Concept art is a form of illustration where the main goal is to convey a visual representation of a design, idea, and/or mood for use in movies, video games, animation, or comic books before it is put into the final product.

The concept artist generates a visual design for something that doesn’t yet exist.

Most of these pieces are created with Photoshop as well as using more traditional means such as oil paints, pencils and others. The two most common themes are science fiction and fantasy.

In this post, we take a look at 50 great  examples of concept art that are sure to inspire you and let your imagination run wild.

It will be very much interesting to see how the objects look while breaking and shape it takes after hitting with a bullet.

Here are 30 excellent high speed photos of bullets passing through various objects, captured using high speed cameras.

( photos by alan_sailer )

( photos by nebarnix )

( photo by fithtyfithty )

( photo by kb2zuz )

Step 1. Open a Notepad and type this {WScript.Echo “Don’t forget your thumb drive!”}. When you type it in ignore the curly bracket.

Never forget usb drive

After that save the file as “thumb-drive-reminder.vbs”

Never forget thumb drive

Step 2. Copy the file to your log off folder. Here is where you can find your log off folder. C:\WINDOWS\system32\GroupPolicy\User\Scripts\Logoff      Remember you need to go to folder option to enable shown hidden file if not you will not be able to see your group policy folder. Go to Tools >> Folder Options >> View >> then select the Show hidden files and folders.

Never forget usb drive

Step 3.  This is the final step. From the Run box (Start -> Run), type gpedit.msc and hit Enter. In User Configuration -> Windows Settings -> Logoff, double click the log off file, press the Add Script button and select the thumb-drive-reminder.vbs file.

Never forget your usb

This is how it look like when you log off or shut down your PC.

Resiliency is a term I’ve heard used to describe this phenomenon. It refers to a person’s ability to roll with life’s punches, to surrender and accept what is and work with it rather than getting stuck on how they wish things were, or more importantly, denying reality altogether. Those last approaches don’t seem to change anything and they divert valuable energy to resistance rather than moving through and past the issue.

I’ve pondered this quite a bit and have concluded that “surrender and acceptance” is key to cultivating a resilient habit of mind.

I have a friend from long ago who makes Job’s trials and tribulations look like an all-inclusive resort stay at a five-star hotel in Cancun. I mean, between an abusive husband, precarious finances, towering debt and no job, bitter divorce, and much more, she would certainly have had every reason in the world to lapse into a depressive coma and stay there for the rest of her life.

But amazingly, she has a remarkable outlook on life. Maybe it’s just a case of when so many things are so bad, you begin to get grateful for the smallest of things because you know how very bad it could be. I don’t know, but I do know that now things have evened out a bit for her it’s pretty hard these days to faze her with anything.

And, I’ve noticed that she is pretty frictionless when it comes to accepting the “what is” of life. After the initial realization of an ugly situation, she simply refuses to spend emotional energy on fighting the reality of it. She just says, “Okay this sucks big time, but it is what it is … now what am I going to do with it?”

I think as we get older resiliency is an incredibly important quality to have. I’ve noticed that older people who don’t have it seem to get brittle, and bitter. It seems to me that all the things we do not accept and resolve—the things we don’t say, the resentments that build up, the unhealthy relationships we don’t address, the boundaries we don’t set– gradually build over the years until they simply collapse on themselves, often spectacularly, in a painful way that seems to drag out forever. I’ve observed this a number of times, and it’s a terrible thing to watch.

The good news is I believe resiliency is a habit of mind that can be developed over time. The bad news is, like working out physically, you can’t suddenly get down and do 100 push-ups one day if you’ve been a couch potato for years. It takes exercising that resiliency muscle.

Some books that have helped me tremendously in this department are, first, the old stand by, The Road Less Traveled by M. Scott Peck. This was popular back in the 80s but many of his points have stuck with me all these years. Another is Conversations With God by Neale Donald Walsch. Be forewarned: this one challenges a lot of mainstream religious (but not spiritual) beliefs and in fact, pegs some of them as the source for a lot of our pain. But, it has been the single most influential set of ideas for me in developing my resiliency habit. It incorporates a lot of what we know about quantum physics and ties it in with spirituality. Another that I’ve heard wonderful things about is Rabbi Harold Kushner’s book, When Bad Things Happen to Good People.

I’m not sure who said this, but it seems to tie the resiliency concept up in a nice box and bow: “pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.”

Have you ever thought WHY One is 1, Two is 2, Three is 3 … and so on?

It is all because of Angles. Yes, it is the number of angles in each letter.

The following image has ancient Arabic numbers. All the angles that are formed in these letters are mentioned by the letter o.

The number of angles gives meaning to each letters.

Number 1 has one angle
Number 2 has two angles
Number 3 has three angles
….
and so on.

Observe the letter Zero. It has no angles.

Cool eh?

Here are four services that provide those assistants. Three offer virtual assistants; one offers actual assistants. And while our fifth entry doesn’t provide a service, it does offer a free, time-saving utility.

