An afternoon of fun, NFL football, and the Canon 7D DSLR By John Virata
This past weekend we were able to spend an afternoon with the Canon folks at the San Diego Chargers/Philadelphia Eagles NFL football game in beautiful San Diego California to attain some first impressions on the new Canon 7D DSLR. Canon invited several journalists to shoot with the Canon 7D and Digital Rebel T1i.
...Read More »
The impact of Flash Professional CS5 exporting to the iPhone By Matthew David
If you are a Flash developer then Adobe has big news for you. You can now export your movies as native iPhone Apps. Well, sort of. In this article you will find out what the impact of exporting Flash movies to the iPhone really is.
...Read More »
Kaspersky Lab's Peter Beardmore talks anti-virus and the Mac OS By John Virata
Kaspersky, developers of anti-virus and security software has just released a version of its anti-virus software for the Macintosh operating system. While the Mac OS is targeted by malware and virus writers significantly less than Microsoft's Windows OS, it still gets attacked, just on a much smaller scale. Digital Media Net spoke with Peter Beardmore, senior product marketing manager, Kaspersky Lab, about viruses, malware, and the Mac OS.
...Read More »
Asylum Helps Draw The Porsche Family Tree
Asylum, in collaboration with ad agency Cramer-Krasselt/Chicago and @RadicalMedia Director Jeff Zwart, completed a major VFX feat for a new TV spot introducing the Porsche Panamera - the first four-seat sports car from the iconic carmaker. The elaborate, technically challenging commercial was the perfect showcase for Asylum's vast VFX capability.
...Read More »
CCS Printing: Maximizing Customer Relationships in a Slow Economy By Avidian Technologies
CCS Printing is a print-on-demand and full-service commercial printing provider that serves small, medium and large enterprises in a variety of industries. Since the company's development in 1987 CCS Printing has grown to a company with 87 full-time employees in eight locations and six on-site print centers at large businesses around the Bellevue, Washington, area.
...Read More »
FlickerLab Animates George W. Bush Address For Michael Moore's "Capitalism: A Love Story "
For a fifth time, FlickerLab has teamed with Academy Award-winning Director Michael Moore, and created a minute-long animated segment, Chicken Little, for his latest feature Capitalism: A Love Story. Opening in New York and Los Angeles Sept. 23 and in theaters nationwide October 2nd, the film explores the root causes of the global economic meltdown and takes a sardonic look at the corporate and political shenanigans that plunged the world into the current financial crisis.
...Read More »
GROWTH. . . HOW BIG IS BIG? By Miles Weston
To you and me (especially me), $1 million is big money. $10 million is HUGE!!! To companies that are being bought and sold right now it's like chump change. $100 - $1000 million isn't astronomical for major companies like IBM, HP, Panasonic, Nokia and others.
...Read More »
Six Steps to a Profitable Marketing Plan By Miles Weston
Technology is readily available. New products, new ideas are around every corner. The challenge for the PC, CE, communications industry is how we present these ideas so they appeal to customers -- businesses and individuals. Shouting that we have the best whooppie do technology and whiz bang idea won't help you build sales. Instead the focus has to be on the solution -- even when it is a solution to a problem the customer didn't know he or she had. The six guiding steps may help. . . someone
...Read More »
Working on the Mac OS X Desktop By Paul McFedries
When you start your Mac and log on to your user account, the first thing you will see is the Mac OS X desktop, which takes up the entire screen as shown in Figure 1.1. The default desktop is fairly sparse with only the Dock at the bottom of the screen and the menu bar at the top.
...Read More »
Sony Twilight Football in Australia By David Hague
A few weeks ago, Sony did an almost simultaneous launch of a swag of new cameras, compacts and camcorders in far-flung and remote places around the globe. 'Almost' simultaneous because of time zone differences and far flung, because the Australian leg was held about as far from most centres of population as you can get - the Pinnacles in the desert sands 300Km (200 miles approx) north of Perth in Western Australia.
...Read More »
Expansion Team Heads Back To School For JC Penney
It seems like a typical high school cafeteria setting -- that is until a female student gives a knowing nod to her cohorts and suddenly the lights go down, the music comes up and the kids burst into a high energy fashion show strutting a lunch tables-turned-catwalk modeling the new back to school fashions at JC Penney.
