Thursday - March 26, 2009
Michael Gibbs, an illustrator based in Northern Virginia, describes working on a Mac Pro in terms that suggest a Zen-like trance: "I can't explain it well, but you are not even really aware you are using a computer program -- the design applications are that intuitive." He can easily tell the difference between applications that are natively designed for the Mac -- anything Adobe -- and those that have been retrofitted for the OS X environment, such as Microsoft Word. The latter, he told MacNewsWorld, "are just plain cumbersome."
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Monday - February 23, 2009
If you're a novelist, screenwriter or blogger -- and you own a Mac -- then you've probably heard of Mariner Software. The Minneapolis company makes desktop software for what its president, Michael Wray, calls the "creativity market." Last year, sales at the 11-employee company grew by 60 percent, much of that driven by writers and other creative types who wanted an easy way to perfect their crafts.
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Monday - February 16, 2009
In late 2001, All4DVD.com owner Adrian Ramseier was one of the first to market with what he thought was a pretty good product: an external DVD recorder for Macintosh systems. Then, the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks occurred, wiping out demand for the tiny company's product. Just two years old at the time, All4DVD.com was forced to shift gears.
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Monday - December 22, 2008
A wall here, a door there. A sunroom stretching out from the back of the house, just so. Recessed lighting in the kitchen. A custom-designed fireplace in the living room. And outside, a deck, a curving walkway, and a strategic planting of a few yews and Japanese maples. If playing with such details of home, interior and landscape design sounds like a good time to you, you're not alone.
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Tuesday - October 14, 2008
The third full OpenOffice suite is out in the wild and attracting plenty of attention. OpenOffice.org 3.0 was released Monday -- and already, demand has been high enough to overwhelm the download servers and cause them to crash. The software suite, designed as an open source alternative to Microsoft Office, offers everything from word processing and spreadsheet creation to presentation and databasing tools.
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Friday - October 10, 2008
Some five weeks after its launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, GeoEye-1, the satellite developed by aerial and geospatial information provider GeoEye, has signaled back to Earth. GeoEye-1 snapped the first location the satellite saw when the camera door was opened -- Kutztown University, located midway between Reading and Allentown, Penn.
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Tuesday - September 30, 2008
Movie making and editing are now within everyone's reach. All you have to do is check out YouTube to witness this new age of movie making, in which anyone with a digital video camera and a story to tell can enter the fray. "People-powered video is an opportunity to get a glimpse into someone else's life," Albuquerque-based filmmaker and multimedia specialist Dickie Cox told MacNewsWorld.
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Tuesday - September 23, 2008
Adobe's long-awaited Creative Suite 4 has made its public debut. As the company has demonstrated with previous releases of Creative, as well as other products, it is advancing a Web 2.0 agenda. For example, Adobe has integrated Flash throughout Creative Suite 4 to facilitate collaboration among designers and developers as they craft digital work products.
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Tuesday - July 29, 2008
The promise of digital photography is that it can help any amateur develop into a backyard Ansel Adams, given the right camera, software and dedication. Imaging software company Adobe Systems has known this since 1990, when it rolled out version 1.0 of its trailblazing Photoshop software; it has followed that with a host of related products aimed at different segments of the digital imaging market.
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Tuesday - June 3, 2008
Microsoft has unveiled an updated beta release of its Silverlight multimedia publishing software. Chairman Bill Gates announced the debut of Silverlight 2 beta 2 at Microsoft's TechEd conference in Orlando on Tuesday. The utility, to be made available for public download by the end of the week, lets developers write Web-based applications using Microsoft's .Net Framework.
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