| Free Mac Blu-ray Player 1.0.8.15322 - Versatile video playback for many formats (beta). (Free) Posted: 29 Mar 2013 03:35 AM PDT Free Mac Blu-ray Player allows users to play any Blu-ray and video. Users can easily play any Blu-ray disc, Blu-ray folder, or Blu-ray ISO file with zero standstill or jump. Besides, this Blu-ray software has the ability to play any 1080p HD video, as well as other popular media formats such as MTS, MXF, TS, MKV, FLV, WMV, MP4, etc. When playing Blu-ray discs, users can choose any title/chapter to watch, and select the favorite audio track and subtitle in the Menu window. And users are allowed to capture the favorite image when watching the video. In one word, this versatile Blu-ray player can bring users an entirely new home entertainment experience. OS X 10.5 or later Download Now This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| iDeer Blu-ray Player 1.2.3.1183 - Universal media player. (Demo) Posted: 29 Mar 2013 03:05 AM PDT  iDeer Blu-ray Player is a universal media player software for playing Blu-ray, DVD, BD ISO, DVD ISO, video, audio, music, and photos on the desktop of Macs and Windows PC's. With Arix, it can also play Blu-ray on iPhone/iPad/iPod touch devices. Version 1.2.3.1183: - Fixed the bug that some discs failed to be opened.
- Updated Japanese language pack.
- Support the latest blu ray disc "Lincoln", "Lethal Weapon Collection", "Les Misérables", "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Blu-ray","Zero Dark Thirty" etc.
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| Bluenote 1.01 - Easily keep track of notes, tasks, and passwords. (Commercial) Posted: 29 Mar 2013 03:00 AM PDT  Bluenote is one place for jotting down notes, keeping track of your tasks and accessing your passwords. A beautiful interface separates your info, lets you assign labels and icons, and search with ease. Bluenote automatically encrypts, saves and syncs on the fly. It's a fantastic app, exclusive for Mac. Version 1.01: - Fixed a bug that sometimes prevented notes from properly displaying in Full Screen mode.
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| MacDropAny 2.09 - Sync any folder with multiple cloud storage solutions. (Free) Posted: 29 Mar 2013 02:54 AM PDT  MacDropAny is a simple app that painlessly allows Mac users to sync any folder on their computer through Dropbox, Box.com, Google Drive, iClouDrive, or Microsoft SkyDrive. The easy-to-use interface of MacDropAny, and its deep integration into the Mac system (including allowing you to right click on any folder in Finder and sync it) makes it a must-have for any user of cloud storage for syncing apps. MacDropAny has been well reviewed by Lifehacker and MacWorld, two highly regarded technology news websites. Version 2.09: - Improvements to the French translation, thanks to Hugues Valentin.
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| Ga. lawmakers take flurry of votes on final day Posted: 29 Mar 2013 01:32 AM PDT The Georgia General Assembly finished its work late Thursday night, on the final day of the 2013 session. |
| Disney Infinity GDC Demo: Freedom and Opportunity to Create Posted: 28 Mar 2013 08:35 PM PDT |
| Destiny - Character Development Posted: 28 Mar 2013 05:58 PM PDT |
| Cory speaking in Bradford tomorrow Posted: 29 Mar 2013 01:35 AM PDT Here's details of the public event I'm doing in Bradford while I'm in town for Eastercon: I'll be at the 1in12 Club, as part of an event called "Can Technology Save the City?" that runs from 12-6. I'll be there around 1430h. Hope you'll come out!   |
| Disney Infinity GDC Demo: Freedom and Opportunity to Create Posted: 28 Mar 2013 08:35 PM PDT |
| World of Wargaming.net - GDC Interview Posted: 28 Mar 2013 07:12 PM PDT |
| More Destiny at E3 Posted: 28 Mar 2013 06:47 PM PDT Bungie says it will share more information about action-shooter at trade show this summer; concept art and video released. 
