News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
Canon’s PowerShot “G” line sits squarely on the boundary between the top end of compact digital cameras and low-end digital SLRs, sharing some of the best features of both forms. Six years ago a camera as functional as the G9 cost a touch under $2000 and required you to carry around separate lenses. At a 2008 ticket price less than half that, the G9 represents pretty solid value for money — not to mention its all-in-one convenience. For the money you get a sturdy, semi-pro camera, with 12.1 megapixel capture, imaged by a triple mode, optically stabilised 6x optical zoom and viewed on a 7.6 cm LCD screen — plus an optical finder. As a mark of its lineage you can shoot in RAW format as well as write a simultaneous JPEG image to memory. The maximum image size of 4000x3000 pixels can lead to a high quality 34x25 cm print. Movies can be recorded in 640x480 pixel size at 30 fps — but not in 16:9 widescreen format or resolution.
Barrie Smith | Mar 29, 2008
Perhaps the hardest part of early 2008 was waiting for Adobe to release Photoshop Elements 6. A worthy winner of Best of Show honours at this January’s Macworld Conference & Expo, the Elements update was among the most anticipated product releases showcased at the annual Mac trade show. Adobe promised to make photo editing easier than ever, and, boy, it delivered. Brimming with new features like a Guided Edit mode, an amazing PhotoMerge Group Shot feature, and a slew of tools snatched from Photoshop CS3 tucked inside brand-new workspaces, Elements 6 makes photo editing for amateur photographers, hobbyists, and scrapbookers more accessible — and more fun — than ever before.
Lesa Snyder King | Mar 28, 2008
Aperture 2.0.1 is the Aperture that photographers wanted all along — when you use the new Aperture, it’s obvious that Apple listened its users. The new version features added tools, a streamlined interface that is both familiar yet tweaked for a much better workflow, and improvements in workflow-related speed (loading images, rendering adjustments, toggling between views, etc).
Russ Juskalian | Mar 14, 2008
In mid-2006, Microsoft bought MediaPro's parent company, iView Multimedia, and the program is now marketed as Expression Media, part of Microsoft's Expression Studio line of web and graphic design applications (all of which, with the exception of Expression Media, are Windows-only). It's now also bundled into a special edition of Microsoft Office 2008.
Rick LePage | Mar 7, 2008
As I type these words, I am waiting for Apple's Developer Connection web site to ease up sufficiently for me to download the long-awaited Software Developer Kit for the iPhone (and iPod touch, just by the by). In a way, I hate developer-oriented announcements — "here's a really cool thing we're working on, and it's available now, and hoi polloi can have it in about six months". Actually, it's the six months I hate.
