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EMC Retrospect Express HD 2.0: Data Protection For Your Computer

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:57:20 GMT

When it comes to protecting your home computer, nothing beats EMC® Retrospect® Express HD. Built on award-winning technology that protects more than 10 million PCs worldwide, Retrospect backup and recovery software consistently takes top honors from the experts you trust.

Retrospect Express HD protects your music, photos, videos, e-mail, games, tax returns, schoolwork, computer settings, important documents - everything -by automatically backing up your PC to any available hard drive. Other backup software requires time-consuming full backups every week. Retrospect’s award-winning technology captures just new or changed data - forever.

Start your first backup in minutes with Retrospect Express HD, protecting your Windows PC is easy and quick. A wizard guides you through three simple steps: choose what to protect, select a hard drive to store your backups, and set a schedule. That’s it!

Schedule your backups at a time convenient for you or protect information instantly with a click of the BACKUP button. To guard against loss of a backup drive, use two external drives and rotate them. No matter which drive you use, Retrospect quickly adds new or changed data. Restores remain fast and easy.

Smart Restores™

Retrospect rapidly restores a file, a folder, or your entire hard drive. Unlike other software, Retrospect won’t return unwanted files and folders - just the data you need. If you accidentally delete a file, simply select a previous backup and locate the missing file. If a virus or new software installation wreaks havoc on your PC, don’t panic.

Retrospect returns your entire computer to its exact state at a prior point in time. You don’t need to re-install applications, download updates, and personalize your settings.

Retrospect does it all.

Key Features:

Installs in minutes
Protects your Windows PC with unparalleled accuracy
Simplifies backup and restore with step-by-step wizard
Stores your backups on a local or networked hard drive
Backs up everything - files, applications, drivers, and your settings - or just critical files. You decide.
Schedules automatic backups or protects files immediately with the click of a button
Avoids long weekly full backups by capturing just new or changed data — forever
Restores a single file or an entire PC to a prior point in time
Keeps just the most current version or all past versions of your data
Backs up files in use, including Microsoft Outlook files
Removes outdated backups automatically to free disk space
Compresses backups to maximize storage
Enables easy backup drive rotation for extra protection

Anime Studio: The Official Guide Book

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:56:42 GMT

Discover all of the unique capabilities of Anime Studio with this official guide book from Course Technology.

Anime Studio: The Official Guide Book, by Kelly Murdock, shows first-time animators, hobbyists, and digital enthusiasts how to create, render, and animate characters and even entire scenes that can be exported to various video, TV, and web formats for viewing and sharing.

Using clear examples and step-by-step tutorials to help you conquer each feature and new skill, the book includes instruction on:

Managing and configuring the workspace
Working with layers
Using drawing tools
Editing curves
Working with bones
Adding sound
Rendering and exporting a final scene
Importing and integrating 3D models and textures, video, and Photoshop files
Adding special effects

About the Author

Kelly Murdock: Kelly has over 15 years experience in the computer graphics arena, especially in the area of 3D graphics. Included in the experience is a variety of tasks from high-end CAD product design and architectural pre-visualization to virtual reality and games. Kelly is best known for his international best-selling books on graphics including the 3ds max Bible, Illustrator Bible and Naked Maya. He also is the author to Poser 6 and 7 as well as Edgeloop Character Modeling for 3D Professionals. Kelly currently works as a freelance designer for Logical Paradox Design, a company that he founded with his brother.

StuffIt Deluxe 12 Macintosh: Compress everything - even PHOTOS!

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:56:16 GMT

StuffIt Deluxe 12 Macintosh provides a suite of tools that help you access, compress, manage, protect, send, and backup all your important files and images!

Compress everything - even PHOTOS!

Compress JPEG Photos and Images by up to 30%!

With its revolutionary new Image compression technology, StuffIt archives what no other compression product has been able to do – reduce the size of JPEG photos and images up to 30% with absolutely no loss in image quality!