...Read More »
FAQ: Adobe Flash Platform Services for Distribution By Kevin Schmitt
It's been a while, but Adobe's announcement of Flash Platform Services for Distribution (which we'll shorten to AFPSD for the duration) begs for the not-quite-famous "fake FAQ" treatment, where your humble host asks made-up questions of, well, himself in an attempt to make further sense of the official AFPSD press release. With that as the setup, let's get to those "frequently asked questions."
...Read More »
Statistics that have DAM Meaning By Matthew Gonnering
We probably have baseball and The Sporting News to thank for the proliferation of statistics in all sports. Yet, Mark Twain once said there are lies, damned lies and statistics. Of course, he was speaking about to the persuasive power of numbers and about how people will either promote or ignore statistics based entirely on whether or not they support a position. This â??truthâ?? is the reason many baseball arguments have never been settled.
...Read More »
Steve is back - and with new iPods!
Steve Jobs stepped back into the spotlight for the first time in nearly a year on Wednesday, drawing a standing ovation before unveiling new and cheaper iPods for Apple Inc.
...Read More »
Content Insider # 130 -- Buyer Turn-ons By Miles Weston
Tweeting gets consumers all fired up. YouTubing is what a pries the credit cards out of the billfold/purse. Facebooking is where it is at to bring seller/buyer together. Blogs have the real street cred where serious people go to find out the scoop. Robust web sites are an absolute have to if you're going to be serious about separating a consumer from his/her dollars. If you think consumers are confused you should be on the other side of the desk!
...Read More »
Insider #129 -- The OS Wars By Miles Weston
It's usually so easy to knock Microsoft for this, that, darned near everything. But they finally seem to have all the troops marching in the same direction. Win 7 looks darn solid. They've got corporate and individual OS solutions and apps (ok so some Texan judge said no but...) Apple likes them a lot better than the guy from the cloud company. Microsoft and Apple think Chrome is a little overblown...totally eliminating malware? Naw!!!! And MS offers a tech support phone number. They know this is a battle they can not lose
...Read More »
Shooters Post & Transfer Creates 'Defining Moments' For MASN
Shooters Post & Transfer, the full-service creative post house, stepped up big-time for MASN, (Mid-Atlantic Sports Network), the Baltimore, MD-based regional sports network owned jointly by the Baltimore Orioles and Washington Nationals, handling the production with a cast of real fans, and the complex post production that centered on creating intricate 3D virtual sets that evoked the iconic look of Camden Yards and Nationals Park -- the home stadiums for Orioles and Nationals respectively. The 20-spot branding campaign was created by the Washington, DC-based agency Rosenthal Partners, and directed by Peter Churchman of Churchman Productions, Ardmore, PA.
...Read More »
Resource Management By Miles Weston
Everyone is pointing fingers at what went wrong with the financial market. The auto industry, the housing market. . . ditto. Everyone is finding someone else to blame. But the question is does business and industry have that much extra time, effort, money to let others dig us out?
...Read More »
Explosion Robinson Scores Show Open for VH1's New Reality Series 'The T.O. Show'
NFL star receiver Terrell Owens has two sides: good-natured, happy-go-lucky Terrell and the cocky, brash superstar who prefers to go simply by his initials T.O. Both personalities are on view in VH1's new reality series The T.O. Show, and thanks to Explosion Robinson, the custom music and sound design shop founded by Stephen Hermann, you hear them equally well in the show's open.
...Read More »
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Bluetooth headsets have become more and more popular throughout the years and now more and more cell phones have been able to take advantage of this technology. In this review we'll be looking at a brand new Bluetooth headset from iTech, the SolarVoice 908, one of the first solar charging headsets on the market.
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Thank goodness you're a pack rat! You know, have to grab, keep everything that flies by...ok everything except that report or news item or YouTube yuck you saw last week and now desperately need. Can't find it it save your behind. And still you don't have enough storage...there are new worlds to conquer, new worlds to destroy or take home with you. Don't worry Flash will always be there for you Dale!!!!
