ZOTAC Unleashes Graphics Plus Mini-ITX Platform - HEXUS.net
HONG KONG – Dec. 3, 2008 – ZOTAC International, a leading manufacturer of NVIDIA-based motherboards and graphics cards, today unleashes its first Graphics Plus capable mini-ITX
Game Developer - gamesindustry.biz
SAN FRANCISCO—Dec. 2, 2008 —The editors of Think Services’ Game Developer Magazine have named the finalists for the 2008 Front Line Awards, the magazine’s eleventh annual
New Comco press inspires innovation - Converting Today
Mark Andy has launched the latest addition to its line of Comco equipment, the C1 ProGlide. The mid-web press is able to accommodate material from 0.5 mil film to 600 g/m² board
Avatar ‘won’t live up to hype’ - MSN UK News
Director James Cameron says his upcoming movie Avatar won’t live up to its hype on the internet. The web has been buzzing about the big-budget 3D movie, and fans have made some
prev article - MacWorld UK
Nvidia officials have reiterated the company’s interest in the mini-laptop space but said it would wait for the market to mature before jumping in. Earlier this year, the company
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Iconfinder.net is a lovely little abode for web designers scourging the net for icons. More explanation? it does what it says…searches for icons. all of the search results are in PNG format

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Since Shrek stepped into the scene, animation movies genre became stronger than ever, not many very sure despite previous highly grossing movies that this could actually be a full fledged field of film making.
Ever thought how he has made? What kind of technology did they use? especially what operation system did they use?
Tabbing through various articles linux journal had this interesting post and what happens to be the cover story of their monthly journal, this post sheds some details on how the ogre really came to life.

Why don’t the movie studios contribute some of their millions of lines of Linux code to open source? Many studios have developed proprietary Linux video playback and editing software, an area where open source is deficient. Could they give that to open source?
I remember asking a friend, that if these OSs are free and Open Source, really who pays for thier development? It never hit me that nearly 90% of the webservers run Linux. :O wew!
I liked that this article also focused on some of those issues.
Read: DreamWorks Animation “Shrek the Third”: Linux Feeds an Ogre
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Linux has dumped it’s old image of being text terminal and weak graphics. Many now even consider it to have more eye candy than other competing operating systems like Mac OSX and windows, with beryl and compiz. The next major release of KDE(K Desktop Environment) comes with several heralded advancements, one of them being the Oxygen graphics and iconset. This has been heralded by many as one of the biggest opensource graphics projects, and has been kept at utmost secrecy for some reason. Though minor previews are available. Keep watching for more updates on linux eye candy.
Links:
Latest preview of Oxygen Icons: Link
Oxygen icons preview page(old): Link
Amarok 2 SVN with partial Oxygen Icons: Link
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