Realmac Software to preview RapidWeaver 3.5 at Macworld, San Francisco Brighton, England -- January 2nd, 2006 -- Realmac Software today announced they will be previewing the next major version of RapidWeaver at Macworld, San Francisco. The newest update of their hugely popular, easy to use web building software has been much anticipated by avid fans and existing users. RapidWeaver 3.5 has a slew of new, powerful features, including a wysiwyg table editor, enhanced Media Inspector, New themes, permalink support, native support for Intel based Macs (Universal Binary), and much much more. "We're really excited to be previewing RapidWeaver 3.5 at Macworld, We think users are going to be absolutely thrilled with this stunning new version." said Daniel Counsell, Realmac Software's Director. Every new version of RapidWeaver has improved upon the selection of default themes available. 3.5 continues this trend by adding new themes designed by professional graphic designers. "We believe this...

SMALL TREE COMMUNICATIONS TO DEMONSTRATE NEW FILE SHARING SYSTEM FOR MAC OS X AT MACWORLD 2006 "BlazeFS" To Produce Significantly Higher Transfer Rates CHIPPEWA VALLEY, WI, January 4, 2006-Small Tree Communications (booth #2411), an industry leader in providing unique, state-of-the-art enterprise networking solutions for Mac OS X, will be demonstrating BlazeFS, a new remote file sharing system designed specifically for Macs, during the MacWorld Expo in San Francisco. BlazeFS is a high performance file system designed to work in concert with the high performance networking products Small Tree is noted for, such as 10Gb Ethernet and InfiniBand. BlazeFS provides remote file sharing that is completely transparent to client applications and works as if the user were accessing files on a local disk. Additionally, BlazeFS can drive data to the maximum speed of a Gigabit Ethernet link. BlazeFS offers users the ability to store large data files, such as uncompressed HD video, on a file server...

SONOS INTRODUCES THE SONOS ZONEPLAYER ZP80 ZP80 Makes Existing Audio Devices Part of a Wireless, Multi-Room Digital Music System SANTA BARBARA, Calif. -- January 4, 2006 -- Sonos, Inc., the developer of wireless multi-room music systems for the digital home, today introduced a new ZonePlayer to complement the Sonos Digital Music System suite of products. The Sonos ZonePlayer ZP80 allows music lovers to play all their digital music, all over their house, on all of their favorite audio equipment -- a home theater system, powered speakers, a premium table top radio such as a Bose Wave Radio, and more. By connecting a ZP80 to any amplified audio device via the analog or digital outputs, that device instantly and seamlessly becomes part of a wireless, multi-room digital music system. This provides the consumer with the power to use the full-color Sonos Controller to control all of their music, in all of their rooms, all from the palm of their hand. "We created the ZP80 because many of...

MacTech New Home Page, Aggregated News feeds - New look and feel - Mac Community News Aggregator Geared for Techs - More accessible MacTech resources January 3, 2006 -- WESTLAKE VILLAGE, CA -- MacTech today released it's new home page at www.mactech.com including a new news aggregation section. The new home page not only gives readers the latest news and information that they rely on from MacTech, but now also shows users the latest news items available from a variety of quality sources around the Mac community. Unlike conventional RSS readers, MacTech has combined the feeds, and sorts them by time so readers can look at the industry as a whole, not just the point of view of one source. The feeds are from sources that many MacTech readers know, but also from resources they may not know about. One can see the most current items on the MacTech home page (http://www.mactech.com), or news only at (http://www.mactech.com/commnews-index.php) "In addition to the news we cover, MacTech's...

iPod Rock & Pop Quiz from Coolgorilla Coolgorilla is the name of a new website that develops applications for Apple iPods. Our debut release, the Coolgorilla Rock & Pop quiz, is now available to download FREE from www.coolgorilla.com Why is this special? With over 30 million iPod owners worldwide, this is the first software release which makes use of the iPod's ability to act as a sonic gaming platform. http://www.coolgorilla.com

SMALL TREE COMMUNICATIONS INTRODUCES FIRST COMPLETE 10GbE CX-4 SOLUTION FOR MAC OS X Fujitsu Agreement Provides High Performance, Low Cost Solution for Apple Space CHIPPEWA VALLEY, WI, January 3, 2006-Small Tree Communications, the leading provider of unique, state-of-the-art enterprise networking solutions for Mac OS X, has reached an OEM agreement with Fujitsu for its 10GbE CX-4 switches, enabling Small Tree to offer the first complete 10GbE CX-4 bundle solution in the Apple market space. The end-to-end integrated solution provided by Small Tree includes a 12 port Fujitsu switch, Intel 10GbE CX-4 Network Interface Cards, Small Tree 10GbE drivers and BlazeFS file sharing system software. "Fujitsu has an excellent reputation for providing products with high performance at attractive price points that are backed by exceptionally reliable engineering," stated Corky Seeber, president of Small Tree Communications. "This agreement will enable Apple customers to meet their increasing...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Invitation to All Musicians and Music Labels to Embed Synchronized Lyrics in Every Song for iTunes/iPod using iStar Composer January 3, 2006 -- Script Software (www.scriptsoftware.com) announced today an open invitation to all musicians and music publishers to start adding synchronized lyrics to every song they create using iStar Composer. "Downloadable music is convenient but it has been missing one critical item and that is LYRICS! In the 60's and 70's on the back of the record albums were the lyrics to the songs later in the 80's and 90's CD's had the lyrics on the inserts. Amazingly, downloadable music has not included the lyrics.", stated Ben Dunton, software designer, "iStar Composer remedies this loss by being the first and ONLY software that makes it easy for anyone to quickly embed synchronized lyrics in any song and even have them display sequentially in iTunes and on their iPods!" There is a constant battle to convince users to abandon music piracy...

