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Autodesk Maya Personal Learning Edition (mform)

Maya Personal Learning Edition PLE is a special version of Autodesk Maya software, which provides free access to Maya for non-commercial use. It gives 3D graphics and animation students, industry professionals, and those interested in breaking into the world of computer graphics an opportunity to explore most aspects of the...

Tags: Autodesk Inc., Maya Personal Learning Edition

Software downloads 2007-08-06

Autodesk Maya Personal Learning Edition (OS X) (mform)

Maya Personal Learning Edition PLE is a special version of Autodesk Maya software, which provides free access to Maya for non-commercial use. It gives 3D graphics and animation students, industry professionals, and those interested in breaking into the world of computer graphics an opportunity to explore most aspects of the...

Tags: Autodesk Inc., Maya Personal Learning Edition, Apple Mac OS X, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS

Software downloads 2007-08-06

Additional Resources

Researchers publish details on London travel card hack

First there was Boston's Charlie card. Now, Dutch researchers have exposed the inherent weakness in the RFID chip used in London's Oyster travel smartcard, ZDNet UK says. Researchers released details at the Esorics security conference in Malaga on Monday and an academic paper PDF...

Tags: Card, Researcher, London, Chip, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-07

Forrester fuels the SAP maintenance price hike debate

The last few days I've been exchanging email with R 'Ray' Wang, VP and principal analyst at Forrester about the kerfuffle over SAP's unilateral decision to apply a price hike to its maintenance and support fees. Ray specializes in the enterprise market and has special experience of SAP going back...

Tags: Customer, SAP AG, Forrester Research Inc., Ray, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Investment, Business Structures, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-10-07

Trying to increase productivity? Send your employees home.

Companies that give their workers the option of telecommuting are seeing greater productivity, lower costs, improved employee health and greater employee retention, according to a survey released today by the Computing Technology Industry Association. Case in point: I'm typing this from this from my own home office...

Tags: Phone, Telecommuting, Telecom & Utilities, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-07

New book details how to break iPhone passcodes and recover data

O'Reilly just released a new book, iPhone Forensics, Recovering Evidence, Personal Data, and Corporate Assets (US$39.99) by Jonathan Zdziarski. Any given iPhone is likely to contain sensitive information belonging to its owner, and some types of information that may belong to others: corporate email, documents, and photos, to...

Tags: Apple iPhone, 3G, E-mail, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-10-07

Whisky, Whiskey, and the Semantic Web ?

Huge ontologies and taxonomies that attempt to boil the ocean and describe 'the sum of human knowledge' tend to make me deeply uncomfortable. At the other end of the scale, though, there is clearly a place for reaching some shared understanding on how we describe things. Where does the line...

Tags: Tim O'Reilly, Ontology, Semantic Web, Strategy, Internet, Management, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-10-07

MozyPro for Mac goes public beta

Online backup storage provider Mozy on Tuesday will roll out a public beta for MozyPro for the Mac, a new service for businesses using Apple's Mac platform. MozyPro for the Mac resembles Mozy's business lineup for Windows. It allows online backup for the Mac like its MozyHome...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Public Beta, Backup, MozyPro, Mozy, Desktops, Microsoft Windows, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-06

Startups listen up: you've got a pricing problem

Just about every new product coming to market is being offered as a service rather than packaged software. But pricing remains something of a mystery. A while back, I started a spreadsheet that plots price points for different saas accounting offerings. At the time I concluded that no-one has figured...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Small And Medium Enterprise, Web Application, Pricing Strategy, Phil Wainewright, Pricing, Smb/Sme, Marketing Research, Marketing, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-10-06

News to know: Green PCs, IT; IBM; Nokia; Apple

 Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Larry Dignan: IBM launches beta of 'Bluehouse,' eyes Cisco's WebEx Matthew Miller: First impressions of the Nokia N96. Gallery right. Mary Jo...

