A new Mac Pro, the professional desktop computer.
Previously, editorial staff used specialised, professional, desktop software to create and publish news stories and features for print.
The foundation, based in Denver, was created by Tim Gill, founder of Quark Inc., a software company that dominates professional desktop publishing.
This allows different groups of users to move back and forth between Editorial Production and the more specialised tools they need to do their job, whether those tools are professional desktop applications from the Adobe Creative Suite, or lighter browser-based applications developed in house.
That 100,000 unit figure does not include any of the Power Mac G4 units that are still available as Apple's entry-level professional desktop offering.
The company's products seem to be complimentary and will be integrated into Nuance's scanning software and other professional desktop applications.
The engineering team's sneak peek reveals more about what we touched on yesterday when we discussed how the stabilization technique it employs taps into your iPhone's gyroscope data, instead of trying to stabilization with the much more processor-intensive methods of image analysis used in professional desktop film-making software like Final Cut Pro.
None of these have the full capabilities of a professional desktop application, but you probably don't need that much power to create a simple infographic.
He started doing all kinds of research on the web, which led him to PagePlus, a professional desktop publishing program that enabled him to import fractal images into a single document.
These new tools are vector graphics applications that run in your browser as a replacement for using an expensive professional desktop application like Adobe Illustrator to put your infographic design together.
