Entries from Manifest Tech Blog tagged with 'Web'
Adobe Photoshop.com Mobile Now on Android
Adobe has really extended its Photoshop brand, from desktop to online, and now to mobile. There's the legendary Photoshop CS4 for advanced professional photo editing, now with an Extended edition expanding into 3D and motion. And there's the more accessible...
Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 Update for AVC-Intra
Adobe has announced a new free update to its Adobe Creative Suite 4 suite, Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 version 4.2. The previous update to Premiere Pro in June enhanced support for the RED camera, popular video hardware, 64-bit systems,...
Adobe Announces Premiere Elements 8
Adobe has announced its annual update to its consumer digital media editing software -- Premiere Elements 8 for video (Wiindows only) and Photoshop Elements 8 for photos (Win & Mac) -- see respective press releases. The pricing is unchanged:...
HD Expo NY Launches into the Createasphere
HD Expo NY came to The New Yorker Hotel in New York City last week. The show is changing its brand to Createasphere, in recognition of the broadening of production beyond just HD (... and avoiding confusion with Hospitality Design...
RealPlayer SP: Play and Download Web Video
(with Tim Geoghan) Media player software continues to expand its scope -- from playback of local files to streaming media and CD and DVD, to acquisition with audio CD ripping, to sharing with CD burning. And now RealNetworks has taken...
Esther Dyson at Princeton on the Quicken Model for Health Care
Esther Dyson, writer, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and first lady of the digerati, visited our area last week to speak to the Princeton Regional Chamber of Commerce. You may recall Dyson from her Release 1.0 newsletter (and subsequent updates as a...
Eye-Fi Adds Ad Hoc Networking, Uploads of RAW Photos
Someday we will be able to get rid of our collections of data cables and card readers -- when all our devices are wireless. But until then, the Eye-Fi SD cards are a step in that direction by adding Wi-Fi...
The WebAround -- Simple Backdrop for Webcam Videos
The WebAround is a simple idea, nicely realized, to help you make better-looking, more professional webcam videos. The problem with shooting informal Web videos is that it's just not very classy to shoot clips that show the clutter of your...
Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 Update for Flexible Workflow
These days, digital media professionals need to do it all -- production and delivery, video and Web and print -- and work in all media -- video production, and audio, motion effects, Web and DVD. Similarly, no one tool...
Presentations and Videos from Streaming Media East
Presentations from Streaming Media East conference (see previous post) --sessions and workshops -- are posted at www.streamingmedia.com/east. Plus many of the videos from the conference and associated Content Delivery Summit are now available at www.streamingmedia.com/videos. Some recommended viewing: -...
John Dougherty Turn C.S. into "Computational Singing"
Our Princeton N.J. Chapters of the ACM and the IEEE Computer Society has sponsored a lot of interesting and fun meetings over the past 28 years, but last week's event was the first time our meeting turned into a group...
Google Docs for Sharing Files
So what is Google Docs? It's free online storage for your office files (documents, spreadsheets, presentations). Plus online editing of office documents, with no desktop application required. So you don't have to carry your files with you, or sync them...
Jan Ozer on Better Quality Streaming Video
Jan Ozer is a regular presenter at the Streaming Media East conference (see previous posts). This year he kicked off the week with a half-day seminar on Encoding H.264 Video for Streaming and Progressive Download, following up on his...
Dan Rayburn on the Streaming Video Market
Dan Rayburn gave his regular update on the streaming media market at the end of a busy day at the Streaming Media East conference in New York (see previous post). Rayburn keeps his fingers on the pulse of the...
Streaming Media East 2009 in New York
The Streaming Media East conference is back in New York this week for the 2009 edition. The event is held at the New York Hilton Hotel in the heart of the city (6th Ave. between 53rd and 54th Streets),...
Eye-Fi Takes Photo Sharing to Video Sharing
The good news with digital cameras is that it's so easy to shoot lots of photos. The hard part is then accessing and sharing them -- hooking up the equipment and software to transfer your images to a computer, and...
Apple iTunes Store Adds HD Movie Rental and Sales
Apple describes its iTunes Store as the world’s most popular online music, TV and movie store, with over 250 million TV episodes purchased and over 33 million movies purchased and rented. Its catalog features over 10 million songs, over...
Eye-Fi SD Card Uploads Videos from Digital Cameras
As promised at CES (see previous post), the Eye-Fi Wi-Fi SD Memory card now can upload video clips as well as photos wirelessly from your digital camera to to your computer, or to a photo sharing site like Fickr...
Eye-Fi To Upload Videos from Digital Cameras
The Eye-Fi Wi-Fi SD Memory card is a standard SD memory card, with some extra magic: built-in Wi-Fi networking ($129, see previous post). Insert the Wi-Fi card in a digital camera, and when you take pictures at home it...
Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 -- How-Tos
Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 shipped in October 2008, with deeper support for developing advanced websites. Dreamweaver CS4 is easier to use, having adopted the Adobe interface design, especially for customizing your workspace. For editing individual pages, the new Live View...
Eye-Fi Wi-Fi SD Card: Not Just for Digital Cameras
I had fun trying out the Eye-Fi Explore Wi-Fi SD Memory card the past week ($129, see previous post). While the Eye-Fi card is currently designed to be used with digital cameras to upload photo files (i.e., JPGs), it's...
Eye-Fi Wireless SD Card - Now 4 GB
Someday all our devices will be wireless, and our files and media will just be there whenever we want them. Even today we can see the beginnings of connectivity for sharing photos, with camera phones that automatically upload photos to...
Logitech Squeezebox Boom -- Internet Radio
Internet radio and music services are a great way to enjoy your types of music, discover new music related to your favorites, and even customize your own stations with specific styles and performers (see previous post). And you can listen...
