Archive for February, 2010

The Rackspace Cloud, the cloud computing division of Rackspace Hosting has announced its new Partner Program aimed at developers and IT managers. The program includes online resources such as a web portal for tracking and reporting; webinars and marketing collateral; opportunities for co-marketing; and open, standards-based APIs that are easy to build upon. The Rackspace [...]

Adobe is working on a Flex/Flash “Evangelism kit”. Kristen Schofield writes on the Official Flex Team Blog, “Something that we’ve heard from you guys is that you need help championing Flex and Flash Builder to your customers or even within your own organizations. I’m now working to put materials together that can help you in [...]

Facebook understands that developers may not be able to drop everything and prepare a response every time the site makes a change.  Real jobs, food, and sleep sometimes call.  Facebook’s even gone beyond “understanding” to “accommodating,” too, unveiling new Migrations tool. Justin Bishop explained on the Facebook Developers blog, “Now, when certain changes go live, [...]

Heavy Rain

In: tutorial

28 Feb 2010

Create a custom brush to make a rainy scene and manipulate some imagery to envision a live-action Heavy Rain. The video game features a character named Madison Paige, who is sculpted after a British model that did all of the facial expressions and motion capture for the game, which is touted to be a very [...]

I have switched from Microsoft Office on my Mac OS X system to Apple’s iWorks package, which works great except every so often someone complains that my files are in .pages format, not .doc, which is what they want to see. I can’t see how to save a file in Pages as an MS Word [...]


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