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Tuesday, 14 July 2009

EMC Retrospect Express HD 2.0: Data Protection For Your Computer
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
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!

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
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

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!