Some of the main features in Photoshop include extended Content-aware Technologies, simplified 3D design, and new intuitive video creation. The new and improved content-aware patch tool “is designed for times when you want to remove unwanted content from a photo and then replace it with a precise and seamless patch. The tool automatically creates the patch for you, but only after you’ve shown it exactly which area of your image you’d like it to sample from.” This new tool not only allows you to retouch images, but recompose them as well.
There are also two new features in Adobe Illustrator that I found very exciting. The new image tracing option, as well as being able to apply a gradient on strokes. Unlike Live Trace in CS5, the new Image Tracing allows so many more options when converting a rasterized image into a vector artwork. You are able to choose from a variety of tracing options, as well as how many colours you would like to include in the final vector output. The new option of applying gradients to a stroke opens many doors for illustrators and designers alike. It not only allows the user to apply the gradient to the stroke but edit it in multiple ways as well. You are able to apply the gradient along the stroke as well as across the width of the stroke which allows for endless possibilities and makes applying gradients easier in many so many ways.
As you can see CS6 has included a variety of great new tools and updates from its predecessor and seems to be a very promising update. I haven’t tried the new software myself, but look forward to hopefully testing it out in the near future.

But unfortunately, someone was quicker than us (rarely enough). A pity.

Read a brilliantly balanced analysis by Keith Teare on techcrunch.com about how Google, Facebook and other Web 2.0 giants have to (and will) adapt their business models to mobile – because there is no other way to survive.

During the first six months, it all looked like I would suffer when back home. Studying in Stellenbosch is hard, much harder as in Germany, and the workload was huge and didn’t leave much time to do sports.

My internship offers better opportunities to be active – early in the morning, in the evening and at the weekend. I was happy to try a lot of different sports. There’s a great gym around the corner that offers everything from Zumba and spinning courses to weight training and a pool. Furthermore there are personal trainers just everywhere. I’ve never seen so many sports mad people at a gym at six am.

Sportive highlights were my hike onto Table Mountain, surfing lessons in Jeffreys Bay, the Spar Women’s Run, where I ran 10 km together with thousands of South Africans at the Sea Point promenade, and the 110 km long mountain bike race in the Karoo desert last weekend. I did also team sports. A bunch of GSDH colleagues tried action cricket (an indoor version of cricket) the other day – and we want to continue.

Since my coach from Germany informed me about two weeks ago that he’s going to come to Cape Town to test my fitness level, I am dripping with motivation. For sure, I want to show him the signs of usage on my running shoes sponsored by my club.
The year in this beautiful country passes far too fast and the last month of my internship at GSDH has already started.

Before going back to Germany and the start of the handball new season preparation beginning July, I will dedicate a month to my new passion – travelling. After trips to Namibia, Botswana, Zambia, the Gardenroute and the Wildcoast in South Africa the end of last year, I am going to Mozambique and the Kruegerpark as a culmination of my year in South Africa.

If I stayed longer in Cape Town, I would probably consider tournaments with the GSDH action cricket team, the Cape Argus bicycle race or the double marathon The Comrades as my future sportive challenges. With its climate and its landscape full of contrasts South Africa is definitely an ideal place for endurance and long distance sports and I can highly recommend a stay here (for holiday or training camp).

Unfortunately it takes quite a while to make it. It doesn’t look lekker either. I’d better ask someone who knows how to make burgers. Always the same s**t: You think, there’s a quicker and cheaper way to do it and end up in crap. When you need something properly done the next time, ask these guys.

Enjoy!

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hansapilsener.co.za has all on offer what you need to know about Hansa Pilsener and their many promotions – for example our works Hide the Hop and Hansa Pourfection.

Whether you use a desktop pc, an iPad or an Android smart phone, the site’s design adapts automatically to all devices and circumstances. You’ll always have it nicely distributed and easy to navigate. In South Africa where people surf on a lot of different phones rather than desktop computers that’s pretty important. In web development you call this responsive design.

