The conceptual CAD program adds modeling tools for twisting and
stretching images, a Pro/E Reader for parts and assemblies, automated
creation of design books, an expanded photo rendering library, and
other changes.
Grok Headline matches for Update: Concepts Unlimited 2
CSi announces Concepts Unlimited 2
CSi announces Concepts Unlimited 207/08/2004 02:23 AM CSi has announced Concepts Unlimited 2, the latest version of its
flagship product for conceptual computer aided design. Version 2
incorporates a variety of new tools and enhancements including: 600
textures and 300 decals added to the photo rendering library, new
extreme modeling tools for twisting and stretching shapes, Pro/E
Reader for parts and assemblies, reduced file sizes with advanced
compression algorithms, automated creation of design books, and over
145 user requested changes and enhancements...
CAD app Concepts Unlimited 2 adds new tools, more
CAD app Concepts Unlimited 2 adds new tools, more07/08/2004 03:49 PM CADSoft Solutions Inc. has released Concepts Unlimited
2, the new version of its computer aided design (CAD) software.
The upgrade adds new modeling tools that allow you to twist and
stretch shapes, 600 textures and 300 decals for the photo rendering
library, a Pro/E Reader for parts and assemblies, automated design
book creation and more. In addition, Concepts Unlimited 2 features
better compression algorithms that result in smaller file sizes as
well as over 145 minor changes and performance enhancements. System
requirements call for Mac OS X (no minimum version number provided), a
G4 processor and 512MB RAM. The company asks you to contact them for
pricing information.
Concepts 2D, Concepts 3D debut
Concepts 2D, Concepts 3D debut07/16/2004 10:27 AM Fort Worth, Texas-based CSi on Friday introduced two new Computer
Aided Design (CAD) products for Mac OS X and Windows -- Concepts 2D and
Concepts 3D.
Concepts 2D helps create 2D drawings from 3D data culled from SAT,
ProE and CATIA files, while Concepts 3D is a 3D modeling package unto
itself.
CSi announces Concepts 3D and Concepts 2D
CSi announces Concepts 3D and Concepts 2D07/16/2004 05:23 AM CSi today announced two new additions to its family of products,
Concepts 3D (US$895) and Concepts 2D ($495)...
Concepts 2.1.0
Concepts 2.1.009/17/2004 06:16 AM A C++ class library for elliptic PDEs.
New: Concepts 2D and 3D
New: Concepts 2D and 3D07/16/2004 09:59 AM
CADSoft Solutions today released new 3D modelling and 2D drafting
applications for Mac OS X and Windows.
A Tale of Two Concepts
A Tale of Two Concepts06/02/2004 08:23 AM Some eateries thrive while others suffer through the low-carb craze.
PubSub Concepts provides real-time, content based publish and
subscribe systems at internet scale. This site is a Beta version of
our home page, which will provide a PubSub interface for weblogs and
other information sources. PubSub.com reads over 100,000 weblogs in
real time, and generates new feeds containing information specific to
particular issues.
Wired's NextFest Gadget Concepts05/06/2004 08:39 AM In a story that I'm sure will appeal to almost every single Gizmodo
reader, Wired Magazine challenges five design groups to come up with
their visions of gadgetry a decade from now--all speculation, of
course, but we'll all have forgotten it in ten years, anyhow. I
especially like the idea...
Knowledge management has come to the forefront of
the business world surrounded by an air of publicity and a degree of
scepticism. However in recent years, this label has been removed, and
managers and employees are now discovering the real value of knowledge
and knowledge management to their organisations. Globalisation and the
spread of multinational organisations are demanding the use of cross
cultural management and working practices across several language
groups. This leads to the question of whether knowledge management
should be practiced in the same way across nations.
This
project aims to investigate, by the use of a conversational study and
questionnaire, whether differences exist in the opinions of knowledge
management across two specific language groups: French and English.
The hypothesis that language affects thought is discussed with a view
to linking the language spoken to differences in opinions held by an
individual. The first outcome of the study was that the hypothesis
'language affects thought' was substantiated. Secondly, the hypothesis
that differences exist in the opinions of French and English speakers
in the field of knowledge management was unable to be confirmed as
correct. A copy of the full report can be found here.
