The "play after downloading" and "direct play online" for streaming media have an immeasurably vast difference on experience. However, streaming media websites providing online music or video play service have been facing two development difficulties: copyright and server performance. For the former, if they chose to buy the original copyright, the investment will be huge, and comes with too few resources and very slow update; if it was pirated, then that's always possible to be under surveillance and even shut down at any time. In the latter case, the more people visit, the worse the server performance will be, which means either they have to increase the hardware investment, or it's difficult to get further development.

In my opinion, all the unique and particularly beautiful sceneries can be created only by the nature, which is forever beyond any human's power. At the same time, any beauty intervened by human has got permanent limitations. Therefore, for a long time, I guess in the mind of many people, there is a beautiful world that only belongs to ourselves. If you want to make it perfectly presented on a computer, Terragen is one of the best solutions you need.

I myself have the habit of keeping a diary. However, I am increasingly unwilling to record diary in words (text format) - because that is too inefficient. In particular, some words are easy to say out but difficult to immediately organize into words and write on the paper or type out via computer keyboard.

Software, network and database developers may often deal with XML (Extensible Markup Language) format of files. But in Windows, the default program used to open and view an XML file is the IE browser, so that we can only see the hard-to-read and elusive source code of XML file with IE. Although the format of the XML language itself is very neat, IE or Notepad can not meet our needs for quickly viewing, filtering and editing the data, code in a XML file.

ShaderMap is a professional and powerful normal map generating/baking/converting (from 3D models and textures) tool for Windows, free for non commercial use. In ShaderMap, users can choose the original materials as need, from which the program will automatically generate the ordinary, mirrored, displaced maps, the one covered by ambient light, and other types of maps.