#aperture tag analysis

[0sbrain]

glados during the first act of portal 2 after getting resurrected

i FEEL like some of glados characterization is lost when the jokes about her circle around fitting the "dommy step on me sexy + intelligent + evil/cruel" archetype not like she isnt evil or intelligent or sexy but i do think i greatly enjoy her character more when i get to remember she is a little silly. she is mean and cruel by making up the most elaborate and stupid sounding insults ever. she has an extreme grudge against you which she insists shes not mad about while mentioning the fact every two minutes. shes madly obsessed with a woman who never responded to a word shes ever said. most of the shit she says is just straight up ridiculous. shes constantly battling intense feelings of loneliness while refusing to admit to anyone she could ever want company or affection. she is described by the creators as "throwing fits like an angry child". glados IS a little bit pathetic and silly and a very funny and very sad character. shes a woman of multitudes

[fluorescentbrains]

do u have any kimharry fic recs, i feel like you have good taste in terms of their characterisation

i do! i don’t why but i’ve been going through their tag like a rabid animal since january. i feel like a lot of the stuff that comes up when you sort by kudos is pretty good (except for The Man Who 2/3rds Wasn’t There. i usually wouldn’t do an anti-rec but that one is very high up in the tag and Actually pissed me off), but here are a few gems i found while digging:

Imprinting: this author really captures the feeling of playing the game in that harry does some things that are SO cringe and he fucks up SO bad it physically hurts you. but it’s okay in the end. they don’t get together (yet) but there’s a Feelings Realization that’s very satisfying and feels earned. there’s also a sequel that’s still a WIP; I’ve been putting off reading it so I don’t have to wait for chapters.

WHISKEY BAR: another fic by the same author as Imprinting. they MAKE MISTAKES and HAVE A HUGE FIGHT and then CRY ABOUT IT before kissing and making up. delicious

The Meaning of St. Valprin’s Day and Aperture: not by the same author but I’m putting them together because they’re short, rated T, and very sweet. they just really like each other :)

Retour à nouveau: slow burn kim POV case fic my beloved ❤️❤️❤️

Breakthrough Imminent: porn with character analysis, but more silly than serious. i love when harry is kim’s manic pixie dream weird guy

A Lethal Dose for Humans: definitely read the tags on this one; it’s VERY explicit and there are drugs (just weed, but like, too much of it) involved. also i’ve literally never read such an accurate depiction of being Too Fucking High on edibles.

[genericdragon]

Analysis: Nigel is a teenager

I already made this post last week but I feel like I should elaborate on it.

It’s kind of an inside joke in the fandom that “haha Nigel sounds like he’s 12 lol” but after doing a bit of digging I have reason to believe that Nigel is canonically a teenager, or whatever the core equivalent of a teenager is.

So we can see in the credits that Nigel is voiced by Chris Moral.

After a quick Google search, I found this post made by Motanum on MODDB.

He talks about his final decision to hire Chris Moral as the voice actor for Nigel, among other things. Let’s go check out Chris’s voice123 profile.

So we can see on his profile that his voice is well suited for teenage characters. He was also in 12th grade when the lines for Aperture Tag were recorded, so he was likely either 17 or 18. I know that there have been complaints about his lack of professionalism, and criticizing the developer for not hiring a more experienced voice actor, and his profile says that he started out with voice acting for machinimas and that he has no formal training. But Motanum’s post says “I know I chose right on this!”, so this was clearly an intentional choice to hire Chris Moral over anyone else. And in my opinion this lack of professionalism just contributes to Nigel’s characterization, more so than if it was a trained voice actor.

Motanum also has this video on his YouTube channel, as part of a series where he talks about the development of Aperture Tag.

He got 26 voice auditions for Aperture Tag, so he had plenty of options to choose from, and Chris Moral was still his top choice. And this is just about the voice actor. In the game, many of Nigel’s behaviors and speaking patterns are similar to that of a teenage boy, but I won’t get into all of that here (I am working on other analysis posts where I will hopefully talk about that a bit more.) So anyway there’s my reasoning as to why I believe that Nigel is a teenager! Thanks for reading!

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The Cardinal Set | Masterlist

SYNOPSIS: Four stories intertwined, four setters woven together by four main characters. In Part One, the compass led you through the labyrinth. In Part Two, with the needle gone and three storylines happening simultaneously, several threads tangle into one

STATUS: ⚠️ UNDER RENOVATION! ⚠️ story is complete, but I’m now getting it to a place that satisfies my own standards—several links may be down

PART ONE:

APERTURE (True North)

PART TWO:

TROMPE-L’ŒIL (South)

SCREENTONE (East)

EXTREMA (West)

NOTE: Part Two is ONE STORY, not separate routes. To read in order, see below the cut and use the “follow path” links to stay on track!

PAIRINGS: timeskip!setters x reader

TAGLIST IS OPEN! (Send an ask/message/reply, whatever suits you. Strikes unable to be tagged ☹️) @crescenttooru @marissaraeblr @roselleviennesstuff

⚠️ = currently being edited or will eventually be edited

PROFILES:

Y/N’s support groups: South

Y/N’s support group: East ⚠️

Y/N’s support groups: West ⚠️

The setter suitors

NAVIGATION:

