i suggest the new sony dual format drive. it will burn both DVD+R and DVD-R, the best of both world at 4x on -R and 2.4x on +R. who will win the format war, who cares when you are covered? if FCP or DVDSP does not support the drive directly, get a copy of roxio toast. it supports all formats and drives, and you just export you project to a file, instead of using the drivers directly from FCP or other tools. my bet is the DVD+R/DVD+RW camp is going to win over pioneer. i’ll know more after comdex in vegas. the model is the 500A.
cloak media
new ical calendar link
i update the name of one of my online iCal calendars. find the updated tradeshow schedule.
imaging models
i like when i can predict the future. almost three years ago i wrote articles on the growth of PDF and imaging models, now with the maturity of the web my dreams are becoming reality.
talk back without ical
does anyone actually respond to a blog? does the format lend itself to e-mail discussion. i think i must post my e-mail every week or so.
PDF is the web
every page is a web page. wouldn’t it be interesting if anything you created could also serve as a document on the internet. currently we have several technologies to deliver media to the web, the big three are HTML, SWF, and PDF. in mac OS X, we get quartz, the graphics engine that allows spontaneous PDF generation from any screen, quartz, based on the PDF standard, gives any user easy assess without the cumbersome tool of adobe distiller. PDF is totally cross platform for macintosh, windows, and UNIX OS’s. i hope you move to mac OS X soon, because it’s here to stay.
classic hardware
now if you include all the hardware around here that will never work in OS X, then add to the list auroravideosys.com fuse video capture PCI card, adaptec.com 2940UW PCI wide SCSI adapter, atitech.com XCLAIM VR PCI graphics card, nikon.com coolscan 3, yamaha.com MU10XG MIDI interface, raidionsystems.com 4 GB wide SCSI hard drive tower
more classic apps
adobe.com premiere 5.1, symantec.com norton utilities 6, dantz.com retrospect 4, koblo.com tokyo, nikon.com scan 3, microsoft.com excel 4, roxio.com toast 3.5, opcode visionDSP 4.5
mac classic case
when you do the math and add the dollars on all the software i’ve accumulated over the last 14 years, how can i give up on my legacy? of the list of software, these titles will not load at all, or are very disabled if i don’t boot into classic.
classic apps
adobe.com photoshop 6, adobe.com livemotion 1, adobe.com illustrator 9, adobe.com acrobat 4, adobe.com framemaker 6, adobe.com premiere 5.1, macromedia.com dreamweaver 3, corel.com wordperfect 3.5, symantec.com norton utilities 6, dantz.com retrospect 4, dymo.com label, koblo.com tokyo, panic.com transmit 1.6, nikon.com scan 3, nemetschek.net vectorworks 8.5, nemetschek.net renderworks 8.5, microsoft.com excel 4, quicken.com 98, apple.com newton connection utilities 1.0, apple.com newton press 1.1, roxio.com toast 3.5, roxio.com photovista 1, extensis.com portfolio 5, filemaker.com 3, creaturehouse.com expression 1, summary.net 1.5
new computer blues
i need a new computer. with the introduction of new machines at macworld 2003 in san francisco, apple will drop support for classic mac OS 9. i rarely need to open the classic environment now, with PGP 8 out already, but many of my power applications only run under classic. here’s a list.