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S.A. Internet Access Figures
The annual Net Prophet Conference is currently underway in Cape Town and Arthur Goldstuck of World Wide Worx released the latest figures regarding internet access in South Africa.
Adobe Creative Suite 6 software Now Available
Creative Suite 6 is available in a number of different editions, which are compared here.
Note: Adobe Creative Suite 6 is a $375 paid upgrade from CS5.5
The performance and workflow enhancements in Adobe Photoshop® CS6, Adobe Illustrator® CS6 and Adobe InDesign® CS6 will result in significant time savings for print, Web and mobile projects.
- In Photoshop CS6, designers will experience incredible performance, powered by the Adobe Mercury Graphics Engine, enabling near instant results from essential editing tools, including Liquify, Puppet Warp, Transform and Lighting Effects.
- Adobe has built on Photoshop's breakthrough Content-Aware capabilities with advanced new Content-Aware Patch and Content-Aware Move features.
- Illustrator CS6 debuts a revamped modern interface, and features include a new image tracing engine, easy pattern creation and ability to apply gradients to strokes. The Mercury Performance System delivers speed and stability, including 64-bit support for Mac OS and Windows.
- InDesign CS6 continues to blaze a trail in publishing, streamlining the creation of multiple layouts from a single set of content with new Adaptive Design Tools - Alternate Layout, Liquid Layout, Content Collector Tools and Linked Content.
- A brand new application, Adobe MuseTM, a radical tool that enables designers to create and publish HTML5 web sites without writing code, was also announced today.
Innovative new workflows and capabilities across Adobe tools simplify the creative process for today's Web designers, developers and interactive professionals.
- Web pros can conveniently integrate HTML5 animations, created with Adobe Edge preview, into their Dreamweaver projects, driving home Adobe's leadership in tooling for the HTML5 Web standard.
- Adobe Dreamweaver(R) CS6 addresses the challenge of responsive Web designs with the ability to build fluid grid layouts replacing the tedious manual process of creating and configuring separate CSS-based interfaces for phone, tablet and desktop.
- Through direct integration with Adobe's recently announced PhoneGap Build service, Dreamweaver CS6 helps round out Web professionals' skillsets and enables them to produce native mobile applications for multiple platforms.
- Adobe Flash(R) Professional CS6 users can easily translate and transition their skills to HTML5 using the Flash Professional Toolkit for CreateJS. Flash Professional CS6 also helps designers create exciting and impactful gaming experiences and advancements include the ability to generate sprite sheets that improve workflows and performance.
- Pre-built native extensions and new packaging options, leveraging the latest Adobe Flash Player and AIR runtimes, help expand and ease app delivery to Android and iOS devices.
Redesigned by and for video editors, with major performance enhancements, the tools included in Adobe Creative Suite 6 Production Premium set a new standard in professional video.
- With dozens of new features, Adobe Premiere(R) Pro CS6 is the hub of any professional video workflow, featuring a sleek new editing environment. The powerful Adobe Mercury Playback Engine now supports OpenCL on MacBook Pros.
- The most significant After Effects release in a decade, Adobe After Effects(R) CS6 is faster and more responsive than ever. With Global Performance Cache, previews are saved and ready to go - cutting the time spent bouncing between projects.
- New to Production Premium are Adobe PreludeTM CS6, which streamlines logging and ingest workflows in post- production, and Adobe SpeedGrade, which contains powerful finishing tools for film finishing and color grading.
- Adobe Audition(R) CS6 accelerates audio post-production: real-time clip stretching makes it simple to stretch clips to fit an edit; and Automatic Speech Alignment introduces a powerful new engine for automated dialogue analysis.
- A new third party API for hardware integration - Adobe Mercury Transmit - allows broadcast video monitoring to connect directly into the Mercury Playback Engine via third-party cards from AJA, Blackmagic Design and Matrox.
