| Adobe ships InDesign, After Effects, InCopy updates
Adobe today released several updates to its software applications for professionals, including After Effects, InDesign, and InCopy. The Adobe After Effects CS3 Professional software 8.0.2 update provides Panasonic P2 format support, Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard compatibility fixes, Mac OpenGL support for supported video cards under Mac OS X v10.4.10 and v10.5, and other important fixes. The update for its professional video editing solution is 106.3MB and is available online. Adobe also noted that the Adobe InCopy CS3 5.02 update, for its provides key fixes in the areas of character alignment, undo and redo, text and fonts, dictionaries, import/export graphics, and others; the installer includes fixes from all previously released InCopy CS3 5.0.x updates (and previous InCopy CS3 5.0.x updates are no longer available separately.
Wal-Mart unleashes employees in blogs
Microsoft is one of Wal-Mart's biggest suppliers. But that did not stop the Wal-Mart employee in charge of buying computers from panning Microsoft's newest operating system, Vista. "My life has not changed dramatically" because of the new system, he wrote on his blog. "Well, for that matter, it hasn't changed at all." His public burst of candor was not isolated. On the same blog, a video game buyer for Wal-Mart slammed a "Star Wars" film as a "debacle," even though Wal-Mart still sells the movie. Known for its strict, by-the-books culture - accepting a cup of coffee from a supplier can be a firing offense - Wal-Mart is now encouraging employees who do the buying to speak frankly, even critically, about the products the chain carries. An unusual new Web site by Wal-Mart, which was quietly created during the holiday shopping season, has become a forum for unvarnished rants about gadgets, raves about new video games and advice on selecting environmentally sustainable food.
Sundance: Stars, snow, and social cyborgs
Back in the early days of the Sundance Film Festival, when video was considered an emerging technology, there were independent filmmakers, and there were technologists. The two didn't typically go hand in hand. Fast forward to this year's festival, which starts Thursday and will for the first time feature a 3D film, and indies and techies are one and the same. These days, it's near impossible to be the former without being the latter, what with the conveniences and opportunities that come with the likes of high-definition cameras, advanced editing software, and the Internet as a distribution tool. So it's no surprise that the 2008 festival--an increasingly star-studded 10-day indie-film showcase in snowy Park City, Utah--has stepped up its technology-related programming.
Feb. 4, 1915: Improve Your Diet and Live Better, Longer
1915: The dawn of the "nutrition age" begins, haltingly, with the first results of experiments showing that poor diet is the cause of pellagra, an often fatal disease affecting impoverished communities. Pellagra was a regional phenomenon in the United States, occurring primarily in the rural South. Victims developed skin rashes, mouth sores and diarrhea. If left untreated, mental deterioration and death could follow. In 1915, more than 10,000 people died from the disease. Because the medical world was obsessed with the possibilities of infectious disease, a relatively new field of study then, pellagra was believed to be caused by airborne microbes. The first experiments were carried out using volunteer inmates at a Mississippi prison farm. Dr. Joseph Goldberger, who had established his credentials as an effective fighter against infectious disease while with the Marine Hospital Service, conducted the experiments at the behest of the surgeon general of the United States.
Mama's got a brand-new bag
This year's Oscars is currently under threat because of the writers' strike but Mellon has already moved on: her tip for the next frontier of luxury retail is product placement. Jimmy Choo has secured lucrative appearances in Sex and the City and The Devil Wears Prada, and Mellon is pursuing more. Jimmy Choo himself, the Hackney couture shoemaker with whom she went into business in 1996, was sidelined soon after. (In 2001, he sold his half of the company for £10m to Equinox Luxury Holdings.) Choo's wife's niece, Sandra Choi, who had worked with Choo, sided with Mellon, and despite rumblings of discontent over her low profile compared to Mellon, remains designer of the collections. Next month the relaunched Halston fashion label, a project in which Mellon has collaborated with the movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, will debut at New York fashion week.
World`s Largest Digital Display To Showcase Videos from MultiVu
NEW YORK, Feb. 13 (ANTARA/PR Newswire)- MultiVu, PR Newswire's multimedia and broadcast public relations company, is now offering its customers a unique opportunity to reach millions of consumers each day with video messages displayed on the 23-story high Reuters digital billboard located in New York's Times Square, the largest of its kind in the world, the company announced today. To view the Multimedia News Release, please click here: http://www.prnewswire.com/mnr/prnewswire/31780/ The placement of MultiVu's customers' video on the Reuters Sign marks a natural extension of an extremely successful partnership entered into in March 2007 between PR Newswire and Times Square2, a division of Reuters and manager of the Reuters Sign. The initial agreement, which was the first of its kind, placed PR Newswire's customers' photos on the 7,400-square-foot billboard, which is seen by an estimated 1.5 million people who pass through Times Square daily.
Fetish Anonymous
The non-sex YouTube videos and paysite 911bio-med.com, dedicated to the nail-biting moments we see on shows like "ER" where medical technicians (actors) use a defibrillator machine as the last resort to save a life. Usually a woman's (though not always). Not just giantesses (macrophilia), but giantesses' feet. House of Slime (houseofslime.com). You'll note that this year's finds are, contrary to popular stereotypes, not all Japanese. And just last month, my pals at YesButNoButYes were even compelled to list their top 10 funniest fetish site finds, which thankfully include girls in spacesuits and girls eating sandwiches. Which makes me wonder, am I losing out on a financial opportunity every time I eat at the Blue Front Cafe? Would an outsider then understand that to me, it's not really about a sandwich but more about how the sandwich feels? The beautiful, effusive dominatrix continued where my thoughts left off.
Category: Disaster Recovery
Between the Lines Latest Post | Last 10 Posts | Archives Middle East Internet outage: Do you have backups for your offshore ops? Posted in: General Wired & Wireless Outsourcing Offshore outsourcing Telecommunications Business Continuity Disaster Recovery Countries across the Middle East are sans Internet connections due to a cable break on Wednesday. Two lessons: The Internet in some areas lack redundancy and telecommunications infrastructure is weak. And companies that outsource customer service operations offshore need to plan ahead. Egypt's Minister of Communications and Information Technology on Wednesday formed an emergency task force to fix a cable that cut off Internet services and international communications in the Middle East.
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