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<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-178192"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Apple has  released QuickTime Player 7.6.6. The 10.65MB download requires Mac OS X 10.6.3 or higher.
This is all Apple has to say about the update: "QuickTime Player 7 supports older media formats, such as QTVR, interactive QuickTime movies, and MIDI files on Snow Leopard. It also accepts QuickTime 7 Pro registration codes, which turn on QuickTime Pro functions."
You can obtain QuickTime Player 7.6.6 via the Software Updates component of Mac OS X's Systems Preferences app.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-178151"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">The iPad version of the iWork apps (Pages, Numbers, Keynote) are already on track to potentially generate more than US$40 million in annual sales, according to an analysis of Apple App Store sales so far by "Silicon Alley Insider" (http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-sales-revenue-pages-keynote-numbers...).
In face, sales of the app have "probably" already passed $3 million in sales so far, the article says. And "Silicon Alley Insider" predicts that Apple's overall iPad revenue could top $1 billion just this quarter.
"Also, the article says "it shows there is a real appetite for serious apps on the iPad, a device that many have shrugged off as a toy." It also suggests that Microsoft and Google may want to make sure their office suites -- whether Web-based or apps -- work well on the iPad, adds "Silicon Alley Insider."</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-178141"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">The first crop of iPad apps may draw user approval for being "beautiful," but they also create user frustration as people try to figure out where to touch in order to interact with them, according to usability expert Jakob Nielsen whose user-experience research firm Nielsen Norman Group today released results from a usability study of 34 iPad apps.
Not only are users' hard earned web-interaction skills not transferable to iPad apps, the learning for one app does not necessarily apply to the next one. Early iPad apps are marked by inconsistent interaction design.
"It's the Wild West all over again in interaction design," Nielsen says. "We're seeing the same thing we saw 17 years ago in web design when anything a designer could draw could be a user interface whether it made sense or not. That's happening with the iPad apps. Anything you can show and touch can be a user interface on this device. There are no standards or expectations, and users just don't know what to do, or even what...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-178135"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">In a new report Phil Leigh of "Inside Digital Media" (http://www.insidedigitalmedia.com), a market research firm specializing in the future of media, said Apple will introduce as-yet-unannounced products to address market opportunities in the digital living room and media and transactional online services. But the Mac will continue to play a big role in the company's future.
In fact, in an interview with "MacNews," Leigh says the Mac itself is going to continue to gain consumer market share -- and then more market share in the business world. It's a trend that's already underway.
"Many families will essentially transfer over to the Mac platform," Leight says. "It will be the best choice for many as it's more digital media centered. Then, gradually, we'll see the Mac gain market share in the office environment as top level execs become Mac users and tell their IT departments to make the platform work in their environment."
The analyst doesn't see companies with hundreds of employes and...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-178129"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">The online security experts at Sophos (http://www.sophos.com/) have identified a fake Apple US$50 iTunes certificate that spreads malware currently doing the email rounds, reports "Macworld UK" (http://www.macworld.co.uk/ipod-itunes/news/index.cfm?olo=rss&NewsID=3223005).
Sophos's Graham Cluley, writing on his blog, warns the malware email attachment can infect Windows computers. "Clearly the hackers are hoping that in your excitement about receiving a $50 iTunes gift certificate that you will throw caution to the wind and open the attachment," Cluley notes.
Sophos detects the malware, contained inside a ZIP file as Troj/BredoZp-AM and Mal/FakeAV-BW.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-178128"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">A trio of new Take Control ebooks (http://www.takecontrolbooks.com/) provide real-world advice on using Apple Mail on the Mac, iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch, with a focus on device and account integration, and on managing spam. All are written by email expert Joe Kissell
In "Take Control of Mail on the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch" (US$10), Kissell takes a practical look at using the Mail app on an iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch. He covers various email account options including: Exchange, MobileMe, and Gmail; helps readers develop a real-world mobile email strategy that integrates with multiple devices and other computers; explains the mechanics of sending and receiving mobile email; and provides troubleshooting advice.
In "Take Control of Apple Mail in Snow Leopard" ($15), Kissell walks readers through the nuts and bolts of receiving, composing, and sending email. He covers advanced topics, including: real-world Exchange, MobileMe, and Gmail integration; mastering sophisticated...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-178127"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">eMedia Music Corp. (http://www.emediamusic.com) has released version 3.0 of eMedia Piano and Keyboard Method. New advanced audio recognition software technology works not only with electronic keyboards but with acoustic pianos.
And an Instant Feedback feature actually listens to the student playing melodies and shows whether the correct notes are played. In addition, the new Note Tracker shows the actual note being played in standard music notation.
Over 300 lessons are now presented in scalable full-screen resolution for viewing. The over 70 videos can also be viewed in full-screen.
Piano instructor, Irma Irene Justicia, who has taught at the Juilliard School of Music, starts with the basics -- including hand position, rhythm, and playing on black keys -- and moves on to reading music notation, scales, sight-reading, and more. You will learn over 100 popular classical, blues, pop, and rock songs, including hit songs from artists such as Billy Joel, Bob Dylan, and Elton John as the...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-178121"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Smith Micro Software has released Spring Cleaning 11 Deluxe for Macintosh, a suite of utility tools packed into one solution that enables users to clean up, optimize and maintain their Macs with tools that organize files, reduce clutter and completely uninstall unwanted applications.
According to Pauline Shumake, senior product manager, Productivity and Graphics Group at Smith Micro Software, the features and benefits of Spring Cleaning 11 Deluxe include:
° A new QuickBackup feature that enables users to run a simple back up of selected files, as well as monitor files so they are automatically backed up when modified;
° A new MagniFile feature that cmbines a file information viewer and disk usage monitor, which lets users quickly view dozens of properties in text or graph format;
° Improved custom search that helps users find what they are looking for by optimizing the search on two fronts: utilizing a Spring Cleaning custom file-based search or a Spotlight-based scan of the computer'...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-178119"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">In order to support its revMobile customer base, Mirye Software (http://www.mirye.com) says it submitted an in-depth proposal to Apple that it create an iPhone-only product that uses native Cocoa objects, supports 100% of their application programming interface (API), "works perfectly with multitasking and battery life, but uses a variant of the revTalk language to use these objects and APIs, and then translates those into native code.
