LTB Soft has announced LTB Light 9.0 (http://www.ltblight.com), an update of the US$299 Mac OS X application that permits natural and artificial lighting calculation with a color radiosity method applied to a finite elements plan.
Version 9.0 adds support for both metric and imperial units, as well as UNI EN 13201 tables. It also has some bug fixes.
Read MoreOn this week’s “Your Mac Life,” the gang looks at rumors of Apple branded TV’s, Steve Jobs’ emails and unannounced security flaws in Mac OS X.
In the archive, you’ll hear interviews with Kerrin Burke about his kidney transplant, and iPodMeister CEO Kris Schrey and Gus Mueller on the Acorn image editor.
You can listen in this and every Wednesday evening from 5:30 to 8 pm (Pacific). Live video is on Your Mac Life! You can watch the show live at http://yml.macosg.com/ — or you can listen in to the plain old audio feed at http://www.yourmaclifeshow.com/QT/stream.mov .
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Apple’s share are trading at US$229.45 which is a 52-week high — and an all-time high. The company now has a market cap of US$207.99 billion.
As noted by “All Things D” (http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20100324/apple-nearing-wal-marts-market-cap/?reflink=ATD_yahoo_ticker), this means it ranks fourth in a list of the top five publicly traded U.S. companies, which are: Exxon Mobil, $315.05 billion; Microsoft, $261.71 billion; Wal-Mart, $212.19 billion.
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Apple’s integrated hardware and software system make it the most valuable personal computer maker in the world, according to a research note from Deutsche Bank.
As reported by “Silicon Alley Insider” (“http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-revenue-vs-operating-profit-share-of-top-pc-vendors-2010-3), Deutsche Bank assembled the revenue and operating profits of the top ten computermakers in the world. It then charted which companies are capturing the greatest share of the pie to determine which vendor is capturing the most value.
Read MoreJon Peddie Research (http://www.jonpeddie.com) — a research and consulting firm for graphics and multimedia, computer graphics — estimates that 46% of the dollars spent in 2009 on gaming motivated computer hardware were directed toward what the firm calls the Enthusiast class. This is the top-of-the line stuff: boutique computers, high-end processors and graphics cards, SSD’s, specialized gaming mice, keyboards, speakers, monitors, etc.
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