QuickUML 2.0 for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux UML Software Design with Code Generation Placitas, NM -- January 2, 2006 - Excel Software began shipping QuickUML 2.0 for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. QuickUML is an intuitive UML tool, well suited to agile development methods or extreme programming. A tabbed window provides tight integration and synchronization to the entire project through use cases, class models, object models, dictionary and code. Each use case captures the essence of a user-visible function the system must perform. Class models show package and class objects in the system and various kinds of static relationships. Sequence diagrams illustrate how instantiated objects interact and emphasize the order in which things occur. A design project is saved as a platform independent XML file. QuickUML 2.0 adds user interface enhancements, new online help and code generation for several object-oriented programming languages. C++, Java and Delphi code can be generated from objects...

Campbell, CA -- Now loading your music and video is as easy as enjoying it! Wingspan, a Silicon Valley technology startup, announced iLoad and iLoad-v, devices that load music and video onto your iPod without using a computer. ILoad takes CDs and loads them directly onto the iPod. iLoad-v connects to cable or satellite "boxes" and loads video and music directly onto the iPod. iLoad has a suggested retail price of $249 and iLoad-v has a suggested retail price of $149. Both products are scheduled for release in early Spring 2006. More information is available at http://www.iLoad.com and +1 888-324-7979 Wingspan Investment Partners I, LLC 900 East Hamilton Avenue, Suite 100 Campbell, CA 95008

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Salem, NH, 2005-12-30: Macintosh speech recognition authority MacSpeech has released new ScriptPaks for Safari 2.0 and Mail 2.0. The new ScriptPaks install over 300 commands into iListen that allow the user to do virtually anything by voice in Mail and Safari they would normally do using keyboard shortcuts or menus. "We have been working hard to not only update our ScriptPaks for full Tiger compatibility, but to also add features that are most often requested by our customers," said MacSpeech Chief Evangelist Chuck Rogers. "Both the new Mail and Safari ScriptPaks are almost three times larger than our previous versions, giving iListen users unprecedented voice control of those applications." The ScriptPaks for Mail 2.0 and Safari 2.0 are sold separately for $10 each and are available immediately from the MacSpeech online store. iListen 1.6.8 and Mac OS 10.4 ("Tiger") are required to use the new ScriptPaks. Mac users are invited to visit MacSpeech in booth 738 at...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Athenaeums v1.5.0 Released by Deep Sky Technologies, Inc. EIMS Filter Adds Support for Document Permissions and Fully Capable Demo Vero Beach, FL - Tuesday, December 27th, 2005: Deep Sky Technologies, Inc., today announced the release of Athenaeums v1.5.0 for Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X. Athenaeums is an EIMS filter for archiving of standard EIMS log documents, specifically the error log, mail log, sending error log, and console log. This latest release of Athenaeums adds support for dynamically reloading preferences, document permissions under Mac OS X, automatica update notifications, notification manager control preferences, and a fully capable demo mode. The new version of Athenaeums is free to all license holders as of December 2005. Any license for Athenaeums valid through the month of December 2005 are free to upgrade to Athenaeums v1.5.0. Upgrade licensing is available for older license holders at 50% off the current initial license cost. Every night at...

Eltima Software releases freeware SWF Movie Player for Mac. Enjoy your Flash movies collection on your favorite platform. SWF Movie Player by Eltima Software is a free, small and streamlined Flash player for Mac OS, which features a lot of unique and convenient extensions, such as zooming, playlist, SWF Info, standard movie controls -- everything which standard Flash lacks. Based on the standard Macromedia Flash player for Mac OS X, SWF Movie Player by Eltima Software offers advanced features that allow you to play, rewind, fast-forward and preview SWF files frame-by-frame, and also create and manage playlists, zoom movies in and out, fit to current window size or restore to original one, set playback quality, control Flash security, check SWF file's comprehensive information and lots more. Among other useful features you may discover unique algorithms to find out whether the Flash movie has been finished, which is not always a simple task since quite a few of SWF files are not...