"While a significant engineering departure for us from the current revMobile path, this solution would have resulted in perfect-quality iPhone-only applications impossible to distinguish from native applications," says Lynn Fredericks of Mirye Software. "Apple clearly and distinctly turned down the proposal with a very clear message from Steve Jobs himself."
he says RunRev is regrouping from this set back, and revMobile as it is planned will be re-engineered into a prototyping tool.
"Our view at Mirye Software is that the field is clear and open for...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-178106"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Newer Technology has expanded its hard drive accessory line with the introduction of the US9.95 StoraDrive stackable anti-static case solution (http://www.newertech.com/products/storadrive.php) for storing, protecting, and organizing any bare 3.5-inch hard drive. It sports a sliding drive storage drawer for access without disrupting other cases.
Each drive drawer includes a convenient label area for content identification. The stackable, interlocking design enables more StoraDrive cases to be added as storage needs grow. Anti-static injection molded ABS plastic provides durable drive storage and non-skid rubber feet keeps the case and drives securely positioned.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-178071"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Revenue related to consumer use of cloud-based backup/storage sites will grow from almost US$75 million in 2009 to more than $372 million in 2015, at a CAGR [compound annual growth rate] of 27.89%, according to new info from ABI Research (http://www.abiresearch.com).
According to ABI Research practice director Larry Fisher, “The consumer value proposition for many cloud computing applications is simple; they’re free. Most of the 1000+ US consumers responding to a 2010 ABI Research survey said they were hesitant to pay anything for use of a cloud-based service site.”
Right behind the price/cost issue, the major reason most would consider using a cloud-based application was ubiquity: the concept that they could access their valued content from any Internet-connected computer. ABI Research’s analysis found that just 11.6% of the US consumer market for online backup/storage services was paid for in 2009. Most cloud-based backup and storage sites provide consumer services either entirely...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-178048"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">O'Reilly has released "iPhone App Development: The Missing Manual" by Craig Hockenberry, developer of the Twitterific iPhone app. The book costs US$39.99 and includes illustrated, step-by-step tutorials and real-world examples.
° Get to know the tools for developing your iPhone app;
° Design a great app before you start coding;
° Build a complex app with Xcode and Interface Builder;
° Decide how to brand your app -- then beta-test that brand in the real world;
° Learn the inside scoop on how to get your app into the Apple App Store.
More information about the book, including table of contents, index, author bios, and cover graphic, see: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596809782 / .</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-178045"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Apple has blamed the GST, not international price gouging, as the reason Australian consumers are being forced to pay more for the iPad, according to the "Herald Sun" (http://www.heraldsun.com.au/entertainment/apple-denies-profiteering-with...).
Victorians will have to pay $629 for the entry level 16GB version of the device -- about $70 more than for the same model sold in the US. Australians will pay an average 12 % more for the six various iPad configurations than US buyers.
Corporate affairs spokeswoman Fiona Martin told the "Herald Sun" if not for the GST component, the difference between an iPad bought in the US and Australia would be marginal.
"The (Australian) price is actually very comparable to the US price," Martin said. "The difference is just the effect of local taxes such as the GST. If you took the GST off it, the difference would be as little as $6 or $7."</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-178044"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">In Japan models of the 3G iPad will be SIM-locked to Softbank Mobile, which has evidently negotiated an exclusivity deal on the device, reports "All Things D" (http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20100510/ipad-3g-sim-locked-to-softba...). Softbank is the exclusive carrier of the iPhone in Japan.
This is a bit surprising since NTT DoCoMo President Ryuji Yamada said during an earnings call last month that the company would sell iPad-compatible micro-SIM cards in time for the device’s launch in the country. But "evidently, Apple has been pleased enough with Softbank’s support for the iPhone to tweak the multiple carrier distribution plan it had intended for the iPad outside the states" or "the company has always been open to international SIM-lock exclusivity deals," says "All Things D."</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-178031"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Troi Automatisering has released Troi Dialog Plug-in 5.5.2 for FileMaker Pro 11. The upgrade adds support for bigger icons and offers several other tweaks and bug fixes.
Troi Dialog Plug-in is a tool for displaying all sorts of dialogs in FileMaker Pro 11. The text of the dialog and of the buttons can be created dynamically by using a calculation.
A fully functional demo version of Troi Dialog Plug-in 5.5.2 is available for downloading at Troi's web site (http://www.troi.com/software/dialogplugin.html).
Troi Dialog Plug-in 5.5.2 works with FileMaker Pro 9, 10 and 11. The plug-in can also be used with runtimes from FileMaker Pro Advanced 9, 10 or FileMaker Pro Advanced 11. The plug-in is available for Mac OS X and Windows.
On Mac OS X the plug-in runs in Mac OS X 10.5.7 or higher. The plug-in also runs on Windows Vista or Windows 7. QuickTime 7 or later is needed for the Dial_PresentImage() function.
Licenses cost US$59 per user. Details on developer licenses and multi-user packs can...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-178020"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Phil Leigh of "Inside Digital Media" (http://www.insidedigitalmedia.com), a market research firm specializing in the future of media, says Apple will introduce as-yet-unannounced products to address huge latent market opportunities in the digital living room and media and transactional online services.
"Since the turn of the century Apple evolved from a secondary computer company into the most potent force transforming media," Leigh says." It is the premier digital media innovator as evidenced by the iPod, iPhone and most recently the iPad. Basically each introduction defined a new product category or enabled an incipient one to 'cross the chasm' into mass market acceptance. More of the same is expected in the future, not only from products but also from transactional services."
