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The purpose of writing this post is not to compare the utility of either of these gadgets or to verdict upon which one is better among the two. Rather this article will discuss their functionalities and figure out whether one is replacable by the other. A portable media player (PMP), (synonymous with Apple’s iPod today) is basially used for storing and playing/displaying various formats of audio, video, and digital images. Whereas Personal Digital assistance (PDA) is a device desiged to be a personal organiser, to store and manage one’s contacts, appointments, to-do lists etc. These usally come with a touch screen for data input, and some PDAs as Blackberry come with a whole keypad and scroll wheels in addition for navigation.

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Few days back I had posted a tutorial to create a basic vector art. One of the authors of Splat suggested that I write something about Vector art, and so I thought - why not?

Vector graphics are based on mathematical equations. They are constructed using points, lines, curves and polygons. The vector graphics are created by softwares like Illustrator, Inkscape, Freehand and others.

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Here is a step by step tutorial for creating a shiny ball vector artwork using any vector graphics software.

Few days back, I happened to come across Inkscape and even created few give aways (Red Ornament and Dreidel). Some of the readers contacted me on my intentions of creating some tutorials to create vector art. This is a direct result of it.

In this tutorial, I will explain the steps in creating a basic subject - a shiny blue ball - in vector form. I have attempted here to give the fundamental steps and not the actual commands and menu items to choose from any particular software.

Using this tutorial you should be able to create a shiny blue (or any color for that matter) in vector form in a vector graphics software like Illustrator or Inkscape.

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Splat had featured a clipart giveaway for Christmas. It was around that time that I was looking out for more subjects to try out my skills at InkScape and one of my online friends mentioned that she would like a Dreidel. It is a four sided top, usually wooden, played during the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah.

Hanukkah is also known as the Festival of Lights or Festival of Rededication. The festival occurs on 25th day of Kislev, that may fall on late November, or December, or on rare occasions in early January.

I do not know when the festival of Hanukkah fell this year, and hence, I am putting up this clipart of the Dreidel here. As before, I am giving it in three version with varying widths of 200px, 100px and 50px.

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It is the time of the year when jingles are heard and people scurry around to decorate the Christmas tree. I got into the mood and I created this clip art when I was trying out the Open Source Vector Graphics software, InkScape.

InkScape is a vector graphics utility that can be used to create vector art for various different purposes. Files may be saved in many popular vector formats, and the created artworks may be exported to raster formats like PNG and JPEG.

There are three versions: 200px, 100px and 50px wide.

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For those who might be wondering whatever happened to Splat after the past two posts. Some may have come to the conclusion that I might have been dead and those close to me have taken over the blog - and other few might have thought I had suddenly got multi-personality syndrome.

But as stated by our guest writer, I have been thinking of getting more people into this than myself. Few accepted my offer to become guest writers at Splat. Some of these people already have their web presence and some, who are knowledgeable in their domain will make their debut.

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