REQUIREMENTS
- Intel
- 64-bit processor
- Mac OS X 10.6 or later
- 2GB of RAM (4GB or more recommended)
- 26.3GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on a volume that uses a case-sensitive file system or on removable flash-based storage devices)
- 1280×900 display (1280×1024 recommended) with qualified hardware-accelerated OpenGL graphics card, 16-bit color, and 256MB of VRAM
- Adobe-certified GPU card for GPU-accelerated performance in Adobe Premiere Pro; visit this updated page for the latest list of supported cards
- Some GPU-accelerated features in Adobe Photoshop require graphics support for Shader Model 3.0 and OpenGL 2.0
- DVD-ROM drive compatible with dual-layer DVDs (SuperDrive for burning DVDs; external Blu-ray burner for creating Blu-ray Disc media)
- 7200 RPM hard drive for editing compressed video formats; RAID 0 for uncompressed
- Java Runtime Environment 1.5 or 1.6
MP4 Leads Web, Mobile Video Formats Among Video Pros
Sorenson Media (http://www.sorensonmedia.com) -- which develops video encoding and workflow solutions -- has announced key results of a survey that the company conducted among its global user base of video professionals. The survey reveals that MP4 leads a wide range of video formats used by video professionals for distribution on the web and mobile devices -- 69 % of users employ it regularly for the web and 58 % use it for mobile.
The majority of survey respondents selected more than one format from the options provided, revealing a broad diversity among formats used for web and mobile deployment, with no runaway standard emerging. The results included:
° For web video, in addition to MP4, the following formats demonstrate strong support from video professionals: Flash (54%); QuickTime (45%); and Windows Media (34%). The emerging WebM format was selected by only 5% of respondents, underscoring its low adoption to date.
° For mobile video, MP4 adoption significantly outpaces all other formats: Flash (16%); HTML5 (16%); Windows Media (9%); and WebM (3 %).
° In addition to the formats selected, 78% of respondents indicated that they use the H.264 codec to encode their video content.
° QuickTime Reference Movie was the preferred input choice with nearly 28% of respondents. As with outputs, every major input format was represented, including .mov (25%), ProRes (10%), AVI (9%), DNxHD (8%), MPEG-4 (7%), MPEG-2 (3%), FLV (2 %) and WMV (2%).
(Courtesy MacNews)
Amsys Scans, Deletes SabPub Malware
SabPub: Find Out if Your Mac is Infected and Remove it.
The SabPub Malware is a low level threat Trojan that sends personal information from your Mac to an offending server, the Trojan is made to look like an Apple launcher, and also has a similar name to a real Apple launcher called “PubSub” so please don’t confuse the two!
It should not be too serious, as the recent Apple security updates have stopped this from sending information out from your system, but the Trojan will still remain on your Mac.
Our App will Search to see if your system has this malware and will remove it, saving you the trouble of trawling through your system to find the offending launchers.
If your Mac was infected please restart after removal.
Download it here
Digicape special - Free MS Office for Mac with every iMac
Digicape is running an exclusive special offer: a free copy of MS Office for Mac (normal retail price R999) with every iMac. This is the latest version 11 of Office, radically updated and improved from the previous generation of Office for Mac. Offer valid until 31 April 2012 while stocks last. (Terms and conditions apply).
LaCie 2TB Little Big Disk Thunderbolt Drive
LaCie Little Big DiskThunderbolt Series 
Thunderbolt Technology in the Palm of your Hand.
- Shocking speeds up to 10Gb/s
- Perfect for creative pros on the go
- Dual Thunderbolt ports for daisy chaining
The New Era for Speed
The LaCie Little Big Disk Thunderbolt Series heralds a new era for storage performance. Featuring a preconfigured RAID0 striped set with optional hard disks or SSDs through the 10Gb/s Thunderbolt interface, it delivers astonishing transfer rates. Reach read speeds of up to 480MB/s with the SSD model, and up to 190MB/s with the hard disk model. Now you can truly get the power of fibre channel rackmount storage - in a portable solution!
You can even daisy chain multiple Little Big Disks together to increase overall transfer rates. The more products you chain together, the higher performance you get. Daisy chain four Little Big Disks with SSDs to maximize Thunderbolt interface capabilities and reach transfer rates of around 800MB/s (up to 782MB/s with the hard disk version).
All in all, the Little Big Disk Thunderbolt Series makes it possible to acquire, edit, and play back multiple uncompressed A/V streams directly from the drive with ultimate ease and portability, no matter the size or resolution of the content.