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On this Veteran's Day 2009, as we honor those who served and gave their lives for America, there are stories about man's best friend being told by those who fought alongside their "War Dogs of the Pacific." Most Americans have no idea that dogs were trained to sniff out the enemy during World War II, 549 to be exact fought with the U.S. Marines on Guam, Saipan, and other battlegrounds of the Pacific Theater.
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Did you hear? Microsoft is releasing a new version of Windows - should you buy it? Windows 7 is here. In this article you will find out if Windows 7 is worth the wait and whether or not you should upgrade. Or is Windows 7 just another Vista?
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An afternoon of fun, NFL football, and the Canon 7D DSLR
This past weekend we were able to spend an afternoon with the Canon folks at the San Diego Chargers/Philadelphia Eagles NFL football game in beautiful San Diego California to attain some first impressions on the new Canon 7D DSLR. Canon invited several journalists to shoot with the Canon 7D and Digital Rebel T1i.
...Read More »
The impact of Flash Professional CS5 exporting to the iPhone
If you are a Flash developer then Adobe has big news for you. You can now export your movies as native iPhone Apps. Well, sort of. In this article you will find out what the impact of exporting Flash movies to the iPhone really is.
...Read More »
Kaspersky Lab's Peter Beardmore talks anti-virus and the Mac OS
Kaspersky, developers of anti-virus and security software has just released a version of its anti-virus software for the Macintosh operating system. While the Mac OS is targeted by malware and virus writers significantly less than Microsoft's Windows OS, it still gets attacked, just on a much smaller scale. Digital Media Net spoke with Peter Beardmore, senior product marketing manager, Kaspersky Lab, about viruses, malware, and the Mac OS.
...Read More »
Asylum Helps Draw The Porsche Family Tree
Asylum, in collaboration with ad agency Cramer-Krasselt/Chicago and @RadicalMedia Director Jeff Zwart, completed a major VFX feat for a new TV spot introducing the Porsche Panamera - the first four-seat sports car from the iconic carmaker. The elaborate, technically challenging commercial was the perfect showcase for Asylum's vast VFX capability.
...Read More »
CCS Printing: Maximizing Customer Relationships in a Slow Economy
CCS Printing is a print-on-demand and full-service commercial printing provider that serves small, medium and large enterprises in a variety of industries. Since the company's development in 1987 CCS Printing has grown to a company with 87 full-time employees in eight locations and six on-site print centers at large businesses around the Bellevue, Washington, area.
...Read More »
FlickerLab Animates George W. Bush Address For Michael Moore's "Capitalism: A Love Story "
For a fifth time, FlickerLab has teamed with Academy Award-winning Director Michael Moore, and created a minute-long animated segment, Chicken Little, for his latest feature Capitalism: A Love Story. Opening in New York and Los Angeles Sept. 23 and in theaters nationwide October 2nd, the film explores the root causes of the global economic meltdown and takes a sardonic look at the corporate and political shenanigans that plunged the world into the current financial crisis.
...Read More »
GROWTH. . . HOW BIG IS BIG?
To you and me (especially me), $1 million is big money. $10 million is HUGE!!! To companies that are being bought and sold right now it's like chump change. $100 - $1000 million isn't astronomical for major companies like IBM, HP, Panasonic, Nokia and others.
...Read More »
Six Steps to a Profitable Marketing Plan
Technology is readily available. New products, new ideas are around every corner. The challenge for the PC, CE, communications industry is how we present these ideas so they appeal to customers -- businesses and individuals. Shouting that we have the best whooppie do technology and whiz bang idea won't help you build sales. Instead the focus has to be on the solution -- even when it is a solution to a problem the customer didn't know he or she had. The six guiding steps may help. . . someone
...Read More »
Working on the Mac OS X Desktop
When you start your Mac and log on to your user account, the first thing you will see is the Mac OS X desktop, which takes up the entire screen as shown in Figure 1.1. The default desktop is fairly sparse with only the Dock at the bottom of the screen and the menu bar at the top.
...Read More »
Royale Unites with MTV Asia to Helm Exotic Music Video for Apl.de.Ap's "Take Me to the Philippines"
MTV Asia tapped Los Angeles-based motion design & production studio Royale to create the music video for "Take Me to the Philippines," the latest effort by hip-hop artist Apl.de.Ap of The Black Eyed Peas.