1. Not Out of the Woods: South ⚠️ (i. Stone)

2. Not Out of the Woods: East (Layer 1: Canvas)

3. Not Out of the Woods: West (Page 1: Proposal)

4. Another Adventure: South (ii. Classical)

5. Another Adventure: East (Layer 2: Background)

6. Another Adventure: West ⚠️ (Page 2: Research)

7. Off the Beaten Path: South (iii. Floating World)

8. Off the Beaten Path: East (Layer 3: Thumbnail)

9. Off the Beaten Path: West (Page 3: Analysis)

10. Around the Bush: South ⚠️ (iv. Heavenly Mosaic)

11. Around the Bush: East (Layer 4: Composition)

12. Around the Bush: West (Page 4: Differentiation)

13. On a Merry Chase: South ⚠️ (v. Romanesque)

14. On a Merry Chase: East (Layer 5: Sketch)

15. On a Merry Chase: West (Page 5: Branding)

16. Sent Into the Air: South (vi. Gothic)

17. Sent Into the Air: East (Layer 6: Palette)

18. Sent Into the Air: West (Page 6: Funding)

19. Up the Wrong Tree: South (vii. Renaissance)

20. Up the Wrong Tree: East (Layer 7: Ink)

21. Up the Wrong Tree: West (Page 7: Thesis)

22. Into the Dirt: South (viii. Baroque)

23. Into the Dirt: East ⚠️ (Layer 8: Base)

24. Into the Dirt: West ⚠️ (Page 8: Map)

25. Over the Moon: South (ix. Neoclassical)

26. Over the Moon: East ⚠️ (Layer 9: Fill)

27. Over the Moon: West (Page 9: Wireframe)

28. See the World: South (x. Romanticism)

29. See the World: East ⚠️ (Layer 10: Light Source)

30. See the World: West (Page 10: Margin)

31. A Separate Path: South (xi. Realism)

32. A Separate Path: East ⚠️ (Layer 11: Hatch)

33. A Separate Path: West (Page 11: Module)

34. Trouble in Paradise: South (xii. Impressionism)

35. Trouble in Paradise: East ⚠️ (Layer 12: Shadow)

36. Trouble in Paradise: West (Page 12: Padding)

37. Lost in the Stream: South ⚠️ (xiii. Fauvism)

38. Lost in the Stream: East ⚠️ (Layer 13: Highlight)

39. Lost in the Stream: West (Page 13: Content)

40. Far Ahead: South (xiv. Expressionism)

41. Far Ahead: East ⚠️ (Layer 14: Midtone)

42. Far Ahead: West (Page 14: Copy)

43. Hell or High Water: South (xv. Cubism)

44. Hell or High Water: East (Layer 15: Color Burn)

45. Hell or High Water: West (Page 15: Hierarchy)

46. A Long Ways Away: South ⚠️ (xvi. Suprematism)

47. A Long Ways Away: East (Layer 16: Multiply)

48. A Long Ways Away: West (Page 16: Coding)

49. Hidden Deep: South (xvii. Futurism)

50. Hidden Deep: East (Layer 17: Levels)

51. Hidden Deep: West (Page 17: Styling)

52. In Good Company: South (xviii. Constructivism)

53. In Good Company: East ⚠️ (Layer 18: Color Balance)

54. In Good Company: West (Page 18: Scripting)

55. Up in the Clouds: South (xix. Surrealism)

56. Up in the Clouds: East (Layer 19: Luminance)

57. Up in the Clouds: West (Page 19: Animation)

58. Waiting on the Rain: South (xx. Deconstructivism)

59. Waiting on the Rain: East (Layer 20: Overlay)

60. Waiting on the Rain: West (Page 20: Interface)

61. Weather Out the Storm: South (xxi. Postmodernism)

62. Weather Out the Storm: East (Layer 21: Detailing)

63. Weather Out the Storm: West (Page 21: Launch)

64. Lost Without a Compass: South (xxii. Present Day)

65. Lost Without a Compass: East (Layer 22: Presentation)

66. Lost Without a Compass: West (Page 22: Presence)

DISCLAIMER: JAPAN’S V.LEAGUE

EXTRAS:

Still | life

Cross | hatch

Anchor | point

Secret Clues: Opening Acts

Secret Clues: Needs

[kyidyl]

Kyidyl Does Archaeology - Part 5

(as per usual, all these posts are collected under the KyidylCL tag)

Pottery and shErds

So, what are we talking about today? Well, I think the next thing is gonna be pottery.  This is where we’re gonna talk about time, space, and dating a site.  Because most people think that the only way to date an archaeological site is via C14.  That’s not true, and actually we don’t always do it.  C14 dating can have some problems, including that the wood used in the fire is likely older than the time in which it was cut down and burned.  It also only goes back 50,000 years, so anything older than that won’t have any carbon isotopes (it’ll have all decayed), and we have to use other things that are more expensive.  And c14 testing itself is expensive - we sent in 2 samples and it was around $500/sample so we spent about $1000 on testing.  Instead, there are other ways to date a site and one of the most accurate is pottery.  

See, like all other kinds of material culture (AKA, stuff people leave behind.  Non-material culture is like...song and story and stuff like that.), pottery follows stylistic trends and trends in how it was made.  And it does this both regionally and chronologically.  Which is great, because if we find bits of one type of pottery we know is made in one place in a settlement in another place, then we know the two people traded with each other.  But I have to explain something else so that determining a date from pottery makes sense.  

Every area of the country has what’s called a “type site” for a given period of time.  In undergrad I was lucky enough to actually get to work on the type site for the Safety Harbour period, which is Weedon Island....ironically enough there’s a Weedon Island period and Weedon Island isn’t the type site for that period so uuuhhh...yeah it’s weird lol.  Anyway, a type site is a site that is considered stereotypical for a given time and place in history.  Usually they’re large and well-preserved, and they’re often the first sites found in that time period/area (but not always, which is how the above weirdness happened.). And so what happens is we dig ‘em and analyze the finds and do testing on those finds.  So now we know “hey, this kind of pottery comes from here and it is X years old”. Now you know when you find it in other places where and when it comes from.  This is all a very generalized explanation, but I think any more is like extraneous detail you don’t need.  Just know that things like type sites help us determine where and when stuff like pottery was made.  Lots of literature usually exists for type sites, but I actually can’t remember the type site for this area for this time period.  

We also use a term called “diagnostic”, which is used much as it is in medicine.  If we find a certain thing that was only made during a specific time period or in a certain place, then it’s diagnostic.  IE, a certain kind of pottery is diagnostic of the late, middle, or early Woodland.  The pottery we have at our site is diagnostic of the late Woodland.  Some of the lithics we thought might be a bit earlier, but honestly I think that was just misidentification by the site director bc we were in the field at the time.  Lastly, identifying pottery has a few components.  Color and decoration I think are easy to understand (they didn’t have glazes, but you can make different colored pottery by varying the composition of the clay and the temperature at which it is fired.). Paste and temper are the other two.  IDK how modern pottery is made, but old ass pottery is made with paste - the main body of the clay, the matrix that contains the temper - and temper. Temper is stuff they’d crush up and mix in to help it not break during firing and heating during normal use.  So we combine these factors to ID the pottery and thus the age of the site and trading habits of the people in question.  One last thing you need to understand about pottery - ancient people used pottery the way that we use disposable things.  They didn’t think it was like an important thing that had to keep safe.  They’d use it until it broke and then toss it in the garbage pit and make a new one.  So it’s really common and we find it all over the place, but TBH in the future pottery *won’t* be diagnostic anymore because our ceramics come in such a wide variety that we couldn’t possibly hope to narrow down time or place.  

Alright, so who wants pictures? You, of course.  Who *doesn’t* want pictures? Here’s some of the pottery we found: 

This is the larger shard that I found in the features I’ve talked about in previous installments.  You can see where I accidentally broke it. >.> Anyway it’s kind of unique bc of the light color outside and the black inside.  It’s like...idk, 4 or so inches long.  

This is a rim piece that I happened to find two matching sherds of.  I always check the rim pieces because the patterns on them usually make them easier to fit together.  Honestly I’ve got hundreds of pot sherds from this site and I don’t have the sanity to try and make pots from them.  

This is the outside and inside respectively of the largest piece we have.  TBH taking this thing out of its box and handling it makes me nervous because of how large it is - about the size of my hand, but I did include my earbuds for scale.  The black is charring from both firing and subsequent use, and it came out of the pit feature I’ve been talking about.  And do you wanna know the cool thing about the inner surface of pottery? Because they didn’t use glazes, the surface was porous and retains the unique chemical traces of what was made in them.  However, the vast majority of the time those kinds of tests aren’t done because archaeology as a whole is extremely underfunded and trace chemical analysis of pot residue is an expensive test requiring expensive equipment and expensive scientists.  Funnily enough I probably could do some of this testing bc I used to be premed and so I’ve taken a lot of chemistry and know how to read a mass spec thing, but I don’t have access to the chemicals or tools to do these kinds of tests.  Plus, they’re often destructive...which....I mean...there’s so much pottery that it doesn’t really matter if one piece gets destroyed but like you do still have to be careful *which* piece you destroy.  

