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QuarkXPress® 9 opens a whole new world of digital design and publishing to you in one tool, with one familiar interface — at one reasonable price — without requiring coding or programming.

Create your own iPad apps with App Studio for QuarkXPress, then publish and control your own interactive publications.

Create interactive content for the Blio® eReader — the most accessible and versatile e-reader on the market. Then sell it through the Blio online bookstore.

Convert your QuarkXPress layouts into standardised eBooks for the iPad, Sony® Reader, NOOK®, and more.

Only until end of April Receive the QuarkXPress 9 Upgrade FREE

Trams together with Active Storage and Quantum introduce a cost reduction for SAN Storage in media environments.  Using ActiveSAN,  StorNext and Apple xSAN licensing we can offer hardware licensing and support bundle to reduce your costs.

At the same time this solution will simplify the management of your SAN using ActiveSAN admin.  With Active SAN, you have the stability of Linux behind your SAN and compatibility Apple’s ACL’s, Open Directory and Active Directory.

Call Trams on 0845 330 1600 for more information.

Adobe announced the new Adobe® Creative Suite® 5.5 product line , enabling designers and developers to target popular and emerging smartphone and tablet platforms, as the revolution in mobile communications fundamentally changes the way content is distributed and consumed. Substantive advances to HTML5, Flash authoring, digital publishing and video tools as well as new capabilities that kick-start the integration of tablets into creative workflows, anchor the new Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 product family.

Visit the Adobe website for more information.

On-demand application delivery

Citrix XenApp is an on-demand application delivery solution that enables any Windows® application to be virtualized, centralized, and managed in the datacenter and instantly delivered as a service to users anywhere on any device. In use by over 100 million users worldwide, XenApp delivers on the promise of proven application compatibility.

Compared to traditional application deployment technology, virtual application delivery with XenApp enables organizations to improve application management by:

• Centralizing applications in the datacenter to reduce costs
• Controlling and encrypting access to data and applications to improve security
• Delivering applications instantly to users anywhere

Visit the Citrix website for more information.

The 10.6.7 Update is recommended for all users running Mac OS X Snow Leopard and includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility, and security of your Mac, including fixes that:

• Improve the reliability of Back to My Mac
• Resolve an issue when transferring files to certain SMB servers
• Address various minor Mac App Store bugs

Visit the Apple website for more information.