Today during a Game Developers Conference panel, Bungie teased it will share more information about its new action-shooter Destiny at the 2013 Electronic Entertainment Expo, which runs June 9-11. "See you at E3," Destiny writer and director Joe Staten said. Bungie also shared a host of Destiny concept art images today during the panel, as part of a discussion regarding the company's world-building techniques. Staten and art director Christopher Barrett explained how Bungie's goal for Destiny was to create a world that mattered and that lasted, while also being flexible and accommodating to anything the community creates. More Destiny concept art is available at Bungie's website. Lastly, Bungie showed off a video (below) that offers a look into the character art, development, and design of Destiny. It includes early drawings, concept art, animation, and in-engine character models. GameSpot sat down with Staten and Barrett today following their presentation. This conversation will be posted in the time ahead. Read and Post Comments | Get the full article at GameSpot
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| Destiny Screens Posted: 28 Mar 2013 06:40 PM PDT |
| Tele-Castigating the Battlefield 4 17 Minute Demo Posted: 28 Mar 2013 04:45 PM PDT |
| Artlantis Studio 4.1.8.1 - 3D rendering of interior and exterior homes and buildings. (Updater) Posted: 28 Mar 2013 08:59 PM PDT  Artlantis Studio is a unique and ideal tool for performing very high resolution rendering easily and in real time. The new FastRadiosity engine now lets you compute images in radiosity-even in preview. Another innovative feature of Artlantis is that 3D objects and vegetation can be used directly in the preview window by simply dragging and dropping them. This enables users to work on different scenarios quickly and to simulate true virtual scenes in a real environment. Version 4.1.8.1: Enhancement: - Artlantis 4.1.8 introduces two new parameters for the DXF-DWG import: the distance between Knots, and the deviation angle between faces. They come in addition to the 2D conversion parameters and control the triangulation of the 3D geometry. As a result, Artlantis can correctly interpret and triangulate moldings or any curved body built in the CAD modeler.
Bug fixes: - ArchiCAD .gsm objects: the colors were not distinguished when saving by layers or on a unique layer.
- Reopening a file wasn't possible; now the Revert command allows it.
- The program would freeze when selecting an object.
- Artlantis crashed when using "Delete the material ID unused".
- When exporting a file from SketchUp 8 to Artlantis, some viewpoints were ignored.
- Export from ArchiCAD 16 to 4.1: the geometry was offset from the origin.
- DWF and OBJ export: the geometry wasn't exported if the current view was a panorama, a VR object or an animation.
- OBJ import fixes: missing textures.
- DWG-DXF fixes: Tessalation, distorted geometry and missing geometry.
- The Artlantis color picker didn't match the material in the preview.
- OS X 10.5.8 or later
- QuickTime 10 or later
- 256MB OpenGL graphics card
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| Tunnelblick 3.3beta36 - GUI for OpenVPN. (Free) Posted: 28 Mar 2013 08:59 PM PDT  Tunnelblick, formerly known as OpenVPN-GUI, is a simple graphical user interface for the great VPN software OpenVPN 2.0 or later It is written in Cocoa and comes in a ready to use distribution with all necessary binaries and drivers. Versions of OpenVPN older than 2.0 are not supported, because they lack the management interface used by Tunnelblick. Please send feedback and suggestions to info@tunnelblick.net. Version 3.3beta36: - Removes uninstaller from disk image
Mac OS X 10.4 or later Download Now |
| Parallels Desktop 8.0.18480 - Run Windows app without rebooting. (Demo) Posted: 28 Mar 2013 08:59 PM PDT  Parallels Desktop is simply the world's bestselling, top-rated, and most trusted solution for running Windows applications on your Mac. With Parallels Desktop for Mac, you can seamlessly run both Windows and Mac OS X applications side-by-side without rebooting. Drag-and-drop files between Windows and Mac applications, launch Windows applications from your Mac dock, and do much more with speed, control and confidence. Seamless Simplicity Use Run Windows programs like they were native to your Mac. Setting up Parallels Desktop for Mac is simple and quick. Enjoy the best of both worlds - Windows and Mac OS X - on one seamless desktop. Performance and Personalization Experience as much or as little Windows as you want. Multiple view modes make it possible for you to customize the level of integration between Mac and Windows without compromising performance. Version 8.0.18480: - Better compatibility with new iMacs
- Create Boot Camp virtual machines on new iMacs with 3 TB hard drives
- Create virtual machines from the Boot Camp partition with Windows 8 installed
- Support for Fedora 18
- Fixed visual artifacts when changing screen resolution in a Windows 8 Pro virtual machine with more than 256 MB of video memory and nested virtualization enabled
- Resolves an issue with the Command + click combination not opening links in new tabs in Windows browsers (Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, etc.)
