![]() ![]() But, on Windows 7, you’ll have to install the PowerShell 4.0 update to get it. ![]() Update: Get-FileHash is included with Windows 10. What is Checksum for Linux Checksum for Linux is a Bash script which attempts to emulate some of the most basic checksum -like features, effortless recursion, synchronization, multihash support and such, with simple operation and nifty KDE/Gome GUI integration, something I needed for a time. On Windows 10, right-click the Start button and select “Windows PowerShell.” You can also launch it by searching the Start menu for “PowerShell” and clicking the “Windows PowerShell” shortcut. On Windows, PowerShell’s Get-FileHash command calculates the checksum of a file. RELATED: What Are MD5, SHA-1, and SHA-256 Hashes, and How Do I Check Them? You don’t need any third-party utilities. That article also describes how to do the same on Linux with md5sum. Windows, macOS, and Linux all have built-in utilities for generating checksums. A checksum is the outcome of running an algorithm, called a cryptographic hash. If you know the checksum of an original file and want to check it on your PC, you can do so easily. Let’s create a text file with some simple text in it, and use this to demonstrate how the command works: echo -n ' > data.txt. On Linux, both modes generate the same SHA-256 hash, so the default mode is used throughout this article. ![]() RELATED: What Is SHAttered? SHA-1 Collision Attacks, Explained How to Calculate Checksums We can use the sha256sum command in two modes, binary and text (the default). INET An implementation of the TCP/IP protocol suite for the LINUX. If you only know the MD5 sum of an original file, you must calculate your copy’s MD5 sum to check if it’s a match. A file will have different MD5, SHA-1, and SHA–256 checksums. Different checksum algorithms produce different results. ![]()
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![]() ![]() FontLabįontLab is a powerful font editor for professionals to design typefaces and create or modify fonts. Some of the tools listed below are browser based such as FontStruct and FontArk, while the rest of these editors are downloadable software available for Windows and/or Mac OS. svg file in font building tools like FontForge (mentioned below) to convert into TrueType (TTF) or OpenType fonts (OTF). You can use these font creators to make your own custom font from scratch. You can also design your fonts in vector graphic editors like Adobe Illustrator or Inkscape and then import the. In this article, we have brought a list of the best tools and software for creating fonts. In such cases, you may want to create your own font to add uniqueness to the typography of your project. Or you simply want to use a unique font in your app, website or logo design. However, it can sometimes happen that even after checking hundreds of fonts, you’re not able to find the perfect font that you were looking for. This is just scratching the surface, there are a lot more options, but this will allow you to create your first font pretty easily.There are plenty of sources available to find free high quality fonts that you can use in your apps and web projects. otf file you just downloaded in the WINDOWS/FONTS directory: In order to install the font you just created, you copy the. txt format:Īt any point you can head-up to the Navigate Menu and click on the Test Drive Section:Īll is left is to export and download your font in the. Once you have uploaded all your letters and symbols, you can save the file so that you can re-upload it later and work on it if needed, the file will be a. You then repeat this for all the other letters and symbols, one by one, and you end up with this: You can then adjust the size of the letter, modify it if needed (I’ll let you play with that). svg file on the part in the right and click on the blue button Import SVG just below: Here on the left part of the screen you click on the letter you want to import, and then you drag and drop your corresponding. We click ont the “ 9” in the top left corner, which is the Navigate Menu: Here we click on New, write the name of the font, and click on Start a new font from scratch: Now, we head up to the Glyphr Studio Online: svg suffix:Īnd then you redo all of this for each of the letters and symbols and you end up with something like this:Ģ – Creating the font with Glyphr Studio Online: In order to solve this you just have to rename the file manually and add the. svg” sufix… It’s weird and I don’t know why… So you end up with something like this: svg file, but doing so the file created lacks the “. Then I right click on the “ A” and choose Export Path: Using the Select By Color in the Select Menu, I then click on a black part of the letter so that the shape of the letter becomes the selection: This is were you can work a bit on the letter with the Pencil Tool in order to fill the little