CyberLink MediaShow—they love GPUs
Posted by Jon Peddie on September 22nd 2009 | Permalink
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CyberLink has been at the forefront of GPU exploitation for photos, and their latest effort is MediaShow. YAPP—yet another photo program, but this time it’s got more. If you’re like me, you have several photo programs, some you wanted, some that were forced on you. I currently have: Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Photo Gallery, Picasa 3, Roxio 2010 PhotoSuite 12, and now CyberLink MediaShow; there may be others lurking on my system I’m not aware of. They all have their own indexing system and files, and then there’s the ever loving Vista indexer making life easier for us all.
Wolfenstein - Great game little use of GPU
Posted by Jon Peddie on September 4th 2009 | Permalink
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Activision has recently released a remake of the classic FPS Wolfenstein, and all I can say is thank you Activision. However, the GPU folks may not be quite as thankful. When I heard it was coming out I expected it to be in stereovision and have killer physics, after all this is 2009. The physics are good, damn good, but not accelerated by the GPU, and alas there’s no stereo. No doubt Nvidia will do a driver tweak and correct that but a natively developed game in stereo is just so much better.
Augmented Reality hits the mainstream - A darling of technorati Marvel is bringing it home
Posted by Jon Peddie on August 6th 2009 | Permalink
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Immersive Technologies’ AR demo.If you’ve ever seen a yellow scrimmage line appear in the field of a football game, you’ve experienced AR (Augmented Reality), which is a term credited to Thomas Caudell in 1990 when he was with Boeing. Lots of companies and universities have experimented with it, and there are games being played on mobile phones in Japan right now (you point your camera phone at a place and on your screen is superimposed a graphics image of a treasure or a monster). At San Diego Comic-Con 2009 last week, Mattel showed a new line of action figures based on…
Seeing is believing - Putting photo editing products through their paces
Posted by Kathleen Maher on August 6th 2009 | Permalink
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Roxio Photoshow is easy and fun. There’s something nice about having just a few options and getting something done quickly. Luckily, the templates, styles, and music, are pleasant and not too childish or silly as is so often the case in similar programs.Remember this: nothing is easy on a computer unless you stay within your boundaries. You like the Mac, stay there, you like Windows, stay there. Things might work out okay if you stay in your own backyard but then again they might not. What was a simple test of free online software can turn into a maddening exercise in…
A word about Game Booster
Posted by Jon Peddie on May 14th 2009 | Permalink
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Game Booster is a free program that can be downloaded from various sites (e.g. http://majorgeeks.com/Game_Booster_d6148.html). It’s advertised as being designed to help optimize your PC for smoother, more responsive game. It works by temporarily shutting down background processes, cleaning RAM, and intensifying processor performance so you can keep all the features of Vista or XP out of the way as well as all those little applets to make opening a program faster. And you can turn them back on when you are ready to get back to work. We thought we’d try it. It’s got a convenient UI for turning things…
So you wannabe a race car driver?
Posted by Ted Pollak on January 8th 2007 | Permalink
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Formula One Grand Prix (F1) is the king of racing. It’s not necessarily the most competitive, but indeed it is the king. F1 hosts the fastest “turning” cars known to man. Unlike their open-wheeled Indy brethren, they are not mandated to use the exact same engine (currently Honda), and unlike the perplexingly popular NASCAR vehicles, they can turn sharply at speed … both ways, and do it in the rain.
Pure Foto Magic, a mini USB TV tuner, and how (not) to download movies
Posted by Kathleen Maher on November 6th 2006 | Permalink
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I know, some of you think the “F” in PFM stands for something else, and it does, but in this case it stands for both—read on … This is a sad story with a happy ending.
