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Apr 11
Free HTML Shortcuts for TextExpander
San Francisco, CA -- April 10, 2007 -- SmileOnMyMac has released an HTML shortcut snippet file for use with TextExpander, the customizable typing utility for Mac OS X. With the file installed, users can easily insert common HTML code elements by typing short abbreviations. The file features over 60 snippets that can be inserted with short abbreviations. In addition to HTML code, the snippet file includes special characters that can be inserted into HTML documents, such as currency symbols and punctuation. The free file can be downloaded at http://www.smileonmymac.com/textexpander/snippets.html. SmileOnMyMac also offers an autocorrect snippet file, containing over 100 common misspellings that can be automatically corrected by TextExpander by the correct spellings. "Users and reviewers suggested that HTML code snippets would be a useful add-on for TextExpander," said Jean MacDonald, SmileOnMyMac's marketing director and web designer, who developed the HTML snippet file. "What I really...
Apr 11
LicenseKeeper adds Entourage and PowerMail support
Boston, Massachusetts -- April 10, 2007 -- Outer Level announced an update to LicenseKeeper, its popular license manager for Mac OS X. The new 1.1 release adds full support for Entourage and PowerMail. Users of these email readers can now benefit from LicenseKeeper's innovative serial number scanning while importing their email. In addition, LicenseKeeper now stores Dashboard Widgets, Plug-Ins, and Preference Panes. LicenseKeeper organizes all of your important software license information, helping to prevent the loss of valuable investments in software and making this information accessible when needed most. Cataloging your software is easy with LicenseKeeper. Drag and drop email containing your licensing information to archive the email and automatically detect serial numbers. All of your data is safe and easily exported to XML for backup. What's New in LicenseKeeper 1.1 1. Import email from Microsoft Entourage and PowerMail 2. Store Dashboard Widgets, Plug-ins, and Preference-...
Apr 10
Mori 1.6
Hog Bay Software announces the release of Mori 1.6, a digital notebook that makes it easy to record and organize your notes. April 10, 2007 - Mori provides a place to remember your notes and organize your ideas. Search through your entire notebook in a flash with its built in search engine, or use Spotlight to search through all of your notebooks at once. Mori's familiar Mail style interface will get you started quickly. Once you've entered your notes-sort, tag, link, and alias them to get organized. Use Mori's Smart Folders and Tag Folders to collect matching notes behind the scenes as you work. Mori requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later. Mori 1.6 is all about tagging support. First, Mori adds support for a del.icio.us style tagging system for your entries. Tagging provides another dimension for structuring you notes that lies outside of the traditional file / folder hierarchical structure. Many users had been using Mori's custom column support to create their own tagging systems, but now...
Apr 09
TinyBooks v4.0.4
TinyBooks v4.0.4 - Family & Small Business Accounting for Macintosh What's New: Improved the Reports Window (added ability to sort generated items by check number), etc. (URL:http://www.winograd.com) Merrimack, New Hampshire, April 7, 2007: Ken Winograd and Space-Time Associates announced today the release of a new version of the Macintosh accounting and bookkeeping program called TinyBooks. TinyBooks is a simple, flexible, non-bloated, single-entry bookkeeping and accounting system for the Macintosh. TinyBooks is designed for Sole Proprietors, home and other small businesses, and family finances. TinyBooks is the simplest way to handle the books for most small companies. You enter your expenses and income, and TinyBooks does the rest. Current and year-to-date "on-the-fly" totals are continually displayed. Fully automatic bar-charting of all expense and income accounts make the determination of monthly trends intuitively obvious. A fully non-modal Reports Window offers easy...
Apr 09
1st Blu-Ray Optical Drive Upgrade
Fastmac Announces 1st Blu-Ray Optical Drive Upgrade for Laptops; Low Profile Slot Loading Drive Provides 50 GB of Storage on 1 Disk for Apple PowerBook, iBook, MacBook Pro, iMac & Mac mini April 06, 2007 Salinas, CA - Fastmac today announced the first & only Blu-Ray optical drive upgrade for Apple's PowerBook, iBook & MacBook Pro computers. The new slimline, slot loading drive uses one of the fastest & most compatible Blu-ray mechanisms to provide up to 50 Gb of storage on 1 disk, without sacrificing compatibility with standard DVD & CD recordable media. Fastmac's Blu-Ray optical drive upgrade is scheduled to ship within 10 days and is available for pre-order from www.fastmac.com for a special introductory price of $799.95. Each drive carries a 1 year warranty and a 30 day money back guarantee . Fastmac's new Blu-ray slot loading drive gives photographers, videographers & musicians the ability to save anything, anywhere- in the field, on location, in the studio...
Apr 06
VMware Fusion Beta 3 Now Available
April 6, 2007 - We are pleased to announce the release of VMware Fusion Beta 3, the easiest and most complete way to run any PC application your Mac--without rebooting. Based on feedback from users like you, we've made scores of improvements that make VMware Fusion faster, more reliable and even easier to use. What's New and Improved with VMware Fusion Beta 3 * Improved performance: You now have the option of turning off debugging features in VMware Fusion to enjoy even better performance. * Support for Boot Camp: You no longer have to choose between Windows or Mac--run Windows XP side-by-side with Mac OS X off your existing Boot Camp partition. * Windows Easy Install: Just answer a few simple questions, insert your Windows CD, and VMware Fusion will automatically create a Windows virtual machine that is optimized for your Mac. * Virtual machine packages: Virtual machines are now encapsulated in a single, easy-to-manage package. Move your virtual machines to another hard drive or Mac...
Apr 06
"Take Control of Your 802.11n AirPort Extreme Network"
New ebook thoroughly covers 802.11n networking with the new AirPort Extreme Base Station; detailed coverage of networking an Apple TV, attaching USB drives and printers, and tricky Internet configurations. Ithaca, NY USA (April 6, 2007) -- Anyone who owns or is considering the purchase of Apple's new AirPort Extreme Base Station will find real-world advice and detailed setup steps in the 154-page ebook, "Take Control of Your 802.11n AirPort Extreme Network," written by wireless networking expert Glenn Fleishman. The ebook may be purchased for $10 from http://www.takecontrolbooks.com/airport-n.html. "Take Control of Your 802.11n AirPort Extreme Network" helps readers choose between the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz band options, covers using older wireless gear without hurting network performance, and provides advice on smart ways to add an Apple TV to a network. Fleishman makes a point of explaining new AirPort Extreme features, such as attaching and sharing USB drives and reserved addressing,...
Apr 04
BurnAgain DVD 1.1
April 4, 2007 - Freeridecoding releases BurnAgain DVD 1.1, a major upgrade to the only application on the mac that lets you use your DVD+RW, CDR or CDRW almost like a harddisk. BurnAgain DVD simply adds files to a disk several times (without creating multiple volumes and without erasing) in a platform independent way. If items are burned twice BurnAgain DVD automatically evaluates the changes and adds only the new or changed files. BurnAgain DVD allows to change the title of the disk at each burn, hiding of previously burned sessions, preserves all HFS specific attributes (resource forks) and much more. V1.1 brings greatly improved performance and usability, improved handling of aliases, german localization and several minor fixes and changes. The update is free for registered users. More information can be found at: Press Images: http://freeridecoding.com/pr/ Website: http://freeridecoding.com/burnagaindvd Contact: connect@freeridecoding.com Licenses: Single USD 24.90 , Family Pack...
Apr 04
PandaWare TimeCache updated to version 6.1.8
SEATTLE, Washington (April 3, 2007) The PandaWare Company's popular Macintosh time billing application, TimeCache, has been updated, to version 6.1.8. The free update offers a bug fix for a problem that emerged with the release of Mac OS X 10.4.9, and another problem with importing lists of projects with the same job numbers. TimeCache 6.1.8 is now available for download from The PandaWare Company's Web site at (http://www.pandaware.com/download.html). PandaWare TimeCache is used by graphic designers, architects, attorneys, photographers, corporate graphics departments, multimedia designers, printers, and other Macintosh users in businesses that require accurate tracking of time for billing purposes. It is used by individual practitioners and small companies. TimeCache simplifies tracking, reporting and billing time on projects so users can concentrate on their main business activities. Mac OS X users can try PandaWare TimeCache for free by downloading it from the PandaWare Web site....
Apr 04
LifeAgent
MEMEO ANNOUNCES LIFEAGENTTM - ITS INNOVATIVE CONTENT MANAGEMENT AND BACKUP SOLUTION FOR MAC USERS Now Mac Users Can Utilize Memeo's Acclaimed Automatic Backup Software that Revolutionized Backup and Content Management for the PC ALISO VIEJO, Calif. - April 4, 2007 - Memeo Inc., a worldwide provider of digital life and information management solutions for the consumer and small business markets, today announced its high performance automatic backup software is now available for Macintosh users. Memeo LifeAgentTM is designed to help the Mac community manage, track and safeguard digital files in a simple, natural and effortless way. It offers Mac users the best of both worlds- the same simple yet flexible and powerful features as Memeo AutoBackup with the same innovative and effortless functionality that exits on the PC software, but was designed from the ground up to take advantage of the capabilities of Macintosh computers. There are millions of Macintosh users and very few options for...
Apr 03
Nano 1.3
April 3, 2007 - refNum Software have released Nano 1.3, a major update to their open source C++ framework for developing modern high-performance Carbon applications. Nano 1.3 includes substantial performance improvements, providing automatic copy-on-write behaviour for CoreFoundation objects and tuning performance-critical classes such as NBitVector. This release also includes over 70 bug fixes and improvements, such as a Mail-style "badge view", polygon clipper, animated Dock tiles, improved Unicode pattern matching, and functor-based timers. A mailing list is now available for development discussion, with daily source code snapshots available through Subversion. Nano provides: o A HIG-compliant application+document model o C++ wrappers around every HIToolbox view o Advanced features such as one-line-undo o Built-in support for Software Update o Improved Interface Builder experience Built around the native Carbon framework, Nano allows developers to create full-featured, 64-bit clean...
Apr 03
SoftCare releases Version 2.1 of K4 Web Editor
Latest release includes enhanced security mechanisms, high scalability and sophisticated features for more user comfort April 3, 2007 - With version 2.1 of K4 Web Editor, publishers, agencies and companies can offer optimized and low-cost access to select users without having to install and maintain software on off-site client machines -- users only need a Web browser and an Internet connection. This allows for cost-effective and flexible integration of staff members into the workflow. New navigation tools in K4 Web Editor 2.1 offer the feeling of working with the real K4 application. Apart from being able to access an existing article in the current layout, the user can now either create a completely new article or create an article from a designed template. This new functionality enables the user to report more flexibly and on time from all over the world. A further improvement is the simple query mode which allows users to find articles without defining a query, simply by searching...
Apr 03
Lithium now supports Xserve, Xserve RAID and Airport
Lithium can now monitor your Xserve (G5 & Intel Xeon), Xserve RAID, Airport, Qlogic Fibre Channel Switch and Mac OS X Server -- as well as all the rest of your network and service infrastructure. North Sydney, Australia--2nd April 2007--LithiumCorp has today officially launched it's new range of montoring plug-ins to provide unparalleled hardware and software monitoring for Xserve (G5 and Intel), Xserve RAID, Qlogic Fibre Channel Switches, Airport wireless base stations (including the new 802.11n units) and Mac OS X Server. These new plug-ins extend LithiumCorp's network, server and appliance monitoring suite -- "Lithium" -- to provide a depth of monitoring for these specific products that is not found in any other third-party application. Previously the domain of Apple's own 'monitoring' tools, Lithium now provides a real alternative for managers of Apple-centric server and storage deployments that need a monitoring system that can competently handle these specialized devices as...
