2012

February

Dedicated since 50 years to the design of machines interfaces, the Interactive Design has become a very important parameter for the esthetical forms of nowadays by transforming all set of artistical performances.

Here you will find how MIDI makes a lot of things possible with the objects that belong to our environment. Each can now either record, generate, control or send MIDI data to help you create, play, interact or even just listen to sounds.

January

Steinberg releases its new CMC serie which includes 6 powered USB controllers in order to pilot a Cubase session: recording, mixing, editing or performing live with newly developed and high-precision touch devices and AI knob.

If the Apple iPad changes for ever the mobile computing face thanks to its technology and its ergonomics, you will find in this guide, published by Eyrolles, a practical help on the tablet uses, functions and adjustments.

2011

December

Karlax®, MIDI controller from Da Fact is a gestual sensor which offers a varied, expressive and ludic range of movements. Connected to its sound system through a wireless network, it uses USB, MIDI or OSC connectors.

Software not yet distributed, Photofly or Photo Scene Editor deduces the 3D object shape from a string of photos taken under various angles. Its interface uses appropriate manipulation, navigation and display tools.

November

A few months before the death of Steve Jobs, Carmine Gallo wrote a book published by McGraw-Hill, in which he defines the 7 principles which made the sucess and the move of the Apple founder, creator of the iPod, iPhone, iPad and iTunes.

In his book XML for Edition, B. Prost shows that more and more electronic supports (netbooks, phones, readers, internet servers, etc.) gives a greater place to the XML format for structuring transmitted contents.

October

While we can now find efficient 3D screens, S. Périer explains in its book published by Pearson, how to work with 3D pictures on computer graphic projects then perform special effects, using the After Effects software.

With its advanced Motionflow technology and its comfortable glasses, SONY produces today 3D HD televisions which diffuse  more fluid and less blurred pictures thanks to the insertion of transition frames.

August

Yamaha has designed and created a new device (ART Wedge technology) to effectively eliminate the effects of physical vibration (power, interference, transformation, transistor, etc.) on audio performance.

Main reference for web and interactive designers, this second edition of this book written by JJ Garrett and published by Pearson, defines the business core principles which gather strategic targets and users needs.

July

SimplyCube by SimplySim is a all-in-one software tool designed to create real-time 3D applications such as simulations, games or virtual reality univers thanks to a behavior engine and a 3D editors toolbox.

With the new BK-7M module, Roland lets you add a world-class backing band to your show thanks to hundreds of great tones, music styles, and rhythms onboard. You can also easily playback audio file via an onboard USB connector.

June

OpenPlug Studio is a mobile applications development tool which reach all major platform: iPad, iPhone, Windows mobile, Androïd and Symbian, etc. So you can now reuse your skills, create and deploy Web 2.0 mobile applications.

Everywhere on television and computer screens, color remains as a physical element difficult to operate. Conceived as a workshop, this book published by Eyrolles gives you the basic knewledges and the main principles of its use.

May

Based on the same advanced noise reduction technology the experts use, Music Speech Cleaner works with a range of compatible sound file types (as MP3 and AAC) and provides professional-quality results removing all unwanted noise.

Stutter Edit from Izotope revolve around an innovative engine that samples, stores and manipulates live audio. The key to these features is the use of simple to complex Gestures: effects and linked timelines hosted on a single MIDI note.

April

About NUI (Natural User Interface) of the 2011 TechFest, emerges ShadowDraw, created by Larry Zitnick from the Microsoft Research team as an interactive drawing system that reacts in real time to the user’s pencil work .

The mutation of paper with the arrival of many digital media (notebook, mobile, tablet) requires the actors to take into account the features of each media. This book published by Eyrolles gives the keys to use XML in the publishing chain.

March

Fusion-iO releases the ioDrive which delivers the performance of thousands of disk drives. This new solid state technology increases bandwidth and application performance, while reducing latency and simplifying IT infrastructure.

While the HDMI (High Definition Multimedia Interface) connection replaces the old Peritel for transmitting audio and video signals, Roland, pioneer of the PC MIDI interface, introduces UM-ONE which combines USB and MIDI cables.

February

Samsung unveils the use of the AMOLED technology to offer a 19 inch screen in 4K definition with a width equivalent to that of a paper sheet. Embedded in some smartphones, these mini diodes offer an explosive color rendering.

