VMware Workstation 6.5 free upgrade for VMware Workstation 6 customers

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New features in VMware Workstation 6.5 include:

Seamless desktop experience with “Unity” — Run applications in virtual machines alongside applications on your normal desktop. The desktop of the virtual machine disappears and applications appear as a normal window in the rest of their environment. Color coding of Unity application windows makes it […]

Technology makes art education a bigger draw

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With the rise of technology in art education, some might fear that traditional media, such as charcoal drawing and oil painting, are being shunted aside in favor of software-based creations, but the art educators who spoke with eSchool News said certain software programs and emerging web-based collaborations are helping establish a strong […]

Digital Arts reviews Cinema 4D R11

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Cinema 4D can be found in many VFX studios serving the TV industry, so that market will welcome the tighter integration of Projection Man, the high-end matte-painting toolset in Cinema 4D R11. Although this has been available since version 9.5 as part of a bundle aimed at film studios, it’s now […]

MOCKWORLD makes 3D games more accessible with Adobe Director

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Thanks to Adobe® Director® 11 software, developers like Mockworld now offer immersive and dynamic motion in casual games that play on anyone’s browser. Plus, with the Adobe Shockwave® player on a gamer’s PC, the exciting world of 3D online gaming is also easily accessible. And with support for over 40 video, […]

Adobe CS4 Products Coming Soon – Pre-order Now!

All-New Adobe Creative Suite 4 Education Solutions for Web, Video, Design and Mobile

New Adobe Creative Suite 4 solutions provide the industry-standard creative software, teaching resources, and licensing options needed to engage students in learning while preparing them for career success.

Adobe Creative Suite 4 products are expected to begin shipping late October 2008. If […]

Review: Mindjet MindManager Pro 7.2

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Version 7.2 of Mindjet’s MindManager package, launched in June, has been upgraded since the 7.0 release in 2007, the main thrust being improved remote collaboration support with the ability to access MindManager map files from a Web-based Distributed, Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) server.

WebDAV lets users work on documents on remote servers […]

Content-aware scaling highlights Photoshop CS4

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With Photoshop CS4’s Content-Aware Scaling capabilities, users can take a large image…

… and resize it without cropping people out of the shot.

Highlighting the new features in Photoshop CS4 is Content-Aware Scaling. This addition allows users to take a large image and resize it without losing the most interesting […]

Yafka breathes life into Greek history for History Channel.

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Back in 1999, a film project was produced about the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient Greek computer. That was part of Producer Antonios Kotzias’ postgraduate research at Glasgow School of Arts in Scotland. Wild Dream Films, a production company in the UK, saw a story reporting his project and contacted him to […]

Vegas Pro 8 – Vegas 8.1 free 64-bit update

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Vegas Pro 8.1 software has been engineered to take full advantage of a 64-bit operating system to enable users to work with multifaceted, memory-intensive projects. Vegas Pro 8.1 64-bit software is a standalone application that does not require prior installation of Vegas Pro 8 software, and is available to all […]

Zend, Adobe Team to Bring PHP to Rich Internet Apps

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At the ZendCon PHP conference, Zend and Adobe announce plans to collaborate to help PHP developers better leverage Adobe’s user experience technologies. The two companies will enable PHP developers to make better use of Adobe’s Flash and Flex technology.

At the event being held Sept. 15-18 in Santa Clara, Calif., the two […]