The online tool for diagrams.

With this online tool you can start making flowcharts, charts , many type of diagrams and much more.
The goal of this tool is the online integrated features for diagrams with flexible share options.
You can try draw.io online tool for free and save your diagrams to Google drive , OneDrive or Device.
You can start by select your default diagram area from this list of option and create new diagrams:

• Basic (1)
• Business (11)
• Charts (3)
• Engineering (3)
• Flowcharts (5)
• Layout (3)
• Maps (2)
• Network (18)
• Other (7)
• Software (8)
• Tables (4)
• UML (8)
• Venn (7)

This is the official youtube channel.
Take a look at this quick start video tutorial for a first impression :

The TreeIt 3D software.

This 3D free software allow you to create and export tree.
You can select easy to use and this powerfull real time 3d tree generator.
You can use for the simple creation of your very own 3d tree models or just open default examples.
Features:

• easy to create high quality 3D trees;
• create any tree, not limited to just one tree type;
• edit joints as well as break joints;
• render to image for leaf creation;
• create adjustable LOD slider;
• use exports to *.dbo *.fbx *.obj *.x ;

The program start with a default tree with trunk.
You need to select your settings fro the new tree.
The result can be fast and very good.
You can download it from here.

Make movies like minecraft with mineimator .

If you like Minecraft game then you create animated videos using blocks, items and the lovable characters from Minecraft.
You can using particles, lights and camera effects and share your finished video.
You can download it from here.

Drawing with new software Leonardo .

One new software for drawing named Leonardo and is designed and written by Henning Tegen.
Tegen Henning is a passionate software developer and has been programming since the age of 10.
The author of this software tell us about this issue:
Our mission: Create the world's best painting application.
They announced on their blog on August 7, 2017:
We are really excited to announce version 0.13.26 of Leonardo! This new version fixes one of the major flaws in Leonardo: marquee selections. We have also greatly improved brushes, added custom color swatches and a whole host of smaller fixes.
I watched it and for the $ 39 price it is a bit stiff considering the much cheaper and more developed alternatives.
I liked the new Jagged brush which gives you a lot of control of how the outline of the brush will look. Is like a textured brush and the result is very useful.

Blender 3D - using text with fonts .

This is a simple tutorial with Blender 3D version 2.79 about how add text and use fonts with this 3D software tool.
First, you need to run the Blender 3D software .
To add text just use keys: Shift + A into Object Mode .
The Object Mode is the area where you see the default cube when start the Blender 3D .
Using this keys will open one window and you need to select the Text .

The next step is to select font. Select the open icon to select te path to the your fonts, see the next image:

This will alow you to use the sected font. Also, this is a good idea to see your fonts from your windows operating system ( see the next image).

The online CoSpaces Maker for kids to code.

The team development tell us:
Imagine and create. Build a virtual world on any device with the CoSpaces Maker app and explore them in virtual reality. Design, develop and code your own creations or take inspiration from what others have built in the CoSpaces Maker gallery - all you need is a smartphone and a cardboard headset!

First you need to make an account.
The next step is to see all scenes and read how to deal with objects and features.
This features start from load objects, deal with objects, use camera, use scene and code.
To code you need to use blockly - the most simple way to code .

If you think this is to simple and the result will be unsatisfactory, then you'd better take a look here.
You can test online at CoSpaces - official website.

The appleseed version 1.8.0 - beta released.

The appleseed is an open source, physically-based global illumination rendering engine primarily designed for animation and visual effects and is developed by a small team from VFX industry.
The day of November 28, 2017 come with this news: We’re proud to announce the release of appleseed 1.8.0-beta, the eighth release of our beta program and the 31th release since the first alpha in July 2010.
This tool supports:

• fully programmable shading via Sony Pictures Imageworks’ Open Shading Language (OSL);
• RGB/spectral/mixed rendering;
• fast and robust transformation and deformation motion blur;
• state-of-the-art ray traced subsurface scattering;
• exhaustive Python and C++ APIs;
• ... and many other production-oriented features.

You can read more on official website.
The next video from official vimeo channel is an old basic tutorial of appleseed software.

The Hexels tool creative suite .