Where existing archive technologies such as Zip are unable to further compress JPEG pictures, StuffIt’s patent-pending technology enables users to fit more onto CDs, DVDs, and other storage and backup media. This provides significant bandwidth saving for professionals, businesses, hobbyists or anyone looking to share images over the Internet or on the network!

NEW! Archive Manager

Fast and easy access to all your archives!

Immediately display all the StuffIt, Zip, TAR, and RAR archives on your Mac. Whether you’re looking for archives that you’ve downloaded from the Web, received via email, copied from CDs and DVDs, or created yourself, Archive Manager makes it easier than ever to find your archived photos and files!

NEW! StuffIt Collections

Automatically group related files with a single click!

StuffIt lets you to group files together into special collections. Once created, these collections can be recalled with a single click: your weekly photos, latest documents, or current project. You set the rules and StuffIt will automatically collect your files from that point on!

NEW! Powerful Search Tools

StuffIt Deluxe makes it easy to find files in your archives and backups! StuffIt + Spotlight™ lets you search for files even when the archives they’re stored in are located on CDs, DVDs, networks, external hard drives or other “offline” locations!

NEW! Improved OS X Integration

Take advantage of Apple's latest search and scripting tools.

Access the power of StuffIt compression with scriptable Automator™ workflows. Search for individual files inside StuffIt, Zip, TAR, and RAR archives with Spotlight™!

NEW! Strong Encrypted Zip Support

StuffIt now allows you to open Zip files encrypted using the 256bit AES method!

Improved Preview Image Thumbnails

Preview archived JPEG images within archives without having to decompress the data. Even better, StuffIt's multi-threading abilities won't interrupt your work while it renders tens, hundreds, or even thousands of compressed images!

Improved Performance

StuffIt is now Universal Binary and takes full advantage of multiple PPC processors and Intel cores. Speed improvements have been made across the board! StuffIt's "Better" compression algorithm compress up to 20% faster with the same compression results.

Spotlight Importer

StuffIt Deluxe extends the reach of Apple’s Spotlight search technology to include files stored in StuffIt, Zip, and Tar archives.

Automator Support

Use Mac OS X 10.4’s Automator feature to create automated solutions that include the ability to compress and expand StuffIt, Zip, and Tar archives.

Package Files for Distribution

StuffIt SEA Maker allows users to create self-extracting archives that open automatically on Mac OS 10.3 and 10.4. Users can specify the directory to which files in the archive will be expanded, and can also choose to generate and display a splash screen and text dialog during installation.

.Mac Support

StuffIt now allows users to create dropboxes that can send and retrieve files from a .Mac iDisk.

Backup Data Fast

Now StuffIt is the easiest way to protect your data, or your whole hard disk. Schedule backups to run automatically while you sleep, and StuffIt will even send you a confirmation message to assure you your data is safe.

ArchiveSearch™

Use ArchiveSearch when you need to find a file that you know is stored in an archive, but you're not sure which archive it's in? ArchiveSearch works exactly like the Mac OS Find File feature!

Automatic Backups for Specific Files

Schedule a backup time for any folder, image, or document on any network or local drive! Choose to have only recently changed files backed up!

Strong Encryption

Users now have to enter a password to view the contents of an encrypted StuffIt X archive, but unlike previous “whole archive encryption” implementations, once a password has been entered, the contents of encrypted StuffIt X archives can be changed.

Integrated CD & DVD Burning

StuffIt tells you where the archive is being created and puts the ability to burn CDs, DVDs, or any removable media of your choice at your fingertips!

Segment Files Across Disks

StuffIt will automatically split your archives across multiple disks.

Protect Your Secrets

Super-strong 512-bit encryption and password protection ensures your data's privacy. Now a password is required to browse the contents of an archive.

Automate FTP & Email

Point and click your way to instant automation. Eliminate routine tasks and simplify your life.

Safe & Secure

StuffIt self-repairs archived data, keeping it safe from transmission and media errors.