Face to the breaking wave of laptop devices, Eyrolles releases this 300 pages book, which helps to adapt your web application to the different mobiles: formats, languages, securities, performances, sites, software and navigators.

January

The IOSONO Spatial Audio Workstation (SAW) is a powerful object-based authoring Plug-in that allows the user to create complex sound scenes without the limitations of specific reproduction systems or speaker setups.

This Focal Press book helps you to implement the powerful new multimedia and interactive capabilities offered by HTML5, including style control tools, illustration tools, video, audio and rich media solutions for the lastest web browsers.

2010

December

With the character of the famous analog synthesizer, the Moog Filtatron is a powerful real-time audio effects engine for the iPhone and the iPod Touch. The intuitive interface provides hands-on control of all major sound-sculpting parameters.

Away 3D is the next major Flash Player upgrade from Adobe that will include a 3D real time engine. So, designers and developers will finally have the option to use console-quality 3D graphics in their 3D Flash creations.

November

First 3D sound design software, developped by L-Acoustics, Soundvision is a simulation program for installing and running the different types of loudspeakers within complex sound systems and room configurations.

With its 4 key functions (8 tracks recorder, controler for DAW software, 24 voices sampler, audio input/output and USB interfaces), the R24 from Zoom is a complete music creation system provided with a drum machine.

October

With video being core to the web experience, the WebM project defines the file container structure for serving video on the net with low computational footprint, simple container format and highest quality real-time delivery.

Rival to the Apple's iPad, the Blackberry Playbook from Resarch In Motion, provides face to face conversations, breathtaking multimédia and wifi and bluetooth connections, to become the fatest tablet computer ever with a 7 inch screen.

August

Published by Pearson, this striking book by Eric Ambrosi allows you to understand the good practices of Silverlight in order to develop rich interactive applications (RIA) with the help of many downloadable exemples.

Senseg E-Sense™ technology, based on virtual touch innovation in biophysics, generate electro-sensory field effect which create touch sensations to active surfaces. This touch feedback improves the usability on electronic equipments.

July

With its eekeyboard, Asus releases an all in one mini PC. Provided with a 5 inch touch-screen, an UWB multimedia network interface and a SSD, this new peripheral is well suited for the HD television, the computer and the video projector.

Flashpaper d'Adobe allows you to convert printable files into flash document or PDF files. You can now embed interactive documents into your web pages and view and manipulate them instantly with the frame flashpaper toolbar.

June

Golaem offers unprecedented component-based software as well as multilevel solutions for real-time simulations of individual and collective human behaviors in 3D complex environments.

For its 25th birthday, Electronic Musician releases a map gathering EM and music technology evolving together from the ATARI computer in 1985, through the Opcode Studio Vision in 1990, to the DAW in 2002. Click here to download the map.

May

Offering flexibility and freedom for any work environment, the tiny wireless receiver Logitech® Unifying stays in a USB port to connect with up to six compatible wireless peripherals (mouses and keyboards).

While the development tools (Flex, Silverlight) thrive the Rich Internet Applications (RIA), this book written in french about video mounting permits to better understand the technics needed to create, encode, edit and export videos.

April

By introducing the Natal project, Microsoft sparks a revolutionary new way to play with no controller required. See a ball ? Kick it, hit it, trap it or catch it. Move your hands or your all body to play with the comedians or the characters.

With Image Swirl and its interactive, efficient and quick interface, Google Labs releases a new kind of search and exploration engine for words and names, based upon groups of images, organised by visual and semantic likeness.

March

With Visual Studio 2010 and Expression Web 3, Microsoft releases a comprehensive development environment embedding working processes and standard tools (CSS, PHP, ASP) to create, test and deploy high quality web sites.

Designed by Aldebaran Robotics, Nao, programmable robot, listens (voice recognition), speaks (voice synthesis), sees (visual analysis), reacts to touch (capacitive sensor),  communicates (remote control) and meets other robots.

February

Global standard for recognition and search of images and videos, LTU Engine combines into one comprehensive software platform, functionnalities which permit to quickly retrieve informations about different multimedia contents.

Deep Zoom Composer from Microsoft is a tool which allows the layout of images to be viewed on the web as you have never done before. So, you can create composition files controlling the stunning zooming experience.

