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Apple is promising a prettier version of its Fifth Avenue retail store in Manhattan following the unwrapping of its well-hidden construction project.

In a sign posted outside the store this week, picked up by MacRumors, the company notes that it's "simplifying" the design of its iconic glass cube "by using larger, seamless pieces of glass." All told, the renovation--which Apple retail tracking blog ifoAppleStore estimated to cost some $6.6 million dollars--will bring the outside design down to 15 panels from the 90 it was using before.

New York-focused blog Gothamist, which reported on the … Read more

Live Interior 3D Pro is a full-featured interior-design application designed to help you plan and visualize redecorating and remodeling projects, in both 2D and 3D. The most impressive improvement in version 2 (which also splits the application into Standard and Pro versions) is the ability to edit 3D objects directly in Live Interior 3D using Google SketchUp. You can even export entire projects to Google SketchUp format, with import and export support for Google SketchUp 7.

The 3D models that you can create--both as QuickTime movies and QTVR virtual-reality "walkthroughs"--have gotten better, too, with improved lighting and … Read more