The most popular graphics/image processing programs on Linux platform are: GIMP, Inkscape, and Dia, each of which has its own unique functions. Thereinto, GIMP claims to be the Adobe Photoshop for Linux; Inkscape claims to be CorelDraw for Linux; while Dia refers to Microsoft's Visio. Here, we recommend Inkscape to you all.

Unfortunately, all characteristics of Shadowsocks (SS) and ShadowsocksR (SSR) have been fully and absolutely identified and controlled by GFW ("thanks to" the forced compromise from their developers). In short, as long as the GFW wants to block your VPS, it can now do this easily and perfectly in less than 30 seconds. If you find that your SS/SSR is still working well, that means GFW has no interest or there is no need to ban you right now. Of course, each blocking cycle of GFW is about 10 weeks. Therefore, we can roughly calculate when our VPS can be unblocked.

Due to the popularity of live streaming, the success of XSplit Broadcaster intensified the competition within the Internet-based broadcasting software industry. OBS is one of the live streaming apps that wants to surpass XSplit. So far, it has been slightly better than XSplit in terms of functionality and performance. In addition, its official said it would be free forever (I hope so). This means that if XSplit doesn't master some revolutionary new technologies, it will soon be ruined by OBS.

ILSpy is a free and open-source .NET assembly browser and decompression tool that is pretty popular in the C# development field, developed by ICSharpCode (i.e. the development team of SharpDevelop). It has the user interface, layout, and decompilation functions similar to Red Gate Software's .NET Reflector. Moreover, sometimes for some assemblies that can not be decompiled with .NET Reflector (because of encryption), it's still possible to do that using ILSpy. Simply speaking, it has only one purpose - to finally completely replace .NET Reflector and do better.

To learn 3D modeling, most people will recommend 3ds Max and Maya these trump-level of 3D computer graphics software to you. But what I want to emphasize again here is - the best may not be the most suitable for you or the one that best meets your needs. For those who are interested in modeling but don't have much time to learn modeling techniques systematically, it is unwise to choose them. This case, we need a simpler and more user-friendly modeling tool such like Wings 3D.