When it comes to graphics tablets, the only real game in town is Wacom. That company pretty much dominates the market. Recently, I was sent a graphics tablet from a company I've never heard of. Called the PenSketch 9x12 and manufactured by Genius, it is targeted at graphics users and comes with a cordless mouse and pen.
When it comes to graphics tablets, the only real game in town is Wacom. That company pretty much dominates the market. Recently, I was sent a graphics tablet from a company I've never heard of. Called the PenSketch 9x12 and manufactured by Genius, it is targeted at graphics users and comes with a cordless mouse and pen.
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It's not very often that a notebook computer has the potential to be a game changer in the market. The routine of the notebook manufacturers are fairly predictable. Intel releases a newer, faster and lower power CPU, and the manufacturers build yet a new notebook around it and call it the next best thing. Lenovo has taken a slightly different, yet radical tact to notebooks by building a Wacom Tablet right into the wrist rests of its ThinkPad W700 workstation class notebook computer
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Bunkspeed CGI made simple. Is it really easy? Bunkspeed at SIGGRAPH 2008 showcased its latest renderer for image modelers, HyperShot 1.5. The renderer features an improved real-time raytracing engine, better real time handling of materials on objects that don't have texture coordinates and a cached material library that instantly displays materials.
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One thing about the notebook workstation market that tends to stand out every time Intel or AMD releases a new CPU is the seemingly lack of innovation. Manufacturers talk about graphics chipsets and processing power, but usually that is the gist of the innovation. Sure there may be other new features, but these usually don't change the game. At SIGGRAPH 2008, Lenovo introduced what can arguably be described as the most innovative workstation-class notebook computer of the year, if not the last several years.
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In the first of my two part series, I looked at how to take a CAAD drawing from an older version of Autocad, and import it into Cinema 4D Architectural edition (C4DA), and I had mentioned that it was "The Long Way" to work. In this article, I'm going to show how C4DA works with Graphisoft's ArchiCAD 11 to make creating your architectural visualization faster than lightning.
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My father has been an architectural designer here in Toronto for longer than I have been alive. What he does is design extensions, renovations and full house plans for customers to take to a contractor to have built. One downside to what he does is that with the drawings that are produced, you really only have a 2D wireframe version of what your house is going to look like when the job is finished. It's really not a great way to show a customer what their "dream home" is going to look like.
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Adobe Systems' Acrobat 9 Pro Extended is the company's flagship Acrobat document, and the company has added several new tools to enhance the user experience as well as some enhancements to existing tools. Within the scope of this first look, we'll cover some of the new tools introduced with this version.
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Product Review:
By John Virata
Lenovo D10 ThinkStation workstation
The Lenovo D10 is the big brother to the ThinkStation S10, and as such sports dual Intel XEON CPUs for a combined four processor cores, 12MB L2 cache and a 1333MHz front side bus. Housed in a tower configuration, the D10 system is wider than the S10, and can accommodate more internal drive space, with support for five 3.5-inch hard drives as opposed to three for the S10, two PCIe x4 slots, two PCI X slots, and a single PCI slot.
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Apple's 2.8Ghz dual Intel Xeon Quad-Core Mac Pro
Apple's 2.8Ghz dual Intel Xeon Quad-Core (8-cores total!) Mac Pro is one of Apple's fastest computers yet. With the capability to run with 32GB RAM, an excellent graphics card (or two), and terabytes of storage, no job is too big for this beast to handle.
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Poser Pro: Animation with Character
Poser has been around for a long time. Through the years, the software has been used to produce many different types of character animations. From simple illustration poses to broadcast animation, Poser continues to be a great, cost-effective solution for animators and non-animators to design character elements quickly and easily. The robust new software shows that Smith Micro is dedicated to continuing this newly acquired product line.
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In my " Quick Look " at Left 4 Dead I hadn't yet played the Player vs Player mode in my little review, but I have since been to the dark side as the infected and my laughter could not be contained.
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While its original camera has been out for a year - the newest offering in the Flip line up is now HD. And, while this tiny camera offers a simple version of the HD spec, the 1280 video does give you the option to easily feed the clips into your HD timeline without difficult scale manipulation.
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I just finished testing the new Canon prosumer DSLR, 50D and its one nice camera. It offers many improvements over the previous model, the 40D. Its easier to use than the 40D, is the same size, actually weighs less yet outperforms it in almost every category. For the price ($1,399- just $100 more than the list price of the 40D when it was introduced last year) the 50D offers a a whole lot more bang for your buck.
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Altec Lansing has been building iPod speaker systems for quite a while now, and before that was a purveyor of PC speaker systems in various price ranges. As Apple has offered multiple generations of its iPod music and video player, Altec Lansing has offered a speaker system to take advantage of what the iPod can do.
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Flip Video camcorders are now available with personalized skins. In a recent partnership with Café press, Pure Digital Technologies now offers their popular flip video camera with customized printing on the front. Amazingly, after only one year on the market, Flip Video has sold over 1.5 million camcorders in the United States alone.
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In my " Quick Look " at Left 4 Dead I hadn't yet played the Player vs Player mode in my little review, but I have since been to the dark side as the infected and my laughter could not be contained.
Read More
While its original camera has been out for a year - the newest offering in the Flip line up is now HD. And, while this tiny camera offers a simple version of the HD spec, the 1280 video does give you the option to easily feed the clips into your HD timeline without difficult scale manipulation.
Read More
I just finished testing the new Canon prosumer DSLR, 50D and its one nice camera. It offers many improvements over the previous model, the 40D. Its easier to use than the 40D, is the same size, actually weighs less yet outperforms it in almost every category. For the price ($1,399- just $100 more than the list price of the 40D when it was introduced last year) the 50D offers a a whole lot more bang for your buck.
Read More
Altec Lansing has been building iPod speaker systems for quite a while now, and before that was a purveyor of PC speaker systems in various price ranges. As Apple has offered multiple generations of its iPod music and video player, Altec Lansing has offered a speaker system to take advantage of what the iPod can do.
Read More
Flip Video camcorders are now available with personalized skins. In a recent partnership with Café press, Pure Digital Technologies now offers their popular flip video camera with customized printing on the front. Amazingly, after only one year on the market, Flip Video has sold over 1.5 million camcorders in the United States alone.
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Notebook Computers
