First released no less than ten years ago, Google’s SketchUp has proved to be a popular and powerful 3D modelling app, with the company claiming that a million people a week are all busy knocking out 3D wotsits with the free software.
Websites don’t get much simpler or easier to use than this.
Write.fm makes it ridiculously easy to share text notes and files over the internet with the browser interface inviting you to write a note, add a file or two and then share the content within seconds.
NASA has released a trailer for their new 3-D game set on the Moon called, “Moonbase Alpha”.
For many years, Splash ID was an essential install on all our PalmOS devices, with the password management software offering a handy and secure desktop/handheld combination.
WordPress – the most popular blog software on the planet and the content management system powering this very site – has just enjoyed a major upgrade to version 3.0.
Now acquired by Magix AG, graphics editing package Xara Xtreme has had a major makeover and morphed into ‘Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 6′, while the more upmarket Xara Xtreme Pro has enjoyed a similar update and christened ‘Xara Designer Pro 6′.
Set to inspire wannabe Hitchcock film-makers is YouTube’s natty new cloud-based video editing tools which have just been added to the video sharing site.
Apple has announced that a new update of their proprietary digital media player application, iTunes, is now available for download.
The latest version comes with iBooks support for the iPhone and iPod touch (withPDF syncing) plus home screen folder organisation, and nippier backups on iOS 4 devices.
Apple has released the latest update to its operating system, taking it up to the giddy heights of Mac OS X 10.6.4.
The free update introduces the new Safari 5.0 browser, and attends to a load of bug fixes.
Taking time out from the growing bunfight with Steve Jobs and the Apple Flash h8Rz, Paul Betlem, Flash Player Engineering main man has blogged up his delight at announcing that the new Adobe Flash Player 10.1 is now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux operating systems.
It’s available to download right now from here, with Flash Player 10.1 for Android set to follow later this month.
Promising photo pros, “improved image quality, performance and workflow flexibility , ” Adobe’s latest version of their ‘digital photography workflow program,’ Lightroom 3 has been released.
Curiously absent from yesterday’s WWDC10 keynote speech by Steve Jobs was any mention of the expected update to their Safari browser.
Instead, a press release came shuffling out from Apple after the event, with the all-new Safari 5 promising a claimed 30 percent performance improvement its predecessor.
Bingo!
Just like the iPhone 4, Microsoft’s Bing search engine has also moved into town as one of the search engine options.
Apple say that Safari 5 comes with improved developer tools and supports more than a dozen new HTML5 technologies for serving up create rich, dynamic websites.
If your PC is taking so long to boot that you’ve got time to pop out for a pint and a pasty before getting to the log in screen, an intriguing new product called Soluto could be a Godsend.
Reviewed back in January this year, the high end photo management tool ACDSee has long been our tool of choice for organising our photo collections, and a fairly substantial free update has just been released.
Google Ventures has just slapped a ton of wedge on the table to buy up Recorded Future, a company that uses technology to predict the future.
Before you start making spooky noises and thinking of all things Dr Who, Star Trek and HG Wells, we should point out that it doesn’t quite see the future, but rummages through vast heaps of quantifiable data from the past and present to forecast trends and predict outcomes.
Anyone hoping to input the results of next week’s lottery should bear in mind that Recorded Future only offers alerts on topics such as financial markets, geopolitical news, industry changes, public figures, technology and information security.
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