EvangeList Digest Friday, March 26 1999 Volume 01 : Number 1397
In this issue:
PR - PuppetTime, Inc. Announces Preview Release of PuppetTime Director PR - Macintosh Home Automation Job - Sales Reps (Los Angeles & Cleveland) Tidbit - User Group For Classic Macintosh Owners PR - Roland -- Edirol MIDI -- USB Announcment Tidbit - 126 Seconds to Port a Program to the Mac
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Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 06:12:51 -0800 From: Guy Kawasaki <Kawasaki@garage.com> Subject: PR - PuppetTime, Inc. Announces Preview Release of PuppetTime Director
This announcement is from:
deeje@puppettime.com (deeje)
For more information, contact Deeje Cooley 415-244-0828 mailto:deeje@puppettime.com http://www.puppettime.com/
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
PUPPETTIME, INC. ANNOUNCES PREVIEW RELEASE OF PUPPETTIME DIRECTOR
New Internet Company Demonstrates Easy-To-Use 3D Storytelling Technology, Invites Potential Customers To Make Requests
SAN FRANCISCO (March 25th, 1999) - PuppetTime, Inc. announced today that it has released a preview of its revolutionary 3D storytelling application, PuppetTime(R) Director, on its web site http://www.puppettime.com/. PuppetTime Director allows users to manipulate 3D puppets using PuppetTime's patent-pending 3D digital actor plug-in architecture, which is built on top of Apple's QuickTime. Downloading the free preview will allow Mac users with QuickTime to create and view 3D movies. Playback for Windows users is also available.
"The core philosophy at PuppetTime, Inc. is to bring the power of storytelling to the rest of us," says Deeje Cooley, PuppetTime's founder and CTO, "Everyone has a story to tell. Children are natural storytellers, while executives and professionals incorporate storytelling into their daily business practices. PuppetTime will make 3D animation accessible to all."
PuppetTime Director is easy to use and requires no previous 3D modeling or animation experience. The PuppetTime technology is a framework for scriptable 3D digital actors, called puppets. Each puppet is a self-contained plug-in, with interactive controls, that knows how to render and animate itself in 3D. A user can create a 3D movie by entering dialog, selecting predefined actions, and moving puppets around a stage. Additional plug-ins for new characters, stages, costumes, and props will be available on the company's web-site.
PuppetTime itself is built on top of QuickTime, which is the dominant cross-platform multimedia architecture. By leveraging QuickTime, PuppetTime can be combined with other media types, like video, sound, text and music. PuppetTime movies store only commands and meta-data, so they are quite small, and easily stream-able across today's standard modem connections.
PuppetTime's COO, Tal Fried, feels their technology is needed because, "the biggest barrier to consumer 3D animation is the steep learning curve. Nobody wants to spend hours learning a how to create 3D characters and then learn how to animate those characters to tell a story. With our technology, anyone can create fully animated 3D stories with just 3 click of their mouse."
There are many uses for PuppetTime's technology. For children, PuppetTime Director can develop writing skills, increase understanding of social studies, and foster personal growth. For entertainment professionals, PuppetTime Director can help during pre-production to pre-visualize scenes in movies, TV shows, theater, and advertisements. PuppetTime hopes their web-site will foster a community for 3D storytellers to share their creations. In time the web-site will also host live productions of original works and webisodic content.
Visitors to the web-site are encouraged to make requests for new features and characters (accessible from the front page in the "Requests" section). Mr. Cooley says, "the initial response to PuppetTime has been phenomenal, and we'd like to ensure we're delivering real customer value. Tell us what you need to tell us your story."
Screenshots are available at <http://www.puppettime.com/screenshots/>. Requests can be made at <http://www.puppettime.com/requests/>.
PuppetTime, Inc., headquartered in San Francisco, California, develops and markets 3D storytelling software for consumers. PuppetTime is a registered trademark and the Eggy logo is a trademark of PuppetTime, Inc.