white parts, you can work on the contour or rotate it if needed (you can also work on the letters later in the Glyphr Studio, but I felt more comfortable doing it here at this stage):īy the way, you don’t have to worry about the size of the canvas or anything. Using the Crop To Selection function in the Image Menu, I then selected the first letter: I then played with the Levels in the Colors Menu in order to clean a bit the image: Sure there are already some websites that propose something like that, but I found those not to be very practical : the number of characters is limited, or you got to pay to download your font, or you got to print a page, than scan it…Īnyway, thanks to a friend I found a very easy way to create a font using GIMP and the free version of GLYPHR STUDIO ONLINE:ġ – Preparing the letters and symbols in Gimp:įirst I drew all the letters and symbols I needed and scanned them in Gimp using a grayscale 600 dpi resolution: One my weak points has always been the lettering, I mean sometimes in my everyday life I can’t even read back what I wrote…Īs I’m currently making comics and that I don’t want to use a preexisting font, I decided to create my own, based on my handwriting. ![]() ![]() ![]() Also, this website provides an enormous database of crash prevention methods. If your PC meets or exceeds those, it has enough power to avoid most crashes caused by having a too low-end system. A good guideline for minimum hardware is the Recommended System Requirements. Upgrading your computer hardware: This is another thing that requires some computer knowledge, as it will require you picking out new hardware compatible with your system.For the more advanced user, disabling certain Windows Services can also help: Tweaking XP Services or Vista Performance Guide. Freeing up existing system resources: This is mainly a matter of closing out of programs such as anti-virus scanners, instant messengers, Web browsers, and peer-to-peer software before running the game.Workarounds There are two ways to minimize stability issues by giving the game more system resources: General Crash Advice: PC version Problem The nature of Oblivion is such that it will crash occasionally, no matter what you do. 8 Emulation and Virtual Machine Problems.4.5 Game Freezes After Click to Swing a Weapon, Shoot Off an Arrow, or Use a Spell.4.4 No Voices in Dialogue with Characters.3.11 Corrupted Text in Books and Quest Log, and Missing Textures in Imperial City.3.10 Slow Framerates When Using a Dual-monitor Setup on an NVidia Card.3.7 Slow Performance on GForce FX cards.3.6 Black Screen or Game Crash in Exterior Cells.3.2 Black Screen When Starting Oblivion.3.1 White Screen When Starting Oblivion.2.1 Controls Become Unresponsive After a Short Time. ![]() ![]() ![]() If you are talking about a late 2015 model Mac, such as the 27-inch late 2015 retina iMac, then chances are next to zero that a version of Mac OS X prior to El Capitan will startup that particular Mac properly. ![]() For example, if we are talking about the Darth Vader Trashcan Cylinder Mac Pro, then Mac OS X Mavericks and later will boot that model, as it has not undergone any hardware changes since it came to market. Avids Pro Tools HD systems all connect to Mac and Windows computers though PCI cards and they enable you to run the full Pro Tools HD software, including TDM plug-ins and a full host of video time-code tools (Pro Tools HD software is included when you purchase a Native HD card). It is just a question of whether or not his supervisors will let him do it.Īlternatively, if you know someone who has purchased (even though it is free) either Mac OS X Mavericks or Mac OS X Yosemite from the App Store, then they can download that installer again (if necessary) and create a bootable installation on a USB thumb drive for you.Īs for installing earlier OS's, the ability to do this is dependent upon the particular computer you have and what the current OS was when that computer came to market. I say may because the genius totally has the ability to do this. ![]() If you schedule an appointment at the genius bar, and bring either the computer or an 8 GB (minimum) USB thumb drive with you and explain your situation, the genius may create a bootable installation for either Mac OS X Mavericks or Mac OS X Yosemite on your USB thumb drive or actually install that OS on your Mac. Also, do any of you know offhand if Apple is willing to install older versions of OSX so that my Pro Tools 11 license will work with? Will that lead to any other compatibility issues? ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() If you have lots of files in your iTunes library that need organizing, TuneUp is a great organizational option. The app sits neatly next to iTunes, and doesn't use significant system resources. iTunes libraries can get really untidy, and it's good to have an automated cleaning system. Click Erase then create the disk and DiskMaker X 7 then reminds. You’re warned that the volume will be erased. In this case, select High Sierra Installer (or the name of your disk) and then click Choose this disk. The unlimited 'Now Playing' and 'Concerts' functions might be useful to you, and the YouTube videos are definitely a nice touch. Select the disk volume for your boot disk, then click Choose this disk. TuneUp allows you to clean 500 songs and find 50 album covers, so once you've used them up you'll have to subscribe to do more. There are even concert and event notifications via the StubHub service. TuneUp's Tuniverse allows you to share what you're playing on Facebook, tweet the song on Twitter, and see related YouTube videos and biographies from Freebase. The DeDuper feature searches out duplicate songs in your collection, which you can then remove. If you like the 'cover flow' feature on iTunes, this is a great way to make it look even better. Drag any album missing artwork into the TuneUp box, and it will find suitable matches, then update your files. You can also search for cover art in the same way. First is 'Clean', which searches for possible fits to your mislabeled tracks, and then automatically changes the file's tag. TuneUp sits next to your iTunes window, and has four functions. ![]() ![]() ![]() Nightwing is more about repositioning himself inside the battlefield, because he's such an acrobatic character. Red Hood obviously is big and brutal, but he deals the most damage out of all of the Knights. A lot of Robin's abilities are about returning to stealth quickly, so he's able to appear and do powerful stealth takedowns and then vanish again. Geoff Ellenor: There are playstyles inside the characters as well, but I'll give the simplest version of the answer. Do you have a recommendation for players who may be looking to do something that's more aggressive, or do you have any recommendations for set playstyles? Talking about the different personalities of the characters and how they're reflected in gameplay, all the Knights can largely do the same thing, but they do excel in different areas. You want to feel like we're going to double down on that difference and really pay it off in some big, expressive way. You don't want to feel like we're going to dilute that difference. Robin is more stealth-focused than Red Hood and has a certain vibe to him a certain way of playing that appeals to a certain kind of player. If you already start out and you have that asymmetry, there's a different stylistic feeling for each of these characters. Patrick Redding: Yeah, nobody wants to see them stuffing themselves into Batman's spare Batsuit and changing their voice to sound like him. We pretty quickly settled on having them not become Batman. That really provided a great creative tableau for us to write upon and figure out what we were going to do for each hero, and how they would express their own personalities in taking on doing Batman's role. How they decide to evolve themselves and step out and take on Gotham's challenges is different. Because growth and the Bat family was kind of a important theme that we settled in on, and how everyone processes the loss of their mentor is different. Geoff Ellenor: That's also a cool storytelling premise for us. It really puts you on notice that you're the grown up now you're gonna have to grow your hero and develop your hero the way they need to be in order to do the job. They make for a cool game that you want to play for a long time, and I think when we remove Batman from the picture, you take away the possibility that maybe he's just going to show up at the end and take care of everything. That requires growth and strategy and the ability to set goals, and those are also things that keep players really engaged. I have to be prepared, and I have to come up with all of those things." I have to be able to deal with the dark conspiracies and the corruption, and I have to deal with the big supervillains. But now I have to be able to do all the other jobs too. And I think what we were most interested in was growth and evolution, and that sense of, "I'm already kind of a badass, and I know how to fight crime on the streets. That's usually the fantasy, right? The fantasy is that you're that. Patrick Redding: Sometimes there's a challenge when you have a superhero fantasy, where the hero is already this fully-formed paragon that can do everything. ![]() And pretty quickly, we came across the thought that it's more compelling in their growth if Batman's not there, and they have to wake up the next day and go do his job. We were really into this idea of the superhero team-up, so we started talking about this large repository of Batman heroes. ![]() Geoff Ellenor: Super early in the three of us in front of a whiteboard phase, we knew that we wanted to be able to play together. Screen Rant: What drew you to the