Unity 1.2 Release Adds 10 Big New Features December 22, 2005 -- Finally Unity 1.2 has been released. Brimful with features, more stable and more extensible, we're proud to announce a Unity that delivers better cross-platform game development than ever. A beautiful overview of the 10 big new features (including previously unannounced features such as full-screen motion-blur and blob shadows) can be seen at (http://unity3d.com/whatsnew.html). As always, we offer a free two week trial, and the 1.2 upgrade is free to existing customers (as are all 1.x upgrades). Try or buy at (http://unity3d.com). Those who have already used up their trial can use the serial number UNITY-XMAS-2005 to try out Unity Pro over the holidays. After requests from the corporate world we are also announcing paid support based on the popular tech-incident model. Read more here: (http://unity3d.com/support.html). BACKGROUND Unity is a 3D game editor with powerful cross-platform capabilities. A full-fledged GUI app...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SubRosaSoft.com LLC. Ships CipherWorks 4.0. --Powerful application provides a complete solution for protecting your privacy-- SubRosaSoft.com LLC. today announced the immediate availability of CipherWorks 4.0. CipherWorks is a utility that lets Mac users protect their data from unauthorized access. Built for OS X, this easy-to-use program allows users to encrypt and decrypt files, as well as password protect your hard disks, memory cards and other types of storage. Based on SubRosaSoft CipherDisk and FileUtilities, CipherWorks 4.0 protects your data at two levels. You can use CipherWorks to protect and hide your hard disks, portable drives, memory cards, and other types of storage. You can also use CipherWorks to apply strong encryption to files and folders. CipherWorks allows you to permanently erase a file, a folder, the free space of a volume, or a complete drive in a secure manner, making it impossible for anyone to retrieve previously deleted files and...

NetShred X 3.16 Mireth Technology adds new browsers, mail cache and quicktime cache shredding Vancouver, Canada, Dec 21, 2005 -- Mireth Technology Corp. has released version 3.16 of NetShred X, its easy to use internet track eraser that securely deletes internet tracks, such as cache, history and email trash. NetShred X runs on Mac OS X. Version 3.16 adds several advanced features including support for the latest versions of several browsers, and some new features. NetShred X is the easy-to-use internet track eraser software for Mac OS X that erases files web browsers and email programs leave behind. It's the internet privacy software that is designed to be easy, fast and cleaner. Because internet privacy software can't be effective if it's not used, NetShred X was designed to run automatically, without user intervention. And since erasing temporary internet files can take some time, NetShred X was designed to run in the background, so using the software doesn't interfere with the...

Mobile High Speed updated to version 4.24 Use more mobile phones and PC Data Cards with Mac OS X Berlin, Germany, December 21st -- nova media adds support for additional phones and PC Data Cards for mobile Internet connections around the globe. The updated list of devices now supports the Motorola RAZR V3x and Motorola ROKR E1, the Nokia N70 and Nokia N90, the Samsung ZM60 and Samsung D600, the Sony Ericsson w550i as well as the PC Data Cards Option Globetrotter 3G EDGE, Sierra Wireless AC 750, 775 and AC 850. Mobile High Speed 3G software is a mobile internet connection wizard and already includes more than 280 connection settings for 3G UMTS-, EDGE- and GPRS-networks around the globe and is available for Euro 75,- plus VAT at nova media's website. About nova media: The founders of "nova media Mobile Data Solutions GmbH" started their business in 1996 in Berlin. The company is specialized on mobile data solutions for Mac OS, Windows and Palm OS. More information at http://www....

Trans Intl. Announces 2 Terabyte Internal Storage Solution for Macintosh G5 Dual/Quad Core ANAHEIM, Calif., December 20, 2005 - Trans Intl. today announced the immediate, worldwide availability of SwiftData200R. This new version of the popular Swiftdata 200R is engineered to give Dual and Quad-core Macintosh G5 users over 2 terabytes of internal SATA storage. Through innovative engineering the SwiftData200R neatly fits an additional 3 drives inside a Macintosh G5 Dual and Quad-core computer. Combined with the two drives already in the Macintosh G5's SATA internal drive bay - that's a total of 5 internal hard disk drives. This will give the user over 2 Terabytes of storage - enough for over 140 hours of uncompressed DV video - for audio professionals, this translates to over 3000 hours of stereo PCM audio. These drives can be used as RAID Type 0,1,5,10 or JBOD. One free PCI express slot is required for the SATA PCI express RAID card to control the additional drives. Trans International...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE HistoryHound 1.9 Sniffs out Keywords in RSS Feeds and Web Pages You've Visited or Bookmarked (Blacksburg, VA -- December 20, 2005) St. Clair Software is happy to announce the release of version 1.9 of HistoryHound, its fast, efficient utility for indexing and searching web pages that you've bookmarked or visited recently. HistoryHound 1.9 now lets you search and display RSS feeds as well as web pages from your browser history and bookmarks. It also delivers stability, efficiency, and speed improvements in its indexing and searching of pages you've viewed in Safari, Internet Explorer, Firefox, OmniWeb, Camino, Mozilla/Netscape, Opera, and Shiira web browsers or the built-in browsers of the NetNewsWire 2 and PulpFiction RSS readers. Just type in a word or words that appeared on a page or RSS feed you've seen before, and HistoryHound will find it! The update is free for registered users, and is localized for English, Japanese, French, and Danish-speaking Mac OS X...

