Living Album 2.0
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QuickMedia Labs Inc's $89.95 Living Album 2.0 aims to make it easier for Macintosh users to store and share digital images and video, but falls short. The software creates 'albums' of up to 1,000 'pages,' each of which includes up to 36 digital pictures in PICT or Photo CD format. Each page is stored as a 432-by-432-pixel QuickTime element. A second file includes text, recorded sounds, thumbnail images and paths to linked files. Living Album 2.0 can store 36 full-color, 291-by-432-pixel images, associated materials and a royalty-free Living Album Viewer on one 1.4MB floppy disk. Manipulating images is not as graceful as it should be. For example, deleting thumbnail images requires a menu command, not a backspace. Users might be annoyed by Living Album's gaudy frame and unimaginative buttons. A Lite version, for single-page albums only, lists for $49.95. Living Album 2.0 requires a Mac II with 8MB of RAM, 3MB of hard disk space and System 7.0.
Publication Name: Publish
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0897-6007
Year: 1995
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Coda
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RandomNoise's $495 Coda is a powerful Web-authoring tool that overcomes many of the limitations of HTML by letting designers build Web pages in Java without manual coding. It uses a page-layout approach in which the user places text, images and sounds within a framework much like that of a DTP program. Users then set attributes in the Properties palette. The Actions subpalette determines how objects will interact with the Web-site visitor, and every object can have actions associated with mouse movements. Coda has a clear interface with some rough edges; a few tools are awkward, and the Color Picker uses two arbitrary 40-color sets rather than the standard 'Web-safe' 216-color set. The program is available for both Windows and Macintosh, but the Mac version is a bit sluggish; RandomNoise recommends using Apple's Just-In-Time (JIT) Java compiler.
Publication Name: Publish
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0897-6007
Year: 1997
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Flash 4
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Macromedia's Flash 4.0 vector-animation and multimedia authoring environment offers workflow enhancements for Web content developers, including custom color sets, an enhanced library and an adjustable work space. Downloadable plug-ins enable more sophisticated interactivity, such as slider controls, and a variety of streaming MP3 audio and draggable video elements. The floating pallete can be repositioned, even on a second monitor. The drawing tools are improved and the library groups elements in folders and subfolders for viewing by type or the number of times they've been used. This version of Flash is an important upgrade for interactive and Web page designers.
Publication Name: Publish
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0897-6007
Year: 1999
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