Anyway, you also can see the striations on the outside piece, and that’s decoration on the pot.  It probably also helped with gripping it.  This is a piece of Shepardware, which is diagnostic of the late Woodland period in the Shenandoah valley. Here’s some more cool pottery: 

This is a random assortment of the kind of stuff we regularly pull out of the ground when it comes to pottery.  The most common kind we have is the orange on one side black on the other (3 upper rt pieces), whiteish (upper left 2), orange on both sides (lower left 3) and totally black (lower right 3).  All of ‘em are some variety of shepard or pageware.  You can see the texture on a lot of them, too.  We have a good mix of textured and untextured, and that’s why the composition of the pottery is more diagnostic than the decoration.  Frankly, people can and will put whatever design they think looks cool.  But they made that particular design by wrapping twine around the end of a flat stick and pressing it into the surface of the wet clay.  I also chose those two upper right pieces because they have really visible temper.  Here’s a side shot of one of them: 

You can see how big the bits are compared to my fingers (yeah, there’s dirt under my nails....I haven’t taken some tweezers to them yet after working on the car.). And...wait, I WAS going to try to describe this to you but then I was like “no, they deserve better” and I broke out my DSLR and my macro lens and took some pics.  Here are some macros of the temper: 

The white balance is a little off on the top one...the bottom one is more true to color (they aren’t the same piece of pottery, but they are a similar color).  So you can see that it’s crushed up limestone.  Pardon the depth of field on those...I had to open the aperture pretty wide to get one that wasn’t blurry bc I don’t exactly have bright lights in my room.  

Anyway....so that’s the pottery we’ve gotten at the site and what we can learn from it.  It’s going to take some time before we can start determining patterns and whatnot in regards to style, but we do have some evidence of trading here because some of the pottery we have is from the piedmont culture....

...wait, let me explain what that means.  When archaeologists need to describe a group of people who existed in a given place in a given time based on similarities in material culture regardless of ethnic and social grouping we call it a culture.  This is different than the standard meaning of the world culture, or even the way a cultural anthropologist would use the word.  So when I say the piedmont culture, I mean people that lived in the general area of the Piedmont plateau during the late woodland.  They were of varying tribes, languages, etc.  And we do this to describe the extant boundaries of cultural influence of particular trends in physical objects and not the social groupings of the humans in question.  So, for example, lots of people are familiar with the Clovis culture.  When archaeologists use this term we mean “these are the boundaries of the places we are finding physical objects in the group we’ve named Clovis” not “everyone in this area was a Clovis person”. Like no, obviously, they weren’t.  There were tons of social groups, tribes, etc. that were all distinct and different.  It’s a way of mapping cultural influence via physical objects to see how far they spread and who was using them.  

So, we have some piedmont stuff despite not being in the piedmont area, so we know that they were trading with those natives.  If you’re interested in more detail here, this is the VDHR resource I use for IDing pottery.  It looks like it came to visit you from the late 1990s, but the info is good and it’s easy to use. 

Anyway, that’s it for tonight.  Tomorrow is gonna be rocks and weird stuff, depending on how much I end up saying about rocks.  Probably not much bc we know how I feel about rocks.   ;) 

[horribletestsubject]

FLASHBURN: A Star Wars Portal Story

(^ my ongoing fancomic, now on WEBTOON)

General Blog & Admin Info

Hello, and welcome to the enrichment center. You can call me Cinna or Chell and you’ve stumbled upon the corner of tumblr where I post and reblog content about the Portal games. This post is here to give you a run-down of the kind of content you’ll see here, and a little bit about me as well.

General blog details:

- This is a sideblog so I won’t be following people from here. My main blog will remain undisclosed for personal reasons.

- Like and reblog anything you want to! Tag with anything you want, including kin tags, ship tags, etc. I don’t mind at all. What other people believe or ship is no concern of mine.

- All races, ethnicities, sexualities, gender identities, religions, etc. are welcome here. MAPs and apologists, racists, transphobes, homophobes, and all other bigots dni.

- On this blog, you’ll find my original artwork, fan fiction, and headcanon and meta posts, as well as reblogged content. All original content will be tagged “original” and all reblogged content tagged “reblog.” In addition, you can further filter out my posts by using the tags “art” “edit” “fanfiction” “headcanon” “meta” and “crack,” or by searching for a relationship or character. All ships are tagged! Anything that doesn’t have to do with portal is tagged “out of aperture”

- I strive to respect other people’s headcanons, and hope they will do the same for me. If you’re going to come in here calling your headcanon canon and getting upset over me headcanoning something else, please save yourself the trouble and don’t. This is why I have separate tags for headcanon and meta. Headcanons are my own personal things which at times may contradict canon. If you like them, feel free to borrow, but I’m by no means saying they apply to all interpretations, so don’t approach me as if they are. Meta, on the other hand, is for analysis on strictly canon material, including any evaluation of fan theories I might engage in.

- On that note, do not draw white Chell.

About Me:

- You can call me Cinna.

- I’m over 21 years old, and a film/video game composer.

- I’m afab intersex and identify as nonbinary. Please use they/them pronouns for me, or just my name.

- Ace Demiro. Married.

- I’m ethnically ambiguous/mixed race and currently live in the eastern United States (EST). I speak both English and Spanish.

- Unreligious but a believer in the supernatural.

- Autistic af and I’ve got Borderline-Avoidant, PTSD, Anxiety, Social Anxiety, Depression, and Chronic Pain and tremors so my life is a cocktail of fun.

- I got into Portal really late, but fell head over heels and quickly reached terminal velocity so here I am and I hope you like my stuff. Thanks to my partner for introducing me to the best game in the known universe.

- Please keep discourse away from me. Far, far away. Let me do my thing. You can do yours. Chill. I’m too anxious and have been on the Internet too long to deal with it.

- I‘ve also played all of the half life games except for Alyx, bc I can’t do VR. So you can yell at me about Alyx Vance too because I love her.

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It’s International Women’s Day so I wanted to say a big THANK YOU to all the lovely women in this fandom who I chat with on the regular!  Women are amazing. These ladies bring so much joy to my day - thank you all for being amazing!  

@pegsccarter Probably the first person I ever talked to when I arrived here and one of the sweetest women here.  Your “Nick and June in every episode” series is what got me motivated to start my own blog and learn how to make gifs. You’re the sweetest.

@drewlala89 I know you’re not here much anymore but I think you were actually the first person to chat with me about this ship.  Not to mention you had the brilliant idea of a group chat. You have the best ideas for gif sets and make me laugh so hard with your comments. Come back more often I miss you!

@splitscreen Probably the nicest person in this fandom not to mention the one of the most talented.  You do gifs and fan fiction and more.  Is there anything you can’t do? You’re incredible on so many levels and I’m not sure if you know this about yourself.  I feel like if someone here is having a bad day or just wants to chat you’re always the first person to respond, at any time of day, which says so much about what an amazing person you are. You make me smile.....and laugh.  And you find the BEST stuff.  You are also a wealth of knowledge on this ship. Thanks for being you!

@teamnick  Bless you for keeping tags alive. I live for your reblogs because I know you are going to put so much thought and love and humor into it.  No one does funny tags anymore which was one of my great disappointments when coming back to tumblr.  Thank you for keeping that alive, it absolutely means the world to me.  I also think you are an amazing human being and I love chatting with you across fandoms (yeah Skam) and just about general life stuff.  You make me laugh so hard probably more than anyone else here.  Bless for being hilarious and starting the NSFW Nick & June gif trend. 