Most any business affected by the future of media will be directly impacted by Apple’s future innovations, he adds. Moreover, its existing product lines alone will carry the company past the $100 billion...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-178021"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Tension Software has updated Product Manager (http://pomola.com/products_productmanager/productmanager.html), software for managing a company's products from different points of view, to version 1.5. The update adds a Customizable To Do Report, Customizable Bug Report and report printability.
Product Manager is document based and can manage an unlimited number of documents each with an unlimited number of products inside, subdivided in families. It can be a general repository for all the data used for marketing and technical management. It requires Mac OS X 10.5 ("Leopard") or 10.6 ("Snow Leopard").
According to the folks at Tension Software, Product Manager allows to organize products in a logical subdivision. For every product the user can store: the main data with generic data fields; release notes; press releases; a bug list; and a to-do list. The main data area is customizable.
Any product can have a release description list with an unlimited number of release descriptions for...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-178017"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">There might be a new MacBook Air released this week, according to "Macworld Australia" (http://www.macworld.com.au/news/view/macbook-air-update-this-week-4886), quoting "a well-placed source familiar with Apple inventory levels and product refreshes."
The source says the number, MC516LL/A K87 BETTER BTR-USA, most likely points to a Mac product due to the "BETTER" segment of the product code. "Macworld Australia" notes that this could refer to a 27-inch display, which could be a new Cinema Display or, less likely, a new, high-end iMac.
However, "it looks like there are several thousand on their way to Australia this week, which suggests a major new product," "Macworld Australia" notes. The MacBook Air was last updated in June 2009.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-178015"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">The Android operating system (OS) continued to shake up the U.S. mobile phone market in the first quarter (Q1) of 2010, moving past Apple to take the number-two position among smartphone operating systems, according to The NPD Group (http://www.npd.com), a market research company.
NPD’s wireless market research reveals that based on unit sales to consumers last quarter the Android operating system moved into second position at 28% behind RIM’s OS (36%) and ahead of Apple’s OS (21%).
“As in the past, carrier distribution and promotion have played a crucial role in determining smartphone market share,” says Ross Rubin, executive director of industry analysis for NPD. “In order to compete with the iPhone, Verizon Wireless has expanded its buy-one-get-one offer beyond RIM devices to now include all of their smartphones.”
Strong sales of the Droid, Droid Eris, and Blackberry Curve via these promotions helped keep Verizon Wireless’s smartphone sales on par with AT&T in Q1. According to...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-178010"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">President Barack Obama, a BlackBerry user, "declared war on technology," singling out Apple’s super-popular iPods and iPads for criticism at a commencement ceremony in Virginia, the "New York Post" and "Fox News" (http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/05/10/obama-warns-grads-twitter-ipad...) report.
"With iPods and iPads and Xboxes and PlayStations -- none of which I know how to work -- information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather than a tool of empowerment, rather than the means of emancipation," Obama said at Hampton University in southeastern Virginia.
Obama described the most popular offerings of companies like Apple, Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo as "distractions" that are putting unnecessary pressure on the country. He also lamented the spread of social media and blogs, through which "some of the craziest claims can quickly claim traction."</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-178009"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">The WirelessHD Consortium (http://www.wirelesshd.org), the largest 60GHz initiative worldwide and the only wireless standard that provides wireless lossless A/V support, has announced immediate availability of the WirelessHD 1.1 specification announced this January at the Consumer Electronics Show.
This next generation WirelessHD specification enables HDTVs, Blu-ray disc players, PCs and portable devices to transmit, share and display content in billions of colors with unprecedented vividness and accuracy as well as instantaneously transfer large multi-gigabyte media files among a variety of devices, according to John Marshall, chairman of the WirelessHD Consortium.
The WirelessHD specification is currently supported by over 45 global technology companies. Products implementing WirelessHD 1.1 technology will be backward compatible to those products using WirelessHD 1.0 technology. Marshall says the WirelessHD 1.1 specification includes the following updates:
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-178008"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">MaBaSoft (http://www.mabasoft.net) has updated its World Clock Deluxe time tool to version 4.7. In the new version, 96 cities in Antarctica, Australia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, French Polynesia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, New Zealand, North Korea, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam have been added to the World Clock Deluxe database.
The software now supports all-year-round Daylight-Saving Time. Also, Daylight-Saving information for Morocco, Samoa, Western Sahara, and for San Luis, Argentina has been updated.
With World Clock Deluxe you can display multiple clocks in a horizontal or vertical palette, in the menu bar and in the Dock, show Coordinated Universal Time and Internet Time, assign labels and colors to clocks, calculate date and time conversions across different time zones and show the current weather all over the world. The software is Universal Binary and runs in English, German, Dutch,...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-178007"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Bruji (http://www.bruji.com) has announced updates to DVDpedia, Bookpedia, CDpedia and Gamepedia, their "Pedia" media cataloging programs for Mac OS X. They retrieve information from numerous international search sites via iSight scanning and keyword searches.
Users can organize their media in collections and folders, export in various different formats, including HTML, and access statistics about their databases. The Pedias are fully Mac OS X 10.6 ("Snow Leopard") compatible.
In this latest version of the Pedias, the iSight scanning feature has been revamped from the ground up and is faster and compatible with most cameras for scanning. In addition users can choose which camera to use for scanning when more than one is connected to the Mac. Several new search plug-ins have been added, including The Open Movie Database, a new film database built with user-generated content.
The HTML export has been expanded with a new searchable and sortable template, "FancyIndex", written by Pedia...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-178006"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Filter Forge has announced a beta and pre-order availability of Filter Forge 2.0 (http://www.filterforge.com), an update of the plug-in for Adobe Photoshop allowing computer artists to build their own filters: textures, visual effects, distortions, patterns, backgrounds, frames and more. Just remember: beta software is unfinished software, so use with care.
With the second version of the software. Filter Forge 2.0 will feature full support for unlimited HDR colors, shadows via ambient occlusion, point and area lights, and dozens of new components to create filters from. It's available for pre-order at a special price; pre-order customers can save up to US$170. The offer is valid until the commercial release of Filter Forge 2.0 which is planned for the second quarter of the year.
