News - Powered by Yahoo NewsShade 9 adds particle and collision detection
Mirye Software has released the latest update to its 3D modeling, animating, and rendering tool, Shade 9. Developed to help animators create organic and realistic characters, users can also render custom built locations, environments, and added effects. The latest update for the software enables a hair salon feature to grow, style and color hair, a particle physics system to allow effects such ...
Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:32:15 GMT - (MacNN)
Animating the Spirit of Democracy with a Ritual of Unity and Blessing
The Washington, D.C. community of magical and spiritual progressives will join together on Monday afternoon, January 19th, at the Jefferson Memorial Plaza, to sweep the town clean and welcome President-elect Obama and his administration to the White House.
Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:03:00 GMT - (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
iWork '09 Includes iWork.com, Costs $79 + Subscription [Macworld 2009]
Just as rumored last week, Apple is taking iWork '09 online with file hosting and group editing services. Think of it as MobileMe, but for your documents. And that's not all. The suite is getting a...
Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:09:51 GMT - (Gizmodo)
Mac News: Apple Announces iLife 09 and iWork 09
At Macworld today, Phil Schiller introduced the 2009 versions of the company's iWork and iLife suites, which add several new features and enhancements.iLifeApple(R) today introduced iLife(R) '09, which features major upgrades to iPhoto(R), iMovie(R) and GarageBand(R), and includes iDVD(R) ...
Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:25:17 GMT - (PDA Buyer's Guide)
CD Reviews | Catchy tunes traffic in trauma, solitude
'Glasvegas' Glasvegas Almost every song on the band's debut album stays true to three-chord structures and hefty beats, chiming and swelling almost interchangeably. Yet they're anthems of trauma and loneliness.
Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:25:42 GMT - (The Columbus Dispatch)
New CDs
New releases from Glasvegas, Scarface, Erin McCarley and the Joe Morris Bass Quartet.
Mon, 05 Jan 2009 07:40:50 GMT - (New York Times)
Critics picks for top films of 2008
The top 10 films of 2008, according to Associated Press writers David Germain and Christy Lemire:
Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:45:57 GMT - (The Pantagraph)
Boundful energy, but little subtlety
The estimable Perlman Music Program Winter Residency ended its fifth season in Sarasota on Saturday with a very loud concert that pleased many but puzzled others.
Mon, 05 Jan 2009 06:08:24 GMT - (The Sarasota Herald-Tribune)
Spreading education across borders
A group of Aggies recently traveled to Egypt, where they taught two classes on materials they developed to train accountants in Third World countries.
Mon, 05 Jan 2009 07:43:11 GMT - (The Logan Herald Journal)
Year of living dangerously
Even were we not living in extraordinary times of financial jitters and a weak economy, the leaders described below would be bracing for a tough year ahead.
Sat, 03 Jan 2009 09:47:20 GMT - (Toronto Star)