An easy way to bring 3D content into your Adobe Flash projects

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For more than a decade, the idea of creating 3D animations with Adobe Flash software has intrigued designers and developers. In early 2000, Swift 3D and Vecta 3D started a frenzy with prerendered 3D vector graphics for Flash. Not so long ago, we started getting our first glimpses of real-time 3D […]

Wacom Bamboo Pen and Touch review

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With the Apple busy educating us about touch interfaces, the possibility of a large A5 sized touchpad to accompany your desktop or laptop seems appealing, after all if your phone can multi-touch why not your computer? Can the Wacom Bamboo Pen and Touch really offer you a more tactile experience over your […]

Photoshop tip: Vignettes add focus and character to photos

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Vignetting, in photographic terms, is an effect of a camera lens that results in the darkening of a photograph around its edges. It was long considered to be an unfortunate limitation in lens design, and as technology improved, camera lenses were engineered to minimize vignetting to improve image quality.

Ironically, vignetting […]

Google Model Your Town Competition

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Use Google SketchUp in combination with Google Earth to model your town and win $10,000!

Google SketchUp 7 is free.

Google SketchUp Pro 7 is available at a student discount price of $49.

Google SketchUp Pro 7 is free for instructors.

Google SketchUp Pro 7 Lab licenses are available at […]

Office Professional 2007 Academic Only $99

Office Professional 2007 Academic Only $99! $100 off retail educational price of $199. Offer good through 12/18/2009.

Adobe product compatibility with Microsoft® Windows® 7 and Mac OS X Snow Leopard

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Chart showing product compatibility with Microsoft® Windows® 7 and Mac OS X Snow Leopard. Please click on the chart for the complete product compatibility list.

MicroFilmmaker reviews modo 401

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The level of polish I commented on in my previous review of modo 302 continues to improve with the latest release. Luxology continues to add carefully crafted feature sets and capabilities to its flagship modo 401. For Microfilmmakers requiring photorealism for environments or adding objects to existing footage, modo 401’s improved […]

Flash Player 10.1 Speeds Up Netbooks, Nettops

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If you’re thinking of buying a netbook but you’re not sure how well it’ll handle full-screen HD Flash video, Adobe has a solution. Adobe Flash Player 10.1 with GPU acceleration–now in beta–promises to dramatically improve the streaming HD video experience on computers that lack top-notch processors. If your PC has a […]

TheBrain Technologies Releases PersonalBrain 5.5

TheBrain Technologies announced that PersonalBrain 5.5, the latest version of its powerful information visualization and organization software is now available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

PersonalBrain 5.5 Feature Highlights

Advanced reporting with display filtering. Powerful custom reports can now be defined utilizing multiple criteria including types, tags, and attachments. Faster, more flexible information […]

ScreenFlow 2 Review from Macworld

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ScreenFlow 2.0 is a big step forward for the screen recording application. The addition of transitions, freeze frames, clip speed adjustments, audio ducking, and basic color adjustment tools really make ScreenFlow an all-in-one solution. It’s now something that I could use for an entire project from start to finish, instead of exporting […]