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Apple sues over unauthorized accessories for idevices

Apple sues over unauthorized accessories for idevices

Posted by | Jul 28, 2010 | , |

Another day, another lawsuit. Apple is suing companies it said are selling unauthorized electronic accessories such as chargers, speakers and cables for the iPod, iPhone and iPad, reports “Bloomberg Businessweek” (http://macosg.me/2/lw).

“Many are of inferior quality and reliability, raising significant concerns over compatibility with and damage to Apple’s products,” Apple said in the complaint, citing a user comment that a charger from one of the companies drained his iPod rather than replenishing the battery.

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Boris Continuum 3D Objects Unit now supports After Effects CS5

Posted by | Jul 28, 2010 | , |

The Boris Continuum 3D Objects Unit (http://www.borisfx.com) now features five l effects filters for creating create 3D objects using text and shapes in After Effects, Final Cut Pro, Motion, and Final Cut Express.

The Extruded Text filter allows you to create 3D text elements and use AE’s native camera and lighting system to generate fly-throughs or animate the viewer around the generated 3D text models. Extruded EPS provides a way to import and extrude Adobe Illustrator layered vector logos and graphics in Adobe After Effects.

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Macsimum Poll: are you happy with the iMac, Mac Pro updates?

Posted by | Jul 28, 2010 | |

In this week’s poll, we’re asking if you’re pleased with the upgrades to the iMac and Mac Pro line that Apple announced on Tuesday. The poll can be found at the right hand side of our home page, below the Macsimum Opinion column.

In our last poll, we asked if the “Antennagate” problems with the iPhone 4 would keep you from buying one. Seventy-eight percent of you said “no,” 14% wasn’t planning on buying one anyway and 8% said “yes.”

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Professional 3D game engine for REAL Studio available

Posted by | Jul 28, 2010 | , |

The Component Man Group, a division of Paradigma Software (http://www.paradigmasoft.com), says Franklin 3D is available in a public beta with support for REAL Studio (formerly REALbasic), the cross-platform BASIC language development environment from
REAL Software.

Franklin 3D is a professional 3D game and simulation engine available for Mac OS X and Windows. It includes over 400 methods, including support for display control, model loading and callbacks. Franklin 3D includes the engine plus a collection of example projects.

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