@dcgal814 I’m so glad we started chatting here and became friends.  I think you are an amazing, smart, super-talented woman. I’m so glad you have shared your incredible writing gifts with us and that this show and love story have inspired you to get your writing out into the world.  I love the unique perspective you bring to Nick & June’s story and I love imagining all sorts of Nick & June head canons with you (even if thinking about that sometimes makes me want to weep in a corner). I also appreciate your ability to see even people who crap on Nick in this fandom from a place of respect.  You’re a gem.

@mrsariayoureakiller  My absolute favorite person to rant with about the things this show is doing wrong.  Sure I LOVE Nick and June but this show has some er.....flaws, mostly regarding their mishandling of race by ignoring it entirely. Not to mention some damaging “strong woman” tropes. I love discussing these topics with you! I also love talking with a woman outside of my generation. It’s good to have lady friends who bring a fresh perspective to things. I can’t wait to pick apart season three with you. Sure I love to talk about my love for Nick Blaine but I also love to discuss the themes on this show in depth, and I’m so glad we share that interest!  Thanks for digging deeper into these topics and sending me so many great articles on race and gender. You make me think about things and I really appreciate that. You’re smart as hell and so fun to chat with.

@smoulderingocean I can’t believe the incredible sleuthing skills you have with this show. You’re investigative skills have turned up things that I would have never known or even thought to look for about the coming season. Your finds make me so excited to discuss the show with you this year!  I think you are incredible and lovely and looking forward to analyzing spoilers with you as the season three draws near.  You also have the best specs and are incredibly kind. I’m so glad to know you!

@benofie I will never forget when you reached out to me and told me you read all my tags and that we think about this show and ship in the same way. Sometimes I feel like I’m talking into the void on here so I was so happy to know someone reads my shit. I love discussing this show with you. You make me feel like less of a weirdo for spending so much time going all in on this show and spending my free time analyzing this shit to death. It was an added bonus to find out we’re the same age. I’m so glad you wrote to me and that we became buddies.

@supermessgirl I love your deep analysis of this show (the charts!) and that you have the same rants that I do about what didn’t work in S2 (Sith Lord June anyone?). Your english skills are so much better than you think and I love hearing your thoughts and speculations. Please never stop sharing them with us. You’re awesome and fun and make me smile. 

@sharkraybay Yay for new fandom buddies.  And HELL YES for more amazing writers.  It’s been so fun chatting with you and discovering your writing gifts through this amazing ship.  I feel like you sparked a writing resurgence on Ao3 for Nick and June so bless you for igniting everyone’s muse again.  I love chatting and laughing with you. You’re a rock star.

@crollah  You write absolutely the hottest stories out there. I wish you were a show writer so we could get more Nick and June love on the show - we need more of that.  I joined Ao3 so I could gain access to all of you work. Thank you for keeping the stories going and sharing you work with us. Fan fiction really means so much to me during the hiatus. Especially when it’s super hot!  Please never stop!

@aperture More new fandom friends! Thanks for sharing all the script love with us. Those details mean so much to all the Nick and June fans out there. It was great of you to share your notes so more people can understand the writers intentions with Nick’s character.  I look forward to discussing season three with you when it rolls around. And more actively defending Nick Blaine on Reddit.

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When purchased and downloaded from the Mac App Store, Final Cut Pro X, Motion 5, and Compressor 4 are installed alongside previous versions of Final Cut Studio. Existing media and earlier versions of software are not affected during installation. English, French, German, Japanese, Spanish, and Chinese. Compressor is available worldwide in U.S. System requirements and availabilityįinal Cut Pro and Motion are available worldwide in U.S. You can share these settings with other Final Cut Pro editors, even if they don’t have Compressor installed.Ĭompressor now supports HTTP live streaming, with new export settings that let you encode your media in a single step for streaming web playback on Apple devices and Macs. Distributed encoding uses available capacity in other cores and other computers to make encoding faster. Once you save your settings, they appear in the Compressor Settings menu in Final Cut Pro. Compressor 4Ĭompressor augments Final Cut Pro X’s export capabilities.įor custom export options, you can send your Final Cut Pro project directly to Compressor and choose from an assortment of codecs, sizes, frame rates, and other parameters. New intelligent templates let you work efficiently with high-quality effects, titles, transitions, and generators as you edit. The new Keying filter makes it easy to create high-quality chroma keys with a simple drag and drop. The darker look of the new interface is designed to enhance user color perception, and many filters now include onscreen controls for direct effects manipulation. Smart Motion Templates with Parameter Rigs allow editors to adjust multiple parameters with a single slider, pop-up menu, or checkbox and switch quickly among options in real time. The program offers real-time playback, speedy background processing, and a ColorSync-managed color pipeline for accurate and consistent color. As an inherently scalable application, the faster your computer, the faster FCP X will run. That means you can access all the RAM in your system and work with larger, more complex projects. Upgraded performanceįinal Cut Pro X is built on a 64-bit, multithreaded engine. The Smart Collections feature allows you to dynamically organize your media with automatic and custom metadata.ĭirect access to iTunes, Aperture, and iLife libraries makes it more convenient to preview and search for photos, music, and sound effects from within the application. Range-based keywords let you tag specific sections of clips with custom keywords. Automatically generated proxy files let you easily travel with your project.Ī Content Auto-Analysis function scans your media on import and tags content with information such as camera data, shot type, people, and more. Built-in libraries let you browse and preview photos, music, and sound effects. Keyword tools let you scan, tag, and sort your media, so you can locate the clips you want. Now, all Final Cut Pro X and companion software is available only from the App Store-no boxes. With this release, Apple has eliminated packaged software of its pro video apps. Apple says that given the power, approachability, and affordability of Final Cut Pro X, it should be a great product for Final Cut Express users, as well. Compressor can be used for media encoding even without FCP X.įinal Cut Express, too, is history. The processes for Motion and Compressor however, are sufficiently different to keep them as separate programs, though they are completely interoperable with FCP X. Over time, Apple observed that users disliked switching between apps, so for this release, it brought all applications related to the editorial process into the main program, eliminating the need to switch interfaces or paradigms.

#Final cut pro 10 professional

In consolidating and simplifying its professional video editing package, Apple has eliminated some of Final Cut’s previous suite mates,įinal Cut Pro Server is also gone, and some of its most popular media management features-such as Smart Collections, custom metadata, and proxy workflow-are now built into the main app. All three applications were part of the previousįinal Cut Studio suite, but are now available separately.

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Not gonna lie, OP, I hard disagree with that. While normally I’d put this sort of thing in the tags, the character limit was really annoying so I’m gonna actually say it on the post instead. My apologies.

GLaDOS is definitely somewhere on the evil spectrum, that much is obvious and anyone who says different is either a simp or doesn’t understand moral alignments. She’s most likely neutral evil, because saying she’s lawful in a place where she generally makes all the rules is unrealistic at best.

Chaotic evil is basically defined as someone who has no respect for rules, the lives of others, or anything besides their own ideas and desires. While on the surface that seems to fit her perfectly, the truth is there’s a lot more depth to GLaDOS than that, especially after she’s disconnected from the chassis and isn’t under its influence. (I’m not about to get into the fact that the entire main story is an allegory for drug addiction according to the writers, but I will be taking that into consideration.)

