The race is on. The race for GUI and therefore desktop PC supremacy is back on between Apple and Microsoft officially. Again. Microsoft made it so this past week with the intro of its response to Apple’s widely praised and wildly popular iPhone. Surface is the name of the Big Box, and Microsoft thinks so […]
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There are a new crop of digital SLRs and David Pogue at the New York Times has reviewed these 10MPixel (slightly overweight for most uses) machines. The key new features are: 1)lower price – well below $800 for body only while keeping a full set of SLR features and performance; 2)adding dust clearing agitator for
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Gizmodo tracks the latest geek gizmos, so it should be no surprise that they have picked up the first sightings of the prototype digital camera which will largely replace digital SLRs – the dual capable video cameras. These 3 cameras all offer the capability of not only taking HDTV video images – and directly onto
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Well I finally relented and upgraded to Adobe CS3 Premium Suite – and after paying all the taxes I was relieved to see my account down nearly $800 for the upgrade. So I have been working frantically with almost all of Premium Suite such that I have some notable First Impression evaluations. Note again these
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In a previous posting I have cited how much Adobe and Photoshop dominate the 2D photo editing world. Now the same dominance does not extend to animations (despite Flash), 3D graphics, and video editing although Adobe is a major player in all three arenas especially with new 3D offerings in Photoshop Extended. However there is
Adobe is conducting an experiment – a very ineteresting one with Lightroom. They are testing to see if there is a market for a photo editor that has no capability to do either selections/maskings or any layering. This program is devoted to taking camera RAW or JPG images and cropping, straightening (a little weak here),
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Color laser printers are coming on like gabngbusters. To wit, one can go to sites like PC Magazine or PC World and find color laser printers selling for less than $500Us but with duty cylces of 60,000 pages per month and costs per full color page in the 12-25cents range depending on color coverage. And
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Adobe is currently dominating photo editing top end software. With the release of Lightroom and Photoshop CS3 that dominance is likely to increase – see our upcoming reviews on the main website. Lightroom covers the basic editing of a photo image in the whole (no layering, masking or partial photo selection is allowed for in
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