Sachin In SAREES

Yes...For fancy dress competition in his college days.

cgTantra and Frameboxx organize seminar on animation & visual effects NEXT ON BANGLORE 17th May

cgTantra in association with Frameboxx organized a seminar on animation and visual effects in Delhi recently. The event saw a host of Animation Industry professionals descend upon Delhi, to participate and present in the symposium.

The aim of the seminar was to educate the nascent animators and animation aspirants about the bright career opportunities in Animation and to increase awareness on the intricacies involved in creating world-class, award-winning animation content.

The professionals present included PC Vikram of Big Animation Studios, the team from the Oscar winning Rhythm & Hues involved in the making of The Golden Compass, Uttam Pal Singh of Santa Banta Series and cgTantra‘s Abhishek Chandra.

The aficionados witnessed the making of some famous movies such as Oscar winning Golden Compass, Little Krishna and Santa Banta Series. As a result, the people present at the event were endowed with a theoretical as well as a practical insight into animation.

There was also a question and answer session which included questions on how much creative freedom one would get, and which fields animators can specialize in.

"The seminars were part of the all-India ‘Learn, Inspire, Grow‘ (LIG) series held by cgTantra. This series aims at spreading awareness among freshers who aspire to enter the animation industry and expose them to the aspects of animation," shared Chandra. The next seminar will be held in Bangalore on May 17, 2008.

FLASH GOES MOBILE..!

Adobe Systems Inc. says it will license its video-enabling Flash software for free for mobile devices to help developers make mobile Internet experiences more closely resemble the experience on computers. The world’s fifth-largest software maker is launching what it calls the Open Screen Project with support from phone makers Motorola Inc., Nokia Corp., Samsung Electronics, Sony Ericsson and Toshiba Corp., from chip makers Intel and Qualcomm, and from content providers including NBC Universal, MTV Networks and the BBC, among other companies. With the Open Screen Project, Adobe said, it aims to improve Internet experiences on all electronics, including computers, TVs and digital video recorders. But mobile devices are a particular focus.

Many mobile applications have met with disappointment from consumers. And game and video developers have been burdened with cranking out numerous versions of applications for mobile devices, said Kevin Lynch, Adobe’s chief technology officer. “You have to make over 100 different versions of that game in order to actually make it work across all these different phones,” Lynch said. Notably missing from the list of industry supporters for Adobe’s project is Apple Inc. The iPhone maker does not use Flash on its smart phones, and Chief Executive Steve Jobs has publicly criticized Flash for being too slow. Adobe says it’s working on a version of Flash for the iPhone — now that Apple has released the information needed to custom fit the software to Apple’s operating system.

RED ALERT from Center for Disease Control

The Center for Disease Control has issued a medical alert about a highly contagious, potentially dangerous virus that is transmitted orally, by hand, and even electronically. This virus is called Weary Overload Recreational Killer (WORK). If you receive WORK from your boss, any of your colleagues, or anyone else via any means whatsoever - DO NOT TOUCH IT. This virus will wipe out your private life completely. If you should come into contact with WORK you should immediately leave the premises.

Take two good friends to the nearest grocery store and purchase one or both of the antidotes - Work Isolating Neutralizer Extract (WINE) and Bothersome Employer Elimination Rebooter (BEER). Take the antidote repeatedly until WORK has been completely eliminated from your system.

Windows XP SP3 Is Here - Well, not quite

Windows XP Service Pack 3 is here, according to Microsoft. The wait for the third and final service pack for Windows XP is now over, reveal resources made available by the Redmond company. And the fact of the matter is that not only is Windows XP SP3 here, but it has been here for quite some time. For no less than a couple of days. While there is absolutely no official word on the matter from Microsoft, the company’s official Support Lifecycle website offering information on its various products has managed to leak the small bit of info pointing to the delivery deadline of XP SP3. Nothing more and nothing less than the general availability date.

Hey! Group STaNDaLONE pre’d the XP SP3 finally :) Enough said about it actually so I wont go into any detail anymore now…

Windows® XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) includes all previously released updates for the operating system. This update also includes a small number of new functionalities, which do not significantly change customers’ experience with the operating system.

Note: Microsoft you lamers why release it on msdn AFTER general release, are you insane??

HTTP download available at:

http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/3/5/53519680-fcc0-4a00-86e0-e7d5cba84461/WindowsXP-KB936929-SP3-x86-ENU.exe

http://www.majorgeeks.com/Microsoft_Windows_XP_Service_Pack_3_Final_d4323.html
http://www.softpedia.com/progDownload/Windows-XP-SP3-Download-90001.html
http://digiex.net/applications/175-windows-xp-service-pack-3-rtm-build-5512-download-windowsxp-kb936929-sp3-x86-enu-exe.html
http://d01.megashares.com/?d01=4452eea


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This is What "Computer Virus" look like...

Cyber threats like NetSky, Mydoom and Parite are the bane of IT departments around the globe, but artist Alex Dragulescu has found subtle beauty deep within the dangerous computer code that can bring down networks and bombard e-mail inboxes with murderous spam. Dragulescu has peeled back the code behind the world’s worst tech bugs and rendered stunning images from it. The Romanian-born MIT researcher and artist was commissioned to do fashion the artwork by MessageLabs, a computer security company that sought to put a face — or at least a shape — on computer viruses.

















Dragulescu found interesting, recurring patterns. “These types of threats are very smart. Very intelligent in design. Digital organisms, really, that adapt themselves and replicate. We wanted to capture some of that complexity and uniqueness.” The process of creating the art was like none other. MessageLabs carefully sent Dragulescu the once-harmful files after modifying them so his computers would not contract the viruses. Dragulescu looked for the frequency of certain occurrences in a virus, such as particular network sockets that it was designed to compromise. He fed the resulting data into a program he created with an algorithm to grow the viruses and Trojans visually. Dragulescu’s next project will be creating abstract portraits of people based on the contents of their blogs and the types of online communities they inhabit.

WATCH INDIAN PREMIERE LEAGUE LIVE ON YOUR MEDIA PLAYER..!

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