So then, what reason is there to assume she’s anything but chaotic evil? There’s a lot I could get into here, actually!

The shortest and simplest example would be her warped perception of everything she does being for the benefit of science (“For science... you monster.”). It doesn’t justify all of her actions, but it explains some of them; this development is first hinted at with Caroline’s excitement and focus on testing even before she was forced to become GLaDOS. There’s no doubt she was aware that the testing was wrong, but also she didn’t care because “clearly” it was for the benefit of science. That thinking is probably why Cave chose her to be uploaded rather than someone else(even though she was very much against it; the voice line was cut because it sounded too much like... something else).

So, already that’s a motivation besides her own personal gain. Now, look at her actions when she’s stuck as a potato battery. (And not just the ones in the video you linked; of course she’s going to seem like an asshole in a video composed entirely of times she was an asshole for the game’s humor. Good for supporting your point, not for getting an actually accurate analysis of her character and alignment.)

That minor annoyance aside, you very obviously skipped over some of her most important interactions with both Chell and Wheatley. The one that immediately comes to mind is her defense of Chell when Wheatley pulls the exact same insult routine she used to use herself, very openly stating that Chell ISN’T fat and basically admitting that those insults are completely unfounded.

Now, earlier it was stated that a chaotic evil character only acts for their own benefit. GLaDOS easily could have stayed quiet during that; she had no personal reason to defend Chell and it wasn’t like not defending her was going to ruin her plan to take back control over Aperture.

And yet she steps up anyways. There wasn’t anything to gain from doing so, but she went out of her way to support someone she hated. You could make the argument that she was just trying to make Wheatley feel stupid, but if that were the case why not just get straight to the point and insult him directly?

Another, more extreme example of this is the climax of the game. She could’ve easily let Chell die in space with absolutely no consequence to herself. In fact, given how much she hated Chell, it probably would’ve been cathartic to finally get rid of her for good. But no, she saves her for no obvious benefit to herself.

After that and giving her dubious ‘Caroline is gone’ speech, she just... lets Chell go. No tricks or traps(unless you subscribe to the theory that the turrets killed her; I personally don’t), Chell is just allowed to leave Aperture.

Now, I don’t know about you, but that doesn’t really sound like a chaotic evil character to me. An asshole, sure, and definitely some flavor of evil, just not chaotic.

If you have more evidence to the contrary, I’d love to hear it! I haven’t been in the Portal fandom for a while but that doesn’t mean I’m not interested in discussions of it.

you know i see people call characters who definitely aren’t chaotic evil chaotic evil a lot. but you know who actually IS chaotic evil and everyone calls lawful evil? GLaDOS.

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Aperture Tag Analysis (Part 15)

OKAY WE’RE FINALLY AT THE LAST POST!!!!!! THIS ONE IS ABOUT THE ALTERNATE/”GOOD” ENDING!!!!!!!!

This is true for both endings, but I chose to talk about it in this post because the other one was too long already. We do earn our Citranium that Nigel promised us right before the very end of the test. The cryptic codes in the secret areas were never really a huge part of the game’s story but they do allude to things not being what they seem. And in both endings we learn that Nigel cares about us and did everything he could to help us.

When we bounce off the wall, some panels fall off and Nigel complains about the structures being fragile. This is done to draw attention to the broken wall on top. Nigel doesn’t notice that though.

So what you do to get over there is you go like this

And then you’re over here

And then you just sorta bounce off the wall and then go in the hole.

Oh, but that’s where you’re wrong, Nigel...

Hmm! That’s not great!

Bloop.

There. I like this a lot better.

Nigel doesn’t seem too concerned. He doesn’t realize what we were actually doing back there.

The rest of the chamber is the exact same as the other ending, up until...

Nigel is very obviously confused that there isn’t a fire pit here. He says this out loud, and then realizes that he shouldn’t have told 18 that she was supposed to die. I would assume that it’s against the rules to tell the test subject about the testing protocol, but Nigel tends to break this rule quite a bit, usually on accident. Still, he is relieved that 18 doesn’t have to die after all, but he consults with his boss because he doesn’t know what to do next.

Subject 18′s personality is similar to Chell’s, i.e. she has extremely high tenacity. And we all know that Chell has done nothing except cause problems for Aperture. There’s a reason why GLaDOS completely gave up on trying to kill her. GLaDOS knows that test subjects like this are more trouble than they’re worth, so she tells Nigel to just let Subject 18 go. This is where it’s confirmed that Nigel works for GLaDOS, which is important in understanding why he acts the way he does, especially in Chapter 4.

Even though Subject 18 doesn’t have to die, Nigel is still emotional about saying goodbye to her. Notice how in both endings, Nigel says that she was his first test subject and that she means a lot to him.  He must be sincere about it if it’s the last thing he says to her, regardless of whether she’s about to die or just leave the facility. He wants her to know how he feels. He gets more choked up about it in this ending though, presumably because he isn’t trying to suppress his emotions anymore now that he doesn’t have to kill her.

Once we go up the elevator, we find ourselves here.

Wow! Outside!

Oh no!

So I haven’t exactly figured out why the outside is fake. I know that a lot of people think that it’s Nigel’s doing, which is understandable, but he wouldn’t have had time to set all of this up since he didn’t expect 18 to survive. My best guess is that GLaDOS wanted to hold on to 18 for whatever reason, she gave up on killing Chell but maybe she wants to keep 18 around because she thinks that she’s too valuable to let go. But really, the ending is vague and open-ended so you can interpret it however you want, there are no right or wrong answers. We will never know what actually happens to Subject 18.

But anyway that’s the end of the game and this analysis liveplay whatever series!!!! Thanks for sticking with me till the end, hope you enjoyed reading and that this helped you appreciate Nigel and/or Aperture Tag a bit more. I’ll stop clogging your dashboards with this now. One final note, the ending song (”Ending and Staff Roll” as it’s called in the official soundtrack) is actually just a small portion of a different song that I didn’t even know about until I was looking through the game files. It’s called “All These Walls” by Abarax, and I could make an entire post about it and how the lyrics connect to Nigel, I probably won’t but. Please listen to it. It’s so good.

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The widgets are coming! The adeptness to adapt and personalize your home awning is one of the bigger — and best acceptable — appearance branch to your Apple devices, acknowledgment to iOS 14 and iPadOS 14.

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Apple will cycle out the accessible beta versions of both iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 on Thursday. We’ve been appliance the developer’s betas of the two operating systems for the accomplished three weeks, and we were aloft afflicted by the changes — which additionally accommodate an added search, a added focus on aloofness that shines through with accuracy and a abounding redesign of Messages.

You can see a abounding how-to adviser on signing up for the accessible beta here, but be acquainted that it’s not final software, so you could appointment bugs and slowdowns.

Full versions of iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 will address this fall.

You ability admiration why a beta gets released. The simple acknowledgment is to achieve abiding iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 are accessible for prime time and that developers can adapt accompaniment apps during the beta aeon so they’re accessible back iOS 14 and IPadOS 14 address this fall. The accessible beta has historically been added abiding and accessible than the developer beta. It’s added able as a whole.