January

With the fast growing of smartphones, turning a PC Web site into a mobile Web site becomes possible with a new generation of explorers : Internet Explorer mobile 6, Opera mobile 10 or Firefox mobile 1.

In this age of information overload, a new solution is emerging with the information visualisation. So, with a tool like Many Eyes, you can apply visual design to information and replace text by images : graph, map, chart, tree or diagram.

2009

December

Computer science enters into the Collège de France : Gérard Berry, researcher from the INRIA Institute will give the 8 courses from the first cycle "Penser, Modéliser et Maîtriser le calcul informatique". See the videos online.

When the "Information Mapping" (or method to design technical documentation) is well known, designing and writing web pages relie on readability and effective rules which you will find in this french book from Eyrolles.

November

The complete package that releases Noomeo with Optinum contains a high-definition 3D digitized camera, the Numisoft software to acquire and manage clouds of points, and an antishock suitcase.

Thanks to the creativeness of the interactions which its real-time 3D technology permits, Idées-3com imagine and realize original applications in order to multiply the interest for viewing e-marketing web site and growing its sales.

October

With the 6 free degrees of its advanced optical captor, the  SpaceNavigator™ from 3Dconnexion offers a natural and intuitive navigation system through the environments and 3D objects (Google Earth and 3D applications).

Stantum, the pioneering company in multi-touch display technologies since 2002, now offers its unique Multitouch Technology portfolio™ with true unlimited interfaces to electronic device manufaturers and system integrators.

September

Among the new added reality application, Layar is a free software for your mobile phone which shows what is around you by displaying real time digital information on top of reality through the camera.

In his book Web Applications Design Patterns, Pawan Vora has condensed best practice, along with research and his experience, to create a reference about designing web applications and examining their effectiveness.

August 

Melodis, creator of the Sound2Sound Search Science, releases musical or vocal applications as Midomi or Dialer, that let's you retrieve a song by singing a melody or a phone number by spelling a name.

WiTricity vision is to develop a family of wireless electric power components that will enable manufacturers to make their products truly “wireless” with high efficiency over room scale distances.

July

Google Wave is the first glance to a software that will help users to communicate and collaborate on the web, with equal parts conversation and documents: richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps and more.

Issued from a project led by INRIA with INSERM, the Openvibe software represents the brain thoughts into data-processing order and thus offers a communication help for the people with reduced mobility.

June

Google code O3D allows you to work on an open-source web API for creating rich and interactive 3D applications, using JavaScript. This API tries to establish an open web standard for 3D graphics.

With its 1.1 version, Origin from Arturia is a unique instrument which combines sucessfully, analog synthesis modules with a well designed interface, a parametrable envelope generator and new effects.

May

Warwick Audio Technologies has developed the new Flat Flexible Loudspeaker technology (FFL) which delivers directional sound waves. Ideal for public spaces and thick, it can be hung on walls like a picture.

With Internet, we all want to get more information about what is going on. From the many web site which exist today, look at this one, the Ted web site to listen to the ideas worth spreading by remarkable people.

April

With its UWB technology, the PSD (Personal Sharing Device) from Leyio allows you to share wireless and in a lonely gesture its digital data (visit cards, photos, musics, files) towards an other PSD.

Unity releases the 2.5 windows version of its development tool for multiplatforms video 3D games. With the new interface, you can grab and manipulate objects in local or in space.

March

3DXPlorer is an online platform for designing interactive 3D web pages and virtual worlds including 3D spaces and 3D objects, in which web visitors can walk, visualize objects and interact.

Melodyne editor is the first product using the Direct Note Access, that allows editing individual chord tones in audio files : the harmonies can now be seen, accessed and shaped—note by note.

February

With Surface (numeric table), LucidTouch (double face screen) and TouchWall, Microsoft offers astonishing interfaces for manipulating multimedia contents : grabbing data and moving information with touch.

The Novint Falcon is an entirely new type of 3D controller with high-fidelity force feedback. Replacing your mouse or joystick, it's essentially a small robot that lets you experience true virtual touch.

January

The Air Mouse Gyration with the Gyrotool software from Movea allows to control and navigate through your computer, by transmitting signals without wire and surface to 30 meters far away.

The 5 VUE modules from Silicon Graphics embed and manage all different types of data in order to display them graphically and intuitively in a 3D contextual space.

