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[expires off="2012-02-07 18:00:00"]NEW [/expires]Alphagraph is a provider of MIS/ERP software products for the printing industry. It develops and sells products such as Prinance, Printy and Primus.

EFI acquired privately-held Alphagraph, provider of MIS solutions

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The new Océ JetStream 1900 system is capable of a printing speed of 127mpm in digital full colour. It is a high-volume duplex printer. The new system expands the JetStream range from two field upgradeable speed bands of 75 and 100, to 127mpm.

Océ adds JetStream 1900 to continuous feed portfolio

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CameraBag 2 is a collection of filters and effects for your photographs. It's easy to use, comes with a huge collection of presets, and offers total control over styles, adjustments, and borders. Although it can be used by just selecting a preset or recipe, you can create your own recipes from scratch. The possibilities are endless.

Review: CameraBag 2 Photo editing

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[expires off="2012-02-01 18:00:00"]NEW [/expires]Apple updates Final Cut Pro X, Motion, and Compressor.

Apple updates Final Cut Pro X, Motion, and Compressor

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Initial testing of the Atomos Ninja with the new Nikon D4 dSLR camera proves the Nikon D4 generates an uncompressed, clean HD signal over HDMI. It makes the Ninja a perfect companion for the Nikon D4.

Nikon D4′s clean output and the Atomos Ninja

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[expires off="2012-01-31 18:00:00"]NEW [/expires]Last week, I read a research paper on IT innovation, discussing how it can produce lasting results for the business: new markets, reduction of costs, and improving the alignment with the business strategy. Influencing the culture is the IT leaders' first step towards in IT innovation, said Info-Tech Research Group's paper. It is interesting to see how their findings could also apply to innovation in publishing — with potentially the same results.

Six conditions for successful innovation in publishing

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Joby, the makers of well-know Gorillapod flexible tripods, have a new tripod that is not flexible. It is not like any other tripod either. We tested the Gorillapod Micro 800, a small, stylish camera stand that takes on 800 grams of equipment.

Review: Joby Gorillapod Micro 800 tripod

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Apparent adds Wi-Fi to Doxie at Macworld | iWorld 2012. The Doxie Go document scanner now scans anywhere and syncs scans wirelessly to Mac, PC, iOS, and the cloud.

Doxie Go + Wi-Fi bundle available

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How does a Zebra label printer run on a Lion machine? Without special drivers, until recently: not very good. The last driver update by Apple took care of that. Lion's Zebra capabilities are exemplary now.

Zebra Label printers on Mac OS X “Lion”

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Helicon Focus is an application that allows you to create a completely focused image from several partially focused images by combining the areas in focus. Its main use is for macro photography and microscopic photography, but it does wonders to beat the diffraction problem on landscape photography as well.

Review: Helicon Focus Pro x64

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This morning, I read an article in the online version of the San Francisco Chronicle. The story was originally written by a contributor of Investopedia. Its title read: "Technology And The Death Of Print Media" — an over-simplified, haphazard article.

Print media is not dead, bad content is

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A year ago, the Atomos Ninja and the Cinedeck Extreme field recorders were about the two only ones that could record video directly to a high-quality codec using a video camera's HDMI output. Today, Black Magic has at least three devices that are capable of recording to Uncompressed the same way.

Uncompressed video via HDMI becomes popular again