Furthermore, posts from marketers and fans on Hansa’s youtube-, facebook- and twitter-channels will automatically be shown on the new homepage. The end result is a solid, dynamic, multi-platform digital presence for Hansa that engages the online community through the different social channels. We have aimed to maximise their brand exposure, brand awareness, event publicity and product sales through smart integration of offline and online marketing tools.

You need a high-end website to wrap something very special in? Tell us just now.

As I do now. If you dare. Because you’re just some blind bets and need to get the dioptrine of your Ray Bans fixed.

Clear statement!

You know, “HIDE THE HOP” is very competitive. I hid a hop and I challenge you to find it. (A hop, you might ask? Yes, a hop. The Saaz hop: the most expensive hop in the world. Hansa Pilsener’s special ingredient, now you know.)

I‘ve hidden a hop somewhere in the stunning scenario our illustrator Richard designed for the game. And now I challenge you to find it. Trust me, you’ll never find it. Not-in-your-life. Meaning: not in under five minutes… Ok, make that two.

Having said this, FIND THE HOP!

When they finally arrived in Cape Town, we discovered certain weaknesses.

Lasse is scared by cars („Scary cars! Cars everywhere!“) and is still useless – despite having spent 15 years learning cricket properly. Mark used his time to climb and hike and try other outdoor activities – like futsal –, but never took any of those acivities to a professional level. Thus he was so desperate to finally get a job that he tried his luck as a door-to-door artificial flower salesman. After that Mark wanted to find a real job. One with a desk, one where he could slag the boss off with colleagues at the watercooler. And he wanted a job with a watercooler. (He’ll have to make do with an italian espresso machine at GSDH.)

Lasse, too, loves working. „It was awesome“, he tells us about his time working at NGOs, so awesome that he forgot about Rhodes. Rhodes university that is, not Cecil, and his studies of Maths and Chemistry. Meanwhile Lasse is in the process of becoming a zend certified engineer.

Mark finished his undergraduate in BscIT at the University of Johannesburg last year. This year he started his postgrad in Honours IT and was awarded a full bursary but decided that ‘enough was enough’; he wanted to get out of the academic world and into the real world. Text books can only get you so far.

Lasse would certainly agree, messing around with anything really, especially geeky/nerdy things like the raspberry pi. Or making arduino robots and creating RPG games. Lasse also has two pet rats. White rattie and black rattie, although their names alternate between: Meepo, Brian Lara, Shane Warne, Shadowfax and Gandalf – depending on what his mood feels like. He’s also taught them several tricks including begging, sleeping and chewing.

All that makes those two boys perfectly fitting in the GSDH bunch. Or to say it with Mark’s words: „I started looking for jobs and although a couple of opportunities arose, none seemed as exciting as working for GSDH. I took the job and made the move.“

Normally I just throw all my files into my dropbox and contribute to my provider’s sales increase, because I excess my mobile data volume all the time. My 2 GB on dropbox are nearly used up. Should Google Drive really come with 5 GB for free, I’ll move without hesitation.

Since I can’t sleep any more because of excitement, I had good time to compile my list of wishes to Google Drive:

-          Extensive indication and filter features:
I hate folders! I just like to chuck everything into one single folder, and not to search for hours through sub-sub-sub-folders. I’d like to find the requested MP3, photo, word-file and address quickly with filters and Google-search and tag it for searches later on. I don’t ask for too much, here, do I?

-          iPhone/iPad /Android App:
Ok, I don’t have to wish that. The Sync with an app on my mobile is actually a precondition.

-          Connection with Google Docs:
I never liked Google Docs that much. I need to be online all the time to work with it. I hope this service will be integrated in Google Drive; however, I’d like to keep my Google docs files.

-          Share-functions:
So far my Google+ account is rather lifeless. I suppose I can share files with my G+ friends. Circles could work as user-rights administration here. This way Google‘s social network Google+ would finally get an advantage over facebook and all the registered users would finally … use it. G+ already got a new design. Maybe in preparation for Google Drive???

What’s your expectation towards Google Drive? Tell us! But hurry up, reportedly the launch is in the works.