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Digital Anarchy Data Animator 1.0

Data Animator is easy to use, yet deep and flexible. It reduces the drudgery of creating accurate data visualizations and lets you focus on design and presentation. more »

Boris Blue

Are you frustrated with the graphics power of your video workstation? Do you feel hampered by your inability to render 3D titles, composites and motion graphics in real time, making it impractical for you to experiment and innovate? Welcome to the club. We buy faster and faster graphics cards, yet we don't see a commensurate improvement in our 3D renderings. Why not? more »

Alienware MJ-12 7500a

I had a chance to evaluate Alienware's MJ-12 7500a workstation, which is powered by an AMD Opteron 180 processor with a clock speed of 2.4 GHz. more »

Disc Makers Elite2

If you want to run off a disc or two, it's not a problem. All you need is a computer with one or - preferably - two recordable drives. But what if you regularly run off tens or hundreds of copies of a project from a single disc. more »

Harris InfoCaster 2.0

Falling prices for flat panel monitors, along with low-cost desktop and notebook computers, are fueling the drive to place informational displays everywhere. more »

Apple Aperture 1.1.1

Apple's Aperture is a well-designed tool for color- and exposure-correcting digital photographs. Fronted with a slick Apple interface, it also makes cataloging easy. more »

Macromedia Studio 8 from Adobe

Almost every project we produce at my company uses at least one Studio application and incorporates some form of video or Flash, and ultimately, it ends up on CD, DVD or the Web. more »

PESA Premiere Matrix Switcher

Switching and intelligent routing are critical in any multi-room studio environment, but switchers aren't at all inexpensive. PESA Switching Systems, however, has broken the price barrier for quality more »

Autodesk 3ds Max 8

3ds Max 8 from Autodesk brings maturity and features to this potent and popular 3D application. more »

Popcorn, Toothpicks and Video

Ever get a piece of popcorn stuck between two teeth? Your world stops as you struggle to fix this minor dental problem. You frantically search for a toothpick, find one, get that pericarp out of your mouth and more »