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 TheBrain will be holding a webinar entitled “Mapping Future Trends and Visualization for Decision Management”.
This seminar focuses on personal and business agility.
Topics include:
- Using Thought relationships to visualize causality and contingencies
- Creating decision trees for impact assessment, client management and business planning
- Visualizing SWOT analysis and brainstorming techniques with Thought Types and Tags
- Setting Thought and Link Types to display causality
- Real world examples from military, executive operations and customer support
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11:00 am Pacific, 2:00 pm Eastern Time Wednesday, March 31, 2010.
PersonalBrain 5.5 Pro is available at an education discount price of $179.
PersonalBrain 5.5 Core is available at an education discount price of $89.
Via Bonnie Roskes of 3DVinci, producers of educational materials on Google SketchUp:
After releasing my book on LayOut, I’ve heard a lot of teachers express regret that their schools can’t afford a SketchUp Pro license. (LayOut is included with Pro, as are some extras like Style Builder and import / export options.)
The $495 commercial license is extremely reasonable for an architecture or landscaping firm, but out of the price range of many schools. So Google offers deep discounts for schools – check out http://sketchup.google.com/industries/education.html. (Why they bury the information for educations under the “Industries” category is a mystery to me.) There are resellers who work with schools, so if you’re interested in any of the Pro features, you’ll likely be able to get them cheap.
Many educators don’t need the Pro version; all of the geometry tools are available in the Free version, as are access to the 3D Warehouse and interface capability with Google Earth. But if you work with older students, perhaps exporting to CNC machines or other CAD applications, Pro can be a huge boon. And of course, the LayOut application, with its seamless integration with SketchUp, can be a great tool students can use to present their work.
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 a school discount price of $15.
Link via Streaming Learning Center
Overall Conclusions:
Overall, it’s inaccurate to conclude that Flash is inherently inefficient. Rather, Flash is efficient on platforms where it can access hardware acceleration and less efficient where it can’t. With Flash Player 10.1, Flash has the opportunity for a true leap in video playback performance on all platforms that enable hardware acceleration.
When it comes to efficient video playback, the ability to access hardware acceleration is the single most important factor in the overall CPU load. On Windows, where Flash can access hardware acceleration, the CPU requirements drop to negligible levels. It seems reasonable to assume that if the Flash Player could access GPU-based hardware acceleration on the Mac (or iPod/iPhone/iPad), the difference between the CPU required for HTML5 playback and Flash playback would be very much narrowed, if not eliminated.
I don’t follow the politics of the situation, but after noting significant playback efficiencies in Flash Player 10.1 on the Mac, respected technologist and AnandTech founder Anand Lai Shimpi commented “with actual GPU-accelerated H.264 decoding I’m guessing those CPU utilization numbers could drop to a remotely reasonable value. But it’s up to Apple to expose the appropriate hooks to allow Adobe to (eventually) enable that functionality.” So it looks like the ball is in Apple’s court.
 Systat 13 15% off sale!
$509.15 for the boxed version (normal price $599), or $458.15 for the download version (normal price $539).
Offer good through 3/31/2010.
 SiteGrinder 2 Pro purchases since January 1, 2010 and new purchases prior to release in late-March 2010 will receive a free upgrade to SiteGrinder 3 directly from Media Lab!
SiteGrinder 2 Pro is available at an educational discount price of $249 from Creation Engine.
Link via Variety
 Neville Page, who has the official title “lead creature designer” on “Avatar,” and was also a concept and creature designer on “Star Trek,” told Daily Variety that what concept designers do “doesn’t really have to be built or realized in the physical world. It’s a designer who will imagine things that haven’t been seen or never will actually be seen in real life.”
Page relies on Z Brush software to create “digital sculptures” of creatures. Those digital sculptures are handed off to the vfx department’s animators — and to toy designers and Happy Meal designers, as the case may be.
ZBrush 3.5 for Windows and 3.12 for Mac is available at an educational discount price of $390 from Creation Engine.
Link via Adobe InDesign 10th Anniversary
 Launched in late 1999 and created as a successor to Adobe® Pagemaker® software, Adobe InDesign® revolutionized the publishing industry with its unrivalled technology and features. To celebrate its 10th anniversary, Adobe is releasing a commemorative book titled “Page by Page: 10 Years of Designing with Adobe InDesign” that highlights the product’s evolution and features designers who have helped make InDesign a success. The PDF version of the book is available on Adobe.com and the limited edition print version will be available through Blurb in mid-April. Additionally, to mark the occasion, the company will be releasing 10 new InDesign tips and tricks video tutorials on Adobe TV.
InDesign CS4 is available at an educational discount price of $199.
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