Archive for the ‘News’ Category

Pixar “Up” Theatrical Trailer now online

Friday, November 7th, 2008

TrailerAddic has put a new theatrical trailer of “Up”, the upcoming Pixar movie, it starts showing some old hits and then the trailer starts.

I really LOVE this one! hope you like it. Pixar wants to make a movie per year and “Up” will be the next blockbuster of 2009.

Via: The Pixar Blog

World Plone Day, November 7th 2008

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

Plone, one of the best Open Source CMS, is celebrating its day this November 7, a lot of activities are planned in different cities all around the world in order to promote, meet and discover the possibilities of this software in goverment, business and education.

If you are new or you don’t know anything about Plone, take some time and give it a try, yes it’s one of the hardest to develop, but once you get in… it’s harder to get out!

I’m working with Zope/Plone in SEMIC Internet, so following the open source community spirit, we are goint to sponsor WPD too and maybe doing something in Lleida.

Link: World Plone Day at Plone.org

My new workstation!

Saturday, November 1st, 2008

I’ve been busy last week (no posts…) because I was building my new workstation, it’s all up and running now but I had some problems with the VGA, nothing that a motherboard BIOS update cannot fix ;)

Here are the specs:
Intel Core 2 Quad 8200
4 Gb RAM DDR2 1066 Kinston HyperX
nVidia GeForce GTX260 896MB DDR3
Samsung T220 22″ 16:9

Works like a charm!!!

Autodesk has purchased Softimage!

Friday, October 24th, 2008

Yesterday Autodesk purchased Softimage for approximately $35 million!

You can read the official PR here (Autodesk)

Adobe Flash Player 10 officially launched

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

Finally its here and with a bunch of new features and visual performance improvements, now you can download Adobe Flash Player version 10 from Adobe website!

Adobe Flash Player 10

Adobe Flash Player 10

Link: Download Adobe Flash Player 10 (Adobe)

Stolen iPhone? your data will be erased!

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

Today I was reading the bug fixes and improvements of the new 2.1 iPhone update, and I’ve discovered a new interesting functionality.

If somebody stolen your iPhone and you have it locked by a code, all your data will be wiped if the thief fails ten (10) times to unlock it.

iPhone 3G lock options

iPhone 3G lock options

Pixologic ZBrush 3.12 Now available for Apple MacOSX

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

The latest version of ZBrush, v3.12 is now available for MacOSX platform, you can read the full announcement here.

SplutterFish launches “The Ghost of Ghost Challenge”

Friday, September 19th, 2008

SplutterFish, the creators of Brazil Rendering System (originally called Ghost), just launched a new and interesting challenge while they are creating some really interesting new technology, called: The Ghost of Ghost Challenge: Render Like it’s the Year 2000 

Hurry up! deadline is in October 15, and there are big prizes!

More information here

BSOD (Blue Screen of Death) with iTunes 8 and Windows Vista

Friday, September 12th, 2008

Just updated my iPhone 3G with the new 2.1 firmware and installed iTunes 8 on my Sony VAIO laptop, I have this Sony VAIO for 6 months and this is the first time I see a Blue Screen of Death just after the first iPhone sync with this new firmware.

The truth is that there is a compatibility problem with the new iTunes version, but Apple has released a revised version that solves the problem, you can download it here.

First, disconnect your iPod/iPhone from your PC, then uninstall iTunes 8 and Apple Mobile Device and then, reinstall the recently downloaded iTunes from Apple.

It seems that the problem is caused by a new driver that Apple has replaced with the old iTunes 7.7 version.

Via: Guizmodo

Hackers at CERN’s LHC

Friday, September 12th, 2008

A Greek group of hackers attacked the CERN’s website and displayed a page with the text “‘GST: Greek Security Team.’”

The hackers did not arrived at the level of the LHC control, but they where “one step away”

Here is a screen capture of the attack (click to see a large version)

Greek hackers attack the CERN's LHC

Greek hackers attack the CERN

More information at the Telegraph