- OS X 10.6.8 or later
- 2GB of RAM (4GB recommended to run Windows 7)
- At least 700 MB of space available on the boot volume for Parallels Desktop installation
- 15 GB of available disk space for Windows.
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| Picasa 3.9.15.36 - Organize, edit, and share your photos. (Free) Posted: 28 Mar 2013 08:59 PM PDT  Picasa and Picasa Web Albums allows you to organize, edit, and upload your photos to the Web from your computer in quick, simple steps. Arrange your photos into folders and albums and erase their blemishes using powerful editing tools in Picasa. Then use Picasa Web Albums to share those perfected photos online with family, friends, and the world. Version 3.9.15.36: Release notes were unavailable when this listing was updated. OS X 10.5 or later Download Now This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Apple Compressor 4.0.7 - Adds power and flexibility to Final Cut Pro X encoding and exporting. (Commercial) Posted: 28 Mar 2013 08:59 PM PDT  Compressor adds power and flexibility to Final Cut Pro X export. Customize output settings, work faster with distributed encoding, and tap into a comprehensive set of delivery features. Powerful Encoding for Final Cut Pro - Use Compressor to customize encoding settings available in Final Cut Pro.
- Choose from a wide array of codecs, sizes, frame rates, and other parameters.
- Save your custom settings in Compressor; they automatically appear in Final Cut Pro.
- Share settings with other editors, even if Compressor isn't installed on their workstations.
Time-Saving Encoding Workflow - Experiment freely with encoding options, using real-time feedback in the Preview window.
- Find exactly the setting you need in just a few clicks in the updated settings library.
- Set up batch processes to streamline the encoding of large numbers of files.
- Build batch templates to combine encoding with tasks such as moving or copying files.
- Create self-contained Droplets to encode on the desktop with drag-and-drop ease.
Industry-Standard Encoding Support - Use one-step settings for Apple devices and websites such as Vimeo, YouTube, and Facebook.
- Work with a choice of themed menus to encode and burn a DVD or Blu-ray disc.
- Add chapter markers for discs or podcasts distributed on iPad, iPhone, iPod, or Apple TV.
- Encode to a broad range of industry-standard formats, such as MPEG-2, H.264, and ProRes.
- Generate files for HTTP live streaming in a single step.
- Import Targa, DPX, TIFF, PSD, or PNG image sequences and encode them to any setting.
- Tap into advanced encoding features for adding closed captioning, metadata, and more.
Pristine Format Conversions - Convert any file from its source format to another format, such as NTSC to PAL or SD to HD.
- Clean up and customize your content using image filters, a timecode overlay, and watermarks.
- Speed up video, slow it down, or adjust the frame rate to make the duration match a runtime.
Distributed Encoding - Save time by distributing encoding work among multiple cores and workstations.
- Install Compressor on any Mac to activate it as a cluster node for distributed encoding.
- Speed up encoding in Final Cut Pro by choosing a Compressor cluster for output processing.
- Activate QuickCluster for dynamic configuration of nodes based on available resources.
Version 4.0.7: - Removes 1GB file size limit for uploads to Vimeo
- Fixes a stability issue when playing back certain MPEG-2 files
- Fixes a stability issue in Qmaster when processing multiple jobs
- OS X 10.6.8 or later
- 2GB RAM (4GB recommended)
- OpenCL-capable graphics card or Intel HD Graphics 3000 or later, 256MB of VRAM, display with 1280-by-768 resolution or higher.
