Change your voice

Fake Voice is a voice changer software which changes your voice to male, female, old, young, hard, shrill, or some one new. If you are female and want to sound like male or if you are male and want to sound like male, this is your tool. You can apply robotic effect to sound like alien or echo effect to sound like you speaking from a well or tunnel. Whether you like you have fun with your friends or you want to improve your voice quality for audio recording, this tool give you full control over your voice.

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OpenOffice.org Breaks Records Everywhere

All around the world, it seems, people just can’t get enough of this amazing free office suite, which is now turning in serious market shares in some countries. For, example, according to this report, there are now 12 million users in Brazil, representing fully 25% of the entire office market there. Meanwhile, plucky little Italy has notched up 4 million downloads in the last 12 months (that’s downloads, not users, but still impressive).

I wonder what the corresponding figures for the UK would be? Not nearly so good I suspect, judging by the fact that the UK lies well back in the placings for Firefox uptake, and open source in general. I presume this is the toxic influence of the UK government, which historically has always had a rather too cosy relationship with Microsoft (arise, Sir William Gates III). Are you doing your bit?

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How to Solve Access Denied Deleting Files Folders

To delete a file or folder but having Windows prompts a popup saying the file/folder is still in use is simply annoying.

Cannot delete xxx: Access is denied. Make sure the disk is not full or write-protected and the file is not currently in use.

This happens because the file may look fine to delete but it is still engaged with a particular Window application processes. Fauzi of cyperhackz cares enough to share his methods to deal with these annoying Windows issue.

Fauzi has suggested 3 methods to force delete these files; via command prompt, safe mode and Unlocker application. Command prompt is the fastest solution to delete regardlessly of Window’s Access Denied message but it just can’t do its trick on deleting folder with multiple folders. Usually when such situation occurs, we wanna get it of the file fast, therefore I think safe mode will not be my choice.

experiment

, and a small experiment

Unlocker solves the Access Denied Deleting nicely. I did a little experiement; engaged a folder to CuteFTP’s process, and try to delete it from desktop.

Windows gives me Access Denied popup, I closed it, Unlocker then popup appears. Unlock with Unlocker, files deleted. Pretty clean.

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Download 3DCreative Magazine Issue 38!

Welcome to Issue 38! This month we welcome Olivier Ponsonnet to 3DCreative, which I’ve personally been really excited about since I very first heard back from him in reply to my interview proposal! You’ll no doubt already have seen the fantastically realistic 3D works that make up the stunning portfolio of this artist – many of which grace 3DCreative pages 007 – 014, and we find out how after 12 years working in the field of CG, Ponsonnet’s works have developed from an interest in cars and futuristic cities, to the beautifully rich character images that we find today. Our second interview this month is with Sanjay Chand, who some of the 3DCreative team had the pleasure of meeting at Siggraph 2008! Chand is currently working as a Lighting Artist, and from his portfolio – featured on pages 017 – 023 of 3DCreative – we discover his superb creature design and rendering skills in the stunning examples of alien creations; creatures that appear to have come from the darkest of nightmares and are evidence of the fantastic classes taught by Alex Alvarez at the Gnomon School of Visual Effects. We also have a great little Studio Interview with 3d-io Games & Video Production, on page 025; we chat to CEO and Art Director, Igor Posavec whose company focuses on 2D and 3D digital design for games and entertainment. And we love the guys at Unexpected so much that we’ve asked them back again for this issue, with a great article on the making of once of their recent ads for Honda: L.O.V.E (page 041).
As far as tutorials go, we have Part 3 of our big tutorial series on creating a complete scene, specialising in aged and weathered texturing, which this month focuses on preparing the textures – next month we’ll take an in-depth look at mapping! Our second instalment of the Speed Sculpting series welcomes back Jesse Sandifer who has this month tackled the brief alongside Brazilian ZBrush sculptor, Dalton Alves Muniz. Both artists have interpreted the brief differently; Muniz has gone for a female fish-like creature whilst Sandifer has created a frog-like being – both in response to this month’s topic, “Amphibious Man/Woman” (page 067). Rafael Ghencev is also back in this issue with his second part of our wonderful ZBrush Character Creation series, this month creating an obese Asian man and teaching us the sculpting and texturing techniques along the way (page 081). He’s also kindly provided us with movies to accompany the tutorial this month, for those who requested that they’d like to see the WIP in video format! So don’t say we never listen to you guys *winks*!

Our Making Ofs this month include work from Paulius Biesevicius, who talks us through the creation of his Peugeot concept car (page 093), and Rodrigo Banzato discusses the making of his cartoon image, “Drinks Girl” (page 101). You can also find a chapter from the new Digital Art Masters: Volume 3 book by Damien Canderle, who details the making of him alien creature called “Gnom” (page 108).

Well, I hope we’ve provided plenty to keep you out of trouble till next month’s offerings! Thanks for all your support and enjoy this month’s issue. Cheers! Ed

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