It's important to master vector graphics drawing. The images that you get don't loose quality when they are scaled. It doesn't matter if it has the size of an icon, it can cover a wall too, when talking about a vector graphic. Illustrator is Adobe's main software for vector graphics. Following, you have a series of 65 tutorials that will be your source to learn new techniques, or your source of inspiration and ideas. (Click the images to go to the tutorials) Illustration 3D Drawings Shapes Icon Design Web Graphics Logo Design Text Effects Frames Holidays Adobe Illustrator provides a powerful set of tools for web design if you master it, let it be on websites or even for decorating your email marketing campaigns. Don't forget to get a hosting that can save your images safely. Having a dedicated hosting service of quality is an advantage for every designer.

Jack Tramiel was born in Poland in 1928. After the Nazi invasion of 1939 he and his family were sent to a Jewish ghetto. Later, they were sent to one of the worst concentration camps of the Nazi Germany: Auschwitz. In Auschwitz, Jack Tramiel was selected by Dr. Mengele (more known as "The Angel of Death", one of the most cruel and wicked minds of Nazism) to go with his father to the work camp of Ahlem (Hanover). His mother stayed in Auschwitz. Jack Tramiel's father was assassinated by the Nazis (they injected him gasoline). He was rescued from the concentration camp in 1945 by the US Army. Two years later Jack Tramiel went to the USA, the country that gave him freedom, and joined their army. While he was in the army, he learned to repair typewriters. Some time later, he worked as a taxi driver. He saved some money, and bought a shop in the Bronx, where he worked repairing typewriters. He called it "Commodore Portable Typewriter". He had a remarkable success, and decided to move to Ontario (Canada) the following year. There, he focused on manufacturing office material at low cost. But in 1976 he had economical problems and he's about to go bankrupt. Tramiel, used to adversity, bets really hard: he gets a loan of 3 million dollar, and with this money, buys an American electronics company. It was called "Mos Technologies", but he changed its name to "Commodore International". Tramiel has a revolutionary idea: why not to make computing accessible to the general public? "Computers for the masses, not for the social classes". That were times in which computers were just a mere tool for the big companies, and privileged people that could pay a big amount of money. Tramiel starts a chain reaction, maybe a social revolution: no business will lack of a computer (a revolution in all offices), a new toy for the children, and a new way for entertainment that nowadays keeps a strong fight against the leader of communication: TV. Computers became the best vehicle for information, due to Internet. He releases a series of brilliant products, really revolutionary for those times, both for their technological improvements as for their progressively lowered price. For example, PET (designed by Chuck Peddle in 1977) and VIC-20 (in 1981, was one of the first computers able to work with colors, and were produced 9000 units per day). And in 1982, they launch the Commodore 64. It had all kinds of peripherals that were just high technology until then, and never seen before by the home users: optical pen and graphics tablet (that allowed to draw directly on the screen, or in an electronic blackboard), game devices (joystick, mouse, roller), modem to browse the Internet, video digitalizer (the precursor of web cams), MIDI sequencer, monitor filters... Commodore 64 brings the absolute success for his company. It is the best seller home computer in History, with more than 30 million units sold all over the world. This is why it appears in the Guinness World Records. Commodore International reached the 32% of the home computing market. In 1984 Jack Tramiel left Commodore and sold his shares. With the abandonment of this man, blessed with the Midas Touch, starts the decadence of the company. When they launched the notorious computer Amiga, they went bankrupt. The company abandoned Jack Tramiel's guidelines of low price computers. In the same year, he bought Atari. Years later, his sons managed the company. He retired to live a peaceful life with his wife, Helen. They are together for more than 60 years. So when you turn off your computer today, remember Jack Tramiel. Maybe if Jack Tramiel never existed, you may not have a computer to turn off.

