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ECM and publishing differ

By admin | Published: March 16, 2010
With Enterprise Content Management (ECM) enterprises can manage their content from start to finish. A cross-media publishing system --especially a dynamic publishing system-- has many parallel features, but there is a conceptual difference. To some people, this difference isn't clear or obvious.
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Missing from publishing systems: Unified Communications

By admin | Published: March 15, 2010
Publishing system vendors have traditionally focused on workflow, input and output, but not communications support. Sure, editors can send Post-it Note look-alikes and e-mail messages to colleagues, designers, and contributors. In business environments and increasingly in publishing environments, the need for Unified Communications grows. What UC is and which the benefits are, is explained in this Premium story.
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Sorenson Squeeze 6 compared to the competition

By admin | Published: March 14, 2010
Squeeze 6 is Sorenson media's transcoding application. We compared the Squeeze 6 offering to Adobe Media Encoder, Apple Compressor, and Telestream Episode. The PDF report can be downloaded for free.
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Design for the Scent of Information

By admin | Published: March 12, 2010
Web design should be handled as interface design, with a feeling for where people look for information. UIE labs observe web surfers and report on their behaviour, and from their research we know how visitors look at a site.
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Final Cut Pro 7 new features round-up

By admin | Published: March 12, 2010
In this elaborate round-up of features that are new to Apple's newest version of Final Cut Studio.
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Publishing with Open Text collaboration platform

By admin | Published: March 12, 2010
Open Text delivers collaboration tools, digital asset management, enterprise content management, and more.
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ColoRotate, a colour picker based on human perception of colours

By admin | Published: March 1, 2010
ColoRotate is the first colour extension based on human colour perception that I tested that was actually usable.ColoRotate looks like a round diamond upside down, with a saturated colour surface and a gradually desaturating pointed end. The HLS model is well known to colour scientists but is extremely difficult to represent in a 2D view, because you need to be able to freely rotate and manipulate the colour diamond.
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HTML5. Why publishers should care and what they can expect from HTML editor developers

By admin | Published: February 17, 2010
What will HTML5 bring to web developers? For starters, it will give them the opportunity to simply code video players. That's what we see today, but HTML5 will bring a lot more and have some profound impact on how web sites will look in the future --let's say 2 years from now...
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3D Connexion SpaceNavigator review

By admin | Published: February 16, 2010
After having played with the SpaceNavigator for a good number of weeks, I am absolutely certain 3D artists need this mouse as much as 2D artists need a graphics tablet.
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Ulysses 2.0, the Zen of processing text

By admin | Published: February 13, 2010
Writing a novel or a scientific paper of some length, or adding content to a blog or microblog -- it all demands concentration on the subject. Most word processors, including Apple’s Pages and Microsoft Word were conceived to do multiple things well. They allow you to format a letter as well as a book, fill [...]
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