Microsoft touts professional graphics tool
News Microsoft has released a test version of a new professional graphics tool codenamed Acrylic. Acrylic appears to support opening and exporting to Photoshop and Illustrator file formats, as well as other standard graphics formats.
[June 10, 2005, 15:00]
Adobe: In Microsoft's crosshairs
News Announcements like Metro, Avalon and Acrylic show that Microsoft is taking Adobe plus Macromedia much more seriously. Microsoft's test release last week of the Acrylic graphic design tool and the demonstration of its Metro digital document format...
[June 22, 2005, 15:35]
LCD monitor mimics origami
News Unlike conventional LCD (Liquid Crystal Displays) displays, the new offerings sport acrylic screens and flexible frames which allow them to be folded. A joint venture between Japanese electronics giants NEC and Mitsubishi has taken mobile computing...
[June 25, 2003, 15:38]
Interactive wallpaper turns on the lights
News According to a report in New Scientist, the team from MIT created the wallpaper by sandwiching steel foil between layers of paper coated with magnetic paint — acrylic paint infused with iron particles.
[November 4, 2009, 13:58]
Microsoft goes with the workflow
News The company outlined plans for three graphics programs: Acrylic Graphic Designer, a painting, illustration and effects tool that combines vector-based and bitmap abilities; Sparkle Interactive Designer, a tool for application developers to design...
[September 15, 2005, 9:10]
Europe gets Microsoft technology licensing boost
News Among the new technologies the company is offering are an image-editing program that lets users manipulate and move objects in pictures and photographs, a system for assembling high-bandwidth Internet connections from mobile phone signals and...
[January 31, 2006, 8:50]
Sony VAIO PCV-W1 review
Reviews Finished in a tasteful silver/grey mix of aluminium, acrylic and plastic, the VAIO W1 certainly looks classy -- it resembles nothing so much as a piece of Bang & Olufsen hi-fi gear. Design The VAIO W1 is an all-in-one system, which has its...
[October 8, 2003, 11:50]
Mac-Antique Roadshow review
Reviews One of the most distinctive Macs ever produced, the acrylic-enclosed G4 Cube cost $1,799 for the 450MHz version (the 500MHz model sold for $3,499) at launch in 2000. This iconic little computer is the cause of all this weekend's celebrations.
[January 23, 2009, 16:05]
