Canon upgrades HV30 camcorder to create Legria HV40
Tuesday 06 Jan 2009 - 10:58
Canon has announces a new addition to its HDV camcorder range: the Legria HV40. Recording HDV1080i images to tape, the Legria HV40 is the successor to the HV30.
Canon rolls out new camcorders
Tuesday 06 Jan 2009 - 10:41
Canon has announced a new line of five high-definition and six standard-definition camcorders. Pricing was not announced but Canon says that the camcorders will ship in April.
St Brides hosts conference on book design
Tuesday 06 Jan 2009 - 10:36
Graphic design and typography museum St Brides will host a one-day event at the end of the month, titled The Form of the Book, exploring all aspects of book design.
Google releases Picasa for Mac beta
Tuesday 06 Jan 2009 - 10:31
Google has released a public beta of its Picasa for Mac desktop software for organizing, editing, and uploading photos. The software, which runs on Intel Macs with OS X 10.4 or later, marks the first time that Picasa has been offered for the Mac (it joins the Windows and Linux versions already available).
TypeTrax manages Creative Suite projects
Tuesday 06 Jan 2009 - 10:21
Insider Software on Monday introduced TypeTrax. It's a new tool for managing design projects created with Adobe Creative Suite for users of the Canto Cumulus asset management system, priced at US$99.95 (around £68).
Intel, Adobe want to see Flash on TV screens
Tuesday 06 Jan 2009 - 10:00
Intel has ported Adobe's Flash software technology to work with its processors used in consumer electronics such as set-top boxes and high-definition TVs, Intel said Monday.
JVC to debut Final Cut Pro acquisition product
Tuesday 06 Jan 2009 - 09:58
JVC Professional will use this week's Final Cut Pro User Group (FCPUG) SuperMeet to show off its first video acquisition product for Final Cut post production. The SuperMeet happens on Wednesday, January 7th at the Robertson Auditorium in the Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco -- coinciding with Macworld Conference & Expo, which also happens in San Francisco this week.
First Look: FileMaker Pro 10
Tuesday 06 Jan 2009 - 09:53
The first thing that struck me about the new version of FileMaker Pro and FileMaker Pro Advanced released Monday is that the file format hasn't changed. In its first dozen years, FileMaker got a new file format every other version. But this new release uses the same format (.fp7) that FileMaker has had for nearly five years now, since the release of FileMaker Pro 7.
D&AD's new Education Chair focuses on recession
Tuesday 06 Jan 2009 - 09:49
The D&AD's incoming Education Chairman, Greg Quinton, has announced that the position of graduates in the recession will be a major focus of his tenure.
CALL FOR ENTRIES: OFFF Festival seeks artwork 'failures'
Monday 05 Jan 2009 - 12:32
OFFF Festival, the European festival for post-digital creative culture, invites creatives to submit artworks to be included in the catalogue for this year's event, which takes place in Lisbon, Portugal this May.
Iomega launches simple network hard drive
Monday 05 Jan 2009 - 12:19
Iomega has debuted the Iomega Home Media Network Hard Drive, which while primarily aimed at home users may also appeal to small design businesses without in-house IT staff as it's designed to be extremely easy to use.
Filter Forge for Mac OS X Photoshop plug-in beta version released
Monday 05 Jan 2009 - 11:58
Filter Forge has released a public beta of the Mac OS X version of Filter Forge, a high-end plug-in for Photoshop allowing computer artists to build their own filters.
Station 4 offers Black Panther art prints
Monday 05 Jan 2009 - 11:45
Station 4 is released three historic Emory Douglas propaganda art pieces originally published in the Black Panther newspaper in 1970 and 1971.
Autodesk 'revokes The Foundry's development licence'
Monday 05 Jan 2009 - 11:17
Autodesk has decided that it will not renew its development license with The Foundry, citing competitive issues, according to the Nuke developer.
LG bringing YouTube videos to its Blu-ray players
Monday 05 Jan 2009 - 10:52
LG Electronics on Tuesday announced it was bringing video-on-demand to its Blu-ray Disc players through streaming video deals it has inked with major Web sites.