Internet Radio and Music Services
On of the less flashy pleasures brought by our connectivity to the Web is Internet Radio and music services -- that can deliver our favorite music anytime and anywhere, to a PC, portable player, or cell phone. Internet Radio stations...
Trial Versions Available for Adobe Creative Suite 4
Adobe has just released trial versions of the applications in the Adobe Creative Suite 4 product family (see previous post), which are available online for download. Or you can order a trial DVD of the complete Creative Suite 4...
Adobe Creative Suite 4 Now Available
Adobe has done it again -- Adobe Creative Suite 4 shipped on October 15, 2008 for Windows and Macintosh, with a major update to its to its collection of design and development tools, spanning the creative workflow across print,...
Web Video: Making It Great, Getting It Noticed
Web video can be stupid pet stunts shot in jerky camera phone video and playing in a tiny window . Or it can be much more, using the compelling power of video to connect with viewers to tell a story...
NBC Olympics On Internet Video
NBC is piling on the online programming from the Beijing 2008 Olympics, August 8-24 -- planning to offer over 3600 hours on its NBCOlympics.com site, and free (with 30-second pre-roll commercials). NBC reports that the site had 70 million page...
Adobe Soundbooth CS4 Beta -- Transcripts & Metadata
You can try out the beta of Adobe Soundbooth CS4, to clean and sweeten audio clips, and to automatically generate music soundtracks (see previous post). But there's another less-obvious addition beyond editing individual clips -- a focus on collecting...
Adobe Soundbooth CS4 Beta -- Environment Scores
Adobe is providing a sneak peek of some of the elements of the next major release of its Create Suite collection of design and development tools for print, video, and web. The Adobe Labs site has beta versions of Dreamweaver...
Adobe Betas for New Soundbooth, Dreamweaver, Flash
Adobe has really opened up its development process by releasing public prereleases of its applications -- beta versions posted as free downloads for you to try out. The Adobe Labs site provides early access to evaluate new and emerging Adobe...
Streaming Media East -- More and More Video
My strongest take-away from the Streaming Media East 2008 show last week is that video is really taking off on the Internet. I know ... that's a "D'oh!" kind of statement -- but bear with me. Of course, it's...
Adobe Updates Terms of Use for Photoshop Express Site
In response to user feedback, Adobe has revised the Terms of Use for the Photoshop Express beta site (www.photoshop.com/express) -- its free Web-based photo editing and sharing application (see previous post). The terms of use for the Adobe sites basically...
Adobe Photoshop Express Beta
Adobe has released a beta of Photoshop Express (www.photoshop.com/express), its free Web-based photo editing and sharing application that brings Photoshop tools to the browser. You can upload your images to store online, edit them in the browser, and then share...
Sharing Videos on YouTube
Are you sharing your videos online? Each day, on YouTube alone, visitors view hundreds of millions of videos and upload hundreds of thousands of videos. See my article -- Sharing Videos on YouTube -- for details on how to...
Eye-Fi - Wi-Fi SD Card for Digital Cameras
Tired of all that manual messing around whenever you want to get photos from your digital camera -- Bring the camera back to the computer, dig out the necessary cables and docking connectors, fire up the photo software to upload...
Triple Play Digital Services: Comcast & Verizon
(with Josh Page) Here in central New Jersey, it's has been the summer of the "triple play." No, I'm not talking baseball -- this is about the battle to provide digital connections to the home, with the full bundle...
Adobe's kuler color harmonies
If you like playing with color, try out the Adobe kuler site to inspire creative inspiration about color -- especially finding, creating and sharing color harmonies kuler - Highest Rated color themes Create harmonious color themes based on predefined...
Adobe Flash Video Updated to H.264
Adobe announced today that its Flash Player 9 is being updated to add support for the H.264 video standard and High Efficiency AAC (HE-AAC) audio, plus full screen video playback with hardware acceleration, and multi-core enhanced vector rendering. The...
Creating Flash Videos: Sorenson Squeeze
To continue with our discussion of Flash video -- Sorenson Squeeze is a great encoding tool that supports encoding Flash video in both the older Spark and newewr VP6 video formats. Squeeze is now up to version 4.5.6, with...
Flavors of Flash: Adobe Flash Uses and Formats
To continue with our discussion of downloading and using Flash video on the desktop -- Adobe Flash is all about animation, interactivity, and video. But Flash is not just one thing -- it's a range of Adobe tools for...
Applian Replay Tools: Record, Play, Convert Flash Video
To continue with our discussion of downloading and using Flash video on the desktop -- beyond the open source / freeware tools covered in the last installment, for more packaged solutions for recording, playing, converting, and editing Flash and...
Freeware Flash Tools: KeepVid, VLC, SUPER
To continue with our discussion of downloading and using Flash video on the desktop -- While this need is relatively new, the world of open source and freeware software has already responded with handy solutions. These are great for...
Downloading Clips from YouTube and Converting Flash Videos
YouTube and other short-form Web video sites are a huge hit, partially because of the way Flash Video makes them so easy to use -- just click on the video window, and the clip just starts playing. There's no fuss...
Smart Start-Ups: Profit by starting online communities
Intrigued by all the excitement about online social networks? Are you frustrated by the amazing success of apparently simple ideas -- photo and video sharing with Flickr and YouTube, online communities like MySpace and Facebook, tech tidbits like digg and...
Fulcrum Gallery: Google Ads
How does an online art gallery and store like FulcrumGallery.com market their products? In this Internet age, most prospective customers look for art prints through searches on Google. As a result, the company is building its own custom search marketing...
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