Flip 3D Virtual Desktop

Yod’m 3D - Yet anOther (Flip) 3D Virtual Desktop Manager for Widows XP and Vista

Windows Vista (for those with hardware supports Windows Aero) features Flip 3D, a 3D windows management system that uses the dimension of visual depth by rendering images of live processes to provide a more comprehensive view of open windows. However, almost all Windows Vista computer comes with this 3D task switching function, and your system is of nothing unique. Yod’m 3D will make it different. Yod’m 3D (Yet anOther Desktop Manager 3D) is a virtual desktop manager with 3D switch similar to Flip 3D which provides 4 virtual desktops, and render in the effect of cube style, just as the effect of user switching in Mac OS X.


Yod’m 3D v1.2

Usage Instruction of Yod’m 3D

To rotate the 3D desktop cube:

CTRL+SHIFT+Left/Right = Swith to next or previous desktop.

CTRL+SHIFT+Up = Activate Yod’m 3D and show a “far” or “wide-angle” view of the current desktop, and then press Left or Right to select turn the desktop cube.

CTRL+SHIFT+Down = Activate and show a “near” or “tele-photo” view of the current desktop, and then press Left or Right to switch rotate the desktop.

Hold down CTRL+SHIFT to use the mouse to turn and rotate the cube horizontally. Use the scroll wheel to zoom in or out.

To move a windows to another desktop (total of virtual 4 desktops):

1. Click and hold on the title bar of the window (not maximized if possible).
2. Press and hold on CTRL+SHIFT keys to activate the Yod’m 3D cube.
3. When the cube is activated, move the window to the left or right.
4. Release CTRL+SHIFT keys.

To change the wallpaper of a desktop:

The wallpaper of each desktop (total of 4 virtual desktops available) can be changed by using
Display Settings of Windows Vista or Windows XP.

To switch to another application immediately:

Click on the Yod’m 3D icon in the taskbar, the list of the windows opened in other desktop appear. Then click on the application to switch to the desktop instantly.

Features of Yod’m 3D

• Scroll arrow at the dockbar to manage shortcut icon.
• Transparent color for the title.
• Progress bar for thumbnails of copy, download and the loading of Internet explorer’s pages.
• Management of windows screenshot will avoid waiting for hanged application.
• Wallpaper for each virtual desktop.
• Background image support.
• Notification message if an application “flash” in the taskbar of another desktop.
• List of the windows of other virtual desktop in the menu accessible by clicking on taskbar icon.

NOTE:

Yod’m 3D works in Windows Vista and XP, but requires DirectX 9.0, and plenty of memory.

Google SketchUp 6 3D Model Design Tool

Google has announced the release of Google SketchUp 6 at the 2007 Macworld Conference & Expo in San Francisco, CA as final out of beta version, which will further forward Google’s effort to create a fully-detailed 3D markup on Google Earth with user-generated modeling. Google SketchUp is 3D software modeling tool that combines an intelligent drawing system that streamlines and simplifies 3D design, no matter the 3D models are simple or complex, conceptual or realistic. Google SketchUp when uses together with Google Earth has added advantage of able to add real-world coordinates and share the models with the world using the Google 3D Warehouse.

Google SketchUp 6.0.277 enables simpler, more realistic modeling with the addition of new features and innovations such as:

Photo Match – Quickly and easily trace a photo to create a 3D model of the 2D photographed object or match an existing model with a still 2D background photo for near-instant modeling.

Styles – You can treat it as theme. Styles is new collections of display settings including Watermarks (2D images behind or in front of models) and Sketchy Effects (rendered as though drawn by hand) enable users to create 3D models to fit their professional or personal needs.

Watermarks - Protect the 3D models or drawings by placing logos or other graphics that blend with the SketchUp drawings.

Fog - Add atmospheric haze to a model with the new fog display.

3D Text – Create or convert text to 2D outlines, filled surfaces, or extruded 3D objects.

LayOut Beta (available in Google SketchUp Pro version only) – An innovative presentation/publishing application enables users to create professional design presentations and high-resolution documents with little additional work. By embedding SketchUp models in a LayOut document, professionals can create compelling presentations that enable models to remain interactive and modifiable.

Integration with 3D Warehouse and Google Earth - Google SketchUp and Pro 6 now supports Google Earth and 3D Warehouse without plugin or add-on.

Enhanced API - Enables third parties to create custom applications to supplement the functionality of Google SketchUp.

Two-point perspective viewing

Improved screen and print quality

Google SketchUp 6 (free) for Windows

Google SketchUp Pro 6 for Windows

Google SketchUp 6 (free) for Mac OS X

Google SketchUp Pro 6 for Mac OS X


Windows version of Google SketchUp and SketchUp Pro requires Windows 2000 or XP and Microsoft .NET 1.1 framework. Beside, Windows Vista is not fully supported currently

How to Run Multiple Yahoo Messengers Instances and Login to Multi Accounts

For Yahoo! Messenger with Voice 8 users, it’s now possible to run multiple instances of Yahoo! Messengers (polygamy feature) and log into multiple Y!Msgr accounts with just a simple registry hack. So if you need to open and log-in multiple Yahoo! Messenger accounts as you have a few Yahoo! ID or various other reason, just use the small registry registration file below that once click, will modify and merge the registry setting required to run and execute multiple Yahoo! Messengers at the same time on a computer.

Download ym8multi.zip, extract it and run “ym8multi.reg” contained inside the archive. Once the registry is patched, you can now starting and running multi Yahoo! Messenger with different login or Yahoo! ID accounts. If you want to uninstall the patch/hack, download the ym8multi_uninst.zip uninstaller which contains ym8multi_uninst.reg. Once double click on this uninstaller registration registry value file, it will edit the registry value and set it to disable the ability for Y!M 8 to launch multiple copy of instances.

Manuall Registry Edit

If you prefer to edit and change the registry setting yourself manually, without using the above registry registration file, simply launch the registry editor (type regedit at Run command), and navigate to the following registry branch:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\yahoo\pager\Test

Then, on the right pane, right click on the registry editor and select “New”, then create a new DWORD registry value. Name the new registry key as Plural, and assign it the value of 1 (decimal). If some case, the value of 2 should also works. To disable or disallow multiple instance of Yahoo Messengers, simply change and set the “Plural” registry key’s value to 0, or delete the “Plural” key.

Yahoo! Messenger with Voice 8

Developer Utilities

Eclipse - an open development platform

Eclipse is an open source community whose projects are focused on building an open development platform comprised of extensible frameworks, tools and runtimes for building, deploying and managing software across the lifecycle. A large and vibrant ecosystem of major technology vendors, innovative start-ups, universities, research institutions and individuals extend, complement and support the Eclipse platform.

Eclipse SDK 3.2.2


NetBeans IDE 5.5

The NetBeans IDE is a free, open-source Integrated Development Environment for software developers. The IDE runs on many platforms including Windows, Linux, Solaris, and the MacOS. It is easy to install and use straight out of the box. The NetBeans IDE provides developers with all the tools they need to create professional cross-platform desktop, enterprise, web and mobile applications.

NetBeansIDE5.5


Notepad ++

Notepad++ is a source editor (c/c++/java/html/xml/php/javascript/asp/SQL/CSS/Pscal/Perl/Python...) with syntax highlighting, syntax folding and autocomplete.

Notepad++


Java Developers Tool Kit 6.0

Windows Offline Installation, Multi-language JDK file

JDK6.0