This is not our abounding analysis of iOS 14 or iPadOS 14 — watch for that in the abatement — but rather what we anticipate of the appearance in the beta and what it agency for iPhone and iPad users

So let’s examination iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 and what these beggarly for you.

For the aboriginal time, well, ever, Apple will let you adapt your iPhone’s home screen. In a agnate attitude to “there’s an app for that,” the likelihood of all iPhone screens actuality simple rows of icons will diminish.

Widgets are affective aloft the Today Appearance tab on the leftmost screen. You can now abode them in three sizes (a mini square, rectangle or ample square) on the filigree of your home screen.

Apple has fabricated it abundantly simple to add them. Simply columnist an app or your home awning to admission “jiggle mode.” A additional assurance will arise in the top larboard bend and your alleged accoutrement will open.

It’s not a affray like we’ve apparent on Android, so this still provides uniformity. It additionally keeps a glassy attending beyond the iOS interface.

Developers will charge to add support, but appealing abundant any app can achieve a accoutrement component. Imagine actuality able to see the latest tweets from Twitter or administer your deadlines in Trello from the home screen. We’re admirers of the Apple-made widgets we’ve acclimated during the beta period.

It’s a simple and comestible way to get valuable, real-time information. We’ve autonomous for a baby acclimate accoutrement in the top appropriate corner. We frequently accessible the acclimate app, and it’s an accessible way to appearance the bounded forecast.

Arguably the best agitative accoutrement is the Acute Stack, which uses the apps you collaborate with the best to present you with appropriate advice throughout the day. Essentially, it’s a set of app widgets that iOS will auto-rotate through.

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It’s gotten in the addiction of alive me up by suggesting that I accessible mail and TikTok, again switching to the agenda and addendum while I’m in affairs or on a call, and music at capricious times. You can additionally bash through the Acute Stack of widgets during the day.

You accept abandon with the 6×4 figure filigree to abode widgets wherever you like. In fact, you can achieve a home awning abounding with aloof widgets. People accept alleged out the similarities amid these and the Alive Tiles from Windows Phone, and while it is similar, we anticipate this refines that approach. It about balances out the home screen, and to some degree, we accessible these apps less.

We’re acquisitive to comedy about with third-party app widgets this fall, but agreement widgets wherever you appetite alone works on iOS14, not on the iPadOS14 interface. The accepted adaptation of iPadOS has the Today Appearance aftereffect that can be bound on the larboard ancillary of the capital home screen, which stays the aforementioned in iPadOS 14. You can adapt how widgets arise in that sidebar.

On the iPhone, you can abode widgets on any home awning you’d like — but how abounding of your apps do you absolutely use on a circadian basis? We accept a activity you ability adjudge to abbreviate bottomward the pages, acknowledgment to the App Library, accession new feature.

The end of the home screens on the iPhone is now the App Library, a filigree of boxes organized by App Store categories. What’s in those boxes? All the apps installed on your phone.

To some degree, iOS does the adamantine assignment of acclimation your apps, and the App Library is like a home for some of the beneath frequently acclimated apps. It additionally agency you can apple-pie up your home awning and chargeless up a brace dozen folders. Our alive casework and music apps landed in ball and camera, and our alteration apps are in adroitness and lifestyle.

You can additionally cull bottomward an alphabetical annual of all your apps or use the chase bar at the top. This has been a big appeal from users for a while, so we’re blessed to see it arise to fruition.

The App Library will automatically affection all the apps on your iPhone. You can go through and abolish them from your home screen, which will let them aloof alive in this App Library. It doesn’t annul the app, but you still get the advantage to accelerate it to the trash.

And back alteration the home screen, you can tap the dots apery your pages to adumbrate a abounding page. This is a simple way to apple-pie up what you see on your iPhone.

Like widgets on altered pages, App Library is alone accessible on iOS 14 accessories and is not in iPadOS 14. We achievement that this will eventually admission in the iPad arrangement too as an update, back it can advice achieve nice use of absolute acreage on the iPad.

On a whole, widgets and App Library will achieve your iPhone feel absolutely new.

With iOS 13 and iPadOS 13, aggregate ascendancy no best took over the average of the screen. And now for 14, Siri and admission calls are accepting a agnate treatment. Engaging the accepted articulation abettor with a button or your articulation will accompany up a redesigned annular Siri on the basal of the screen.

It’s no best a abounding beam page, but Siri is still aloof as acute and seems alike faster. Best importantly, by absolution you see your screen, you aperture in context, which is abnormally accessible if your appeal to Siri has article to do with what you saw on the screen.

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Similarly, admission calls or third-party apps (like Messenger, Skype or WhatsApp) will arise as adhesive notifications on the top of the screen, assuming you a name and angel with the blooming acknowledgment button or a red decline. It’s abundant easier to handle admission rings, and it won’t aperture up your flow.

Coming to all iOS and iPadOS accessories (and to macOS, back Big Sur arrives) is a redesigned — and able — Letters experience. It’s not a abounding redesign, like what Big Sur is accepted to deliver, but the iOS and iPadOS texting acquaintance feels audibly different.

For starters, you can now pin your best important conversations to the top. Each acquaintance angel will appearance up in a ample circle, and you can accept up to nine affianced beyond accessories as they sync. The latest bulletin for the acquaintance will appearance up aloft the circle. It’s sleek.

Arguably, though, the bigger annual is with accumulation messages, which will save you from drowning in hundreds of messages. Not alone do you get inline replies, but you can @Mention accession to accept a notification. This way, your argument with a massive accumulation of accompany won’t crave you to reread a chat hours after to see if you were mentioned. Also, you can accept to not be notified back you’re tagged, if you’d like.

Messages is additionally introducing inline replies, and while it looks like a assignment conversation, this is accessible for authoritative affairs and coordinating. It additionally doesn’t bog bottomward the blow of the chat or, worse, lose your chat in an barrage of added messages.

Using both inline replies and mentions has been accessible in a array of claimed and work-related messages. It absolutely increases the Letters acquaintance and gives added acceptation to the dejected bubble.

Apple consistently had a big focus on privacy, which is important. What you do on your iPhone or iPad should aperture on your iPhone or iPad. For iOS 14 and iPadOS 14, Apple is accretion accuracy and ascendancy about privacy. And it will be axiomatic as anon as you update, back you regrant permissions and access.

For instance, with an appliance like Instagram that needs admission to photos, you can accept to admission it admission to all photos or aloof baddest ones. With the latter, you can baddest as abounding images as you want, and iOS or iPadOS will actualize an anthology absolute those.

Similarly, with location, you can accept to allotment it aloof while appliance the app, or all the time. Plus, you will accept the advantage to allotment an about location.

It’s been candid to see which apps crave this. For instance, the Philips Sonicare app, for some reason, capital our area at all times. This bearing of software is authoritative it abundant added cellophane in a comestible way.

You’ll additionally be able to see which apps use your microphone or camera via blooming dots at the top of your screen. These will about-face chicken back either of these was afresh used. Apps in the App Store will affection a aloofness address agenda that will acquaint you who the developer is, what tracking it ability use, and what abstracts it may require.

Transparency is additionally extending into Safari by alms a aloofness address on websites. The congenital browser has already chock-full trackers from alive beyond websites, but now will let you see all the trackers alive on a webpage. It’s neat. This is additionally accession on the Mac with Big Sur.

