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Alien Skin announces Blow Up 2 Photoshop photo resizing plug-in

BlowUp2 Boxshot High Res 20080827 062238 Alien Skin announces Blow Up 2 Photoshop photo resizing plug inAlien Skin’s Blow Up 2 is a clever, if somewhat pricy, Photoshop plug-in that allows you to enlarge photos and still keep them clear and sharp using its sophisticated enlargement algorithm. The new version simplifies the process of preparing photos for printing by efficiently handling resizing, cropping, and sharpening.

Blow Up 2 sells for USD$249 with an upgrade price of USD$99 for registered users of Blow Up 1. Blow Up 2 requires either Adobe Photoshop CS2 9.0.2 or later, or Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0.1 or later. You might also want to be using a PowerPC G5 or Intel processor and Mac OS X 10.4.11 or later and a monitor with 1024×768 resolution or greater.

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EA Spore Creature Creator spreads across the internet

spore 20080617 215301 EA Spore Creature Creator spreads across the internetIt was kind of fun to monitor Twitter today with all the buzz about the Spore Creature Creator Trial but not as much fun as it is playing! The Spore Creature Creator is a preview of the full Spore game that is expected to release on September 7. With the Creature Creator, you to create Spore creatures that you will later be able to use in the game. You can create multiple creatures or sample those created by the Spore design team. You can ever share your creatures and create little videos of them doing their thing.

The Spore Creature Creator has some stiff requirements: it requires Leopard and an Intel Mac, minimum ATI X1600 or NVidia 7300 GT with 128 MB of Video RAM, or Intel Integrated GMA X3100.

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Add some flickin’ scrolling abilities to your Mac

sxprefpane 20080506 201842 Add some flickin scrolling abilities to your MacDo you like the way you can flick through long lists on the iPhone and iPod touch? Do you wish your Mac had the same functionality? Thanks to Marcmoini’s Smart Scroll, you can bring the same flickin’ scrolling abilities from the iPhone to the desktop.

The USD$19 System add-on runs on Mac OS X 10.3.9 to 10.5.2 (PPC/Intel) and offers “Super Scroll” and something called “Grab Scroll” which allows you to move a window’s contents by “throwing” it. Very weird. Very cool.

Smart Scroll got a bug fix update today, so if you are already a Smart Scroll user, be sure to update.

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