Subject: [PR] New Take Control Ebook Documents Apple's .Mac Service FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE New Take Control ebook provides the documentation .Mac users need to make the most of their memberships. Ithaca, NY USA (December 15, 2005) -- Apple Computer's .Mac service offers oodles of features, but many users either don't realize all that's available or haven't figured out how to use all of .Mac's capabilities as effectively as possible. Now .Mac users can find friendly guidance in best-selling author Joe Kissell's "Take Control of .Mac," which covers all of .Mac's major features. After helping readers get set up and giving an overview of .Mac, the ebook delves into the major .Mac services: Mail, iDisk, .Mac Sync, Backup, HomePage, and Groups. Readers will learn the best ways to read email via the .Mac Web interface or in an email program, how to share files with others via an iDisk, and the ins and outs of synchronizing data between multiple Macs. The ebook also provides real-world advice...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Dejal announces Simon 2.1 A Mac OS X application to monitor websites and servers for changes or failures. PORTLAND, Oregon -- December 15, 2005 -- Dejal Systems today announced the immediate availability of Dejal Simon 2.1, the essential site monitoring tool for Mac OS X. It checks sites for changes or failures, and notifies you via e-mail, sound, speech, HTML reports, or other means. You can use it to track updated sites, and to alert you when an important site goes down or recovers. Developed in Cocoa, it is a native Mac OS X application with an intuitive and attractive user interface. This is a significant update to Simon. This release adds much requested HTML reporting, View Options, and several other improvements. See the release notes for more information. Pricing & Availability: Simon is immediately available through Dejal's online store (www.dejal.com/store/). Three license levels are available: "Basic", allowing up to 7 tests, priced at $29.95 (US...

Awaken 2.2 by Embraceware (Major upgrade) Released Today - Thursday, December 15, 2005 http://www.embraceware.com/products/awaken/ Description Awaken is a digital alarm clock that wakes you up by playing the iTunes playlist of your choice. Alarms can be created to alert you on a weekly basis at a set time, or at any specific date and time. You can also fall asleep to your favorite music using the sleep timer. This new version includes a feature where Awaken does not need to remain running for an alarm to work - Awaken will launch itself at alarm time. Awaken Features - Easy to use interface which was designed in accordance with Apple's Aqua Human Interface Guidelines. - Weekly and specific date alarms at any time. - Customizable sleep timer. - Wake-From-Sleep feature which allows Awaken to wake the computer from sleep at the time of an alarm. - Utilizes your playlists that have been created in iTunes. - Current song information and album artwork displayed at alarm time. What's New in...

Apago's PDF Enhancer 3.1 Users Put Powerful New Features of PDF Production Tool to Work Immediately Alpharetta, GA - December 13, 2005 - Apago Inc., a software developer for the graphic arts and document management industries, today announces the immediate availability of PDF Enhancer 3.1, a powerful production tool for PDF document assembly and preparation tasks. PDF Enhancer streamlines the creation of PDF documents by automating the most common preparation tasks, including assembly, optimization, stamping, cropping, imposition and color correction, which previously required several applications and extensive manual labor. The latest upgrade, which was introduced in September at the Print 05 tradeshow, adds several important features, including support for Mac OS X version 10.4 (Tiger), font repair, new color correction options and digital signatures. "We are pleased to release an updated PDF Enhancer that incorporates many new features and capabilities that our customers requested...

BRU SERVER 1.2 FROM TOLIS GROUP SETS ANOTHER HIGHWATER MARK FOR APPLE MAC OS X DATA BACKUP AND RESTORE Proven BRU technology now combined with the look, feel, and workflow familiar to Macintosh users * Totally new human interface defined by the Macintosh community * Simplified method for backing-up client/server computing environments * Live database backup for Windows client systems * Able to recover from read errors during a restore when other tools abort SCOTTSDALE, Arizona -- December 15, 2005 -- TOLIS Group, Inc., developer of the ultra-reliable BRU brand of data protection solutions, today announces BRU Server 1.2 for Mac OS X, whose human interface was influenced by the input of hundreds of experienced Macintosh users worldwide. "Prior to developing this third version release of BRU Server for Mac OS X environments, we asked a lot of questions - listened carefully - and incorporated the feedback into the resulting BRU Server 1.2 solution," said Tim Jones, president/CTO of...

Version 5.1 Of Now Up-To-Date & Contact For Macintosh Now Shipping Version 5.1 provides enhanced network capabilities and web publishing, shared keywords and numerous ease-of-use improvements. Support for Intel-based Macs coming. COLUMBUS, OHIO -- December 13, 2005 -- Now Software today introduced Now Up-to-Date & Contact 5.1 for Macintosh. Version 5.1 provides a wide selection of enhancements and improvements, including upgraded web publishing and networking, shared keywords across categories, and improved reliability. Now Up-to-Date & Contact was just awarded "4 and =BD mice" by Macworld Magazine in its February 2006 newsstand issue, saying "...for small businesses--especially those that are cross-platform and expect to grow--and for businesses that need centralized calendaring, contact, and resource management, Now Up-to-Date and Contact is an excellent choice." "Version 5.1 of Now Up-to-Date & Contact contains a long list of improvements for our customers," said...

