Much of the success of your publishing efforts depends on technology — which products you buy and how you’re using them (aka best practices). IT Enquirer provides the most comprehensive and impartial coverage of technologies and products used in publishing processes — coverage that’s deep, yet broad and up-to-the-minute.
But there’s more: You will also find downloadable resources to get you started quickly, including B-Roll, stock photos, tutorials, how-tos, etc.
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We answer questions such as…:
- What do you need for publishing to an iPad?
- What is the best approach to iPad publishing?
- Which criteria should you use to evaluate technology?
- Why would/should you buy this product?
- How can you save time shooting and producing viral videos?
- How can you avoid costly mistakes?
- Which equipment is good enough for the job?
- Where is the market heading?
- And much more…
..in these four major categories:
- Desktop IT — covering productivity and system management products and best practices; focus on OS X apps; includes design application reviews
- Digital publishing — covering publishing systems, DAM, MAM, ECM, Web CMS, and other technologies, products and best practices for workgroups, departments or entire organizations
- Image & Video — covering production equipment and accessories, as well as editing software
- Printers & printing — covering printers and printing technology; in view of the printing market declining we focus on niche markets such as wide format inkjets, etc.
Erik Vlietinck founded the IT Enquirer in 1999. Erik, a J.D. by education, has been a freelance technology editor for over twenty (20) years. He was/is a freelance for many years for trade magazines such as British IT Week, Belgian Datanews, Dutch Publish, US-American Photoshop User, and to MacWorld, Computer Arts, Computable, Windows NT Magazine, New Media Age, and many others across Europe and the US.
For Erik’s full profile, please visit LinkedIn.
Impartial coverage
Biased opinions on everything from pencil leads to container ships are all over the web — we believe you don’t want nor do you need that.
On the other hand, we — as so many publishers — don’t have deep enough wallets to buy the equipment or applications we need to test before we can give you any sort of an opinion at all.
So, in order to get you unique reviews without going bankrupt, we worked out a trade system: a banner ad in return for a product with the explicit and express condition that we do not tolerate any sort of lobbying by the supplier to change the publication of our findings.
Most banners you see on the site therefore have been given in return for test units. For very expensive products, we tend to give banners that run over a full 12 months. So, next time you see a banner, please keep in mind it’s our guarantee that what you’re reading next to it is as impartial as anyone can be.
This system of ours must be working well as plenty of people seem to appreciate our content. Here are just some of the comments we got recently:
“Thanks thats given me food for thought. The above model I was looking at comes with a dragon cd so that txt can be written to the pc via this software, I thought I was onto a winner here, but you are saying that the current version doesn’t include any speech-to-txt software. I think thatI obviously need to do more research. So thanks again, in the mean time I guess it’s back to relying on my memory.”
— Patt, a writer on the review of a Philips dictaphone.
“Erik, your report is very thoughtful and detailed. Your point about the proofing process not being isolated from the rest of the publishing process really resonates. That’s why our inMotion Approval Workflow Solution, like the Approval Manager tool you discuss here, also includes workflow features such as deadlines, scheduling, email notifications, and audit trails.” — Shanna, from InMotion on the Approval Manager report.
“This was so incredibly helpful! Thank you VERY MUCH!!” — from Justin Burks on InDesign’s limitations with regards to interactive elements design.
“[...] reason for this post and here is a proper in depth review that helped me decide before purchasing” — a Trackback from Karim Merie, a HDSLR videographer, and photo journalist, on the CBL Lens White Balance tool.
“[...] a lot of time thinking (and arguing) about how we can make things easier so it was nice to read a review that went into detail about those changes. It is rare that a reviewer really gets to know a product [...]“ — by the developer of Alien Skin Exposure 4, on the review of that product.
“Fantastic web site. Didn’t know much about web-to-print earlier on…” — by an anonymous user who calls himself “DingoDogg”.
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