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Windows Hardware & Software
HP Skyroom: Power & Simplicity for Remote Workgroup Tasks
In this article, Ron Lindeboom looks at the powerful HP Skyroom technology, which allows team members to interact in high definition video with one another, as they work on projects and approvals remotely. Highly powerful, yet priced within reach of many small to medium-sized companies -- nevertheless, the system is powerful enough for even major players like Dreamworks Animation, who used the system during the making of the blockbuster 'Monsters vs Aliens.' Powerful, elegant, simple to use.
Review, Feature
Ron Lindeboom |
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Windows Hardware & Software | HP Unveils The Future:The New Z-Series Workstations
Writer and contributing editor, David Roth Weiss, takes us UNDER THE HOOD of HP's powerful new Z800 workstations. With a radical new design inside and out, created in collaboration with the BWM Designworks global design consultancy, the new Z800 is HP's most powerful workstation ever for image and processor-intensive tasks, such as: HD video editing, composting, and 3D animation. As an added bonus, David takes us BEHIND THE SCENES with HP to DreamWorks Animation Studios, where the masterminds behind the incredible new hit film, Monsters vs. Aliens, are reinventing the art of storytelling using exciting new state of the art 3D stereoscopic filmmaking techniques and technologies.
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Roth Weiss |
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Windows Hardware & Software
Directory Opus 9
This bruiser app is so powerful it should be a requirement for any power user (and every digital content creation user). It offers outstanding tools and an enhanced workflow at a great price. Its features are so deep I felt a written review wasn't strong enough to illustrate why Directory Opus 9 should be standard on every windows computer.
Review
John David Hutton |
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Windows Hardware & Software
Evoluent Vertical Mouse
It starts as a slight twinge in the shoulder, or a prickle in the wrist, a dime-sized knot in the forearm or a tingling somewhere up and down the arm. Whatever the symptoms, the cause is usually the same - RSI or repetitive strain injury or its widely publicized brother, carpal tunnel syndrome. In this article, John David Hutton takes a look at the new Evoluent Vertical Mouse. It could be the answer to protecting yourself from carpal tunnel and other strains.
Review
John David Hutton |
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Windows Hardware & Software
Microsoft Expression Studio: Microsoft's Designs on Designers
In this software review of Microsoft Expression Studio, Tim Wilson takes a look at what sort of leverage Microsoft could put behind its new software package, Microsoft Expression Studio... Adobe is the 800 pound graphics gorilla, with massive market share among designers. Meet Microsoft, the 8 thousand pound gorilla. They're coming - and they're going to keep on coming. Microsoft's Expression Studio includes Expression Media, Expression Web, Expression Design and Expression Blend. Microsoft says the suite is targeted at creative pros, not business.
Review
Tim Wilson |
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Windows Hardware & Software
Directory Opus 8.1 for Windows
CreativeCOW leader John David Hutton shows us why Directory Opus 8.1 for Windows ''is an outstanding workflow addition at a great price... What is it? Some would say it's a windows explorer replacement and while this is technically true it also offers multitudes of capabilities normally included in many other apps, namely ftp, image conversion, complex file searches including metadata searches, image and file viewer, zip capabilities, folder synchronization, slideshows, etc. It also supports easy access to common utilities like Nero burning software and Google Desktop Search (GDS) software, freely downloadable from Google.''
Review
John David Hutton |
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Windows Hardware & Software
NewTek's TriCaster
CreativeCOW leader, Robert Wilson says of NewTek's TriCaster: Smothering Doubts with Awards, 'This year's NAB delivered on the promises of bigger, better and cooler. NewTek's TriCaster came away as the coolest of them all and for good reason: it's insanely fantastic.'
Review
Robert Wilson |
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Windows Hardware & Software
Arrays, RAID Drives & Striping: How They Work
In a very basic look at issues like ''What Is an Array'', ''What is RAID'', and ''What Is Striping'' -- Creative Cow's Ron Lindeboom explores the issues that make digital video possible on personal computers. He examines the fundamentals and gives newer users the kinds of basics that they need to know to successfully configure their video drive solution.
Tutorial
Ron Lindeboom |
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Windows Hardware & Software
Building a PC NLE: Assembling your NLE
Assuming you have a limited budget to work with, and are looking to jump into digital video non-linear editing, building your own PC editing platform is the surest way to save a great deal of money. It is not, despite what others may have told you, a monumentally challenging task or cause for lost sleep provided you know what you're doing. In this second part of the two part series, Jim Laffety helps you assemble all the parts.
Tutorial
Jim Lafferty |
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Windows Hardware & Software | Building a PC NLE: Choosing the Components
Assuming you have a limited budget to work with, and are looking to jump into digital video non-linear editing, building your own PC editing platform is the surest way to save a great deal of money. It is not, despite what others may have told you, a monumentally challenging task or cause for lost sleep provided you know what you're doing. In this article, Jim Laffety sorts it all out.
Tutorial
Jim Lafferty |
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