Snagit will automatically select regions inside a window, the entire window, or the entire screen depending on where you position your cursor. You can click once to grab that region or window, or click and drag to get the custom selection. The arrows let you capture a scrolling window.Īlso notice the magnifier, which lets you choose a custom region down to the pixel. Extremely handy for cropping out that pesky whitespace. This will save you hours of editing in the long run. When you click, you get the option to capture an image or a video, if you haven’t already predetermined this. Once you choose, the screenshot gets sent to the editor by default. You can either continue snapping screenshots or edit right away. If you choose to capture a video, the screen capture will begin with audio and webcam enabled, too. The Snagit Editor has gotten a major makeover since I first started using the application. The overhauls began in Snagit 12 and had continued in Snagit 13. At first, it looks a lot simpler, dumbed down even. But all the features are there, you just have to add them back to the toolbar. Click More to see what’s hiding from you. I use it for editing images I didn’t even take with Snagit. (For example, for this tutorial, I had to use Snipping Tool to take screenshots of Snagit itself, but I still edited them in Snagit.) Snagit Drawing Tools: The Basicsįirst, let me show you the basics. Here you’ve got the main editing window in the middle, your toolbar on the top, your toolbar settings on the right, and the Almighty thumbnail browser on the bottom. This should be a familiar setup for anyone who’s used another image editing application. I love that you can zip between screenshots with ease from the thumbnail browser or X out the ones you don’t want.Įach editing tool in Snagit has a Quick Styles menu. You can customize your properties and save it to Quick Styles. This goes a long way in quickly creating consistency in your screenshots. The Tool Properties section shares real estate with the Effects tab. The Effects tab lets you quickly apply frequently used effects and edits from Snagit’s defaults or your custom presets. It takes only a few minutes to master these few tools. After that, you can whip through screenshot edits, adding callouts, etc. The basic tools that you’ll use in most screenshots are Arrow, Text, Callout, and Shape. The arrow tool includes solid and dotted lines and customizable ends (arrows or dots). The Text tool lets you choose colors and outlines to help text stand out on the screen. You can use any font you have installed on your system.Ĭallouts are faster and more stylized than an arrow and text combo. Shapes are a clean way to highlight a section of your screenshot. Those are just a few of the editing tools Snagit offers. The full set of drawing tools includes Move, Crop, Callout, Text, Arrow, Shape, Step, Blur, Stamp, Line, Cut Out, Fill, Eraser, Selection, Pen, Highlighter, and Magnify. Under Effects, choose from Border, Edges, Perspective, Page Curl, Shadow, Filters, Color Adjustment, Color Replacement, Spotlight & Magnify, and Watermark. The new Snagit 13 features include a customizable toolbar, panoramic capture, animated gif creation, and webcam support for screen capture videos. Panoramic capture is much like the panorama feature on your phone’s camera, except for screenshots.
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“ENOWA has always been our hydrogen partner,” says Agag. Extreme H will be part of this experiment with clean energy supply. The race series has been using it as an off-grid power source since the beginning, and in Neom this year the racing event was entirely powered by Hydrogen. JAMES MORRISĮxtreme E’s relationship with hydrogen goes far beyond the cars themselves, however. The Neom, Saudi Arabia Extreme E race is already entirely powered by hydrogen. In theory that would be carbon neutral, too.” Obviously, that would be pushing the argument a little too far for comfort. In theory, oil comes from forests that absorbed CO2 millions of years ago, which you are releasing back to the atmosphere. If you want to believe that you can.” This is the theory of e-fuels, where the CO2 emitted was captured beforehand by plants or carbon capture. “But the leaves of the plant of the cigar in Cuba has absorbed CO2 that I’m releasing. “I smoke cigars, and people say they are emitting CO2,” he says. But the technology is not ready yet, so we cannot go racing next year with combustion of hydrogen because there is more development to do.”Īgag also isn’t convinced by the carbon neutrality of combustion e-fuels. Having a testbed of commercial hydrogen will be very useful. Combustion of hydrogen could be the solution in the future. The price of e-fuels is going to be for special situations. I think maybe e-fuels, but this is a technology that is very niche and Formula One for me shouldn’t be niche, it should be a technology that can be deployed for mass adoption. But I will be very surprised if they’re not combustion. They will have new regulations in 2030 to 35. “They have the regulations now already set for 2024, 25 and 26. “What’s Formula One going to do in the future technology-wise, in 2035?” asks Agag. For example, combustion makes noise, and some people find that exciting for motorsport.”Įvery motor racing format is struggling with these questions. There will be NOx for sure, but there are certain advantages. We also have to analyze exactly how much those emissions are. “I think we need to explore combustion for hydrogen, but fuel cells have an advantage, which is absolutely zero emissions,” says Agag. These will be fuel cell cars, where other race series such as the World Rally Championship has been experimenting with sustainable fuel and even hydrogen combustion. So Extreme H will be more about exploring the technology than a necessity to fulfil the potential of the format. My feeling is that we will focus mainly on hydrogen, but we still must make the decision.”