idea of doing a Bat Family game in the first place? We've had a lot of Batman video games over the years, but this is the first one to depart from that standard of playing as the Dark Knight. The two directors expanded upon Gotham Knights' depiction of the Bat Family, how WB Games Montréal came to settle on its unique premise, and the visual inspirations behind the characters' costumes. In the run-up to Gotham Knights' release, Screen Rant sat down with Game Director Geoff Ellenor and Creative Director Patrick Redding to discuss the title and its pre-release trailers. Related: Gotham Knights Review: Batman Reborn Gotham Knights, then, could be seen as the culmination of all these years of spinoffs, finally affirming the Bat Family as a core pillar of the wider Batman franchise. Tim Drake's Robin has also led his own comics, while perennial Batman bad-boy Jason Todd has carved out a new niche as a moody anti-hero after being resurrected in the comics in the early 2000s. As Nightwing, Dick Grayson has fronted numerous solo series and animated shows, while Barbara Gordon's Batgirl has been an iconic part of the DC scenery since her entrance in the 1960s Batman television series. While not Batman levels of popular, Gotham Knights' playable DC heroes all have their own loyal followings and have led their own media away from their mentor for decades. ![]() ![]() Select the ellipse tool and click the center point, then the end point of the first line, and then the end point of the second, and finish the sketch. Then another line, starting from the center, that is 5.2 inches long, and going long the Z axis. First, Go ahead and make a Sketch on the XZ Plane and make a line that is 4 inches long starting at the center point, and going along the X axis. What I have found is that it is simply 3 ovals that overlap each other on the 3 dimensional plains. The first thing to do is to figure how to begin going about creating the basic shape. just create a new work plane however many inches in front of the original plane that I say to In this Instructable, We'll be going over how to use the Polyline/line tool, ellipse/circle tool, trim tool, extrude tool, loft tool, and chamfer tool in Autodesk 123D/Inventor. There are multiple ways to create a work plane in 123D. The only difference that will apply to this tutorial is the creation of work planes. Note: There are few differences between Inventor & 123D. But for now, here are the step by step instructions to getting the shell, arms, and gun box ready for 3D printing, and assembly. You are welcome to redesign the mechanics I have created(on a limited budget), which I will be posting in a later Instructable. After about four days of drawing, redrawing modeling and remodeling it(since there are no real references referring to the measurements of the turret), I have obtained a satisfactory result, while keeping in mind that I would eventually be printing it out and incorporating the mechanical workings I have made to replicate the actions of an actual turret from the game. And since then I've gotten some experience with Autodesk design software and now have the ability to continue on with this project. I have had a desire to make one of these undeniably adorable, military grade turrets since I've played Portal 2 a couple years ago. The turret itself is not copyright protected, but all of the credit for it's original design, and my inspiration for making this goes to Valve. The purpose of this Instructable is to provide a way for people to Create, 3D Print and/or Machine a version of the Turret from Portal 2 that will be incorporated with mechanical parts to redesign how the original Turret from Portal 2 works, while teaching them how to design objects, and use the software. Note: I only have access to the student version of Autodesk Inventor on this computer at the moment, so that is what I will be using to demonstrate this process and write out the steps, but Since I made it in 123D aswell, I will be posting both the Inventor files and Autodesk 123D files at the end of this Instructable. Note: If you have a question, please read through all of the "Notes" first. ![]() ![]() ![]() You see, when browsing the web, your DNS requests are routed through a free DNS service in most cases. Robert is a fancy name for the private DNS feature that this provider offers. For my convenience, I’ll just call it Robert. (Private DNS)Īnother important feature here is called R.O.B.E.R.T. This is the highest level of encryption you can get and the provider offers it in both free and paid plans, which is a big relief. Instead, it uses this bank-grade encryption to make sure your online activities are fully secured and cannot be tracked. In my article about free vs paid VPNs, I outlined that free providers usually rely on 128-bit encryption or they have no encryption at all. 256-bit encryption is extremely important for ensuring your online security. What you can’t control – and it doesn’t matter – is 256-bit encryption. Windscribe is a highly-customizable provider even in its free version, so it comes as no surprise that this is one of the aspects you can control. This allows you to customize the way it works to your accord. I don’t recommend this option if you don’t plan on using this VPN every second.