FREE editors and IDEs for Java, JSP, PHP, HTML, VBScript, JavaScript and other languages

Modelworks provides a family of customizable products with a script-based architecture for editing text files and developing desktop and Internet applications. Our current products are JPad Pro and SitePad Pro. Both products include basic Java support that uses Sun's JDK/SDK to compile and run. SitePad Pro includes all the features of JPad Pro plus support for XPath, VRML, C# and other .NET languages. You can download an evaluation version from the downloads page. A free license is available.

A key goal for our products is to make it easy for you to work with many different file types. Syntax coloring makes it easy to identify key words, comments and strings. Code folding (outlining) lets you see the overall structure of a file by hiding sections you don't need to work with. Tabs let you switch quickly between editors. Split windows and multiple windows of the same file are available options. The Full Screen feature can be configured to show both menus and toolbars. A reformat command is available to cleanup indentation. Support for all code pages, including ANSI, UNICODE and UTF-8 encodings, lets you edit in any language.

The workspace panel provides access to help, tools (scripts) and multiple views of projects, folders, and open files. Open files are listed in the windows menu, in a windows dialog, in a workspace open files panel, and visible in the tabbed editor panel. The built-in help system provides content, index, search, and favorites panels that let you quickly look up information in html based document sets (such as APIs in javadocs). You can build your own index files using scripts or download pre-built index files from our site. See theUpdates page for a list of available index files.

Amazing Collection of Cartoon Illustration

Vector art and cartoon characters always amaze us with creative ideas and inspiration. Here it is an amazing collection of cartoon illustrations , collected by graphicmania.net

Leica M Used Buying Guide: A Not So Objective Guide

Few, if any, cameras provoke such heartfelt discussions as the Leica M's. For every opinion expressed here, you can undoubtedly find someone who has the opposite view. I hope this guide helps you find YOUR OWN best answers, not mine.

Other valuable resources there:

• List of Leica M Mount Cameras
• Leica M Collectible Investment Guide Not So Objective Picks and Pans
• Leica M User's Buyer's Guide: Not So Objective Picks and Pans
• Leica M Used Buyer's Check List Don't Get Taken
• Leica M Lens User's and Identification Guide
• Leica M a la carte Buying Guide Poor choices can mean lower resale value!
  Leica M Motors Don't Bother
• Leica M Used Market Place Things Change
• Leica M Shooting Tips Some Ways are Better than Others
• Rangefinder/Viewfinders: More than meets the Eye
• Accessory Viewfinders: Which to USE?

Also check this: A blog about photography—specifically, the wonderful, tangible reality of photography using real film and vintage metal cameras.

Amazing 3D Typography That Truly Inspires

Typography and font design has always amazed us with the wonderful design that can be created from character and words.

We collected amazing 3D designs and truly inspired typography for great artists. Here.

Comics grammar and tradition

From a comic lettering web site [?!?]

Comic book lettering has some grammatical and aesthetic  traditions that are quite unique. What follows is a list that every letterer eventually commits to his/her own mental reference file. The majority of these points are established tradition, sprinkled with modern trends and a bit of my own opinion having lettered professionally for a few years now. The majority of these ideas have been established by Marvel and DC, but opinions vary from editor to editor, even within the same company. I'm often asked to bend or break these rules based on what "feels" best, or more likely, the space constraints within a panel.

As a letterer you're eventually going to see scripts from writers who don't know these standards, aren't interested in them, or just have poor grammar all around. (Although I find the best writers ARE well versed in these points.) It'll be up to you to spot and fix these in the event that the editor misses them.

Fun with Augmented Reality

Wikipedia describes "augmented reality" as "the combination of real-world and computer-generated data (virtual reality), where computer graphics objects are blended into real footage in real time." Now it's come to Flash, with some amazing results.

The GE Smart Grid site lets you print out a sheet of paper, hold it up to your Web cam, and interact with 3D graphics.

LIFE Photo Archive available on Google Image Search

We're excited to announce the availability of never-before-seen images from the LIFE photo archive. This effort to bring offline images online was inspired by our mission to organize all the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. This collection of newly-digitized images includes photos and etchings produced and owned by LIFE dating all the way back to the 1750s.

Only a very small percentage of these images have ever been published. The rest have been sitting in dusty archives in the form of negatives, slides, glass plates, etchings, and prints. We're digitizing them so that everyone can easily experience these fascinating moments in time. Today about 20 percent of the collection is online; during the next few months, we will be adding the entire LIFE archive — about 10 million photos.