AKVIS ArtWork v.1.5: turning photo into painting

The company AKVIS announced releasing a new version of AKVIS ArtWork v.1.5. The program allows you to turn a digital photo into a piece of painting.
ArtWork simulates oil painting and does it in a very realistic way. There is also an opportunity to choose relief or flat surface (canvas, paper).
The program allows you to create a portrait or still life in oil. There is a free trial version of ArtWork, valid during 10 days

Metal Gear Solid Touch for iPhone & iPod

Several week ago Konami published in the net a poor trailer of Metal Gear Solid Touch for iPhone and iPod. Finally, then they finally released it.
According to available information, the game’s plot is close to that of Metal Gear Solid 4. Players will be given 8 levels, but Konami promises to regularly release additional assignments. In Metal Gear Solid Touch there will be an opportunity to obtain inter-game points, which would

G.hn: home networks standard

The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) approved the standard G.hn, which in the nearest future will be used for deployment of home network infrastructures, and allow high-speed data exchange between devices on electric and telephone wires, and also on coaxial cable.
According to the developers, the channel bandwidth must be high enough to transfer high-definition video. Thus, the owners of modern video players, TV consol

Panda Security: money transactions under risk

Panda Security held a check up of more than 300 companies engaged in international money transfers. They investigated more than 1500 computers, and the results were alarming: 30% of them were equipped with outdated antivirus, while 60% were infected.
According to the Bureau of Immigration Support of the United States, in 2007 immigrants sent home more than 126000 million dollars.
Computers not protected properly and freq

Microsoft discloses details of its implementation of ODF

The company Microsoft published a detailed description of its approach to support the format of ODF (Open Document Format) in Office applications. For the first time, the official support of this open format, adopted as the international ISO standard, should appear in the set of Updates SP2 (Service Pack 2) to MS Office 2007.
To reveal all the details of implementing ODF to developers, Microsoft opened the whole Web site where a