February 15, 2012

WAN-IFRA Printing summit will show how creativity in print advertising can maximize revenues

The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers’ (WAN-IFRA) 3rd annual Printing Summit, to be held in Berlin, Germany, in March, will provide publishers and printers with fresh insight into the best uses of the latest technologies, and will also explore how creativity in print advertising can maximize revenues.

Sonnet Thunderbolt Echo adapter’s support for ExpressCard/34

Sonnet just recently published the list of ExpressCards their new Echo adapter, which functions as a bridge between Thunderbolt and the rest of the world, supports. While the list contains only Sonnet products, it is expected the Echo will also support…

Review: Alien Skin Blow Up 3 vs. SizeFixer XL

Enlarging a digital image is a tricky thing. It can be done in Photoshop using the bicubic resizing algorithm, but the results look muddy at best. Enlarging images using Alien Skin’s Blow Up 3 looks better and can be specifically targeted at screen and print output. Blow Up 3′s results are very close to the [...]

Immediate and full support for Amazon Kindle Fire from Sorenson Media

All of Sorenson Media’s video solutions have been optimized for Amazon’s new Kindle Fire —including Squeeze (desktop), Squeeze Server (both in the Cloud and on-premise), and the Sorenson 360 online video platform.

Review: Squeeze 8

Transcoding digital video and film requires a transcoding application. There are three of these apps that are considered to be mainstream on the Mac: (to some extent) Handbrake, Apple Compressor, Telestream Episode, and Sorenson Squeeze. Especially Squeeze has seen an interesting evolution over the past few years. Contrary to Episode, which focuses heavily on automation, [...]

Review: Kata rain cover E-702PL

What do you do when it rains? Stay inside, or go out and shoot with an unprotected dSLR camera, or go out and risk a broken camera? An alternative is to protect your camera against rain and wind, and this new Kata rain cover seems to fit the bill.