Apr 03
PDFpen 3.1.1
SMILEONMYMAC RELEASES PDFpen 3.1.1, WITH USER-FRIENDLY ENHANCEMENTS San Francisco, CA - April 3, 2007 - SmileOnMyMac has released PDFpen 3.1.1, an update to its PDF editing tool for Mac OS X. The updated version lets users start editing more quickly by remembering zoom level and page position of previously-opened documents. The company also released PDFpenPro 3.1.1, the Pro version which can create PDF forms in addition to all the PDF editing functionality of PDFpen. The updated version of PDFpenPro respects default font size preferences when creating form fields. Fully-functioning demo versions of PDFpen and PDFpenPro can be downloaded at: http://www.smileonmymac.com/PDFpen/download.html. Minor bug fixes and enhancements have also been made in this update to both PDFpen and PDFpenPro. PDFpen costs $49.95. PDFpenPro costs $94.95. Upgrades from earlier versions of either application are $25.00, and free to users who purchased after July 1, 2006. Both versions require Mac OS X 10.4 or...
Apr 03
DB Solo 2.1
Nashua, New Hampshire April 3, 2007 - DB Solo LLC is pleased to announce the general availability of DB Solo 2.1, the latest upgrade to DB Solo's sophisticated cross-platform SQL Query Tool. DB Solo provides developers and adminstrators with a wealth of advanced features such as visual explain plan, database comparison tool, EJB 3.0 Code Generator and database object scripting. DB Solo SQL Query Tool is available for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and Solaris platforms and supports all major DBMS products available today, including Oracle, SQL Server 2000 and 2005, DB2, Sybase, H2, Postgres, MySQL and Solid. New Features New features in version 2.1 include several enhancements to the Schema Comparison Tool such as a Schema Synchonization DDL Script Creator and the ability to run schema comparisons from command line. The Schema Compare Tool's settings can now be saved to a project file facilitating regular schema comparison runs using cron jobs. The schema comparison tool allows...
Apr 03
Xupport 3.3.2
April 2, 2007 - Xupport is a multipurpose system utility for Mac OS X. It provides many features to configure hidden Mac OS X and Unix options, to increase system security and performance, to maintain and backup Mac OS X, and to dig deeper into the world of Unix. Xupport 3 is fully compatible with Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) and Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther), and is available as Universal Application for PowerPC and Intel Macs. Changes in Xupport 3.3.2: - Backup: New option to choose whether the file sizes should be calculated or not - Backup: Software Restore: Fixed file permission settings on the final restore disk image - Maintenance: Enhanced rebuilding of the launch service caches (rebuild desktop) - General: Improved support of non-latin characters (e.g. cyrillic, hebrew, chinese or arabic) - Many minor improvements New Website: (http://www.applicorn.com) Our new website has two major advantages for our customers. The access to a secure download server (ssl) for downloading the latest...
Apr 03
Advanced Link Manager 3.4
Manage your incoming links the smart way! April 2, 2007 - Caphyon LLC is pleased to announce the release of Advanced Link Manager 3.4, a tool that helps manage your web site incoming links. Advanced Link Manager runs on Mac OS X, Windows 98/2000/XP, and Linux. Almost all major search engines that exist today, rank a web page based on the number and the quality of links that point to that web page. Advanced Link Manager helps you monitor your incoming links, keeping you informed as to where they come from and what their content is. With Advanced Link Manager you can also track your backlinks evolution in time. Some domains have various links to your site, distributed on various pages belonging to that domain, of which only a few bring you relevant traffic. You should be very interested that these important links stay where they are, so tracking their status becomes a necessity. Advanced Link Manages does this for you automatically, through its ability to create updatable reports and...
Apr 02
Power Manager 3.6.1
UK, Europe - 2 April 2007 - DssW, the leading developer of Mac energy saving software, today announced the release of Power Manager 3.6.1 for Mac OS X. This release includes a bug fix for inactivity triggered events. Power Manager 3 helps schools, businesses, and homes save energy by automating their Macs. Power Manager 3.6.1 fixes a bug affecting inactivity triggered events. The bug appears after a power cycle and can cause associated actions not to occur. The inactivity trigger is often combined with a sleep action; for many users this combination restores the idle sleep capability of their Mac. "I am committed to providing timely bug fixes." said Graham Miln, DssW's director. "This bug fix is important for our customers and helps to ensure the reliable and predictable experience Power Manager offers." Power Manager helps schools, businesses, and homes save energy by automating their Macs. Users can schedule their Macs to start up or wake, shut down, restart, log out, switch to the...
Apr 02
MacSpeech Announces April Road Show Dates
Salem, NH March 30, 2007 - Macintosh speech recognition authority MacSpeech announced upcoming road show dates for Florida. Presentations will be held between April 3rd and 19th at the following locations: Tuesday April 3rd at 7PM at the Palm Beach Mac Users Group in West Palm Beach, FL Monday April 9th at 3PM at the Waterside Shops Apple store in Naples, FL Wednesday April 11th at 7PM at the Bay Area Mac Users Group in Largo, FL Wednesday April 11th at 7PM at the International Plaza Apple store in Tampa, FL Thursday April 12th at 7PM at the Florida Mac User Group in Orlando, FL Thursday April 12th at 7PM at the MacPeople Mac User Group in Gainesville, FL Saturday April 14th at the Florida Mall Apple Store in Orlando, FL (Time TBA) Monday April 16th at 7PM at the Lincoln Road Apple Store in Miami Beach, FL Tuesday April 17th at the Aventura Apple store in Aventura, FL (Time TBA) Thursday April 19th at 11 AM the Boca Raton Apple store in Boca Raton, FL All those interested in speech...
Mar 30
AppleTV upgrade program
Santa Clara, California -- March 30, 2007 MacService introduces a new storage upgrade service for the newly released AppleTV media controller. For as little as $195 the internal storage capacity can be increased to 160GB, allowing over 200 hours of video, 36,000 songs, or 100,000 photos to be stored on the AppleTV. You can now store all of your movies, music and pictures on your AppleTV without having to stream it from you computer. All pricing includes a new hard drive, professional installation, roundtrip shipping and data transfer. How it works- MacService sends a courier to your location to retrieve your AppleTV. Once it arrives back at MacService, a certified technician installs the new drive and transfers the data over from your old drive. After the upgrade is completed, your AppleTV is tested and sent back to you, along with your old drive. All upgrades are completed within 24 hours of arrival. MacService is a leading provider of mail-in repairs and upgrades for Mac and PC...
Mar 30
Extensis Announces Plug-ins for Adobe InDesign and Illustrator...
Free plug-ins for Extensis' font management product line enable auto-activation of fonts within Adobe InDesign and Illustrator CS3. PORTLAND, Ore. - March 29, 2007 - Extensis, a division of Celartem, Inc., today announced free plug-ins to provide the world's most advanced font activation and deactivation for Adobe InDesign and Illustrator CS3 documents. The plug-ins ensure that any time users open an InDesign or Illustrator project, the exact fonts are automatically and accurately activated or deactivated. The free plug-ins will be available for download from the Extensis website in the coming months and support Suitcase Fusion, Suitcase for Windows, Suitcase Server and Font Reserve Server. The new plug-ins will require Adobe InDesign and/or Illustrator CS3. "Extensis knows how important the release of Adobe's InDesign and Illustrator CS3 will be to the creative professional market," said Martin Stein, Vice President of Corporate Solutions for Extensis. "Our goal is to support the...
Mar 29
TestTrack Studio Wins Jolt Product Excellence Award
Fast-Growing Technology Company Continues Making Its Mark on the Software Development Industry with Innovative New Products Mason, Ohio--March 27, 2007--Seapine Software, Inc., a global provider of quality-centric application lifecycle management (ALM) solutions, announced that its new product, TestTrack Studio, received the Jolt Product Excellence Award in the Bug and Defect Tracking Tools category. The award was presented at CMP Technology's Software Development West 2007 Conference and Expo held last week in Santa Clara, California. The Jolts are awarded annually by a team of esteemed editors, columnists, and industry gurus and represent the products that have 'jolted' the software development industry with their significance and made the task of creating software faster, easier, and more efficient. Jolt Cola, the fabled soft drink quaffed by software developers for sustenance during project development marathons, sponsors the awards presentation. "We are proud to have won a Jolt...
Mar 29
Time Tracking via Safari
MAG Softwrx, Inc. Now Supports Time Tracking via Safari Denver, CO - March 28, 2007 - With its newest=20 release, Timeless Time & Expense now offers a=20 web-based time tracking solution for Mac users=20 working with Safari. MAG Softwrx, Inc. released=20 Timeless Time & Expense Enterprise Web in January=20 2007. At that time, the software supported Camino=20 but not Safari. Realizing the importance of the=20 Mac market and the differing needs of Mac users,=20 the company developed a release to support Safari. Timeless Time & Expense Enterprise Web allows=20 users to track their time, to do items and=20 expenses at a detailed level using a hierarchy of=20 tasks and an easy-to-use interface. This=20 flexibility lets users track their time and=20 expenses at whatever level of detail is most=20 appropriate for their business. By using such=20 detailed time tracking, users accurately bill=20 clients, track projects, and make better=20 decisions regarding future projects. The...
Mar 28
Beta of new Opera browser
What's on your Speed Dial? Beta of new Opera browser puts visual favorites front and center OSLO, NORWAY - March 28, 2007 - Opera today unveiled the beta release of Speed Dial, a new feature that lets people transform their top sites into nine visual bookmarks that are immediately available in any new tab. Speed Dial is a new feature in the forthcoming Opera 9.2, available in beta as a free download from labs.opera.com. Speed Dial came about from careful consideration of individual browsing preferences. "Speed Dial is based on the idea that people generally have five to 10 sites they browse regularly throughout the day," said Johan Borg, team manager for Opera's desktop browser. "Speed Dial is made for almost instant access to those sites. We want developers and the curious-minded to discover Speed Dial. When they do, we hope they'll help us with another rigorous round of testing before the final release." With each blank tab, Speed Dial presents a thumbnail preview of the top nine...
Mar 28
Data Backup 3
Prosoft Engineering Announces the Release of Data Backup 3 Pleasanton, CA - March 27, 2007 - Prosoft Engineering, Inc., the developers of easy-to-use, award-winning products, today announced the availability of Data Backup 3. "We are excited that companies like Apple are raising the awareness of backups and are hopeful that it will encourage more people to establish a safe daily backup regimen," states Greg Brewer, CEO of Prosoft Engineering. "We are happy to be able to offer a flexible solution that gives novice users a simple, automated, safe backup solution while not overlooking the expert users who need comprehensive backup control and features. Everyone will find Data Backup 3 to be a valuable tool, and best of all, just like the original version 3 years ago, Data Backup 3 has ease-of-use built right in." Data Backup 3: Easy, Powerful, and Flexible Backups Data Backup 3 is a powerful utility that allows you to backup, restore and synchronize your valuable data with minimal effort...
