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Business Issues: By Joshua Brown

Navigating the Thin Blue Line
The Importance of Training and Policy Management

Today's law-enforcement officer has to contend with a bevy of issues that arise from not following protocol: pay loss, sizable fines, extra labor hours, missed criminal convictions, and, ultimately, loss of employment. With all the new digital documentation devices available, it would seem that a better policy-management and employee-testing software system would be firmly in place. Unfortunately, there's always that one lawsuit that leaks out, and the media runs wild with it. Read More

It seems no matter how mature and complex creative software tools become, particularly non-linear editing systems, there always seem to be the extra things you find yourself wishing for. The technology trickle-down effect has seen enormous changes over the past decade where the tools that were once the sole domain of high-end turn-key systems - with appropriate astronomical price-tags - are now stock standard. Read More

Quick Tip: By Diana Weynand

Diana's Top 10 Final Cut Pro 7 Features #7 - Improved Markers

You know those little post-it note pads that come in multiple colors? Ok, admit it now. Do you ever color-code your notes? Maybe yellow notes are financial, pink ones are hot to-do items. Well with Final Cut Pro 7, you can now use color to label your markers in a very similar way. There are several other marker improvements as well. Read More

Feature: By Matthew David

The impact of Flash Professional CS5 exporting to the iPhone

If you are a Flash developer then Adobe has big news for you. You can now export your movies as native iPhone Apps. Well, sort of. In this article you will find out what the impact of exporting Flash movies to the iPhone really is. Read More

Interview: By John Virata

Kaspersky Lab's Peter Beardmore talks anti-virus and the Mac OS

Kaspersky, developers of anti-virus and security software has just released a version of its anti-virus software for the Macintosh operating system. While the Mac OS is targeted by malware and virus writers significantly less than Microsoft's Windows OS, it still gets attacked, just on a much smaller scale. Digital Media Net spoke with Peter Beardmore, senior product marketing manager, Kaspersky Lab, about viruses, malware, and the Mac OS. Read More

Quick Tip: By Diana Weynand

Diana's Top 10 FCP 7 Features #8 - iChat Theater Preview

In the past, if you wanted to share some portion of your work with another set of eyes, it was a somewhat time-consuming business of exporting a QuickTime file or transferring a sequence or a portion of a sequence to another drive or server for someone else to access. That's no longer the case. Welcome to iChat Theater Preview-the quick and easy way to share and discuss your sequence with someone down the hall or around the world in real time. Read More

Product Review: By Kevin McAuliffe

Sorenson Squeeze 6

These days, it seems as though every company has an application for taking your edited files and processing them for the web, and many of those applications are included with the editing bundle you purchased. Adobe has Adobe's Media Encoder, Final Cut Studio has Compressor, and there are the standalone applications such as Episode, and even QuickTime can do it as well. Read More

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MEDL Mobile, Inc. ( www.medlmobile.com)and App creator Shayne Faerber have launched an iPhone Application called Mall Maps, a database of malls that enable you to locate virtually every mall in the United States. Read More

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