Timebridge Scheduling Assistant: Scheduling meetings with busy people—trying to find that one day and hour where everybody can meet either virtually or in person—can really be a frustrating mess. But, happily, that’s where Timebridge Scheduling Assistant can come in handy. This innovative web service works across time zones and different calendar systems; it networks calendars to see everybody’s availability, proposes the best time to meet, issues invitations, and collates responses (no calendar details are shown; merely blocks of free and busy time). You can also conference online. Timebridge is free, although its Web meeting feature is not.

uReach: Another helpful service is uReach, a kind of virtual receptionist who handles all your messages, be they email, voice, or fax. All incoming messages go into an inbox, accessible by you from anywhere, and manageable by phone or PC. You’ll get your own toll-free number, making it easy for friends, family, and customers to contact you. A bit more advanced is the Small Business solution, which provides an office PBX system; your callers hear a voice menu that provides personal greetings, call routing, and extension mailboxes. Additional solutions and features can solve a variety of business needs. Price depends on services and ranges from $11.99 to $24.99 per month.

Shoeboxed: If your job takes you on the road, then chances are you’re drowning in business cards, expense reports, and receipts, right? Sure, you keep  meaning to sit down at the scanner and feed everything in, but somehow you never find the time. No problem! You just need a nifty outfit like Shoeboxed to help out. Pop those bits of flotsam and jetsam into the mail, and, after scanning and categorizing them, Shoeboxed will turn the whole shebang into a format of your choosing and deliver it to you in a safe place online. Formats include Excel, Quickbooks, Freshbooks, PDF, Evernote, Quicken, and CSV. Four price tiers range from a limited (DIY) free account to $49.95 per month)

TimeSvr: If you need more office support than Shoeboxed can offer, consider TimeSvr. “We provide virtual assistants to help you save time everyday,” the company’s tagline states, but in fact the assistants are not virtual—they’re actual human beings, equipped with the knowledge and technology to do research, make reservations, etc. TimeSvr Personal, at $69 per month, offers unlimited basic tasks (phone calls, reminders, reservations, and bookings) as well as up to 8 hours per month for more complex tasks (transcribing, long web searches, etc.). TimeSvr Dedicated, at $850 per month, allows you 48 hours per week of personalized attention from an assistant who has a minimum of 3 years experience. If you’re intrigued, TimeSvr offers a no-commitment 3-day trial.

Shinkuro: Last, here’s something nice for the real geeks out there. Shinkuro is a nifty piece of software developed by Steve Crocker, who helped create the original Arpanet protocols—the foundation for today’s Internet—back in the 1960s. Shinkuro allows the secure sharing of files across enterprise boundaries, keeping folder contents on each machine in sync. It uses heavy-duty encryption and authentication to ensure that access is safe and protected. Shinkuro also includes secure instant messaging and secure screen sharing, to give you a complete collaboration environment. Shinkuro’s lightweight technology works easily with all applications, and runs on Windows 2000 and XP, Mac OS X, Linux, and FreeBSD. BTW, the word Shinkuro was imported into the Japanese language some time ago; it means “synchro” or “synchronize.”

Blender

Blender is a free,

Blender gives you a revolutionary non-overlapping and non-blocking UI which delivers unsurpassed workflow and offers flexible and fully configurable window layout with as many screen setups as you prefer.

It comes with a range of 3D object types including polygon meshes, NURBS surfaces, bezier and B-spline curves, metaballs, vector fonts. Other than that it

• User friendly interface
• Realtime 3D/Game Creation
• Modeling
• Rigging
• Rendering
• Animation
• Shading
• UV Unwrapping and more
• Imaging and Compositing

Download Blender for Linux

Art of Illusion

Art of Illusion is another free,

Art of Illusion is powerful enough to be used for serious, high end

• Extended Functionality Through Scripts and Plugins
• File Handling
• Scripting
• Post Processing
• Rendering
• Provides
  textures,
  animation, modeling
• Easy to use and user-friendly interface

Download Art of Illusion

Crystal Space

Crystal Space is a free cross-platform

Other features like vertex and fragment shaders will give you great possibilities of enhancing your art with the nicest, up-to-date effects. Several shaders are included standard with Crystal Space but you are free to make your own.

Download Crystal Space

FreeWRL

FreeWRL is an open Source, cross platform VRML2 and X3D compliant browsers, with script and EAI support . Its an essential tool for every Linux/Mac X3D/VRML toolbox. FreeWRL not only enable us to run only OSS in our 3D modeling platform but also outclass other VRML/X3D plugins by its performances.

Download FreeWRL X3D

K3DSurf

K3DSurf is a Linux application that allows you to visualize and manipulate Mathematical models in 3,4,5 and 6 dimensions and supports Parametric equations/Isosurfaces. K3DSurf can be used by every one interested in 3D Mathematical drawing functions and don’t require any special competences by users.

