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Apple CEO Steve Jobs turns 55 today

Posted by | Feb 24, 2010 | |

Steve Jobs turns 55 today. Here’s wishing our favorite CEO a happy birthday. He co-founded Apple in 1976.

Jobs also co-founded and was the CEO of Pixar Animation Studios, which created such classic animated films as “Toy Story,” “A Bug’s Life,” “Monsters, Inc.,” “Finding Nemo,” “The Incredibles,” “Cars” and “Ratatouille.” Pixar merged with The Walt Disney Company in 2006 and Jobs now serves on Disney’s board of directors.

According to his official bio, Jobs grew up in the apricot orchards, which later became known as Silicon Valley. He still lives there with his family.

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Dot Hills introduces 3000 series arrays

Dot Hills introduces 3000 series arrays

Posted by | Feb 24, 2010 | , |

Dot Hill Systems Corp. (http://www.dothill.com) — a provider of storage solutions and software for OEMs (original equipment manufacturers), open storage partners and system integrators — has announced it’s now shipping its next-generation 3000 Series disk arrays with support for 8Gb Fibre Channel storage area networks (SANs), dual interface 8Gb Fibre Channel and 1Gb iSCSI, and optional AssuredRemote data management software.

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Native Instruments introduces Scarbee Vintage Keys

Posted by | Feb 24, 2010 | , |

Native Instruments has introduced Scarbee Vintage Keys (http://www.native-instruments.com/Scarbeevintagekeys.info), a set of software instruments that provide renditions of the legendary electric pianos, for use in Kontakt 4 and the free Kontakt Player.

Based on the Scarbee sample libraries, Scarbee Vintage Keys gives musicians and producers of all genres a way to integrate the sounds of these classic keyboards into their music. It features electric pianos of the 60s and 70s, dubbed Mark I, A-200, Clavinet and Pianet, all based on 24-bit sample material.

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iPresentee unveils new iWeb Intros

Posted by | Feb 24, 2010 | , |

iPresentee (http://www.ipresentee.com), a developer of add-ons for Apple’s iWork and iLife applications, has extended its iWeb Intros collection to be used with iWeb, Apple’s web site building component of the iLife.

iWeb Intros design uses short flash animations and sounds to give visitor a first impression of the web site. iWeb Intros 3.0 adds five new welcome intros: Cityscape, Sunset, Highway, Nature and Factory. Each intro can stand alone as intro page for any web site or can be incorporated into any iWeb template as a part of the page.

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