Autodesk Maya 2010 – Supercharged 3D Simulation Engine
Memorable movies and animated video games include numerous scenes and special affects incorporating Maya Unlimited tools: Maya nParticles, Maya nCloth, Maya Fluid Effects, Maya Hair, and Maya Fur.

With these powerful tools, Maya 2010 adds Maya MatchMover and Composite (Toxik) for a complete workflow producing futuristic digital images, realistic [...]

Easy-to-Learn How to Create 3D Animation Characters
Put a piece of clay in your hands. Can you resist shaping the clay? With Autodesk’s Mudbox 2010, this application lets artists regain the feel of working clay and paint, without the messy clean up.

Mudbox 2010 allows beginners to experts the freedom to digitally mold and paint pre-sculpted, [...]

Visual Defects in Images
What do you do with images that show scratches, dust, spots, pimples, wrinkles, or even the dreaded ex. Get Alien Skin’s Image Doctor 2.0. This Photoshop plug-in provides a set of five cool filters that clean up visual defects in digital images.

If a painted image tells your story better than digital pixels, Alien Skin’s Snap Art 2.0 is just the tool to convert photos to an image with that hand crafted look. Students, teachers, marketing and web designers can experience a variety of painting styles, with just a click of the mouse using Snap Art 2.0.

Improving Digital Images
You have a digital camera, you’re snapping lots of pictures, but you’re not happy with the results. Someone took your Kodachrome away. O.k., lets be honest. You donated your Kodachrome and the remaining film after getting hooked on shooting digital. Yet, now you want that film look back without losing the [...]

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Never Miss A Word
How many times have you wished for a gadget that lets you record notes, listen to a lecture or conference, jump back and forth pinpointing specific details, without having to wind and rewind cassette tapes? What if you could record notes and audio online, easily follow along, highlight key points, [...]

Reading Outloud
Stuck in traffic, on a plane, or waiting for a meeting and you’re behind reviewing work, or keeping up on favorite blogs? Are you a visually  or reading impaired  individual? Want to take along that document, but not all 20 pages? Consider using iSpeech to download text, and read with your ears.

Word Web Power
Struggling for the right word, and the online thesaurus isn’t helping?  Try Visual Thesaurus by Think Map.  Type in a word and a virtual word web pops up.  On the side, a color coded bar defines each word as a noun, adjective, verb or adverb.  Some words provide voice pronunciation. 

Storytelling Power
Office:Mac 2008 Home & Student Edition has a wide variety of student positive features.   Writers like to finish their documents quickly and with flare.  Each document contains the expandable tool bar.