Seagate FreeAgent Pro for Mac review
The FreeAgent Go for Mac promises fast FireWire 800 transfer speeds, spacious storage, a bundled dock, and a stylish (if bulky) white and aluminium design.
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The FreeAgent Go for Mac promises fast FireWire 800 transfer speeds, spacious storage, a bundled dock, and a stylish (if bulky) white and aluminium design.
The latest version of Illustrator adds a feature that users have wanted for years: multiple artboards. This isn’t the only trick up Adobe’s sleeve, but in many ways it’s the most profound.
AE CS4 is still the best overall compositing application, and the upgrade adds some useful tools – but it would have been great if Adobe had given it a more fundamental overhaul.
Seagate’s revamped FreeAgent range of external hard drives includes both desktop and portable versions. We looked at two variations of the same desktop model.
When a company puts out a highly acclaimed mouse like the MX Revolution Mouse, the bar gets set pretty high. Logitech’s new MX 1100 Cordless Laser Mouse isn’t as feature-filled, but it certainly measures up.
BBEdit is a feature-packed editor includes support for a huge array of programming languages, has absurdly long menus, and preferences that make your head swim.
Armari’s Magnetar NS+ is the first workstation we’ve seen that’s based on Intel’s brand new Core i7 platform for single-processor computers, which was codenamed Nehalem.
Edius aims to be the plucky little video editor that could. Going up against three major competitors, Edius 5 aims to outperform its rivals and offer a faster and more flexible workflow.
DX Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) aimed at users building real-time 3D interactive applications, simulations or games.
When the original USB Drobo was released, it made a big splash. Now, Data Robotics has added a FireWire 800 port, allowing it to do everything its predecessor promised, but faster.
The standout new feature of 3D modelling, animation and rendering application XSI 7 is a visual programming environment, ICE (Interactive Creative Environment).
Canon’s latest foray into the entry-level digital SLR market has resulted in the 10-megapixel EOS 1000D, based on the earlier EOS 400D.
Recently released for free following the takeover of developer Caligari by Microsoft, trueSpace is a fully-featured 3D application -- albeit with an unorthadox look-&-feel.
Rather than rendering content as flat 2D images to Photoshop’s layer-based workflow, 3D Bridge lets you work with the image editor and 3D Bridge simultaneously.
Carrara 6 provides five different ‘rooms’ for working on your scene; you switch between each ‘room’ to focus on modelling, texturing, rendering and other tasks.
Microspot 3D Toolbox is a Mac-only modular 3D application that you upgrade by buying plug-ins that offer rendering, texturing, modelling and animation facilities.
Poser’s last few versions have improved rendering and realism for the venerable figure-posing application: with models manipulatable down to muscle level.
Strata’s 3D[in] plug-ins, Design 3D[in], Foto 3D[in] and Live 3D[in], slot neatly into Photoshop Extended CS3’s 3D features. We’ll concentrate here on Design 3D[in].
As expected, shortly after news of the update to the tiny Olympus E-410 comes the replacement for the maker’s popular mid-range E-510.
Blow Up works by expanding the size of an image and ‘intelligently’ filling in the missing details through judicious use of sharpening and the addition of fake grain.