Claude Oscar Monet was born in Paris (France) in the year 1840. Since he was very young he was deeply interested in art. When he was 15 years old, he did an amateur exposition in a store in "El Havre" with some drafts. Eugene Boudin was pleasantly amazed with those drafts, and offered himself to be his teacher. Monet agreed with pleasure. Even with the opposition of his father, that hated the idea of his son being an artist, he kept on following his dreams. He had to serve for two years in a military regiment in Algeria. After this, he went to Paris to study painting. There, he met Renoir, Sisley, Bazille... painters like him that became his friends. These artists, with Monet, became great symbols of the impressionist art. These group of impressionist painters had to fight against those others that preferred a more traditional art. They used to gather in the cafe Guerbois, where they shared ideas, experiences... In the past, the painters did the drafts outdoors, and finished their artworks in their studios. In the times of Monet, there was an evolution in painting materials: oils, temperas... These materials were not as easily damaged outdoors as before. So this supposed a revolution, and encouraged the artist to paint outdoors. This was called "plein-air". During the war, Monet was living in Holland and England. Later on, he went back to Paris. It took years for the public to start appreciating Monet's paintings, just like happened with his impressionist friends. But the perseverance and faith that Monet put in his art had its reward, and his paintings were present in relevant museums of all Europe. When he was old, he ordered to build a Japanese garden around his house, with a big pond plenty of water lilies. Monet was becoming blind because of suffering cataracts, but this was not an obstacle for making a series of paintings full of aquatic flowers and plants. When he was operated, he not only was able to see again, but also he could see ultraviolet light, as in the operation was removed a part of the eyes that block these rays. This made him see everything with a blue shade, that explains the colors of his last artistic period. Claude Monet died when he was 86 years old. When he died, the French government recognized him as one of the biggest landscape painters in Europe. His works are surrounded with a dream-like halo of peace and harmony. Without a doubt, Claude Monet was the painter of the dreams.

The Wolf And The Dog One day, the wolf approached a dog that was guarding the sheep, and said: "Don't be afraid, I won't take any sheep. I just want to know how pleasant is your job". The dog told him: "Not bad. I just have to care the sheep, and praise my owner. So he gives me some bones, and even the leftovers of what he eats!" The wolf stared at the dog. He was big and stout. However, the wolf was hungry and very thin. "Not a bad job at all" -said the wolf- "And what's that thing you are wearing in the neck?" "It's a collar. It's for tying me." "For tying you? Do they tie you? And can't you run free?", asked the wolf. "Run? Where to? And what for?" The wolf said goodbye to the dog. And ran free through the forest, feeling the wind and smelling the country flowers. Then, he remembered the dog, and felt sorry for him. The Wolf And The Mother The wolf saw the farmer getting away from his house. And thought "This is the chance to get close and try to steal some food". He approached the house and saw a woman with a baby in her arms. The mother was saying to the baby: "Don't you cry. If you cry, the wolf will hear you, and he is very strong and big". When the wolf heard this, felt very proud of himself. And, praised, watched his own image reflected in the window. Amazed of his image, got distracted, and when he noticed, the woman was pointing at him with a shotgun. The wolf stared her frightened. But her shotgun jammed, and was unable to fire the wolf. This way, the wolf was able to scape. The wolf watched the woman from between the bushes. No one was never so close to kill him. She seemed fragile and weak. Since that day, he never trusted those who seem weak and flattering. The Wolf And The Sheep Once upon a time, a wolf saw a sheep that was tied. And thought "How easy will be to hunt her". When he approached the sheep, she said "Do you know why my owner tied me? Because I am very dangerous and the flock is in danger with me." The wolf laughed, and said her "You silly, you try to fool me..." The sheep answered "Do you think my owner would risk to loose my wool, my milk and my meat?" The wolf went away. Having so much self confidence... she must be right. Nowadays, that sheep is still laughing at that wolf.

In those places where cold is very intense, the ice that was formed in winter is not melted in summer. So the ice accumulates in the mountains in big amounts. Its own weight makes this ice roll down the mountain, like true ice rivers. This is called a glacier. Sometimes this glacier continues advancing towards the valleys nearby to the sea. These glaciers, by their own strength, dig the earth on their way, until they reach the sea. Salt water melts these ice rivers. When the entire glacier gets melted, results in a valley flooded by water, surrounded by mountains that are incredibly sculpted with awesome shapes. This is called a fjord. In Norway there are many fjords. In fact, it has the second biggest fjord in the world: Sognefjord. This one reaches a maximum depth of 4,291 ft under the sea level. Some Norwegian fjords are so rough and dangerous that the Norwegians needed to tie their livestock to avoid them falling to the abyss accidentally. The lands that surround the fjords are very fertile. They are landscapes of great beauty and contrasts. The Norwegians took advantage on the navigability of these waters to expand their commerce, and increase the communications between villages. It was not estrange to take a boat to go to the church in Sunday or to go to the market for shopping. The Norwegian fjords have been listed by UNESCO as one of the World Heritage Sites, due to their spectacular beauty. And this is because the Norwegian fjords are considered as the most beautiful natural landscapes in the world. The awesome waterfalls that are present in the fjords, the contrasts of being able to ski and swimming in their nearby beaches... with all this, it's not strange that the National Geographic Traveler Magazine considers that visiting the Norwegian fjords is one of the best touristic destinations in the world. Norwegian fjords: one of the biggest wonders of nature.