Mar 27
Prosoft Engineering Announces the Release of Data Backup 3
Prosoft Engineering Announces the Release of Data Backup 3 Pleasanton, CA - March 27, 2007 - Prosoft Engineering, Inc., the developers of easy-to-use, award-winning products, today announced the availability of Data Backup 3. "We are excited that companies like Apple are raising the awareness of backups and are hopeful that it will encourage more people to establish a safe daily backup regimen," states Greg Brewer, CEO of Prosoft Engineering. "We are happy to be able to offer a flexible solution that gives novice users a simple, automated, safe backup solution while not overlooking the expert users who need comprehensive backup control and features. Everyone will find Data Backup 3 to be a valuable tool, and best of all, just like the original version 3 years ago, Data Backup 3 has ease-of-use built right in." Data Backup 3: Easy, Powerful, and Flexible Backups Data Backup 3 is a powerful utility that allows you to backup, restore and synchronize your valuable data with minimal effort...
Mar 27
Mark/Space Ships The Missing Sync for BlackBerry
MARK/SPACE SHIPS THE MISSING SYNC FOR BLACKBERRY Latest Addition to Award-Winning Product Line Provides Reliable BlackBerry Synchronization for Mac Users LOS GATOS, Calif.--March 27, 2007--Mark/Space, Inc. today announced that The Missing Sync for BlackBerry(R), the company's synchronization software for Mac OS X computers and BlackBerry handhelds from Research in Motion (RIM) is now shipping. The Missing Sync for BlackBerry provides reliable synchronization of contacts, calendar events, tasks, memos, and for multimedia-capable BlackBerry devices, photos, podcasts and music. "After being made available in pre-release form for early end-user testing, The Missing Sync for BlackBerry was downloaded and evaluated by thousands of individuals," said Brian Hall, Mark/Space president and CEO. "The feedback received from these individuals was invaluable to the development of this product and helped to make it one that we're proud to have join The Missing Sync family." The Missing Sync for...
Mar 27
PhoneValet Message Center 5.1
PhoneValet Message Center 5.1 Enhances Auto-Attendant, Improves Email, Adds to Now Contact Integration OGDENSBURG, NY and OTTAWA, ON, Mar. 27, 2007 - Parliant Corporation today began shipping version 5.1 of PhoneValet Message Center, its multi-award-winning Mac telephony product for small businesses, homes, and home offices. PhoneValet's $169.95 software and hardware platform turns a Mac into a virtual call center with automated attendant, unlimited voice mail call tree, call blocking, recording, logging and screening, automated dialing and Interactive Voice Response (IVR) capabilities. Its patent pending technology does all this and more with full Address Book integration, using standard telephone lines -- with no need for an expensive phone switch. PhoneValet 5.1 improves the automated attendant by allowing a user-selected number of rings to answer on specific lines at specific times of day. After business hours, a doctor's office, for example, may wish to answer immediately to...
Mar 23
FileCatalyst
FileCatalyst Offers Mac-based Creative Professionals Accelerated Data Transfers with Big Cost Savings OTTAWA, ON, 22 March, 2007 -- There's now a way for Mac creative professionals to fully concentrate on their 3-D animations and high definition multi-media projects without worrying about how to most efficiently transmit those files between studios around the globe. FileCatalyst -- a software-only solution from Unlimi-Tech Software Inc. -- offers Mac creative pros maximum throughput and reliability for large point-to-point file transfers such as feature films, 3-D animations and geo-spatial images. FileCatalyst can be remotely installed on a Mac in less than 20 minutes for fast, interactive collaboration on large datasets commonly found in media, advertising agency, government, military and enterprise Wide Area Network (WAN) settings. Previous to FileCatalyst, Mac-based creative professionals relied on traditional software solutions for file transfers that were severely affected by...
Mar 23
Fourth Public Beta of even-t 2
even-u software Releases Fourth Public Beta of even-t 2 - a calendar application for Mac OS X BONN, Germany, -- March 23, 2007-- even-u software today announced the availability of the fourth public beta version of even-t 2. even-t has many easy to use new features and is seamlessly integrated in Mac OS X. This release is now available with French localisation, has some new printing features, performance optimisations and bug fixes. Features of even-t 2 even-t 2 is a calendar application compatible with Apple's iCal. even-t features an elegant user interface and can be used to display and publish calendars on the Internet. The unique expandable view keeps users focused on the important things. Events can be organized in different colored calendars, which can be displayed in one or in separate windows. Each event can have any number of linked information. Attendees can be add from Apple's Address Book and any file or Web URL can be linked by drag&drop. Selected events can be send...
Mar 22
SmartWrap 2.6
SmartWrap 2.6 has been completely rewritten from the ground-up in Cocoa! March 21, 2007 - The application, Text Service, BBEdit Plug-in, TextMate Plug-in (New!), and Scripting Addition are all universal and work great on PowerPC and Intel Macintoshes. The SmartWrap algorithm has been improved dramatically, with better detection of lists and graphics. SmartWrap includes: 1. An Application to wrap the clipboard 2. A system wide Text Service 3. A plug-in for BBEdit, MailSmith and TextWrangler 4. A plug-in for TextMate 5. A Scripting Addition for AppleScript 6. A plug-in for Eudora _______________________________________________________________________ * SmartWrap for Windows * Don't forget! SmartWrap is still available for Windows! (It's still version 1.7, though.) _______________________________________________________________________ * DIRECT LINKS * SmartWrap Home Page: (http://www.selznick.com/products/smartwrap) SmartWrap Downloads: (http://www.selznick1.com/cgi-bin/s3download.pl?...
Mar 22
ActiveState Releases Perl Dev Kit 7.0
Cover, speeding interpretation of results through syntax highlighting and an intuitive interface, and adding new functionality for simplifying management of code changes over time. "Coverage Analyzer, like all PDK's tools, is about ease-of-use: the ability for anyone to create a quality Perl application and then deploy it to coworkers or clients anywhere," says Jan Dubois, lead developer, PDK. "Coverage analysis is only as good as your understanding of the results, so by presenting even highly complex data in a readily usable format, Coverage Analyzer makes it easy to optimize code." With this release, Perl programmers also get the latest version of PerlApp, the most advanced tool for creating and deploying Perl executables to all major platforms. Heuristic refinements provide sophisticated module wrapping to improve executable performance, and Unix versions have been redesigned to use dynamically-linked runtime libraries, for significantly smaller executables. "We use PDK to provide...
Mar 22
Wibu-Systems announcing ExpressCard compliant card module
Technology leader providing new hardware with a memory size of 4 GByte CeBIT 2007: Wibu-Systems announcing ExpressCard compliant card module Hanover (CeBIT) - Wibu-Systems (Hall 7, A35) announced today that the CmCard/E is the new Card module making the CodeMeter Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology now available under the ExpressCard form factor. The CodeMeter DRM system is a proven and highly flexible protection technology for digital products and has been well adopted by many software vendors since its introduction in 2003. "CeBIT of this year is for us the opportunity to enlarge our scope of hardware solutions by releasing the new card module CmCard/E providing a 4 GB of flash in addition to our CodeMeter DRM system," said Oliver Winzenried, CEO and founder of Wibu-Systems AG. "With ExpressCard modules and ExpressCard sockets now becoming widely available we follow our customer needs for a higher performing technology. With the new card we can support larger storage...
Mar 21
BrowseBack 1.3.1
SMILEONMYMAC RELEASES BROWSEBACK 1.3.1, WITH PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS San Francisco, CA -- March 21, 2007 -- SmileOnMyMac has released BrowseBack 1.3.1, an update to its web history visualization tool for Mac OS X. The update features better interaction with system sleep and logout, and reduced resource use while loading web pages. BrowseBack stores a PDF of every web page visited and makes the pages accessible through a unique interface that allows the user to browse thumbnails of those pages. This visual web history can also be searched by keyword and date, making it possible to easily retrieve visited web pages. A fully-functioning demo of BrowseBack can be downloaded at: http://www.smileonmymac.com/browseback/download.html. BrowseBack 1.3.1 requires Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) or later. Single user licenses cost US $29.95. The update is free for registered users of BrowseBack. Volume discounts and site licenses are available. What's new in BrowseBack 1.3.1: - System sleep and logout...
Mar 21
Gladys 1.0
Gladys Eavesdrops on FileMaker Server Systems to Provide Database Administrators Unprecedented Server Monitoring and Notification Capabilities BERKELEY, Calif., March 21, 2007 -- Crooked Arm Corp. today shipped Gladys 1.0, a utility for FileMaker Server administrators that automatically monitors FileMaker servers and generates custom notifications. Gladys runs on Mac OS X to monitor FileMaker servers on both Mac and Windows. Developed under the code name of "Eavesdrop," Gladys 1.0 is available immediately directly from Crooked Arm at (http://www.crookedarm.com/). "Gladys is the first product that ensures the database administrator is the first to know about an access issue," said Stuart Gripman, founder and president of Crooked Arm. "Before Gladys, notification was typically provided by a frantic, unhappy user on the phone, or a system of complex, extreme customization. Now, administrators have a straightforward product that lets them rest easy, knowing if a system or file becomes...
Mar 21
ProStores 8.0
Innovative Store Designs Flourish with New Interface of ProStores 8.0 New version offers increased ease-of-use for new and experienced Web designers SAN JOSE, Calif., March 20, 2007 -- ProStores, a full-featured customizable online store solution for small- and medium-size businesses, released its newest software upgrade, version 8.0. The most significant upgrade since mid-2006, the latest version features a new user interface and a complete redesign of the Store Design Hub allowing merchants using ProStores software to set up and customize the design of their online stores more easily. Demonstrating the commitment to continually evolving and updating the merchant experience, ProStores 8.0 is the sixth upgrade ProStores introduced since the launch of ProStores as an eBay Company in 2005. "Based on extensive feedback from our merchant community and valuable usability testing, we've created a new Store Design Hub that is simple and intuitive for store designers at any level," said Eric...
Mar 21
CodeMeter not cracked at international Hacker's Contest
International proof of security CodeMeter not cracked at international Hacker's Contest Hanover (CeBIT) - Today, the fourth Hacker's hosted by Wibu-Systems closed. The task was to by-pass of the software protection solution CodeMeter that was developed by Wibu-Systems. The competition started on February 1, 0:00 CET and ended on March 14, 23:59 CET. All in all, 1,092 contestants from 27 countries participated. Most of the participants were located in Germany, followed by China, the United States, the Netherlands, Poland, Hungary, France, Great Britain and the Ukraine. No protection solution can offer 100% protection. This time the competition was extremely exciting because each contestant had received the protected software together with the suitable license stored in a CmStick, the dongle. Both are necessary for executing the competition software on their PC. For a second function in the competition software the license bit in the CmStick wasn't set. Here the encryption would be...
Mar 21
RAGE WebDesign 2.9
Toronto, Ontario (March 20, 2007) -- RAGE Software announced today the immediate availability of RAGE WebDesign 2.9, a major update to the first HTML source code editor with an integrated Site Manager. This free update adds support for Mac OS X 10.4.9, enhancements to code markers for quickly locating specific code in a web page, and a redesigned user interface. RAGE WebDesign is a professional web authoring package offering a powerful and easy to use text editor combined with a fully featured Site Manager to help keep web sites up to date and organized. RAGE WebDesign includes built in support for HTML, XHTML, Cascading Style Sheets, PHP, JavaScript, ASP, XML and VBScript. RAGE WebDesign was designed with flexibility in mind with its extensible plug-in architecture. There are already dozens of free add-ons available for RAGE WebDesign users on the RAGE WebDesign Resources Web Site at http://www.ragesw.com/community/. Users can try a fully functional trial version, with no limitations...
