Friday 27 September 2013

SPARKLE Announced SPA Tune OC Software For Graphics Cards

Taipei, Taiwan – November 6, 2008 - SPARKLE Computer Co., Ltd., the professional VGA card manufacturer and supplier, today proudly announced SPA Tune, an exclusively designed OC software for users which will effectively balance the computing power and power consumption of Graphics Cards from SPARKLE.

Exclusively Designed OC Software
SPA Tune software is designed by intelligent R&D team of SPARKLE. It's integrated the gorgeous user interface with the formidable graphics cards regulation functions. Now users of SPARKLE Graphics Cards have the powerful tool for getting superlative graphics performance in latest DX10 games and best energy saving effects in 2D operating mode.

All-functions Design
Graphics Cards users want blazing fast performance—blasting their way through the latest game, but they also being the environmentalists who want to economize the energy when they are doing 2D works with graphics cards. Now with strong R&D team from SPARKLE, SPA Tune software can meet the bilateral demands. SPA Tune will help the users optimized the configuration of power supply and select the appropriate mode to economize the energy.

Smart and Convenient Operating Interface
SPA Tune software is designed with smart and convenient operating interface. It provides 5 compact designed control buttons for graphics cards core clock, memory clock, shader clock, GPU temperature and fan speed. With just simple click on one of these buttons, SPA Tune software will show the exact value in the display Area. SPA Tune software also provides three mode transition buttons for Overclocking mode (OC), standard mode (STD) and green mode (GRN).

Three Different Working Mode
With the OC mode, SPA Tune software will provide high speed, best performance and more power consumption. When users choose the OC MODE, graphics cards will runs at the fastest clock and keep the strongest performance to meet the needs of DX10 games. The STD mode brings standard performance and lesser power consumption. When users choose the STD mode, graphics card will runs at the standard clock ,whatever you open websites or enjoy the Blu-ray DVD or playing games it’s all OK!! The GRN mode provides the energy saving and green power consumption. When users choose the GRN mode, graphics cards will consume the least power. The cooling fan of the graphics card will has the lowest speed and has silence noise .

Bundled With Latest Graphics Cards
SPA Tune software will be bundled with latest graphics cards products from SPARKLE. SPA Tune software endows graphics cards from SPARKLE with valuable add-on and convenient functions.



Friday 23 August 2013

you suck at photoshop, you do..

i just saw these videos over on the drawn! blog. which by the by is a great blog to read about general awesome stuff including illustration and drawing. put 'em in your reader. so these videos...i laughed so hard i wanted to share them w/ you guys because i love you and i have a sick sense of humor and thought you may as well. they are hilarious, however not safe for work, unless you work in a cubicle and have ear phones and/or your boss is completely asleep.

Opening Pics Brett Cook's Supernatural..

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Last week I posted about Brett Cook's install of his show Supernatural at Guerrero Gallery...here are the pics from opening night. It seriously could not have been better weather. It almost felt like summer in San Francisco! The gallery was in full swing as I rode up, there were kids outside drawing and playing with clay, food was being served, Tecate was being poured and lots of laughs and fun happening as people spilled in and out of the gallery.

Inside Brett's altars and effigy's graced the gallery thoughtfully, paying homage to great intellectuals, visionaries and political figures such as Angel Davis, Noam Chompsky, Martin Luther King Jr., Thich Nhat Hanh, and most importantly, I thought was Brett's Granmother. Brett celebrates the interconnectedness of all beings, but the back room dedicated to the life of his Grandmother touched me the most. Lots to look at and think about.

Supernatural runs through July 3. More images after the jump and the full night of pics on the blog's flickr.

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Wednesday 21 August 2013

needles pens celebrates 5 years! happy birthday!.

