Designer 9 review
Micrografx made its name with business graphics rather than professional design, and despite having engendered a loyal user base, Designer has never threatened the likes ...
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Camedia 4040 Zoom review
Olympus has been using this compact camera body design for a couple of years, upgrading it with new CCD sensors, lenses and software. The latest ...
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Commotion 4.0 review
Anyone who knows anything about compositing knows that 3D is the future. Who needs 2D when you can mix your footage and animation in true ...
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Painter 7 review
All photo-editing software packages provide a handful of paint tools that mimic natural media, such as brushes, chalk, pencils and calligraphic nibs. But none can ...
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PageMaker 7 review
This was a bit of a surprise. PageMaker 6.5 Plus was supposedly the grand finale in 1999, after which Adobe hinted that the hoary old ...
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Stitcher 3.0 review
RealViz Stitcher is a variation on the panorama program that lets you join rows of images in the up–down direction as well as the more ...
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XL1S camcorder review
If there’s a central principle behind the XL1S, it’s that old adage of ‘if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’. It’s been years since the ...
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SprintScan 120 review
Announced at Photokina last September, Polaroid’s SprintScan 120 proves to be worth the wait. It’s a dedicated film scanner that’s mainly intended to work with ...
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LightSpeed CRW2200EZ review
The Yamaha LightSpeed CRW2200EZ was faster even than our current speed demon, TDK’s 16/10/40 VeloCD ReWriter. It also uses Yamaha’s SafeBurn buffer underrun compensation technology ...
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Xpress DV 2.0 review
Previously, Avid’s Xpress DV non-linear editing system has only been available on workstations from IBM and Dell, but version 2.0 is basically available for any ...
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NetObjects Fusion review
Once there was a powerful Web site-building package, NetObjects Fusion that was able to match the other tools on the market. Falling way behind the ...
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Interactive Imaging Suite review
MGI’s Interactive Imaging Suite is a complete authoring and serving suite for navigable Web scenes that include ‘immersive imaging’ panoramas and 3D object images. It’s ...
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Acrobat 5 review
This is the first major upgrade to Acrobat for two years, and is intended to take Adobe’s Portable Document Format further into the corporate/office market ...
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Xenturi Studio One review
Complexity is not always a good thing. The power and precision of today’s top authoring tools means that you can create stunning pieces of all-singing, ...
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ArtixScan 4500t review
ArtixScan 4500t is a film scanner for all sizes up to 4-x-5 inches, with a maximum resolution of 2,500dpi. That’s enough to blow a 4-x-5-inch ...
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PDF Creator 2.0 review
PDF Creator 2.0 is a lower-cost alternative to Adobe’s Distiller, able to turn any file into a platform, browser and printer-independent PDF document through the ...
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Media 100 i review
This year’s Web buzz phrase is likely to be interactive streaming. This involves video pieces that contain chapter points for easy navigation of long programmes ...
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Flaming Pear Essentials review
Flaming Pear Essentials is clear in its agenda: to be the best collection of Adobe Photoshop compatible plug-ins available. And for the large part, it ...
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Adobe Photoshop 6.0 review
Photoshop has long been Adobe’s flagship product: after all this time, it’s still the only professional-level heavyweight image manipulation software on the market. But the ...
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Cleaner 5 review
Cleaner is one of the grandfathers of Web streaming. Previously known as Media Cleaner Pro, it stands alone from video-editing applications – instead concentrating on ...