Houdini Select review
The 3D-graphics market is set for a shakedown. Alias|Wavefront has pulled the rug from under the high-end market by dropping the price of Maya Complete ...
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VG171 LCD Monitor review
The ViewSonic VG171 has outstanding display quality and a comparatively low street price. It offers both digital and analog video interfaces; tested via its digital ...
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Fire GL 8800 vs Quadro4 900XGL review
Graphics cards, some would say, are at the heart of a professional 3D workstation. This is indeed true to a certain extent, though super-fast display ...
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QuarkXPress 5.0 review
It’s been a long time coming. Years have passed as Quark has slowly, achingly, ponderously, and now finally delivered version 5.0 of the world’s most-popular ...
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Flash MX review
Flash MX is the first release in Macromedia’s MX product family. Future MX releases include Dreamweaver MX and ColdFusion MX, both expected in mid-2002. This ...
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Combustion 2 review
The price might have been hiked, but Discreet’s video-effects and compositing tool Combustion 2 is more than worth the little change you get from four ...
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AXELedge 1.5 review
AXELedge is a complete solution for creating 3D Web content. It does require viewers to download an extra plug-in for their browser, but it will ...
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Pixels3D 4.0 review
Pixels3D, the Mac-only high-end-on-the-cheap 3D-animation tool, has been updated. Pixels3D 4.0 features a fresh interface, NURBS modelling, character tools and a RAYES-based renderer. The program ...
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Universe 4.0 review
Electric Image Universe is a 3D package with quite a pedigree, and Universe 4 builds on that reputation. The package is split into two programs ...
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Photoshop 7.0 review
Photoshop 7.0 includes many new features, but from the hype you’d think the release is all about support for Apple’s Mac OS X. There’s an ...
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GoLive 6 review
The new version of GoLive has been firmly integrated with the rest of Adobe’s applications: it now looks, acts and feels like Photoshop, Illustrator and ...
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Precision M40 review
The words ‘mobile workstation’ used to be as much of an oxymoron as ‘military intelligence’, or ‘Microsoft Works’. Dell’s Precision M40, though, proves that you ...
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Power Mac G4 1GHz review
This stunner of a machine includes the two fastest Motorola G4 chips available – and sits at a price £300 lower than its dual-800MHz predecessor. ...
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Studio Artist 2.0 review
Previously the reserve of eccentric artists and trippy Pacific-side designers, Studio Artist looks set to go global in 2002 with a superbly presented upgrade to ...
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Cyber-shot F707 review
Sony’s Cyber-shot DSC-F707 is by no means cheap, but it’s probably the most full-featured digital camera we’ve ever tested. The highlights are: 5-megapixel CCD, 5:1 ...
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Maya RTA review
Director 8.5 brought a powerful 3D engine to the Web. What it didn’t bring was an effective way to create content for that engine. The ...
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LiveMotion 2.0 review
When Adobe first launched LiveMotion, it broke new ground by offering itself as a more user-friendly alternative to Flash. These days, it’s hard to find ...
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InDesign 2.0 review
The world of DTP – once the vanguard of art and digital creativity – has often taken a back seat in recent years to the ...
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Coolpix 5000 review
The Coolpix 5000 is Nikon’s new top ‘prosumer’ digital camera, displacing the Coolpix 995, which remains in production. Apart from the headline feature of a ...
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Boris FX 6.0 review
If a video project demands more than just a few straight cuts and cross-fades and you need something a little more advanced than the old ...