įinally, I like that the provider lets you select the manual mode when utilizing this kill switch. ![]() This means it won’t let you access the internet if you’re not connected to any of Windscribe’s servers. ![]() Next, Windscribe lets you set the kill switch to “Always On” which makes it function like the kill switch in NordVPN. If you set it to Automatic, it’ll decide when to spring into action – usually when your VPN connection breaks and it must protect your IP and DNS addresses. If you visit the Settings menu, you’ll find that this kill switch has several options too. However, as it’s located on the home screen and can be controlled via a single button, you’ll quickly realize its function. This feature is called a Firewall within the app, which may confuse some people. Speaking of features you can enable or disable, I will talk about Windscribe’s kill switch. You’ll find these features in its application and most of them can be controlled, enabled, or disabled by your hand. To start this analysis and answer the question “is Windscribe VPN safe and secure?”, we first must focus on its security features. If not… well, you can just keep reading this article instead! Is Windscribe Safe to Use? Security Features Examined Thus, if you’re interested in more factors aside from this, feel free to check it out. In this review, I talked about everything you should know about it and not just security and privacy. In fact, you can check my full Windscribe review I did recently as well. Windscribe, however, has had a free VPN service for quite some time and it isn’t going to be as bad as you’d think it is.īut many potential users are still wondering – is Winscribe safe and secure? The answer lies in this article, as I go over all of its security features and examine this provider to see if you can fully trust it. Free providers are known for intrusive logging practices, poor security, and no other standout features to differentiate them from their paid competitors. When talking about free VPNs, many people aren’t going to trust them at first.Īnd I think they’re right. Its long-lasting existence in the marketplace cemented its name as a reliable, safe, and secure provider that’s also easy to use. As you can imagine, though, the practice of not keeping logs is a thorn in the eye for a number of people and institutions, not the least of which is law enforcement, which would very much like everybody to be trackable.Windscribe is one of the most popular free VPNs. Logs would make you very easy to track, which is why VPNs pledge not to keep them and are what’s called no-log VPNs. In this case, logs are a record of who connected to the VPN’s servers and when, as well as a full list of all the sites visited and other activities. However, VPNs aren’t bulletproof and there’s a weak link in this process, namely their logs. The way a virtual private network works is that it reroutes and secures your connection, making you much harder to track. Is this fear realistic, or is it just a knee-jerk panic reaction? What Is Logging? As a result, something unthinkable may become a reality: VPNs that are forced to log traffic. More and more governments are cracking down on online anonymity on the one hand, while Hollywood is doing whatever it takes to crack down on piracy. The heat is on, and VPNs are feeling the pressure. ![]() ![]() ![]() People who literally live under rocks know about Zoom. We kept all of these features in mind while considering which Zoom alternatives to test (let's face it-that's what they are), and also focused on these features while testing. Anyone should be able to click a link and join your meeting without much fuss (though there should also be security features to keep out unwanted participants). Make it simple to add people outside your organization. Recording a meeting should be as simple as clicking a button in your online meeting software. Not everyone can make every meeting-recordings help bridge that gap. The best online video conferencing apps go beyond this to offer whiteboarding or even direct collaboration features.Īllow for video recording. Screen sharing and chat are the bare minimum. Ideally, meetings can be quickly scheduled and added to your calendar, and there should be obvious links to click when it's time to join the call. Make it straightforward to start, schedule, and join meetings. If web conferencing software can only do one thing, this has to be it. Offer high-quality video and audio, reliably. In summary, the best video conferencing apps: Businesses need more than just a solid video connection to do meetings. There are many consumer-facing video chat apps-Apple's FaceTime, for example-that wouldn't work as a video conferencing app. We tested each online meeting app to see how well it performed when the quality of the internet connection changed.