Year: 2010

Luxology, an independent technology company developing
next-generation 3D content creation software, has announced a free
bi-weekly podcast on the company’s 3D modeling and rendering software
modo.

Created by Pixel Corps, a worldwide guild of content creators, each
podcast will be hosted by Pixel Corps founder and chief architect,
Alex Lindsay, with Pixel Corps digital effects artist McKay Hawkes as
the show’s first guest.

Beginning today, the first podcast will focus on realistic rendering
and examining the integration of CAD files in modo.

Native Instruments
(http://www.native-instruments.com/abbeyroad60sdrums.info) has
introduced Abbey Road 60s Drums, the first instrument created in its
collaboration with the iconic British recording studios.

Recorded using engineering techniques and exclusive vintage gear,
Abbey Road 60s Drums provides a versatile arsenal of classic drum
sounds with absolute tonal authenticity, supreme playability and
immense sonic flexibility.

Newer Technology (http://www.newertech.com) has announced the
NewerTech MAXPower eSATA 6G PCIe 2.0 Controller Card, a solution for
adding two SATA 6Gb/s ports — the latest performance data transfer
interface standard — with a driverless plug and play installation to
Mac Pros and PCs with an open PCIe slot.

Because the NewerTech MAXPower eSATA 6G PCIe 2.0 Controller Card is
fully compliant with the industry standard Advanced Host Controller
Interface (AHCI), there are no drivers to install and no future
driver downloading/updating required, according to NewerTech
President

AIA Basics has has released diabasics
(http://www.derbrill.de/diabasics), new diabetes management software
for Mac OS X 10.4 and higher. It costs US$29.95. A demo is available
for download.

Diabasics logs blood glucose levels, carbs and fat eaten and — if
you’re insulin dependent — the amount of insulin you injected. It
remembers which finger you have pricked the last time you monitored
your blood glucose.

iFunia (http://www.ifunia.com), a developer of Mac multimedia
software, released iFunia AVCHD Converter for Mac, an US$32
application designed to help Mac OS X 10.6 (“Snow Leopard”) users
convert AVCHD video into any video formats.

iFunia AVCHD Converter for Mac lets users work with most AVCHD video
files recorded by Panasonic, JVC, Canon, Sony and more AVCHD
camcorders. The software enables converting AVCHD M2TS, MTS, MOD, TOD
video to all popular video formats, such as HD MP4, HD MOV, HD AVI,
HD FLV, MKV, AVI, MPEG, WMV, DivX, MP4, RM, MOV, XviD, 3GP, FLV,etc.