For immediate release: Typinator 1.2 released - new version offers insertion of formatted text Hagenberg, Austria: December 13, 2005 - Ergonis Software today released Typinator 1.2 for Mac OS X. Typinator, a typing automator, enables users to rapidly insert text or graphics into any type of application. Like PopChar, Ergonis Software's widely used tool for inserting special characters into text, Typinator's intuitive interface and ease-of-use result in immediate productivity gains, even for non-technical users. The new version 1.2 can insert formatted text, restores the clipboard content after insertion, and offers a number of other new features, improvements and fixes. To download the new version, visit the Typinator product page at http://www.macility.com/products/typinator/. Typinator speeds repetitive typing tasks and eliminates manually introduced errors. To set up an often-used text or image in Typinator, you simply define an abbreviation along with its replacement text or image...

Crossman Software announces MacPOSX Retail Point-of-Sale software featuring AuthPayX CC software for Mac OS X For Immediate Release Erie, Pennsylvania/ Naperville, Illinois -- Crossman Software http://macposx.com today announced the availability of its MacPOSX product for Mac OS X featuring integration with Parallel Software's www.authpayx.com AuthPayX credit card processing software. MacPOSX (Pro) provides point-of-sale (POS) functionality including inventory management, UPC scanning, barcode printing and web-based selling features, for small to medium sized retail chains and business owners. Crossman Software started its operation in 1984 and is the oldest continuously running designer of POS software for Apple Macintosh in the USA. MacPOSX gives retail business owners the benefit of their knowledge in this domain over the last 25 years and is now extending this software to allow for Internet selling of products and services using the same MacPOSX foundation. MacPOSX (Pro) is a...

ConceptDraw V now fully supports MS Visio Odessa, Ukraine, December 12, 2005 - Computer Systems Odessa releases major upgrade of ConceptDraw V the professional business and technical diagramming package for Windows and Macintosh. New features are: * Export to XML for MS Visio * Support of alpha-channel * Possibility to choose a type - color in object's custom properties * Possibility to print current ConceptDraw document page * Enlarged units of measurement * Improved ConceptDrawBasic editor * Expanded Task-specific libraries of shapes * Increased speed of data processing * Improved text operations "The major focus of version 5.5.0 is to facilitate document exchange with MS Visio users by adding Export to XML for MS Visio. We believe this function makes the sharing of document between ConceptDraw V and MS Visio easier", - says product manager of ConceptDraw V Sergey Savenko. The program adds support of alpha-channel, which allows applying transparency to any object, line, filling,...

OPEN DOOR NETWORKS REVS SECURITY PRODUCT LINE ASHLAND, OR. -- December 12, 2005 -- Open Door Networks Inc. today announced major new releases of its Macintosh Internet security products. Who's There? Firewall Advisor 2.0, DoorStop X Firewall 1.1 and "Internet Security for Your Macintosh: A Guide for the Rest of Us," second edition, are all available immediately, either individually or as part of Open Door's newly-announced DoorStop X Security Suite (see "Open Door Networks announces the DoorStop X Security Suite"). Who's There? 2.0 is a modernized version of Open Door's long-popular firewall advisor application. Who's There? 2.0 includes an integrated version of "Internet Security for Your Macintosh," indexed by service. Users who want to learn more about access attempts to specific services can simply consult the sections of the book relevant to those attempts. They can also browse the book on a section-by-section basis. Who's There? 2.0 includes a number of other new features, such...

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE POLE POSITION SOFTWARE GmbH ADS SMS INTEGRATION TO LANrev MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE; LANrev 1.5 RELEASED TODAY NEUNKIRCHEN, GERMANY AND ADDISON, TX (December 9, 2005) -- Pole Position Software GmbH, a multi-national software company focused on industry leading network management solutions, announced today the release of LANrev Management software, Version 1.5. LANrev now offers an extensive integration with Microsoft's Systems Management Server (SMS). This integration allows LANrev to transfer Macintosh computer data to the SMS database allowing management of the data from within the SMS framework. The result is the further leveraging of previous capital costs to increase efficiencies and add functionality to existing tools. Additional enhancements in LANrev 1.5 include significant performance gains and various application advancements. "LANrev's SMS integration allows our customers to further leverage their investment in SMS," said Peter Frankl, co-founder of Pole...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ChronoSync Widget Released December 9, 2005 -- Econ Technologies releases ChronoSync Widget, a free Widget that manages all your ChronoSync synchronizations and backups. The ChronoSync Widget and ChronoSync 3.1 are available for download at www.econtechnologies.com. Purchase ChronoSync, the automated synchronization and backup application for Mac OS X, for only $30. Easily manage all of your synchronizations and backups with the new ChronoSync Widget. When used in conjunction with ChronoSync, you can view a complete list of your synchronizations and their scheduled times. Also, you can open and run any synchronization listed. The ChronoSync Widget is a quick, convenient, and easy tool to retrieve information about scheduled documents within the ChronoSync application. ChronoSync Widget requires Mac OS 10.4 and is a free download. It is available at: http://www.econtechnologies.com/site/Pages/Downloads/download_free.html ChronoSync is the easy way to synchronize...