Filter Forge is a Photoshop plug-in that lets users create a variety of realistic and abstract textures and effects. Users can take instant advantage of over 7,100 free community-created filters in the online...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-178005"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Filter Forge has announced a beta and pre-order availability of Filter Forge 2.0 (http://www.filterforge.com/download.beta2/), an update of the plug-in for Adobe Photoshop allowing computer artists to build their own filters: textures, visual effects, distortions, patterns, backgrounds, frames and more. Just remember: beta software is unfinished software, so use with care.
With the second version of the software. Filter Forge 2.0 will feature full support for unlimited HDR colors, shadows via ambient occlusion, point and area lights, and dozens of new components to create filters from. It's available for pre-order at a special price; pre-order customers can save up to US$170. The offer is valid until the commercial release of Filter Forge 2.0 which is planned for the second quarter of the year.
Filter Forge is a Photoshop plug-in that lets users create a variety of realistic and abstract textures and effects. Users can take instant advantage of over 7,100 free community-created...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-178003"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Reggie Ashworth has updated AppDelete (http://reggie.ashworth.googlepages.com/appdelete), an application deleting app for Mac OS X, to version 3.1.1. It's a maintenance update that fixes an issue where AppDelete might not launch on a user account, and includes various localization edits. Also, the Apps panel search has been expanded, as well as miscellaneous optimizations throughout.
Via drag 'n drop, AppDelete will delete any chosen app with all of its associated items that belong to that application. You'll no longer have to hunt through their system to find and delete these items manually.
You can drag any item that can be uninstalled onto AppDelete: applications, widgets, preference panes, plug-ins, screensavers, etc. You can also activate AppDelete in many ways: dragging items onto main window, onto dock icon, selecting in menu, right-clicking using AppDelete workflow, and throwing items in the trash. When the preview screen appears you can uncheck any items you would like to...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-178002"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Pantone has announced Pantone Plus, the next generation of the Pantone Matching System. Enhancements include the chromatic arrangement of colors for more intuitive selection, an expanded palette of spot colors, the addition of new premium metallics and a broader range of neons.
 
Pantone Color Manager Software, available free-of-charge with every Plus Series purchase, lets designers update their favorite design applications with the new Plus Series Color Libraries. An added feature allows users to convert spot colors to CMYK simulations based on loaded ICC profiles. Creatives can also access the entire Pantone Plus Series from their iPhones with the myPantone iPhone application. Additionally, with the myPantone X-Ref iPhone application, designers can easily cross-reference all Pantone Color Libraries.
 
All guides in the Plus Series include a ColorChecker Lighting Indicator to instantly show whether current lighting conditions are suitable for color evaluation. All books in the Plus...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-177999"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Hamrick Software has released Vuescan 8.6.29, a new version of the VueScan software for Mac OS X that's designed to let users produce better digital images from color snapshots, negatives, slides and documents. The new version offers an increase in the speed of saving files and refreshing the screen.
The Standard Edition of VueScan costs US$39.95 and the Professional Edition is $79.95 for a single user license. Multi-user licenses are available. A fully functional, trial copy of VueScan is available for download from the Hamrick web site (http://www.hamrick.com).</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-177998"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Hmmm. So here's another reason Apple CEO Steve Jobs may hate Flash. Apple is developing an alternative to the technology called Gianduia. Well, it's more than a Flash alternative, but it definitely has the potential to harm Flash.

According to "AppleInsider" (http://www.appleinsider.com), it's a client-side, standards based framework for Rich Internet Apps, to create production quality online apps for its retail users.
Apple introduced Gianduia last summer at WOWODC (World of WebObjects Developer Conference), an independent event scheduled near the company's own WWDC event in June.
Gianduia, named after an Italian hazelnut chocolate, is "essentially is browser-side Cocoa (including CoreData) + WebObjects, written in JavaScript by non-js-haters," developer Jonathan "Wolf" Rentzsch told "AppleInsider." While the emerging new support for Rich Internet App features in HTML5 is often pitted competitively against Flash, Gianduia, SproutCore and related frameworks demonstrate that...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-177742"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Macgamestore.com has released Namco's Mishap: An Accidental Haunting (http://www.macgamestore.com/detail.php?ProductID=1467) for Mac OS X 10.4 or higher. It costs US$9.95. A free, 60-minute trial version is available for download.
Here's how the game is described: "Mishap is a casual game where players will take on the role of Kelly and Brock Burton, a young couple that have just moved into their new dream home. Unfortunately for them, it happens to be haunted. As they prepare to pack up and leave, they are suddenly greeted by the peculiar Milton Hobblepop, self described Professional Paranormal Investigator & Exterminator. With his help, they set out to clear their house of a group of particularly unfortunate ghosts
"Enter the domains of these eccentric specters and search for objects hidden through over 30 beautifully illustrated rooms. As you discover the details of the departed houseguests, you'll have to solve enigmatic riddles left behind for the living. Assemble custom...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-177741"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Quark will be onsite at EMC World (http://www.emcworld.com/) next week in booth #100 as a part of the Content Management Momentum Zone. At the event Quark will demonstrate the integration of Quark XML Author for Microsoft Word (http://dynamicpublishing.quark.com/xml_author/) with EMC Documentum.
The integration of Quark’s XML authoring tool with EMC’s leading content management system allows organizations to adopt XML in order to improve collaboration on content creation, enable content reuse, and comply with regulatory mandates.
 
With Quark XML Author any Microsoft Word user can purportedly create intelligent and reusable XML content with little or no training. Documentum users can then manage, review, and edit the XML content created with Quark XML Author.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-177740"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Realmac Software has updated RapidWeaver (http://www.realmacsoftware.com), its web site creation application for Mac OS X, to version 4.4. It adds adds support for the popular Disqus commenting system, along with a number of other small tweaks and enhancements.
