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EndNote X7 Windows Now Shipping!

EndNote X7 Windows
$109.95 (students only)
$217.95 (faculty, staff, and schools)
EndNote gives you the tools you need for searching, organizing and sharing your research. It allows you to easily create bibliographies while writing your next paper with features like Cite While You Write. Maximize your time with features like finding full text for your references and automatically updating records. Whether you’re on your desktop, online, or iPad, EndNote’s syncing capabilities let you access all of your references, attachments, and groups from anywhere.

Adobe Creative Cloud Student & Teacher Edition

Adobe Creative Cloud Student & Teacher Edition (12-month subscription)
Special Promotional Price of $19.99 good through 06/25/2013.
An Adobe Creative Cloud Student and Teacher Edition membership gives you access to every Adobe Creative Suite 6 desktop application, plus online services* and other new apps as they’re released. For a low price—highly discounted for education—you get all the latest tools for creating stunning posters, websites, apps, presentations, and much more. You also get
cloud-based tools and capabilities that make it easy to share ideas and works-in-progress with fellow students or educators.

SolidWorks Student Edition 2013-2014 (12-month license) Now Shipping!

SolidWorks Student Edition 2013-2014 (12-month license) Now Shipping!
$99.95
Develop the abilities you’ll need for a successful career. By learning SolidWorks, you’ll gain vital mechanical CAD, design validation, and data management skills that today’s employers demand. With a SolidWorks background, you’ll have a clear advantage in the engineering or industrial design job markets. The easy-to-use SolidWorks Student Edition lets you sharpen your skills outside the classroom as you learn to design better products.

New SketchUp Extension Warehouse

Link via Official SketchUp Blog

Over the years, our beloved plugin developers—the folks who use our Ruby scripting tools to build add-ons for SketchUp—have created some truly amazing features. Historically, these extensions have been crazy useful, laughably affordable, and (for the most part) incredibly difficult to find. No more.

For 2013, we built a repository of extensions—an Extension Warehouse, in our parlance—that provides a one-stop shop for anyone looking to customize their copy of SketchUp. This one new feature is actually dozens (eventually hundreds) of new features, all ready and waiting for you to discover. Using the Extension Warehouse to find, install and update plugins is a simple operation. And best of all, it all happens right inside SketchUp.

When you visit the Extension Warehouse, you’ll notice it’s every bit a modern app store: most-popular lists, user reviews, download statistics, introductory videos and more. Clicking a plugin’s “Install” button takes care of just about everything that used to make Ruby scripts so cumbersome to use. No more digging around for your plugins directory. No more unpacking files and folders into precise locations in your file system. No more wondering why this can’t all be easier. Because now it is.

Trimble SketchUp Pro 2013 is available at a student discount price of $49.

Trimble SketchUp Pro 2013 is free for instructors.

Trimble SketchUp Pro 2013 Lab licenses are available at a school discount price of $15.

Trimble SketchUp Pro 2013 Laptop Licenses.

If you have a non-expired SketchUp Pro 8 license purchased from Creation Engine, please email your name, school, and serial number to sketchup@creationengine.com for your free update to SketchUp Pro 2013.

SketchUp Pro 2013 Now Shipping!

Planning a new release means reinforcing and enhancing what SketchUp is all about: simple, seamless, fun. SketchUp users have a feature wish-list of what they personally feel that would turn SketchUp into the perfect tool. Fulfilling all of those wishes would add layers of CAD-like complexity, making SketchUp completely unrecognizable to a person who just wants it to work like a pencil (with superpowers, of course).

For years, though, a number of people have been making SketchUp do precisely what they want it to. Today, thanks to a truly amazing community of developers and the universe of plugins, add-ons and extensions they’ve built, SketchUp can weld, scatter, bend, and do just about anything else you can imagine. In SketchUp 2013, it’s now easier for everyone to find and use these great, customized tools.