Premio Blog Solidario (Solidarity Blog Award). Some days ago, I received the award called "Blog Solidario" from the teacher Candida Gallardo from Seville: http://elblogdecandi.blogspot.com/ Candi explains in her blog something that I agree with: the importance of giving cultural information that is entertaining, and sharing it. I think that the work that she's doing is important. She gives her students a new vision of Internet. So I am proud that she gave me this award. As it is tradition I give the award: - ENSEN-ARTE: A blog around the story of art and art lovers. Fun, entertaining, interesting... http://aprendersociales.blogspot.com/ - Exposiciones en Madrid: Culture in Madrid. Curiosities of art and History, a must-see for all those who wish to visit this town. http://exposicionesenmadrid.blogspot.com/ - Mas que modernas, contemporaneas: Culture, cinema, gastronomy... Enjoyable, and a pleasure for senses. http://masquemodernascontemporaneas.blogspot.com/ All those blogs are written in spanish language, but I recommend you to use some translation tool, as they are excellent. Hours later from this award, Dan Hanosh gave me another award (LOL, I am a lucky girl): I cannot explain better what is his blog about than Dan Hanosh's motto, which is: "Sometimes the simplest of thoughts become our strongest motivators and become the basis for change . . . that's why I'm a writer and a poet. To share their dreams and capture their stories." I recommend you to have a look to his blog. http://dreams-are-yours-to-share.blogspot.com/ As it is tradition I give the award: - Sacredsyllabe.com: Buddhism and India are always interesting topics for anyone that cares about oriental cultures. Keith Johnson tells everything you need to know in his site about all this. http://www.sacredsyllable.com/ - Hin's Photo Blog: Is a blog with many beautiful images that take us to see the world through the eyes of its writer, and charms our life with his deep thoughts. http://hintheman.blogspot.com/ - A Side Of Cartoons Please: Robbay entertains us with his daily cartoons. His characters are dinosaurs, animals and people in their daily lives. Hilarious, intelligent humor. http://asideofcartoons.blogspot.com/ Congratulations to these bloggers. They do a very outstanding work, and I think that they deserve this award.

Beowulf is an epic poem, of unknown author. The poem had no title, until the XIX century, when it is called Beowulf. This poem mixes real elements with fictitious. It's written in England, but it's about Scandinavian. Was diffused through oral tradition. And as a curiosity, Tolkien liked this epic poem very much. The epic poem is about the adventures of Beowulf, a brave warrior. Beowulf was nephew of the king Hygelac. Amongst other heroic actions, he showed a big bravery in the battles against the Swedish. His first great feat was in a fight against Breka, a noble from the Hygelac court. Breka and Beowulf were fighting for five days in the sea, until the sea separated them. Breca could arrive to the coast, but Beowulf hadn't the same luck, and was fighting with marine monsters. But he was victorious. When he went to see the king, Hygelac gave him a present: the sword Nageling. Another heroic action was to defeat the terrible monster Grendel. Grendel was a terrible threat for his village. In a first confrontation, Beowulf managed to cut Grendel's arm. But the mother of Grendel went to recover the arm when everyone was sleeping. Grendel's mother was also a menace for them all, so Beowulf followed the tracks of the blood of Grendel's arm. Finally, Beowulf killed both. When Beowulf had an advanced age, he also defeat a dragon helped by his friend Wiglaf. But in this fight he was seriously wounded and died. But it was said that he died with satisfaction. Because they discovered the treasures that the dragon was caring. So the death of Beowulf brought wealth and security to his country. He was buried in a barrow that was called as him: Beowulf. Between 1975 and 1976 DC Comics published 6 comics based in the epic poem. Its authors were Michael Usan and Ricardo Villamonte. There were other adaptations to the character of Beowulf in comics books. Authors like: Gareth Hinds, Jerry Bingham, Mike Weller, Alexis E. Fajardo, Astrid Anand and Bill Carroll gave life to the mythic warrior. Lately, Beowulf has been brought to the cinema. The director Robert Zemeckis has directed the latest adaptation of the epic poem, starring by Ray Winstone, Antony Hopkins, Angelina Jolie and John Malkovich amongst others.

