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Photoshop, in the beginning: Oscar nominee and his brother created PhotoshopMovie visual effects master John Knoll and his brother built Photoshop as the result of a hobby. At the time, Knoll was working full-time at Lucasfilm's Industrial Light & Magic. Knoll, who was nominated for an Oscar for his work on Pirates of the...; Tags: Adobe PhotoShop, John Knoll; Videos 2007-01-25
Industrial Light and Magic's brilliant pirate master: ILM gets Oscar nomination for John Knoll's computer workILM's visual effects supervisor oversees all the gruesome characters and supernatural transformations you see in the Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest. Those effects have earned a 2007 Oscar nomination. Meanwhile, John Knoll is facing an April deadline for scenes...; Tags: nomination, John Knoll; Videos 2007-01-25

Fun facts about Mac OS X Leopard's icons: Computer users on Mac, Windows or Linux must take icons for granted. But the standards for these interface elements keep changing. Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard offers new challenges for icon designers. Leopard supports 512-by-512-pixel icons, which are much larger than the previous 128-x-128 standard. However,...; Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple Mac OS X Leopard, Apple Inc., Icon, Utility Icon, Desktops, Apple Mac OS, Apple Mac OS X, Operating Systems, Hardware, Software, David Morgenstern; Blog posts 2008-03-16
Mr. Ballmer's personal mushroom cloud: Steve Ballmer seems to have walked into a burning building with a single sentence that confirmed in the minds of some people their fears of a Microsoft threat to Linux. The full text of his comments can be found here (and should be read, as it talks more about good...; Tags: Patent, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp., Linux, Intellectual Property, UNIX, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Research & Development, Business Operations, John Carroll; Blog posts 2007-10-10
Partying with ILM Oscar winners: ILM animators take home an OscarIndustrial Light & Magic's Hal Hickel and John Knoll took home an Oscar for visual effects on Sunday night. Their peers welcomed them back to San Francisco with a bash at the Letterman Digital Arts Center. CNET.com's Veronica Belmont was on hand to check out...; Tags: ILM Oscar; Videos 2007-02-27

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