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Digital Arts magazine now available on Android through Google Play. Free preview issue included

You can now get your favourite creative magazines on your Android tablet through Google's new store.
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- Business & Career,
- Hardware,
- Software,
- Graphic Design,
- Illustration,
- Interactive,
- Life & Style,
- Mobile,
- Printing,
- Typography,
- Video
Quark to update App Studio for QuarkXPress for Retina-display new iPad

Quark will update App Studio to add support for producing publications at the 2,048 x 1,536 resolution of the new iPad, but hasn't said when.
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- Business & Career,
- Hardware,
- Software,
- Graphic Design,
- Interactive,
- Quark
How to create Oscar-winning VFX: Pixomondo's VFX supervisor for Hugo tells us how subtlety trumped exploding robots

Ben Grossmann reveals how artistic use of stereoscopic 3D – enhanced with restrained use of VFX – can envelop an audience in a story.
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- Animation,
- Business & Career,
- Hardware,
- Motion,
- Life & Style,
- Photography,
- Video,
- Pixomondo
Aquafadas iPad publishing system updated for Retina-display new iPad

Aquafadas outlines it's plans for the New iPad. A new update will allow publishers to provide high-res versions of their titles for the New iPad, with images that show more detail, and high-quality video, at only 1.5-3 times the current app size.
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- Business & Career,
- Hardware,
- Software,
- Graphic Design,
- Interactive,
- Video
Mag+ to offer new iPad Retina-display-resolution digital publishing by late March

Users of digital publishing service Mag+ will be able to produce high-resolution magazine and book apps soon
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- Animation,
- Business & Career,
- Hardware,
- Software,
- Graphic Design,
- Interactive,
- Video
Quayola & Memo Akten create interactive animated installation for Cultural Olympiad

Quayola (aka 'dQ') and Memo Akten have created a multiscreen digital artwork for the National Media Museum.
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- Animation,
- Hardware,
- Software,
- Interactive,
- Life & Style,
- Video,
- Autodesk,
- Memo Akten,
- Quayola
Intel to make Thunderbolt faster using PCI Express 3.0

Intel has said that the Thunderbolt data connection technology found on Apple's MacBook Pro and iMac lines – and possibly PCs in the future – will be getting faster as it adds support for PCI Express 3.0.
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- Hardware,
- Video,
- Apple,
- Intel
Hands on with the New iPad: does it measure up to the hype

Following our few minutes with the new iPad, here are a few photos and thoughts about Apple's new iPad.
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- Hardware,
- Mobile,
- Photography,
- Apple
Adobe adds support for Retina-display iPad to DPS digital publishing suite (when approved by Apple)

Adobe has announced that its DPS publishing tool will be able to produce them at the 2,048 x 1,536 resolution of the new iPad soon.
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- Business & Career,
- Hardware,
- Software,
- Interactive,
- Video,
- Adobe,
- Apple
App developers and designers weigh in on opportunities and challenges of creating apps for the Apple iPad 3

We speak to leading app developers and designers about the challenges of creating apps for the Apple iPad 3
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- Animation,
- Hardware,
- Interactive,
- Photography,
- Video,
- Brandwidth,
- Mubaloo,
- ustwo
Adobe releases free mobile development tool Shadow for previewing designs on multiple devices

Adobe has released Shadow, a free mobile development tool for previewing interactive design projects on different mobile devices at once.
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- Business & Career,
- Hardware,
- Software,
- Interactive,
- Mobile,
- Video
Elgato offers Thunderbolt SSD

Elgato has announced its entry into the storage market with its new Thunderbolt SSD, a solid-state drive designed for use with Macs equipped with a high-speed Thunderbolt connector.
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- Animation,
- Hardware,
- Software,
- Interactive,
- Video,
- Elgato
Apple announces new iPad with 2,048x1,536 Retina display, though it's not called iPad 3

Apple has unveiled its new iPad with a resolution of 2,048x1,536, though it's not called the iPad 3
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- Hardware,
- Software,
- Mobile,
- Photography,
- Video
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 released and price halved

Adobe releases Photoshop Lightroom 4 with support for video and geo-tags
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- Hardware,
- Software,
- Illustration,
- Photography,
- Printing,
- Video,
- Adobe
Will Apple launch 16-core Mac Pros tonight alongside the iPad 3?

New Intel Xeon E5 chips means that now would be the time for Apple to upgrade it's workstation line.
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- Animation,
- Hardware,
- Software,
- Graphic Design,
- Illustration,
- Interactive,
- Video,
- Apple
Wacom Intuos5 range adds iPad-style multi-touch to graphics tablets

Wacom's new Intuos5 line of graphics tablets are wireless and support multi-touch gestures similar to the iPad.
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- Animation,
- Hardware,
- Software,
- Graphic Design,
- Illustration,
- Interactive,
- Photography,
- Video,
- Wacom
Luxology releases modo 601, adding character animation to the 3D suite

Luxology modo 601 features character animation, built-in dynamics, volumetric rendering and more.
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- Animation,
- Business & Career,
- Hardware,
- Software,
- Interactive,
- Video,
- Luxology
Raspberry Pi demand overwhelms website on launch day

After five years of largely obscure development, the Raspberry Pi Linux computer for schools went on sale this morning, almost immediately overwhelming the project’s website as the public tried to buy the first units.
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- Hardware,
- Software,
- Hacking & Maker,
- Interactive,
- Raspberry Pi Foundation
>> Promotion: Discover how to make Maxon Cinema 4D even more powerful!

>> Promotion: Discover how to make Maxon Cinema 4D even more powerful
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- Animation,
- Business & Career,
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- Software,
- Graphic Design,
- Hacking & Maker,
- Illustration,
- Interactive,
- Photography,
- Typography,
- Video,
- Maxon
Apple sends official invites to 'iPad 3' event on March 7

Apple has officially invited press to an event in San Francisco on 7 March, where it is expected to unveil the iPad 3.
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- Hardware,
- Mobile

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