Ventura 10 review
The original desktop publishing package for IBM PC, Ventura lost ground over the years to strong competition from the likes of PageMaker, QuarkXPress, and now ...
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MX700 review
MX700 may sound like the name of some exotic testosterone-driven sports car. It actually belongs to Logitech’s Lamborghini of a cordless optical mouse – a ...
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Power Mac G5 dual 2GHz review
There’s no question that this Mac is fast. Rendering Digit’s usual test scene on the dual 2GHz Power Mac G5 – a multiprocessor-aware task that favours CPU processing power – took 32 minutes and 32 seconds with two processing threads. That’s almost 20 minutes faster than the same task running on a 1.6GHz G5.
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Cleaner 6 for Mac review
Cleaner used to have the market for professional-level encoding software pretty much sewn up. However, the last couple of years have seen Cleaner being passed ...
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Digital Fusion 4 review
Everyone talks about the market upheavals and price drops in the 3D market, but it's compositing that has gone through the greatest change in the ...
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Audigy 2 review
Video and DVD creatives who want to make sure that their work sounds as good as it looks have a new reason to drool. Creative ...
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Expression 3 review
Just about every vector illustration package these days features ‘real-media’ art effects, and various stretched and repeated picture brushes. This leaves Expression, originally launched in ...
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ChromaFlex review
The Chromatte system from Reflecmedia is designed to make it easier for everyone to own their own chroma-keying facility – and the company has just ...
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LiveStage Pro 4.0 review
LiveStage Professional (LSP) is a media-integration tool for adding polish to content prepared in other packages. Users may want to customize movie presentations by adding ...
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Universe 5 review
Universe is a 3D application featuring tools for modelling, animation, and rendering. Like NewTek LightWave, it comes as two separate programs: Modeller, for creating models; ...
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WireFusion 3 review
WireFusion 3 is a tool for developing dynamic Web presentations. It uses an arrangement of objects and connections to create behaviours for components in the ...
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SketchUp review
A few years ago, Adobe made a rather half-hearted entry into the 3D market with a program called Dimensions. Rather than being a full 3D ...
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Mokey V2 review
The first time you see Mokey, it blows you away. The application’s standard tutorial removes a skateboarding child from a piece of standard footage – ...
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Ozone 2 review
Ozone is, in some ways, the opposite of Mover. While Mover brings animation to Vue d’Esprit, Ozone brings realistic atmospherics to LightWave. The package consists of ...
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ORIS Page 4.2 review
German developer CGS Publishing Technology International will be an unfamiliar name to many designers, as this is its first Mac product. It’s been around since ...
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Premiere 6.5 review
Premiere 6.5 is a mixed bag. It has some important new features that, on their own, justify the cost of the upgrade. However, there are ...
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Messiah:animate 3.0 review
Messiah:animate is a standalone tool for 3D character-animation; it doesn’t replace your main 3D application, or plug into it. Messiah:animate does its best to look friendly. ...
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Optimaze! review
Regular Web users want to be entertained with exciting, fast-loading interactive content. As an interactive designer and developer, your job is to pack as much ...
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Stylus Photo 2100 review
Using seven different colour inks, the Epson Stylus Photo 2100 raises the bar for high-end inkjet photo-printers. Epson adds “light black” to the cyan, light ...
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SceneWeaver review
SceneWeaver is a tool for assembling photo-realistic 3D environments for Macromedia Shockwave 3D and Director 8.5 projects. It takes photographic stills, panoramas, or complete spheres, ...