Year: 2010

Time to ban the sale of ultraviolent video games to minors

Posted by | Sep 22, 2010 | , |

Do you think ultraviolent video games should be sold to minors? I don’t, and apparently most adults agree with me.

Common Sense Media, a national non-profit organization “dedicated to helping kids and families thrive in a world of media and technology,” has released the results of a nationwide parent poll that revealed nearly three-quarters of adults would support a law that prohibits minors from purchasing ultraviolent or sexually violent video games without parental consent.

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Trek Support is backpack that powers gadgets

Trek Support is backpack that powers gadgets

Posted by | Sep 22, 2010 | |

Quirky has released the US$130 Trek Support (http://www.quirky.com/products?utm_medium=release&utm_campaign=treksupport), a community-developed, checkpoint-friendly backpack that powers and protects your laptop and gadgets when you’re on the go. It features a removable battery-powered USB gadget dock, which can charge up to three electronic items at a time.

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Nokia releases Qt 4.7

Posted by | Sep 22, 2010 | , |

Nokia today released Qt 4.7, the latest version of the cross-platform application and UI (user interface) framework. It’s available for download now for all of Qt¹s supported platforms, with upgrades for Nokia and customer solutions expected over the coming months.

A key feature of Qt 4.7 is QML (Qt Meta-Object-Language), a declarative language that describes the interface of a program and how it behaves. The new version also includes performance improvements that make applications and user interfaces run faster and smoother.

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EastWest announces Hollywood Strings Gold Edition

Posted by | Sep 22, 2010 | , |

EastWest has followed up their Hollywood Strings Diamond Edition virtual instrument with the US$795 Hollywood Strings Gold Edition (http://www.soundsonline.com/hollywood-strings). Designed for film, television, and video game scoring, it provides all of the sounds from the Diamond Edition in 16-bit resolution and includes a single, mid-tree mic position, all articulations with the exception of bow-change legato, and does not include Divisi mics.

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PandaWare updates TimeCache, TimeCache Manager

Posted by | Sep 22, 2010 | , |

The PandaWare Company (http://www.pandaware.com) has updated TimeCache — its time and expense billing app for Mac OS X 10.3.9 and higher — to version 8.0.10. The update offers improvements to reports, invoices and analysis charts, and several bug fixes.

In addition, it provides support for several new features in TimeCache Manager, a companion application for workgroups that allows managers to consolidate billing information.

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