2008

December

Microsoft RoundTable is an advanced remote conferencing device that provides a 360-degree view of the conference room, high-quality audio, and video that tracks the flow of conversation.

Haliaetus monitors enable to optimize the quality of the sound reproduction by taking into account the human perception, the loudspeaker's aerodynamic and the musical acoustic.

November

Voxalead lets you search through multimedia content like audio and video podcasts. It combines Exalead text indexing technologies and LIMSI voice recognition.

Creative Docs is a simple and powerful vector-based graphic design tool from Epsitec, ideal to quickly write short document, manuals, illustrations and plans.

October

Sothink Video Encoder for Flash is a professional software to convert all popular video formats to flv file with high quality, least time and an adapted player.

While the video files on Internet becomes as good-quality as on television, the new book edition of P. Bellaïche gives what you want know about this new media.

September

Sony enjoys the reading of a variety of your favorite books, all stored digitally in one compact device with the slimmer, redesigned Reader Digital Book.

With only one input field, web sites models and shortcuts towards your applications, Google Chrome lets you navigate on Internet faster and easily.

August

Hypnotizer.editor 1.5 allows you to create and export easily interactive videos specially designed for internet broadcasting  (high and low rate).

The JW Player 4.0 is an easy way to add video and audio to your web site. With the flashvars parameters which contain a list of variables, you can customized its look.

July

Live Mesh from Microsoft puts you in a digital world, seamlessly connecting you to the people, devices, programs, and information you care about.

The Bookreader scanner from Plustek, reads directly the texts digitalized from the book via the loudspeakers of your PC, with a stunning quality.

June

Sun microsystems releases Java FX, a products family to design rich internet application across all screens (desktop, mobile device, TV).

Using digital models taken from computer, Orealia from Onesia is a complete range of innovative software made for designing, presenting and selling your products.

May

Poser 7 from SmithMicro Graphics provides the easiest way to design in 3D, realism and animation with the diversity and spirit of the human figure.

Antares by creating AVOX 2 adds five vocal processing modules, to give musicians a tool for producing stunning vocal tracks in any musical style.

April

Lexip creates 3D mice controlers, movement controlers for virtual navigation and real time displays for 3D objects.

V4x Sequencer offer a set of editing functions to produce video interactive channels for internet mobile handsets.

March

The glove incorporates Fibretronic wireless keypad system embedded into the back of the hand along with an RF wireless transmitter.

The Music Reader software allows you to view and store digital versions of sheet music, as well as "write" on the music if your computer has a pen and touch screen.

February

In her book, edited by Eyrolles, A. Boucher places the net surfer's satisfaction and comfort at the center of the design and developping process.

Digisens takes place in virtual pedagogy by coming up with solutions to improve the observation sens and to reproduce tactile sensations.

January

Sensitive Object make every object of day to day life interactive as the VKB flat acoustic keyboard, the SO Touch screen and the S16 control panel.

This practical music technology workbook from Focal Press provides step-by-step activities, covering the skills and techniques used production.

2007

December

Plastic Logic is building the first manufacturing facility targeted at flexible display modules to ‘take anywhere and read anywhere’ electronic products.

Microsoft researcher Bill Buxton's book is about product design, software development, or, about the often broken process of bringing new products.

November

With 3 modules, the Morpheus Photo Animation Suite from Bluesquad enables you to morph, transform and mix your digital photos in a few minutes.

Cube 2 from VirSyn is a spectral morphing software synthesizer which uses digital painting tools for editing the harmonic components.

October

The Xynergi’s revolutionary new control interface from Fairlight literally puts multidimensional tactile control needed for high-end audio production.

From all Wiki released today, DokuWiki is a easy standard to use, mainly aimed at creating documentation of any kind for developer teams and small companies.

September

The IRIS group, leader in optical characters recognition (OCR), presents the new version of its USB text recognition scanner stylo.

SitePal allows you to install virtual agents that you specially design with your voice or synthesis speech to bring life to web pages.

August

The first full book on Microformats, by J. Allsopp, provides a new technology for adding commonly used semantics (contact, location, and reviews) to Web.

Discover OGRE, one of the most popular open-source graphics rendering engines, used in games, simulators, educational software and interactive art.