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awww, my very favorite shop needles & pens in san francisco is five today! they have a great show planned. if you are in sf it is definitely the place to be tonight. many, many wonderful, awesome and creative peeps will be showing there tonight and i'm sure be there as well. totes not to be missed! i'm a tad bit jel i'm not there, ok, i'm just downright bummed...but this post is about how awesome needles & pens are, not what a crybaby i am. here are some of our (that's me and you!)very favs that will be showing tonight:

Andrew Schoultz, Andrew Scott, Brion Nuda Rosch, Caroline Hwang, Chris Duncan, Chris Pew, David Benzler,Jeff Canham, Jen Smith, Jenny Hart, Jeremy Fish, Jeremy Taylor, Jessica Cusik, John Dwyer, John Trippe, Jovi Schnell, Julianna Bright, Kyle Ranson, Lena Wolf, Maria Forde, Mark Todd, Mary Joy Scott, Matt Furie, Maxwell Loren Holyoke Hirsch, Maya Hayuk, Monica Canilao, Nigel Peake, Nikki McClure, Paul Urich, Paul Wackers, Rachell Sumpter/Jacob Magraw, Randy Lee Sutherland, Ryan Jacob Smith, Tara Jane Oneil, Tara Lisa Foley, Tauba Auerbach, Zefrey Throwell

it's going to be an amazing, knee slapping, hoot hollering good time!

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Tuesday 20 August 2013

travel in the time of swine flu

As we sat in the terminal waiting to board our stage coach in the sky en route to paradise last week, DanO and I (along with the rest of the passengers on our flight) watched in horror as the Vice President of this great, resilient, not-easily-frightened country full of brave, rational citizens told everyone to STAY HOME FORTHELOVEOFGOD. DON’T TRAVEL, AND BE AFRAID. BE VERY, VERY AFRAID.Aw, thanks for the sound advice, Joe ‘Footinyourmouth’ Biden. Fear monger much?Shortly after that wise, well-founded governmental decree, I felt that itch. The undeniable one that will surface no matter how you try to squelch it.I sneezed. So help me, I sneezed in an airport and I’m pretty sure the world almost ended.The stares! The glares! The disgust on people’s faces!I must have slept through Biden’s other press conference announcing that sneezing was being added to the axis of evil because HOLY CRAP that reaction seemed unwarranted.Folks. Chill. It was just a well-contained, kleenex-covered, high-pitched, girly sneeze. If you’ve heard one of mine, you’d agree: they are undeniably feminine and dainty and definitely not pandemic-spreading. You should hear DanO’s, on the other hand. I’m already saving up for the nasal reconstructive surgery he will need before his 35th birthday.Other effects of the swine flu we observed while (GASP!) traveling:The African Hogs were “resting” rather than being out on display in Disney’s Animal Kingdom petting zoo. Although there was no reference as to why, we all knew. (Would an ‘unclean’ joke here be inappropriate and culturally insensitive? Dang.)Disney World usually has this fancy end-of-days technology where you touch a scanner and it associates your finger print with your ticket so that you can’t cheat the (overpriced) system, but it has been discontinued “for health and safety purposes”.Two face masks were seen on people at the Cleveland Airport.The Orlando news station was consumed with hysteria. A local private school announced it’s closure for a week while we were there, and that was pretty much the only news we got the whole trip.Oh, and there was one small news blurb about how the CDC announced that “JK! It’s not going to be as bad as we thought!”…but they didn’t really go over that story much.

The Seafarers - The Trident of Power..

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I woke up to Ferris Plock and Kelly Tunstall's new cartoon, The Seafarers - The Trident of Power from Eighty Four Films in my inbox. Not bad stuff for a Monday morning, I'll tell you what! So much to take in and enjoy, it deserves a couple of watches. I love the map of the ocean: 'gratuitous graphic element', 'ziggy stardust islands', 'sea of unspeakable evils'. All so good and fun to watch. in fact, I'm gonna make coffee and watch it again!

You can see my visit with Ferris here while he printed for his show, Fare Thee Well at Giant Robot a few weeks ago.

The Seafarers - Trident of Power from Eighty Four Films on Vimeo.

Sunday 18 August 2013

john casey's book scarecrow..

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this thursday, just in time for halloween, rowan morrison will be hosting the launch of john casey's new book scarecrow. a limited 1st edition art book featuring over 60 unseen bio-morphic, classic, casey drawings. the book is 6x9, 2 color offset, signed and numbered with an intro by james kaufman. order your copy here. at $20 bucks, it's a steal and a definite must have. original drawings from scarecrow will be on show, with john in attendance to sign books, answer questions and eat halloween candy with you, because he's just that good.

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be sure to check out john's blog, where he writes often with lots of great photos of his work and all the amazing art shows going on in the bay area. oh and check out a q&a john did for the blog back in may, right here, it's one of my favorite's.

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