Neil Bennett - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Neil Bennett

Article | 3/10/2008 Red Giant Magic Bullet Steady

Shaky footage may be associated with amateur video, but it’s something professionals have to deal with on a regular basis. Whether it’s user-generated...

Article | 3/10/2008 Lightbox Photo

Lightbox Photo is a server-based software tool that allows you to create your own image-sales site. It was originally designed to allow photographers ...

Article | 5/09/2008 Simulate: Illuma

Lighting is one of the hardest real-world phenomena to replicate with VFX. The intricate play of photons across surfaces is something five-frames-an-h...

Article | 15/08/2008 Boris Continuum Complete 5

Boasting over 180 filters, Boris Continuum Complete (BCC) covers many bases, including traditional image processors, texture and animation generators,...

Article | 13/08/2008 Netbooks for business

The original Asus Eee PC took the hardware world by storm. Small, lightweight, inexpensive, yet running a full-fledged OS, this tiny device offered la...

Article | 8/08/2008 Universal Type Server

Universal Type Server isn't --- as it sounds - a particularly poor Dolph Lungren movie about the perilous journeys of someone who delivers fonts for a...

Article | 31/07/2008 Thecus N3200

The Thecus N3200 is a RAID drive that offers good performance at a reasonable price.

Article | 25/07/2008 Iomega StorCenter Pro 150D NAS

The StorCenter Pro 150D is what you expect of a business-focused NAS device: a big boxy chassis that dwarfs its rivals, dull looks, a noisy fan, and s...

Article | 24/07/2008 Acer Aspire EasyStore

While clearly aimed at home users, the Aspire EasyStore, a network-attached storage (NAS) device, offers much that will appeal to small studios

Article | 23/07/2008 LaCie 2big network

Encased in dull grey metal like much of LaCie's line of larger hard-drive systems, the 2big network -- a network-attached storage device -- would sit ...

Article | 11/07/2008 Konica Minolta Magicolor 8650DN

The Magicolor 8650 is an A3 colour laser printer with exceptionally high-grade output that would make an ideal proof printer for many design studios.

Article | 4/07/2008 Daz 3D Bridge for Photoshop

Many illustrators and artists would like to include 3D elements in their artwork, but are often put off by the deeply technical aspects of 3D modellin...

Article | 3/07/2008 Sapphire Radeon HD 4870

Sapphire's HD 4870 is the first board we've tested to feature ATI's brand-new flagship Radeon HD 4800 series chips

Article | 19/06/2008 3dconnexion SpaceNavigator for Notebooks

3Dconnexion's line of input devices for 3-D suites -- which it calls 3-D mice -- are tools that aim to make it easier to work in animation tools such ...

Article | 18/06/2008 Spyder3Elite

Over the past year we've seen plenty of innovation in the colour-calibration market, with the emergence of combination monitor-and-printer calibration...