FreeAgent XTreme/Desk for Mac review
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.
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Logitech MX 1100 mouse review
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.
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BBEdit 9 review
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.
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The first Intel Core i7 workstation, Armari's Magnetar NS+ review
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.
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Drobo with FireWire 800 review
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.
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Caligari trueSpace 7.6 review
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.
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Daz 3D Bridge review
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.
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Daz Carrara Pro 6 review
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.
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Microspot 3D Toolbox review
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.
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Smith Micro Poser Pro review
Poser’s last few versions have improved rendering and realism for the venerable figure-posing application: with models manipulatable down to muscle level.
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Strata 3D[in] review
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].
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Blow Up 2 review
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.
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Cinema 4D R11 review
The latest version of Maxon’s mid-range 3D modelling, animation and rendering suite adds tools that will appeal to its users across design, VFX and animation markets.
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Sigma DP1 review
Sigma’s DP1 is unusual for a digital compact camera, in that it has an APS-C-size sensor, as found in many digital SLRs.
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Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 review
Lightroom 2 is the third major release of Adobe’s digital photograph sorting, Raw image-processing and enhancement program for pro photographers.
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Universal Type Server review
Universal Type Server is a font-management system that aims to make things easy for small design studios, while providing a huge amount of flexibility for big companies.
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Magnetar SDX review
The Magnetar SDX is a whopper of a workstatio, measuring 62cm-x-22cm-x-425cm and weighing only slightly less than a baby elephant. If you think that Apple’s Mac Pro is too girly, then this is the workstation for you.
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3D Toolbox review
Microspot 3D Toolbox is a bit of a curiosity: it’s a truly modular 3D application. You start off with a free base application that’s useful in its own right as an object viewer...
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Vision Q64 Overdrive review
CAD2’s Vision Q64 OverDrive is plain, inexpensive, but still relatively powerful and an ideal first buy for a 3D artist taking their first career steps.
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Adobe Director 11 review
Director has been notable by its absence in the successive Master Collections, so it’s refreshing to see this old stalwart of the multimedia-authoring brigade decked out in Adobe’s new livery.