Mar 21
Advanced Web Ranking 5.1
Manage Your Search Engine Rankings Inteligently Caphyon Ltd. is pleased to announce the release of Advanced Web Ranking 5.1, a tool that helps check your web site position on all major search engines. Advanced Web Ranking runs on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Checking your web site position is a very time consuming task. It may take you days to complete it by manually searching in the search engines. That's where Advanced Web Ranking comes to help. Advanced Web Ranking is able to query over 800 search engines and quickly find out if you're moving up or down in the rankings, or if your site is listed at all. It will track the progress of your rankings over time and display that information in an easy to read and understand graphical and tabular reports. It can help you check not just the position of your website but the position of your competitors' web sites as well. Advanced Web Ranking has the ability to generate and email reports after an update was finished. Couple that with the...
Mar 20
Spin Studio Launches SpinPac for Mac Developers
Spin Studio Launches SpinPac for Mac Developers SANTA CLARA, CA - March 20, 2007 -- Spin Studio today announced SpinPac, the first truly integrated marketing solution designed especially for Mac industry developers and companies releasing new and updated products. SpinPac provides an invaluable set of eight essential marketing tools and initiatives that both help announce a new or updated product to Mac customers around the world, and draw attention to it. The result is much higher revenue generation potential for the developer or company. What's more, with SpinPac customers get expert execution and implementation from Mac industry expert and Apple Worldwide Developer Relations alumni, Ed Prasek, Spin Studio's founder and president. "Our innovative SpinPac provides Mac industry developers and companies with the critical marketing initiatives and expert execution that Mac applications and products really need to get off the ground on the right foot and thrive in the marketplace," said...
Mar 19
MacTech 25 2007: Voting Open Now in People's Choice
MacTech 25: Cast Your Vote in People's Choice - Voting now open Community chooses the most influential people in Mac technical community VOTING ENDS APRIL 1st. Vote now! MacTech Magazine has opened voting for the 2007 MacTech 25. The MacTech 25 list is a compilation of the most influential people in the Mac technical community. It allows the community to recognize those who are the most influential -- through their work, writing, or any other effort they may make. The MacTech 25 is designed to recognize the technical contributions of developers, writers, bloggers, problem-solvers and personalities to the Macintosh technical community. The MacTech 25 is not a popularity contest, nor is it to "pick your favorite CEO." We're looking for the most influential in the Mac TECHNICAL market. (See last year's MacTech 25 at (http://www.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.22/22.08/2006MacTech25/) to get an idea.) The results will be presented in an upcoming issue of MacTech, just in time for this...
Mar 19
SpamSieve 2.6
SpamSieve has been updated to version 2.6. SpamSieve gives you back your inbox by bringing powerful Bayesian spam filtering to popular e-mail clients. It learns what your spam looks like, so it can block nearly all of it. It looks at your address book and learns what your good messages look like, so it won't confuse them with spam. Other spam filters get worse over time as spammers adapt to their rules; SpamSieve actually gets better over time as you train it with more messages. SpamSieve doesn't delete any messages--it only marks them in your e-mail client--so you'll never lose any mail. SpamSieve works with any number of mail accounts, of whatever types are supported by your e-mail software (e.g. POP, IMAP, Hotmail, AOL). This update includes the following enhancements: * SpamSieve now works with Mozilla Thunderbird. * Improved detection of image spams and phishing messages. * Made various message analysis improvements to increase the accuracy of the...
Mar 19
MicroNet Platinum NAS 4.0 with 4 Terabyte Capacity
MICRONET RAISES THE CAPACITY BAR FOR SMB NAS CUSTOMERS WITH PLATINUM NAS 4.0 4 Terabyte NAS Server First to Use 1 Terabyte SATA Disk Drives to Deliver Best-in-Class Capacity, Performance TORRANCE, CA -- March 19, 2007 --MicroNet Technology, an innovator in storage solutions for the small and medium business market, today unveiled its Platinum NAS 4.0, establishing a new 4 terabyte capacity standard for the SMB network attached storage market by being the first product in its class to leverage the massive capacity of 1 TB SATA disk drives. The Platinum NAS 4.0 delivers an optimal blend of capacity, performance, and high-availability in a simple-to-deploy and easy-to-manage solution that provides up to 4 TB of shared network storage capacity, giving customers one-third more capacity while consuming one-third less energy than competitive products. "The storage capacity challenges for SMB and SOHO users continues to skyrocket, driving an insatiable demand for massive capacity, easy-to-use...
Mar 19
Audiocorder 5.1.0
Black Cat Systems Releases Audiocorder 5.1.0 WESTMINSTER, MD (March 18, 2007) - Black Cat Systems announces that Audiocorder version 5.1.0 has been released. This version adds new features for recording telephone audio from a modem, including the ability to send dialing and other touch tone instructions via Appelscript. It also includes several bug fixes. Audiocorder is a program which allows your Mac to act as a sophisticated audio recorder. In one mode, it operates as a volume operated (VOX) automated audio recorder. This allows you to set the volume that the sound must reach to begin recording, and the volume at which it should end recording. It also allows you to set the trigger length for the start and stop values, which helps you to eliminate recording short bursts of sound or ending the recording process during a short pause (such as in normal speech). This allows Audiocorder to function as an automated and unattended recorder. Audiocorder may also be programmed with a...
Mar 19
FoxTrot Personal Search 1.5
ANNOUNCING FOXTROT PERSONAL SEARCH 1.5, AN ADVANCED MAC OS X FIND-BY-CONTENT APPLICATION Geneva, Switzerland - March 17th 2007 - CTM Development releases FoxTrot Personal Search 1.5, an advanced Mac find-by-content application including the most recent optimisations to its high-speed FoxTrot search engine. "Although FoxTrot Personal Search is a great addition to any knowledge worker's MacBook or iMac, version 1.5 now contains many improvements relevant to Mac users in the legal, media and scientific fields." said Chantal Favre, VP of data mining at CTM Development. This new release features: - 14 user-experience and functionality enhancements - Searches excluding literal strings and words - Proximity searches - OR searches of literal strings - Relevance-ranking tuning - Improved support for e-mail messages from CTM's flagship PowerMail application - 5 other improvements and changes The application can be downloaded from http://www.ctmdev.com/download An overview, a screenshot...
Mar 16
MacSpeech Announces Promotion With Tropical Software
Salem, NH March 16, 2007- Macintosh speech recognition authority MacSpeech announced a special promotion with Tropical Software, developer of the popular TopXNotes and TopXNotes iPod note organizers. For a limited time, iListen users can purchase TopXNotes or TopXNotes iPod with the ScriptPak for TopXNotes at $20 off the regular price of $39.95 and $44.95 respectively. The offer is good through March 22, 2007 exclusively from the MacSpeech web site. To take advantage of the offer, customers must enter a coupon code of "TOPXNOTES" into the coupon code field when they check out of the MacSpeech online store. This is the first in a series of promotions MacSpeech will be doing with its developer partners throughout the rest of 2007 as part of their 10th anniversary celebration. ScriptPaks work with MacSpeech's flagship product, iListen, whose TalkAnywhere technology allows users to dictate anywhere they would normally type. ScriptPaks enhance iListen's Command & Control capabilities...
Mar 16
TinyBooks v4.0.3
Family & Small Business Accounting for Macintosh What's New: Improved window handling, copy and paste, keyboard equivalents, etc. (URL:http://www.winograd.com) Merrimack, New Hampshire, March 15, 2007: Ken Winograd and Space-Time Associates announced today the release of a new version of the Macintosh accounting and bookkeeping program called TinyBooks. TinyBooks is a simple, flexible, non-bloated, single-entry bookkeeping and accounting system for the Macintosh. TinyBooks is designed for Sole Proprietors, home and other small businesses, and family finances. TinyBooks is the simplest way to handle the books for most small companies. You enter your expenses and income, and TinyBooks does the rest. Current and year-to-date "on-the-fly" totals are continually displayed. Fully automatic bar-charting of all expense and income accounts make the determination of monthly trends intuitively obvious. A fully non-modal Reports Window offers easy standard and custom reporting and searching....
Mar 16
QA Wizard Professional
All New QA Wizard Professional 2007 Shown Publicly for the First Time; Seapine's TestTrack Studio a Jolt Award Finalist, Winners to be Announced at the Show Mason, Ohio--March 15, 2007--Seapine Software, Inc., a global provider of quality-centric application lifecycle management (ALM) solutions, will have a large presence at this year's SD West Conference Expo and will be unveiling its new QA Wizard Professional solution for automating the software testing process. In addition Seapine notes that its recently released product, TestTrack Studio, has been selected as a finalist for a prestigious Jolt award that honors the software development industry's best new products. The Jolt awards winners will be announced at SD West. The Software Development Conference West (SD West), which runs March 19 through 23 at the Santa Clara Convention Center, is attended by over 2,500 software developers, managers, testers and IT executives. The SD West Expo running March 20 through 22 is where the...
Mar 16
Sound Studio 3.5
New York -- March 15, 2007 -- Freeverse today announced Sound Studio 3.5, a major update to the popular sound recording and editing tool for Mac OS X. Sound Studio's simplified interface makes it an excellent choice for hobbyists, while giving professionals the features they need at a bargain price. Digitizing tapes and vinyl records, recording live performances, creating your own multi-track mixes, tweaking levels and EQ, applying digital effects and saving in all major file formats... Sound Studio is a complete solution for Mac OS X audio. Among the dozens of enhancements in the new Sound Studio 3.5 are: New ID3 tag / iTunes metadata editor. Apple Lossless, ADTS AAC, NeXT/Sun Audio, and Ogg Vorbis file formats added. Chapters in AAC and Apple Lossless formats supported. Playback scrolling preferences added. MP3 bit rates now support 8, 16, and 24 kbps. Loop option for filter previews. AppleScript support added for referencing individual tracks in a document, and for changing the pan...
Mar 15
Mac HelpMate Version 2 with Auto HelpMate
3/15/07 - Chicago, IL - MOST Training & Consulting announces the immediate availability of Mac HelpMate 2 with Auto HelpMate, its zero-configuration cross- platform screen sharing and control solution. Auto HelpMate allows a consultant or support professional or IT Manager to initiate screen sharing from a secure web site in 60 seconds with or without a user logged into the machine, making it the ultimate support solution for servers or mobile professionals who can't always be available but leave their computer on and connected to the Internet. Offering the same capabilities as well known-commercial alternatives at a fraction of the cost, Auto HelpMate can be a windfall for technical support professionals who support Macs and Windows computers in multiple physical locations. Mac HelpMate 2 now includes a MHMQC (Mac HelpMate QuickConnect) menu item, so that all end users need do is choose "share my screen" from the menu bar on their Desktop, or toggle Auto HelpMate off or on for...
Mar 15
LassoSoft Releases Lasso Professional 8.5.2 Update
Manchester, Wash. - (March 14, 2007) - LassoSoft, LLC is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Lasso Professional 8.5.2. This release contains several new features, security fixes, performance and stability improvements, bug fixes, and feature enhancements. This is a free update for Lasso customers and LPA members who own Lasso Professional 8.5. New features include new Chart FX tags, new LJAX tags and capabilities, new error tags, an enhancement to the [Redirect_URL] tag, and more. Notable changes include fixes for the email queue and fixes for the new database connectors. In addition, the initialization process has been overhauled to make it easier to upgrade from earlier versions of Lasso. For more information on Lasso Professional 8.5.2 including download links, full release notes, and full change notes please view the article at the following location: (http://www.lassosoft.com/Downloads/Updates/index.lasso?9197) A free 30-day evaluation of Lasso Professional 8.5 can...