Rumpus FTP 4.3 Receives Major Update Remote administration, improved international language support, automated error detection and simplified management top the list of updates to class-leading file transfer server. December 8, 2005 - Rumpus FTP, the premier Internet file transfer server for Macintosh, has been significantly improved in the latest update from Maxum Development. Rumpus 4.3, released today, includes dozens of updates, and several major new capabilities: Remote Administration The Rumpus control application can now be used to monitor access, define users and adjust settings of a Rumpus server from any desktop Mac. Automatic Problem Detection Rumpus now automatically checks for common problems, such as server conflicts and firewall contention, and tells administrators how to resolve them. Settings Backup Assistant Rumpus settings, including preferences, user accounts, and other configuration files can now be backed up easily using a simple assistant. Extended Character...

New Club Opens For iPod Users Spymac Network, Inc., creators of the world's largest online Macintosh community, today opened the doors to Club, its new premium service created specifically for iPod and Apple Macintosh users. New York, NY (PRWEB) December 7, 2005 -- Spymac Network, Inc., creators of the world's largest online Macintosh community, today opened the doors to Club, its new premium service created specifically for iPod and Apple Macintosh users. Club members can do everything from showcasing what songs they listen to in iTunes, to starting an online Group which includes a private discussion and chat room, online schedule, gallery for sharing pictures, movies and songs, 12GB of storage, desktop integration and more. The $25 USD per year subscription service also lets members share their files and bookmarks with specific groups of friends, making it the ideal tool for students, businesses and educators requiring a private, secure method to collaborate online. For an overview...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Salem, NH, 2005-12-07: Macintosh speech recognition authority MacSpeech has released a new ScriptPak for iMovie HD. The new ScriptPak installs over 75 commands into iListen that allows the user to do virtually anything by voice in iMovie they would normally do using keyboard shortcuts or menus. This replaces the previous iMovie ScriptPak, which was compatible with iMovie 3. "You can crop, move the Playhead, split tracks, and much more -- all by voice," said MacSpeech Chief Evangelist Chuck Rogers. "Adding this to iListen is like giving the home movie editor their own production assistant." The ScriptPak for iMovie HD is available immediately from the MacSpeech web site and sells for $10. iListen 1.6.5 or later is required to use the new ScriptPak. MacSpeech is also offering free shipping on selected purchases through the holidays, and every purchase also entitles the user to two free passes to January's Macworld Expo in San Francisco. Details are available on the...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: iStar Composer 1.0 - Create Synchronized Lryics for Songs in iTunes and on the iPod Kapaa, Hawaii, December 6, 2005 -- Script Software (www.scriptsoftware.com) announced today the release of iStar Composer. iStar Composer is an original and major new application that allows anyone to synchronize lyrics with downloadable music and then to export these synchronized lyrics for viewing in iTunes and on the iPod. Know someone who loves their music? Give them the best and most unique iPod gift this holiday season, iStar Composer. Download iStar Composer and try it out: http://www.scriptsoftware.com/composer Downloadable music is very convenient but it is missing one very important thing and that is LYRICS! In the 60's and 70's on the back of the record albums were the lyrics to the songs. In the 80's and 90's CD's had lyrics in the inserts. Amazingly, downloadable music does not have lyrics. This loss is remedied by iStar Composer an original application that doesn't...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE New Take Control ebook offers essential advice for digital camera buyers Ithaca, NY USA (December 6, 2005) -- Digital camera buyers who need help understanding camera reviews or putting all the info together to make a purchase can now find up-to-date advice in the the second edition of "Take Control of Buying a Digital Camera." Written by professional photographer and instructor Larry Chen, the $10 ebook provides a soup-to-nuts guide to the process of purchasing a camera and gives tips for how to get the most out of the camera once it's purchased. The ebook's release kicks off a holiday gift-buying sale at Take Control Books - shoppers can save 50% on all consumer electronics titles through December 26th. "Take Control of Buying a Digital Camera" assists readers at every step along the way, providing help with budgeting and understanding what types of photos they want to take, friendly advice about the many possible camera features, expert guidance on reading...