Anime Studio Pro - Complete 2D Animation for Digital Artists and Professional

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:55:36 GMT

Anime Studio Pro 5 is perfect for professionals looking for a more efficient alternative to tedious frame-by-frame detailing when creating quality animations. With an intuitive interface and loaded with pre-rigged characters and additional content, Anime Studio Pro delivers advanced animation tools and effects to speed up your workflow.

Create professional animations. Anime Studio combines cutting-edge features with powerful technology to deliver the most unique animation program for digital artists.

Bone-Based Animation Technology - Using Anime Studio’s bone rigging system, you can add a skeleton to any image by simple point and click, then bring it to life!

Ready to Use Content - Choose from pre-made Anime style characters or create your own using Anime Studio’s drawing and coloring tools.

Import Your Own Artwork - Draw your own or import 2D imagery, 3D imagery or video files.

Vector Graphics - Resize your images with no loss in quality using Anime Studio’s vector-based layer system.

Intuitive Timeline - Anime Studio interpolates through your Timeline so you avoid the tedium of frame-by-frame drawing and save time.

Audio Support - Add audio soundtracks to your animations. Anime Studio supports WAV and AIFF formats.

Adobe Photoshop Integration - Import layered PSD files using a Photoshop plug-in that converts files to Anime Studio format, included free with Anime Studio Pro.

Pen Tablet Support - Draw naturally with a pen tablet and recreate the sensation of drawing on paper.

Publish for Multiple Media - Output your animations to video, TV, and web formats.

Anime Studio Pro adds power and more control over your work. Specifically designed for professionals, Anime Studio Pro provides additional content, tools and capabilities to give you more control and flexibility in creating your animations.

Additional Professionally-Designed Content - Anime Studio Pro includes 22 3D objects, 24 2D characters, 33 2D props, and 24 sample animation files.

3D Capabilities - Turn your canvas into a 3D stage with X, Y and Z coordinates. You can import 3D files (OBJ) from Poser, Shade, Amapi and other 3D applications to use in your animations.

Advanced Timeline Control - Fine tune your animations with powerful timeline controls, including onion skins, tweening, and graph mode.

Professional Special Effects - Use built-in special effects tools on your animations, or add your own effects with Anime Studio’s powerful scripting capabilities.

Additional Import/Export Capabilities - Import movie formats including AVI and QuickTime. Easily render stills of your animations and export as common 2D image formats or as layered Photoshop files.

No Size Restrictions - Anime Studio Pro lets you create animations of unlimited length and file size.

Audio Support - Add audio soundtracks to your animations. Anime Studio supports WAV and AIFF formats.

Save valuable time and effort. Anime Studio will speed up your workflow so your animation projects get completed faster than ever before.

Get Started Quickly - Tutorials direct you how to use Anime Studio’s powerful features.

Speed Up Your Production - Draw once and reuse your digital design elements as needed in other scenes.

Customize Your Workflow - Organize multi-step operations into one-click commands for instant results.

Character Collection for Anime Studio

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:54:53 GMT

If you're not a professional artist, take advantage of pre-built 2D characters to get a jump start on creating your own animations.

The Character Collection for Anime Studio comes complete with 15 pre-rigged characters, including: Cute Girl, Smiling Girl, Pig, Zoon, Xiao, Qiqi, Lei, Qib, Qim, Baicoapo, Kenami, Liji, Kexi, WanLu and YaLiShi.

All these 2D characters come pre-rigged, so you can start animating right away in both versions of Anime Studio. Simply add the character to your scene and you are ready to go!

Anime Studio - Powerful 2d Animation Solution

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:54:27 GMT

Anime Studio 5 includes everything aspiring artists and hobbyists need to create quality animations from start to finish. Anime Studio simplifies the animation process, empowering artists to create their projects faster and easier than ever before.

Get started quickly - Anime Studio is packed with ready-to-use anime style characters so you can start creating your own animations right away. Tutorials and sample files show you how to maximize Anime Studio’s powerful features giving you the jump needed from your first project onwards.

Your art, your way - To get started, sketch your original art, scan in or import graphics, or if you use a pen tablet you can recreate the sensation of drawing on paper.

