DataMike

I’ve only had my HTC EVO since august so technically these apps haven’t had the full year to gel, but none the less here are my favorites (and not so favorites ) for 2010:
Utilities, General:
RPN calc: former engineering geeks like me =know= RPN notation rocks over the standard algebraic notation, and until HP comes [...]

This is the start of a category of posts that I call the best software that you’ve never heard of.
I’ve used Corel Draw since the ‘90’s with version 5.  Corel Draw is a vector drawing program.  This means that everything you create is stored as a mathematical description.  All those lines, curves, boxes, ellipses, fills, [...]

The tool that I’ve worked with lately is the Kaspersky Rescue Disk. It’s a Linux boot disk ISO that you can download.  (You’ll need an ISO burning program like CDBurnerXP or BurnCDCC , I guess the option to burn ISO’s is built into Win 7 now) It seems to be updated about every six [...]

These are some (very) basic tutorials involving curve modeling in Blender 3d. They assume you’re comfortable mousing around the blender environment and changing 3d views. In these you learn to make curves (and paths), control the curves with the bezier handles, and the bevel and taper options. Ultimately, I do the obligatory [...]

Blender is a free open-source 3d modeling program available from blender.org.
There’s no shortage of tutorials regarding modeling, texturing, animation and other subjects for blender, but basic info on the user interface is tough to come by. Surprising, considering that 90 percent of understanding blender comes from wrapping your head around the interface. Once [...]

Most  cameras come with a free photostitcher, but I use a commercial one called PTGui.  Originally built around “panorama tools” (a free suite of programs and libraries), but has since relied on it’s own engines.  It can stitch photo’s  taken in a typical horizontal fashion, but also in a matrix (both horizontal and vertical).  It [...]