Isn't it amazing, Spielberg made his debut with an amateur 8 mm "adventure" movie as a teenager. Well, how many of you aspire to get your hands on the Oscar statuette someday?  For all you film lovers enjoy is, the the frills of special effects, montage and beyond, its the magic of video editing that makes the movie come alive. There are those who love to capture family videos or uploading cool videos YouTube. Again, I see the cool-headed journalists shooting live videos. All of these videos are clumsy stuffs and needs a professional touch to get it in shape. This is where you need the video editing software. Trimming unwanted scenes, imposing dissolves, fade in & fade out, superimpose, split screen and whole lot of special effects could turn your raw footage into most watched videos or movies. Now, there are a whole lot of video editing software. You may not have any idea about which one to pick. So I decided to help you out with my top 10 video editing software.   Full article (723 words) »

The illusionary effects of Flash technology has doyened a new paradigm in the world of multimedia. The most indebted would be the websites that have come a long way from the days of static graphics to the era of awe-inspiring Flash animation. Whether standalone movies, interactive demos, or cool animations, Flash works have added elegance and interactivity to the web pages. Now almost every site or advertisements feature enlivening works of Flash to allure potential customers. The Macromedia Flash is now Adobe Flash with a makeover, but continues its great work. With Flash so much praised, the bottomline  remains that its an intricate application that needs a backbreaking effort to master. Well, to gain expertise over Flash you need a good guidence and that's what the free tutorials are there for. So, I took the toil to gather an extensive list of top 80+ Flash tutorial that would serve almost every Flash designer from an amateurs to the pros. Let's get on with the Top Flash tutorial to create what you have dreamed of.

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Waterlogged streets and flooded homes everywhere in Kolkata thanks to inept Kolkata Municipal Corporation and heavy rains last few days. Personally we haven't suffered.

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Monsoon is a feature of Indian sub-continent. The rainy season is upon us and with a vengeance this time. There are water-logged streets and homes everywhere, thanks to effective drainage management of Kolkata Municipal Corporation. Businesses, including IT, are being affected as employers cannot easily commute with public transport being almost down or minimally operating in places, most private vehicles are also incapable of negotiating the high water level in streets. It is appalling to see a major metropolitan city brought down to its knees by few days of rain. Even the dataone broadband connection is acting up. Irrespective of all the problems I love monsoon.

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