Archive for January 29th, 2007
Adobe on Monday began allowing customers to preorder Photoshop Lightroom 1.0 from its Web site. The company said it expects to ship the digital workflow application to the masses in mid-February.More than 500,000 photographers participated in the 12-month public beta of the program that lets photographers import, manage, and present large volumes of digital images. The beta application will expire on February 28.
“Everything, from image viewing and evaluation tools to timesaving editing features, was developed with the help of photographers,” John Loiacono, senior vice president for the Creative Solutions Business Unit at Adobe, said in a statement. Loiacono added that the product development was “truly a collaborative effort.”
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January 29th, 2007
Melodis Corporation has launched new technology that might cause some users to reminisce about an old game show. In true “Name That Tune” style, the company’s voice-activated search tool allows users to scour through two million digital tracks by singing, whistling, or humming a few bars of a song.Dubbed Multimodal Adaptive Recognition System, or MARS, the sound-recognition technology is showcased on Midomi.com, a social-networking community that targets music lovers. The site aims to create a comprehensive database of searchable music that is based on user contributions.
“Users of midomi.com will be able to both search our extensive database as well as help grow it,” said Melodis Corporation CEO Keyvan Mohajer. “When a user tags their favorite songs, the submissions immediately become part of the searchable MARS universe.”
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January 29th, 2007