July

Articulate Studio (2^nd edition) empower rapid e-learning courses and quizzes with three powerful authoring tools : Presenter, Quizzmaker and Engage.

Movie 2 from Movie Outline makes the outline as a vital component in developing movies or TV shows with an easy and well designed editor.

June

Polymer Vision puts on the market, Readius, the world's first 5 inch rollable display enabled mobile device providing updates anytime, anywhere.

Sun is introducing JavaFX, a new family of Java software designed to create rich multimedia content applications for mobile and desktop devices.

May

Samson provides a stunning stereo recorder in an easy-to-use, ultra-portable device, for lectures and podcasting, to musical performances.

After Thinkfree, Microsoft release Online Office Suite, free to users for editing and sharing documents (Word, Excel, Powerpoint).

April

QMAX II, the newest addition to QSound Labs audio effects software, modifies your flat, tinny Internet audio sounds into a rich 3D audio experience.

To create content for print, web and interactive animation, Quark presents Quark Interactive Designer, the complete tool for designers.

March

Alioscopy presents high size notice boards and  LCD screens to display photos, videos or 3D images with many points of view.

SpinVox and SimulScribe use voice-recognition software to convert voicemail messages into text for your mobile phone or your email service.

February

The CAO journal (3D)² is the first publication dedicated to 3D (design, virtual reality), in which the embedded models can be manipulated.

Bionatics, world leader in procedural 3D plants modeling technology, delivers a complete suite for the needs of Architecture, Landscape, 3D Animation, Video Game and Virtual Reality.

January

By publishing this Vocabulaire de l'Espace at the Editons Delatour, Bertrand Merlier synthesizes twenty years of practices and researchs in sound spatialization.

With Windows Vista and Office 2007, Microsoft releases Expression Studio which delivers a complete platform for developing web applications for the new generation of net surfers.

2006

December

Image Metrics create unique animation tools for the next generation of films, and video games that automatically transfers actor performances onto computer characters.

Mysoft releases the version 9 of its Dragon Naturally Speaking software which transforms continuously the dictation into text with an amazing precision.

November

Mysoft releases the version 9 of its Dragon Naturally Speaking software which transforms continuously the dictation into text with an amazing precision.

Image Metrics create unique animation tools for the next generation of films, and video games that automatically transfers actor performances onto computer characters.

October

Selected by the French Yellow Pages to mock up cities in 3D, Archivideo brings its Fastbuilder technology to generate the pictures : building, infrastructure, landscape.

Slideshow Pro from MediaKG is a quick easy tool to create diaporamas thanks to its advanced features : audio from CD, effects, subtitling, user interface.

September

Delivered with powerful editing software, the audio/MIDI interfaces grows quickly as the new mobile suite from Roland/Edirol.

Photosynth announced during the Siggraph 2006 is an amazing new technology from Microsoft Live Labs that will change the way you think about digital photos forever.

August

Motorola reports the production of a magneto-resistive memory (MRAM) which uses magnetic charges to store the information, even without power.

To listen to your digital music on a wireless network, you will be amazing by the Sonos® Controller from Sonos, the Airport Express from Apple and the Squeezeboxe from Slim Devices.

July

The Dunod Editions release two attracting books : La gestion des médias numériques (J. N. Gouyet & J. F. Gervais) and Dictionnaire des techniques audiovisuelles et multimédias (F. Marguillard).

While touch sensing is commonplace for single points of contact, multi-touch sensing enables multiple users to interact with a system which is especially useful for interactive walls and tabletops.

No matter what type of games you play, if you like the most realistic experience eDimensional will deliver and guaranteed revolutionary ED peripherals : stunning 3D, motion tracking and force feedback.

June

Among the last news from Sony Ericsson, the Z710i GSM contains in one device, the functions for telephony, photography, music and internet navigator.

The CIDB (Centre d'Information et de Documentation sur le Bruit) releases its 14^ème edition of the acoustical world and the sound environment management with 6000 updated addresses.

May

Among all text-to-speech software, WordRead from Clarosoftware will read any text in a human quality voice from word processor, e-mail software, PDF files and Internet browsers.

Stonetrip launches STDK, a string of products to conceive and develop real-time interactive 3D contents for mobile phones and computers over Internet.

With its new family of Expression products (Graphic Designer, Interactive Designer et Web Designer), Microsoft opens the future for robust and secure web applications around the new XAML language.

