Canon has introduced two new printers for professional and advanced photographers, the ten-colour Pixma Pro9500 Mark II and the eight-colour Pixma Pro9000 Mark II Photo Printers.
We sat down with animator and director Kenny Frankland to find out how his inventive music video for drum-&-bass act Mistabishi's Printer Jam was created.
The Polaroid PoGo Instant Digital Camera represents a logical evolution for Polaroid. The company may have stopped producing film for its famed instant cameras (the first came out over 60 years ago), but the name lives on, synonymous with photo prints. That the company would integrate its PoGo portable instant printer into a digital camera was almost inevitable.
St Bride Library, the London centre for graphic designers and other print-based creatives, is planning to expand by opening a printing workshop space - but first, it wants to hear from you about your needs.
Apple today issued multiple updates for Mac OS X and Java that patched 55 bugs, including one for its Safari Web browser that prompted a security researcher to blast the company for a half-hearted approach to security.
The updates were the largest released by Apple in nearly a year.
Brother's MFC-790CW is a multifunction color ink-jet device that can scan, print, copy, and fax. Equipped with a flatbed scanner, an automatic document feeder for copying and scanning, a (smallish) 50-sheet printer tray, a built-in answering machine, and a telephone headset, the MFC-790CW is ideal for the home-office setting.
There is no Elvis wedding chapel hosting the ceremony here in Las Vegas this week, but two technologies tied the knot: The Internet and HDTVs.
It's been mooted for some time, and prototypes have been floating around for the last 18 months, but Polaroid has finally announced the launch of the Polaroid PoGo Instant Digital Camera, the first portable digital camera and instant printer combination. With the push of a button, users can select from among the digital photos on the camera, crop or edit them and in less than 60 seconds, print full-colour, 2x3-inch prints -- all with a single device.
Graphic design library St Brides explores the role of London's small, experimental presses and their output in an exhibition starting today (January 12), which examines five 'little presses' in detail.
On Thursday at CES, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced the public availability of the Windows 7 beta release. We've been running our own evaluations of the forthcoming replacement to Microsoft's much-derided Windows Vista for some time now, and we just couldn't wait to take this new version for a spin. Here's one editor's take on the latest Windows 7 user experience.
The first thing that struck me about the new version of FileMaker Pro and FileMaker Pro Advanced released Monday is that the file format hasn't changed. In its first dozen years, FileMaker got a new file format every other version. But this new release uses the same format (.fp7) that FileMaker has had for nearly five years now, since the release of FileMaker Pro 7.
Iomega has debuted the Iomega Home Media Network Hard Drive, which while primarily aimed at home users may also appeal to small design businesses without in-house IT staff as it's designed to be extremely easy to use.
Monday's release of OS X 10.5.6 included a number of updates that fix bugs, improve security, and in some cases, add new (or bring back) functionality to the Mac operating system. Apple detailed many of these changes in its official release notes. Of the things Apple documented, one change was of particular interest to me (and, perhaps, to many other Macworld readers):
Apple on Monday released an update for Mac OS X Leopard that fixes almost 40 issues related to the operating system.
Bare Bones Software released an update for its HTML and text editor, BBEdit, on Monday, adding a new font and improving the performance of FTP.
Type library Monotype has added typeface collections to its Fonts.com store from 15 type foundries, including Thinkdust, Brass Fonts, TypeTogether, Sherwood Type, DSType, Scriptorium, IHOF, TipografiaRamis, Canada Type, Mean Tangerine, Haiku Monkey, Cubo Fonts, Greenprint, Dutchfonts and TypeBank.
One of the most difficult aspects of graphic design is colour management. It's one of those things you know you should do, but often overwhelms all but the most expert of users.
onOne Software has announced the release of Genuine Fractals 6, a new version of their image resizing software. It costs US$159.95 (about £107) or $299.95 (£200) for the Standard and Pro Editions, respectively.
Opening on Friday Dec 5, ‘KIN is a new shop that brings together the talents of artists and illustrators from the likes of Scrawl and Breed. Created by Start Creative, the shop combines the talents of some of Britain’s foremost artists and creative collectives, who also happen to be friends and contacts.
The big risk with Swedish developer Digital Illusion's wildly brave Mirror's Edge (Xbox 360, PS3) is that it'll be misunderstood. It's a platformer that flaunts its gleaming rooftop playgrounds entirely in first-person. It's a first-person shooter, but only because the bullet fired into soaring spaces is you. Streaks of dashing and leaping require precision body tactics, but from a body that's largely unseen. Colour-splashed levels splay like architectural equations with precarious solutions but offer only fleeting directional cues. Guns can be karate-chopped from the arms of enemies, but those guns slow you down and cramp your technique. Combat is possible, but death comes swiftly, so it's better avoided. The entire experience is an accumulation of paradoxes, an amalgam of existing genres, but which plays like none of them.