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Which RAW converter to use? DxO 5.1?

June 22nd, 2008 · No Comments · Digital Darkroom

I’ve been using DxO v4.5 with good results but the problem is that DxO 5.0 remains quite unstable. In a side-by-side comparison, Lightroom came off as the most decent, but it doesn’t have distortion correction. Almost means I have to stick with Canon’s own DPP which has distortion correction.
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Mac Office 2008 somewhat faster

May 21st, 2008 · No Comments · Mac Office

This corresponds to what I’ve seen, you’d expect that Office 2008 being a native Intel application would be much faster than Office 2004 which is PowerPC and runs in emulation on Intel. Well, the results are a little confusing. It is faster, but not much in many things:

Excel Open Word Scroll Entourage [...]

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