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Sunday, January 12, 2003

eZediaQTI is cross-platform interactive QuickTime® authoring software for creating rich internet content and interactive movies. Users can quickly combine and enhance video, graphics, animation, sound, VRs, and text. Rapidly develop web sites, internet banner ads, online presentations, and interactive videos - with no programming or scripting required.

eZediaQTI provides professional capabilities without a complex interface or learning curve. It has never been easier to create interactive QuickTime movies with eZediaQTI's powerful tools and intuitive building environment.

See also:  QuickTime 

2:19:22 PM    comment []

Anark Studio multimedia software gives you the power to create the most captivating and engaging real-time interactive and 3D experiences that entertain your audiences and communicate your ideas.

Interactive Broadcast Quality Multimedia Today's media consumers expect more compelling visual experiences from interactive media applications. With Anark Studio you can create and deliver truly revolutionary and stunning interactive content with seamless integration and composition of 3D, video, images, audio and interactivity. Designed with a flexible workspace, drag and drop behaviors, and industry standard timeline, Anark Studio is an immediately productive environment, freeing you to focus on your creative vision. With the incredible power of Anark Studio, you will never again have to sacrifice visual quality because of bandwidth and authoring tool limits. Create mind-blowing corporate presentations, Learning applications, product demonstrations and entertainment for CD-ROM, Kiosks, Screensavers and the Web via the free Anark Web Client and Anark Client for Windows Media 9 Series.

SAN FRANCISCO, January 7, 2003 [~] Anark Corporation today announced it is developing the next release of its award-winning interactive, multimedia authoring tool, Anark Studio for Macintosh. In an age where media consumers demand highly compelling visual experiences, Anark Studio for Macintosh will offer the power to create and deliver truly revolutionary interactive content with seamless integration and composition of 3D, video, images, audio and interactivity.

"By developing a Mac OS X version of Anark Studio we have harnessed the Mac platform[base ']s superior power and graphics quality," said Justin Ebert, senior vice president of product development for Anark. "Anark's development of Anark Studio for the Macintosh signifies our commitment to offering the next generation of interactive multimedia and an experience unlike any other the Macintosh graphics community has ever seen."

Anark Studio for Macintosh leverages the core technologies of Apple's OS X cutting-edge operating system and gives users the power to create the most captivating interactive multimedia and 3D experiences and deliver them on the Macintosh or Windows based operating systems. Designers and developers using Anark Studio for the Macintosh will have a revolutionary new tool in their arsenal for creating and delivering broadcast-quality, interactive presentations beyond what had previously been possible.

Featuring a newly optimized workflow and familiar timeline, Anark Studio features a flexible workspace, drag and drop JavaScript based behaviors, and compositing and 3D features found only in high end compositing and rendering systems typically costing hundreds of thousands of dollars. With the introduction of Anark Studio, multimedia artists and developers no longer need to sacrifice visual quality for bandwidth and authoring tool limits and can create unparalleled corporate presentations, learning applications, product demonstrations and entertainment for CD-ROM, kiosks, screensavers and the Web via the free Anark Web Client for Windows PC and Macintosh based computers.

See also:  3D Web 

11:43:31 AM    comment []

DV Recording
  • Set camcorder to to "Camera" or "VCR" mode.
    Connect Firewire cable( 4-pin end ) to DV camcoder's DV port.

    Connect Firewire cable( 6-pin end ) to CitiDISK DV. Turn both units' power on.

  • Start DV streams direct recording from camcorder to CitiDISK DV by pressing "REC" button. A RED color LED embedded inside the button starts to flash to solid RED indicating video recording is in progress.
  • Stop DV recording by pressing "REC" button once more. RED color LED goes off.
  • Video stream( DV or DV-AVI ) is pre-named and is stored in a pre-formatted FAT32 hard disk.
  • CitiDISK DV embeds a 20GB or larger up to 60GB 2.5" laptop hard disk with shock-absorption cushion surrounding the hard disk for the maximum hard disk protection.  Model FW1256-20 supports DV file format and FAT32 file system only.
DV Editing
  • Disconnect Firewire cable from camcorder; re-connect it to Firewire port( 4-pin or 6-pin type ) equipped computer, PC or Mac. CitiDISK DV appears as one external computer hard disk with DV streams( DV or DV-AVI ) inside folders.
  • Start favorite video editor to cut, to paste, to add in special effect and other functions immediately, no more re-capturing. Computer reads in the DV stream as 12 Mbytes/sec, four times faster than capturing from camcorder( DV is 3.6 Mbytes/sec ). Saves rendered video streams into CitiDISK DV at 12 Mbytes/sec speed, too, four times faster than saving to Firewire tape deck.
External Firewire Hard Disk
  • Use CitiDISK DV just like a regular external Firewire hard disk, while not in recording, for file archive, backup and/or other multimedia functions.
  • CitiDISK DV is fully PLUG-ANG-PLAY specification compliant, no driver needed to load for Windows 98 SE/2000/XP, MacOS 9.2.x, 10.x and Linux.
Quick Erase Button and Utility Programs
  • Single "Erase" button provides instant file system cleaning up and re-claiming full disk storage. Since "Erase" button is hard to reach, user is urged using pencil tip to press and hold the button for more than 5 seconds preventing un-purpose disk erase.
  • Utility programs runs on both PC and Mac are also provided.
Internal Rechargeable Battery
  • Embed state-of-art rechargeable Lithium-Ion-Polymer battery suitable for up to 80 minutes recording. Re-charging power is drawn from Firewire bus power or external power adapter. CPU program dynamically adjusts charging current rate.
  • BLUE LED indicates battery charging is in progress.. Once the battery is fully charged, BLUE LED goes off.
Specifications

  • Interface
One IEEE1394A port
SBP-2, Isochronous video streams
  • Cable

One 6pin-4pin IEEE1394A standard included

  • Sustain Device Transfer Rate

up to 12 MBytes/second

  • External Power

+6V to +18V DC in only

  • Operating Temperature

0 to 55 Centigrade

  • Relative Humidity

95% Maximum

  • Storage Temperature

-22 to 65 Centigrade

  • Weight

less than one pound

  • DV Recording Capacity ( NTSC or PAL )

FW1256-20                              80 minutes

FW1256-30                            120 minutes

FW1256-40                            160 minutes

FW1256-60                            240 minutes

 

   


10:36:48 AM    comment []


Here is an interesting site with some quicktime interviews from MacWorld.

See also:  QuickTime 

10:03:29 AM    comment []

Apache Cocoon is an XML publishing framework that raises the usage of XML and XSLT technologies for server applications to a new level. Designed for performance and scalability around pipelined SAX processing, Cocoon offers a flexible environment based on a separation of concerns between content, logic, and style. To top this all off, Cocoon's centralized configuration system and sophisticated caching help you to create, deploy, and maintain rock-solid XML server applications.

Cocoon interacts with most data sources, including filesystems, RDBMS, LDAP, native XML databases, and network-based data sources. It adapts content delivery to the capabilities of different devices like HTML, WML, PDF, SVG, and RTF, to name just a few. You can run Cocoon as a Servlet as well as through a powerful, commandline interface. The deliberate design of its abstract environment gives you the freedom to extend its functionality to meet your special needs in a highly modular fashion.

Thanks for the link Marc
9:43:03 AM    comment []


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