Introduction to XFML Core concepts.10/16/2002 10:39 AM Even for experienced metadata practitioners, some of the concepts in
XFML can
be a bit weird. An XFML map consists of a number of facets
(containers),
that each have trees of topics in them. It also contains a list of
pages
with occurrences of topics on those pages.
Oracle Judge Says He's Still Unclear on Key Concepts
Oracle Judge Says He's Still Unclear on Key Concepts06/25/2004 10:04 PM The federal judge who will decide an antitrust trial contesting Oracle
billion bid for PeopleSoft ordered the lawyers in the case to provide
better explanations about several key concepts because he remains
fuzzy on their meaning.
My German is iffy -- it's mostly really
just a funny voice I make -- but I think most of these notebook
computer design concepts on PC-Welt are pretty self-explanatory. They
don't all look practical (I'm looking at you, strange Klingon-looking
battle laptop), but if you like to reminded just how many roll-up
screens and interestingly-folded laptops we have (Answer: One million
zeros) there's a lot of fun stuff to check out. I've been told the
first page is the winner of the competition, while the second page is
all the runners-up. (Thanks, Thien!) Read - The Winner [PCWelt] Read - Runners-Up [PCWelt]
Progress Indication: Concepts, Design, and Implementation
Book Review: Texturing: Concepts and Techniques05/07/2004 01:29 PM This month, we're revisiting the topic of textures in this latest
offering by Charles River Media. If you've been looking for a text on
the subject of textures, this could be the book for you. By Nathan
Segal. 0507
Forward Concepts Forecasts a Very Good Year for 3G Cellphones
The Cararra Studio. Chapter 1: 3D Modeling Concepts and Techniques
The Cararra Studio. Chapter 1: 3D Modeling Concepts and Techniques02/17/2004 11:50 AM Here, you'll quickly learn 3D with nearly 30 step-by-step tutorials
and exercises. They guide you through modeling with subdivision
surfaces, spline modeling, UV mapping, shader creation, character
rigging, animation, and more. By Charles River Media. 0217
Supernova Summary Day 1: Distributed Concepts Expand Beyond Technology
Supernova Summary Day 1: Distributed Concepts Expand Beyond Technology06/25/2004 03:42 AM So, we promis
ed a short summary of Supernova, and since there are plenty of
bloggers and sites covering the conference, we tried to pick through
everything and come up with a slightly different take on things.
Certainly, there was a lot of things being talked about that
get discussed over and over (and over and over) again at every one of
these conferences and which shows up on the same old blogs with the
same old arguments. It would have been nice to cut out some of that
fat, but mixed in with all of this was an idea that not everyone seems
to be picking up on: the power of all of this "decentralization" isn't
just focused on the technology world, but expands well beyond that.
While many of the conversations were focused on technology, it's time
we started looking beyond the nuts and bolts of decentralization and
towards how it will actually impact real lives. Thomas Malone got
that process started with his keynote talking about how decentralization
makes massive changes to the way humans organize, and how truly
powerful that concept really is. Unfortunately, instead of diving
more into those concepts, many of the discussions went back to the
nuts and bolts (and arguing over what shape the nuts and bolts should
be -- of if we really need nuts and bolts at all). Still, a few
conversations went beyond this issue and focused on more important
aspects of decentralization. The final panel of the day, on "fighting
distributed wars," (which was described by more than a few people as
"depressing") showed how terrorists now understand network theory, and
it's about time those who are fighting terrorists realize that they,
too, can learn from ways that technologists learn how to build
resilient, redundant networks in the fight against terrorism. That,
in many ways, is a powerful lesson of decentralization that looks at
how we can apply technology concepts to the broader world that really
impacts peoples' lives on a daily basis.
Applying "Digital Hub" Concepts to Enterprise Software Design
Applying "Digital Hub" Concepts to Enterprise Software Design05/04/2004 09:03 PM Adam Behringer: "One thing that I have discovered is that there are
many common issues and design challenges for this type of software,
even in vastly different industries. In this article, I will share an
architecture approach that has worked well for most of the projects in
which I have participated. In future articles, I will give some
practical tutorials for building a complex business system one step at
a time."
