ScanMaker 9800XL review
Over the past year, sales of high-end professional pre-press scanners in the £15,000 to £20,000 range have plummeted. The reason is the appearance of models ...
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trueSpace 6 review
Despite being distinctly different in its approach to interface design, Caligari – the maker of trueSpace – is still going strong, and has released version ...
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Tinderbox 3 review
In a world of look-alike plug-ins, the Tinderbox series for After Effects has always gone that bit further. The two previous collections have acquired a ...
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Carrara 2.0 review
Eovia’s Carrara Studio 2.0 is an all-terrain, go-anywhere modelling, animation, and rendering tool that aims to pull together everything a 3D artist needs into one ...
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Toon Boom Studio 2.0 review
3D-animation tools are ten a penny, and despite the 3D market going through some growing pains, most digital artists can easily name five or more ...
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ColdFusion MX review
ColdFusion has always been a powerful Web-application server. Its simple tag-based programming environment and built-in functions have made it an obvious choice for developers more ...
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Video Toaster 2 review
You get a lot for your money with Video Toaster 2 – essentially a live-production studio on a PCI card. The £2,200 price tag includes ...
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Dreamweaver MX review
Dreamweaver has changed dramatically since the first version appeared around five years ago, but users of the venerable Dreamweaver 1 will still recognize Dreamweaver MX ...
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Thinkpad A31p review
IBM’s Thinkpad A31p is the first mobile workstation using Intel’s Pentium 4-M processor for laptops that we’ve reviewed. It also marks the debut of ATI’s ...
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Fireworks MX review
Macromedia continues to roll out its new MX range of integrated development tools with Fireworks MX – a significant improvement over Fireworks 4 in features, ...
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Plasma review
The Web is going 3D. The problem is that it's doing it in a range of ways that don't yet link up to form a ...
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Xpress DV 3 review
Xpress DV 3 is the latest version of Avid’s high-end DV NLE. As the current generation of professional DV cameras get better, more powerful tools ...
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Portfolio 6 review
Extensis says that Portfolio 6 is a complete rewrite of its popular asset-management program. It makes the cataloguing and tracking of image and document files ...
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Mediator 6 EXP review
Some multimedia-design packages concentrate on graphical tools and special effects, while others focus on function. Mediator falls into the latter category, with this EXP expert ...
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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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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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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 ...