TripIt from Concur, a travel-organizing app, now makes it easier for travelers to keep their travel documents and emergency contacts organized with a new feature, Traveler Profile. With it, ravelers can store their essential travel documents, and the contacts they need the most while traveling, right within their TripIt iOS or Android mobile app.
Kestrel Moon Studios has introduced Creature (http://creature.kestrelmoon.com), a 2D animation software for Mac OS X. It’s designed with game developers, digital artists and web designers in mind.
Creature allows you to add animation to your digital content. With it you can automatically generate complex motion like Walk Cycles, Hair + Cloth Dynamics and other forms of secondary motion using the software’s built in Physics and Procedural Animation Engine.
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Limefuel (www.limefuel.com) has announced a charger specifically designed around the USB-C technology in Apple’s new MacBook. The 24,000mAh device is designed to keep the laptop going all day long.
The Limefuel charger will feature two Type C ports and four USB ports for charging other mobile devices. Limefuel’s new Macbook charger also features pass-through technology allowing multiple devices to charge at the same time. The charger will be available in the second quarter of 2015 through Kickstarter at a manufacturer’s suggested retail price of US$149.99.
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To satisfy growing demand in the automotive and design markets, PipelineFX (https://pipelinefx.com), which specializes in render farm management solutions, is releasing Autodesk VRED (www.autodesk.com) batch render support for Qube!, the scalable render management solution.
Read MoreThe worldwide production print market enjoyed double-digit year-over-year shipment growth in the fourth quarter of 2014 (4Q14). Unit shipments grew 17.1% to approximately 11,650 units (printers and MFPs) and shipment value increased 4.5% to nearly $1.4 billion in the same time period, according to the IDC (www.idc.com) research group.
With exception of Japan, all of IDC’s regional markets saw positive year-over-year shipment growth in the production print space. Among the regions, North America grew 19.4% year over year, EMEA grew 23.2%, and Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) was up 14.7%.
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