April

From PowerPoint, Speechi converts your presentation in Flash MX format in order to display it on Internet while Adobe releases Fabridge (Fax Ajax Bridge), a library of functions which tie Ajax and Flash components inside any navigator to better compute multimedia information.

Among the future constructors of electronic paper, Fujitsu wants to produce this one in 2006, with the texture and the brightness of a sheet of paper while offering storage capacities and unlimited rewriting possibilities for what is wrote on it.

March

OQO announces the Tablet Edition of its newest ultra mobile computer, the OQO model 01+. It's now the smallest and most portable PC available running Microsoft Windows XP and ideal for mobile professionals.

Streamezzo unveils Studio, the authoring software suite to easily create rich media services, intuitive and powerful user interfaces on mobiles for targeting multiple devices.

First trisensorial support invented by Presensia, Scentys spread visual, sound and olfactory contents custom made thanks to a LCD matrix, an audio set and a original diffuser.

February

Spherex optimized the surround sound by employing the best in audio technology, setting a new reference standard with its complete multimedia audio kit : the ambiophonic Xbox 5.1.

After the keyboard, the mouse and the wireless phone, GN Netcom release a headset (GN 9120) which permits you to talk while away till 150 meters from your desk.

January

By installing the Slingbox between your TV and an audio/video source then, by linking this one to your Internet modem, you have remotely access everywhere to your programs (cable, satellite or video recorder).

Zend Studio 5 is the only Integrated Development Environment (IDE) designed for professional developers that encompasses all the components necessary for a full PHP application. Through a set of editing, debugging, analysis and database tools, Zend Studio 5 speeds development cycles and simplifies complex projects.

2005

December

With its new releases, MiniMoog V 1.5 and Brass, Arturia put in your hands virtual instruments as rich as the true synthesizer or the real brasses (trompet, saxophone and trombone).

The race towards versatile thin technology discover here the Chip PC as a Jack PC in whish the computer is fully integrated into the existing wall LAN infrastructure and the FlyPenTop computer whish write, talk and scan fly handwriting.

November

The voice transmission over Internet multiply the virtual phone software : with the softphone or skype, you can now phone from computer to computer without handset.

The Lemur offers a multitouch control surface for real-time applications by combining a touch sensitive screen to display "virtual interactive objects" and a Fast Ethernet connection.

October

For the Ishikawa-Namiki Komuro laboratory from the Tokyo University, the input interfaces (keyboard, mouse) will be soon replaced by laser scanners. So, with a Smart Laser Scanner coupled with a projection interface, the user will be able to enter data within the 3D space.

After two decades, the industry has reached a stable point in the evolution of Object-Oriented Programming technologies. The LINQ project is the next challenge in order to reduce the complexity of accessing and integrating information that is not natively defined using OO technology.

September

Sony Computer Entertainment Europe releases its powerful multimedia portable station (Play Station Portable) which allows you to enjoy 3D games, music, photos and videos instantly anywhere with a high resolution screen, cutting-edge wireless connectivity and Internet Browser.

Macromedia releases the Studio 8 pack with new performances for editing scripts, shaping images and emulating mobile applications. The Contribute and FlashPaper associated software are there to better manage the updates of the content and to possibly convert all your documents.

August

Sharp Corporation and Laboratorieshave developed a new LCD screen, which can simultaneously display different information in right and left views by directionally controlling the viewing angle. It's now possible to provide content tailored to users depending on the angle at which they view.

Under the pressure of Intel, the 3D Industry Forum (3DIF) wants to create the U3D format to send and consult on-line, the 3D objects coming from the CAD.

July

The new wireless TranzPort controller from Frontier Design Group represents a revolutionary way to interact with your Windows® or Mac® digital audio workstation (DAW). Instead of being stuck in front of your computer to compose, record, and produce music/audio, TranzPort gives you the freedom to control the functions from anywhere in your studio.

Combustion 4, the unique visual effects software from Autodesk delivers a complete set of professional tools for painting scenes, creating effects, animating characters and compositing 3D environments.

June

Netopia releases a material and software base (ADSL modem with an Hot Spot Starter Kit) for creating a Wi-Fi access area specially design for small sites.

Use the Systran home page to translate your text containing less than 150 words.