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| Tidy Up 3.0.6 - Find duplicate files and tidy up your hard drive. (Shareware) Posted: 28 Mar 2013 08:59 PM PDT  Tidy Up is a complete duplicate finder and disk-tidiness utility. With Tidy Up you can search for duplicate files and packages by the owner application, content, type, creator, extension, time modified, time created, name, label, visibility, and date/age. You can also search by the tag, duration, and bit installments of MP3 and AAC sound files and EXIF metadata; search the contents of the iPhoto, Aperture, iTunes, iPod databases, and Mail mailboxes; and synchronize deletions with iPhoto, Mail, and iTunes. Tidy Up allows you to search for duplicate folders by name, date modified, date created, label visibility, empty folders, their contents, and more. Tidy Up is also fast: it doesn't index the scanned volumes, so you don't waste precious time and space. With its multitasking capability, you can do multiple searches at one time and take full advantage your Mac's processing power. Tidy Up comes with a two search modes. Basic Mode includes more than 90 pre-defined searches. For a customized strategy, you can opt for the Strategy Wizard which based on your choices creates the appropriate criteria to search for duplicates. Tidy Up has a built-in security system that assures you will keep at least one file of the duplicate group on your disk, the ability to undo copied and moved items, and the ability to restore trashed items as long as the trash is not emptied, even after a restart of the computer. Tidy Up offers a full-size preview of the most commonly used files such as: audio, media, text, PDF, graphics, fonts and more... One of the most interesting features of Tidy Up is the capability to separate, for quick and easy organization, found items using custom criteria via "Smart Baskets." It also includes the possibility to choose from items belonging to the supported applications, a specific album, playlist, or mailbox. Tidy Up allows you to trash, move, replace the moved or trashed items with aliases or symbolic links, burn, assign colored Finder labels, and export into html and text files all found items. Tidy Up! is fully customizable and allows you to create your preferred workspace. Version 3.0.6: - Includes bug fixes that sometimes crashed the application.
- Other minor bug fixes and enhancements.
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| Maya 2014 - Professional 3D modeling and animation tool. (Demo) Posted: 28 Mar 2013 08:59 PM PDT  Maya is an award-winning software and powerful, integrated 3D modeling, animation, visual effects, and rendering solution. Because Maya is based on an open architecture, all your work can be scripted or programmed using a well-documented and comprehensive API (application programming interface), or one of two embedded scripting languages, the Maya Embedded Language (MEL) or Python. This level of openness, combined with an industry-leading suite of 3D visual effects, computer graphics, and character animation tools, enables you to realize your creative vision for your film, television, game development, and design projects.
Version 2014:
General - GPU Caching Improvements
- Optimize how your graphics card processes Alembic-based GPU cache files with new GPU Cache Configuration preferences.
- Write Materials lets you export Lambert and Phong materials from source geometry to GPU cache files. These materials are rendered when the cache is played back in Viewport 2.0.
- New GPU Cache Import options let you specify the time range and start frame when importing GPU caches into Maya.
- What's New Highlight: You can now easily identify new features in Maya using the What's New Highlight.
- In-View Messaging: New in-view messages appear in Maya's view panel for a number of tools, modes, and operations.
- Tool Clips: ToolClips provide rapid access to learning content from within Maya via short video clips and Help links.
- Alembic caching additions
- Larger Maya scene files and geometry caches
- Add metadata to Maya nodes
- New free image planes maintain aspect ratio attribute
- Display a free image plane through a specified camera
- Free image planes supported by mental ray
- Ignore Version global preference
- Include scene file name with CER report
- Prevent model panel window from stealing focus
- Incremental saving
- Cycle through cameras
- Create a new camera from the current view
- Default renderer and Viewport 2.0 render joints, cameras, lights, and image planes as wireframe in bounding-box mode
- Thick lines now supported
- Paint custom attributes
Basics - A new option in the Modify > Convert menu lets you convert selected geometry to bounding boxes.
- You can now manage file paths in your Maya scene using the new File Path Editor (Window > General Editors > File Path Editor).
- New improvements to the Node Editor allow you to easily customize the view of the nodes, for example, by filtering their attributes or customizing their colors.
- The new layout of the Outliner, Asset Editor, and Graph Editor provides better readability and in addition is more compact so as to minimize the need for horizontal scrolling.
- Improved navigation in the Outliner
- You can now disable notes in the Attribute Editor using the new Show Notes option in the Show menu.
- A new Attribute Filter field lets you quickly filter attributes in the Attribute Spread Sheet.
- You can now use the shelf pull-down menu to navigate to the previous or next shelf; or, to jump directly to another shelf of your choice.
- You can now filter the connections that display in the Hypergraph using the Show Connection From Selected and Show Connection To Selected options in the Hypergraph menu (Options > Display).
- You can now use Maya's Panels menu (Panels > Orthographic > New) to create a Back view, Right view, Left view, or Bottom view.
File Referencing - Lock attribute values in referenced files by turning on Allow locking and unlocking edits on referenced attributes in the File References preferences.
Animation - Draw on your screen with virtual marker using the new Grease Pencil tool.
- Character sets support more complex characters
- Improved clip matching
- Display more poses with clip ghosts
- Easily view tracks for all character sets
- Retime tool improvements
Character Animation - New options in the Joint Tool settings let you create symmetric joints and joint chains.
