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Looks like Blender Naation is working with Kiva a fantastic organization. Check it out here

http://www.blendernation.com/2009/01/03/blendernation-now-three-years-ol...

At

http://www.darkscarab.com/tutorials.html

I thought this was a very cool video

"SAN RAFAEL, Calif., Oct. 23, 2008 — Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK) and Avid Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVID), announced that they have signed a definitive agreement for Autodesk to acquire substantially all of the assets of Avid’s Softimage business unit for approximately $35 million.

"Every project needs an environment to exist in, some projects are all about the surroundings themselves. But it is often an area that gets short changed or overlooked. So this issue we take a look at various ways to create environments and backgrounds for your projects. We have collected a nice variety for your enjoyment."

From Blender Nation
Read more here
http://www.blendernation.com/2008/10/12/blenderart-magazine-18-now-avail...

"Digital-Tutors is featured on StudioDaily.com this week, and is offering a 5-part training series for SOFTIMAGE|XSI 7 "ICE" (Intearctive Creative Environment).

Check it out!
http://www.studiodaily.com/main/training/ "

"Ardour has had only one way to change the order of tracks in the editor window since it began - dragging the track names around in the list of tracks attached to one side of the window. In SVN for 2.X, I've just added the new move-selected-tracks-up and move-selected-tracks-down commands, which are bound to Shift-Up and Shift-Down by default. So now you can just select one or more tracks and press a key (or two) to move them up and down. Its a little thing, but little things sometimes matter. On OS X it matters a lot because that dragging method doesn't actually work.

"It's beta 2 time! This time is also available a binary package for Ubuntu users.

Main changes:
* config option 'jack transport buffer offset' for ardour bug
* fix broken lead / lag
* several fixes into soundlibrary import
* download class now supports http redirect correctly
* config option 'adjust beatcounter offset' to get exact results with different hardware
* new statusbar message to display longer messages than 30 chars "

Read more here
http://www.hydrogen-music.org/forum/?action=show_thread&thread=893&fid=9...

"Fedora 10 Beta: Cambridge's foundations are laid

Just on the heels of the Fedora Project's fifth anniversary, the Beta of
Fedora Linux version 10 (code-named Cambridge) is now available:

http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease

There is also a Beta contest! Test five things in the Beta that are
important to you as a user. If you find a bug *and* report it, you get
the free attention of a package maintainer on a problem personally
important to you!

https://bugzilla.redhat.com"

Read more here.

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-September/msg00...

"The GIMP developers are proud to release GIMP 2.6.0 today. Please have a look at the Release Notes to find out what's new in GIMP 2.6. The source can be downloaded from ftp.gimp.org. Binary packages for the various supported platforms should become available soon; please check the Downloads section."