Picturesque 2
Effortlessly adding a stroke, curvature, perspective and reflection to an image.
Publishing Topics
In mixed media publishing environments, video is an integral part of the workflow. With broadcast quality video living side-by-side with H.264 in Web quality, and even Flash, Episode Pro is a must more than ever.
Advanced ProofMaster 3.x Tutorial Pack
The Advanced ProofMaster Tutorial Pack explains the Expert settings for a proofing queue in PerfectProof's flagship RIP, ProofMaster 3.x.
How Urgent is Preflighting in your workflow?
In mixed publishing environments, preflighting traditionally belongs to the printing part of the workflow. But with on-demand printing services, web-based printable content may make preflighting more relevant than ever.
Checking for almost every conceivable error, FlightCheck 6.x is one of the best preflighting tools available.
Sign off on preflight errors, new PDF/X-4 support, and more automated correction of PDF problems, are the hallmarks of PitStop Professional 08.
Moving beyond text and YouTube
Facing the challenge when cross-media publishing means offering content in many different packages -- text, narration, video, audio, image collage, and anything else you can think of to convey the message.
VIPs get access to the advanced training pack for Quark Job Jackets.
Learning Centre
Alpha 700 Focussing With Accuracy
Focussing accurately with the Sony Alpha 700 is a breeze in all circumstances. The Alpha 700 has three focussing settings, and each has its own purpose.
Learn how to calibrate your inkjet printer for photo printing with ProofMaster 3.x.
Quark Job Jackets Training Packs
The ultimate tutorial that teaches you how to create Job Jackets. Advanced Level comes with the 13 GWG specifications.
Setting White Balance on a dSLR
Neutralising the grey balance on a dSLR is usually done by clicking a White Balance button. On the higher-end cameras it also involves setting a Tint.
latest stories
JoeSoft Hear, a sound enhancing experience for analogue output
Hear is JoeSoft’s newest toy for Mac users, and yes you can spend a couple of days playing with it. Hear is a small application that installs a daemon in your system. It’s fun and it actually can make a bad pair of speakers or headphones sound much better, but it only works with the analogue output of your Mac.
1Password Turns Your Keychain into a Security Powerhouse
Password managers and generators have been around for a long time. Some of them are plain useless, others look OK but you can’t help wonder how secure your data really is with them. And then there’s that third category: applications that just work well and really secure your data. 1Password belongs to that category. It stores your passwords and secure data in Apple’s own keychain file. That file uses TripleDES to encrypt the password field of every keychain entry. TDES still is considered a highly secure algorithm, and Apple’s weight behind it means that if you decide to stop upgrading 1Password, you won’t lose any data.
mac os x news
4D releases 4D Web 2.0 Pack v11 Release 2 (11.2)
ThinkMac Software announces iKanji 1.0
New Conference - Flash on Tap - Raises Bar for Flash Designers/Developer
Scanning Times Two: DEVONthink Pro Office 1.5.3
Jumsoft Team Releases Money 3.0
NSObjects releases Calories 1.1 for Mac OS X Leopard
Fastforward Software releases Galder 1.2, update to puzzle game for Mac
Getting Things Done on a Mac
If you happen to be in the market for a GTD application, you are certainly pampered when you’re running Mac OS X. Under Leopard, GTD applications have even seen an explosive boost as some of the synchronisation functionality offered in some of these programs heavily depend on Leopard technologies.
With the Mac increasingly becoming an all-round tool of productivity for organising anything from your personal life to your enterprise-class creative or publishing work, GTD and mind mapping are becoming essential concepts and technologies. Started under Tiger, most of the GTD applications currently available for Mac OS X are only now finding a large market of eager users.
Apple Selects SproutCore in favour of Flash?
On Monday, AppleInsider brought the story that Apple is using SproutCore to build web applications. SproutCore is an open source, platform-independent, Cocoa-inspired JavaScript framework for creating web applications that look and feel like Desktop applications, according to the public schedule for WWDC.
Mac OS X Snow Leopard at WWDC
Ironic, isn’t it? At the same moment Microsoft has given up the struggle to improve Windows Vista, letting users downgrade for free (!) to Windows XP, Apple is previewing its next version of Mac OS X, code-named Snow Leopard. Equally ironic is that Snow Leopard will be the first Mac OS X version to support Microsoft Exchange 2007 out-of-the-box. Microsoft Exchange is currently the market leader in enterprise-class communications and an operating system that has native support for it is bound to find its way into large organisations easier and more quickly.
Elgato EyeTV Diversity
Just like the EyeTV Hybrid we discussed a couple of weeks ago, the EyeTV Diversity allows you to enjoy digital terrestrial TV wherever it is available, and regardless if you’re moving in a car, a train, or sitting in your office at home. The hardware resembles the Hybrid version --it’s a big USB stick with a coaxial connector at the top. But the side doesn’t come with a mini-USB connector, but with a second, tiny connector that accepts one of the two antennas that are delivered with the device.
Pentax Mobile Scanner and Printer Report
Mobile computing is on the rise. An increasing mobility, consumerisation and alternative application delivery models are shifting corporate needs in new directions. In the U.S., 45% of the workforce was mobile in 2006, while in Europe some 80 to 90 million people are working from their cars, homes, hotel lobbies, etc. To accommodate the needs of these people, the technologies they use must roughly have the same capabilities as what they have access to when they are working from their office.
