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Wacom Expands Cintiq Line With New (Smaller, Cheaper) Flat Screen Tablets

Published on December 4, 2007 in tools. 1 Comment Tags: Apple, art, artist, Cintiq, gadget, gadgets, graphics tablet, Mac, tool, Wacom.

Cintiq graphic tablets Although I don’t yet own one, the Wacom Cintiq flat-screen graphics tablets are exceedingly drool-worthy and I will own one in the near future. Everytime I talk to a Cintiq user or read an artist’s blog raving about one it only makes the waiting more difficult.

For those unaware, the Cintiq is a fusion of Wacom’s phenomenal graphics tablets with a flat-screen monitor — allowing one to draw right on the screen. Awesome.

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Wacom Intuos, Cintique & Graphire Driver Updates Released

Published on September 11, 2007 in software and updates. 0 Comments Tags: Apple, drivers, gadget, gadgets, graphics tablet, Mac, Mac OS X, OS X, software, tool, Wacom, Windows, Windows Vista, Windows XP.

Graphics tablet manufacturer Wacom has just released graphics tablet driver Mac OS X software update 6.05-2 for the Intuos, Cintique and Graphire products lines. The new feature included is support for the as-yet unreleased Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, due out in October, as well as other unlisted bug fixes.

Windows driver 6.05-7 update is available for Windows Vista, XP & 2000.

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Wacom Announces 25th Anniversary Intuos3 Tablets

Published on September 6, 2007 in merchandise and updates. 0 Comments Tags: art, gadget, gadgets, graphics tablet, tool, toy, Wacom.

Wacom 25th anniversary Intuos3 tablets photo If any of you are still in the market for a Wacom Intuos3 graphics tablet, the company has just announced a special limited edition 25th anniversary lineup. The “special” features are as follows:

â€¢ Sophisticated metallic black and gun metal gray color scheme
â€¢ Classic Pen in addition to the Intuos3 Grip Pen ($49.95 value )
â€¢ Transparent Overlay in addition to the Gray Overlay ($14.00 – $25.00 value; depending on size)
â€¢ Professional Accessory Kit ($19.95 value; 5 Standard nibs, 5 felt nibs, 5 Stroke nibs, 5 Flex nibs, an. alternate Pen Grip without side switch holes, 1 nib removal tool, and 1 replacement side switch)

No word on pricing, but you can sign up to get on the list. Ships September 13, 2007. Hard to know if this is a deal, or just a more expensive version with bundled accessories and a different color scheme. Does look cool though.

Personally, I think the new logo is more exciting:

Wacomâ€™s new logo

Keyboard Protective Cover With Photoshop Shortcuts

Published on July 20, 2007 in Apple/OS X and productivity. 0 Comments Tags: Adobe, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, art, cool, cool stuff, gadget, gadgets, illustrator, keyboard commands, Mac, Photoshop, productivity, software, tool.

A simple concept: Photoshop keyboard commands & shortcuts printed right on to a super-flexible rubber keyboard protector.

An ingenious idea inspired no doubt by those fancy-schmancy video editing keyboards you see video editors using on the movie behind-the-scenes DVD extras.

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Wacom Tablet: Scroll Click

Published on April 15, 2007 in productivity, reviews, software and updates. 2 Comments Tags: Adobe, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, art, cartoon, cartooning, gadget, gadgets, graphics tablet, Illustration, illustrator, InDesign, Mac, Mac OS X, OS X, Photoshop, productivity, review, software, tool, Wacom.

Wacom has just updated their graphics tablet driver software for Macintosh and the release notes PDF tells us that a new feature has been introduced, “Scroll Click” (my nickname for it). This is an awesome new feature that allows the user to set a pen button to the “scroll click”, and then when pressing that button, you can drag the pen on the tablet to activate scrolling. In addition to this being very cool, it’s a feature that I suggested to the tech & PR departments a few weeks ago, I can’t help but assume this was implemented due to that request. I was initially given a not-so-encouraging response, basically because the Intuos line of tablets has the Touch Strips srcoll/zoom hardware touch-sensitive areas. Of course, their other tablets do not have these.

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