RapidWeaver 4.4 is a free update for registered users of RapidWeaver 3.6 and 4.x. A new license is priced at US$79, while users of RapidWeaver 3.5 or earlier can upgrade for $30. RapidWeaver 4.4 is available to download and buy from today in English, French, German, Italian, and Japanese. Family packs and site licences are also available.
RapidWeaver 4.4 is a Universal Binary app, requiring Mac OS X 10.5 or 10.6. A demo is available for download.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-177739"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Black Cat Systems has updated MultiMode (http://www.blackcatsystems.com/software/multimodeOSX.html), a Mac OS X application that lets you Mac decode several different modes of non-voice communication often heard on shortwave, to version 6.1.0. This version fixes bugs that can cause distorted audio on PowerPC Macs.
MultiMode is an US$89 application that lets your Mac decode and transmit several different modes of non-voice communication often heard on shortwave and ham radio. It allows you to decode and display morse code, RTTY, FAX, SSTV, ACARS, PSK31 and many other modes on your Mac, without any extra hardware. MultiMode now also allows you to transmit in most of the modes of operation. A lite version is also available which decodes CW, RTTY, and weather fax modes, which is ideal for the sailor and boating enthusiast.
MultiMode Lite is also available, which offers reception of CW, RTTY, and FAX modes only. MultiMode Lite is ideal for sailors who need to be able to view weather charts...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-177737"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Eternal Storms (http://www.eternalstorms.at) has updated their flickr client, flickery, for Mac OS X 10.5 or higher to version 1.9. The upgrade features plugins for both Aperture and iPhoto for better integration and supports flickr Galleries.
With flickry, you can browse flickr's photos, view and comment on pictures of your friends, or upload and manage your own photos and favorites. flickery offers three ways of viewing photos: the miniature-overview of the photos where you can see multiple pictures at a time; the full-window-view, which lets you view one photo at a time in detail; and the full-screen view.
You can upload photos to your flickr.com account, as well. The app also gives you the possibility of editing your photos before you upload them. flickery costs US$19.95, though version 1.9 is a free update for registered users.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-177734"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Orange announced that it's extending its partnership with Apple to offer new iPad plans for customers in the United Kingdom, France, Spain and Switzerland.
The partnership between Orange and Apple, which has already seen iPhone launch with Orange in 30 countries across Europe, Middle East and Africa, will extend later in 2010 with the launch of iPad in additional Orange markets.

Orange UK will offer tailored 3G data plans for iPad Wi-Fi + 3G, from May 10,and will launch a pre-registration site for SIMs at Orange.co.uk/iPad. Pay-as-you-consume, daily, weekly and monthly data plans will be available, providing the freedom to choose a type of plan depending on usage. 

Orange will offer micro-SIMs for iPad free of charge to consumers. Starting May 10, the micro-SIMs can be ordered from Orange shops, http://www.orange.co.uk/shop and Orange telesales, as well as directly from Apple.

iPad users will also benefit from access to Orange iPad apps, including Orange Wednesdays, a 2-for-1...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-177733"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">CBS has made only a limited number of promotional clips available for viewing on the tablet device, but Anthony Soohoo, senior VP and general manager of CBS Interactive, told us that by the start of the fall season it plans to have all the same video available on the Apple iPad that is available on CBS.com.
Unlike ABC, which built an iPad app to deliver its full-length episodes and promotional clips on the device, CBS decided to focus on delivering video through its web site, CBS.com. Since the iPad doesn’t support Adobe Flash, CBS has created a video site for the iPad through HTML5 instead, reports "NewTeeVee" (http://newteevee.com/2010/05/07/cbs-will-have-full-slate-of-web-video-on...). Soohoo expects CBS to deploy increasingly more video that's iPad-ready, until it reaches content parity with what’s available on the web site through a computer, the article adds.
As for why CBS decided to go with a web video strategy, rather than an app strategy, Soohoo told "NewTeeVee," “When we...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-177729"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Apple shares fell as much as 6% Friday as the tech sector joined in a broad-market selloff, reports "MarketWatch" (http://www.marketwatch.com/story/apple-takes-6-hit-in-wake-of-nokia-suit...).
Apple shares recovered some of their losses, but remained down by US$11 a share at $235 on volume of more than 25 million shares exchanged. Separately, Nokia Corp. said it was suing Apple for patent infringement involving the iPhone and iPad 3G products.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-177606"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Passes for Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference sold out in eight days, a record time. The 2009 event took a month to sell out.
WWDC 2010 will be held June 7-14 at San Francisco's Moscone West. Apple says the five-day conference includes the first ever iPad development sessions and hands-on working labs for iPhone OS 4, as well as Mac OS X core technology labs (though the focus is definitely more on the iPhone OS).
There will be five iPad and five iPhone Apple Design Award winners announced at WWDC 2010 (alas, Mac apps need not apply). There's no requirement to enter and winners will be selected from the Apple App Store based on criteria that includes design, technical excellence, innovation, quality, technology adoption and performance. Visit the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2010 website for registration and more details at developer.apple.com/wwdc .</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-177601"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Growth of the worldwide converged mobile device market (commonly referred to as smartphones) more than doubled that of the overall mobile phone market in the first quarter, a sign the segment is in high-growth mode again. And Apple had a banner quarter.
According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, vendors shipped a total of 54.7 million units in the first quarter of 2010 (1Q10), up 56.7% from the same quarter a year ago. In contrast, the overall mobile phone market grew 21.7%. Converged mobile devices accounted for 18.8% of all mobile phones shipped in 1Q10, up slightly from 14.4% in 1Q09.
Apple more than doubled its shipments from a year ago, with more iPhones arriving outside its home territory of North America. CEO Steve Jobs announced the latest operating system update, enabling multi-tasking, folders, enhanced email, iBooks for consumers, and iAd, a mobile advertising platform, for developers. A fourth generation iPhone is...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-177583"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Apple says the iPad will be available in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK on Friday, May 28. Customers can pre-order all iPad models from Apple’s online store in all nine countries beginning on Monday, May 10.
