FXGuide has a great article on the GPU Tech Conference and a report on what NVIDIA has to say, which could be huge for CUDA acceleration.
Volta sounds really exciting! 1TB a second bandwidth! Wow!
And I would love something like an Octane Renderer, but it is way too much, so I would never afford to get my hands on one.
I woke up this morning to an e-mail from Feedly on how to make Feedly more Google Reader like. So of course I decided to give it another chance.
And I have to say with the changes, it is a pretty good Reader replacement. Fast and works well. And for now it still syncs with Reeder (until they replace with their own backend when reader goes down). My only complaint so far is that the feed organization is pretty bad. I can’t seem to drag feeds where they were very easily.
That and the iOS app is set up as the graphical view and you can’t seem to change that. Until Google Reader goes away I will be using REEDER to sync with Google Reader, and trying Feedly on the desktop for now.
CNET has the news on this Google Chrome extension coming back, though no longer with Google Reader. You can get the extension from Google. No longer works with Reeder, need to figure out URL’s to work with the new readers that I am trying now.
Creative Cow has a great article by Debra Kaufman on the crossroads of a Visual Effects Industry in Crisis. Well worth checking out. And a scary look inside the industry.
The whole flat bidding thing is the scariest thing, as jobs always get bigger and have more changes and if you don’t get overages eventually the expenses will kill a company and that is why so many are moving overseas where the labor is cheaper.
And it is not like Rythym and Hues is the first, this will continue, as it may prove too expensive to run an FX company in the current model. Maybe the studios just need to make their own companies on a per movie basis, though I don’t see that saving money either, as they will have to pay their own people!
Cinescopophilia has a great little article on the British Dog Shit Optics, which use old Russian lenses and make them for either DSLR’s or ARRI-PL mounts, and while built off of old Zeiss designs, they have no coating, so will flare like crazy! VERY VERY COOL!
They are quite reasonable too. You can buy them from their Etsy store for $155 for the DSLR version and $310 for the ARRI-PL mount.
I so want one
Canon Rumors has the leaked info on the new tiny EOS-b DSLR.
Interesting. I like the idea of such a small DSLR, especially if it has full HD recording and for $799 body only.
If you read my blog you know I am completely distraught by apple getting rid of Google Reader, and have been busy trying out alternatives, but am still unhappy with any of them, and have just been using Google Reader while I can, and especially REEDER for the Mac, iPhone and iPad. Hopefully it will either get a way to sync via icloud or use a backend that will let it continue to work as it currently does.
Of the others Newsblur is pretty Reader like with some cool new features and does work well on the iPad.
I am not liking netvibes as well as you have to do too much with drop down menus.
And I still can’t say with TheOldReader as I am now 2023 in line to import my RSS feeds! Ha! At this rate Google Reader will be down by the time I get to try it out!
And I just don’t like Feedly. I want a list, not pictures and a magazine format. Too much like Flipboard for my taste. I want more control and more speed in my reeder.
I really hope DIggs new Reader is as good and fast as Reader.
A great article on why you should use OS X spaces. I love it personally, though I think you had more control with older versions. And it is especially great for laptops, but I use it to separate power apps on my macpro and couldn’t function without it at this point.
It is now part of Mission Control (though should be it’s own thing). It makes your mac have a virtually bigger space, as if you have a bigger desktop and are only seeing part of it and can set individual apps to different spaces.
Not that I think it will change Google’s mind, but it would be great if they released their source code so someone else could take up where they left off exactly, even with a pay wall, which I think enough of us would pay to make it worth while!
Wacom has released the Cintiq 13HD.It is $999. I has a 1920×1080 display that runs off of hdmi and usb, and has a resolution of 5080 lines per inch.
I would so love one of these, but they are just too expensive. I do love the rumor of a Wacom tablet though, as having a portable tablet that is also a Cintiq sounds amazing!