MonkeyBread Software Releases Combine PDFs 2.1 NICKENICH, Germany (December 6, 2005) -- Monkeybread Software releases version 2.1 of the application Combine PDFs. Combine PDFs is a utility which allows you to merge PDF and image (jpg,tiff,etc.) into one PDF file. Combine PDFs v2.1 is made with REALbasic from REAL Software, Inc. Requires Mac OS X; source code is included. This application shows REALbasic developers how to use the QTGraphicsImporterMBS class together with the CoreGraphics PDF classes to create new PDF and embed pages from other PDF files. The application is freeware, but contributions are accepted through PayPal. Changes in version 2.1: * Fixed a failed assertion some users saw after the application finished work. * Added button to add files. * Added button to remove a page. All freeware applications: (http://www.monkeybreadsoftware.de/Freeware/) The Combine PDFs website: (http://www.monkeybreadsoftware.de/Freeware/CombinePDFs.shtml)

High Powered Transceiver Blasts Out Long Distance Wireless for Apple AirPort Base Stations 1000 milliwatt RF Power Extends Wireless Range To The FCC Max WICHITA, Kan. --12/06/05-- QuickerTek announces a 1,000 milliwatt (1 Watt) Plug N Play Transceiver for Apple AirPort Base Stations. Attaching to the external antenna port on the Base Station, this Transceiver offers the FCC's maximum allowable wireless signal strength. At only $450 USD, the PNP Base Station Transceiver the perfect solution for difficult wireless areas where only maximum RF power will do. The Plug N Play 1 Watt Transceiver can be mounted inside or outside - ideal when the wireless signal must reach out from one building to another building. While the RF power is more than impressive, this product can be installed and in use by any ordinary Mac user. A waterproof 7dBi omni directional antenna is part of package too - making the products truly "plug and play". The AirPort Base Station does not not need to be opened to...

Objective Development announces LaunchBar 4.1 beta 2 for Mac OS X Vienna, Austria - December 5, 2005 -- Objective Development today announced the availability of a new beta version of LaunchBar 4.1, bringing new features and improvements to its popular, award winning search utility. LaunchBar offers an amazingly intuitive and efficient way to search and access any kind of information stored on your computer or on the web. It provides instant access to your documents, contacts and bookmarks, to your music library, to applications, search engines and more, just by entering short abbreviations of the searched item's name. You just hit Command-Space to bring LaunchBar's input window to front, enter an arbitrary abbreviation, and already while you're typing LaunchBar displays the best matching choices, ready to be accessed immediately. LaunchBar 4.1 delivers a whole bunch of new options for opening items (which are now listed in detail in LaunchBar's context menu), supports color labels,...

ELECTRIC BUTTERFLY RELEASES HELPLOGIC 1.0pr6 Major Update to Award-Winning Help Authoring Tool Adds Support for PDF Publishing LOS ANGELES, California (December 5, 2005) -- Electric Butterfly, Inc. proudly announces the release of HelpLogic 1.0pr6, the sixth public pre-release of the award-winning help authoring solution for cross-platform developers. HelpLogic 1.0pr6 is available in a Mac OS X Edition and a Windows XP Edition. Easily create help systems for your software and web sites from a single source! HelpLogic's innovative design removes the development headaches usually associated with help authoring, providing an ideal solution for cross-platform software developers, web site designers, and documentation writers. Save time with the integrated Workshop, Visual TOC Builder, HTML Editor, and Link Manager to quickly generate Web-based Help, Apple Help, Microsoft HTML Help, UniHelp, and now PDF! The latest Pre-Release 6 is a major update that includes several new features and...

Fontographer 4.7 Port Angeles, WA, USA November 28, 2005. Fontlab Ltd. announced today the release of Fontographer 4.7, the first Mac OS X-compatible version of the popular font editor. What was the first B=E9zier drawing program for Macintosh computers? =46ontographer, created by Altsys in 1985 and later developed by Macromedia. This font editor played a key role in the development of digital font technology by bringing type design to the desk of an individual designer. Easy-to-learn and straightforward, Fontographer remained the favorite font creation tool for many typographers, graphic designers and some professional type designers. In 1996, Macromedia released Fontographer 4.1.4 for Mac, the last official version of Fontographer for the Macintosh platform. The development of the product went on hold. In May 2005, Fontlab Ltd. licensed Fontographer from Macromedia and made the promise to its users to fix the most crucial bugs and make the product compatible with Mac OS X. Six...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Salem, NH, 2005-12-01: Macintosh speech recognition authority MacSpeech has released a new ScriptPak for iPhoto version 5. The new ScriptPak installs over 100 commands into iListen that allows the user to do virtually anything by voice in iPhoto that they would normally do using keyboard shortcuts or menus. This replaces the previous iPhoto ScriptPak, which was compatible with iPhoto 2. "The ability to sort photos or control slideshows by voice brings a new dimension to iPhoto," said MacSpeech Chief Evangelist Chuck Rogers. "This update to our popular iPhoto ScriptPak contains almost twice as many commands as its predecessor." The ScriptPak for iPhoto 5 is available immediately from the MacSpeech web site and sells for $15. iListen 1.6.5 or later is required to use the new ScriptPak. ScriptPaks work with MacSpeech's flagship product, iListen, whose TalkAnywhere technology allows users to dictate anywhere they would normally type. ScriptPaks enhance iListen's...

