Software
Free QuarkXPress 7.3 Update Available
The 7.3 update for Mac and Windows adds localized user interfaces for European Portuguese, Finnish, Croatian, Hungarian, and Russian, as well as hyphenation and spelling support for Ukrainian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Lithuanian, Slovenian, Latvian, Estonian, Icelandic and Slovak.
Apart from these changes speed improvements have been made to the spell checker, saving and text handling. See the complete list of changes.
You may download the update here.
3D Morphable Model Face Animation
The technology available these days is amazing and it’s going to get more and more advanced. For example this 3D Morphable Model Face Animation technology. Basically this technology allows you to create a 3D face model using just a picture. You can create a 3D face model of Mona Lisa for example, you can make Tom Hanks smile, or Carmen Electra sad, all this by using just a picture.
If you can’t see this video click here.
Free PHP chat system
phpFreeChat is a fast, simple to install multi-language chat system developed by phpfreechat.net. It uses AJAX to for refresh (no flicker) and display the chat zone and the nickname zone, it supports similes, chat sounds, bbcode, multi-rooms, moderation, CSS themes and plug-ins that allow you to create your own chat commands.
Installation instructions and readme included in the package.
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Photosynth Prototype
This is an amazing piece of technology, presented at a TED conference. I really can’t explain it better than the video below. Enjoy !
If you can’t see this video click here.
More information is available on the Microsoft Research Website.
There is also a live preview of this software available online. All you need to do is install a 5.5 MB Photosynth ActiveX. The address is : http://labs.live.com/photosynth/
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Bryce 5.5 Free Download
Daz Productions is making the 5.5 version of its 3D modelling and annimation software, Bryce available to anyone, for free.
The 3D landscape creation application is available in both PC and Intel-based Mac versions. This is not the first time Daz Productions released one of the Bryce versions for free. Same thing happened for version 5.
Bryce 5.5 is a great application for 3D landscape and general scene creation, suitable for both newbies and pros. The integration into the Bryce world is helped by a large community of Bryce users, with years of tips and tutorials on the Web available to speed up the learning curve, which complement the related 3D content products provided by DAZ.
You also have the possibility to upgrade, for a small price to the current Bryce version, 6.1.
More information is available on the DAZ website.