Vector graphics provide power and flexibility - Use multiple layering and resize your images with no loss in quality.

Animate your characters using bones - Using Anime Studio’s bone rigging system, you can add a skeleton to any image by point-and-click to bring it to life. With Anime Studio, there’s no need to create new art for each individual frame as you animate. Just adjust the bones to your desired position and the program will generate the movement for you. It’s that easy!

Direct your action with an intuitive timeline - Setting your movements to a timeline makes animation easy to understand. Anime Studio will create animations up to two minutes long.

Add audio soundtracks to your animations - Add emotion and style to your animations by adding sound. Anime Studio supports WAV and AIFF formats.

Integrate with Adobe Photoshop - Import layered PSD files using a Photoshop plug-in that converts files to Anime Studio format, included free with Anime Studio.

Publish for multiple media - Output your animations to video, TV, and web formats.

Whether you're a digital enthusiast, a newcomer to animation, or if you want to create art for work or fun, Anime Studio provides what you need to create your own animations faster than anything else available!

Amapi Pro 7.5 English Full Version - Product Design Made Easy

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:53:43 GMT

Amapi Pro 7.5 helps creative designers achieve successful results by delivering a comprehensive modeling feature set and advanced capabilities within a natural, elegant and efficient 3D working environment.

Amapi Pro 7.5 provides product designers and 3D modelers a NURBS-based environment for conception and creation of highly refined 3D models. Amapi Pro is flexible and fast, and offers all the advanced design tools to accurately construct, model and assemble complex 3D models in the 3D space.

Modeling Using NURBS: Amapi Pro's NURBS (non-uniform rational B-splines) modeling allows designers to create and edit complex surfaces and volumes in a unique user interface widely recognized in the industry.

Explore Design Alternatives: The Dynamic Geometry palette allows you to navigate inside complex objects made up of several levels, or earlier design stages can be revisited for design alternatives.

Full CAD Compatibility: Amapi Pro handles IGES, SAT, STL and DWG file formats which communicate seamlessly with 2D CAD systems for integration into the manufacturing process. Amapi Pro provides the link between the designer's initial idea and the reality of the final project.

Perfect Prototypes the First Time Around: Amapi generates watertight STL files, so you can quickly create plastic models of your design for rapid prototyping, facilitating the tooling process. Once your design is complete, you can build your prototype!

Key Features:

Creative 3D Environment

Flexible interface with natural workflow.
Intuitive, quick access to tools and options.
Instant rich 3D visualization and manipulation.
Modeling with NURBS surfacing, polyhedral box modeling, and solid modeling.
Dynamic Geometry, fully editable construction history.

Advanced 3D Design Tools

Full NURBS and Polyhedral modeling engines

Comprehensive curve and surface construction toolset:

          - Advanced 2D drawing toolbox
          - Generalized extrusions, lofting, hulls
          - Volumes defined by surface boundaries
          - Connecting surfaces

Hi-end modeling tools:

          - Trimmed Surfaces and Boolean Operators,
          - Variable Filleting, Surface Offset, Thickness
          - Advanced Deformers

Complete Assembly Toolbox:

          - Copy and Mirror Copy, Repeat Tool
          - Instances and Clones,
            Groups, Layers

Open and Versatile

Measurements, advanced drawing assistants, printing module.
Import / Export using EPS, OBJ, 3DS, DXF.
Hi-end Import-Export using IGES, SAT, STEP, DWG, STL.
Microscribe® digitizer integrated support.

RapidWeaver for Macintosh - Website creation for everyone!

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:53:15 GMT

RapidWeaver is an easy-to-use, powerful website builder that allows anyone to create and publish professional-looking websites in minutes. No knowledge of complex HTML is required, RapidWeaver takes care of all that for you.

Many power features are available for professionals and high-end users!

Easy Website Creation

RapidWeaver makes it incredibly easy to create and publish beautiful, personalized websites in minutes. Create blogs, photo albums, movie pages, styled text and more with the click of a button.

