Pro DC which enables users to create and edit PDF documents.ĭownload Adobe Acrobat Reader DC (Free): /reader/.Connection to the Adobe Document Cloud facilitating work across multiple computers and mobile devices.Enables interaction with all types of PDF content including forms and multimedia presentations.Allows users to view, print, and comment on PDF documents.The Adobe Acrobat Reader DC is a stripped-down version of its full Acrobat tool which we will talk about in the paid software section of this article. Acrobat Reader DCĪdobe is the creator of the PDF format and has consistently been a leader in applications that allow users to interact with PDF documents. Since they are free, there is no risk to try them. They may not have all of the functionality of a paid solution but could be enough for your requirements. 5 Best FREE PDF Editors for Macįirst, let’s take a look at free solutions. We have put together this list of PDF editors to give you an idea about what is out there and help you find the one that works best for you. Some of them offer greater functionality than others and may be more suited to your needs. There are free applications as well as paid solutions from which to choose. Mac users who need to edit PDF files have many options available to them. An application with the ability to efficiently work with these files can be an important part of your software toolbox. Portable Document Files (PDF) are widely used in business and academia. While clients will always work with their own dedicated virtual/personal assistants, in the unlikely event that your virtual assistant is unavailable/out of the office, a backup/secondary virtual assistant who has been briefed on the client’s requirements is available to complete tasks and provide seamless coverage until the primary virtual assistant is available. In addition to dedicated personal/virtual assistants, One Concierge employs a unique primary/secondary (backup) system for all virtual assistant programs. 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Our personal/virtual assistant services encompass hundreds of tasks, all of which can be managed or administered using innovative technology solutions, to ultimately provide clients with a low cost, high-impact solution to support daily business or personal needs/requirements. All programs are customized for each individual client, allowing clients to choose business hours, tasks, virtual/on-site personal assistant skills and many other variables to provide a fully tailored service solution. One Concierge clients have complete control over each and every on-site or virtual assistant program from conception and design to implementation. No matter where they are located, our dedicated personal assistants keep our clients on time, on task, and productive through a wide range of virtual/on-site administrative and support solutions.Īt One Concierge we understand that our clients’ time is valuable and we are pleased to offer our clients both on-site and virtual assistant programs to help alleviate personal responsibilities and support a variety of administrative responsibilities. More than a lavish luxury, One Concierge personal assistants have proven to be a valuable professional resource to many of our clients around the world. Home » Services » Lifestyle » Personal Assistants |
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