May

The graphic editing Patchwork 3D software from Lumiscaphe permits to dress the objects with appropriated matters which you can modify in real-time.

By reproducing vocally any text contained in a web site, the Readspeaker service makes more easy and more directly, the understanding of the written information.

By gathering Final Cut Pro 5, Soundtrack Pro, Motion 2 and DVD Studio Pro 4 into Final Cut Studio, Apple releases a complete production tool for sound design and video mounting.

April

StereoGraphics Co. introduces the SynthaGram™ Monitor Series (see www.vrlogic.com ) for enjoying the benefits of Stereo 3D™ visualization without special eyewear on an high resolution LCD flat screen.

AudioSmartCard releases an acoustical smart card without reader, based on a dynamic password.

March

The MaxxBass® 103 Processor allows you to hear subwoofer-like bass response even without a subwoofer, without any additional speakers or higher amplifier power requirements.

Logitech sells the QuickCam Communicate webcam which you can plug in to any USB port : so you can make live video calls to your family, and attach photos and videos to your email.

February

Away since many years, Apple releases two new office software : iWork (text editor) and iLife (multimedia editor : video, photo, music, movie).

With its Wenbox connected to an USB connector, Wengo provides you a direct Internet telephone line.

January

NVIDIA releases its PureVideo technology for graphic GeForce 6 processors  which permit to read MPEG-2 and HD (High Definition) with the Home Movie quality (ultra-clean pictures on every type of screen).

With NOXON Audio from Terratec, you can enjoy the complete music files on your PC and thousands of Internet radio stations - virtually anywhere in your home over a Wireless LAN connection.

2004

December

Since 9 november, the final version of FireFox 1.0 navigator is available under Windows, Linux and Mac OS to run the web applications and counter the Internet Explorer flaws (see www.mozilla.com).

By creating a storage unit built on RAM and not on disks, Texas Memory Systems releases the faster record unit in the world.

November

Since mid-october, you can click on the advertisement links (free and not mandatory) displayed only in the "presentation" and "tools" pages.

By developping the new cylindric Radiator loudspeaker, Bose brings to the amplified music, the qualities of the acoustical representations with a large diffusion area which respond to the artist and spectators needs.

October

The Dolby Virtual Speaker technology can produce spacious surround sound for the 5.1 channels of the DVD movies : hear the sound demo on the Dolby web site.

NVIDIA releases the GoForce 3D 4500, first wireless multimedia processor (WMP) for mobil phones, PDA et others laptops.

September

The Kenton MidiStream wireless system, now available, free performers from the constraints of a MIDI cable : MidiStream can send all types of MIDI messages on all MIDI channels.

Logitech releases the first laser cordless mouse (Logitech MX 1000 model) which uses the following-laser technology and pushs away the limits of precision and reactivity (voir www.logitech.com ).

August

The PHP team releases the 5.0.0 version of this script language widely-used that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML (see www.php.net ).

DIGIFORM offers a new service for creating PHP MySQL database included in a web site (see Services > Database Managing) and permits to you to fill a formular to get its CD (see Publishings > Articles, CD, CD-ROM).

July

With the AFJV (Agence Française pour le Jeu Vidéo), is born the ACMJV (Association des Compositeurs de Musique de Jeux Vidéo).

TallStick Software releases its new real time WAVE to MIDI converter (Audioto).

June

Microsoft releases its new Windows Media Player (series 9.0) which can read sound files, video, CD, DVD, receiving radio and managing all the files.

Adobe releases Adobe® Audition™ 1.5, professional audio editing environment that offers advanced recording, mixing, editing, and effects processing capabilities to demanding audio and video professionals.

Steinberg has announced version 2.2 of Nuendo, Cubase SX, and Cubase SL with new remote control features, and new VST plug-ins : Monologue (a monophonic analog-style synthesizer), Embracer (a polyphonic pad synthesizer), and Tonic (an analog modelling filter).

May

In its edition from april 23, 01 Informatique publishs the first dictionary upon the XML technologies : you can consult on the www.w3.org site, the language which describes multimedia animations and the specifications to develop interactive vocal applications.

April

Les nouveaux espaces numériques d'éducation, are released in the CNDP publication folder n°46 from march 2004.

By positioning an optical reader upon a tag, printed on your Wiziway mouse carpet, you can now directly find the right information inside your web site.

