Sunday, April 1, 2007 at 12:23PM Breeze Systems have released Downloader Pro 2.0, which is a major upgrade to their powerful yet simple tool for transferring digital photos from camera to PC. New features in Downloader Pro 2.0, include automatic geo-tagging, the creation of track log files for GPS data, the ability to view thumbnails on a memory card and IPTC XMP data support. Visit Breeze Systems for more info...
Sunday, April 1, 2007 at 12:15PM Alien Skin Software have released the Eye Candy Effects Collection , which bundles Eye Candy 5: Impact, Eye Candy 5: Nature, Eye Candy 5: Textures, Xenofex 2, and Snap Art plug-ins for Adobe Photoshop and other photoshop plug-in compatible applications. The Eye Candy Effects Collection includes 54 special effects filters with over 1000 presets.
These filters allow digital artists and graphic designers to create chrome, fire, smoke, lightning, clouds, comics and dozens of other effects with a single click.
These plug-in can be downloaded, including 30 day demos, at the Alien Skin Website. The Eye Candy Effects Collection retails for $399.
Sunday, April 1, 2007 at 12:07PM Twitch Guru have posted a gallery of what they consider as the 50 greatest female characters in video game history. This post is about as close to an April fools joke, as I'm likely to get, however the gallery certainly makes for interesting viewing. In many respects is also represents a historical overview of the history of gaming graphics and it's increasing sophistication. Visit twitchguru and take a look.
Sunday, April 1, 2007 at 12:07PM Camera Bits have released the third public beta of Photo Mechanic 4.5 for Windows and Mac. Changes include a number of small bug fixes and feature tweaks; The v4.5 beta will expire on April 5th at which time the full release will most likely be available. Betas with such short longevity aren't really Betas in my mind, but are more pre-release teasers. Visit the download page for more info.
Sunday, April 1, 2007 at 11:57AM It seems that Adobe have also not woken up to the fact that people are not happy with their pricing policy. Prodig are reporting that European pricing is up twice that of the US prices. Come on Adobe, how can this be encouraging a fair market. you're going to be driving more people to buy grey market or dare, I even say it, Pirating your software.
Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium Upgrade
US £224 / $440
UK £465 / $912
Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium Full
US £916 / $1,799
UK £1,409 / $2,766
According to Prodig, "Members of the AOP, EPUK, Hasselblad and German Freelance forums have all joined the bandwagon demanding reasons why pricing can be up to double that in the US." Come on, don't make us pay more because we're not American or you think you can get away with it. I smell an investigation from the fair trade agencies.
Sunday, April 1, 2007 at 11:21AM It seems that Adobe have also not woken up to the fact that people are not happy with their pricing policy. Prodig are reporting that European pricing is up twice that of the US prices. Come on Adobe, how can this be encouraging a fair market. you're going to be driving more people to buy grey market or dare, I even say it, Pirating your software.
Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium Upgrade
US £224 / $440
UK £465 / $912
Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium Full
US £916 / $1,799
UK £1,409 / $2,766
According to Prodig, "Members of the AOP, EPUK, Hasselblad and German Freelance forums have all joined the bandwagon demanding reasons why pricing can be up to double that in the US."
Come on, don't make us pay more because we're not American or you think you can get away with it ... I smell an investigation from the fair trade agencies...
Saturday, March 31, 2007 at 10:14PM Canon has posted updates for almost all of the applications they bundle with their line of digital SLR models. He indicates that they have also released the Canon RAW Codec Version 1.0 for Windows Vista which helps address support issues for Raw files on the New windows OS.
Updaters are available for Digital Photo Professional 3.0, EOS Utility 2.0 and ImageBrowser 5.8b/ZoomBrowser EX 5.8b, as well as a full installer for RAW Codec 1.0, which can be downloaded from any of the recent-model Canon digital SLR pages on Canon's Web Self-Service System website. For the updaters to run, you must have earlier versions of Canon digital SLR software installed.
Saturday, March 31, 2007 at 3:48PM It appears, that Apple's Boot Camp Version 1.2, now supports Microsoft Windows Vista. Yet another reason, for me, to consider buying an Intel CoreDuo Mac... I've been playing with my recently restored OS-X based PowerMac, back at the office. I'm impressed and happy, with how well the system now works, especially after we had the faulty power supply replaced.
I'm thinking of exchanging the stupid mac mouse with a two button mouse, having tried one on the Mac. I like the context sensitive menus offered with the right mouse button but I haven't tried the Mighty Mouse yet... Apple insists on reinventing everything, so I'll have to give one a try, before making any final decisions...
Saturday, March 31, 2007 at 3:47PM According to an article at ITPro, exploits have been found which can lead you down the garden path or misdirect you via the unencrypted data transfer protocols your GPS system uses. To be honest with you, the idea of this is pretty scary because I can see people blindly following the instructions given to them, getting into accidents, trouble, robbed or even killed.
It's quite weird, but the trust some of us have placed in some of the information given to us is quite scary. I was on public transportation just the other day and I overheard a conversation between two college girls. One remarked to the other how she thought the other girl was very lucky because she had been to Cairo, and then went on to explain how Cairo was this holistic and spiritual centre. She then went on to state that she was being silly and of course her friend obviously knew this because they both watched "Charmed" ("What?!!!" my brain screamed). Oh brother. I was laughing so hard I almost wet myself. Is fictional TV what the youth of today are using as sources of 'facts' and knowledge? And is the popular media the source of information which they think is worth putting their faith in? If this is the case, no wonder we're in trouble.
Sometimes maybe the idea of a nanny state doesn't seem so bad.
Saturday, March 31, 2007 at 3:12PM Microsoft have unveiled the first public beta offering of their 'Deepfish' internet browser for mobile devices. It re-renders web pages to a graphical proxy of the web page with its original formatting intact. Using Deepfish this page can be zoomed into, scrolled around and the links clicked on and activated making this a more familiar experience for users.
The public version of this release of Deepfish was fully subscribed, and in very short order, so those of you interested in trying it out, will have to wait a little while longer. Visit Deepfish for more info...