The Passwords affection of iCloud Keychain is additionally seeing solid improvements.

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For starters, it now lives in Settings, beneath Passwords, instead of Accounts & Passwords. It will let you calmly change a countersign for whatever annual or armpit by demography you anon to the page, but it will now additionally acquaint you back your username or countersign has appeared in aperture or been begin on the web. It will, of course, alert you to bound change it.

And if the developer supports “Sign in with Apple,” you’ll be able to drift your annual into “Sign in with Apple” back the abounding software is out. So iCloud Keychain is starting to feel like a paid countersign administrator and brings a ton of amount as a chargeless service, abnormally if you’re in the Apple ecosystem.

In contempo years, iPadOS has fabricated the iPad Pro and alike added iPad models feel like absolute computers. You can achieve a lot on the iPad, and Chase improvements in iPadOS 14 shine. You ability anticipate of this as a basal function, but it can ability your workflow, abnormally on the iPad.

For starters, you can calmly hit CMD SPACE on the Magic Keyboard to accessible the Chase action and ask for anything. It ability be to accessible an app like Notability or Pages, and you can aloof hit Admission back it appears to instantly accessible the app. This is the adapted quick launcher, and back analytic aural the borders of an app, the indexing goes a bit deeper. It let us bound cross through an alien disciplinarian in Files or alike iCloud Drive aural the app. Aforementioned goes for Photos or Mail.

It’s additionally a absolutely accepted search, which agency it can acquisition files and analogous after-effects not alone on your device, but additionally on the internet. You can ask a how-to catechism and see chase agent after-effects inline, or ask for Bruce Springsteen’s age and get the acknowledgment appropriate there.

It’s additionally a lot faster, with about no indexing time bare on an iPad Pro appropriately far in our testing. It feels added like Spotlight Chase on the Mac and will be a acceptable accession for iPad ability users.

These chase improvements are accession on iOS and macOS as well, as the new chase acquaintance was rebuilt from the arena up. On iOS 14, it will be added able about assuming after-effects aloft the keyboard for easier access. It’s a smarter approach.

We’ve covered the big hitters of iOS 14 and iPadOS 14, and there’s still a lot more. But we’ll leave you with aloof a few added of our admired nuggets.

Night Admission on iOS 14 now includes a gyroscope to advice you accumulate the iPhone abiding while cutting video in this mode. It lets you booty alike bigger caliginosity and low-light shots, article we raved about in our iPhone 11, 11 Pro and 11 Pro Max reviews. You’ll additionally apprehension the iPhone is faster to abduction photos and videos.

Voice Memos can now apple-pie up recordings to put the focus added on your articulation and beneath on a blatant bistro area you recorded it. Best of all, this works for antecedent recordings and not aloof new ones.

You’ll be able to aces a wallpaper in CarPlay, which is a nice way to personalize the acquaintance in a vehicle.

The Home app on iOS and iPadOS has a cachet bar on the top that will let you calmly ascendancy accessories. It’s a simple way to see what’s activity on and achieve adjustments, after the charge to dive into alone apartment of your abode to ascendancy affiliated devices.

On the iPad, you can now handwrite in arrangement argument fields with the Apple Pencil and iPadOS will catechumen it into text. This way, you don’t accept to arrest your breeze while appliance the Apple Pencil, if you charge to bound achieve a chase or accelerate a bulletin or an email. There are additionally added new appearance with the Apple Pencil, like Shape Detection, which will advice you draw a absolute circle.

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We’ll amend this adviser as we get afterpiece to the abounding barrage in the fall. And you can bet we will awning these appearance actuality in added depth, as able-bodied as Maps, Translate and App Clips. For now, you can apprentice how to install the accessible beta of iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 here.

Note: The prices aloft reflect the retailer’s listed amount at the time of publication.

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6 Best WordPress Plugins for Freelance Consultants

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Freelancing is more than just independently doing client work on a sunny beach as you listen to the waves crash. Freelance consultants actually own and operate small businesses that require project management skills, financial acumen, and marketing knowledge.

However, it’s impossible (and unreasonable) for freelancers to have expertise in every aspect of their business. That’s where WordPress plugins can step in to help freelancers with their invoicing, social media, and websites.

Ready to improve your business? Check out these six WordPress plugins for freelance consultants. 

1. WP Project Manager

Research shows that the majority of freelancers work on multiple projects at a time. As a freelance consultant, you’re juggling multiple tasks at once. You’re helping various clients design logos, write articles, and solve complex issues. So, it makes sense to organize your responsibilities with a project management tool. 

WP Project Manager helps you self-manage your clients and tasks without the hassle. It comes with a built-in time tracker for you to keep a log of when you start and stop projects. You can even calculate the hourly fee to invoice your clients. The interactive task calendar provides daily, weekly, and monthly views of your task timelines with a drag-and-drop feature.

With this plugin, you’ll work and deliver projects in a timely manner. No more missing deadlines because you forgot to add it to your to-do list. Instead, you can use WP Project Manager to create and assign tasks faster.

2. Yoast SEO

An online presence is essential for freelancers to attract new clients. So, you’ll want to build a website to educate potential clients about your small business. However, for your site to appear in Google or Bing results, you need to implement search engine optimization best practices.

Yoast SEO helps freelancers rank on the top pages of search engines. This plugin offers title tag and meta description templating, a content readability analysis, and complete control of your website’s breadcrumbs. You’ll know how to improve your site before you hit publish. 

3. Constant Contact Forms

A study found that over one-third of freelancers use an online portfolio to market themselves. Online portfolios are an effective tool for helping freelancers showcase their work. You can maximize your marketing efforts by adding a signup form to your site.  

Constant Contact Forms makes it simple to capture your potential clients’ contact information. You can customize the forms to collect details relevant to your industry. For instance, if you’re a freelance graphic designer, you may include form fields for the type of color, size, or design of an image.

This plugin optimizes forms to fit the mobile screens of your visitors. Plus, you can add all the new email addresses to your Constant Contact lists.

4. WordPress to Buffer

Social media still reigns as a powerful channel to market products and services. Major well-known brands like Wendy’s and Nike use their social media accounts to spread product messages and listen to customers. In a similar way, freelancers can get on Facebook to discuss their new services and learn from potential clients. 

“Having an authentic voice on social media is important, but not as easy as it sounds. It’s important because it humanizes your brand – whether that’s a company big or small, or a personal brand – and encourages people to respond and talk about you positively,” writes Mike Eckstein, a product marketer at Buffer.

With the WordPress to Buffer plugin, you can save a few hours in your work schedule. This tool automatically posts your social media content to your Buffer account for scheduled publishing to Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. If you upgrade, you also get full image control and bulk publishing of old posts. 

5. Testimonials Slider

Word-of-mouth marketing is a key part of bringing new clients to your business. Nearly a third of freelancers find work through referrals. Once a referral lands on your site, the next step is to showcase your satisfied previous clients. 

Testimonials offer an honest perspective of how your work has made an impact on your clients. Your testimonials should provide a quote from the client and the person’s name and title. A pro tip is to use quotes that explicitly state how your product or service improved your client’s business or life. 

You can display your testimonials on your site using the Testimonials Slider plugin. Choose from multiple layouts, like columns, sliders, and grids, to arrange your testimonials. You also can select one of the six ready-to-use templates if you’re short on time. 