March

DIGIFORM offers a new presentation of its site, with scrolling menus which permits a rapid and direct access to the pages.

February

The DIGIFORM web site is operating again and wishes you a new happy year with its best information.

2003

DIGIFORM closed for economic reason.

2002

September

MYSOFT presents Systran, version 4.0 of its automatic translator (french/english, english/french) : see Tools.

The ATICA (Agence pour les Technologies de l'Information et de Communication dans l'Administration) edits a methodological guide dealing with the steps required to build an on-line service.

Faced to greater constraints on the use of commercial applications, free software are growing, leaving open source clones : for example, Open Office (for MS Office), Gnome KDE (for Windows explorator), Wine (for Windows). You can find on www.opensource.org, the promotion of this development model.

August

Winamp presents the 3th version of its reader which includes now the reading of video files.

For the beginning of the new academic year, Eyrolles Publishing release a new collection of books dedicated to shape digital contents : photo, video, sound.

July

Microsoft offers ASP.NET Web Matrix as a development tool kit to create dynamic ASP.NET pages for mobil applications. This software works under Windows 2000 and Windows XP with the software .NET Framework (see the web site of Microsoft).

For the new academic year, Eyrolles publishing release a new collection of books dedicated to digital contents : among us, Photographie interactive, Concevoir un site web, Making digital videos.

Based on the XML language, the Studio 1.0 from Hypnotizer (see www.01net.com), offers a complete tool to create and diffuse interactive video contents, off line or on line.

June

Macromedia announces the first range of MX products using the MX technologies specifically conceived for dynamic Internet applications : for users, MX Macromedia fully takes care of the new Flash Player 6 functions ; for developers, Macromedia MX contains the MX Studio with MX Flash, MX Dreamweaver, MX Fireworks and FreeHand (see www.macromedia.com ).

For designing special internet electronic books, KeeBoo (see www.keeboo.com) presents KeeBook Creator Pro (to create training books) and KeeBook Publishing (to create commercial booklets).

May

Micro Hebdo presents you 10 video acquisition system, to edit movies from personal videos, digitize them and record them on CD or DVD.

In its DigiWorld2002 english report, IDATE presents the economic and strategic atlas of the digital world (see www.idate.fr for downloading) : in chapter 4, the content industry of the digital age is analysed.

Addison-Wesley publishes "Web Wizard's Guide to multimedia" (J. Lengel, EW 2002, 160 pp) about multimedia possibilities of the Web and "Web content Management" (R. Nakano, EW 2002, 272 pp) about the powerful content management solutions.

April

Since the 22 march, you can download and listen to MP3 files containing electronic music. For that, click on Publications and consult the liste.

Campus Press releases books (in French) about sound technologies : "Musique électronique" (March 2002), "La norme MIDI" (Jan. 2002), "ACID 3.0" (Dec. 2001), "Sound Forge 5.0".

March

"Le son sur le Web" by Dunod (in French) : reference book about audio formats, audionumeric editing and sound management by web navigators.

10 audio sophisticated cards from 105 euros to 380 euros : the 01 Informatique web site (see www.01net.com ) presents tests from Micro Hebdo laboratories over ten sophisticated cards.

February

Microsoft releases the security pack for Windows 2000 (all versions) : this package brings together all security patch edited for Windows 2000 since Pack 2 (SP2).

Emulive Producer 2001 Interactive AV Encoder (v3.4) : new streaming tools generation with real-time video effects.

January

New version 7.0 for Diskeeper d'Executive Software.

WinPhone Suite 3 from BVRP becomes a real communication center, monitoring fax, phone / answering, SMS, multi-counts e-mail, file transfer, independant modem mode.

2001

December

The new translation software Reverso Pro 5 from Softissimo fits into Power Point and Outlook as in Word and Excel. It suits to your style and works with an exceptional translation speed (synchronized display and personalized functions).

November

The new graphic format SVG (Scalable Vector Graphic), XML founded, allows to create high quality dynamic images for the WEB.

New choice named "Resources" (see main menu) to know books, editors and acronyms employed in electronic and computer technologies on DIGIFORM.

October

New exploitation system for the PC : Microsoft Windows XP.

New version 6.0 : Microsoft Internet Explorer and Diskeeper from Executive Software.