RDF Concepts and Abstract Syntax Working Draft Published
RDF Concepts and Abstract Syntax Working Draft Published11/12/2002 06:47 PM 12 November 2002: The RDF Core Working Group has released a Working
Draft of the Resource Description Framework (RDF) Concepts and
Abstract Syntax (formerly named Concepts and Abstract Data Model). The
draft defines the abstract graph syntax on which RDF is based. It
discusses design goals, the meaning of RDF documents, key concepts,
character normalization and handling of URI references. Read about the
Semantic Web Activity. (News archive)
Open Source and Free Software, Concepts, Controversies, and Solutions
The conference was designed to explore the legal, moral, political,
social, commercial, and technical perspectives of open source and free
software, to build a broader understanding of the movement.
I spoke on a panel entitled Education
and Public Knowledge: Open Access, Open Content. The aim of the
panel was to understand how the lessons from open source and free
software could help develop a thriving open-content ecosystem, within
the context of education.
The entire conference will be online soon -- check it out!
RDF Concepts and Abstract Data Model Working Draft Published
RDF Concepts and Abstract Data Model Working Draft Published09/03/2002 11:37 AM 30 August 2002: The RDF Core Working Group has released a Working
Draft of the Resource Description Framework (RDF): Concepts and
Abstract Data Model. The draft defines the abstract graph syntax on
which RDF is based, and other technical aspects of RDF. Read about the
Semantic Web Activity. (News archive)
Judge in Oracle Corp.'s antitrust case still unclear on key concepts
Advanced Concepts Center, LLC to Offer Boston University Project Management Curriculum
Advanced Concepts Center, LLC to Offer Boston University Project Management Curriculum06/20/2004 03:27 AM Advanced Concepts Center (ACC), LLC, a learning solutions company
based in Roswell, Georgia has become an Education Affiliate of Boston
University. ACC will be delivering Boston University’s highly
acclaimed Project Management curriculum to their United States and
international clients. [PRWEB Jun 20, 2004]
Love for Mother Earth, PDC Moves For Environmentally Friendly Concepts, Announces Production of Lead Free MultiMediaCards
Love for Mother Earth, PDC Moves For Environmentally Friendly Concepts, Announces Production of Lead Free MultiMediaCards05/31/2004 02:11 PM Power Digital Card (PDC) continues to lead industry concepts in the
memory card market. Being granted awards for memory card designs last
year, PDC was awarded again this year with the Certificate of
Excellence for its RSMMC designs. Recently, PDC takes action to move
its production processes for more environmentally friendly concepts,
announcing lead free MultiMediaCards. [PRWEB Apr 16, 2004]
Free Desktop Political Research Software Appliance Unifies Information Access and Measures the Coherence Between Words, Phrases and Concepts
Scientology link to public schools / As early as the third grade, students in S.F. and elsewhere are subtly introduced to church's concepts via anti-drug teachings
Unlimited FTP applet 2.8.105/03/2004 11:32 PM A fully customizable Java FTP applet. Grok Description matches for Update: Concepts Unlimited 2 GrokA matches for Update: Concepts Unlimited 2
Helic Joins the Cadence Connections Program
Helic Joins the Cadence Connections Program05/31/2004 02:07 PM Helic S.A. proudly announces that the company has joined the Cadence®
Connections® program as an Emerging Solutions member. Through its
membership, Helic will assure that the rapid modeling capabilities of
its VeloceRF™ design tool work seamlessly with the Cadence Virtuoso®
custom design platform. VeloceRF helps designers to accelerate the
development of complex RFICs and systems-in-package by enabling rapid,
whole-chip electromagnetic modeling early in the design flow. [PRWEB
May 21, 2004]
Windows CE Feature-By-Feature Comparison
Windows CE Feature-By-Feature Comparison06/28/2004 11:51 AM The downloadable document available on this page is a comparison
between the current versions of Windows CE 5.0 and its predecessors.
