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SANTA CLAUS - SITES

Northpole.com is a simple, fun Christmas site. Take a quiz to find out if you were naughty or nice, find recipes for cookies and other treats, teach Santa how to dance and play holiday games. The personalized story maker is great. Enter some basic details and the website generates one of three personalized Christmas stories that you can print.  An abundance of Christmas printables makes this a great resource for teachers and homeschoolers as well.  Santa Claus Office    The focus of this site is a vacation destination where you can meet Santa Claus in person. The nearest town and transport hub to Santa Claus Office, should you care to make the actual trip, is Rovaniemi, situated in Finnish Lapland. The associated Facebook page is managed all year long, showing the elves in various duties and Santa's Office at various times of the year.  Starting on December 1, you can see inside and outside video of Santa's office as ...

ART -SALVADORE DALI -THE GREAT PAINTER

Salvador Dalí was a Spanish Surrealist painter and printmaker known for exploring subconscious imagery.  Once Dalí hit on that method, his painting style matured with extraordinary rapidity, and from 1929 to 1937 he produced the paintings which made him the world's best-known Surrealist artist In the 1920s, he went to Paris and began interacting with artists such as Pablo Picasso, René Magritte and Miró, which led to Dalí's first Surrealist phase One of the most famous figures in art history, Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) is remembered as much for his extravagant persona and iconic mustache as he is for his creative output—which spanned painting, sculpture, and product and set design, as well as film. The style of Salvador Dali was the most famous and most creative of the twentieth century because he developed and nourished a style that was insignificant before his time. The dominant themes in his career revolved around his childhood sexual desires and on the study...

WHAT IS ADOBE READER AND ADOBE ACROBAT READER DC

Adobe Acrobat Reader DC software is the free, trusted global standard for viewing, printing, signing, sharing, and annotating PDFs. It's the only PDF viewer that can open and interact with all types of PDF content – including forms and multimedia. Adobe Acrobat Reader DC is the most popular PDF reader you can download on Windows, Mac, and Android . . PDF   tools are indispensable for creating rich documents with text and images, which can be easily opened by a wide variety of applications and on any platform.   Adobe Reader is a free program developed and distributed by Adobe Systems that allows you to view PDF or portable document format files.  Adobe Acrobat , on the other hand, is a more advanced and paid version of the Reader but with additional features to create, print, and manipulate PDF files. Purpose. The main function of Adobe Acrobat is creating, viewing, and editing PDF documents. It can import popular document and image formats and sav...

- TECH - WHAT IS PDF FORMAT

PDF stands for "portable document format". Essentially, the format is used when you need to save files that cannot be modified but still need to be easily shared and printed. Today almost everyone has a version of Adobe Reader or other program on their computer that can read a PDF file.   PDF stands for the Portable Document Format, used to display documents in an electronic form independent of the software, hardware or operating system they are viewed on.   PDF (Portable Document Format) is a file format that has captured all the elements of a printed document as an electronic image that you can view, navigate, print, or forward to someone else. PDF files are created using Adobe Acrobat , Acrobat Capture, or similar products.   PDFs are typically used to distribute read-only documents that preserve the layout of a page. They're commonly used for documents like user manuals, eBooks, application forms, and scanned documents, to name just a few. ...

WHAT IS PNG FORMAT?

PNG stands for “Portable Graphics Format”. It is the most frequently used uncompressed raster image format on the internet. This lossless data compression format was created to replace the Graphics Interchange Format ( GIF ). PNG file format is an open format with no copyright limitations.   The Portable Network Graphic ( PNG ) file format is ideal for digital art (flat images, logos, icons, etc.), and uses 24-bit color as a foundation. The ability to use a transparency channel increases the versatility of this file type.   Today PNG is one of the most popular raster formats on the Internet. In 1995 during Usenet conference it was suggested to develop this format as an alternative to the popular GIF format, that requires a license . Thus PNG emerged, which unofficially stands for “ PNG IS NOT A GIF.   A PNG file contains a single image in an extensible structure of chunks, encoding the basic pixels and other information such as textual comments and integ...

WHAT IS JPEG

JPEG stands for “Joint Photographic Experts Group”. It's a standard image format for containing lossy and compressed image data. Despite the huge reduction in file size JPEG images maintain reasonable image quality.   A JPEG is a standardised lossy compression mechanism for digital images. Digital cameras compress raw photographs as JPEG images to make the files smaller in size. It is the most common file format for photo storage. JPEGs became popular as they save more storage space compared to older formats such as Bitmap. All JPEG tools are simple, free a  IMAGEnd easy to use . There are no ads, popups or other garbage. Just JPG utilities that work right in your browser.   You can also right-click the file, point to the “Open With” menu, and then click the “Preview” option. In the Preview window, click the “File” menu and then click the “Export” command. In the window that pops up, select JPEG as the format and use the “Quality” slider to change the com...

TECH - WHAT IS A GIF

A GIF (Graphical Interchange Format) is an image format invented in 1987 by Steve Wilhite, a US software writer who was looking for a way to animate images in the smallest file size. In short, GIFs are a series of images or soundless video that will loop continuously and doesn't require anyone to press play.   The acronym GIF stands for "Graphics Interchange Format." A GIF is a short, animated picture, without sound. They are displayed in succession with varying frame rates to create short low-file-size animations. GIFs, by default, end on the last frame, though they are now more commonly seen looping. GIFs are popular on blogs, social media, and instant messaging applications, often used as emotive reactions. Combined with the emotional shorthand and cultural references they carry, GIFs   allow users to simultaneously express their mood, sense of humor, and identity in a low-effort way like no other digital medium can. The efficiency of its expres...