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Tandberg Data gets ready for disk battle
Tape specialist changes focus in bid to reinvent itself as an “end-to-end data solutions provider” As the debate rages over the future of the tape storage industry, sector stalwart Tandberg Data has been re-inventing itself as a purveyor of a widRead more |
Rivals pillage Dell PC market share
HP extends its lead at the top as Acer catches up and Lenovo and Toshiba also cash in on miserable 2009 for Dell Despite returning to shipment growth, Dell continued to lose ground in the PC market in 2009's closing quarter, with all its rivals gaining mRead more |
Hill-Wilson lifts lid on new venture
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Bright outlook for LEDs as Lemnis Lighting raises fresh funding
US-Dutch start up rakes in $37.5m to help commercialise new energy efficient lighting technology San Francisco-based lighting start-up Lemnis Lighting has raised $37.5m (£25m) in a fourth round of funding from unnamed African investors, as it looks to tRead more |
Apple iLife ‘09
Apple is getting ready for the launch of ‘Snow Leopard’, the latest bigupdate to its OS X operating system (the Mac alternative to Microsoft Windows),
but it has also been busy with some of its other software products recently.
All Macs are sold with Apple’s iLife suite installed, but the collection,
which includes applications such as iPhoto, iMovie and Garageband, is also
updated every year. The new ’09 edition brings some impressive new features to
those programs.We weren’t big fans of the ’08 version of the iMovie video-editor, but iMovie
’09 is a definite improvement. One of the most useful new options is the
advanced-drag-and-drop feature. When you select a video clip with the mouse it
can be dropped on top of another clip and a menu will appear that enables the
user to quickly combine the two in a number of ways.
One would be to simply replace the first clip with the second, or the second
clip could be inserted into the middle of the first, or superimposed on top of
the first clip to create a picture-in-picture effect. There’s also a new
Precision Editor that allows users to fine-tune the transitions between clips
more accurately than before.The iPhoto photo-organiser gets a big upgrade too. The big improvement here
is the Faces option, which uses face-recognition technology to identify people
in your photos. Just select a photo of a particular person and click the Name
button to add their name to that photo.The program will then scan your entire collection of photos to see if it can
find other pictures of the same person and then it will group them together
automatically. There’s also a Places option that allows GPS location data to be
added to photos which can then be linked to a map. User can then browse photos
by region by clicking on the map.The Garageband music software has been given a more modest upgrade, although
it does now include some very slick guitar and piano lessons for beginners.We can recommend iLife ’09 to any Mac user who already uses iPhoto and iMovie
to organise photos or videos.
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