The comparison is based on the Windows CE product catalog. This
side-by-side comparison highlights the new features and increased
functionality from Windows CE 3.0 through to the latest version,
Windows CE 5.0, to help you determine which feature set is best suited
to the requirements of your target device.
Xbox Live Gets Feature UpgradeMicrosoft has bumped up the feature content of its Xbox Live service today
Some of my posts have been getting kind of long, so I figured I
might as well move the wordier pieces over to the feature section (and
I could finally rid the world of Anil's mug). Piece
s of the Future is a collection of thoughts I had tonight after
watching Pieces of April for the first time. It was pretty good as a
film, but I think it could be a milestone in filmmaking.
Other: Salon Mac Feature
Other: Salon Mac Feature02/01/2005 08:48 PM
Will the Mini give the Mac a second chance against Windows?
Feature: First look: GoLive CS204/03/2005 11:48 PM Building on GoLive’s designer-friendly interface and the Site
Window-based site management, GoLive CS2 moves fully into the age of
Cascading Style Sheets and mobile devices.
Feature: First look: InDesign CS204/03/2005 11:48 PM “Efficiency” and “productivity” may not turn
heads. But what about “fewer keystrokes to accomplish repetitive
tasks” or “fewer nights in the office”? That’s
what Adobe’s aiming for with the latest InDesign.
Feature: First look: Photoshop CS2
Feature: First look: Photoshop CS204/03/2005 11:48 PM Photoshop CS2 includes a bunch of cool new tools, plus tighter
integration with Illustrator and better support for 32-bit images and
the camera RAW format.
VoIP is one of the exciting dark horses of the new Internet
landscape -- and as broadband penetration grows, quality improves and
costs come down to the $20/month range, it will emerge as one of the
recovery drivers in the communications services industry.
Also, people are now finally understanding that "Voice" is just an
"application on the Internet", rather than it's own whole
infrastructure universe. But just the same, "voice" is just a
feature of broadband communications and collaboration. Adding
presence to voice is also interesting, with services such as Skype and
some specialized SIP implementations doing this -- and of course
consumer IM clients have gradually been adding more voice and video
communications to their services, though are still somewhat dogged by
quality issues, lack of cross platform or cross IM communications, and
often firewall issues.
Further, it's all great that we now have a dozen end-points where
we can be contacted by text and voice, asynchronously and in
real-time, but we still haven't solved the problem of gathering the
right people, when they are needed. The problem of convocation
management is central to Convoq's ASAP online service (in free public
trial). It flexibly supports multi-mode (text/audio/video)
multi-party (1:1, groups of several people, or 1:100 seminar
format) communications and conferencing, but with great tools for
handling the process of getting people together.
Unsung new feature
Unsung new feature09/26/2004 01:27 PM One of my favorite new features in NetNewsWire didn’t get its
own page or make it as a bullet point on the what’s new page.
It used to be that if you have a group selected and it has unread
items—but they’re all above where you are in the headlines
table—then going to the next unread item would (annoyingly!)
expand the group and take you to a feed inside the group.
There was a logic to this, but it was totally annoying anyway. And it
was reported often as a bug.
In talking to NetNewsWire users and testers, we discovered that people
really want three distinct behaviors for going to next/previous
unread:
1. Always respect the expansion state of the Subscriptions list.
That is, if a group is expanded, it’s okay for next-unread to
select a feed in that group. Otherwise it should move on to the next
group.
2. Stay at the top level of the Subscriptions list.
That is, don’t ever automatically expand groups, and don’t
select feeds if they’re inside a group.
3. Always expand groups and skip to feeds.
Some people like to group their feeds, but they prefer to have a feed
(rather than a group) selected when they’re reading.
So these options are available at the bottom of the General
preferences pane.
The Big Smoker: Feature12/23/2003 04:58 AM a video for it that is loaded with monkeys .. Johnny Cash's Desperado,
But With Monkeys .. The Big Smoker ..
