Neowin News Feed for: Effects

Set fire to your applications with Burn My Windows 7

Dean Howell — Tue, 04 Jan 2022 18:58:01 +0000

Open-source developer Simon Scheegans is working on a project called Burn My Windows that restores classic desktop effects like burning windows to Gnome 3x and Gnome 40x, respectively. Read more...

Windows Live Messenger 9 to have WPF effects

Andrew Fairbairn — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:22:59 +0000

You may have already heard that, along with the rest of Windows Live wave 3, the next version of Windows Live Messenger (version 9.0) will have a new user interface. After being tipped off by... Read more...

DX10 effects with DX9 for patched Crysis 1.1 - Crysis AddOn

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 22:00:51 +0000

This minimod unlocks all DX10 graphics features in Crysis 1.1, even if you have DX9 hardware and a DX9 OS like Windows XP. You heard right, this mini-mod unlocks all dx10 graphical features even if... Read more...

Lord of the Rings Visual Effects Firm Opts for Microsoft

Wed, 08 Aug 2007 19:13:38 +0000

Weta Digital, the New Zealand-based visual effects company behind such box-office hits as King Kong and the Lord of the Rings trilogy, today announced a licensing agreement with Microsoft that will see it use Redmond's... Read more...

ATI Lets Developers Create DirectX 10 Effects

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 11:30:14 +0000

ATI Technologies, one of the world's largest suppliers of graphics processors, has unveiled its first DirectX 10 software development kit that provides programmers examples of DirectX 10 code and samples to allow them to start... Read more...

Half-Life 2 Directx9.0 Effects Video

Marcel Klum — Fri, 12 Sep 2003 05:32:34 +0000

Thanks FatCat for posting this on our forum A new Half-Life 2 tech movie has been released, offering more footage from this upcoming FPS sequel by Valve Software. Today's movie shows no action,... Read more...

Adobe® After Effects® 5.5.1 Update.

Sat, 01 Feb 2003 08:55:10 +0000

Adobe® After Effects® 5.5 software delivers a comprehensive set of tools to efficiently produce motion graphics and visual effects for film, video, multimedia, and the Web. You can explore unlimited creative possibilities with precise control... Read more...

WTC and Pentagon Attacks: Effects on Technology

Tue, 18 Sep 2001 20:04:11 +0000

     Have you noticed how the news the last few days have been slow and how there have not been many comments on the message boards? Well, that is because of the terrorist attacks against... Read more...