Joomla 1.6 review

Posted on March 17, 2011 by Tom Arah


Apparently well placed between the simplest open source CMS option, WordPress 3, and the most advanced, Drupal 7, is Joomla. However keeping up with its rivals isn’t easy…

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The iPad 2: looks nice, plays ugly

Posted on March 9, 2011 by Tom Arah


The real reason that the iPad doesn’t support Flash is Apple’s ugly business model: to hold its users hostage within its walled garden and then to charge heavily for access to them. This isn’t “insanely great”… it needs to be stopped.

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QuarkXPress 9: First Look

Posted on February 23, 2011 by Tom Arah

With today’s announcement of QuarkXPress 9 coming only a few months after 8.5, it’s clear that Quark is very aware of the need for speed. More importantly this looks to be a feature-packed update and it’s clear that Quark realises exactly what needs to be done.

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My CorelDRAW Problem Transformed

Posted on February 11, 2011 by Tom Arah

I’m sure that everyone has the odd infuriating niggle with the software that they use most regularly, but I’m delighted to say that I’ve just found the solution to a problem with CorelDRAW that has been driving me mad for almost 19 years….

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The Best CMS: Joomla 1.6 v Drupal 7.0

Posted on February 2, 2011 by Tom Arah

Just a few days after the launch of the long-awaited Drupal 7.0 version, arch-rival Joomla launched its latest 1.6 release. It’s interesting to note that, apart from some significant interface improvements, 1.6’s two main additions are specifically designed to meet Drupal head-on…

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PhotoZoom: Perfect Image Resizing?

Posted on January 24, 2011 by Tom Arah

Ultimately the fundamental difference between vector and bitmap graphics is that the resolution, and so final quality, of the bitmap image is fixed. Or is it?…

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Drupal 7.0 review

Posted on January 21, 2011 by Tom Arah

Drupal 7′s new administrative interface and built-in image and field handling boost both usability and power
These days, traditional websites based on hand-crafted static pages are fading away, rapidly being replaced by sites based on content management systems (CMS)…

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PhotoZoom Pro 4 review

Posted on January 14, 2011 by Tom Arah

Fast and efficient bitmap resizing, and at a higher quality than with Photoshop
Ultimately, the quality of your photos depends on their resolution. This isn’t a problem if you’re producing regular photo prints from a modern digital camera, but…

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Drupal 7.0 goes live

Posted on January 12, 2011 by Tom Arah

In case you missed the announcement, the latest 7.0 release of Drupal has finally come out of beta. Of the big three open-source content management systems (along with WordPress and Joomla), Drupal is generally recognised to be the most powerful…

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Cinema 4D 12 review

Posted on December 17, 2010 by Tom Arah

Enhanced lighting, rendering and deformers head the feature list, but Maxon’s rationalisation of the product line hits both flexibility and value
Over the years Maxon’s Cinema 4D has established itself as my recommended choice for 3D software for a host of reasons…

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