Valve offers Source Filmmaker: soon the flood of half-life, Portal and other fan-movies

Games editor PC Valve begins to offer its Source Filmmaker tool free...

Valve has just launched the Source Filmmaker in beta, also known as the acronym SFM. In fact, it is the tool used by Valve to the realization of video within the Source Engine, including catches to profit by the Publisher for the realization of a large number of cinematics and trailers. To participate in this beta program and be able to mumuse with Source Filmmaker, simply visit the official website of this tool with a computer where Steam is installed. "Initially, we must limit the number of beta testers, but soon, we will give access to Source Filmmaker to all, free of charge" says Valve.

Indeed, in the limitations, should know that initially Source Filmmaker will work with Team Fortress 2. Which means that it will take to be a little patient to easily make his own fan-movie based on Half Life 2. Valve also indicates that developers accustomed to the Mods of Source Engine should quickly be able to evolve SFM at their convenience to create new things and work on new universe. It promises a few fun artistic delusions!

The minimum to take advantage of Source Filmmaker configuration is as follows:

OS: Windows 7 / Vista (Windows 7 64 bit suggested) Processor: 3.0 GHz P4, Dual Core 2.0 (or higher) or AMD64X2 (or higher) Memory: 2 GB (4 GB suggested) Hard Disk Space: At least 15 GB of SpaceVideo: NVIDIA GeForce 200 series card or better, or AMD Radeon 3000 series or better (NVIDIA GeForce 400 series or AMD Radeon 5000 series preferred) Monitor: 1366 x 768 (1920 x 1080 suggested) Audio: DirectX 9.0 c compatibleUSB headset with mic (suggested)

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Other Motorola reveals its shelf…

The U.S. company Motorola Solutions has announced a tablet to companies ...

The company that we knew even a year ago under the name Motorola was divided into two separate companies beginning in January 2011. There are now a part of Motorola Mobility, which redeem Google account, and the other Motorola Solutions. It is this division (which manufactures telecommunications equipment of any kind) which has just introduced a new tablet. It is dedicated to the business world and therefore has nothing to do with Xoom.

The ET1 - his reference - measuring 130.5 x 25 x 224 mm and weighs 630 g. It features a 7 inch touch screen that displays a resolution of 1024 x 600 pixels and is protected by a Gorilla Glass. Found under the hood a dual-core processor at 1 GHz and 1024 MB of RAM. The storage of the beast is given to 4 GB of flash memory and a microSD card 4 GB This tablet has an 8 megapixel sensor (with LED flash) and a webcam front. This connectivity includes WiFi ET1 802.11n and Bluetooth 2.1.

This solution also benefits from a GPS module, a light sensor, an accelerometer, two microphones and a pair of speakers. She also has two USB ports and an HDMI port. Motorola finally offers an optional bar code reader. This tablet running Google Android 2.3.4 (Gingerbread), and it incorporates a battery of 4620 mAh. The ET1 is guaranteed one year. It should be available from December, with a label less than 1000 dollars.

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Three other chipsets Intel 7 in flight

 

A leak on the XFastest Chinese forum comes to reveal the characteristics of three other chipsets Intel 7 expected for the second quarter of 2012. The Q77, Q75 and B75 intended for platforms for businesses. Ask server, or supercomputer, but desktop systems and small workstations multiécrans through the management of three videos supported by the GPU integrated into the processor.Last April, a leak on the same site revealed Z77, Z75 and H77 intended for the public characteristics (cf. "Intel: 7 Series chipset features"). For memory, chipset Intel 7 are intended to allow the Ivy Bridge, processors 22 nm from Intel which should come out in the second quarter of next year while the Sandy Bridge-E are now expected to these 2012.Professional versions of the Intel 7 chipsets for platforms are close to the public large models, as usual. Both chips have in common supports Socket LGA 1155, the management of 8 lines PCI-Express 2.0, same number of ports SATA or USB 2.0 and 3.0. Models for professionals are compatible Intel vPro (Q77), BSI (Q77 and Q75) and SBA (Q77 and B75) which are technologies intended to facilitate the deployment of business machines and protect user data.

Finally note the lack of ports PCI-Express 3.0 on these models and the presence of ports PCI is the inverse of the mainstream configurations. It is clear that Intel thinks primarily to companies that have desire or need to keep their old cards girls. These chipsets are compatible Smart Response that can use an SSD as cache memory when it is coupled to a hard disk. This is especially useful with low capacity DSS, as the 20 GB SSD Intel 311.

If the leaks continue at this rate, we soon learn more about the QS77, QM77, HM77, HM76 and HM75 which are mobile versions of the Intel 7.

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Three other chipsets Intel 7 in flight

 

A leak on the XFastest Chinese forum comes to reveal the characteristics of three other chipsets Intel 7 expected for the second quarter of 2012. The Q77, Q75 and B75 intended for platforms for businesses. Ask server, or supercomputer, but desktop systems and small workstations multiécrans through the management of three videos supported by the GPU integrated into the processor.Last April, a leak on the same site revealed Z77, Z75 and H77 intended for the public characteristics (cf. "Intel: 7 Series chipset features"). For memory, chipset Intel 7 are intended to allow the Ivy Bridge, processors 22 nm from Intel which should come out in the second quarter of next year while the Sandy Bridge-E are now expected to these 2012.Professional versions of the Intel 7 chipsets for platforms are close to the public large models, as usual. Both chips have in common supports Socket LGA 1155, the management of 8 lines PCI-Express 2.0, same number of ports SATA or USB 2.0 and 3.0. Models for professionals are compatible Intel vPro (Q77), BSI (Q77 and Q75) and SBA (Q77 and B75) which are technologies intended to facilitate the deployment of business machines and protect user data.

Finally note the lack of ports PCI-Express 3.0 on these models and the presence of ports PCI is the inverse of the mainstream configurations. It is clear that Intel thinks primarily to companies that have desire or need to keep their old cards girls. These chipsets are compatible Smart Response that can use an SSD as cache memory when it is coupled to a hard disk. This is especially useful with low capacity DSS, as the 20 GB SSD Intel 311.

If the leaks continue at this rate, we soon learn more about the QS77, QM77, HM77, HM76 and HM75 which are mobile versions of the Intel 7.

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