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ILM snags Oscar nods for visual effects

How do you make a 30-foot robot/semi-truck appear lifelike? What about a creature with tentacles for a face? Those were some of the challenges for the visual-effects teams at San Francisco-based Industrial Light & Magic. CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi talks with the designers behind Transformers and Pirates of the Caribbean:...

Tags: News.com, Effect, Team Management, Management, ilm, transformers, Pirates of the Caribbean, george lucas, san francisco, kara tsuboi, oscars

Videos 2008-01-23

Ed Tech...more than meets the eye?

Sorry, folks...I just took the kids to a special late-night showing of Transformers. I have no idea how to tie this into educational technology, but I just have to throw it out there. This movie absolutely rocked. The technical wizardry was amazing, Michael Bay captured enough nostalgia...

Tags: Education Technology

Blog posts 2007-07-02

Additional Resources

Verizon to test sending RIAA copyright warnings

As long as...it's not a 3 strike policy... i'm relativaly ok with this particular thing...Just a notice and notice system, sometimes users dont know if they are doing something illegal. Furthermore, can they proof without anny doubt that there's a copyright infrigement?no they cannotWith such a large criminal records, the...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, RIAA, movie, music, Verizon Communications Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-13

Images Generator 9.0.7 (Windows)

Images Generator is image-editing application in which the small sizes and convenience of using are combined with ample opportunities. The program has a full tooling of two-dimensional graphics and provides some ways of creation of volumetric images. It has about 200 graphic filters and transformers. Adjustment of colors of the...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Image, Panasoft, Images Generator

Software downloads 2009-11-02

Transformers Logo Screensaver 1.0 (Windows)

Transformers logo Screensaver, Heavy metal pieces coming from space and combining together to form Autobots symbol along with zipping Transformers Title giving clear indication, "We are here. We are waiting" for you to come back from break. The Screensaver is built on 1280*960 pixel resolution which gives the crystal clear...

Tags: Screensaver, Microsoft Windows

Software downloads 2009-10-25

Who's a candidate for Desktop Linux? Your Kids.

"Hannah Montana Linux" may not be ready to give to your kids yet, but it's an idea that has legs. My partner in crime in the Frugal Tech Show, Ken Hess, who blogs over at Daniweb, recently published his list of Top 10...

Tags: Desktop, Children, Desktop Linux, Netbook, Content Filtering, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Open Source, Software, Hardware, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-10-20

JLO Management Analog 5.03 (Windows)

Analog is a simulation software for analogical, digital or mixed, linear and non-linear electronic circuits. It includes a schema capture, a simulator, a module for editing results (time domain, Fourier domain) and a module for optimizing circuits. The simulator uses the symbolic computation techniques for solving the system of equations...

Tags: Domain, Circuit, Microsoft Windows, JLO Management

Software downloads 2009-09-30

PowerStar Distribution 1.20 (Windows)

Highly versatile and easy to use, PowerStar was designed for use on most electrical design and analysis applications. Use it for commercial building services, industrial plants, distribution systems, power factor correction. Any project where you need to know voltage, current, kw, kva or kvar on any and all parts of...

Tags: Device, kW, Megasys Software, Plotters, Microsoft Windows, Hardware, Peripherals, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-09-14

ZuiTube provides kid-friendly access to YouTube

In April I wrote about KidZui, a browser designed for kids with the potential to keep them out of the worst areas of the web by providing interesting content that draws them to its more useful and appropriate parts. I was especially impressed at the time by the sheer...

Tags: YouTube Inc., Video, Kid, ZuiTube, KidZui, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-08-18

U.S. national broadband strategy: Funding is the elephant in the room

we don't need big governmentThe broadband has to be build by private businesses and everyone needs to pay to get it.The government should only provide incentives like tax cuts that are deficit neutral.And of courseAnd of course ZDNet is still pushing the crazy idea that broadband everywhere is inevitable. Somehow,...

Tags: Network technology, Broadband Internet, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Highways, broadband, broadband over power line, U.S. national broadband strategy, U.S. National

Discussion threads 2009-08-14

Don't underestimate the power of the electrical power plug in the smart grid

Don't underestimate the power of the electrical power plug in the smart gridPlease read...(Broadband over Power Lines- BPL)Take a look at the following. While net communication over power lines might be useful in high density areas (like a large Apt. Building in a major city) it is not without...