Professionally-Designed Themes

Start with one of the dozens of professionally designed themes, customize colors and layout, and simply drag and drop in your content.

Awesome Slideshows

RapidWeaver produces stunning Flash-based slideshows from your photos. With iPhoto integration, just select your photos and RapidWeaver will do the rest.

Power Blogging

Make a sharp-looking blog and take it to the next level with podcasting, inline comments, RSS feeds, custom permalink tag support, search engine code optimization and more.

...and Pro Features!

RapidWeaver includes features for high-end users, such as live PHP rendering, Smart Publishing, XHTML and CSS based site output, editable source code, built-in error checking and much more! RapidWeaver gives you the tools to easily create great-looking webpages, blogs, photo albums and more! Everything you need to get started today:

Drag and Drop Site Creation
Photo and Movie Albums
iPhoto Integration
.Mac, FTP and SFTP Publishing
Built-In Image Editing
Blogging with RSS and Podcasting
Smart Publishing
Fully-Editable Code
Generates XHTML Valid Sites
Powerful Plug-in Architecture
Live PHP Rendering
And much, much more!

Professional Features

Smart publishing, customizable page and folder names, breadcrumbs, meta tags, favicon support, page assets, hidden pages, built-in error checking, live updates when editing themes, and much, much more...You have full access to the RapidWeaver SDKs allowing you to create totally new plugins. Web designers can also use the Theme development kit to create new themes.

World-class code as standard

RapidWeaver has been built with web standards in mind. All templates are XHTML and CSS based. All the code RapidWeaver generates is valid so you can be sure the sites it produces are XHTML strict.

Live PHP Rendering

Tired of having to upload your php code just to see if it works? RapidWeaver can put an end to this time-consuming problem with it's built-in PHP rendering capabilities. Write your code in RapidWeaver's edit mode, switch to preview and see it rendered instantly.

Customizable Code - If you’re a power user and want to throw in some HTML code or modify a template, no problem. RapidWeaver gives you the power to switch seamlessly from using styled text and images to raw HTML code. This allows you to effortlessly insert custom code such as Google™ ads or hit counters.

Publish Anywhere - Publishing your site to the Internet couldn’t be easier with RapidWeaver’s one click publishing. You can publish to .Mac, FTP, SFTP and even locally to your desktop. RapidWeaver’s Smart Publishing keeps track of the changes you make to your site and only uploads modified pages, saving you time.

Add Themes, Features, Even Shopping Carts - An active community of users and developers are constantly building creative new themes, code snippets, and plug-ins for RapidWeaver for nearly every imaginable type of site.* G4, G5 or Intel Processor* Mac OS X 10.4.3 or higher

Spring Cleaning 10.0 Mac by Smith Micro (Allume Systems Division)

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:52:12 GMT

Keep your Mac happy, healthy and fast with Spring Cleaning 10!

Think of all the things piling up on your Mac's hard drive: old programs, duplicate and corrupt files, dozens of language files installed by the OS. Who needs them? Spring Cleaning searches through the clutter, then helps you take the action you want. Search, organize and delete clutter so your Mac can operate trouble-free!

Mac users worldwide trust Spring Cleaning and its user-friendly tools to keep their machines operating at peak performance. Reclaim disk space, maximize performance and protect your private information with over 45 easy-to-use tools and actions.

Boost speed and performance: Find and eliminate unnecessary applications and duplicate files easily.
Regain wasted disk space: Safely delete unwanted documents, preferences and files; completely uninstall programs with MacUninstaller.
Automatic, hassle-free cleaning: Schedule convenient cleanings, no need to remember what cleaning you did last and when.
Data protection: Protect private information from being retrieved with guaranteed deletion.

New and improved features:

Spring Cleaning will improve the everyday life of your Mac by keeping you operating at peak performance with new and improved features.