DESPERADO
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Feature Article
Feature Article09/05/2004 01:29 PM I got the whole universe in my sim… .. Computing the
Cosmos
spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/publicfeature/aug04/0804cos.html track
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Feature: First look: Illustrator CS2
Feature: First look: Illustrator CS204/03/2005 11:48 PM Illustrator CS 2 packs some powerful new drawing tools, along with a
new control palette that makes using the program much easier without
altering any of the previous version’s palettes or keyboard
commands.
Feature: Hit the road, Mac
Feature: Hit the road, Mac04/04/2005 07:05 PM Whether you travel all the time or only occasionally, and whether you
travel for business, pleasure, or both, chances are you bring a little
tech with you wherever you go. But if you ask 20 different Mac users
what they take on the road, you’ll get at least 21 different
answers.
I've been writing a review of bluetooth for the past few months and
thanks to some late-night caffeine keeping me awake, I finally put it
up as another new feature: All
Hail Bluetooth. I loves my bluetooth phone and laptop.
Macworld feature: From VHS to DVD
Macworld feature: From VHS to DVD06/04/2004 09:09 AM Somewhere in your house is a drawer full of videotapes -- aging home
movies shot with a big, bulky camcorder that may not even work
anymore. You haven't watched these movies in years, but all this talk
about the digital hub and iLife has got you thinking, "Why not
transfer those old videos to the Mac and burn them to DVDs?"
Transferring old film and video to DVD can be a time-consuming process
-- but it's well worth the effort. This step-by-step guide will show
you how to get set up and what to do with the movies once they're on
your Mac.
The N-squared feature
The N-squared feature05/03/2004 03:02 PM Overheard at work today regarding the number of mail accounts on our
system: We've got more email groups [eg. marketingteam@example.com]
than we do user accounts [eg. jim@example.com], by a factor of more
than 2 to 1. Bit of a lesson in that statement for software
developers, I think. If you've got N users on your system, those N
users can form ~N^2 groups. For example, a system containing 50
users...
Oh yes did I forget to mention that OpenEvents needs to happen? -
soon!
I'm so tired of these single feature supposed products - without
social networks, personal publishing - just sitting there, all by
themselves. Do they think that by including RSS - they're hip and
tuned in?
I wonder?
Without friends - this product is absurd.
Anyway - here's Roland's post that I found out about this lovely
feature - I mean product.
Now if only this would work seamlessly with iCal it would be
even better.
RSSCalendar is an exciting
new way for individuals and organizations to share their calendars
with family, friends, and colleagues - utilizing the latest in
"Really Simple Syndication" (RSS) technology, including RSS channel
creation and aggregation. Not only is RSSCalendar easy to use but it
is also easy to administer, and setup is a
snap.
Roland's right though - it certainly needs to support iCal and it
certainly is simple.
ADO.NET 2.0 Feature Matrix
ADO.NET 2.0 Feature Matrix07/13/2004 12:25 AM ADO.NET 2.0 comes with a plethora of new features. This includes a new
base-class–based provider model and features that all providers can
take advantage of, as well as changes that are specific to
System.Data.SqlClient. Because the .NET Framework 2.0 is being
released in conjunction with SQL Server 2005, some of these features
require SQL Server 2005 to be usable. This article is meant to serve
as an overview and roadmap of the new features, give examples of their
use, and includes a chart of which features are provider-neutral and
which are SqlClient-specific. In future articles in this series, I'll
be going over some of the features in greater detail. In addition,
there are many new features of the DataSet and friends; these will be
covered in future articles.
Last night I left my desktop PC's browser open to my gmail account
and took my laptop to the library to do some writing. I read some new
mail on the powerbook, responded to a few things, then came home and
slept. Today I came back to my desk to see gmail running, with all the
messages I had read and responded to shown as read and responded to.
Since gmail just refreshes the page in your browser every so often,
if you read your mail at one location, other locations are updated
automatically. This is something POP3 mail rarely gets right and why I
used to use IMAP when I would check mail from multiple machines. It's
nice to see a web app get this key feature right from the get-go. If
you read email at work and at home, gmail will work perfectly fine,
even if you leave your mail windows open in both places.