The development team tell us about this tool:

Hexels is a creative suite for grid-based painting, animation, and design. The Hexels canvas is a paintable grid of geometric shapes that lets artists create complex designs with the stroke of a brush. It is a new kind of vector workflow, a friendly playground for the beginning artist, and a versatile tool in the hands of a professional.
The price now is the $24.50 and you can read and download it from official website.

The Mischief 2.1.5 - another drawing tool.

This is tool come free and you can use a paid version.
The paid version come with one price $25 more features :  presets, a full color palette, layers, and export to PSD files.
This allows you unlimited freedom to sketch, create and save brushes, hot keys and shortcuts.
You can used with Windows 7/8 and Mac OS X. I tested with Windows 10 and works great.
The output of your project is filename with the extension named .art .
The result of your work can be export like .pdf , .jpeg or .pds files.
The free version I don't see the copy paste option, but you can use export to save your drawing image.
This application come with few feature in the free version.

The MediBang Paint - free drawing and animation software tool.

Today I show you another free drawing tool named: MediBang Paint .
The MediBang Paint is a FREE lightweight digital painting and comic creation software.
This tool comes loaded with brushes, fonts, pre-made backgrounds, and other resources,like :

• Cloud features
• tool for comics 
• materials
• Fonts
• Group Project 
• and Paint Gallery

You can used with your device: PCWin/Mac, iPad, iPhone or Android.
The official youtube channel can be found here.

News: The new released Krita version 3.3.1 .

The Krita development team tell us:

Published    10/11/2017

Today we are releasing Krita 3.3.1, a bugfix release for Krita 3.3.0. This release fixes two important regressions:

Krita would crash if you would restart Krita after closing Krita with the reference images docker set to floating
Krita 3.3.0 could not read .kra backup files or .kra files that were unzipped, then zipped up manually.
Additionally, there are the following fixes and improvements:

Fix a crash when creating a swap file on OSX (Bernhard Liebl).
Merge down does not remove locked layers anymore (Nikita Smirnov)
Various performance improvements, especially for macOS (Bernhard Liebl)
Improve the look and feel of dragging and dropping layers (Bernhard Liebl)
Improve the tooltips in the brush preset selector (Bernhard Liebl)
Fix a memory leak in the color selectors (Boudewijn Rempt)
Fix rotation and tilt when using the Windows Ink api (Alvin Wong)
Don’t allow the fill tool to be used on group layers (Boudewijn Rempt)
Add brightness and contrast sliders for textured brushes (Rad)
Add paste-at-cursor (Dmitry Kazakov)
Improve performance of the cpu canvas (Alvin Wong)
Fix a crash on closing Krita when there is something on the clipboard (Dmitry Kazakov)
Add a button to open a file layer’s image in Krita (Wolthera van Hövell tot Westerflier)

You can read more about this new version of Krita software and download it from here.

The Skanect software tool for 3D .

The official website come with this intro:
With Skanect, capturing a full color 3D model of an object, a person or a room has never been so easy and affordable. Skanect transforms your Structure Sensor, Microsoft Kinect or Asus Xtion camera into a low cost 3D scanner able to create 3D meshes out of real scenes in a few minutes. Enter the world of 3D scanning now!
Come with free and paid solution, need a good 3D sensor ( see official features on web) and GPU with CUDA.
I install this software and has a good interface.

The Storyboarder free tool.

The development team tell us about this free tool named Storyboarder:
Storyboarder makes it easy to visualize a story as fast you can draw stick figures. Quickly draw to test if a story idea works. Create and show animatics to others. Express your story idea without making a movie.
...
Wonder Unit is a studio that makes movies. We spend a lot of time in creative development, building tools, and being smarter about creating the best stories.
This tool come with six simple drawing tools , boards (add a board, draw, duplicate, copy, paste) and metadata for a board (duration, dialogue, action and note).

How can be used this tool? 
You can start with your script or an empty board.
Then just draw each board and add all settings like: duration, dialogue, action and note.
You can export your work to Premiere, Final Cut, Avid, PDF, or Animated GIF.
You can edit your board with Photoshop.
You can improve this software with your source code using github.com - storyboarder.
You can download it from official website.

