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BusinessWeek: Apple Donates MacPaint Source Code To Computer History Museum

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl

One of the earliest bits of software that made the original Macintosh computer so interesting to use and unusual for its time was a drawing program called MacPaint.

Released in 1984 with the Mac, it is fondly remembered not only by those who used it, but also by computer scientists for numerous first-of-a-kind innovations. Those who spend a lot of time using Adobe Photoshop constantly use such features as the lasso tool for selecting non-rectangular shapes, and the paint bucket for filling closed areas with a pattern, and later, color. Both first appeared in MacPaint. The program was unique at the time for its ability to create graphics that could then be used in other applications.

Full Story:
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/ByteOfTheApple/blog/archives/2010/07/apple_donates_macpaint_source_code_to_computer_history_museum.html

 

LEVA Conference Details Announced!

LEVA is proud to announce that details regarding its 21st Annual Training Conference are now available at www.leva.org.  Once on the Home page, click on the Conference tab at the top.

This year's event offers more hard core training than ever before.  Afterall, isn't that what your agency's training dollars are for?

Hope to see you in Indianapolis.

 

   

Engadget: Twelve flavors of GeForce GTX 460 now shipping from Newegg

By Sean Hollister

NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 460 hasn't even been officially announced, much less reviewed, but that won't keep you from buying the company's latest Fermi-based graphics card anyhow. Over at Newegg, usual suspects ASUS, EVGA, Gigabyte, MSI and Palit have fielded twelve models in all, most with slightly different features, thought it seems the base configuration has 336 CUDA cores (down from 352) and a mere 768MB of GDDR5 memory.

Full story:
http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/11/twelve-flavors-of-geforce-gtx-460-now-shipping-from-newegg/

   

cnet: YouTube now supports 4k-resolution videos

By Josh Lowensohn

Thought 1080p video on YouTube was big? Think bigger.

YouTube on Friday announced that its player now supports 4k, a standard resolution for films that measures 4096x3072 pixels. As YouTube Engineer Ramesh Sarukkai explained in the announcement on YouTube's official blog, "4K is nearly four times the size of 1080p," and it dwarfs even Imax, which projects films in the slightly smaller 2k format, with its 2048?1080-pixel resolution.

Full story:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-27076_3-20010174-248.html

   

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