Here are some of the latest hardware and accessory announcements: ° SwitchBot, a provider of smart home automation and embodied AI products, has launched the US$169.99 SwitchBot Lock Vision Series in North America, consisting of SwitchBot Lock Vision and...
Since I can’t cover everything, here are some recommended articles from other websites. ° From 9to5Mac: If Apple splits its laptop lineup and creating a new MacBook Ultra, the MacBook Pro can continue being exactly what it is today: the thick, performant,...
Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says in a tweet that we shouldn’t expect to see a HomePod mini 2 until the second half of 2024. On the flip side, in the Jan. 22 edition of his “Power On” newsletter, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman said he thinks Apple isn’t working on a successor to the...
Anthropics Technology’s PortraitPro is macOS compatible, retouching software with face relighting technology. It offers a fast, easy way to touch up your photos. And it’s gotten even better with version 21. New features in version 21 The new features include Sky...
If you’re not a fan of Apple’s Magic Keyboard (and I am), you might consider the US$99 Vissles V84 wireless mechanical keyboard. It boasts hot-swappable, self-developed linear switches, PBT keycaps, 19 RGB dynamic lighting effects, a...
By Marcus Geduld
Some designers have a background in 3D modeling. I don’t. Still, clients expect me to make their logos spin and dance in 3D space. As much as I’d love to learn how to use Maya or 3ds Max, I don’t have the time or resources to do so.
Thank goodness for Swift 3D 6 (http://www.erain.com). It’s an US$129, 3D application made specifically for Flash designers. It allows them to draw simple shapes, type text, or import AI/EPS files and extrude them. You can then color and shade the model and animate it using a Flash-like Timeline.
For those new to the column, Macsimum Migration is our term for companies moving from Wintel machines to Macs — or at least adding or increasing the number of Macs they use. A Migration Kit is an overview of Mac OS products for a particular occupation, such as dentistry, accounting, etc.) This week we offer part two of our networking utilities for the Mac. Part one can be found here: http://www.macnews.com/content/migration-kit-networking-utilities-mac-os-x-part-one .
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Every weekday I produce a five minute enhanced audio podcast on several top Apple stories of the day. As a result, even though I’ve a catalogue of images that I have built for the show. However, with every episode I have to produce a few more for new stories. For the last several months I have been using Pixelmator (http://www.pixelmator.com, created by New Zealand based Ambient Design Ltd. to accomplish this task.
“Pixelmator, the beautifully designed, easy-to-use, fast and powerful image editor for Mac OS X has everything you need to create, edit and enhance your images.”
By Cyndi Cashman
Prezi (http://www.prezi.com) is a Flash-based visualization, storytelling, and presentation tool that allows you to create nonlinear presentations. Using the simple editor, you can place text, images, video, Flash files, and draw lines to show relationships between each item. The final result is a visual map that lets users zoom in and out and navigate to content in a clickable environment.
