Yahoo today announced a significant round of updates to its Flickr online photo service. To start, the online site has a new camera roll and improved search tools to make browsing through albums more enjoyable or locating specific moments much easier. The refreshed web site is joined by new desktop uploaders for finding and automatically […]
Apple’s own Digital Camera RAW Compatibility plug-in for its photo applications has been updated to version 6.04, and adds several Canon, Hasselblad, Nikon, and Panasonic cameras to its list of RAW file type support, along with individual models of Fujifilm, Leica, Olympus, and Pentax cameras. Specifically, the update — which requires only OS X 10.10 […]
As expected, Quark Software has shipped QuarkXPress 2015. In version 2015 users will find fast 64-bit architecture, industry-verified PDF/X-4 output, fixed layout interactive (app-like) eBook production as well as an array of the most user-requested features. The software continues to be a perpetual license. QuarkXPress now offers dual activation, meaning it can be installed on […]
Apple on Thursday announced a bug-fix update to its consumer video-editing program, iMovie, on the same day that the head of Apple’s photo and video software teams, Randy Ubillos, announced his retirement. Ubillos, who has been with Apple for the past 20 years, has been the key engineer behind the modern versions of iMovie, Final […]
On Monday, Apple upgraded its professional video suite, Final Cut Pro, and two of its supporting programs, Motion and Compressor. Final Cut is now up to version 10.2, which features better 3D title support, more camera formats, the ability to view more scopes simultaneously, and improved masking. Motion, now at version 5.2, also includes more […]
Google is attempting to increase the number of places people can run Android apps, by bringing them to desktops. The App Runtime for Chrome (ARC) tool was initially brought out for Chrome OS, but Google has expanded the development tool’s availability to the Chrome browser, allowing the Android apps to run on Windows, Mac, and […]
Google has added support for 360-degree videos to YouTube, allowing users of the video-streaming service to select their point of view. The new addition will give video producers and viewers a new way to watch videos, as well as giving content creators and developers more content which could be used by virtual reality headsets in […]
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has been trying to compromise iOS devices for a number of years, a report claims. Documents leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden reveal that a secret annual conference called the “Trusted Computing Base Jamboree” was used to discuss various ways to exploit security in consumer devices and electronics, including iPads and […]
The Khronos Group, the organization behind the OpenGL, OpenCL, WebGL and other open standards, announced the next-generation graphics API meant to replace OpenGL. The new API will be called Vulkan and is arising as an evolution of AMD’s Mantle API, just like Apple’s Metal and Microsoft’s DirectX 12.When AMD announced the Mantle API that was […]
Researchers have discovered a critical flaw in the backbone of HTTPS-protected traffic, and it is an exploit that has potentially existed for decades. The flaw exists in approximately 36 percent of websites that use HTTPS, and miscreants are able to intercept and modify data passing between a vulnerable browser and a susceptible site. At the […]
