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Its features include 3D modeling, rigging, animation, particle effects, dynamics, compositing, and integrated rendering.Houdini 10 also features the Pyro FX toolset which enables visual effects artists to create high-quality smoke and fire. Houdini 10 includes support for viewport display and final rendering of Stereoscopic 3D content. Visual effects artists can download Houdini Apprentice, a free…

The publisher said inspiration for the game came from the way players interacted with its previous release, Virtual Villagers: Players liked pairing up villagers with each other and creating storylines about them. In Virtual Families, players must not only deal with their characters’ situations, with trophies awarded for meeting certain goals, but also solve mini-puzzles…

Nehalem die Credit: Chip Architect The Nehalem series, based on a 45 nanometer (nm) process, has several, notable technical improvements that will be of interest to Mac Pro users, namely: Turbo Boost Technology. The CPU can, during heavy computational loads, boost its speed in increments of 133 MHz until the thermal threshold is reached. Each individual…

Talk about speed. The new Mac Pro is blazingly fast, even for someone like myself who doesn’t do much processor intensive stuff. Everything, from startup time to opening applications to copying files, takes significantly less time. As a bonus, the Pro is also much quieter than my old Mac. Of course, my old G5 was…

The new version reads all of the standard features and annotations associated with each sequence, follows the Genbank format for the features table and is always kept up to date with the latest Genbank release. It also has the added benefit of migrating any old and deprecated feature information contained in the Vector NTI file…

Many times a week, a Mac user experiences that sickening realization that a treasured MacBook has been lost or stolen. LoJack for Laptops from Absolute Software Corp. recovers about three out of four of the stolen computers and can initiate a remote wipe to protect sensitive personal or corporate information. It’s an all too common…

Mac OS X version 10.4.11, a 1GHz G4 processor, 256MB RAM, and 64MB video RAM (Intel GMA950 chipsets are supported) are required. Dr. Tools Maths Trainer, also priced at $19.99, offers three difficulty levels, plus a training mode, and comprehensive evaluations of the user’s progress through math problems that begin with basic arithmetic and continue…

Sometimes people, especially scientists, are anxious for Apple to jump ahead of the competition. That’s a natural reaction — Apple’s ease of use and UNIX roots make it a natural for scientists on the desktop. However, Apple often ends up lagging. Apple was slow to move from PCI-X to PCI Express, and they were also,…

The Equinux TubeStick is a combination NTSC and ATSC tuner the size of a large pack of chewing gum. It can be connected via an antenna or home cable (coax) connection and comes with TiVo-like software to tune, watch, pause, do instant replay, record, and export directly to iTunes. The TubeStick has two components. The…

The book shows how to get the most out of VMware Fusion, Parallels Desktop, VirtualBox and BootCamp, how to install applications, and compatibility issues. It also covers problems with peripherals, Mac OS X and Windows file sharing, avoiding Windows malware, and backing up a Windows installation.Take Control of Running Windows on Mac is priced at…

The latest edition of Prince of Persia, which was released for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC last December, takes the venerable series in a new direction. Players take control of a new unnamed Prince as he makes his way across a mysterious land with help from Elika, a woman he meets after a sandstorm…

ChangeWave surveyed 3,115 U.S. consumers from February 2nd to February 9th in its survey. The survey measured consumer plans for spending, investing, and saving, and found that overall plans for spending are down, a reflection of the current global economic crisis. General Computer Buying Plans The firm said that plans for buying computers, consumer electronics,…

I spent all of last week skiing in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. For those not familiar with the area, Steamboat is a major destination ski resort in the northwestern part of Colorado, about a three hour drive from Denver. It’s a week of heaven for skiers, and with 24 years of skiing under our belts, my…

Apimac 6.5 retails for $19.95 and is free of charge to current customers with a free demo available for download. The application requires Mac OS X 10.4 and a 1GHz or faster G4, G5 or Intel-based processor to install and run. 

iHID Shows Values Reported By Your HID Device When you launch iHID, there will be a Device menu. Click on this, and you’ll see a list of the HID devices currently connected to your Mac. The easiest is your keyboard. Select this, and you’ll see a list of all the possible Elements the device can…

The campaign allows players to take control of all three factions through co-operative missions where they align with other players over the Internet or with computer-controlled commanders. Red Alert 3 also brings in naval warfare as a major component, with resources to be harvested from the oceans and territory to conquer. The last Command &…

Apple’s iWeb uses a quasi-hidden location to store multiple Websites, and users don’t have control over either the file management, location or breaking multiple sites up into logical components. Multisite 2.4 from Clarkwood Software solves that problem for iWeb users. iWeb works by hardwiring a path for a single package. That package is found in:…

This article falls under the label of an editorial, but it’s really an exercise in whimsey and playful thinking. Follow me along for a minute.MacBook Pro: CPU, about 12-16 gigaflops, GPU, about 125 gigaflops I’m sitting here in front of a computer that can execute 100 million sines in 20 seconds. And that’s in Perl. It…

If a developer were to set out to design the friendliest, most capable, backwards compatible, best documented vector drawing program on a Mac, they’d arrive at EazyDraw 3. Not only does it use modern Mac OS X technologies, but remains true to the Mac heritage of drawing apps. Many of us have been distracted over…

Mr. Straub wrote the tune way back in 2000 following a time when he tried to convince the Reverend Billy C. Wirtz (a boogie-woogie performer) that writing a song about Macs was a surefire path to bringing him new fans. The Reverend didn’t buy it, and so Mr. Straub decided that if someone were going…

1. iTunes. My iTunes library is getting big, over 52 GB. Following our esteemed managing editor’s Quick Tip “Move Your iTunes Library”, I moved the iTunes Music directory to a second internal drive in the trusty PowerMac G5. (This is a directory found within the iTunes directory.) After I reset the location of that directory…

The program, once used, creates an encrypted space that appears as a volume on your desktop. When the space is locked, its content is secure. When unlocked, users can copy, move, and delete files.The secured space defaults to 128-bit AES encryption, but that can be changed to 256-bit AES in the application’s preferences.Protect Files 1.0…

Targus File Share Cable for Mac

SlingPlayer Mobile will allow iPhone and iPod touch users to not only watch the TV channels they have at home but also control their home DVR to view recorded shows, set up new recordings, and pause, rewind, and fast-forward live TV. Sling Media has not set a price point for the app, which it expects…