March 2009 Archives

As technology evolves and business becomes global, companies need to find an efficient way to organize and transfer their digital assets. This is why companies rely more and more on IT solutions to manage their digital files.

"Digital Asset Management consists of tasks and decisions surrounding ingesting, annotating, cataloging, storage and retrieval of digital assets, such as digital photographs, animations, videos and music. Digital asset management systems are computer software and/or hardware systems that aid in the process of digital asset management."
Read full definition at Wikipedia

Many pieces of software exist today to help businesses save time and money, but are usually expensive and difficult to deploy. What if you can get an easy to install Digital Asset Management (DAM) Software and be ready to collaborate with your partners/customers in minutes?

SeeFile Software released a new version of SeeFile 4.6 (dated March 3rd) with several critical bug fixes. The most important of which was the possibility for the SeeFile background application to delete its working directory. There was never a risk of losing data but this would make SeeFile inaccessible. Although the likelihood for this bug to show itself is low, we suggest all current customers contact us to obtain an update. (617) 262-2464

Apple introduced new hardware this week including an updated Mac Mini. SeeFile's Mac Mini bundles will now include this new hardware as well as the latest release of SeeFile, version 4.6.  The new Mini boosts some impressive specs including the NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics chip. This upgrade from the previous Intel integrated graphics will be a huge benefit to SeeFile which uses the graphics card and Apple's Core Image technology to generate previews and thumbnails.

The SeeFile Bundle includes the base Mac Mini with the following specs:

• 2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo 
• 1GB memory
• 120GB hard drive
• 8x double-layer SuperDrive
• NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics
  

For those not familiar with the SeeFile Mac Mini bundles, we install the latest version of SeeFile Entry on a Mac Mini so our customers can simply plug the mini into their local network and begin sharing files immediately.  As usual we can customize any bundle with different versions of both SeeFile and the Mini if ,for example, you need more users or want a larger harddrive.

Apple's Mac Mini page