Join Rick and Jason as they discuss how to find “good light” answer listener mail, and offer their advice on buying a new laptop computer for photography. Download The Image Doctors #33 (NPC-ID-2007-02-01.mp3; 41:14, 14.6MB, MP3 Format)
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The Image Doctors #33
Jessica returns from a short break to bring you news about 2 Nikonians with special recognition, updates from DxO Optics, and the latest informaiton on our Nikonians Trips! Download Nikonians News Flash #34 (NPC-NF-2007-01-27.mp3; 10:50; 10.0MB; MP3 format)
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Nikonians News Flash #34
In this episode of The Image Doctors, Rick returns from a European holiday with nearly 400 images. Hear about his workflow techniques. We’ll also discuss the basics of Color Management, answer listener mail, and offer our weekly photo tip.
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The Image Doctors #32
Today is the official business launch of Windows Vista, the 2007 Office system, and Exchange Server 2007. This means that as of today, businesses can get these products and start deploying them within their organization. The consumer launch is scheduled for January 30—that’s when you’ll be able to go into retail stores and buy shrink-wrapped copies of Office and Windows
Today I’m delighted to present a new guest writer to the blog: Eric Faller, Software Design Engineer on the Office User Experience Team. Eric is one of the developers on our team who helped to design and implement RibbonX, the user interface extensibility model for Office developers. Today’s Guest Writer: Eric Faller Some of the most commonly asked questions around RibbonX deal with how to load and get images to display properly in the Ribbon
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RibbonX Image FAQ
For the last year or so, one of the questions I’ve been asked again and again has been: “Can I use the new Office user interface in my own product?” On one hand, it’s an immensely satisfying question to hear, because it means that others in the industry believe in the value of what we’ve built and see how the sound UI research we’ve done can benefit their own products. Creating the new user interface has been our team’s passion for the last three years, and we love sharing the fruits of this hard work
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Licensing the 2007 Microsoft Office User Interface
Now that we’ve released Office 2007 to manufacturing, developers can get started modifying their solutions so that they’re ready to test with the released version of Office. Final versions of the RibbonX schema and Control ID list will be published on MSDN soon, but that can take a while—so I’ll continue to publish developer resources here first so that you don’t have to wait.
This morning, I posted the final customUI XML schema for creating Office 2007 RibbonX-based solutions. You can use this schema to develop solutions that will work with the upcoming final release of Office 2007; it will also continue to work just fine with Beta 2 Technical Refresh. The changes from the previous version I posted are all minor (and in fact I updated the B2TR link in a previous post to point to the updated RTM schema as well.) Download the RTM customUI Schema This updated version will also find its way onto MSDN in the coming weeks, but I wanted you guys to have access to it first
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Final Schema for RibbonX-based Solutions
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Today’s Guest Writer: Savraj Dhanjal Savraj is a Program Manager on the Office User Experience team focused on user interface extensibility for Office developers. As you may have discovered, we made a few tweaks to the UI developer story in Beta 2 Technical Refresh. The biggest change is the updated Control ID list we published yesterday.
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RibbonX Updates for B2TR
One of the new features in the upcoming Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh that I haven’t written about yet is something we call the Quick Customize Menu. As you may know, the Quick Access Toolbar is a customizable part of the UI in which you can add features for quick access. Simply right-click any control in the Ribbon, or any group of controls , and choose “Add to Quick Access Toolbar” to add it to the QAT.
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The Quick Customize Menu
One of the most well-understood and salient principles underlying the ergonomics of graphical user interface design is Fitts’ Law . Named for Paul Fitts, a psychologist at Ohio State University, Fitts’ Law is a mathematical model of fine motor control which predicts how long it takes to move from one position to another as a function of the distance to and size of the target area.
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Giving You Fitts
One of the efficiency affordances added to Office over a decade ago is the Recent Documents list. At the bottom of the File menu in Office 2003, you’ll see your four most recently-opened documents listed; you can click one of them to open the file directly. Looking at customer data from Office 2003, it becomes clear that this is one of the most broadly-used features in all of Office.
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Recently Used Documents
On Thursday, I wrote about how Office 2003 renders the user interface using a table of several thousand colors . Some of you commented that we’re crazy to do so much work. Perhaps, but keep in mind that I’m not just talking about the menus and toolbars; every color used in the interface of every program, from Outlook to Visio, is contained in the color table.
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Which Color When? (Part 2)
As you probably know by now, each of the Office 2007 programs (both classic UI and new UI) have the ability to render themselves in several different color schemes. What determines which color scheme is used when, and what are the defaults? Before discussing Office 2007, let’s jump back and talk about Office 2003 for a bit of background and history
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Which Color When? (Part 1)
Greetings, salutations, and pleasantries and welcome to Wide-Format Imaging’s new blog on the wide- and grand-format market—just one of the new features on Wide-FormatImaging.com. As you can see, we’ve remodeled a little here at Wide-FormatImaging.com—and we hope you like our new look! Don’t worry, all the articles and news you’ve come to expect is still here, but you’ll have access to much more relevant and timely content—from daily news updates to our weekly eNewsletter to monthly online-only features as well as our Buyer’s Guide to help you to find the specific product or service you need—just to name a few. So, feel free to wade in and let me know what you think about the site—what you like, what works for you, and what doesn’t—I’m eager to hear your comments! So, sit back, pull up that keyboard, and mouse and make yourself at home.
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‘Fuji Xerox Printers (FXP) will introduce the affordable Phaser 3115 black & white laser printer at the upcoming Commart Exhibition at Queen Sirikit National Convention Centre between November 4-7. Ideal for use in the home and small office, the Phaser 3115 will be available during the four-day event for the special price of 2,700 baht, including a full three-year warranty. The Phaser 3115 features a 66 MHz processor that delivers a printing speed of 14 pages per minute, and a standard 2 MB of memory.
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Fuji Xerox Phaser 3115 Laser Printer
Sony Press Release SONY DIGITAL PHOTO PRINTER PICKS UP THE PACE UP-DR150 Sets New Speed and Quality Standard for Event Photos, Digital Kiosks CHICAGO, Oct. 21, 2004 (PMA Fall Conference Booth # 717) – Sony Electronics today enhanced its line of digital photofinishing products with the introduction of the UP-DR150 digital photo printer, a dye sublimation printer that is now the fastest in its class of professional photo printers. Designed to deliver quality prints and rapid turnaround in retail, studio, in-field event and kiosk applications, the UP-DR150 also offers high-volume roll printing, durable print heads, and a simple front-access design to minimize maintenance.
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Sony UP-DR150 Printer