Marc Pampols

Yesterday Autodesk purchased Softimage for approximately $35 million!

You can read the official PR here (Autodesk)

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

Link: Download Adobe Flash Player 10 (Adobe)

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

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

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

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

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

More information at the Telegraph

Yesterday Steve jobs presented the new shit on the Keynote, new iPod’s, new 2.1 firmware (for the iPhone too), new iTunes 8, new Genius mode… and new spectacular 3D games, like Need for Speed

Here you can see a video from the Apple keynote presentation:

You can also download for free the full Keynote from the iTunes Store.

Via: esferaiphone

If you have an hour take it to watch this fantastic BBC documental, released some days ago and called “The Big Machine”, if you are in the UK you can watch it here.

Here’s an introduction about it:

Professor Brian Cox visits Geneva to take a look around Cern’s Large Hadron Collider before this vast, 27km long machine is sealed-off and the experiment to create the simulation of a black hole begins. 

When it’s up and running, it will be capable of creating the conditions that existed just a billionth of a second after the Big Bang. Brian joins the scientists who hope that the LHC will change our understanding of the early universe and solve some of its mysteries.

BBC - The Big Bang Machine

UPDATE #1: Added another video

Apple, get ready for this! TAT - The Astonishing Tribe is a company specialized in high performance user experiences on mobile devices, I’ve found a video where we can see a prototype of her new impressive mobile interface that maybe we will se in the next mobile devices.

Well maybe the buttons and widgets are too small to touch, that would be cool in a keyboard device but a lot better in a screen of the size of an iPhone.

I would like to see more OS’s and interfaces like this in a near future, with even more “fx transitions” and adding a third dimension to the screen.

TAT mobile user interface

Link: TAT Website