Finally Adobe Creative Suite 5 trials are available for the public download. Having troubles with Akamai? Read on.

The previous trick to download CS4 trials without Akamai still works. The link to the tutorial is:

http://www.setuix.com/2010/04/06/how-to-download-adobe-trials-without-akamai-latest/

You have to be registered with Adobe with a valid email and logged in for the download to start. Just paste the download link below into your web browser and the download will start.

To view the product comparison page click here.

Adobe Creative Suite 5 Master Collection:

http://trials2.adobe.com/AdobeProducts/STAM/CS5/win32/MasterCollection_CS5_LS1.7z

Adobe Creative Suite 5 Production Premium:

http://trials2.adobe.com/AdobeProducts/STVD/CS5/win32/ProductionPremium_CS5_LS7.7z

Adobe Creative Suite 5 Web Premium:

http://trials2.adobe.com/AdobeProducts/WEBB/CS5/win32/WebPremium_CS5_LS1.7z

Adobe Creative Suite 5 Design Premium

http://trials2.adobe.com/AdobeProducts/MDIA/CS5/win32/DesignPremium_CS5_LS1.7z

Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended

http://trials2.adobe.com/AdobeProducts/PHSP/12/win32/Photoshop_12_LS1.7z

Adobe Illustrator CS5

http://trials2.adobe.com/AdobeProducts/ILST/15/win32/Illustrator_15_LS1.7z

Adobe InDesign CS5

http://trials2.adobe.com/AdobeProducts/IDSN/7/win32/InDesign_7_LS1.7z

Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro

http://trials2.adobe.com/dlm/Applications/Acrobat/APRO/9/trials/AcroPro90_efg.exe

Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5

http://trials2.adobe.com/AdobeProducts/THRM/1/win32/FlashCatalyst_1_LS9.exe

Adobe Flash Professional CS5

http://trials2.adobe.com/AdobeProducts/FLPR/11/win32/FlashPro_11_LS1.7z

Adobe Flash Builder Standard CS5

http://trials.adobe.com/AdobeProducts/FLBR/4/win32/FlashBuilder_4_LS10.exe

Adobe Dreamweaver CS5

http://trials2.adobe.com/dlm/AdobeProducts/DRWV/11/win32/Dreamweaver_11_LS1.exe

Adobe Fireworks CS5

http://trials2.adobe.com/dlm/AdobeProducts/FWKS/11/win32/Fireworks_11_LS1.exe

Adobe Contribute CS5

http://trials2.adobe.com/AdobeProducts/CNTB/6/win32/Contribute_6_LS1.exe

Adobe Premiere Pro CS5

http://trials2.adobe.com/AdobeProducts/PPRO/5/win32/PremierePro_5_LS7.7z

Adobe After Effects CS5

http://trials2.adobe.com/AdobeProducts/AEFT/10/win64/AfterEffects_10_LS7.7z

Adobe Soundbooth CS5

http://trials2.adobe.com/AdobeProducts/SBTH/3/win32/Soundbooth_3_LS7.7z

Can’t seem to win the big matches? Can’t find that winning goal? Try out these tactics. Win most of your games with an avalanche of goals.

These tactics utilize some call the corner glitch. During corners 2 players will defend, a player will lurk outside the box and the rest of the players inside the box. The corner taker will then pass the ball to the player lurking outside. The player lurking outside will be totally unmarked.

We tried playing a whole season using Manchester United and this was what happened. Unfortunately we didn’t try it with a crappy team.

Playing a whole season using this tactic won us the quadruple. The amount of goals scored was totally insane. The league table:

For big games and against rivals you would have to do some tweaking but against weaker teams its normally a goal glut.

We set Rooney as the person lurking outside the box during corners so all corners will be passed to him to shoot. For difficult games and if a player isn’t doing well we would swap his place with Rooney, that would boost his rating and confidence a bit.

That is our favourite tactic formation. For the tactic to work, the corner taker has to be the Left Winger position.

A different looking tactic formation. After winning the quadruple the bosses gave 91 million to spend on transfers. Barcelona was willing to sell Lionel Messi if you paid 30 million plus Frederico Macheda and Danny Welbeck but Messi wasn’t interested in joining us. He was getting paid 450,000 dollars and we could only afford to pay him 250,000 dollars.

We didn’t get our man, but we bought Igor Akinfeev, Mesut Ozil and Marek Hamsik. We got 3 awesome players and at the same time we got to keep 2 of our players.

Anyway, below is a zip file of the tactics. To extract the file you will need WinRAR. There are a few types of tactics included in tactics.rar. Home tactics are to be used at home, away used during away games and neutral tactics used in finals on neutral soil. Control tactics are used when your opponents have a lot of possession.

Download – tactics.rar

Since Photoshop CS5 was unveiled, everyone has been talking about Photoshop’s Content Aware tool. After getting our hands on a trial version of Adobe Creative Suite 5 Master Collection, we tested out the Content Aware in a few scenarios.

Above, is an image we got off the Internet. To remove the picture of the man in the wall would normally take quite some time and a lot of touching up took less than 2 minutes to do with Content Aware. If there wasn’t a picture to be compared with the change would almost be unnoticeable.