Mar 15
Bare Bones Software Releases Yojimbo 1.4.2
BEDFORD, Mass. - March 14, 2007 - Bare Bones Software, developer of leading-edge power tools for Mac OS X, today released Yojimbo 1.4.2, an update to the effortless information organizer. The Yojimbo 1.4.2 update is a maintenance release that works around a reported issue introduced in QuickTime 7.1.5 which would cause a crash during playback of Yojimbo's "Quick Start" movie. Yojimbo 1.4.2 requires Mac OS X 10.4.3 or later. All registered Yojimbo customers may download the update free of charge from the Bare Bones Software web site: (http://www.barebones.com/support/updates.shtml) Yojimbo Organizes Everything Else --------------------------------- Yojimbo empowers Mac users to manage, effortlessly and securely, the onslaught of information encountered every day at work and at home, even across multiple computers. Yojimbo stores different data types: text notes, passwords, Web bookmarks, product serial numbers, PDFs, and web archives. Data input into Yojimbo follows familiar Mac user...
Mar 15
Account Manager 2.0
Nexus today shipped Account Manager 2.0, now with notification capabilities. The Account Manager 2 release runs concurrently with the Account Manager 2 Security Challenge (also announced today, see related release). Account Manager 2 allows administrators of FileMaker databases to centrally manage multiple servers, databases, users and privileges. Account Manager 2 requires FileMaker 8 or later, and is priced starting at US$249 for 25 end-user accounts. Account Manager 2 is freely available to any FileMaker developer for use with up to 7 end-user accounts. Additional information on Account Manager 2 is available at: (http://fmnexus.com/products/accountmanager/). "Account Manager helps database administrators seamlessly manage the powerful, complex solutions made possible by recent advances in FileMaker," explained Vincenzo Menanno, founder and president of FM
Mar 14
Daylite 3.2.2
Marketcircle Releases Daylite Productivity Suite 3.2.2 TORONTO, ON, 13 March, 2007 - Marketcircle Inc. has released version 3.2.2 of Daylite as a free upgrade for Daylite 3 and Daylite 3 Productivity Suite users, available now at (http://www.marketcircle.com/downloads/dps.html). Version 3.2.2 enhancements include an upgrade to OpenBase 10.0.5, the ability to expose additional attributes for contacts, organizations, projects and opportunities in the Daylite report designer, and new menu items and keyboard shortcuts for the calendar. Among other minor bug fixes, Marketcircle has corrected an issue with importing ACT contacts where contacts with the same name and/or email address could end up as one contact in some instances. For more information on version 3.2.2 of Daylite and the release notes, please visit (http://www.marketcircle.com/kb/idx/0/393/article/)Marketcircle knowledge base. Daylite 3 Productivity Suite bundles Daylite 3 with Marketcircle's Daylite Mail Integration Module (...
Mar 14
Seapine's TestTrack Pro Drives Quality in Best Game of the...
Mason, Ohio--March 13, 2007--Seapine Software, Inc., a global provider of quality-centric application lifecycle management (ALM) solutions, had a supporting role helping Epic Games and Microsoft Game Studios(MSFT) win the video game industry's equivalent of an Oscar in San Francisco last week. Gears of War won the award for best game, as well as awards for technology and visual arts, at the 2007 Game Developers Choice Awards. Epic Games uses Seapine's TestTrack Pro to manage the bug fixing process for its games. TestTrack Pro helped make Epic's iterative development process more efficient by enabling the game's designers and developers to concentrate on the content and quality of the game, while our tool took care of tracking issues and defects," said Richard Riccetti, president and CEO, Seapine Software. "In a game as complex as Gears of War, there can be thousands of issues that need to be logged, assigned, resolved, and verified before the game can ship. It must also be ready on...
Mar 13
Marketcircle Releases Daylite Productivity Suite 3.2.2
Marketcircle Releases Daylite Productivity Suite 3.2.2 TORONTO, ON, 13 March, 2007 - Marketcircle Inc. has released version 3.2.2 of Daylite as a free upgrade for Daylite 3 and Daylite 3 Productivity Suite users, available now at (http://www.marketcircle.com/downloads/dps.html). Version 3.2.2 enhancements include an upgrade to OpenBase 10.0.5, the ability to expose additional attributes for contacts, organizations, projects and opportunities in the Daylite report designer, and new menu items and keyboard shortcuts for the calendar. Among other minor bug fixes, Marketcircle has corrected an issue with importing ACT contacts where contacts with the same name and/or email address could end up as one contact in some instances. For more information on version 3.2.2 of Daylite and the release notes, please visit the Marketcircle knowledge base at (http://www.marketcircle.com/kb/idx/0/393/article/). Daylite 3 Productivity Suite bundles Daylite 3 with Marketcircle's Daylite Mail Integration...
Mar 13
Seagate Ships 7200-RPM 2.5" 160GB HD with Free-Fall...
Seagate Ships World's First 7200-RPM Notebook Hard Drive with 160GB of Capacity and Free-Fall Protection SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif.-March 12, 2007-Seagate Technology (NYSE:STX) today announced the worldwide distribution channel availability of the world's first 7200-RPM notebook PC hard drive to combine capacity-boosting perpendicular recording technology with free-fall protection for beefed-up laptop durability. Seagate's newest Momentus hard drive is also shipping to a major original equipment manufacturer. "The growing number of computer users turning to laptops as their primary PCs want every inch of capacity, performance and durability they enjoy in their desktop systems," said Michael Wingert, Seagate executive vice president and general manager, Personal Compute Business. "The new Momentus 7200.2 hard drive epitomizes Seagate's focus on delivering cutting-edge storage technologies that make it easier to move, use and protect digital information in the home, in the office and on-the-...
Mar 13
SNS Offers Free iSCSI Initiator for OS X
St. Louis, MO, March 13, 2007 -- Studio Network Solutions (SNS), a premier developer and worldwide solutions provider of optimized audio/video shared storage products, today announced that it has advanced the state of the storage industry by making an iSCSI initiator for Mac OS X available at no cost to the user. iSCSI is a network protocol standard that enables the transport of block-level I/O over TCP/IP. When deployed over a Gigabit or 10-Gigabit Ethernet network, an iSCSI-based storage area network (SAN) can rival the performance of a Fibre Channel SAN, while costing far less to implement. In an iSCSI SAN, an initiator is needed for each computer that requires access to the networked storage. Although an initiator is freely available for most major operating systems, an iSCSI initiator is not shipped with Apple's Mac OS X. Studio Network Solutions is pleased to announce that version 3.0 of its globalSAN iSCSI initiator for Mac OS X is now available for download from the company's...
Mar 13
SecuritySpy 1.4.1
Multi-camera video surveillance software for the Macintosh March 13, 2007 - With features such as motion detection, real-time compression and network video streaming, SecuritySpy has everything required for demanding video surveillance applications. Combined with Mac OS X, the rock-solid operating system from Apple, SecuritySpy offers unsurpassed speed, stability and ease of use. Web site address: http://www.securityspy.com/ The main features of SecuritySpy are: - Displays and captures live video from multiple cameras simultaneously - Supports Macintosh-compatible video and audio input devices - Supports network video devices (Axis, JVC, Panasonic, Pixord, D-Link etc) - Motion Detection and Timelapse capture features, with audio - Built-in web server for remote viewing and administration - Pan/Tilt/Zoom (PTZ) support for many network cameras - Powerful real-time compression for efficient storage of captured footage - Broadcasting support for powerful video delivery via QuickTime...
Mar 13
Troi Scout FM for FileMaker Pro 8.5
Troi Automatisering releases Troi Scout FM 1.0 for FileMaker Pro 8.5 New and revolutionary product lets you find selected text from any Mac OS X application in your FileMaker Pro database with only a keyboard shortcut! March 12th, 2007, Alphen aan den Rijn, The Netherlands--Troi Automatisering today announced the availability of Troi Scout FM 1.0 for FileMaker Pro 8.5. What is Troi Scout FM? Troi Scout FM is our new and exciting utility for FileMaker Pro! With Troi Scout FM you can select text in any Mac OS X application and have Troi Scout FM find this text in your database with only a keyboard shortcut. This is not a plug-in! The concept of Troi Scout FM might be at first a bit difficult to grasp. It is different from our FileMaker plug-ins, in that it starts from outside FileMaker Pro! You start by selecting some text, for example a name in a document, and let Troi Scout FM find this text in your database with only a keyboard shortcut. We have created a QuickTime demo movie showing...
Mar 12
PreFab UI Actions 1.2
SUMMARY: PreFab Software releases UI Actions 1.2, a major new version of UI Actions, bringing "universal attachability" to AppleScript. Version 1.2 is now a Universal Binary. Download it at http://PreFabSoftware.com/uiactions/. North Andover, MA -- March 8, 2007 -- PreFab Software, Inc. and Bill Cheeseman today announced the release of version 1.2 of PreFab UI Actions. UI Actions is now a Universal Binary that runs natively both on Power PC Macintosh computers and the new Intel Mac Pro, Mac mini, iMac, MacBook Pro and MacBook. UI Actions 1.2 contains several new features and improvements. It requires Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger or newer, and it supports all of the new GUI Scripting and Accessibility enhancements introduced by Apple in Tiger. UI Actions implements "universal attachability" for AppleScript. With UI Actions, you attach an AppleScript script to a native Mac OS X application. )From then on, the script will be triggered automatically every time the user performs the actions you...
Mar 12
PreFab UI Browser 2.0.3
SUMMARY: PreFab Software releases UI Browser 2.0.3, a minor bug-fix update to the "ultimate assistant" for GUI Scripting with AppleScript on Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. Now a Universal Binary, version 2.0 includes an enhanced Screen Reader and many other new features and bug fixes. Download it at http://PreFabSoftware.com/uibrowser/. NORTH ANDOVER, Massachusetts -- March 9, 2007 -- PreFab Software, Inc. and Bill Cheeseman today announced the release of version 2.0.3 of their popular product, PreFab UI Browser. UI Browser 2.0 is a Universal Binary that runs natively both on Power PC Macintosh computers and the new Intel Mac Pro, Mac mini, iMac, MacBook Pro and MacBook. UI Browser 2.0.3 fixes a bug in the Notifications pane of the Preferences window that prevented a user from selecting and removing a custom notification. UI Browser 2.0 requires Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger or newer, and it supports all of the new GUI Scripting and Accessibility enhancements introduced by Apple in Tiger. UI Browser is...
Mar 12
Fujitsu 160GB 2.5" 7200 RPM SATA
Fujitsu Delivers Industry Leading 160GB 2.5" 7200 RPM SATA Hard Disk Drive Desktop Performance and Functionality Offered in a Laptop Hard Disk Drive Form Factor Sunnyvale, CA, March 6, 2007 -- Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Inc., one of the world's leading suppliers of innovative computer products including hard disk drives, peripherals and biometric security solutions, today announced the global launch of its MHW2160BJ series mobile hard disk drives (HDDs). The newest Fujitsu products feature impressive storage capacities of up to 160GB1 and industry leading performance with 7200RPM speed. This is also the 3rd product family Fujitsu has developed using perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR). The MHW2160BJ series attains the industry's highest capacity points while utilizing an industry first SATA 3.0Gb/sec interface on a 2.5" HDD. The MHW2160BJ series will begin shipping in second quarter 2007. With the introduction of the 7200RPM product, Fujitsu now offers a comprehensive...