In the US, Apple has already sold over one million iPads and customers have downloaded over 12 million apps from the App Store, as well as over 1.5 million ebooks from the new iBookstore.
Apple plans to release iPad in Austria, Belgium, Hong Kong, Ireland, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand and Singapore in July. Apple will announce availability, local pricing and pre-order plans for these nine additional countries at a later date.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-177576"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Stairways Software (http://www.stairways.com) has released Keyboard Maestro 4.3, the new version of its productivity enhancer for Mac OS X. The upgrade adds device triggers, allowing macros to be executed when you press modifiers, mouse buttons, and programable keyboards like X-Keys from P.I. Engineering, as well as allowing the results of AppleScripts and shell scripts to be typed or pasted directly and more.
Using Keyboard Maestro's macros you can: control applications, windows, or menus; insert text; open documents, applications or URLs; execute scripts; control the system or iTunes; and more, all with the touch of a key, click of the mouse, periodically or at specific times, when an application is launched or running, or even over the Internet using Keyboard Maestro's built in web server.
Using Keyboard Maestro's Program Switcher and Window Switcher you can cycle through applications or windows, closing, hiding, launching, and more. The software lets you close or hide multiple...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-177453"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Virtual Programming will publish a Mac version of Supreme Commander 2 (http://www.supremecommander2.com/) later this year. Pricing and system requirements haven't been announced.
Here's how the game is describe: "A single shot. That’s all it takes to end the tenuous peace between the United Earth Federation (UEF), the Aeon Illuminate, and the Cybran Nation, a mere 25 years after the three created the Colonial Defense Coalition and worked together to defeat the invading aliens known as Seraphim. The assassination of the newly elected president of the Coalition brings the three to the brink of war in Supreme Commander 2, the sequel to the highly-acclaimed strategy title that captivated gamers three years ago."
Supreme Commander 2 will be available as a digital download at Virtual Programming’s Deliver2Mac.com service and will also ship to retail as a boxed product.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-177452"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Ambrosia Software has updated iToner (http://www.ambrosiasw.com/utilities/itoner/), an utility for Mac OS X that lets iPhone users create and install custom ringtones on the Apple communications device, to version 2.9.5. This update streamlines several low level iPhone syncing, communication, and support processes.
iToner allows you to assign different ringtones for your different contacts. With iToner, you can now "have a Barry White ringtone for when your girlfriend calls, Frank Zappa for when your college buddies ring you up, or the theme from "Jaws" for when your boss is calling," according to the folks at Ambrosia.
iToner is Universal Binary so runs natively on both PowerPC and Intel Macs. It works with Mac OS X 10.4.10 or later. iToner costs US$15, though version 2.0.5 is a free update for registered users.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-177451"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Black Cat has updated Audiocorder (http://www.blackcatsystems.com/software/audiocorder.html), an audio recording app for Mac OS X, to version 5.4.0. This version adds an option to allow the format of the automatically generated sound filename to be set by the user. It also includes bug fixes with the scheduled recording option.
You can use Audiocorder in one of three ways. First, it can work like a standard tape audio recorder. Second, Audiocorder works like a VCR; you can program when it should start and stop recording. Third, Audiocorder can work like a VOX (voice operated) audio recorder. The Voice VOX feature attempts to distinguish between “real” audio, such as speech and music, as compared to static, making it easier to record off of shortwave radio, etc.
Audiocorder is available for Mac OS X 10.2 and later. It costs US$19.99.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-177447"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">The iPad 3G remains sold out in most of the company's retail stores, prompting "Notify Me" waiting lists that will give customers first priority when supplies are replenished, reports "AppleInsider" (http://www.appleinsider.com).
Ten Apple stores across the U.S. contacted by the web site Thursday were all sold out of the 3G-capable model of the iPad, in all storage capacities. Some of the stores said they were also sold out of all Wi-Fi models, while others had limited stock, the article adds.
Customers who want the iPad 3G, first released last Friday, can sign up for Apple's "Notify Me" service, which will e-mail customers when the product comes back in stock. Those who sign up for the list have first priority on the iPad 3G, and will have 24 hours to pick up the device when it arrives in store.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-177446"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Secret documents justifying a search warrant in an investigation of an iPhone prototype, which prosecutors say was reported stolen, should be made public, media organizations said in a court filing, reports "Bloomberg" (http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601204&sid=ajLGdFnokgF4).
The First Amendment Coalition, a nonprofit public interest group, and six media organizations asked a state judge in Redwood City, California, yesterday to unseal an affidavit filed by investigators who obtained a warrant to search the home of a technology blog editor. The blog "Gizmodo.com" said it paid a 21-year-old college studentUS $5,000 for the phone, after it was found in a bar in March.
“A warrant is a very intrusive device, especially for a journalist,” Peter Scheer, an attorney and executive director of the San Rafael, California-based media group, said in a phone interview with "Bloomberg." “Affidavits are supposed to be public records and the public has a legitimate interest in seeing...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-177445"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Inside Yahoo! (http://ymobileblog.com/blog/2010/05/06/apple-ipad-user-analysis/) has compiled some stats on iPad users and have found, not surprisingly, a male skew in the 35-44 age group among these early users.  In fact, among all users, men outnumber women 2:1.
Given the economy, people with higher earning power were probably the first to buy the iPad. The first Yahoo! iPad users were 94% more likely to be affluent consumers with solid wealth and strong incomes than typical U.S. Yahoo! users.
The sweet spot for the Yahoo! iPad user is within the 35-44 age category, where the population composition is 36% higher than the typical Yahoo! user. Additionally, iPad users over-indexed within the age ranges 30-54 compared to the average U.S. Yahoo! user.
During the measurement period, the iPad has only been available for purchase in the U.S. market; however, Inside Yahoo! observed approximately 10% of IP traffic coming from Europe and Asia Pacific. Specifically, the U.K., France, and...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-177299"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">AT&T and Apple probably have a quid pro quo in place that has extended the mobile carrier's exclusive deal with the iPhone in exchange for heavily-discounted data plan pricing for the iPad, Brian Marshall, an analyst at BroadPoint AmTech, tells "Computerworld" (http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9176351/AT_T_extends_iPhone_exclu...).
