Renderosity has a great review of the NVIDIA QUADRO K5000 from a graphics perspective. The only thing I would like to see is something like a Geforce 670, 680 or 690 instead of a GTX 480 as the comparison to a standard card, as I would like to see it’s performance against another Kepler card, one for gaming and one for workstation graphics and see the difference there.
Arstechnica has the story, though I heard it from google themselves when I went to reader this morning, as I do every morning!
Here is google’s spring cleaning announcement (which also looks like they are getting rid of CalDAV, so looks like no more interface with iCal. Yipee, thanks Google and FU!).
Honestly while it took me a while to get to RSS, it is how I interact with the internet, not through crappy social sites like Facebook or especially Google +. It is what I do on my iPad (thanks to REEDER, which uses Google Reader as a back end) and on any computer I work at. I log into GMAIL and Google Reader.
Hell this makes me think I need to stop relying so heavily on GMAIL as Google will likely kill it one day with little notice. And how about Blogger? Will they be next? What else is google going to kill?
There is a petition on Change.org that already has over 40,000 signatures in 2 hours! So please sign it.
In the mean time I am trying out NewsBlur which costs $12 a year, but gets it feeds from your Google Reader feeds, so at least you have the same feeds set up. Still the interface is certainly not as easy or as quick as Reader. AAARRGHHHHH!!!!
Alistaire Rankin at the Pro Video Coalition has a review of the new features of the Foundry’s Nuke 7.
Damn I wish I could a copy of NUKE and learn it, but it is just way too far out of my price range! I had previously learned Shake when Apple dropped the price to $400, and really fell for Node based compositing, but gave up on it ages ago, but would love to take NUKE for a spin.
This will allow different plug ins with different 3D worlds to interact. There is a video on their site. Looks pretty cool.
Now they need to figure out how to cast a shadow based on this.
Update should be out soon.
Creative Cow has a short article on the dire straights of AVID. I didn’t realize that they were hemorrhaging money that much for that long, or just how much they lost on their consumer editing programs!
While AVID does have it’s place, I do think it is a dinosaur that needs a lot of updating, and a price drop to be really competitive. I don’t think FCP X is a competitor though. A 64 Bit FCP 7 could still take back over from the whole left by it’s passing, but FCP X just has too many things wrong with it to really take over for all professional applications.
Engadget has the announcement of 3 new QUADRO cards from NVIDIA based on Kepler to fill the space over the $2500+ K5000. They have the K4000 for $1300, the K2000 for $600 and the K600 for $200. Nice. Not for gaming, but great for 3D and architectural and video work.
Dare Dreamer Magazine has an article on using compound clips instead of projects to make new sequences, since new projects take up a lot more hard drive space.
Sounds interesting, though it does just further highlight the continued issues with FCP X. Not being able to share renders between Projects (which are sequences in FXP X) seems ridiculous, and not very power user friendly.
Still just can’t see myself every trying FCP X again, not when Premiere Pro CS6 and AVID Media Composer are out there.
Engadget has the news on new Atom CPU for NAS, that would allow multiple simultaneous streams, and smart video scaling.
This is great, wish it had come out sooner. I have my iTunes library on a Synology NAS (not only backs itself up on a second drive, but allows me to stream music from anywhere or store files on the NAS to access from anywhere), but it doesn’t like 2 accesses at the same time. If I am listening to music and access the NAS via the finder, I will lock my finder up for a while, it slows down so much, so a speedier CPU that would allow multiple connections would be awesome!!!
MacTech has news on the releases of the new Magna ExpressBox 1T Thunderbolt PCI Adapter to add PCI cards to your thunderbolt equipped mac.
A very cool idea, though I would still rather have a tower with PCI Slots built in, but this is great for a portable solution, though $500 is a bit pricy.
Appleinsider has heard rumors of Apple working on 2 GB SSD’s for the new MacPro with a standard SATA connector.
And while that would be awesome, at least for a boot drive, the cost would be so prohibitively expensive that it would be useless! And the fusion drives scare me as if one drive goes you lose everything (though you should be backing it up anyway). Still the most hopefully thing out of this is that maybe we will be getting a new MacPro soon. I SURE HOP SO!!!