H-P Paints the Big Picture David examines Hewlett-Packard's 42-inch wide Designjet 5500 inkjet and the new $699 13-inch bed Photosmart Pro B9180. Mon, 1 Jan 2007
Gliding Into the Future A small New York company has taken a big step towards taking software online Mon, 17 Jul 2006
The Sound of Smart Music Nothing destroys an audience's suspension of disbelief faster than crummy audio. Tue, 20 Jun 2006
3D For the Rest of Us: Part 2 David marvels at how New Zealand�s Right Hemisphere takes Acrobat 3D to the next level Mon, 5 Jun 2006
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combustion 3 Challenges After Effects 6.5 Nothing stresses a computer more than multilayered video. David compares the performance of the two top desktop video effects and animation applications head to head. Mon, 3 May 2004
Why Desktop Color Still Sucks David examines the sloppy state of desktop digital color and proposes a solution. Mon, 13 Oct 2003
Epson's 4990 Scanner Epson's new desktop scanner is the best we've ever tested. Mon, 2 May 2005
Desktop and Mobile Storage David takes a look at a new generation of options for storing and transporting pictures, video, and music from Seagate, Plextor, and US Modular. Mon, 14 Feb 2005
Adobe Video Collection, Part 2 In Part 2 of his review of Adobe's Video Collection, David tests its After Effects 6 video effects and multilayer compositor. He also looks at Useful Assistants 1.1, a set of After Effects productivity plugins from Profound Effects. Mon, 10 Nov 2003
BYTE Media Lab 2004 Imaging Awards, Part 1 David hands out awards for last year's best photography, illustration, Web design, and multimedia software products. Mon, 15 Mar 2004
What Zope Did Wrong (and How It's Being Fixed) Dr. Dobb's talks with Lennart Regebro about the many things that
Zope 2 did right and did wrong. Lennart has also been one of the driving
forces behind Five, the integration of Zope 3 technologies into Zope 2.
Ubuntu and the Software Around It Dr. Dobb's interviews Ubuntu's Gerry Carr about the Linux-based Ubuntu
operating sytem and the application lifecycle tools -- such as the
recently released Launchpad -- that surround it.
In this volume of Best of BYTE, we explore the emergence of some heuristic algorithms. Although we have only scratched the surface of this intriguing subject, we hope we've suggested the potential of the synthesis of heuristics and algorithms.
