Filed under: OS Updates, Windows, Microsoft

There are plenty of ways to get your hands on Windows 7 starting today. You can buy a new PC that comes preloaded with the operating system, or pick up a retail or OEM copy. … Read More

Originally posted 2009-10-27 08:19:25.

Blender has had a sculpt mode for a while now, but with the recent release of the ground-up recode 2.5, a few minor tweaks have made it into a really powerful tool, especially for people looking to interact with their 3D in a more intuitive way than painstakingly dragging vertices around and fretting over topology.  In this tutorial, we’ll start with Blender’s default cube and carve numbers into it! … Read More

Originally posted 2010-03-28 10:56:02.

Windows only: WinX DVD Author is a shareware application that converts and burns most popular video formats directly to DVD, and it’s available for free during the month of October. … Read More

Originally posted 2009-10-23 18:04:07.

Oh, Windows. You inform and entertain us. You are inescapable, and your Start menu is full of items relevant to our productivity. You move us. Sort of. To be honest, we’re not sure what sort of state this fair planet of ours would be in without the ruggedly functional operating systems the folks at Redmond have handed to us over the years, and while Windows Vista might have proved that Microsoft wasn’t invincible, it did nothing to demonstrate that Windows as an idea — and for most, a necessity — was at all in jeopardy. … Read More

Originally posted 2009-08-18 08:06:28.