Īlejandro Agag announced Extreme H at the Neom, Saudi Arabia race in 2022. But there could even be different weekends. “We have ongoing discussions with the teams, and then decide which way to go. “We’re going to develop both and then hydrogen only,” he says. But Agag is now saying that as Extreme E and H develop together, the hydrogen version will eventually take over. The relationship between Extreme H, when it arrives as a series in 2024, and the existing Extreme E hasn’t been decided yet. We’re quite advanced with our prototype, and then next year, we will have hydrogen races.” Short races, like the ones Extreme E does, will be the perfect format for hydrogen. Our format is where I want to test hydrogen. There have been some attempts, such as in Dakar with a truck. For hydrogen, there isn’t a real platform for motorsport for hydrogen. “We’ve been working a lot on fuel cells, so it is extremely relevant to create a platform for motorsport. “The first prototype should be ready in June,” says Agag. The first step in this direction will be a parallel hydrogen-powered Extreme E series called Extreme H, which was announced at last year’s race in Neom, Saudi Arabia. It could become the pioneering race series for hydrogen power. But the series could be taking a different direction in the future, according to CEO Alejandro Agag. The short course format has lent itself well to the limited range of battery-powered performance vehicles. Handled under such conditions, the shelf life of Sunoco Maximal is 2 years or more.Since its inception in 2020, Extreme E has been a pioneer of electric racing. As with any gasoline, Maximal should be stored in opaque, tightly sealed containers where temperatures are stable. It contains additives to enhance stability and minimize oxidation. Sunoco Maximal is for off-road and racing use only. Additionally, Sunoco Maximal is very resistant to vapor lock, ensuring consistent fuel metering between passes. This drag racing fuel has especially proven itself in highly stress big block engines used in Truck and Tractor pulling. Sunoco Maximal is designed for high revving and high compression in big bore, large displacement naturally aspirated engines. Sunoco Maximal 116 Octane, Leaded Racing Fuel is meant for extreme performance motor sports. Construction costs $200,000 and takes 10 days. There's about 25 of these in pre-set locations on the map, with 4 to 5 in each of the six funding regions. Conceptually the construction of a Liaison Office represents the Xenonauts setting up an embassy / local command center to co-ordinate with the local region, granting permanent bonuses to both your organisation and the local region. One of the larger mechanical changes to the strategy layer is the addition of Liaison Offices, which add a degree of territory control the strategy layer. Liaison Offices (Scientist / Engineering Recruitment): In conclusion, we're aiming to make the strategy layer more interesting through a number of subtle improvements and balance changes that should collectively make for a much more engaging experience. Alien base missions now spawn resupply missions like in the original X-Com, and we plan to make alien base attacks more likely to be targeted at bases that house your most active interceptors, etc. For instance, the aggressive UFOs on Air Superiority missions that will attack any of your aircraft that they encounter now possess squadsight, so they if you approach any other UFO within a certain radius they will light up their afterburners and attempt to protect it. We're tweaking the way Relations (now "Panic") works and adding more strategic pressure from the Orbital Bombardment mechanic (see below) to try and balance this out.įinally, we're trying to make the alien activity more closely related to the player's actions. You gained Relations with a region by shooting down UFOs, and shooting down the UFOs also prevented them from damaging Relations - so any region where you had strong air forces would quickly trend up to max relations / funding and just stay there for the whole game. The other problem was that long stretches of the game could be kinda boring when you were doing well. Clearly, this doesn't make for a very interesting player experience and it's something we've addressed in X2 - the creation of some terror sites and alien bases is now independent from UFOs, so achieving complete air superiority will not lock you out from ever seeing those missions (in the final game ideally about half of them will be spawned from UFOs and thus preventable). Almost all alien activity in X1 was driven by the UFOs, so shooting them down shortly after they spawn stops them from even spawning terror sites, creating alien bases or attacking your bases. One of the problems this caused was that the player would ONLY encounter crash sites from the point they gained air superiority. The optimal way to play the game was to gain interceptor cover across the entire planet as quickly as possible, and once you had sufficient numbers of interceptors (assuming you kept them appropriately upgraded) spread across the world the strategy layer ended up being rather simple - the UFOs would spawn and immediately get shot down. The strategy layer in Xenonauts had a few problems that would show up when the player was doing well. Liaison Offices (Scientist & Engineer Recruitment) It is here that the war against the aliens unfolds, with extraterrestrial units and UFOs appearing on the map to threaten the funding regions and you deploying your aircraft and soldiers to defend them as best you can. The goal for our changes in Xenonauts-2 is to give the player more choices and make the strategy map feel more reactive to what the player is doing. The Geoscape is the central command and control screen of Xenonauts-2. But other brands, such as Patagonia and The North Face, have created their own versions of waterproof fabrics that work in the same basic way. The most famous of these materials is GORE-TEX, which you’ve probably seen used in tons of brands and products, including coats, shoes and even gloves. If all you want is protection from the rain, you can easily use a plastic poncho, but if you want to move around and not immediately start sweating, you’ll want to opt for a breathable rain jacket. For years brands have been innovating waterproof materials that are also breathable and soft so they’re comfortable to wear. The first thing to know is what these jackets are made out of. Rain jackets are a surprisingly complicated subject, so it’s good to know a little bit about what you’re getting into when buying one. So unlike most of the jackets we tested - which didn’t have fully waterproofed zippers, allowing water to slowly (and sometimes not so slowly) leak through both the main zipper and the pockets - the Torrentshell protects your phone and other items from getting waterlogged.