Many designers use Macintosh for working. Its software tends to be very visually attractive and usable, but it's not easy to find free software for Mac. Although some of the freeware that was mentioned in the previous list (that are in my Resources section) can be also run in Mac, there was the need to do a list just for it. After this, 55 top best freeware for Macintosh: Image Editors ImageWell, Quick image editor that can make the most usual changes to an image with simplicity. ChocoFlop, A very impressive but easy image editor that has awesome filters and effects. It's still in alfa and thus it's free. ImageTricks, This image tool can apply many stunning effects to your photos so you get something new and impressive. Pixen, Easy graphic creation suite that can also make animations. Very good for 2D avatars, graphics for 2D games, web page backgrounds... Cenon, Complex application for design that can do a wide set of things, but the most valuable is that is a complete suite for desktop publishing. Curly, Create animations of simple vector graphics and export them as GIF, mov, avi or dvc. Seashore, Opensource easy images editing tool. It is aimed for medium level designers, to get their work done. Image Optimization ImageTool, This tool can do something that you do very often: scale an image file and convert it to another format. That way, it's useful for making thumbnails or 2D avatars, for example. Small Image, Optimization and resizing tool for JPEGs. PNGCrusher, Tool that can optimize PNG files, removing unnecessary information and making them smaller in kb. iResize, Optimization tool for JPEG, GIF and other formats of image files. It can adjust the quality and size of images at the same time. Resize'Em All, Batch resizer for images that can save you a lot of time by resizing many images with one click. File Mutation, Converts image files between many formats quickly. Image Tools GIFfun, Free animated GIF creator. You just have to make the images and add them inside this program, and it makes the animation. SnapNDrag, Capture screenshots with extreme ease, all the desktop, or an area. It can also make timed screen captures every amount of seconds that you specify. Pipette, Color picker for Macintosh, that has a zoom to pick it better. Xee, A simple but powerful image viewer that can even open images inside compressed files and show them in full screen, and also can crop images. FreeRuler, An useful ruler to measure anything in the screen of your Mac. This kind of utilities are always useful for web and graphics design. Colorate, Tool for creating color palettes, and in addition store them so you just need to open this application and choose between the palettes you did before. Backdrop, This little tool does something very useful for making screenshots: it covers all the desktop with a big white, colored or textured window, so you can place what you want there and take a screenshot showing what you want. That way you don't have to clear your desktop or remove things. PanoTools, A set of tools to make impressive panorama images. Paparazzi, This application can take a screenshot of a website easily. Color Blender, Has two aims: to tell you the hex code of a rbg color, and to find a color that is intermediate to two other, so you can make harmonic palettes. ButtonBuilder, Opensource tool for creating awesome web buttons. CalibrationAider, Monitor calibration. You'll need it as a designer so your colors display the same in all monitors. 3D Design Wings3D, 3D modeler that can export to many popular formats (3ds, nendo, vrml and others) and apply texture and materials. In its website you can watch some models created by users that may give you an idea on how it works. FreeWRL, A free VRML/X3D viewer for Macintosh. ShapeOnYou, Model shapes in 3D and export them into different formats in 3D or 2D, so you can include them in your documents. Also link them so if you change the shapes, your document shows the modified shapes. Misfit Model 3D, Modeler for Quake MD2, Milkshape 3D, Wavefront OBJ and its own format. Can import 3ds and Lightwave. WhiteDune, It's not a modeler, but is a good tool to modify X3D/VRML files, convert between them, and make animations. Web Tools Fugu, Dual panel FTP program with an easy interface. MAMP, Is a complete web server with Apache, MySQL and PHP. It is useful to install as local web server so you can test your PHP and web pages, or even design an entire website, without having to upload it all. Render Programs