6. Sprout Invoices

Freelancers don’t have a regular payday, like salaried employees. They must invoice their clients for work to get paid. 

Sprout Invoices allows you to create invoices for your clients in minutes, rather than hours. In the plugin’s dashboard, you can customize the invoice template to match your brand by changing the logo and header background. You also can set pre-defined line items for each client. 

“There is no exact format that you should use for your invoice, but certain items are expected. By law, you must include your name, address and VAT number (if registered) plus the name and postal address of the client in question. It’s also helpful to add other items, such as your bank details and terms of payment,” states Katy Cowan, the editor of Creative Boom.

For some freelance consultants, it’s a frustrating process that takes up a lot of time in their day. This WordPress plugin is available to streamline your accounting approach. 

Essential WordPress Plugins for Freelancers

Not only do freelance consultants manage their client work, but they also must run every part of their small business. WordPress plugins make the process easier for freelancers by keeping track of their projects, adding testimonials to their websites, and posting social media content.

For more help building out your freelance website on WordPress, check out our review of the Best WordPress Themes for Freelancers.

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Top Apps for YouTubers

Nowadays Youtube online earning has been made a very popular source. This blog is very helpful for readers who have already a YouTuber or want to be a Youtuber. For the YouTuber's Top 10 best android apps, let's find out if you are trying to get your work done on YouTube.

If you have a youtube channel or have started the YouTube channel, then you have the ability to download your smartphone android application.It is useful for you to download videos, send a video from the user's mobile, and edit the video from your mobile phone.

Top 10 Android Apps for YouTuber 2019

You've got 10 apps android apps to tell me that I've used myself on YouTube's career and that I've been able to make a direct contribution to the production of video and also have a productive experience. Creator Studio For creators studio Youtube and for Android users, this is an official application. Is the application's use app to your YouTube channel directly to manage your smartphone. If you have any idea that you are not able to get the functionality of the official app you are using, then you can monitor and manage your channel.This app especially for creators that have been developed. This app is able to check your channel's performance analysis. Like-Most Visited video, Watchtime, Total views, Total subscriber count etc. You can also edit videos, titles, descriptions, thumbnails, and tags with this. Open Camera MAny of Youtubersthink that they can not make a video without DSLR camera. But they think wrong? For a while, you have a smartphone that has a lot of memory on the camera. You can also download YouTube videos from the Open Camera app on your mobile phone. You have a suggested open camera device that allows you to have a default camera app on your computer and you have control and functionality. You can also control the camera's ISO, Aperture, White Balance, shutter speed and video frame rate. Evernote Evernote is a useful tool for organizing youtube content ideas. What is it that has done to me is that I have a lot of video ideas, but I do not think there is any other reason why I am not able to mention it. For you to get a new Evernote app, you'll be able to note that you are going to have a simple note-taking app that allows you to add content to any of the content ideas. If you want to get a copy of your video, please download the script for this application. Tag You Tag You will help you to Boost your YouTube video SEO performance. By the help of this, you can Check another YouTuber video will Rank on which keyword and analysis videos. You can also use YouTube's search engine to rank your keywords. If you want to edit your keyword, please click here to enter your video content. KineMaster – Pro Video Editor This is a great video editing app for a video grab video. Kinemaster is a professional video editing app that lets you easily find all the features that are available. You video editor supports multiple layers, you can easily add YouTube videos to text, image, transition and effects.Down side here has observed that with the help of the video watermark it is safe. If you want to get a copy of your video from a computer's watermark, you will receive a monthly subscription subscription. Thumbnail Maker Thumbnail for thumbnail videos by clicking here for a very important role. If you have already uploaded a video to your thumbnail, please do not click on any of the results.If you want to have a beautiful and well designed thumbnail, you need to automatically change the CTR (Click Through Rate) of the video. Can you design the thumbnail of a Thumbnail Maker app? AZ Screen Recorder You need to download YouTube videos as well as youtube videos. I was also requesting you to watch the video recording of the YouTube channel. We have been able to see the screen recorder from the play store as well as the best screen ever for a screen recorder.I am going to have an http://www.crazyjar.com/top-apps-for-youtubers/ Android app for Youtubers. The basic and advanced functionality screen recording app. Legend I do not know how to design a video and I have not yet got a design for the video editing. But legend has created a beautiful intro and outreach for someone to make her own channel.Basically, the app has already been imported into a pre-set location, you can add text to your text, and you can convert text from the video to a video animation. Realtime subscriber count You have an android app for Youtubers, and you have been able to get a real time from Youtube Channel for the subscriber count. You can verify that you are subscribing to your channel by logging in to your account. This app lets you add widgets to your phone screen, and you can view realtime subscriber count directly on the homescreen. Buffer If you would like to grow your YouTube channel, you will be able to see from social media promotions. To upload Aaap videos, use the social media platform to promote it.If you were to start a social media platform by using one of your time-consuming. You can share a video with a social media account that allows you to add a video to the Buffer app.

Conclusion Friends These are the 10 Youtubers Android app and you have used in your phone. I want to do all that work from my smartphone or sometimes by my computer system. The capability to use your smartphone effectively. To get a successful copy of the DSLR camera and computer for YouTube, it is possible to edit and upload videos from your smartphone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j--6kMVdLnc Top Social Bookmarking SitesSocial Bookmarking Sites ListFree Article Submission Sites ListIndian Classified Sites ListUSA Classified Sites ListBUSINESS LISTING SITES LISTWeb 2.0 Sites ListFree Press Release Sites ListFree PDF Submission SitesPPT Submission Sites ListSearch Engine Submission ListPing Submission SitesProfile Creation SitesQuestion and Answer Sites Read the full article

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Aperture Tag Liveplay + Analysis (Part 9b)

Okay this part is about the actual escape sequence itself.

So this is what Nigel has been training us for all along. Since we completed the test, it shouldn’t be too hard for us to figure out.

Back to this screenshot for a moment. Both of the buttons are labelled as “01.″ The correct one is the one on the left. Here’s what Nigel says if we press that one:

Nigel is letting us know in advance what shutting down the ALSSER will do, he wants us to be completely prepared.

If we press the wrong one:

Another case of Nigel underestimating the complexity of the tasks that 18 has to do. He probably doesn’t realize that they’re both labeled as one. He is stressed out at the possibility of 18 not being able to survive the escape after failing to “follow simple instructions”.

In either case:

And now for an extremely compressed and sped up gif of me playing it!

:D I love this part of the game it’s so much fun

The music is amazing too, I owe my life to Harry Callaghan. Here’s a video with the music.

It can be very stressful and intense the first time you play it though, and I did die many times before I was able to complete it like this. As mentioned earlier, it is possible to skip it if you don’t feel like dying a lot and just want to get through:

And now we get to continue into the last chapter of the game where we get even more Good Nigel Content (And character development!) >:D Thanks for reading love you bye

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EU demands urgent talks with US over airline laptop ban

EU demands urgent talks with US over airline laptop ban

A man uses his mobile phone and laptop to test a new high speed inflight Internet service named Fli-Fi while on a special JetBlue media flight out of John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York.

:: The European Union has demanded urgent talks with the United States over a possible extension to some European countries of a US ban on airline passengers taking laptops into cabins, saying any…