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20 Jan 2010

Mac OS X only: If you own Mac hardware, still like to get your Windows on from time to time, and virtual machines just won’t do, here’s some good news: Apple just released Boot Camp 3.1, adding support for Windows 7.

For those unfamiliar with Boot Camp, it’s the dual-booting tool that allows Mac users to install to and boot Windows partitions from their hard drives, and this update gives Mac users looking to dual-boot Windows 7 something to be happy about. Specifically:

This update adds support for Microsoft Windows 7 (Home Premium, Professional, and Ultimate), addresses issues with the Apple trackpad, turns off the red digital audio port LED on laptop computers when it is not being used, and supports the Apple wireless keyboard and Apple Magic mouse.

Boot Camp is a free download, requires Mac OS X.

Boot Camp 3.1 Download for 32-bit (64-bit) [Apple via Ed Bott]

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Poser 8 Training Videos

In: Design

20 Jan 2010

For those that don’t already know Poser is 3D animation and rendering software developed by Smith Micro Software. It’s optimized for models that depict the human figure in three-dimensional form, mostly used to pose and animate the figures in a similar way as a mannequin. The 8th version of Poser allows you to easily create new characters from your facial photographs, dress Poser’s virtual stage with props, lights and cameras to construct 3D scenes, automatically generate walking or running animations and talking characters and much more. As you can imagine it’s quite a complex software to use, so some training videos can come really handy. These Poser Tutorial Videos to break learning this powerful application down into simplistic steps, even the more complex topics are reduced to easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions.

Poser 8 Training Videos

Poser 8 Training Videos offers over 7.5 hours of valuable lessons by accredited expert Dwayne Ferguson. The CD / DVD is organized in 21 chapters and includes 117 lessons with all the work files included in the package. All 117 lessons are in audio and also have subtitles. The first 3 chapters with 15 lessons are free and can be viewed online here.

The training videos are compatible with Vista, 98, 2000, NT, XP, Mac OS and OSX.

You will also get your own free certificate (which can be verified online) to prove your credentials.

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Create Video Games on your Windows PC with Microsoft Kodu

In: Coding

19 Jan 2010

Microsoft has offered many products in recent years to help people get started with programming on the Windows platform. For instance, Small Basic makes it easy for beginners (including young kids) to write basic programs for Windows without having to learn any complex concepts while free development tools like Visual Studio Express are aimed at advanced programmers.

Last summer, Microsoft Research released a community game cum programming environment for the Xbox 360 called Kodu. Unlike most other video games, Kodu would let players create their own video games for the Xbox without any prior knowledge of programming.

Design Games on your Windows PC

The initial version of Kodu required the Xbox 360 console but now Kodu is available as a free download for your Windows PC as well. This means you no longer need an Xbox to design games with Kodu and you can play them on just about any computer using a keyboard and mouse (or an Xbox game controller, if you have one).

The entire Kodu program is more like a video game than a programming environment. It includes several tutorials to help you quickly figure out how to create new games, or you can look at the sample games bundled with the program for new ideas.

You can easily edit any game by pressing escape, make the changes and then jump back into playing the game with your changes. Although you cannot edit every little thing inside the game, it still gives you a nice launch pad for creating simple games.

You can download Kodu for PC from fuse.microsoft.com/kodu. Additionally, the graphics settings can be turned down to allow it to run on a computer with lower resources. Kodu requires .NET 3.5 and the XNA framework 3.1 to run — if you don’t have them, the Kodu installer will automatically download and install them for you.

In this CES video, a 12-year old girl is making a computer game with Kodu live on-stage — she’s using Xbox but you can use a Windows PC as well with Kodu.

Scratch from the MIT Media Labs is another popular tool that you may use to create interactive games and animated stories on your Mac OS X and Windows machine.

Also see: Run Classic DOS Games on your Computer

Create Video Games on your Windows PC with Microsoft Kodu

Originally published at Digital Inspiration by Amit Agarwal.