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CDFinder 5.0 media cataloging software now available

cdfinder5 20070522 195342 CDFinder 5.0 media cataloging software now availableNorbert M. Doerner of West-Forest-Systems announced today that they have released version 5.0 of CDFinder, the company’s media cataloging software.

The new version sports a new user interface and can now catalog thumbnail previews for photo and image files of several types (JPG, TIFF, EPS, PDF, PSD, PNG, GIF, BMP, and several RAW formats). CDFinder 5.0 also adds direct integration with Apple Pages, Apple Keynote, Adobe InDesign, QuarkXPress and other applications allowing you to drag any file from CDFinder directly into an open document of the other application.

CDFinder sells for USD$39 for a single private license. CDFinder 5.0 is a free update to registered users of previous CDFinder versions.

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Jobs confirmed for “Stevenote” at Macworld San Francisco 2007

IDG World Expo today announced that Steve Jobs will, indeed, deliver the opening keynote address for Macworld Conference & Expo. Macworld will be held at San Francisco’s Moscone Convention Center January 8-12, 2006, and the keynote address will be held on Tuesday, January 9, 2007 at 9:00 a.m. at Moscone West.

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$50,000 worth of iPods getting scratched for Tekserve ad

135741922 bdcb447e94 m $50,000 worth of iPods getting scratched for Tekserve adTekserve, a computer store on West 23rd Street between 6th and 7th Avenues in New York City, evidently had a lot of spare equipment floating around. So, with a couple hundred iPods and a little time to spare, the folks there set the digital devices up in a domino line and filmed their first commercial. The fifteen-second spot will begin running every 20 minutes on the large LED display outside of Madison Square Garden on 33rd Street and 7th Avenue from May 1 through June 30.

The advertisement was conceived by Dick Demenus, filmed in-house by Tekserve’s Hank Gonzalez and filmed/edited by former Tekserve employee Jared Dubrino. Close to two hundred iPods were used in the filming, which have an estimated original value of USD$50,000. The spot was edited using Final Cut Pro and Adobe After Effects on a Power Mac Dual Core G5.

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