Industry stalwart Derek Sizer is back in the news this week with his appointment as Managing Director at HighWater CTP. Derek, best known for his UK and European roles at imagesetter and CtP manufacturer ECRM, takes over the reins of the worldwide CRON CtP distributor. The company is busy appointing a raft of distributors for the Chinese manufactured product.Publishing Haymarket announced news this week that its specialist packaging publication, Packaging News, had been sold to the Metropolis International Group, based in Croydon. Editor Josh Brooks and the team will transfer with the publication, and were looking forward to the new challenges offered by the move. We hope that the newsy and highly informative web site and magazine keep offering the same high quality stories on the world of packaging.
We were delighted to see this week that the Ripware video of the Centurfax EasyDot had passed 100 viewings on YouTube, which (in print circles at least) makes it pretty popular.The guys at Lifehacker have offered you 10 things to do with an external hard drive, which might provide some exciting reading for the pre-press department!
Along similar lines, the same team also offer you some thoughts of what you might be able to do with your old computer. Certainly most pre-press departments must have a few old bits of kit floating about, so here is the chance to put some of it to good use!
News abounds this week on the release of the Samsung Galaxy tablet. The seven inch tablet utilises an Android OS, and can act as a phone as well as a slate. Does it, however, sit too much in the middle of the two? A big phone, making it awkward to “pocket”, and a small tablet making it not much easier than a phone to read? PIND is not too keen on the seven inch format when compared directly to the wonders of the Apple iPad. Our chums at Engadget have come up with the photo that makes the very direct comparison, so you can easily see for yourself how big the difference really is! Latest news, as we write, offers some unofficial comment on pricing: I will just stick to the reported UK pricing for now: £680. No, that wasn't a typo, you really did read £680 for a 16Gb small tablet (or big phone). I already feel strongly comforted about my recent iPad purchase! Still, our immediate guess is that as the machine is a phone it will soon get discounted down with contract rates. Still, don't let all of that put you off! If you are still keen to spend quite a bit of your hard earned on one you will have a wait for a bit just yet: October 11th is the date slated for deliveries. Mmm . . . plenty of thinking time between now and then at least!Finally, for those that get excited by such things, the guys at Mashable offered you some thoughts on how to make your own free iPhone ringtones this week. Now you can get something really cool and personnel (and forget that you've changed your ring, so not answer the call!).
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