After a severely constrained first half, steeply discounted computers along with improving economic conditions steered the global computer market back into the black in the latter half of 2009. According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) “Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker,”the yearly growth rate for the worldwide computer market in 2009 was 2.9%.
Read MoreiWebTemplate (http://www.iwebtemplate.com) has added free a iWeb themes and templates section, to be used with iWeb. iWeb is the web site building component of Apple’s iLife suite.
iWeb Free Themes includes seven themes: Sky, Picture, Church, Joy, Love, Billiard and Cat. Each template incorporates a number of different graphic elements which can be removed, moved and changed in size, opacity or color.
Read MoreSmall Tree (http://www.small-tree.com) will introduce its new 2TB GraniteSTOR ST-RAID direct attached shared storage system at NAB 2010.
Offering real time editing for Final Cut users while supporting 12 streams of ProRes 422HQ with no dropped frames, ST-RAID provides consistent performance over Ethernet networks. The 2TB system is available in eight, 12 or 16-drive configurations.
PagePlanet Software (http://www.PagePlanetSoftware.com/products.html) has announced the golden master release of Modular Gateway Interface (MGI) 3.2 for the Mac OS X and Linux operating systems. MGI is an Apache 2 module that adds full functionality to every web site on your server using a simple tag structure.
MGI includes 67 tags to enhance a web site with everything from simple counters and form processing to custom databases and shopping carts. You can also combine MGI’s programming tags to make your web site accomplish a variety of things.
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By David Creamer
The US$1,249 MAPublisher plug-in (http://www.avenza.com) for Illustrator CS3 and CS4 is not for the timid: you should be familiar with GIS (Geographic Information System) data and have a need to publish that data in a visual format. Simply put, the plug-in uses GIS data to create maps in Illustrator. You first create an Illustrator file and import the GIS data (in popular data formats such as AutoCAD, ESRI, MapInfo, and USGS) to create maps up to 200″ square. After importing, you can manipulate the resulting map in a number of ways.
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