MotionWorks has released “Making It Look Great 5: Design, Production
and Workflow Techniques for Adobe After Effects”
(http://www.motionworks.com.au/2008/12/making-it-look-great-5/), the
latest entry in its “Making It Look Great” series of tutorials for
Adobe After Effects.
It includes over seven hours of in-depth video training for Adobe
After Effects and After Effects plug-ins. Host Jerzy Drozda Jr.
Sonnet Technologies (http://www.sonnettech.com) has released the
Fusion DX800RAID, an eight-drive RAID SATA storage system with a
built-in SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) expander that enables connection
of up to 16 eight-drive enclosures to a single Sonnet RAID controller.
Robert Farnsworth, CEO of Sonnet Technologies, says this newest
addition to the Fusion line provides the speed required for working
with uncompressed 10-bit 1080 HD video; the data security and
monitoring critical in a large RAID system; and the straightforward
scalability necessary for cost-effective, increment
XChange International (http://www.xchangeuk.com) has released
Exportools for InDesign CS4 as well as Exportools XT for QuarkXPress
8. Exportools automates the process of exporting individual pages,
spreads or selections into separate files.
The app can “intelligently” extract all the document text, and export
to other formats such as JPEG, TIFF, PNG, Photoshop, PICT and HTML.
99Games (http://www.99games.in) has released WordsWorth, a word game
for the iPhone and iPod touch, which is available on the Apple App
Store for US$0.99 for a limited time.The objective of the game is to
trace words and link letters into words in the library.
Players can choose from a range of 4×4, 5×5, 6×6, and 7×7 grids and
can create longer words with rare letters to earn hefty points. There
are 20 levels with different rankings and an option to customize the
game according to the players’ level on intellect.
Izatt International has announced a new iPhone Development Course
(http://www.izatt.com/training.html) to be held Jan. 20-23, 2009, at
the Noah Building in Lindon, Utah. A consortium of iPhone developers
representing prominent iPhone development companies such as Izatt
International, Pixio, and InfiniteNIL have been assembled to cover
topics ranging from XCode and Interface Builder to the Accelerometer,
Core Animation, and Open GL ES.
The cost is US$2,350. Early-bird pricing, available before Dec. 31,
is $1,850.