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Alias announces Maya 7

Today, Alias has announced the newest version of its flagship Maya software. Maya 7 software builds upon the architecture and performance enhancements in Maya 6.5 to deliver a feature-packed release offering new and improved tools for fast, realistic character animation, streamlined modeling and texturing, ground-breaking visual effects, and increased productivity. With the powerful new product features and the enhanced benefits of Maya Platinum Membership, including extended hotline access and improved response times, 3D professionals working in film, games, broadcast, digital publishing and design visualization are set to achieve more with the latest edition of this award-winning software.

Maya 7 is scheduled for release in August 2005 and pricing remains unchanged from Maya 6.5 – Maya Complete 7 is USD$1999 and Maya Unlimited 7 is USD$6999. Upgrade pricing from 6.5 is USD$899 for Maya Complete and USD$1249 for Maya Unlimited.

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Unrolling the Mac AltiVec performance abilities, Part 1

Apple has been very aggressive about getting AltiVec optimizations into core components of its operating system, to make sure that users feel they’re getting some benefit from it. Graphics applications on the Mac are very likely to be AltiVec enhanced. The consistent architecture has made the return on investment of AltiVec optimization quite good. Now that every Mac shipped comes with an AltiVec processor, every user will benefit if a program is able to make effective use of AltiVec for processing. This article gives you the basics on what AltiVec is, what it does — and how it stacks up against its competition.

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Take .mac to the limit with dotMac Menu 2.0!

dotMac Menu is the final key in your .mac experience!
dotMac Menu 2.0 is a fully customizable menu extra for Mac OS X 10.3 or higher that saves you time by allowing you to access the different aspects of your .Mac account directly from the menubar.

dotMac Menu is organized into simple yet gorgeous categories that make it easy to find a specific section in .Mac, check your iDisk usage at a glance, launch iDisk integrated applications, and view your .Mac expiration date.

This version adds customizability and several new shortcuts in the .Mac Sections category as well as a completely new architecture. DMM is freely available from www.infinitenexus.com/dmm/ Please see the included Read Me for complete details.
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