Mar 12
iGet 2.6
iGet 2.6 introduces new look, other enhancements Free update is first release from new publisher Nakahara Informatics FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ITHACA, New York -- March 12, 2007 -- Nakahara Informatics, Inc. today announced the immediate availability of version 2.6 of iGet, the Mac file transfer tool. The new version introduces a new and more modern look and feel, along with bug fixes and user-requested enhancements. The free update is the first iGet release since the company recently acquired the product, and is recommended for all users. "Although the development of iGet 3.0 is well underway, we continue to maintain and improve the 2.x line," said CEO Christopher Martin. "This update addresses some minor issues that our users have reported, and the visual update better reflects the Nakahara Informatics aesthetic." He added that the company plans to announce a beta test program for iGet 3 within the next few weeks. The program will allow the company to solicit feedback and to better...
Mar 12
DutyCrew Ltd launch web page manufacturing system
Building websites just got easy . . . . =2E . . for everyone on the planet! Sheffield UK based, software Development company,=20 DutyCrew Ltd, have today (09 March 2007) launched=20 it's revolutionary new web page manufacturing=20 system. The software enables users to build independent=20 standalone websites with incredible ease,=20 consistency and flexibility. DutyCrew's Biz King says, "We believe that this=20 patented software is the fastest tool available=20 with which to make or prototype websites. It is=20 fast, flexible, portable and can be exported to=20 different machines and operating systems with=20 incredible ease". He continues "Our licensing model also breaks the=20 mould, by combining flexibility and fairness with=20 a choice of either subscription to, or ownership=20 of, the software, whilst remaining under the=20 user's control via our online account management=20 system". Available now for Mac OS X Tiger (10.4) Windows and Linux variants in development. Purchase...
Mar 09
Dejal announces Caboodle 1.1
Mac OS X application to collect snippets of text and images. PORTLAND, Oregon -- March 9, 2007 -- Dejal today announced the immediate availability of Dejal Caboodle 1.1, a useful application to collect text, images, and other content. Everyone comes across information that they want to refer to later. Maybe gifts you've received or sent, product serial numbers, recipes, directions to someone's house, a photo of your pet, or anything else. Caboodle is a tool to help store and organize such varied bits of information. You can arrange the items in an outline-like hierarchy, and include both structured fields and free-form text and pictures in each entry, along with web links, lists, tables, PDFs, and any other kind of file as attachments. When you create a new entry within an existing one, the custom fields are inherited, allowing quickly creating content in an organized fashion. But you can also add or remove custom fields independently for each entry. Entries can be encrypted to hide...
Mar 08
New USB hardware at CeBIT 2007
Environment-friendly security by Wibu-Systems New USB hardware at CeBIT 2007: steel-hard CodeMeter Stick with a memory of 2 GByte Karlsruhe - There are now even more varieties of the CodeMeter Stick (CmStick). Effective immediately, the CmStick is available in the memory sizes of 1 and 2 GByte in a new stylish and stable metal case. These durable and sleek CmSticks will be presented at CeBIT 2007 in hall 7 booth A35 by the German Wibu-Systems AG, a leading manufacturer of hardware based protection solutions for software, documents, access and media. The robust security of the CmStick can now be seen inside and out thanks to the new attractive and dependable design. Only 6 cm length and 1.5 cm width, the CmStick combines a mobile flash disk with a memory size of 1 or 2 GByte and a smart card ship for security relevant data. It includes user-friendly license management for more than 1,000 products of different vendors and personal security functions like password manager, virtual...
Mar 07
Creative Manager Pro Version 8.4.05
Creative Manager Pro Version 8.4.05 Creative Manager Pro, Ad Agency Software and Project Management Groupware for Creative and Design firms, has announced version 8.4.05, with support for Apple's iCal, Microsoft's Outloook, Mac OS X Server, and Apple's upcoming Mac OS X Leopard. Anthem AZ - March 6, 2007 - Creative Manager Inc. (http://www.Creative-Manager.com), provider of Creative Manager Pro software, has announced version 8.4.05 of its flagship product, Creative Manager Pro, due by the end of March. The integration with Apple's Mac OS X iCal and Microsoft's Outloook allows users of Creative Manager Pro to send calendar meeting requests, even to those who are not using Creative Manager Pro, and have the invitation show up in the invited person's Apple Mac OS X iCal or Microsoft Outloook calendar. "Integration with outside systems is an important features that our Fortune 500 clients have asked for. This new release beats our competitors on yet another feature," boasts Ron Ause,...
Mar 07
TECSoft: New "Automator Workshop" Hands-on Training...
TECSoft Announces New "Automator Workshop" Hands-on Training Classes Learn Automator-Apple's powerful automation tool-in TESoft's "Automator Workshop" training classes. (East Hampton, NY...March 7, 2007) TECSoft announced today its new "Automator Workshop" hands-on training classes. The one-day hands-on training teaches participants how to quickly be productive with Automator, and builds upon TECSoft's extensive workflow automation and training expertise. Automator is Apple Inc.'s powerful workflow automation application. Automator enables the building of powerful automation solutions with point-and-click simplicity, moving workflow automation into the realm of every Macintosh user. "Attending our intensive, leader-led, hands-on class is the best way possible to quickly get started and be productive with Automator," said TECSoft founder John Thorsen Jr. With TECSoft's Automator Workshop training participants learn how to build Automator workflows to automate just about everything done...
Mar 07
SyncTogether v1.0.1
SyncTogether v1.0.1 SyncTogether v1.0.1 is a free update for all registered SyncTogether owners. This version improves sync cancellation request processing, remote category handling when new categories are synchronized, progress bar labels, dealing with illegal characters in sync group names and more. Version 1.0.1, along with complete release notes, are available from (http://www.markspace.com/downloads.html). The 1.0.1 installer can also be downloaded from within the SyncTogether application by choosing "Check for update..." from the SyncTogether menu. New purchases of SyncTogether are $49.95 for an electronic download that supports syncing between up to three Macs; additional licenses each add three more users. A single installer includes English, French and German language editions. To purchase or learn more about SyncTogether, please visit (http://www.markspace.com/synctogether.php).
Mar 07
Black Cat Systems Releases Audiocorder 5.0.0
Black Cat Systems Releases Audiocorder 5.0.0 WESTMINSTER, MD (March 7, 2007) - Black Cat Systems announces that Audiocorder version 5.0.0 has been released. This version adds native support for Intel Macs as a Universal Binary. Audiocorder is a program which allows your Mac to act as a sophisticated audio recorder. In one mode, it operates as a volume operated (VOX) automated audio recorder. This allows you to set the volume that the sound must reach to begin recording, and the volume at which it should end recording. It also allows you to set the trigger length for the start and stop values, which helps you to eliminate recording short bursts of sound or ending the recording process during a short pause (such as in normal speech). This allows Audiocorder to function as an automated and unattended recorder. Audiocorder may also be programmed with a recording schedule, specifying when it should start and stop recording, much like a VCR. In addition, you can performed a timed recording...
Mar 07
SeeFile 3.0
SEEFILE VERSION 3.0 RELEASED; SOFTWARE INCLUDES PERFECTLY CLEAR News Highlights v First ship of breakthrough product previewed in January, effective March 7th; v Labs and pro photographers can take full control of their web presence, online sales; v Affordable software configurations start at $495; v Demo CDs available immediately at SeeFile booth (K126), downloads from website; v All SeeFile versions to include Athentech's Perfectly Clear for accurate and automatic image correction; v Other new features include onscreen annotation/crop in any Mac or PC browser; v Press conference at SeeFile booth, Friday March 9th, 9:30AM-10:30AM. LAS VEGAS -- March 6, 2007 -- At the annual Photo Marketing Association conference, SeeFile Software LLC (booth K126) is introducing the third generation of its web-based creative collaboration tool, which allows instant web sharing, annotation, and online sales. In contrast to the hosted solutions that are prevalent in the market, SeeFile allows the...
Mar 07
MacSpeech Releases ScriptPak for Toast 8
Salem, NH, March 7, 2007: Macintosh speech recognition authority MacSpeech Inc. has released new a new ScriptPak for Toast Titanium version 8. The new ScriptPak add almost 60 commands to iListen, allowing users to do virtually anything in Toast they would normally do using the keyboard or menus. "Toast 8 adds a brand new interface and a host of new features," said MacSpeech Chief Evangelist Chuck Rogers."We are pleased to offer a ScriptPak that allows iListen users to control it with their voice." ScriptPaks work with MacSpeech's flagship product, iListen, whose TalkAnywhere technology allows users to dictate anywhere they would normally type. ScriptPaks enhance iListen's Command & Control capabilities by teaching it about the individual keyboard and menu commands in a specific program. ScriptPaks only affect iListen's ability to control an application and are not required for dictation. The Toast ScriptPak is available immediately from the MacSpeech online store for only $10....
Mar 07
Seapine Software Announces All New QA WizardT Pro 2007
Complete re-write of popular automated software testing solution provides powerful new capabilities and vaults Seapine to the top of the testing market MASON, Ohio--March 6, 2007-- Seapine Software, Inc., a global provider of quality-centric application lifecycle management (ALM) solutions, today announced that next month it will release an all new version of its QA Wizard automated software testing tool. In recognition of the new code and extensive new capabilities, Seapine is calling this product QA Wizard Pro 2007. QA Wizard Pro 2007 will be shipped to all existing QA Wizard customers under maintenance as a part of their software support contract. Software quality is critical to organizations that write programs for sale, for use internally or on a Web site, or as on-board logic for devices. Managers responsible for quality, customer satisfaction, market share, and risk management realize the tremendous costs associated with poor quality software getting into the hands of users. QA...
Mar 07
Web Help Desk v8 Platform Update
WEB HELP DESK VERSION 8 PLATFORM UPDATE Update introduces column set widget, bulk action editor and a single-click ticket widget FREMONT, CA, March 6, 2007 -- MacsDesign Studio, LLC today released an update to its highly successful Web Help Desk technical support software. Designed for education and enterprise customers, Web Help Desk version 8 platform introduces a column set widget, bulk action editor and a single click quick ticket widget, among others. Features Include: * Powerful column set widget allows Techs to save commonly used search views by name * Bulk Action editor to create saved actions applied to multiple Tickets, Assets or Clients * Quick Ticket widget creates customized tickets with a single click * Support for BBCode tags allows the addition of rich formatting in notes and FAQs and automatically creates hyperlinks for URLs and e-mail addresses * Enhanced alert model for improved Service Level Agreement compliance * Flexible new reporting module includes TSV and...