NEW! Photo A.K.A.™ - Easily rename or resize large collections of photos, which can then be placed in a Stuffed archive, a disk image or uploaded directly to Flickr™ or Picasa™.
NEW! File Sorter - Quickly sort files into folders according to settings you specify. Organize cluttered folders in just one click!
Schedule™ - Automate tasks to run when you want, saving you time and hassles. Set it and forget it!
IMPROVED! QuickCompare™ - Quickly compare files side-by-side then save the one you want.

Poser 7 English Full Version - Discover the Art of 3D Figure Design

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:51:39 GMT

Poser 7 provides the easiest way to design with the human form in 3D. Using the rich collection of content included and powerful rendering to produce any style art, creative professionals, graphic artists and hobbyists can create stunning art, fine illustration and breathtaking animation for applications that integrate the diversity and spirit of human imagery.

With Poser, you can design using the human form for art, illustration, comics, pre-viz/storyboarding, medical visualization, animation, architecture and education - essentially everywhere your creative mind may take you as you design for print, video, film, or web!

All Poser 7 orders include a FREE six month Passport membership to Content Paradise, Smith Micro's content marketplace (US$49.99 Value), plus a FREE US$10 coupon good for any Smith Micro content on Content Paradise.

Features:

Complete 3D Figure Design - Create any figure imaginable using Poser's powerful 3D toolset. Scale and manipulate individual body parts, modify facial expressions, customize ethnicity, add clothing and props, and pose your figures down to the finest detail.

Powerful Rendering Capabilities – Poser’s powerful FireFly render engine delivers high-quality artistic effects for creating extraordinary, professional renders with natural lighting, shadows, reflections and refractions. Customize your final output in many styles, including photorealism, sketch, cartoon, silhouette and more.

Animation Controls – Poser’s animation tools are designed to help you create stunning, realistic animations without much of the repetitive work involved in animating figures. Poser includes automatic keyframe creation, non-linear animation, lip-syncing and a walk simulator to simplify the animation process.

Dynamic Hair and Cloth - Dynamic props move with your figure and add realism to your animations. Clothing drapes and deforms just as it should in real-life over a human figure, while hair can be grown, styled and controlled dynamically as if blown by the wind.

Loaded With 3D Content - Poser includes high resolution male and female figures, children, animals, cartoons, robots, and more – over 80 fully textured figure models in all. Hundreds of poses, facial expressions, full body morphs, hair, clothing, light sets and props are also included so you can get started fast. Plus, sound and motion files included add life to your figures and scenes.

New in Poser 7:

New Content – Poser 7 comes with over 1GB of high resolution 3D content. Leading the way are Simon and Sydney, the new male and female figures, plus loads of exclusive third party content, new wildlife, new motion capture data, light sets, poses, materials, and lots more.

Lip Syncing - Using the new Talk Designer in Poser 7, even beginning animators can easily make figures talk with facial movements that match real human behavior! Talk Designer will work with Sydney and Simon, as well as James, Jessi, and the Generation 2 Koji and Kelvin figures.

Multiple Undo and Redo - Return to earlier poses and designs, and step back and forth through up to 100 recent changes within your scene! Poser 7’s Multiple Undo and Redo is an incredible timesaver that can be applied on a wide range of your document changes, including all actions from the Poser library, applying poses, or deleting figures and props from your scenes.

Multi-Threaded Rendering and HDRI Support - Render up to four times faster with Multi-threaded Rendering (up to four threads) on machines with multiple CPUs. Poser 7 creates even more realistic images with High Dynamic Range Image (HDRI) support for Image Based Lighting and textures.

Non-Linear Animation - Use Poser 7’s new Animation Layers to separate the various parts of an animation into independent pieces that can be individually moved, edited, hidden, or even phased gradually in and out.

Brush-like Morphing Tools – Poser 7’s new Create tab on the Morphing Tool palette provides powerful interactive controls for creating your own custom morph targets. Easily create custom morphs on your figures just like you would with any brush tool.

Universal Poses - Now you can apply any pose to any biped figure within Poser 7, regardless of that figure's joints or rigging, and see consistent, high quality results!

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