īut that's not the only thing we were thinking of. ![]() That goes beyond how the picture looks-the best quality in the world doesn't matter if people cut out or calls drop constantly. ![]() The most important thing for video conferencing is video quality. For more details on our process, read the full rundown of how we select apps to feature on the Zapier blog. We're never paid for placement in our articles from any app or for links to any site-we value the trust readers put in us to offer authentic evaluations of the categories and apps we review. We spend dozens of hours researching and testing apps, using each app as it's intended to be used and evaluating it against the criteria we set for the category. All of our best apps roundups are written by humans who've spent much of their careers using, testing, and writing about software. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ides was not very good, but thanks to these street-approved leading men it was suddenly very cool, and its share of the market was owed entirely to the patronage of hip-hop kingmakers. Snoop Dogg, Ice Cube, and the Wu Tang Clan all starred in commercials extolling the virtues of St. If you buy Colt 45 you will surely be in the bone zone.īut it was the glorification and validation of malt liquor in the hip-hop sphere of influence during the late '80s and '90s that completely changed the game and hardened the battle lines between concerned citizens and 40-ounce warriors. An attractive woman hangs on the shoulder of the malt-liquor-loving alpha male as he grins that beguiling and disarming grin and the text below declares, "It works every time!" In a TV ad Williams holds up a Colt 45 and tells us the two rules for a good time: 1) "Never run out of Colt 45" and 2) "Never forget rule number one." The camera zooms out to reveal an attractive woman and schmaltzy music plays in the background, music that sounds somewhat porn-y. Those Williams Colt 45 ads remain iconic. In the early '80s Colt 45 recruited no less than Billy Dee Williams, Lando Calrissian himself, as the charming and handsome champion of its brand. When brewers finally figured out that blacks were buying malt beverages at a higher rate than their white counterparts, the ad men dutifully went to work on exploiting that angle. Its earliest competitor for malt-beverage hegemony was Baltimore's own Colt 45. Country Club was literally attempting to push malt liquor on the sorts of people who frequented country clubs. The ad allows us to peek in on an imaginary world of dinner-jacket WASPs with parted hair guffawing (about the poors?) and merrily guzzling down Country Club malt liquor in fancy goblets. tastes exciting!" ad from 1955 is a far cry from the target demographic brewers of malt beverages aim to entice today. They focused on the radness of the slight bump in alcohol content compared to other domestics. Those early marketing campaigns weren't any more evil than any other marketing campaign, which to be fair is not some huge achievement. ![]() But then, in the beginning malt liquor was marketed quite differently, to an altogether different cohort. The higher-than-average alcohol content and the lower prices wreaked havoc on America's inner cities and vulnerable populations, and to walk around with a 40 in your hand is to be aware of this, to in some tiny way be complicit. ![]() To declare any sort of allegiance to malt liquor is to invite the unpacking of the efficacy and worth of a product with grim subtext and sinister undertones that include both predatory marketing against minorities on the one hand and well-heeled tourist appropriation on the other. Ferguson definition of beer, both beer and not beer, something that would alternatively be marketed as hip, then dangerous, then hip in a dangerous way. Out of this experimentation with corn and sugar and other adjuncts was born malt liquor, now found in 40-ounce bottles at any of your cheaper liquor stores.Īnd though it is very obviously beer, it's been sort of a relegated to a Plessy vs. Brewers in ye olden days were always on a quest to increase the alcoholic content of their brews, to give it a kick not seen since before Prohibition. The thing is, it's actually just foggy, straw-colored lager that relies not on hops but various adjuncts and is only not simply beer by dint of marketing strategies. Malt liquor is, to many folks, garbage water in sheep's clothing, or something somehow different than other sorts of more socially permissible swill like Budweiser or Coors. ![]() |
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