MacMegaPOV, An enhancement of POV for Mac, that has some new features and improvements. Terragen, Create rendered worlds of natural landscapes. Some people make very beautiful landscapes with this application, which is one of the best for this. Document Creation Scribus, Professional design of printed documents. CombinePDFs, A very useful tool for PDFs. It can combine several pdfs in one document, add pictures, remove or reorder their pages... All with easy drag and drop. CocoaBooklet, This program saves money and gets a better presentation from a pdf file turning it into a small book when printing. PDFLab, Another PDF manipulation tool that can be an alternative to CombinePDFs. Has similar features. FontDoc, This little tool does something really valuable: lists samples of all the fonts that you have in your system in a text file, so you can print it, save it or select the ones you like best and print to use for quickly locating them. FontMate, Displays the characters of the fonts that you have in your computer and also tells you the codes of the characters that you may need. FontForge, A good application to create many types of fonts for every OS. Sound Edition Audacity, Audio editor for Mac. Allows recording and editing sounds and has a very clean and easy interface. Ardour, An opensource multi-track professional sound recording suite, that allows to record music and mix it. Finale Notepad, Music notation software for musicians that can make your scores, export to midi, add tabs for guitar and bass, and use a texture for background to print nice scores. Books2burn, Makes audio books from text files. Coding XMLNanny, XHTML and XML validation made possible with this desktop application. Aptana Studio Community Edition, Superb PHP and Ajax coding suite, with a long list of features. Scratch, A free programming language (MIT license) to make animations, games, music, and other things. It is thought to be easy and flexible, and to share what you do in the web. Taco HTML Edit, This PHP and HTML editor has error checking, code clips, color selector, and image map wizard. Thus making less hard to modify or design websites. jEdit, Opensource programming editor that supports many dozens of languages and has lots of features, and in addition you can customize it fully, for example adding it a background image. Komodo, Multilanguage code editor for dynamic languages like Perl , PHP, Python, Ruby or Tpl and also for HTML, Javascript, XML and CSS. Productivity Tools Alarm Clock, Set an alarm that can play music or sounds. DoIt, A to-do list and notes application that can have each task associated to a link, file or contact. It can also integrate with other Mac applications. iClip, Freeware improved clipboard that can store not only several text entries but also images, urls and more. Black Light, Inverts the colors of your screen so what was white now is black. It's for saving battery on a laptop computer (obviously when you're not designing!).

Poseidon seduced Medusa in the Athena's temple. Athena got angry for this desecration, so she cursed Medusa. She turned her hair into snakes, and all those who dare to look at her eyes would be turned into stone. Perseus, Greek hero, searched for Medusa as he needed his head to defeat the marine monster called Ceto. This monster was so strong that the only way to beat it was showing it the head of Medusa, so it will be petrified. Perseus cut the head of Medussa off. And Pegasus emerged from her spilled blood. Pegasus is depicted as a gorgeous white winged horse that rides across the sky. According to the legend, where it passed, water gushed out. This is because Pegasus is symbolic descendant of Poseidon, who is not only the God of Oceans, but also of the rivers, fountains, lakes... It was said that Pegasus lived in the mount Helicon, until the Greek hero Bellerophon went to capture him. Bellerophon needed Pegasus to carry him flying to the Olympus, where the Gods lived. Zeus realized this, and sent an insect to bite Pegasus. When this happened, Bellerophon lost control over Pegasus. He fell to the ground over a bramble bush, and this left him blind and lame. Pegasus continued flying to the Olympus, and there was welcomed by Zeus. Since then, Pegasus carries the lightnings for Zeus. Pegasus fell in love with Euippe, and was father of Celeris and Melanippe, that were the origin of the race of winged horses. Zeus placed the figure of Pegasus in the night skies, as the constellation that has its name.

