Nvidia’s Titan cards have always walked a fine line between the gamer-oriented GeForce and the professionally targeted Quadro. They’re basically Quadro-power cards with GeForce-capability drivers. That historically plops them into the really, really expensive gaming GPU category or on the lists of video professionals who demand speed and value more than certification. The new $2,499 …
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Phase One has released a new version of its Capture One software with some features aimed at matching and beating Adobe Systems’ Lightroom, its dominant rival for photo editing and cataloging. Some of the big changes come to the critical task of masking — selecting particular elements of a photo that you might want to change, for example, to increase …
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The darling of retailers this holiday season is the smartphone. Following years of less-than-stellar sales through mobile devices, phones have now turned into reliable cash machines for online merchants looking to move as many TVs, toys and trinkets as possible during the busy shopping season. For nearly half of US holiday shopping, phones have become the default device for browsing …
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Amazon’s holiday shopping weekend broke records, and this year’s Cyber Monday now stands as the company’s single biggest shopping day ever. The e-commerce behemoth didn’t provide exact sales numbers for the day, but revealed that customers on its US site ordered more than 180 million items during the five-day period from Thanksgiving Thursday through Cyber Monday (known as the Turkey …
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Apple’s new iPad Pro not only ditched the home button, but it also made the switch from the company’s proprietary Lightning connector to the far more common USB-C connector. Through that USB-C connection, you can use a wide range of accessories and peripherals with the iPad, including external monitors. This was something Apple talked about during the iPad Pro’s announcement. …
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It’s been 10 years since Google launched the Android mobile OS and it’s come a long way. This is especially compared to its early days when it struggled to convince the world that its friendly green extraterrestrial could make applesauce of the revolutionary iPhone. In truth, Google’s first Android phone, the HTC-made T-Mobile G1, wasn’t much to look at when …
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Now playing: Watch this: CNET UK Podcast 547: Foldable phones, the iPad Pro and… 46:04 Apple’s new iPad Pro is here and it comes with a big price tag. But that doesn’t seem to have put off Andy, who is still unwaveringly excited about using Adobe Photoshop on the iPad. Rich isn’t so sure. Also up for discussion on the …
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Dropbox is stepping up its game. On Tuesday the company rolled out Dropbox Extensions — a series of new integrations — to help users navigate easier workflows within the platform. The new tool should be available for everyone Nov. 27. Dropbox has partnered with Adobe, Autodesk, DocuSign, Vimeo, airSlate, HelloSign, Nitro, Smallpdf and Pixlr to make the new tool. With …
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SmugMug, trying to strengthen its Flickr site as a community for photo enthusiasts, will limit free members to 1,000 photos and scrap the old policy of a terabyte of storage in an attempt to move toward subscriptions. The move, accompanied by a 30 percent discount on the $50 annual Flickr pro membership through Nov. 30, is the first big business …
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When Apple announced Tuesday that its iPad Pro had ditched the proprietary Lightning port in favor of USB-C, my eyes lit up. Lightning has had a good run, but I’d be happy to toss my collection of Lightning cables into my junk drawer alongside the ones for Firewire hard drives, VGA video and printers that perversely used those weird squarish …
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