Įverything you need to know about rain jackets Plus, since the water runs right off, we were able to easily shake the Torrentshell dry after our test, meaning you’ll never have to walk into work with a drenched jacket again.Īll of the Torrentshell’s zippers are protected by a flap that didn’t allow a drop of water through, even when we pointed the shower’s stream directly onto them. The Patagonia’s durable water repellent (DWR) coating worked perfectly, causing any water that hit the shell to bead and run right off, preventing water from soaking into the jacket and pooling (which happened with a few of the other jackets we tested). The Torrentshell’s three-layer H2No Performance Standard shell is what we have to thank for keeping us dry, and it held up just as well as GORE-TEX, probably the most well-known and trusted waterproof material in the outdoor industry. It turns out showers, which on average dump 2.1 gallons per minute, are surprisingly good at simulating some pretty extreme rainfall.ĭuring our indoor monsoon, the Patagonia kept us completely dry, with only a tiny bit of water trickling in from the gap at the neck when we’d look up, and from the cuffs when we’d raise our arms (which was typical of all the jackets we tested, although some were worse and let tons of water in through the neck - more on that below). Since we couldn’t rely on frequent heavy rainstorms to test the waterproofness of our jackets, we hopped in the shower for 10 minutes with each jacket to see if we would stay dry. Whether you’re an avid hiker or just need protection from the rain during your commute, the Patagonia Torrentshell 3L is the one rain jacket you should buy. Your CNN account Log in to your CNN account The American people should not have to countenance these repeated partisan circus acts. But with this latest gambit we have now reached the point of absurdity. So as the latest Democrat-led spectacle on Capitol Hill unfolds, the nation is once again held hostage to yet another ill-advised attempt to remove Donald Trump from office and overturn the results of the 2016 election. There should be other means to protect our students and now is the time for all who are professionally inclined to come forward and create new and innovative safety programs. Yes, they are needed, but for now we need an increase in defensive means to insure student safety. With the Saugus High School tragedy in California, it now becomes apparent that we cannot wait for new regulations for gun control measures. But, maybe we could have some hearings first. Even better, demand free passes and on-site wrecking equipment because it’s the right thing to do. Maybe if we go as a group we can get discounted group passes into the Disney properties. I would imagine that anyone who enjoyed Disney as a youth will now come to see what terrible people some of us were those many years ago and atone for our sins of waiting every Sunday night to tune into “The Wonderful World of Disney.” Maybe we should set up a GoFund Me page so as to have Antifa go and tear down all the Disney statues that remind us of our horrible childhoods. I am shocked to see the level of discrimination shown in the last century by the Disney organization. Therein lies a glimpse of the “Deep State”. It is they who think should set policy, direction and communications with other nations, not the elected president, the executive branch and the president’s representatives. State Department is clearly being shown in the Schiff impeachment inquiry. And beyond that, Republicans say, it’s not clear that Democrats have any use for additional witness testimony other than to plug holes left in the case against Trump by a faulty impeachment inquiry in the House (led, of course, by Schiff).The arrogance of the U.S. “Or why he wouldn’t meet with the president of Ukraine.”īut Republicans insist that both Hunter and Joe Biden could aid in Trump’s defense, because seeking information on the former Vice President’s involvement in Ukrainian government matters serves a legitimate purpose aside from simply collecting negative information for a future presidential campaign. “Hunter Biden, for example, can’t tell us anything about whether the president withheld military aid, whether he withheld that aid to coerce Ukraine to conduct political investigations,” Schiff railed. It would not be appropriate for the president to seek to call witnesses merely to try to perpetuate the same smear campaign that was foiled when his plot was discovered,” Schiff, who is one of the House Democrats charged with “managing” the prosecution. “It would certainly be fair for the president and his team to be able to call witnesses that can provide material information on the charges. Schiff blasted the suggestion, calling it an “abuse” of the process, even though his fellow Democrats have been pushing the idea of inviting further witnesses to give testimony in the Senate. Adam Schiff issed a strongly worded statement to CBS News Tuesday night, condemning Republicans proposing a “witness trade deal” that would have former White House national security advisor, John Bolton, testify in President Donald Trump’s Senate impeachment trial, if former Vice President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, was also called to the stand. |