The origin of Tutankhamun is doubtful. There are two theories, one of them is that Tutankhamun could be son of Akhenaten (husband of Nefertiti). The other is that he could be son of Amenhotep III and his own daughter: Sitamun. When Tutankhamun was crowned pharaoh (at ten years old), the cult to Aton was abandoned. During his reign he ordered to repair many temples. Thus, many statues dedicated to God Amun have the face of Tutankhamun. Tutankhamun died at 19 years old. There are many hypothesis about his death but none of them definitive. In 1922 Howard Carter and Lord Carnavan discovered the tomb of Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings. They commanded an expedition that entered the tomb of the pharaoh. When the last man of that expedition returned to the surface, a big sand storm started, preceded by a hawk (symbol of the royal emblem of the ancient Egypt). The falcon flew to the west, that in the ancient Egyptians beliefs was the direction to the Other World. Here starts what was called the Curse of Tutankhamun. Many of who had a part in the facts died in strange circumstances. Up to 30 strange deaths were counted as related with Tutankhamun's tomb. Five months later from the discovery of the tomb, lord Carnavan was bitten by a insect in the face (in the left cheek). The bite become infected. Weakened by this infection, he suffered from pneumonia. This pneumonia affected both lungs. He had an horrible agony, with physical deformations. He even lost his teeth. The hour of his death was 1:55. In the moment of his death, there was a big outage in Cairo. In that same instant, his relatives, in Lord Carnavan's mansion in Hampshire (England) told that his dog howled and died. When Tutankhamun's mummy was examined, the doctors saw that, possibly, Tutankhamun had a scar in his face, in the left cheek. With all this, the belief in the Curse of Tutankhamun was increased. In that times, it was also told that there was an inscription in the tomb that said: "Death will come with fast wings over anyone who dares to desecrate this tomb". Although this inscription was never found, as it was in a wall that was demolished to enter the tomb. Some time later, the treasures of Tutankhamun were going to be sent to an exhibition in Paris. Mohammed Ibraham, director of antiquities, dreamed that the treasures mustn't go to Paris. But at last, he was convinced by the Egyptian authorities. The day he signed the permission, he was run over by a car and died two days later. Richard Bethell, who helped Carter to classify the treasure, commited suicide. His father also suicided throwing himself through his bedroom's window. In that bedroom, was found a vase from Tutankhamun's tomb. These are just some of the strange deaths around Tutankhamun's tomb. There were deaths not only between the expedition team, but also between people related with the tomb and its discovery. In 1962, doctor Ezze-Din Taha, from the University of Cairo, discovered some pathogenic fungus that were in Tutankhamun's tomb; this may have been the origin of many deaths. Many of the victims had suffered a weakening in their health, that could have caused them to contract more serious diseases. This discovery was expounded in a conference. When he went out, he had a road accident, and died. When the autopsy was done, they noticed that he had a heart attack just before the accident. Does the Curse of Tutankhamun exist? Maybe collective obsession, or a pathogenic element that weakened those involved with Tutankhamun. True or not, who knows?

The asian cinema started to be popular in the Westerner with the martial arts films. Later, manga productions were widely known all over the globe. And nowadays, asian cinema in all genres (terror, fantasy, drama, comedy...) is synonym of success in all the world. Its originality, passion, art, and creativity makes asian movies win more and more fans every day. After this, a list of the best asian movies: 1- Curse of the Golden Flower 2- House of Flying Daggers 3- Ran 4- Houzhe (To live!) 5- The Eye 6- Unagi 7- Shower 8- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 9- The Seven Samurai 10- Fist of Fury They are films with action, great passions, impossible love, and over all, very spectacular, both at an emotional level as visually. Curse of the Golden Flower, is a movie that is filmed in an awesome imperial palace. The empress and the crown prince have a romance. But the prince falls in love with the doctor's daughter, and plans to run off with her. While this happens, the emperor returns. And with his return, a plot starts, that will end with an indescribable end. House of Flying Daggers, in a bad political situation emerges a group of rebels called the House of Flying Daggers. There's an order to capture their mysterious leader. They catch one of their members: Mei, a blind warrior woman. Mei is fooled by one of the captains that pretends to free her, and accompanies her to try to capture her leader. In the middle of battles and fights, love will arise. Ran, is based in the Shakespeare book "King Lear". The Japanese director Akira Kurosawa adapts this story to the Medieval Japan. A father decides to pass to their sons his goods and his power. In the moment that he tells his sons his will, there's a fight between them. The ambition of them all will mean the tragic end of their lineage. Houzhe (To live!), by the great director Zhang Yimou (House of Flying