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Filecrate Remote File Backup

The backup system you have working — in this case automatic, off-site file backup — is the system which will save your business some day. This one is very good.

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Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 & Premiere Elements 8

A common organizer, auto-analyze, powerful JPG and RAW processing and wonderful video production make it a tough act to beat.

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Digital Photography Books to Kick Off 2010

Camera makers should dump their dense, boring user manuals in favor of Busch's guides. There's more including WordPress, photo tools, blogging.

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Rolling, Medium Size, Carry-On Camera Cases

Carrying too many bodies and lenses? Probably. Something sturdy, secure and carry-on compatible is needed.

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Uniblue DriverScanner 2009

When the latest Windows update mangles a video card or network card driver, think about how nice it would be to have a really good driver updater.

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Think Tank Urban Disguise 35

Think Tank Photo seems bent on making itself the gold standard in pro camera bags. Is this shoulder bag one of the most versatile ever?

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Handy Folders v3.5

Productivity and organization fall flat when they run into the rather limited Windows file explorer. Fast access to regularly used folders is easier than you think.

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Think Tank Shape Shifter Photography Backpack

Medium size photo/laptop backpacks come and go. The best stay with us for years. This is one of the best we've seen.

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Think Tank Airport AirStream Rolling Camera Bag

If you travel with more than a shoulder bag full of gear, you need something that will protect the load and make it easy to go places.

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Think Tank Skin Set Modular Component Camera Gear Carry System

Pros know that if you don't get the shot, you're out of business. Tough, crowded, fast moving situations require special solutions.

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Crumpler Six Million Dollar Home Camera Shoulder Bag

Crumpler is a bag maker which insists on being different. Care and attention to detail help create wonderful photography products.

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Think Tank Urban Disguise 40 Camera Bag

The mid-size entry in the Urban Disguise series provided us with enough incentive to physically beat it up and overstress it. The bag took it all.

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Think Tank Urban Disguise 30 Camera Bag

There are camera bags and then there are Think Tank camera bags. Lots of competition means better products. Think Tank is at the top of its game.

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Nik Color Efex Pro 3

The best Photoshop plug-ins get better because the developers listen to end users. Nik Software listens. Digital photographers are demanding sophisticated processing effects.

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ION Slide2PC Scanner

If you've got boxes full of old 35mm slides and negatives, it's probably time to start scanning before everything falls apart, gets lost, or gets soaked in a flood.

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TetherBerry v1.0.7

Connect a laptop to the Internet, anywhere you've got cell phone service, through your BlackBerry's data connection and avoid some really crazy per-megabyte carrier charges

HTC Touch Diamond Smartphone

HTC has steadily grabbed more market share by regularly turning out superb smartphones offering slick designs wrapped around great features

The Ultimate HTML Reference

A concise desktop reference guide for all standard, W3C-compliant HTML, which uniquely also includes browser compatibility charts for each element

UpStrap Shoulder Strap for SLR & Prosumer Cameras

Superb quality, purpose-built SLR and prosumer camera shoulder strap that's made in the U.S. and made to last

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Corel Announce VideoStudio Pro X2

Corel have announce their family of video editing and authoring products aimed at video enthusiasts and consumers. VideoStudio Pro X2 allows the Capture, enhancement and sharing of video. Corel VideoStudio Pro X2 Ultimate includes their new version of VideoStudio Pro (X2) and gives users everything they need to take their HD editing to the next level. VideoStudio Pro X2 includes:
Corel® VideoStudio® Pro X2 Ultimate – the complete digital media solution.
Corel® WinDVD® 9 Plus Blu-ray – Which Plays AVCHD™ and Blu-ray discs with advanced menus and even supports the upscaling of standard DVDs to near HD quality
Corel® DVD Copy™ 6 Plus – Facilitates the copying and conversion of discs and video. It even supports the direct conversion of video for the web, mobile devices like iPhone™, PSP® and iPod®, and other PMPs.
Steinberg® WaveLab™ LE 6 – Which lets you edit and enhance audio quickly and easily.

Corel VideoStudio Pro X2 Ultimate has an SRP of £79 (€129), whilst Corel VideoStudio Pro X2 will be available for £59 (€89).

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Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Corel Launch - X4

Last night I attended a release party for Corel DRAW GRAPHICS SUITE X4. Talk about impressive, the new suite features a great many improvements. I was one of a large group of journalists who were wowed by the new features and shown them in true Corel style. The Corel X4 Suite includes the latest incarnation of CorelDRAW X4, Corel PHOTO-PAINT X4, PowerTRACE X4 and Corel CAPTURE X4.

New features include:

A new interface with improvements designed to maximise its use under Vista including support for the large thumbnails offered by Vista. A dedicated Save As Template feature which will make lots of user very happy, especially corporate users.

Vastly improved file format support which offers support for Adobe CS3 formats. Acrobat 8, Microsoft Word 2007 files and great support for Publisher PUB files.

Colour management based on Adobes Color Management Module (CMM).

New powerful drawing and autotracing options which include CAD friendly Centerline tracing.

A whole bunch of free Fonts, Templates, Images and Clipart. Supporting apps and features like Bitstreams Font Navigator 2006, embedded font identification with MyFonts "WhatTheFont?!" capability. It works great ...

The biggest visible improvement comes in the use and implimentation of Tables for use in layouts.

Other improvements include the ability to be able to use and assignement of non printing of master elements and guidelines on layers.

The new ConceptShare feature is awesome in that as an included feature in the application you can share, collaborate and get feedback on design projects with clients and colleagues alike. I can see non diesigners using this feature as designers have been using Acrobat for this purpose for many years now...

All told Corel DRAW X4 is an excellent tool which will appeal to many users designer and non designer alike. Oh and cheers, thanks for an excellent evening Corel...

Look for a more indepth review later next month, Corel DRAW GRAPHICS SUITE X4 will retail for £386.58 inc. VAT and an upgrade will be available for £175.08 inc. VAT.

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Tuesday, September 04, 2007

CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3 Lacie Hard Drive Bundle

Corel Corporation announced the latest bundle offer for their flagship product CorelDRAW® Graphics Suite X3 that will provide purchasers of the suite with extra storage space for large image and multimedia files. "Between 1st September and 31st December 2007, customers across Europe are eligible for a free external memory hard drive from LaCie in stylish F.A. Porsche design worth £69 when they buy a full version of Corel’s Vista compatible design software CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3."

Customers buying from resellers are asked to download an application form from www.corel.co.uk/lacieand send it to the address specified with proof of purchase. The hard drive is then shipped within 30 days. When purchased through Corel’s Store, the bundle is shipped within 5 days. Application forms will be accepted until 15th January 2008. Sounds like an excellent deal to me ...

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