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Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 21:23:23 -0800 From: The EvangeList Mailing List <evangelist@apple.com> Subject: PR - Macintosh Home Automation
This announcement is from:
<mailto:michael@shed.com>
Sand Hill Engineering has just released the latest version of its software for home automation and security.
Loaded with new features for creating custom graphic interfaces and dealing with the latest of the X-10 'smart' devices like thermostats, light switches and appliance controls which report their status and local changes.
This upgrade is free to all current users and is shipping now from Beehive Technologies. $89.95 with cable, plus shipping.
A free version is available for the venerable old X-10 CP290. <http://www.shed.com>
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Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 21:23:38 -0800 From: The EvangeList Mailing List <evangelist@apple.com> Subject: Job - Sales Reps (Los Angeles & Cleveland)
This job announcement is from:
"Miller, Leslie" <mailto:miller@marketsource.com>
SALES REPRESENTATIVES
High technology marketing services company seeks Sales Representatives in the Los Angeles and Cleveland area. Qualified candidates will possess sound written/verbal communication skills, 4 year college degree coupled with 2+ years sales experience. Apple Computer users with solid expertise on the MAC platform is required.
We offer a fully comprehensive benefits package, competitive compensation and excellent growth opportunity. For immediate consideration please email resumes only to: <mailto:employment@marketsource.com> or fax to (609)860-5408.
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Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 21:23:28 -0800 From: The EvangeList Mailing List <evangelist@apple.com> Subject: Tidbit - User Group For Classic Macintosh Owners
This tidbit is from:
GY <mailto:gyounk@athenet.net>
Announcing The Mac 512 User Group!
This is a specialized Internet-only user group devoted to helping people with their older Macintoshes. There is a Help Line, Resource Center, rare Public Domain software and support from others in your shoes. Ask questions, receive answers from other members and learn along the way!
A positive idea on restoring and supporting the classic Macintoshes.
Please visit <http://www.athenet.net/~gyounk/uginfo.htm> for more information.
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Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 21:23:34 -0800 From: The EvangeList Mailing List <evangelist@apple.com> Subject: PR - Roland -- Edirol MIDI -- USB Announcment
This announcement is from:
Jeff Lindeman <mailto:jeff@wavemedia.net>
Edirol Corporation North America began shipping the Roland SMPU-64, the first USB/MIDI interface compatible with the Macintosh iMac and G3 series computers. In response to thousands of requests for music applications from educators, musicians, and hobbyists the SMPU-64 can handle up to 4 MIDI inputs and 4 MIDI outputs so users can connect many music devices through one USB cable to their computer. Existing music application software is instantly compatible for anyone running OS 8.5 on their USB equipped Macintosh.
This makes the Roland SMPU-64 now cross platform compatible for both Macintosh & Windows computers. Retail price is set at $250. It is available through Edirol 1-800-380-2580 or <http://www.edirol.com> and distributed to dealers in U.S. and Canada by ThinKware.
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Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 21:23:44 -0800 From: The EvangeList Mailing List <evangelist@apple.com> Subject: Tidbit - 126 Seconds to Port a Program to the Mac
This tidbit is from:
Steve Seidensticker <mailto:sseiden@home.com>
While attending a recent Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization workshop in Orlando I was surprised a see a new blue and white G3 with matching terminal in one of the exhibit booths. It really stood out in a sea of gray/beige boxes. Michael Myjak of HLA Products was demonstrating the portability of his company's new product, a Java version of DoD's High Level Architecture Runtime Infrastructure. The HLA/RTI is a very large and complex layer of objects used to connect and support networked real-time simulations. It has been an all UNIX and Windows world until now.
I asked Michael, a Windows person, how long it had taken his crew to port the application to the Mac. He said they bought the computer on Saturday for a Monday exhibit and had the entire application ported and running in 126 seconds! He said it would not have taken that long had they not forgotten to transfer one file.
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