Year: 2009

FileMaker offers free Bento 3 Holiday Pack

FileMaker, a wholly owned subsidiary of Apple, has announced the
Bento 3 Holiday Pack (http://www.bentotrial.com/holiday/), a free way
to get organized for the holidays that works with Bento 3, the
personal database from FileMaker that’s designed especially for Mac
OS X.

The Bento 3 Holiday Pack includes a 30-day trial of Bento 3, plus two
festive themes and two additional templates (beyond the 35 that come
with Bento 3) to help plan parties and organize a gift list.

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Red Giant Software releases Holomatrix plug-in for After Effects

Red Giant Software has released Holomatrix
(http://www.redgiantsoftware.com/products/categories/motion-graphics/holomatrix/),
an After Effects plug-in that lets you “control your reality and
offers a new dimension in effect generation,” according to Aharon
Rabinowitz, director of marketing at Red Giant Software.

Many science fiction feature films and TV shows feature holographic
communication and interfaces. Red Giant Holomatrix allows you to
recreate that effect with just a few clicks.

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iZotope, eMedia release iZotope Music & Speech Cleaner

iZotope (http://www.izotope.com) and eMedia
(http://www.emediamusic.com) iZotope Music & Speech Cleaner, a Mac
compatible audio cleanup suite. The app lets you remove unwanted
noise and enhance your recordings.

Music & Speech Cleaner lets you clarify lectures or concerts by
removing the hum and buzz from air conditioners or amps. You can save
the cleaned audio as new files for increased intelligibility.

You can repair audio from videos recorded on your camcorder, cell
phone or camera.

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Tamsin Slatter’s second edition of ‘Residential Garden Design

Nemetschek North America says the second edition of the “Residential
Garden Design with Vectorworks Landmark” tutorial
(http://www.nemetschek.net/training/guides.php), from Tamsin Slatter,
is now available for purchase.

This tutorial offers Vectorworks software users a method of learning
the process of residential garden design from the start of the
project-drawing or importing site surveys-through managing resources;
creating hard landscaping, planting plans, and 3D perspective
drawings; to rendering with Renderworks.

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