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...were chosen on their merits and not for strategic marketing purposes, Google also offers six of its own applications. Google Desktop, the desktop search program, and Picasa, the photo manager, along with Google Talk voice and messaging program, Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer, the ever entertaining Google Earth 3D map of the world, and a new screensaver, which flips your photos onto an idle screen in a pleasant collage...
...spreading the lunar word, first with his star turn in 1995's Apollo 13, then with his 1998 HBO series, From the Earth to the Moon. Now Hanks is working the space beat again, preparing for this month's release of Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D, co-produced by IMAX and Hanks' own production company, Playtone. A 3-D, 70-mm, giant-screen spectacle that Hanks co-wrote and narrates, the movie re-creates what it's like to travel to the moon, bound around on the surface and head back home. Conventional movies have given viewers...
...third performer of the evening, Shawn Faherty, uses sophisticated software and high-end graphics hardware to create abstract 3D shapes, which he then manipulates to prerecorded music. Tonight he will be performing to songs by Mogwai and Nine Inch Nails...
...engineers and architects can also produce accurate three-dimensional designs, then a 3-D model, which is easier for subcontractors to follow accurately than the old two-dimensional blueprints or specs. "We give that to the fabricators, the steel erector, the exterior wall façade supplier," says Thornton. "The 3D model makes for less error in the construction phase...
...over the past 21 months, IMAX has introduced a new technology that allows multiplex operators to retrofit existing theaters for about $1.6 million. The company also developed a way to digitally convert films to its giant-screen format--making Hollywood blockbusters easily IMAX ready. (At the moment the 3D process used in Polar Express works only on computer-generated films; 3-D live-action movies are a year or two away...