"AT&T had to do something dramatic to get the iPad," he says. He thinks that, in exchange for its special data pricing for the iPad, AT&T was able to negotiate a six-month extension on the iPhone exclusive.
Many analysts had predicted the AT&T-Apple deal to expire this summer, three years after the two companies first partnered on the iPhone. At one time, Marshall was among those who figured that the expiration meant Verizon, the country's largest mobile provider, would also sell the iPhone this year. No longer.
Marshall tells "Computerworld" that he thinks that Verizon won't have the iPhone until the first quarter of 2011. He based...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-177284"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Sagois Slu has released Serisag 310 for Macintosh and Windows platforms (http://www.sagois.com/en/serisag/index.html). It lets you manage your serials, licenses, installers and their invoices, keeping them organized.
Version 310 adds an Expenses summary tab. Also now you can get a month and year summary of real and purchase prices.
Serisag is being offered for US$2.90 for the rest of the month; it's normally $19.90. The offer expires May 31.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-177278"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">There's a new line of instruments, custom-made for Live by Ableton's favorite sound partners. These new partner instruments are available now at the Ableton web shop (http://www.ableton.com/partner-instruments).
The range of sounds includes sampled grand pianos, Balinese gamelan, EBow guitar, boutique vintage synthesizers, found objects, acoustic and electronic percussion, atmospheres, and soundscapes. All partner instruments work with Suite 8, Live 8 or Live Intro, and many of them are exclusive to Ableton Live.
The partner instruments are completely integrated into Ableton Live, which makes for a smooth workflow and familiar controls. Most of the instruments use Live's Rack format, with the eight Macro Controls carefully mapped to provide control for immediate tweakability. Within the Racks, carefully selected Ableton effects provide additional sound design options. This tight integration also means that the partner instruments all provide instant mapping to controller hardware....</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-177277"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Today most mobile applications for smartphones are downloaded from “app stores.” According to ABI Research (http://www.abiresearch.com), last year consumers downloaded some 2.4 billion applications from such stores, and the download rate will accelerate over the next few years until in 2013 smartphone downloads are expected to peak at just below seven billion.
The Apple App Store will continue to lead the field. However, that will be the high point, however, and in the years that follow, smartphone download rates from app stores will start a slow decline (although total downloads from all sources will probably continue to grow.)
 
According to senior analyst Mark Beccue, “App stores aren’t going away: following the 2013 peak in demand, the number of downloads in 2015 will have decreased only seven or eight percent. But as our use of the mobile Internet evolves, demand will increasingly shift elsewhere.”
 
Why? The mobile web is getting more and more sophisticated, says Beccue, so...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-177259"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Apple ranked fourth out of all the top 100 online retail sites, behind Netflix, Amazon, and Avon in ForeSee Results’ annual Top 100 Online Retail Satisfaction Index (http://www.foreseeresults.com).
Satisfaction with Top 100 e-retailers rebounded from a dive this time last year, to an all-time high score of 78 points out of 100, a five point year-over-year increase. According to ForeSee Results, consumers are more satisfied with their online experiences than ever before. Nearly every individual retailer registered a score that matched or exceeded previous satisfaction levels.
The research, which employs ascientific methodology created at the University of Michigan, is based on surveys of more than 23,000 visitors to the top 100 e-retail websites by sales volume, as reported in the 2010 Internet Retailer Top 500 Guide. 
“The state of the economy really forced e-retail to step up their game,” says study author Larry Freed, president and CEO of ForeSee Results. “Since so much of the...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-177258"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Quattro Wireless, an Apple subsidiary that's developing the iAd program, is promoting a new "Verification of iTunes Purchase" feature as a competitive advantage enabling iPhone app developers to link to iTunes to obtain data on download conversion rates, according to "TechCrunch" (http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/05/apple-vip-ad/).
At the April 8 unveiling of iPhone OS 4.0, Apple debuted iAd, Apple’s new mobile advertising platform, which "combines the emotion of TV ads with the interactivity of web ads," Apple CEO Steve Jobs said. He added that iPhone OS 4 lets developers embed iAd opportunities within their apps, and the ads are dynamically and wirelessly delivered to the device. Apple will sell and serve the ads, and developers will receive an industry standard 60% of iAd revenue.
The VIP program is aimed at app developers who use iPhone ads to drive downloads and purchases of their own apps. It will tie the ad directly into purchasing data from iTunes, letting app developers measure...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-177255"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">In an online blog (http://robertreich.org/post/572112065/apple-isnt-the-problem-wall-street...), Robert Reich, former secretary of labor, blasts the Federal Trade Commissions' purported investigation of Apple.
He asks why the FCC threatening Apple with a possible lawsuit for abusing its economic power, but not even raising an eyebrow about the huge and growing economic (and political) muscle of JP Morgan Chase or any of the other four remaining giant banks on Wall Street?
"Our future well being depends more on people like Steve Jobs who invent real products that can improve our lives, than it does on people like Jamie Dimon who invent financial products that do little other than threaten our economy," Reich writes. "Apple’s supposed sin was to tell software developers that if they want to make apps for iPhones and iPads they have to use Apple programming tools. No more outside tools (like Adobe’s Flash format) that can run on rival devices like Google’s Android phones and RIM’s...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-177244"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Carl Howe, a director for the Yankee Group's Anywhere Consumer research group (http://www.yankeegroup.com) says the iPad is the fastest product ramp to US$1 billion. Apple announced on Monday that it has sold more than one million iPads since its announcement on Jan. 27.