...Read More »
Sony Twilight Football in Australia
A few weeks ago, Sony did an almost simultaneous launch of a swag of new cameras, compacts and camcorders in far-flung and remote places around the globe. 'Almost' simultaneous because of time zone differences and far flung, because the Australian leg was held about as far from most centres of population as you can get - the Pinnacles in the desert sands 300Km (200 miles approx) north of Perth in Western Australia.
...Read More »
Expansion Team Heads Back To School For JC Penney
It seems like a typical high school cafeteria setting -- that is until a female student gives a knowing nod to her cohorts and suddenly the lights go down, the music comes up and the kids burst into a high energy fashion show strutting a lunch tables-turned-catwalk modeling the new back to school fashions at JC Penney.
...Read More »
FAQ: Adobe Flash Platform Services for Distribution
It's been a while, but Adobe's announcement of Flash Platform Services for Distribution (which we'll shorten to AFPSD for the duration) begs for the not-quite-famous "fake FAQ" treatment, where your humble host asks made-up questions of, well, himself in an attempt to make further sense of the official AFPSD press release. With that as the setup, let's get to those "frequently asked questions."
...Read More »
Statistics that have DAM Meaning
We probably have baseball and The Sporting News to thank for the proliferation of statistics in all sports. Yet, Mark Twain once said there are lies, damned lies and statistics. Of course, he was speaking about to the persuasive power of numbers and about how people will either promote or ignore statistics based entirely on whether or not they support a position. This â??truthâ?? is the reason many baseball arguments have never been settled.
...Read More »
Steve is back - and with new iPods!
Steve Jobs stepped back into the spotlight for the first time in nearly a year on Wednesday, drawing a standing ovation before unveiling new and cheaper iPods for Apple Inc.
...Read More »
Content Insider # 130 -- Buyer Turn-ons
Tweeting gets consumers all fired up. YouTubing is what a pries the credit cards out of the billfold/purse. Facebooking is where it is at to bring seller/buyer together. Blogs have the real street cred where serious people go to find out the scoop. Robust web sites are an absolute have to if you're going to be serious about separating a consumer from his/her dollars. If you think consumers are confused you should be on the other side of the desk!
...Read More »
Insider #129 -- The OS Wars
It's usually so easy to knock Microsoft for this, that, darned near everything. But they finally seem to have all the troops marching in the same direction. Win 7 looks darn solid. They've got corporate and individual OS solutions and apps (ok so some Texan judge said no but...) Apple likes them a lot better than the guy from the cloud company. Microsoft and Apple think Chrome is a little overblown...totally eliminating malware? Naw!!!! And MS offers a tech support phone number. They know this is a battle they can not lose
...Read More »
Shooters Post & Transfer Creates 'Defining Moments' For MASN
Shooters Post & Transfer, the full-service creative post house, stepped up big-time for MASN, (Mid-Atlantic Sports Network), the Baltimore, MD-based regional sports network owned jointly by the Baltimore Orioles and Washington Nationals, handling the production with a cast of real fans, and the complex post production that centered on creating intricate 3D virtual sets that evoked the iconic look of Camden Yards and Nationals Park -- the home stadiums for Orioles and Nationals respectively. The 20-spot branding campaign was created by the Washington, DC-based agency Rosenthal Partners, and directed by Peter Churchman of Churchman Productions, Ardmore, PA.
...Read More »
Resource Management
Everyone is pointing fingers at what went wrong with the financial market. The auto industry, the housing market. . . ditto. Everyone is finding someone else to blame. But the question is does business and industry have that much extra time, effort, money to let others dig us out?
...Read More »
Explosion Robinson Scores Show Open for VH1's New Reality Series 'The T.O. Show'
NFL star receiver Terrell Owens has two sides: good-natured, happy-go-lucky Terrell and the cocky, brash superstar who prefers to go simply by his initials T.O. Both personalities are on view in VH1's new reality series The T.O. Show, and thanks to Explosion Robinson, the custom music and sound design shop founded by Stephen Hermann, you hear them equally well in the show's open.
...Read More »
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