Mar 06
SQLiteManager 2.6
VIADANA, Italy (March 06, 2007) - SQLabs today announced the availability of SQLiteManager 2.6, their new SQLite database manager tool for Mac OS X and Windows. SQLiteManager is a "next generation" GUI database manager for sqlite databases, it combines an incredible easy to use interface with blazing speed and advanced features. SQLiteManager allows you to open and work with sqlite 2.x, sqlite 3.x, in memory databases and REALSQL Server databases. It allows you to create and browse tables, views, triggers and indexes. It enables you to insert, delete and updates records in a very intuitive way and it supports you arbitrary SQL commands. Some features include: - Universal Binary. - New InstantQuery technology for blazing speed queries. - Full SQLite2 and SQLite3 support. - Full REALSQL Server support. - Full AES encrypted SQLite3 databases support. - Browse tables, views, and indexes. - Rename tables and add columns to existing tables. - Create new tables, views, indexes and triggers...
Mar 06
LicenseKeeper
Introducing LicenseKeeper - The Easiest Way To Capture And Organize Software Licenses Boston, Massachusetts -- March 6, 2007 -- Outer Level is pleased to announce LicenseKeeper, a brand-new software license manager for Mac OS X. LicenseKeeper is the first and only license manager to store both serial numbers and license files along with receipts, email and other related files. Innovative auto-scanning of email captures serial numbers and eliminates tedious error-prone data entry. LicenseKeeper organizes all of your important software licensing information and files in one library, helping to prevent the loss of valuable investments in software and making this information accessible when needed most. Cataloging your software is easy with LicenseKeeper. Drag and drop email containing your licensing information and LicenseKeeper will archive the email and automatically detect and save serial numbers. Store email, documents, zip files, and even disk images with your software records. All...
Mar 05
LassoSoft Acquires Omnipilot and the Lasso Product Line
LassoSoft Acquires Omnipilot and the Lasso Product Line FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - (March 5, 2007) - LassoSoft, LLC announced their acquisition of OmniPilot Software and the Lasso family of products during the keynote of the Lasso Summit which was held March 2 - 4, 2007 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Lasso Summit is an annual gathering of Lasso users which includes presentations from LassoSoft employees and some of the most experienced Lasso users from around the world as well as training sessions for new Lasso users. "We couldn't be happier in making this announcement today," said Kyle Jessup, Director of Lasso Development for LassoSoft. "LassoSoft is driven by a team that is wholly dedicated to the Lasso product line. Our customers can rest assured that Lasso is in good hands. We look forward to continuing to build and strengthen the platform together over the coming years." LassoSoft, LLC is a partnership of Kyle Jessup, Fletcher Sandbeck, and Kerry Adams. Kyle Jessup has served as the...
Mar 05
Chronos Releases SOHO Notes 5.7
Chronos Releases SOHO Notes 5.7, "The premier note manager for Mac OS X" Park City, Utah - March 5, 2007 -- Chronos LC today announced the release of SOHO Notes 5.7, a maintenance update to its class-leading note manager for Mac OS X. This new version makes it easier than ever for users to get organized and bring harmony to their digital life. SOHO Notes 5.7 is a free update for registered SOHO Notes 5.x users. NEW FEATURES * New Label column. Users may now view and sort notes according to the label assigned each note. * New Exit Button in Full Screen Mode. An exit button has been added to Full Screen mode to make exiting the mode more intuitive. * New Full Screen Mode Preferences. Users may now control the width and height of the content area in full screen mode. This is an especially useful feature for users with large screens. 15+ ENHANCEMENTS, OPTIMIZATIONS, FIXES SOHO Notes 5.7 also includes 15+ enhancements, optimizations and bug fixes which are detailed on the Chronos web site...
Mar 05
QuickLicense 2.0
Software License Protection and Management Placitas, NM USA -- March 2, 2007 - Excel Software began shipping version 2.0 of the QuickLicense system to manage the secure, flexible licensing of Windows and Macintosh software. In addition to traditional applications written in languages like C, C++, Delphi, Visual Basic and REALbasic, QuickLicense is being used for Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, Photoshop plugins and Adobe Director multimedia content. Vendors can produce trialware, perpetual licenses or time-leased content. With minimal programming, they get flexible control over how many days or executions are allowed, which computers or users can run the software, the security features that protect it and how the activation process works. The QuickLicense application is used to configure a highly flexible licensing strategy with data stored in an encrypted ticket file. The ticket file and runtime executable file is distributed with the vendor's application. This royalty-free system can...
Mar 05
Syncro SVN Client version 2.2
Syncro Soft Announces New Release of Syncro SVN Client, a platform-independent Subversion (SVN) client. Release date: March 5, 2007 Syncro Soft Ltd, the producer of Syncro SVN Client, has announced the immediate availability of version 2.2 of its Subversion (SVN) client. Version 2.2 of the Syncro SVN Client adds as main features support for SVN Annotations, integration with bug tracking tools and operations on a revision from the Affected Paths area of History view. For the complete list of features please visit http://www.syncrosvnclient.com New in version 2.2: The Annotations view enables you to quickly find the author and the revision number that changed a specific line of a file. The Annotations view is synchronized with the History view and the editor panel: clicking on a line in one of the two views or in the editor panel highlights the corresponding lines in the other two areas. Users of bug tracking systems can associate the changes they make in the repository resources with a...
Mar 01
Seapine Software Shows Off Powerful Code Quality Tools
"Ready--TEST--Game" theme highlights company's tools that help game developers "power-up" the quality of games and simulations MASON, Ohio--March 1, 2007-- Seapine Software, Inc., a global provider of quality-centric application lifecycle management (ALM) solutions, invites everyone attending the Game Developers Conference '07 to stop by Expo booth 119 for a live demonstration of its award winning products including TestTrack Studio for software test case planning, execution, and tracking. The Game Developers Conference (GDC), which runs March 5-9 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, is attended by over 12,500 game designers and developers. The GDC Expo, which runs March 7-9, is where the most innovative companies serving this $11 billion industry demonstrate the tools designers and developers will use to create the games of tomorrow. At the same time that computer games and simulations are becoming more sophisticated, gamers and simulation users are demanding a higher level of...
Mar 01
Graphic Inspector 1.0
Toronto (ON), Canada--MARCH 1, 2007--Zevrix Solutions today announced the release of its new software Graphic Inspector, which provides extensive info about graphic files and helps locate potential problems according to user defined settings. Graphic Inspector is a preflight solution for both images and vector graphic files on the Mac OS Finder level. The program is designed to help users of any trade, whether it's print, web, prepress, publishing or digital photography. With Graphic Inspector, users can quickly get crucial information about entire folders of files thus eliminating the need to open and check each file manually. Graphic Inspector will display info about file's kind, color mode, resolution, compression, color profile, dimensions, spot colors, fonts, EXIF data and other attributes. The highly customizable Checkup Presets will let users quickly spot files with unwanted attributes saving hours of manual checking and helping eliminate costly mistakes. For example, users can...
Mar 01
equinux announces TubeStick
equinux announces TubeStick -- digital TV for=20 your Mac TV on your Mac is fun! Now the price is=20 too. Munich, Germany / San Mateo, CA USA, March 1st,=20 2007: Today equinux is introducing TubeStick, a=20 white Apple-esque DVB-T receiver designed=20 exclusively for the Mac. TubeStick connects to a=20 USB port and ships with equinux' new TV software=20 "TheTube", TV on the Mac is now simple and=20 intuitive. The device also works seamlessly with=20 equinux' own media center solution, MediaCentral. "TubeStick is a perfect match visually for all=20 current Macs, and thanks to its small size, it is=20 particularly attractive for notebook users.=20 Together with our new TV software 'TheTube', TV=20 on your Mac is a lot of fun. For our product=20 launch, we are also bundling TubeStick with=20 MediaCentral, for free. So users get two powerful=20 equinux software products as well as the=20 TubeStick hardware for the price of =A439,95=20 (rrp)", says Till Schadde, equinux CEO. TubeStick is...
Feb 28
Public Preview of The Missing Sync for BlackBerry
Public Preview of The Missing Sync for BlackBerry - Missing Sync reliability and usability for BlackBerry The Missing Sync for BlackBerry is built on the same technology that has garnered 4.5-mice ratings from Macworld magazine. It's built to be reliable, so that you can count on your information successfully making the round trip between your Mac and BlackBerry handset. I'm pleased to announce that Mark/Space, Inc. has just made available a public preview of The Missing Sync for BlackBerry. While the final release version won't be available until the end of the quarter, the public preview lets interested individuals take a pre-release version for a spin to check out its features. The Missing Sync for BlackBerry public preview synchronizes contacts, calendar events, tasks and notes between a Mac running Mac OS X 10.4.8 or later and a USB-capable BlackBerry handset running version 4.0 or later of the BlackBerry operating system. Owners of BlackBerry Pearls or the new 8800 series...
Feb 28
New Parallels Desktop for Mac
New Parallels Desktop for Mac Lets Users Run Windows Applications Like They Are Native Mac Applications Also includes Parallels Transporter for easy migration of existing systems to virtual machines, "Plug and Play" support for USB 2.0 devices, and loads Boot Camp partitions as virtual machines. RENTON, Wa. -- February 27th, 2007 -- Parallels announced today an update to its Desktop for Mac software, which enables users running Intel-powered Apple Macs to run Windows, Linux or any other operating system at the same time as Mac OS X, without re-booting. The new version of Parallels Desktop is anchored by Coherence, a groundbreaking new feature that runs Windows applications on the Mac like they are native applications. When users switch to Coherence mode, the Windows desktop disappears, leaving Windows applications, such as Outlook and Internet Explorer, running directly on the Mac desktop and from the Mac application dock. It is completely customizable, providing numerous options for...
Feb 28
LocationFree
London, UK, 27 February 2007 -- Miglia Technology, a leading manufacturer of digital media products, today announced its dedicated Apple Mac OS X based software for the Sony LocationFree Base Station. LocationFree (OS X), is a groundbreaking software package designed especially for your Mac, working with the Sony's LocationFree Base Station. It enables you to stream wirelessly a TV or Video signal from your front room via your Broadband hub to your Mac Desktop wherever you may be. Imagine watching the TV in your front room, wirelessly in the back garden on your Mac laptop, or even in your hotel room whilst traveling. With Miglia's innovative LocationFree(OSX) software and the Sony's LocationFree Base Station you can watch live TV wirelessly on your Mac, play back recorded programmes and even set up future recordings from your Mac desktop anywhere. The Sony LocationFree Player, will support up to four externally connected devices like a DVD player/recorder or satellite receiver. "At...
Feb 27
Groupcal 3 Update
Groupcal 3 - the program that lets you use your Microsoft Exchange calendar from iCal has been updated 2007-Feb-27 : Snerdware announces an update to Groupcal 3, the popular program that lets you access and manage your Microsoft Exchange calendars from Apple's iCal: - synchronize your events and tasks - book people or resources for meetings - view Free/Busy time ... and more - all without installing software on your Exchange server Version 3.80 includes the following: - added ability to capture Exchange-based file attachments - improved invitation panel behavior to make it less intrusive - added a warning to turn off iCal syncing in Entourage if it's installed - added detection and instructions to help when a server's login setup is changed - fixed a bug where, in certain cases, the organizer/invite status of an event could be lost - changed syncing to create start/stop dates the way OWA/Outlook behaves to protect Exchange and ActiveSync (iCal allows start date but no due date)...