Tags: electrical power plug, smart grid, power plug, grid, powerline

Discussion threads 2009-07-29

HP's newest supercomputer geared for energy and environment

The newest supercomputer in town isn't for simulating nuclear explosions or the human brain, but rather take on arguably more pressing problems in areas such as climate science, hydrogen storage and molecular chemistry. Built by HP, the $21.4 million Chinook is a custom-made machine specifically designed for...

Tags: Researcher, Hewlett-Packard Co., Supercomputer, Environment, Chemistry, Chinook, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-07-28

Transformers Edition Chevrolet Camaro

Capitalizing on the new Transformers film, GM releases a Transformers Edition Camaro. by CNET News.com

Tags: Chevrolet, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2009-07-24

Hell freezing over? Toshiba set to release a Blu-ray player this year

Hell freezing over? Toshiba set to release a Blu-ray player this yearSuccess?Me thinks not according to http://blogs.zdnet.com/storage/?p=365No. Just bussiness as usualHow many standard fights Sony lost in the past?? Didn't they soon after started selling products with the winning standard??Have you ever seen a CD or a VHS movie...

Tags: HD DVD, Consumer electronics, Toshiba Corp., DVD

Discussion threads 2009-07-19

ShortCkt 1.0 (Mobile)

ShortCkt is designed to calculates the three-phase short-circuit currents. It is based on ANSI/IEEE Std 141 and 242. The intent of this program is to provide a means for determining the numerical value of the symmetrical short-circuit rms current. The application returns with the maximum symmetrical short-circuit current available cycle...

Tags: Mobile, Calculation, Arismendi Z. Hernández, ShortCkt, Cable, Network Technology, Advertising & Promotion, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-07-08

TRANSFORMERS Revenge of the Fallen (Mobile)

Revenge is coming! TRANSFORMERS: Revenge of the Fallen features explosive action based on the major Paramount movie sequel. Take control of Autobot leader Optimus Prime and the heroic Bumblebee with help from both Autobot and human allies. Battle the threat of the Decepticons across locations around the globe as mighty...

Tags: Vehicle, Mobile, Threat, Glu Mobile, Revenge, Leadership, Management

Software downloads 2009-07-02

Poll: Blu-ray adoption is slow; big challenges ahead

Poll: Blu-ray adoption is slow; big challenges aheadLarge TVs and projectorsIf you are running a 30" TV, then I would agree with your statement that the difference between a DVD and a Blu-Ray disk is not noticible ... But on my 140" projected screen, the difference between a...

Tags: Blu-ray, Consumer electronics, Standard DVD, Blu-ray disc, DVD

Discussion threads 2009-06-22

Simplify Component Inspection Management and Meet Your PUC Requirements More Efficiently

Regulatory agencies, including the Public Utility Commission PUC, require utility companies to inspect and report back on substations, transformers, manholes, utility poles and other power grid components regularly. Exploiting SQL Server 2008 data management software's powerful merge replication technology, e-finity Mobile Solutions sends inspection assignments - by plat, work order,...

Tags: Power Grid, Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Data Management, Pocket PC, Databases, Handhelds, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software

Case studies 2009-06-12

Sapphire Plugins for Apple FxPlug Products 2.0.3 (Mac)

GenArts Sapphire Plug-ins for Apple FxPlug Products includes over 200 2D visual effects for the post production, film, broadcast and digital video industries. Sapphire Plug-ins extend the capabilities of editing and compositing workstations including Apple Final Cut Pro FCP, Final Cut Express and Motion. The Sapphire VFX support the FxPlug...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Pricing Strategy, GenArts, Sapphire Plug-ins, Pricing, Workstations, Apple Mac OS X, Marketing Research, Marketing, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS

Software downloads 2009-04-22

DTBuild 2.71 (Windows)

DTBuild is a multi-purpose search and transformation development workshop for files, e-mails via MAPI and Web pages using WWWGrab. The user defines patterns to recognize, links between patterns, and actions to perform with recognized patterns and other data. DTBuild uses ODBC to display database structure and transmit SQL; it produces...

Tags: Pattern, Microsoft Windows, DTUtilities, DTBuild, E-mail, Channel Management, Databases, Online Communications, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Software downloads 2009-03-28