Content Insider #116 --Security

Data Security - A Balance Between Convenience, Privacy, Stupidity

Miles Weston

Software and hardware manufacturers have introduced and continue to develop some of the best computing and online security solutions to protect you and your content from being not just compromised but stolen and used. Lose your hardware and yes it is a pain but it can be replaced. Lose your data and your identity can be used in the blink of an eye. The best and most expensive security solutions in the industry seem to be useless against relentless thieves and your own stupidity or careless action. Read More >>

HP EliteBook 8730W

Mobile workstation with power

Hewlett Packard has been known for years for its solid workstations. The company has been an innovator when it comes to content creation machines, even supplying its own designed graphics adapters in the late 1990s to power its visual systems. When the company decides to enter the market, it does so with a lot of thought, offering systems that are unique from what is currently available from its competitors, yet still remaining price competitive. The company's latest mobile offering is such a system.

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The Great After Effects Mac/Windows Smackdown: CS4 Edition

Re-running the benchmarks to see which OS runs AE better

Last summer I got curious. With the advent of Intel Macs, Boot Camp, and Universal builds of After Effects, for the first time it was possible to forget about all the Intel vs. PowerPC benchmarks that had been run to that point and effectively remove hardware from the equation, focusing solely on the OS and how well AE was tuned to it. XP took the prize back then, but I'm curious again, and with Mac OS X Leopard, 64-bit Vista, and After Effects CS4 at my disposal, it's time to find out where things stand today.

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Content Insider #111 - Cloud Computing

Netbooks, Cloud Computing - Work, Play Without Boundaries

Netbooks. They are the neat little items that fit comfortably between workhorse notebooks and small, convenient iPhone/Blackberry units. They've got it all--instant on, lightweight, no software updates, long battery life, little bitty solid state drives, cheap cost! Sounds great. Works-- less so!

Video-Based Tutorial:

Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard Essential Training: Spotlight Search Field

Video 2: Spotlight Preferences

In this Lynda.com video training series, host Christopher Breen looks at the Spotlight search field and the times when you need a bit more search. In such a case you are going to want to get a better view, such as going up to the Spotlight search field type in your word and Show All, which produces a Finder-like window, which enables you to do a lot of the same things you can do in the Finder.

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