Daggers, Curse of Golden Flower). It's the story of China from the 40s to the 70s, through the eyes of a simple Chinese married couple. It's based on a novel by Yu Hua. The Eye, Mann was blind since she was 2 years old. Fourteen years later, she manages to see again after an operation. After regaining the sight, strange happenings begin to occur. It's a terror movie. Asian terror movies have become a classic for the fans of the genre. Their style has a special essence that is imitated in many movies, and even commercials, in all countries. Unagi, Takuro kills his wife when he discovers that she was unfaithful. Goes to prison, and there he adopts an eel as pet, to which he talks. When he goes out of prison, he takes the eel with him. He opens a hairdresser's. One day, he saves a pregnant girl from committing suicide. And that girl starts to work with him. He starts to find her very similar to his wife, and senses that life is giving him a second chance. Shower, is an independent, tender and unforgettable movie. It's the story of a father and his two sons. One of his sons went to the town in search for fortune. The other, mentally handicapped, stayed with his father in a familiar business of traditional public baths. One day, the older son comes back to the village. Maybe he discovers that simple life has a special charm. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Li Mu Bai is a martial artist master that wants to donate his magical sword to his best friend. He asks Yu Sha, a warrior woman that he loves, to guard that sword until he comes back. But the sword is stolen. Is a movie with romance, adventure and fantasy. The Seven Samurai, the inhabitants of a village of farmers are fed up of being attacked by bandits. So they decide to contract some samurais to defend them. But no one wants to fight just in exchange for food. Until they find a samurai called Kanbei, that decides to help them and gathers a group of 7 samurais. These men train the farmers so they may be prepared to beat the bandits. Fist of Fury, without doubt Bruce Lee is an essential piece in the popularization of asian movies and martial arts cinema. Fist of Fury is about a martial arts student that finds his master dead. And decides to find the culprits.

Each day there are more people that use Firefox. It is much faster than Internet Explorer, and has a lot of extensions and themes. Regarding the extensions, many of them are much more than interesting. Some of them ease the work of designers and developers. Here follows a list of 50 of the best. Graphics Tools They let you manipulate and create graphics for your site. Palette Grabber Gets a palette of colors from the current page. You can use it with Photoshop and other graphics edition programs. MeasureIt A very useful ruler that can measure the size of anything in a web page. You can turn it on/off from its icon in the status bar. This may allow you to create banners, buttons, with the size that you wish. Photo to Text Convertor Turns a photo into ASCII art. This is a picture done with numbers and characters. Really original designs. ColorZilla Pick a color from a web site. Also includes a zoom. Coding tools They make easier to manipulate and write code. Firebug Edit and detect errors in HTML, CSS and Javascript . See the loading time, see the code in different colors, etc. A complete solution for code edition. View Source Chart Makes a square surrounding the HTML tags by colors so you can see easily distinguish them. Text Formating Toolbar A toolbar for text formating for forums, html and wikis. View formatted source View the CSS code formatted with colors. ViewSourceWith Instead of seeing the source code with the Firefox menu, you can use your favorite application. Xinha Here Edit HTML code visually. Very easy. You can use it in any text box. Console² An enhancement for the Javascript console of Firefox. View Dependencies Lets you see what files a web page uses. This is useful to see if you are doing a link to something that is in the wrong place. SEO Tools These are good extensions to better your position in search engines like Google. Virtual Real Estate (VRE) Toolbar A complete solution for SEO that has the shape of a toolbar. Really useful. SeoQuake Adds SEO information to Google searches (like PageRank,etc), and also a useful toolbar. KGen A very good set of tools to choose keywords and see what are the best for a page. Validation And Testing tools They are needed to better your page’s performance, and ensure compatibility with all browsers. Total Validator Checks the HTML, plus broken links, spell checking, and takes 25 screenshots of your website in different operative systems and browsers. Window Resizer Tool for testing your web page in different window sizes. For example, you should know how it looks at 800x600, 1024x768, etc. CSS validator Sees if your CSS template (the style of your website) follows the standards. RSS validator Tests if your RSS follows the W3C (the organization that rules the standards for web pages). Extended Statusbar Shows load time, download speed, number of images and percentage loaded in the status bar. HackBar Security check for your website. This is not a hacking tool. Html Validator Validates the HTML code. Quick Locale Switcher Changes the language of your browser quickly. Useful to test your site for different languages. YSlow Tells you why your website loads slowly, following the Yahoo