Studying mathematical surfaces with K3DSurf include doing:

• Interactive visualization with mouse events (Right: Rotate, Middle: translate and left: Scale).
• Real time
  animation (rotation) and morph (by the introduction of t_time variable).
  Animation and morph can also be monitored by controls that affect the CPU usage and t_time step.
• Creat screenshots by copying the draw window or by using the best ray tracer on the net: Povray.
• Creat movie scene is also supported
• Generat Mesh files that describe the shape of the mathematical model.

Supported formats are:
1. Povscript : Povray is the best ray tracer available on the net…and it’s free.
2. VRML2: to use with the majority of current browsers via an appropriate plug-in.
3. OBJ: a well-known file format supported by the majority of 3D applications

Download K3DSurf

For Linux, Windows or Mac

PovModeler

KPovModeler is POV-Ray maker that runs on Linux. It allows the users to drag their shapes around in the 3 view boxes. Using this, the users can easily set the placement. They have the option of adding any of about 20 shapes. The users need to type commands in the raw POV-Ray if they want a cool texture or finish.

Key

• Management of the scene through a graphical tree.
• Object modification with control points in a graphical view or direct manipulation of object attributes in a dialog
• Nonblocking scene
  rendering with OpenGL as wire frame views
• Freely configurable view layout with dock widgets
• Copy/paste and drag/drop of (a subset of) povray(!) code into and out of the object tree
• Undo and redo
• Scene
  rendering and texture preview with povray inside the program
• Support for almost all povray objects
• Support for all
  textures
• Prototypes (declarations) and references
• All projection modes of the camera

It offers you to preview the texture in the dialog view. This feature is very useful while creating

Download KpovModeler

PovRay

PovRay is a high-quality, totally free tool for creating stunning three-dimensional graphics. One of POV-Ray’s main attractions is its large collection of third party support. A large number of tools, textures, models, scenes, and tutorials can be found on the web. It is also a useful reference for those wanting to learn how ray tracing and related geometry and graphics algorithms work.

Recent versions of the

• A Turing-complete scene description language (SDL) that supports macros and loops.[4]
• Library of ready-made scenes,
  textures, and objects
• Support for a number of geometric primitives and constructive solid geometry
• Several kinds of light sources
• Atmospheric effects such as fog and media (smoke, clouds)
• Reflections, refractions, and light caustics using photon mapping
• Surface patterns such as wrinkles, bumps, and ripples, for use in procedural
  textures and bump mapping
• Radiosity
• Image format support for
  textures and rendered output, including TGA, PNG, JPEG (only input) among others
• Extensive user documentation

It is available in official versions for Windows, Mac OS/Mac OS X and i86 Linux. The source code is available for those wanting to do their own ports.

Download PovRay

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I remember once seeing an eposide of DR.Phil, where this women was scared of touching the mouse and the screen. She considered that computers are the source of all evil. And that computers were the vechiles of the devils. And that the computer may develop a mind of its own and may attempt of murdering her. People who are scared of this magnificent technological masterpiece DO EXIST.

My point is, that computers & the internet can be really scarey world for some people. And we have alot of those people here in Saudi Arabia. One of our missions in Saudi Information Technology Club is to provide Saudi citizen with guidance that they need to venture fourth into this world of computers.

Anyway, back to our subject. As I said mentioned above that one of our missions is to educate the people about I.T. So we started this summer program for kids (Ages 8 – 14 where we teach children the basics of computers, basic of programming, we also give them an introduction to personal deveopment such as goal settings and time manangement and motivation. We tailored the program so it fits into our students brain so dont worry about saying that it is too much for little kids. Nothing is too much for them, they can understand clearly and I can say that confidently from my experience with them.

Microsoft came and offered us support inexchange of publication, so they gave us 2 free Xboxes so we can use it as prizes or we can run tournaments using it. (When we asked for 5, but since its free, I can only thank and not complain. ) And they also offered us freebies such as USB flashes (They gave us away 120X USB flash) And alot of community service brochures and awareness campaigns. So we used thier files and gave the USB’s to the children so they can save thier data on.

So thank you Microsoft for your support! And a special thanks DR.Mamdoh Al Najjar, Microft’s corporate Social Responsbility Leader.

Coming in at just under 6-grand, the new contender features an 18.4” 1080p display, an Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9300, 8GB of DDR3 1333MHz, dual 1GB Nvidia GeForce GTX 280m in SLI, an 80GB Intel X25-M SSD, dual 500GB Seagate Momentus HDDs in RAID 1 and a dual layer Blu-ray burner. The eX-L 18 also houses an Intel PRO/Wireless 5300AGN, a Bluetooth module, HD audio with surround sound, biometric security, a backlit keyboard with a numeric keypad, 7-in-1 card reader, as well as eSATA, HDMI, USB 2.0 and Firewire ports.

As sweet as the base configuration is, $6,000 is a bit steep. I managed to get the system down to $3,917 by dropping the second 500GB HDD and opting for a 500GB Western Digital Scorpio Blue, Core 2 Duo T9600, 4GB of RAM, and a Blu-ray reader instead of a burner. The extra $2k+ worth of components wouldn’t provide much if any noticeable performance to a game – so you’re only sacrificing a bit of data redundancy and/or storage.