Author: dsellers

The Franklin Group (http://www.franklin3d.com), a division of Paradigma Software, has released Franklin 3D 1.0 for Runrev. It’s a 3D game and simulation engine that integrates with Runrev 4, the cross platform software design system from Mirye Software and Runrev.

With Franklin 3D 1.0 for Runrev Pro, you can build cross-platform, hardware accelerated games for Mac OS X (with OpenGL) or Windows (with DirectX or OpenGL). Franklin 3D includes over 400 methods, including support for display control, model loading and callbacks. It includes the engine plus a collection of example projects.

WD (http://www.wdc.com) has introduced its new My Passport Studio portable drives featuring FireWire 800 interface and a customizable e-label that’s always visible, even when the drive is unplugged.


The drives are formatted for Macs, compatible with Apple’s TimeMachine software, and feature automatic and continuous backup with WD SmartWare software, and 256-bit hardware-based encryption. Available now at select retailers and shopwd.com, the new My Passport Studio drives are offered in capacities of 320 GB, 500 GB and 640 GB with prices ranging from US$149.99 to $199.99.

Blue Room Software (http://www.blueroomsoftware.com) has announces ImageArchiver for Lightroom 1.0. It’s an Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Export Service plug-in designed to simplify the creation of disk image and compressed archives of your Photoshop Lightroom image collections.

All of the image archive creation features found in Blue Room Software’s peer ImageArchiver products for both Aperture and iPhoto have been brought to the users of Adobe System’s Photoshop Lightroom 2 photo processing tool.