Category Archives: Digital Media

News: iLounge’s New iPad Buyers’ Guide is coming, submit your photos!

Posted on May 15, 2012 by admin

For eight years running, iLounge has published fantastic Buyers’ Guides for Apple’s digital media products—now the latest and greatest is just around the corner! Later this month, we’ll release a special edition focused on the iPad, and we’d love to include reader contributions from our famous Around the World photo gallery section. If you have a picture of your iPad being used anywhere in the world, preferably in front… Continue reading →

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TechHive: How Google Drive’s terms of service measure up

Posted on May 2, 2012 by admin

From TechHive: Glenn Fleishman isn’t afraid of the big, bad Google Drive. But he thinks Google erred in not tightening its policies to match those of other cloud-based storage services. Continue reading →

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Adobe Introduces Creative Suite 6 and Creative Cloud

Posted on April 23, 2012 by admin

Adobe today officially announced the launch of Creative Suite 6 , the next major update to the company’s bundles of popular design applications. The release sees new versions of 14 separate applications, including the flagship Photoshop CS6 that has been offered as a free public beta for the past month. “Creatives get a ton of innovation across CS6, with milestone releases of all our flagship products,” said David Wadhwani, senior vice president, Digital Media Business, Adobe. “With CS6 and Creative Cloud, we’re also introducing new products, new mobile workflows and advanced publishing capabilities that show we are laser-focused on ensuring design, Web and video pros have everything they need for the delivery of high-impact content and apps.” As with previous editions of Creative Suite, Adobe is offering the CS6 applications individually, as well as in several different bundles targeting print, web, and video design professionals. Bundle pricing begins at $1299 for the Design Standard collection, which includes Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, and Acrobat X Pro. At an $1899 price point, Adobe offers either the Design & Web Premium collection, which includes Photoshop Extended, Illustrator, InDesign, Flash Professional, Fireworks, Dreamweaver, and Acrobat X Pro, or the Production Premium collection, which includes Premiere Pro, After Effects, Audition, Flash Professional, Illustrator, Photoshop Extended, Prelude, and SpeedGrade. Finally, Adobe’s Master Collection containing all of the CS6 applications is available for $2599. Adobe today also officially introduced Creative Cloud , a subscription service offering access to all CS6 applications as well as other cloud services to facilitate the integration of desktop Adobe software with the company’s growing stable of tablet and smartphone applications. Creative Cloud is priced at $49.99 per month for an annual membership, or $74.99 per month on a month-to-month basis. The service is also being offered at a special introductory rate of $29.99 per month for current users of Adobe’s CS3, CS4, CS5 and CS5.5 software. All Creative Suite 6 products are available for pre-order now and will begin shipping within 30 days. Adobe will be hosting a streaming launch event at 10:00 AM Pacific Time, highlighting the new developments included in Creative Suite 6 and Creative Cloud. Continue reading →

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News: Apple releases iTunes 10.6.1 with fixes for Apple TV sorting issues

Posted on March 29, 2012 by admin

Apple has released iTunes 10.6.1, the latest update to its digital media management software. According to Apple’s release notes, the update fixes several issues that may cause iTunes to unexpectedly quit while playing videos, adjusting artwork size in Grid view or syncing photos, addresses issues with VocieOver and WindowEyes and fixes problems with responsiveness while syncing the iPod nano or iPod shuffle. The update also resolves the sorting… Continue reading →

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Intel’s chip market share hits 10-year peak through mobile

Posted on March 26, 2012 by admin

Intel has managed to not only hold on to but widen its lead as the world’s largest chip designer in the past year, iSuppli determined Monday. By revenue, Intel had seen its revenue in 2011 go up over 20 percent to $48.7 billion dollars despite the effect of the iPad and other tablets. ARM’s champion, Samsung, had moved just over half a point to $28.6 billion…. Continue reading →

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Inconsistent Smart Cover performance mystery solved

Posted on March 21, 2012 by admin

Earlier this week, MacNN noted that despite similar specifications, some iPad 2 accessories don’t quite work with the third-generation iPad. Form-fitting accessories such as hard-plastic shells, for example, may not fit the iPad’s slightly thicker depth. Reports of inconsistencies with both Apple branded Smart Covers and third-party covers that offered the same functionality has been clarified by an enterprising user, reports Mashable…. Continue reading →

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Apple may pass Intel as world’s largest mobile chip producer

Posted on March 21, 2012 by admin

Two years after buying Texas-based chip maker Intrisity, Apple is poised to become the world’s largest mobile device chip provider by the end of 2012, technology research firm In-Stat is claiming. The success is built on the phenomenal popularity of Apple’s mobile devices along with selective use of manufacturing partners including ARM and Samsung. Intel is only just now bringing Atom-class processors to mobile devices, reports InfoWorld…. Continue reading →

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Western Digital My Passport is first with 2TB portable drive

Posted on March 20, 2012 by admin

Western Digital undertook a major remake of its My Passport portable hard drives on Tuesday that both claimed a first in capacity and gave it a fresher design. The new versions are the first to ever have 2TB of storage in a portable-sized drive. WD hasn’t said how the drive is arranged, although it’s more likely to be two 1TB disk than the still-distant single 2TB drives…. Continue reading →

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Apple tracking for 12 million iPad sales this quarter

Posted on March 20, 2012 by admin

UBS analyst Maynard Um believes that Apple is on track to record new iPad sales in the order of 12 million units. The estimate follows Appleís official announcement yesterday that it had sold a record 3 million new iPads in its first three days on sale. Um also believes that it is possible that Apple could even exceed 12 million sales after initial sales of 750,000 units per day as it expands to include releases in 24 more countries this Friday…. Continue reading →

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Developer interest in Android fades, more interested in iOS

Posted on March 20, 2012 by admin

Following news that Battleheart developer Mika Mobile is dropping support for the Android platform, a new survey of developer interest in mobile platforms shows that this could be a sign of a growing trend facing the Android platform. In explaining its reasons for dropping Android support, Mika Mobile said that the fragmentation of the platform meant that it had been forced to spend countless hours ëmodifying shaders and texture formats to work on different GPUsÖí among other complaints. Appcelerator found that even though the Android platform is expanding, developer i… Continue reading →

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