Next is a screen cap from the game Crysis. See if you can spot the difference. Clue, we removed some debris from the ground.

For those that do touching up for photos would find their job so much easier now. To see more Content Aware demonstrations please watch the video.

Adobe made slight changes to the way their trials can be downloaded. Some readers have mentioned that the previous ways can no longer be used. Read more to find out how to download Adobe trials without using Akamai.

Just follow these simple steps below and you will be on your way to downloading Adobe trials without using the Akamai Download Manager:

1. Choose a product and login with your free Adobe username and password.

2. Choose your product operating system and language.

3. Click on Download and a pop up should appear, a window that looks like below:

4. Look at the URL bar and select the following lines:

5. After copying that link paste it into your Internet Browser and hit enter:

The download should start after that. Pretty easy and straight forward. If for some reason there is a product that you can’t get, just leave a comment and somebody will get back to you with the download link.

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In my opinion Call of Dury 4: Modern Warfare is one of the best war game ever made. I loved Battlefield 2 but BF2 didn’t have single player campaign. The only disappointing thing about Modern Warfare was its very short story line but nevertheless it gave me a few hours of really good fun. After finally finishing Modern Warfare yesterday I immediately started on Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare 2. If you thought Modern Warfare was awesome, wait till you play Modern Warfare 2.

In Modern Warfare 2 the graphics are just as stunning as its predecessor if not better. I ran the game on the maximum settings with the following computer spec:

CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550
RAM: Kingston Hyper-X 4GB 1066
Graphic Card: XFX HD5770
Screen Resolution: 1920 X 1080

Modern Warfare 2 starts off 5 years after Zhakaev died. The character that we played in Modern Warfare, Soap MacTavish, returns as a captain. That’s Soap MacTavish below, in his Mohawk hairstyle.

The guy in the picture below is Ghost. One of the team member of Task Force 141. The members in the task force have cool names like Scarecrow, Reaper and so on.

Below is a game play video of the entire No Russian chapter. It contains spoilers so you may want to skip the last few minutes if you are planning on playing the game.

If you love war games, Modern Warfare and Modern Warfare 2 is a must buy. You can certainly bet when I finish Modern Warfare 2 I will be starting on Call of Duty 5: World at War. I definitely see myself re-playing these titles when I’m bored.

Q: What is a Gravatar?
A: Gravatar stands for Globally Recoqnized Avatars

Q: Why do I need Gravatar?
A: It helps to put a face or logo to your comments

Q: So how is Gravatar different?
A: You only need to update your image at Gravatar and your image will be shown on any blogs/websites/forums that support Gravatar

Q: But how is that possible?
A: Gravatar recognizes and binds an image to your email address

Q: Will my Gravatar appear if I made a comment prior to creating the Gravatar?
A: Yes it will

Q: How do I create a Gravatar?!
A: Read on!

First of all you need to register an account with Gravatar. To do that go to www.gravatar.com. Once you have registered an account you will need to have a picture ready. You can upload any image of any size and you can crop that image from Gravatar.com. However, I noticed if you uploaded a picture that is big, it will take some time before the picture loads. So you might want to make the picture smaller before uploading.

Once you have your the image(s) binded to the email, your future and past comments using that email will display the image that you set.

I currently have the Logitech Z5500 speakers. When I got my Windows 7, I noticed sound only came out from the Subwoofer and the 2 front side speakers. I updated my drivers but it still didn’t solve my problem.

Apparently you have to tell Windows 7 what type of speaker set up you have. You have to manually set it to a 5.1 or 7.1 speaker set up.

After doing those steps you should be getting some sound from all speakers. Don’t expect the quality to be as good as Windows XP because it is not. When playing games I like it loud so I use the 6 Channel Direct Effect for my Logitech Z5500 but on Windows 7, it’s just such a disappointment.

This is a tutorial on how to create Favicon for your WordPress blog. Creating a Favicon for WordPress is as easy as 2 simple steps. Read on to find out how!

In order to create a Favicon for WordPress you would need an icon (.ico) file that is no larger than 36×36 pixels. If you don’t already have an icon you can learn to create an icon from this tutorial here.

After you have created your Favicon all you have to do is upload it to your WordPress root folder as illustrated by the image below.

The icon that you want to use as your Favicon must be named as favicon.ico. Once you have uploaded the file, just refresh your page and you will see your new Favicon. It’s as simple as that!

Favicon enables your readers to easily identify your blog/website from their saved favourite links. Apart from that, it also gives your blog/website an image identity.

Ever wondered how to create your very own icons for your computer? If you have Photoshop then you are not too far away from creating your very own icons.

By default Photoshop doesn’t come with the option to save files as icons (.ico extension). Below is a video tutorial on where to download the Photoshop icon plug-in and installation instructions. The video was created on Windows 7 x64 so the folders may differ from x86 (32bit) operating systems.

Plug-in download website: http://www.telegraphics.com.au/sw/

Depending on your operating system, download the correct version of the plugin.

IMPORTANT: When creating icons, the pixel size must be 256×256 or smaller. If the size is larger than 256 the save as .ico will be disabled.

If you need a small font to make for your icons you can get Silkscreen from dafont.com.