To that end, SketchUp 2013 includes Extension Warehouse (beta), the first step towards making it much easier to find and install extensions, to truly customize your SketchUp. Today, this one new feature is actually about 100 features. Sometime soon, it will be a few hundred, and—with the help of SketchUp developers everywhere—maybe a few thousand.

No one uses plugins and extensions more than professional users, who have an amazingly wide array of use cases. But all SketchUp Pro users have one thing in common: at some point, they need to document, share, present, or sell the work they’ve done. So in SketchUp Pro 2013, LayOut is now a full-fledged documentation tool for creating scaled, annotated, and dimensioned drawings from your models. Hatching and pattern fills, speedier vector rendering, better zoom, more useful callouts: LayOut is more powerful, more precise, and more customizable than ever.

Trimble SketchUp Pro 2013 is available at a student discount price of $49.

Trimble SketchUp Pro 2013 is free for instructors.

Trimble SketchUp Pro 2013 Lab licenses are available at a school discount price of $15.

Trimble SketchUp Pro 2013 Laptop Licenses.

Lock ‘n’ Charge iPad, Tablet, and Laptop Carts

Lock ‘n’ Charge Technologies is a company dedicated to the design, manufacture and distribution of the highest quality and most functional security, charging and transport solutions for storing iPad, Tablets and Laptop Computers.

EVO3240 Tablet Cart
$1,999
Introducing the new EVO 40 Tablet Cart by Lock’n’Charge. Designed to store, secure, transport and charge up to 40 tablet devices of almost any kind!

Additional Lock ‘n’ Charge iPad, Tablet, and Laptop Carts

Toon Boom Storyboard Pro 4 Now Shipping!

Toon Boom Storyboard Pro 4
$674.99
Toon Boom Storyboard Pro is the tool of choice for planning games, live action and animation projects.

Toon Boom Storyboard Pro is the artist’s tool of choice for creating storyboards digitally. Storyboard Pro was developed with seasoned storyboard artists to significantly speed up the production and revision process, and provide artistic freedom when drawing with advanced drawing tools. Whether working on individual projects, or in a studio environment, all storyboard artists can benefit from this powerful tool.

Storyboard Pro is a great tool to add value to your projects, whether you’re working in Gaming, Live Action, or Animation. Plan your games, short animations, television shows, or feature films using this Emmy-Award winning technology.

Stop Motion Pro 8 Studio Plus – Education Version Now Shipping!

Stop Motion Pro 8 Studio Plus – Education Version
$173.95
The ultimate in stop motion animation production. Developed with studios involved in animated feature film production, Stop Motion Pro Studio Plus has all the cost saving tools for making animation in medium to large studios.

Students will amaze themselves, parents and teachers by making their own high quality animated films. Our intuitive interface means your students will focus on curriculum outcomes, character development and story.

Free FileMaker Training Series with FileMaker Pro 12

Purchase FileMaker Pro 12 or FileMaker Pro 12 Advanced, and receive the FileMaker Training Series on DVD free with your order!

FileMaker Pro 12 is available at an academic discount price of $178.95

FileMaker Pro 12 Advanced is available at an academic discount price of $178.95

SketchUp: Making our space at Maker Faire Bay Area

Link via Official SketchUp Blog

SketchUp Maker Faire checklist:

SketchUp design

Engineering toolbox plugin

Cutlist plugin

Lumber cutlist

Miter saw

18-bolt cordless drill

Gorilla glue

Safety glasses

Band-aids

Through our years attending Maker Faire Bay Area we’ve realized this: we generally spend less time talking about SketchUp and more time using it. For us, Maker Faire is usually more of a workshop than a trade show.

Recognizing that, we wanted to do something a bit different for Maker Faire Bay Area next weekend in San Mateo, CA. For starters, instead of setting up a booth to tell people about SketchUp, we decided it would be more fun to create a space where we could work with people on SketchUp projects. And since we designed it ourselves, we decided to make it ourselves too.