PRODUCT NEWS
An even simpler image viewer
ACD Systems International Inc. PicaView(TM) 2.0, manages digital
images within Windows Explorer(TM). Users can remain in Windows Explorer
(TM) to preview thumbnails of their image and multimedia files simply
by right-clicking on the file. PicaView(TM) 2.0 also can print single
images or contact sheets.
Adobe improves upon Acrobat
What could Adobe find to add to the new version 5 of Acrobat? Well
for those of you who are getting sent acrobat files as resources,
you will now be able to export both images and text from PDF files
and save them in an usable format such as TIFF or JPEG. However for
those who like the way acrobat protects your images and text, you
can also control the extraction, by specifying such factors as resolution
and compression level. Of interest to those futurist among Acrobat
5 will also support The Extended Markup Language (XML). It will both
recognize and save out XML metadata and structure. XML is coming on
albeit slowly, but inevitably, Acrobat 5 is here!
Want to check your Toner while on the road?
Hewlett-Packard is promoting a new line of Internet-enabled laser
printers. The four new models, priced at $399 to $1,099, allow users
to beam documents for printing from wireless devices, check the paper
and toner levels of individual printers from a Web page and scan documents
directly onto the Internet. Connected to my printer....I donıt know
about that.
ICE cubed?
Anyone buying new film scanners has probably been running into the
term - digital ICE. What does it mean? A firm called Applied Science
Fiction is responsible for the naming of these nifty scanning tools
which most scanner manufacturers are now including with their equipment.
The original Digital ICE stands for Image Correction
and Enhancement. It makes the scratches go away. Unfortunately
with some fine line images such as engravings or drawings, it does
too good a job. Fortunately on the Nikon 2000 you can turn it off.
To this product AFS has added two other tools ROC and GEM to ³cube²
the Ice. ROC - Reconstruction Of Color - uses
programed knowledge of different films to recreate what the film would
have looked like when it was new. GEM - Grain Equalization
Management - identifies the grain in the scan and removes it
like ICE does the scratches. With Ice-cubed you can make your old
beat up images look new again.
Xerox gets Color!
Anne Mulcahy president & COO of Xerox stated that ³Color is key²
Actually Xerox has been doing color, including its Phaser 2135 ( acquired
with Tektronix) which prints 21 ppm for $6000 and the Docu Color system,
but next year it will produce its NEW color technology - Future Color.
So far it is a big secret.
A site which means business
Primix, a
strategic Internet business, introduces a Sales and Marketing Portal
as a new service offering. They will set up your content management
so that your people can quickly and easily access the right sales
and marketing material to do their work. What a great idea. Wish I
had thought of it, donıt YOU.
HEARD IN THE ALLEY
Software Seer Bids to Change the Desktop
David Gelernter who wrote ''Mirror Worlds'' which predicted the Web
is concerned about the overwhelming stream of information now flowing
through the pipelines. He poises the question - why do we still organize
our information as if it were on paper in folders and virtual file
cabinets? He wants to stretch your mind more with organizing chronologically,
streaming data . Now I have to admit I am not sure that my mind is
flexible enough to understand how it works, but his company, Mirror
World Technologies is offering Scopeware, on which you can search
by time or keyword.
He thinks its is easier to remember the time you wrote something
than what you wrote. Must be under 50. Basically he is calling upon
the computer to do all the work, not you. Of course there are some
out there who have never created a folder and just rely on finder
(or Sherlock).
Need Video ?
- Keep your eye on Sekani
a provider of stock video clips, media asset management and production
services whose archives include footage from ESPN, NHL, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Studios, Inc., Hearst and the Smithsonian Institution. Now they are
helping the NBC Olympics and World Wrestling Federation organize their
media files. They also have associated office around the world, And
guess who their partner for still images is - Corbus. Two megaıs on
the horizon?
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