rules. lori (Life-of-request info) Tells you specialized information about the loading speed of a page. Integration with other browsers They are useful to test your design in other browsers. Safari View Open the page in Safari browser (Mac). IE View Open the current page in Internet Explorer. Can mark a page to always open in IE. IE View Lite A lighter version of IE View. IE Tab Opens Internet Explorer in a tab of Firefox, so you can see the page in Internet Explorer without having to open it outside Firefox. Website screen capturers Their mission is to create a screenshots of a web page. FireShot Captures the web page as an image and lets you annotate things in the image. Screengrab Captures a website, or a part, as an image. Save As Image Make a screenshot of a page, or a part. Allows quality settings. Tab Thumbnails These extensions are useful to get a general view of your website or other's, and compare one with the others viewing them at the same time. Other use can be ensure that your website has a common appearance. They may be also an help to browser between tabs. Firefox Showcase It's a way to see several tabs in thumbnails with tools to manage them as if they were files. Viamatic foXpose Clicking an icon in the status bar gives you a view of all tabs. Tab Catalog Puts a button that when you move your mouse over it, displays all tabs as thumbnails, and when you click one, you go to that tab. Backup Tools The reason to include backup tools is that when you are designing you may crash your browser, and it will be better to be able to restore all again. They are also very valuable for every user. CLEO Backups all your extensions in one single file. Needs FEBE installed. FEBE This can make a backup of your extensions and bookmarks. You can also setup it to make backups with the frequency that you like. It can also backup more things, but it’s not recommended because there are some bugs. Anyway, the extensions and bookmarks backup is secure. Bookmark synchronization To share bookmarks between different people or between different PCs is a need that many developers and webmasters may have. Chipmark It's a solution to have the same bookmarks in different computers permanently actualized when you change or add them. You can also share some of them with your friends and explore popular random links. Foxmarks You can have the same bookmarks in different computers. It works automatically and you just have to install, configure and nothing more. Google Browser Sync The Google solution for shared bookmarks between computers. It can also share cookies, browsing history, etc. Productivity tools The purpose of these extensions is to work faster. Pastego Creates an icon that you can place in any toolbar of Firefox that opens a tab and pastes the url you have copied in the clipboard. Auto Copy When you select a text, it is copied to the clipboard automatically, like in Linux. It also has an icon in the status bar to turn it on/off. CoLT Allows to copy the text of a link, the url of the link, or both at the same time. Clippings You can define texts and paste them with the right click menu, instead of having to write them every time. HighlightAll You select a word and choose "Highlight all" in the right click menu and all words like that are highlighted in the page. All-In-One Search button Adds a highlight button to the search box that can highlight the searched words in a page. Also highlights the searched term. Miscellaneous Other tools that don’t fit in the other categories. Smart Digg Button Shows a small Digg button that shows how many Diggs the current page has. Launchy Open links in external applications. For example, open an email link in the program you choose. CacheIt Displays a cached version of the page. Useful to recover some lost code that was not saved or if you break something. FireFTP An FTP client integrated in Firefox.

"Baby, I get so scared inside and I don't really understand Is it love that's on your mind or is it fantasy Heaven, is in the palm of my hand, and it's waiting here for you What am I supposed to do with a childhood tragedy CHORUS: If I close my eyes forever Will it all remain unchanged If I close my eyes forever Will it all remain the same Sometimes it's hard to hold on So hard to hold on to my dreams It isn't always what it seems When you're face to face with me You're like a dagger And you stick me in the heart And taste the blood from my blade And when we sleep would you shelter me In your warm and darkened grave CHORUS: If I close my eyes forever Will it all remain unchanged If I close my eyes forever Will it all remain the same Will you ever take me No, I just can't take the pain But would you ever trust me No, I'll never feel the same...Ohh. I know I've been so hard on you. I know I've told you lies. If i could have just one more wish. I'd wipe the cobwebs from my eyes. CHORUS: If I close my eyes forever Will it all remain unchanged If I close my eyes forever Will it all remain the same Close your eyes Close your eyes you gotta close your eyes for me." -lyrics of the original song- You can find this song in the album of Lita Ford called "The best of Lita Ford" published in 1992. This song "If I close my eyes forever" was recorded in 1988. The manager of Lita was in that moment Sharon Osbourne, the wife of Ozzy Osbourne. Lita and Ozzy did an unforgettable duet and this song is considered as one of the classics of rock ballads.