- You can now automatically center joints in a model using the new Snap to Projected Center button.
- Set Bend deformer Curvature in degrees instead of radians
- Limit spread of small weights
- Improved influence locking in the Paint Skin Weights Tool
- Add a HumanIK Control rig to an animation layer
Modeling - Maya now includes a Modeling Toolkit (Edit Mesh > Show Modeling Toolkit).
- Crease sets give modelers the ability to quickly and predictably group and adjust the hardness of creased edges.
- Maya has adopted a faster, more efficient algorithm for reducing the number of polygons in a mesh.
- The new Edit Edge Flow tool (Edit Mesh > Edit Edge Flow) lets you transform the surface curvature of edges to respect the curvature of the surrounding mesh.
- A new Slide brush has been added to the Sculpt Geometry Tool (Edit NURBS > Sculpt Geometry Tool > or Mesh > Sculpt Geometry Tool > ), letting you slide vertices in the direction of your stroke while following the existing shape of the surface.
- When enabled, the new Preserve normals option in the Freeze Transformations Options (Modify > Freeze Transformations > ) ensures that all transforms are oriented in the proper direction and are not flipped on negatively scaled objects.
- The Convert display option in the Modeling Preferences has been renamed to Automatic vertex color display to better reflect its functionality.
- You can display hard edges, normals, tangents and binormals in any color of your choice. Use MEL scripts to set your color preference.
- The Normals Size editor (Display > Polygons > Normals Size) now has a range of 0.02 to 10000.
- Align the current camera to the selected polygon face using the new Align Polygon To Camera option (View > Align Polygon To Camera).
- When in component mode, the new Select Similar option (Edit > Select Similar) selects polygonal components of a similar type to the current selection. When in object mode, this option selects other objects of the same node type in the scene.
- You can now set the default method for weighting vertex normals using the new Default Vertex Normal Method preference.
- A new Multi-Component option (Select > Multi-Component) lets you quickly select faces, vertices, and edges without having to change between selection modes.
Paint Effects - New Paint Effects attributes improve surface interactions and add collisions with selected geometry.
- Use new Occupation Surface and Occupation Volume attributes to create more realistic foliage with Paint Effects strokes and Line Modifiers.
- Create collisions between Paint Effects strokes and selected geometry with a new Make Collide menu option (Paint Effects > Make Collide).
- Create more realistic-looking leaves and flowers on your Paint Effects foliage with new Leaf Size Rand and Flower Size Rand attributes.
- Add selected geometry to Line Modifier shapes with a new Line Modifier Fill Object feature.
Dynamics and nDynamics - nHair improvements
- Simulate nHair on nCloth objects
- Performance improvements
- Collide with mesh
- Delete Hair
- A new Component nConstraint provides additional control of stretching and bending behavior of nCloth meshes.
- Fluid Effects additions
- Fill Object Volume
- Start Frame Emission
- Freshly redesigned icons for nDynamics objects make it easier to identify Nucleus objects, dynamicConstraint nodes and nHair follicles in the Node Editor or Outliner.
- Create larger nCache files with a new mcx cache file format.
- A new Input Attract Method improves performance by letting you specify which vertices of an nCloth mesh participate in simulations.
Rendering and Render Setup - Viewport 2.0 now supports the DirectX 11 rendering engine for Windows 64-bit systems. You can run Viewport 2.0 in either DirectX 11 or OpenGL mode.
- The mental ray Render Settings: Quality tab has now been updated with new unified sampling controls.
- The following new substance textures have been added:
- Sci_fi_001
- StoneFilter
- MetalFilter
- MakeItFurry
- Concrete_060
- You can now paint your vertices with a color set in Viewport 2.0. In addition, you can also color your vertices based on influence color in Viewport 2.0.
- You can now enable the new Skip existing frames attribute in the Render Settings: Common tab so that the renderer detects and skips over frames that have already been rendered.
- Maya supports source objects with hardware shaders derived from MPxHwShaderNode.
- New render troubleshooting techniques
- The ZIPS image compression method is now available if you select OpenEXR as your output image format in the Render Settings window: Common tab.
- mental ray version 3.11
MEL and Python - PySide 1.1.1 is now included with Maya.
- Many new and changed commands.
- OS X 10.7 or later
- Certified OpenGL graphics card
- Three-button mouse
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