Tags: Steve Jobs, Larry Dignan, Nokia Corp., PC, Information Technology, Yahoo! Inc., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Matthew Miller, IBM Corp., Podcasts, Linux, Internet, Operating Systems, Software

Blog posts 2008-10-06

Truevert stands on Yahoo!'s shoulders; learning to search for Green issues

Joining the growing band of search solutions built on top of Yahoo's Build Your Own Search Search Service BOSS initiative, Truevert seeks to apply semantics in providing a particular slant on searches across Yahoo!'s index. Topically, Truevert "is focused on green, environmental...

Tags: Taxonomy, Yahoo! Inc., Ontology, Search Result, Truevert, Search, Strategy, Management, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-10-06

Techies choose Obama - by a landslide

If techies could choose the next President, Obama would win in a landslide. Checking donors from 10 large tech companies, including Apple, Dell, Google and Microsoft, over 90% of the donations support the senator from Illinois. Why does high-tech love Obama? First the numbers The...

Tags: Landslide, Broadband, Obama, McCain, Telecommunications, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecom & Utilities, Networking, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2008-10-05

And the calculator saga continues

I spent the afternoon at a local orchard with my wife and my youngest son. The other kids were buried in homework and/or video games, but it's apple season here in New England, so off the three of us went on a beautiful fall day. The orchard was...

Tags: Ice Cream, Games, Taxes, Corporate Communications, Free Trade, Construction, Personal Technology, Financial Planning, Finance, Marketing, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-10-05

fring lets you make Skype calls from your iPhone, available for free

fring lets you make Skype calls from your iPhone, available for freeI've been waiting for an application like this . . .Great to see that some really useful applications are starting to make their way through the Apple screening process.If you're interested, you can read about my experiences with many...

Tags: VOIP, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Apple iPhone, fring, Skype Call, Skype Technologies S.A.

Discussion threads 2008-10-05

Selkie IT Edition (exe)

Selkie IT Edition, a data migration and recovery tool for technicians, will do both. This flexible software is simple and secure, and it will help you to recover customer's or coworkers files quickly and easily, letting you get on with your day. Selkie IT will migrate files from one computer...

Tags: Tugboat, Productivity

Software downloads 2008-10-05

Kids NetLinks KidsWB Browser (zip)

Kids NetLinks KidsWB Browser provides kids of all ages 1 button access to the top learning, fun and games on the Warner Brothers Kids site. Fully flash capable with browser resizing allows kids to take full advantage of all of the learning, crafts, games, and other fun things to do...

Tags: Kid, Kids NetLinks, Kids NetLinks KidsWB Browser, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2008-10-05

Velocity 103

We've seen plenty of Windows Mobile devices in our day, and at times they all start to blur together--same story, just different packaging. However, back at CTIA Spring 2008, a new company called Velocity Mobile caught our eye, impressing us with a fresh approach to the user interface. Recognizing that...

Tags: Smart phones, Keyboards, Cellular phones, Monitors & displays, Handhelds, Velocity, Velocity 103, High Tech Computer Corp., HTC Touch

Product reviews 2008-10-03

Apple shares fall below $100 ... again

Apple shares fall below $100 ... againfor those who bring up stock prices when comparing Mac and PCso we all know (because we've been told by apple fans ) that apple products are better than Microsoft products because apple share prices have gone up and Microsoft's haven't. considering that in...

Tags: Investment, Financial accounting, Supply chain management (SCM), Apple stock, Apple Inc., stock, heart attack story

Discussion threads 2008-10-03

Citizen journalism might try to kill you

Citizen journalism might try to kill youDouble edged swordCitizen journalism almost sounds like a contradiction. One one hand, so many people nowadays carry a device that can at least take snapshots, but more are taking video. Real journalists can't get to where a story is very fast so it takes...

Tags: Citizen Journalism

Discussion threads 2008-10-03

President Obama will take away kids cold medicine

President Obama will take away kids cold medicineWhy regulate something that is only a problem due to irresponsible parentsALL over-the-counter OTC medications have information about who can use it and how much medicine it should get. Every bottle of OTC medication has very visible warning and most specify that...

Tags: blog author, gov, cold medicine, Obama, prescription, medication

Discussion threads 2008-10-03