Feb 27
SuperDuper! 2.1.4
SuperDuper 2.1.4, improves many aspects of our 2005 and 2006 Macworld Eddy-award winning application, and adds compatibility support with Leopard for developers using the pre-release version. Of course, that's not all. In As always, we've continued our tradition of tweaking, fixing, enhancing and improving SD. This release includes scheduling improvements, the ability to have the screen off during updates, better automatic updates, and various other improvements. SuperDuper 2.1.4 still has all the capabilities introduced with 2.0, including: the ability to easily schedule backups; additional imaging options; more control over shutdown; better AppleScript support; hundreds of UI improvements; Growl support; and a readable, complete, task-based User's Guide. SuperDuper supports both Intel and Power PC Macs running Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later, and is a free update for existing users. The unregistered version will perform full backups for free. Registration costs $27.95, and includes many...
Feb 23
Fusion RIP Version 7.2 Released
February 23, 2007. Portland, OR -- Fusion Systems International (http://www.FusionSystems.com) today announced that it has released version 7.2 of the Fusion RIP for Mac OS X. This latest version of the RIP supports Apple's Mac-Intel hardware as well as PowerPC hardware. This latest version of the Fusion RIP builds on a range of features originally introduced with the 7.0 RIP, such as an advanced in-RIP font emulation capability for time-critical applications, full support for PDF/X-1a:2003 and PDF/X-3:2003 and the JDF 1.2 specification. Native support for Apple's Mac-Intel hardware and the latest versions of the OS X operating system is a key enhancement of the Version 7.2 release. Being Universal Binary compliant the new release can run on both the older *Apple PowerPC hardware as well* as all of the newest Apple hardware. Version 7.2 Fusion RIPs on Mac-Intel architecture also provide dramatic performance gains of more than *twice the speed* of earlier Mac PowerPC configurations....
Feb 23
MacSpeech Releases ScriptPak for iRemember
Salem, NH, February 22, 2007: Macintosh speech recognition authority MacSpeech Inc. has released new a new ScriptPak for iRemember from Intriguing Development. The new ScriptPak add over 100 commands to iListen, allowing users to do virtually anything in iRemember they would normally do using the keyboard or menus. "We are are thrilled the iRemember ScriptPak for iListen is available," said Doug Troxell, president of Intriguing Development. "I believe MacSpeech's continued development of ScriptPaks for Mac first, Mac only software such as iRemember demonstrates their commitment to the Mac market. We are confident scrapbookers will appreciate the ability to create, organize, and share their digital scrapbooks using a copy of iRemember that has been speech enabled for iListen." ScriptPaks work with MacSpeech's flagship product, iListen, whose TalkAnywhere technology allows users to dictate anywhere they would normally type. ScriptPaks enhance iListen's Command & Control capabilities...
Feb 22
Free MacForensicsLab Training CD
SubRosaSoft Announces Free MacForensicsLab Training CD Free training tutorial to learn about MacForensicsLab and forensic investigation Union City, CA -- February 21st, 2007 -- SubRosaSoft.com Inc. is proud to announce a free MacForensicsLab training CD. Learn to do a forensic investigation using the most powerful digital forensic program on the market, MacForensicsLab. Locate and catalog credit card numbers, social security numbers, and child pornography with ease. Zero in on suspect data with a few simple clicks. The tutorial offers insight into forensic investigation and walks the user through an investigation step by step using MacForensicsLab. Learn to acquire a disk image of a suspect drive, catalog and analyze the data and pin-point evidence. Find embedded files and deleted files. View search history, wireless and Bluetooth connections, email attachments, and much more. Then, once the investigation is complete, create professional customized reports with a few simple clicks....
Feb 22
fgrab 1.0b3, the screen movie utility
TIMESFORFUN.DE RELEASES FGRAB 1.0b3 BETA 3, THE SCREEN MOVIE CAPTURE UTILITY Germany, Feb 21, 2007 - TIMESFORFUN.de announces the release of fgrab 1.0b3 beta 3 for Mac OS X fgrab is a screen movie capture utility. Capture everything on the screen and save it as a QuickTime movie. Under the hood fgrab has a highly sophisticated capture engine. fgrab is still beta. Interested in beta testing? fgrab beta is about 70 % faster than the leading screen movie capture utility. On a MacBook Pro 1.83 GHz fgrab needs about 20% of the CPU processing power to capture the whole screen (1440 x 900 px @ 30 fps). If only a special area of the screen is in motion (that is the normal case), fgrab merely needs 5% or less. The third beta release is the first stable release. IMPORTANT: This kind of software is really hardware dependent and might not run properly on all systems, but on most! It's still beta... fgrab currently does not work properly with the Intel GMA 950 chip (in MacBook and Mac mini). fgrab...
Feb 21
SuperCard 4.6.2
February 20, 2007 - Solutions Etcetera announces SuperCard 4.6.2 Maintenance Release now shipping. Solutions Etcetera today announced that SuperCard 4.6.2, a maintenance update to its Universal Binary version of SuperCard is now shipping. The update is available, free of charge, to all registered SuperCard 4.6 users via download from the SuperCard website (http://www.supercard.us/). "We expected to see some issues with a port to a new hardware platform, and we did. This update addresses reported issues and, as always, we managed to throw in a handful of new goodies as well!" said Scott Simon, director of product development. SuperCard is the tool of choice for Mac professionals, educators, and hobbyists alike. Use it to create just about any type of application including games, teaching aids, utilities, personal productivity tools, automation tools, kiosks, and multimedia rich projects. Whether you're using Apple's newest Intel based Macs or the older PowerPC models, SuperCard lets...
Feb 21
Bare Bones Software Releases Yojimbo 1.4.1
BEDFORD, Mass. - February 20, 2007 - Bare Bones Software, developer of leading-edge power tools for Mac OS X, today released Yojimbo 1.4.1, an update to the reliable, effortless information organizer. The Yojimbo 1.4.1 update is a maintenance release that fixes reported issues and adds minor enhancements and refinements to this reliable, easy to use information organizer. Yojimbo 1.4.1 requires Mac OS X 10.4.3 or later. All registered Yojimbo customers may download the update free of charge from the Bare Bones Software web site: (http://www.barebones.com/support/updates.shtml) Yojimbo Organizes Everything Else --------------------------------- Yojimbo empowers Mac users to manage, effortlessly and securely, the onslaught of information encountered every day at work and at home, even across multiple computers. Yojimbo stores different data types: text notes, passwords, Web bookmarks, product serial numbers, PDFs, and web archives. Data input into Yojimbo follows familiar Mac user...
Feb 21
Sonnet Announces MacCuff Pro
Sonnet Announces Under-desk Mounting and Security Bracket for Mac Pro and Power Mac G5 Computers IRVINE, CA--February 20, 2007--Sonnet Technologies, a leader in upgrades and accessories for Macintosh computers, announces MacCuff Pro, the under-desk mounting and security bracket for Mac Pro and Power Mac G5 computers. MacCuff Pro enables users to hang their computer under a desk or table, secure it with the included steel cable (lock not included), and manage cables. Mac Pro and Power Mac G5 computers can be physically imposing; on top of a desk they can take up too much space. Sitting on the floor, computers are exposed to excessive dust, accidental kicks, and vacuum cleaner strikes. Cables can present an unsightly safety hazard. Any computer can be subject to unauthorized removal. MacCuff Pro provides an elegant solution for all of these problems. MacCuff Pro gets a Mac Pro and its cables securely under the desktop and off the floor! The MacCuff Pro bracket is constructed of heavy-...
Feb 21
Lasso Summit 2007 Keynote Address and Speaker Lineup Details
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - February 20, 2007 - OmniPilot Software today announced details about the keynote address and final speaker lineup for the Lasso Summit 2007 scheduled for March 2-4, 2007 at the Riverside Hotel in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Lasso Summit is the premier event for all Lasso developers of any skill level. This year Lasso will be celebrating more than ten years as an outstanding tool for publishing interactive, data-driven Web sites. The keynote address will be delivered on Friday, March 2nd by Kyle Jessup, Fletcher Sandbeck, and Kerry Adams. The keynote will feature some exciting announcements about the future of Lasso including a sneak peek at future technologies. Kyle Jessup and Fletcher Sandbeck are both Directors of Product Development at OmniPilot Software. Kerry Adams is the Director of Sales for OmniPilot Software. Collectively, they have over twenty years of experience working on Lasso. "Lasso Summit gives us an opportunity to reflect on the history of Lasso...
Feb 20
Dejal Simon 2.2.1
A Mac OS X application to monitor websites and servers for changes or failures. PORTLAND, Oregon -- February 19, 2007 -- Dejal today announced the immediate availability of Dejal Simon 2.2.1, the essential site monitoring tool for Mac OS X. It checks web pages, FTP and DNS servers, local or remote ports, and other services for changes or failures, and notifies you via e-mail, sound, speech, or HTML reports. Add tests to Simon to track updated sites, to alert you when an important server goes down or recovers, check on Samba SMB, take periodic screenshots of the system, track posts and new comments on your or friends' blogs, check for web mail, make sure a key application is running, get notifications of updates to favorite news and entertainment websites, keep an eye on auctions, and many other uses. Services include Web (HTTP) to check web pages (including secure ones, and supporting POST and cookies), FTP files and directory listings, DNS, Ping servers, watch a local Application,...
Feb 20
Nolobe Releases Interarchy 8.5.1
Perth, Western Australia - 2 February 2007 - Nolobe today announced the release and immediate availability of Interarchy 8.5.1, an update to its advanced file transfer application for Mac OS X. The Interarchy 8.5.1 update is a maintenance release that fixes reported issues and adds several other refinements to this award-winning file transfer application. Detailed information on all of the changes and improvements in Interarchy 8.5.1 can be found at: (http://nolobe.com/interarchy/releasenotes) For more information on Interarchy, and to download a fully functional demo version, visit the company's website: (http://nolobe.com/interarchy) The Interarchy 8.5.1 update is available free of charge to all registered Interarchy 8 customers from the Nolobe website: (http://nolobe.com/interarchy) Customers using a licensed version of Interarchy earlier than 8 can upgrade to Interarchy 8.5.1 for US$29.95: (http://nolobe.com/interarchy/support/upgrade) New customers can purchase Interarchy from...
Feb 16
Bare Bones Software Releases TextWrangler 2.2.1
BEDFORD, Mass. - February 15, 2007 - Bare Bones Software, Inc., developer of leading-edge power tools for Mac OS X, today announced the release and immediate availability of TextWrangler 2.2.1, an update to the award-winning text editor. TextWrangler 2.2.1 includes maintenance fixes to reported issues and minor refinements to this popular, general-purpose text processing tool. TextWrangler 2.2.1 requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later. All Textwrangler users may download the update free of charge from the Bare Bones Software web site: (http://www.barebones.com/support/updates.shtml) Text Engine for the Mac Community --------------------------------- Crafted in Bare Bones Software's best traditions as a leading Mac software developer, TextWrangler is a powerful general purpose text editor. It features a clean and easy to use interface and a rich set of features for composing and manipulating text. TextWrangler's feature set includes such diverse elements as multi-file search and replace with...
 
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Introducing the App Hall of Fame!
App discoverability continues to be a real issue. With the fast churn of apps in the App Store, an app has only a few weeks of promotional life in it before it‚Äôs largely forgotten. There are a few things developers can do to fix that, but those... | Read more »
Gobliiins Are Coming
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Roasting meat, in the cooking world, is about as simple as it gets. The greatest roast recipe I‚Äôve ever found is from Michael Ruhlman‚Äôs website, with the recipe titled, ‚ÄúThe World‚Äôs Most Difficult Roasted Chicken Recipe.‚Äù | Read more »

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