Offenburg, Germany - November 30th, 2005 - E.R.S "Pleasant software for the people" announces the upcoming podcast production suite =DCbercaster. =DCbercaster is a complete production suite for podcasting on the Macintosh. Garageband is for musicians, =DCbercaster for podcasters. Producing a show o= n a Mac can be as easy as everything else. Say goodbye to the laborious combination of programs. =DCbercaster let podcasters prepare, record, cut an= d release their shows the way they'd expect it. With its podcasting specific features and its =FCber appealing design =DCbercaster defines a new standard for integrated podcast production. =DCbercaster will be available early 2006 and requires a G4 Mac with Mac OS = X 10.4 or better. =46or more information and first screenshots of =DCbercaster visit http://www.ubercaster.com Specific news about the state of development are available on the =DCbercaster blog at http://www.ubercaster.com/blog E.R.S "Pleasant software for the people" has been...

Radical Breeze announces Intel support, releases DiscBlaze 6.0.3 EVERETT, Washington (November 30th, 2005) -- Radical Breeze is announcing that DiscBlaze, their popular CD/DVD burning software for Mac OS X, will be available as a native Intel application the day the firs Macs with Intel processors ship. In addition, DiscBlaze 6.0.3 is available today. Between 6.0 and 6.0.3, DiscBlaze has received new preferences for customizing the user interface, bug fixes and updated online help. "An Intel native version of DiscBlaze 6 will be available the very day that Apple ships the first Intel-based Macs," stated Bryan Lund, president of Radical Breeze. "Whether that day is a month from now, or 6 months from now... DiscBlaze will be there." About DiscBlaze (http://www.radicalbreeze.com/blaze/index.html) : DiscBlaze is an easy to use, full featured application for burning data and audio to CD's and data to DVD's. DiscBlaze also provides easy disc image creation, multi-session CD burns, easy...

For Immediate Release Eltima Software performs SWF to FLA conversion under Mac OS One of a kind utility for Mac OS to convert Flash SWF files back into FLA Eltima Software releases second to none software - Mac OS compatible SWF to FLA Converter that delivers functionality to convert any Flash SWF movie file into its source code FLA format. SWF to FLA Converter will carefully parse a Flash file into components and save it as FLA which can be edited again in native Flash environment. Simply select a Flash movie for conversion and define a name for an output file to get FLA document from SWF in a single click. SWF to FLA Converter for Mac OS is extremely easy in use and makes conversion process fast and comfortable. If you want to experience full performance capabilities, switch to the advanced mode to set particular preferences that will ensure desirable effect. There are over 50 different options available to customize Flash elements' processing during conversion, ability to group...

Merlin version 1.3.7 released! Melle, Germany - November 29, 2005 - ProjectWizards today announced the release of Merlin version 1.3.7, their project management application developed exclusively for Mac OS X. Version 1.3.7 is packed with new features which project managers will no doubt find extremely useful in their project planning and organisation. Merlin's project website has been optimised. It is now possible to select the period of days you would like to to see the contents of displayed on the website. Therefore, you can share your projects with your clients or colleagues over the website for more then the previously 14 day period. All milestones contained in the project can optionally be displayed on the project website. Furthermore, the amounts for task work and duration can now also be viewed on the project website. With these modifications to the project website we have made sharing projects over Merlin's "Create Website" function more flexible and informative. The Gantt...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Two new ebooks offer essential guidance to Apple Mail users Ithaca, NY USA (November 29, 2005) -- With the addition of Spotlight searching, smart mailboxes, photo management, and HTML support, the Tiger version of Apple Mail provides unmatched capabilities. But Mail 2.0 lacks detailed independent documentation about how to make the most of these new features, a gap now filled by a pair of essential Take Control ebooks, the new 184-page "Take Control of Apple Mail in Tiger" and an updated-for-Tiger version of the 66-page "Take Control of Spam with Apple Mail." The ebooks are available separately or in a discounted bundle for $12.50. In the $10 "Take Control of Apple Mail in Tiger," best-selling ebook author Joe Kissell teaches readers about the different email protocols Mail supports, the best ways to set up new accounts, how to import messages and addresses, and how to manage Mail's parental controls. That's just the beginning, as Joe next explains how to...

Vvidget Graphing Server Packs More Features November 29, 2005 VVI today announced the release Vvidget Server version 10.3.1, a high- transaction web graph and report server compatible with all popular web browsers and web application programming tools. Vvidget Server is being used for mission critical situations in industries ranging from financial service to manufacturing. These situations require integration with many services, a high degree of reliability, and scalability. Improved features include: - Caching requests to dynamic queries decreases latency of the server response and increases the scalability of data input. - Web applications can communicate directly with Vvidget Server using standard HTTP communication. That means no special libraries are required for communication between web applications and Vvidget Server. - Vvidget Server logging can be adjusted to aide in optimizing transactions, from summary information to individual transaction detail. - New keys to determine...

Bubblegym, a game that is controlled by tilting the whole computer, has a new release. The game utilizes the SMS (Sudden Motion Sensor) and hence will work for the latest Powerbooks and iBooks. For other computers, the tilting can be simulated by using the arrow keys although most of the experience is lost. Feel free to check it out. Latest versions available at: http://www.balooba.se