ArtVPS has launched Shaderlight 2 (http://www.shaderlight.com), a new version of the software that brings interactive rendering to Google SketchUp. Now Shaderlight Pro users can render animations directly from SketchUp, developing their 3d concepts into animated photorealistic presentations.
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WriteIt! Studios has updated Cookie Stumbler (http://www.writeitstudios.com), an application to keep your Mac’s privacy safe, to version 1.3. The upgrade adds the possibility to synchronize all configuration data and the definitions with Write!It! Studios’ ew app Cookie Stumbler Mobile for the iPad so that users can customize their configuration once and enjoy ad-free web browsing on their Mac and iPad.
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The Apple logo is now worth US$39.3 billion, according to a new report by Brand Finance, a London-based consulting company.
Microsoft is down 9% to $39 billion. Google is up 9% to nearly $48.3 billion. But Apple waaaaay up — 33% — to overtake, for the first time, Microsoft, IBM, Wal-Mart and General Electric. Google tops the brand value list.
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Worldwide media tablet shipments rose by 88.9% on a sequential basis and 303.8% year over year in the second calendar quarter of 2011 (2Q11) to 13.6 million units, according to the International Data Corporation research group (http://www.idc.com).
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The widespread adoption of HTML5 for Web apps could cut Apple’s operation profit growth by 30%, with Microsoft, Google and carriers benefiting, Bernstein Research (https://www.bernsteinresearch.com) predicted — as noted by “Macworld” (http://macte.ch/6CLU8). Which, if true, would be pretty ironic since Apple has touted HTML5 over Flash.
When the iPad was introduced in early 2009, Steve Jobs famously rejected Adobe Flash in favor of HTML 5 for providing media c
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