Ask Jeeves, Inc. (ASKJ) today introduced two new search products on Ask Jeeves® (www.ask.com), which increase relevance and guide users to find the information they need faster: "Zoom," a next-generation related-search tool that gives users suggestions to narrow or expand their searches; and "Web Answers," which provides direct answers harvested in real time from the […]
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Self-promotion — ugh. It means pasting a fake smile on your face as you network at cocktail parties, or wasting piles of money on eye candy that recipients toss in the trash seconds after opening the package. Right? Not according to the three creative professionals I interviewed. They’re all successes, but they all veer from […]
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Flashforward 2005 (https://www.flashforwardconference.com/), the world’s premier Flash event, July 6-8 at the historic New Yorker Hotel, features more than 50 of the world’s best and brightest Macromedia® Flash® designers and developers. The 14th Flashforward conference and Flash(R) Film Festival, the world’s largest and longest-running Flash user conference, is produced by lynda.com and United Digital Artists, […]
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Media Lab Inc. today announced the release of WellRounded 1.0, a new website production extension for DreamWeaver. WellRounded lets DreamWeaver users add rounded corner rectangles directly to their HTML documents without leaving DreamWeaver. Moreover, the HTML and CSS that WellRounded outputs fits nicely into the DreamWeaver layout view, works in all popular browsers, and validates […]
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Digimarc Corporation (NASDAQ: DMRCE) today announced the public beta of Digimarc Image Search, an innovative desktop search tool designed for the rapidly growing digital photography market. The free tool, downloadable from Digimarc’s website at www.digimarc.com/mypicturemarc/imagesearch, works in conjunction with popular desktop search tools such as Google Desktop Search, MSN Desktop Search, and Yahoo! Desktop Search, […]
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Ascender Corporation today announced that it has licensed the complete range of Lucida fonts from Bigelow & Holmes. Ascender will make the Lucida fonts available for sublicensing by hardware and software developers immediately. The complete set of Lucida fonts is also available for immediate end user download from the https://www.AscenderFonts.com web site, in both OpenType […]
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Alias® announced today that its Maya® software was the chief 3D animation technology – and only non-proprietary animation solution – used to realize key characters and scenes in the recently released Star Wars®: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith. Throughout the film’s production, Maya acted as Industrial Light & Magic’s (ILM) main animation and […]
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Creation isn’t always the tidiest process in the world. Sometimes it gets caught in the snarls of daily life or grinds to a halt completely while you earn a living. For years, that was the case with my Web site, which was supposed to be a key piece in the promotional plan for my writing […]
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LookWow™, Inc., provider of the leading web-based photo enhancement service, today announced availability of its first PC product, LookWow 3.1, which gives users another option for accessing the innovative features in its popular web-based photo editing service. LookWow is designed primarily for headshots, giving users the ability to easily add “personality” to their photos. LookWow […]
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