Emerson and I have started to create some presets for After Effects. These are actually project files, and not just Animation Presets. Some of the elements that we will feature here are simple, but others may rely on complex animations. Download the ones you want to, and see what we've done. Plugins help you easily create visuals that would otherwise take up too much production time

Since Linus Torvalds first began to develop the Linux computer operating system in 1991, until about three or four years ago, it was an operating system used mostly by techies and geeks. However, in the last few years, it suddenly seems to have become a threat to the proprietary operating system world. Why? Because it has become useful to the everyday computer user

It's time for the Windows and Linux communities to drop the religious war and get together in a hurry to put the strengths of each operating system to best use, according to a nationally recognized authority on Windows Server

Enterprise IT folks aren't exactly champing at the bit to get Vista into their shops; many are only now distributing Windows XP Service Pack 2, and there are plenty of copies of Windows 2000 Professional still around

America is going soccer mad so far this World Cup season. Preliminary ratings for the broadcast by Walt Disney Co.-owned ABC of the opening weekend of the 2006 World Cup soccer championship rose 65 percent over the 2002 tournament, ESPN, ABC's sister station, said on Monday. Spanish-language broadcaster Univision also reported on Monday that its World Cup audience for the tournament's first eight games nearly tripled over the same period in 2002

The worm, which Symantec calls JS.Yamanner@m, is different from others in that a user merely has to open the e-mail to cause it to run, said Kevin Hogan, senior manager for Symantec Security Response. Mass-mail worms have usually been contained in an attachment with an e-mail note encouraging a user to open it. The worm, written in JavaScript, takes advantage of a vulnerability that allows scripts embedded in HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) e-mail to run in the users' browsers

Like a good soccer match, the monthly sales battles between the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 2 have a lot of exciting back-and-forth. So far, however, the PlayStation 2 has remained in control of the match, outselling the Xbox 360 in six of the seven months since the Xbox 360's debut. The situation is a strong reminder that Sony's PS3 gamble, while huge, has a little more cushioning than is commonly recognized

Improvements include expanded satellite imagery, more land coverage.  Google Inc. on Monday released the latest upgrades to the mapping tools that rank among the company's biggest success outside the Internet-leading search engine that steers much of the Web's traffic. The improvements include a major expansion of the satellite imagery included in Google's three-dimensional software for touring Earth. The Mountain View, Calif

Google is preparing to launch an online payment system dubbed Gbuy on 28 June, financial analysts with RBC Capital Markets claimed in a research note. The service would allow online merchants to handle consumer transactions. Over time it could expand to include consumer to consumer transactions as well, the firm noted. Google in an emailed statement to vnunet.com said that it has "nothing specific to announce at this time

Windows Live Messenger will be made available to the public on Friday 16th June 2006. The successor to MSN Messenger 7.5, Windows Live Messenger 8 is the first edition of the Messenger brand to be released under the new 'Windows Live' moniker. Windows Live represents Microsoft's biggest push into the Software-as-a-Service market