Digital photography expert Derrick Story has a new book with a very specific focus. iPad for Digital Photographers is your guide to getting the most out of Apple’s tablet if you are into photography. Derrick talks about why the iPad is such a compelling and useful device for photographers of all experience levels. With tips on [...]
Gus Mueller of Flying Meat Software has a lot to be proud of in the newest version of their photo and graphics powerhouse, Acorn 4. Gus walks us through some of the biggest updates, including the dynamically updating Brush Designer, non-Destructive Filters and Curves. Gus explains the vector capabilities of Acorn, why it is important [...]
From the exhibit hall at the Las Vegas SuperMeet 2013, Mark Spencer of Ripple Training shows off their amazing new Final Cut X plug-in, Timelines. Need to present data that would benefit from a Timeline treatment? Mark explains why Timelines is your solution, with a variety of built-in looks that can be completely customized. While developed for video, [...]
From their putting green at NAB 2013 in Las Vegas, Dan Montgomery of Imagine Products talks about ShotPut Pro, a utility that offloads video files from memory cards and distributes them to various destinations, automatically creating backups of your hard-won footage. Combined with their ProxyMill utility, your video can be copied and transcoded, ready for use with [...]
From NAB 2013 in Las Vegas, Andy Jarzebiak of FingerWorks gives us a demonstration of their Telestrator for iPad, an app that lets you illustrate both static pictures or diagrams as well as video. While telestrators are usually associated with sports, Andy talks about some of the other practical uses that include businesses of various kinds. Best of all, you [...]
The MacJury recently convened to discuss the recent changes and updates to the software delivery and licensing models of Microsoft for Office and Adobe for the Creative Suite components. The benefits and challenges of software as a service in general, and in these two cases in particular, are examined, the pricing evaluated, and how users [...]
In the Quik.io booth at Macworld/iWorld 2013 in San Francisco, CEO and co-founder Michael Chen talks about the latest features added to their free application that lets you stream or send videos, music, photos and documents between your Mac, iDevices and even Windows box. By transcoding on the fly, no preparation is necessary, just click and watch [...]
On the show floor at Macworld/iWorld 2013 in San Francisco, Oliver Breidenbach of Boinx Software spent some time talking about their second-in-a-row “Best of Show” Award, this time for iStopMotion for iPad, and what we can expect to see from Boinx in the upcoming weeks. Oliver also talks about the changes in app expectations that are presenting challenges for developers, the need for [...]
At Macworld/iWorld 2013, in San Francisco, Eliezer Lubitch, President of ICVT introduces us to beamr and JPEGmini, two image utilities that “put your photos on a diet” by reducing file size with no corresponding loss of visual or print quality. The former for iOS and the latter for Mac, yield significant file size reduction while looking great. Eliezer talks [...]
At Macworld/iWorld 2013 in San Francisco, Jennifer Lynn of Hyper shows us the iUSBport, a device that bridges the gap between your USB storage and wireless devices, and the Cameramator, a device that lets you control and transfer photos directly from your DSLR camera to iPhone or iPad wirelessly. This edition of MacVoices is sponsored by Smile, the makers [...]