The SVG editor - web tool .

If you want a SVG editor the you can test this web tool from  here.
The web tool named SVG-edit is a fast, web-based, javascript-driven SVG drawing editor that works in any modern browser.
Is more simple like Inkscape and can be used online.
Also you can download it and test it like stand alone tool .
I try to use Export and Save Image , but seem not work with Opera browser.
I solve this issue with key U - Apply Changes and then with Copy - Paste into new SVG file.

News: Blender 3D version 2.79 - the new Blender 2.8 Branch.

Today I tested the new Blender 2.8 Branch from version 2.79 of Blender 3D software and is working well.
The new branch come with the new render Eevee and many of old 2.79 features:

• Cycles: Built-in Denoising, Shadow catcher, Principled shader, AMD OpenCL optimizations.
• Grease Pencil: New frame interpolation tools, per-layer onion skinning.
• Alembic: Improvements to compatibility, stability and support.
• User Interface: Initial support for reusable custom configurations, automatic DPI scaling.
• Twenty Three new and several updated add-ons.
• And: 100s of bug fixes and other improvements!

Next is a screenshot of this release:

The vvvv tool environment.

The development team of this tool tell us:
vvvv is a hybrid visual/textual live-programming environment for easy prototyping and development. It is designed to facilitate the handling of large media environments with physical interfaces, real-time motion graphics, audio and video that can interact with many users simultaneously.

I download the archive and install this tool easy.
If something is not found into your computer then will see into setup interface.
The steps to install this tool:

• download archive from official website;
• donwload and unarchive the addons into the vvvv folder;
• use setup executable to fix the instalation;

If you got this error: "the program can't start because d3dx9_43.dll is missing from your computer" the use this download- DirectX End-User Runtime Web Installer from microsoft.
To run examples, demos or games just try girlpower folder.
Let's see installation steps from youtube:

The great Rainmeter tool for Windows .

Developers tell us about this open source software:
Rainmeter displays customizable skins, like memory and battery power, RSS feeds and weather forecasts, right on your desktop. Many skins are even functional: they can record your notes and to-do lists, launch your favorite applications, and control your media player - all in a clean, unobtrusive interface that you can rearrange and customize to your liking. Rainmeter is at once an application and a toolkit. You are only limited by your imagination and creativity. 
The last revision was on July 28, 2017.
This software can be found on the official website.
Here's a good example of a 99villages user on his deviantart web page:

The HandBrake for video compression software.

The HandBrake is a tool for converting video from nearly any format to a selection of modern, widely supported codecs.
The good reasons you’ll love HandBrake:

• convert video from nearly any format 
• is free and Open Source 
• used on multi-Platform :Windows, Mac and Linux;

If you take a look to next screenshot with this software will see how many options have it. From selected size for youtube , gmail and size of display devices to filters and subtitles. Is a very good tool for video compression issue.

A-Frame web framework for Virtual Reality.

As originators of WebVR, the Mozilla VR team developed A-Frame as a web framework for building virtual reality (VR) experiences.
The core of framework provides an declarative, extensible, and composable structure to three.js.
You can find some example with this framework here.
The blog of the development team and users come with useful articles.
A-Frame supports most VR headsets:

• Vive
• Rift
• Daydream
• GearVR
• Cardboard
• ... and can even be used for augmented reality

The framework come with aframe inspector the online tool for visual tool for inspecting and tweaking scenes.
The Sonar Systems youtube channel come with some video tutorials about A-Frame VR framework:

The Visual Components software.

Is a complex software application with many tools for engineers  and not just for them.
The team development tells us:
There are four main applications for the Visual Components software: an engineering tool, a sales tool, a robot programming tool and a platform for building your own simulation solution.
The parts of this project come with this issues:

• Layout Configuration 
• CAD Compatibility 
• Project Ready Deliverables 
• Simple Robotics 
• Component Modeling 
• Advanced Robotics 

With Python API, which is available in all Visual Components 4.0 products we have a good platform for teaching, automating and post-processing robot programs.
For training , courses are collections of lessons you need to visit this link.
See the video from official youtube channel:

You can download this application from here.