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New “MacBook Pro lineup offers the best displays for photographers”


2009
07.05

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Rob Galbraith wrote a piece about the new MacBook Pro lineup. The new line of display’s used for this lineup is said to be much better for photographers.

“What a difference six months makes. Back in January, we wrote about the suitability of the screens in several notebooks for editing photos in the field. At that time, Apple’s MacBook Pro 15 inch was pegged as being acceptable for this purpose, but barely: hue accuracy trailed the other portables we looked at, while the display’s glass front meant it was a battle to keep reflections at bay.


Fast forward to today and the overall MacBook Pro story is quite different: not only does the recently-revamped MacBook Pro 15 inch now ship with a superb colour-accurate display, but the new MacBook Pro 13 inch does too. Plus, the third member of Apple’s MacBook Pro trio – the 17 inch – has both a great laptop display and the option of ordering it in a much-needed antiglare version.

Taken together, the current MacBook Pro lineup offers the best displays for photographers we’ve ever seen from Apple, with a potential solution for the remaining bugaboo – display glossiness – coming a bit later this year.” more here

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Helvetica


2009
03.25

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Last weekend I spend some time watching the movie Helvetica by Gary Hustwit, I gotta tell ya, this movie rocks big time!! The movie tells the story about a Font-type called Helvetica. You got to be a lover of Fonts to appreciate the movie I guess, but when you are that type of person, I highly recommend the film!! I am not going into the storyline of the movie here, but I bet ya, you didn’t know all the brands that use Helvetica.

Also:

  • Helvetica comes as a standard Font on the Mac
  • Windows uses a ripoff font called Arial
  • The music in this movie is totally awesome!!!
  • The movie is filmed on different locations such as New York, Amsterdam, Berlin e.d.
  • Helvetica stands for helvetia, which is the old name for Switserland
  • The are some cool trailers you can watch here
  • And the film is for sale in the iTunes Store.
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GridIron Flow


2009
03.24

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From GridIron’s website:

“Flow is the world’s first Visual Workflow Manager, built from the ground up to keep creative professionals streamlined and informed. Flow gives you a total understanding of your project, visually and intuitively. In one simple interface, you’ll see all your project files, how they’re related to each other, and where they’re located—on a local drive, on a network volume, even on a DVD you burned a few months ago.

This new birds-eye-view of your project gives you instant access to any file you need—and any version of that file, even if you’ve overwritten it while making changes. Flow even alerts you if you try to modify or delete a file that you shouldn’t. Bottom line: no more lost files, no more accidents, and no more all-nighters. You’ll find yourself delivering everything right the first time—without doing anything different.

John Nack, Principal Product Manager for Adobe Photoshop, calls Flow “one of the slickest, most potentially transformative applications I’ve seen in years.” Could it transform the way you work? Check out Flow’s features to find out.”

I saw an convincing demo of the software in a episode 175 of Photoshop User TV, so check it out!!!