Year: 2010

Review: Doxie scanner girly but good

At my age, I’m not worried too much about what folks think about me. So I’ll use the Doxie scanner with its girl-y look if I want to, darn it, because it works.

The Doxie (http://www.getdoxie.com) is a paper scanner designed for homes and small businesses. The US$129 portable scanner is for scanning, sharing, and organizing paper and photos.

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There’s life in those CDs, DVDs still

Okay, so maybe I’m not such a dinosaur after all. “Macworld UK” (http://www.macworld.co.uk/digitallifestyle/news/index.cfm?newsid=3224278) reports that a Hewlett Packard survey of over 1,000 UK consumers, aged between 16 and 60, shows that, despite the rise of services such as iTunes, folks (besides me) still like their CDs and DVDs.

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iPhone/iPod/iPad apps for May 25

Here are the latest iPhone/iPod touch/iPod/iPad apps announced. You can find ’em at the Apple App Store (http://www.itunes.com/appstore/).

Nibi Software Group, a provider of next-generation collaborative learning solutions, has released an US $1.99 iPad and iPhone application, offering access to 200 authoritative YouTube channels on a wide variety of educational topics that are each linked to relevant Wikipedia entries on the same or related topics.

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EditShare announces beta program for Lightworks Open Source

EditShare, which specializes in cross-platform collaborative editing and shared media storage, has announced the Lightworks Open Source beta program.

Lightworks Open Source is at open-source development initiative for a large-scale, non-linear editing (NLE) platform. It offers a gateway into the NLE’s core engine, enabling the implementation of progressive features and workflows.

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