Archive for December, 2006

Creating realistic 3D pools, lakes and oceans inside After Effects is suddenly plain sailing It’s been nearly five years since the arrival of Digital Anarchy’s Psunami, a reworking of Areté’s Digital Nature Tools, which enabled compositors to generate realistic oceans right inside After Effect’s render pipeline. But despite its age and several annoying limitations,...
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Director MX 2004 is the latest incarnation of Macromedia’s powerful multimedia authoring tool. In the fast-pace world of multimedia, Director is as old as the hills. It entered the scene in 1984 as Videoworks; a humble beginning for the product, as its main features consisted merely of black and white fi gures and monophonic...
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View and manage your images with this useful software. This mighty photo organiser and display app will make simple work of managing your pictures. Import from your camera, scanner, CD or elsewhere with a simple wizard, then view and browse your photos fast. You can browse by thumbnails or use the full-size viewer, and...
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“Everything old is new again” goes the expression, and this is certainly true with Mozilla’s Seamonkey, a rebirth of the Mozilla Application Suite, which was a rebirth of the original Netscape Internet Suite, which was an outgrowth of the original Netscape Communicator. Seamonkey based on the Firefox 1.5 browser code, complete with the new...
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Roxio Easy Media Creator 9 is so filled with features and abilities that merely listing all of them would take four paragraphs, so I’ll just say that it does everything Nero does, plus more. (Check out Roxio’s and Nero’s Web sites for a full list of features of each product.) However, even on a...
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Nero is the leaner and meaner suite, which is reflected in both its lower price and smaller resource footprint, and it only installed two startup apps and one Windows service on my PC. The installer did automatically install DirectX 9.0c on my computer, however. Although it does less than Roxio, it still does more...
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Sometimes, it takes a software company from across the ocean to give a typical American user what he wants in a program: something that just works in a hurry without a lot of hassle. VideoSuite Edition 3.1, from Novosibirsk, Russiabased Movavi, is six such programs. The “digital aficionados” who started Movavi just two years...
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