"I’m counting since January 27 only because pre-orders are included; the reality is the most of those sales and deliveries have been in the last 30 days," writes Howe. "Assuming that rate continues in May (and because even Apple Stores keep running out of stock that seems likely), we’ll see Apple having sold about 1.5 million units by the end of May. Average sales prices seem to be in the $645 range (16 GByte WiFi and 64GByte 3G units seem to be the top sellers). Do the math, and we discover a quite remarkable number: Apple’s iPad will likely take the crown for the fastest consumer product growth to the $1 billion revenue mark in history, taking less than 120 days from announcement to reach that milestone."</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-177240"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Sample Logic has released Acoustix (http://www.samplelogic.com/acoustix.html), an US$99 toolkit of morphed acoustic instruments, percussives, atmospheric soundscapes, pads, and tempo-synced audio loops for cinematic music production. Mac and Windows compatible, it's designed for musicians, performers, and producers of all types.
The instruments (presets) and clips (loops) are integrated into Ableton Live. Each instrument uses Live's Rack format, with the 8 Macro Controls mapped to provide top-level control for immediate "tweakability." This also means that all of the instruments and loops are ready to be mapped to a hardware controller or automated directly in Live.
Effects and parameters include: Attack & Release, Reverb, Filter Delay, Arpegiator, Filter Cuttoff & Resonance, and much more. Also, all clips and presets are production ready, custom tailored and mastered using Live's audio effects. Acoustix works exclusively with Suite 8, Live 8 or Live Intro and is available...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-177238"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Apparent Software has acquired Blasted (http://www.apparentsoft.com/blast), a productivity booster application for Mac OS X from Ted Roden. The application places all recently used files at user's fingertips, providing access to them.
As part of the acquisition the application is renamed to "Blast" and upgraded to version 1.2. Blast keeps track of all the files the user has been recently using on his Mac. The user can access the file list anytime by clicking on the application icon in the menu bar. Version 1.2 includes the following new features:
° A preview for all the files in the list allows the user to find his file visually just by looking at its icon;
° A favorites sidebar allows user to save his favorite folders and files to be accessed at any time;
° The app shows the list of recent files even after it was closed and the computer was rebooted;
° An improved user interface with several new features, like showing the path to the file
Blast is available for US$9.95. A free...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-177237"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Dare to be Creative has released Parachute 1.1 (http://parachut.in/), an update of the backup application for Mac OS X. The upgrade offers secure backups over encrypted FTP, features full 64-bit support and ships with a faster backup engine.
Parachute allows users to run automated, scheduled backups to a wide range of destinations, including FTP/SFTP servers, external disks, and iDisk. Users can setup multiple backup tasks, consisting of a list of files they would like to backup, and either a local or server destination to make the backups to. Possible local destinations include the hard disk, externals disks, and USB flash drives, while server destinations include FTP, SFTP and WebDAV servers, as well as iDisk. Each backup tasks can be scheduled to run automatically in hourly, daily, weekly or monthly intervals.
Philipp Mayerhofer, chief operational officer at Dare to be Creative sees Parachute more as a Time Machine companion than a competitor. "Every backup application on the Mac...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-177230"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">SmileOnMyMac (http://www.smileonmymac.com) has updated DiscLabel, its CD/DVD label design software, to version 6.2.1. The update features improved error handling, as well as minor fixes and improvements.
The update also features a number of ease-of-use improvements: items in a design can now be deleted by dragging them out of the design; a keyboard shortcut for showing/hiding the Inspector was added; and showing/hiding layers has been simplified.
DiscLabel costs US$35.95 for new users. Version 6.2.1 is an $15 update for registered users of earlier versions and a free update for registered users of version 6.x.
The DiscLabel Family Pack, for up to five computers in one household, is $54.95. DiscLabel 6.2.1 requires Mac OS X 10.4 ("Tiger") or later, and is compatible with Mac OS X 10.5 ("Leopard"). A fully-functional demo version is available at the SmileOnMyMac web site.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-177183"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Basil Salad Software has released News Anchor 1.0 for Mac OS X (http://news-anchor-mac.com/wp/). It's a text-to-speech news reader that offers hands-free, one-click access for information enthusiasts to catch up with their reading lists while simultaneously doing other tasks.
News Anchor is an alternative RSS/ATOM feed reader targeted for the auditory group of Mac OS X users. Instead of treating feeds like e-mail and display them visually, News Anchor utilizes text-to-speech technology to present a television-like news broadcast. Unlike television, users may customize the broadcast by selecting which feeds that they subscribe to.
News Anchor is compatible for Mac OS X 10.5 and up for both Intel and PowerPC based Macs. A demo version is fully functional for 14 days Registration is US$38 for a single user license and $97 for a five-user license.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-177174"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Carnation Software has released MacWise 12 (http://www.MacWise.com) for Mac OS X 10.2 and higher. The new version supports HostAccess and Accuterm screen saves and restores.
Many host computers are programmed to instruct the client app to save and restore screens. MacWise 12.0 or later supports three sets of escape sequences commonly used by PC clients (HostAccess, Accuterm and System Builder).
The software emulates ADDS Viewpoint, Wyse 50, Wyse 60, Wyse 370, Televideo TV 925, DEC VT100, VT220 and Prism terminals. MacWise also supports ANSI and SCO ANSI color. Esprit III color is also supported in Wyse 370 mode, and AppleScript. It works with Intel or PowerPC Macs, MacBooks, Powerbooks and desktops and allows users to connect to the host via serial, modem, telnet, ssh, via the internet or local connection.
MacWise 12 costs US$95 for a single users license.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-177172"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Blue Crab (http://www.limit-point.com/BlueCrab/BlueCrab.html) has been updated to version 4.9.27. It's a maintenance update.
Blue Crab is an US$25 Mac OS X program for copying the contents of a web site to your computer, in whole or in part, conducting offline browsing and searching without an Internet connection, creating a snapshot of a web site for historical archiving, collecting specific types of resources such as images or email addresses, searching current content on your own computer and checking a site for broken links, or generate an HTML site map.
Blue Crab is Universal Binary so runs natively on both PowerPC and Intel Macs. It works with Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-177166"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Epson America has introduced what it says is the first US$99 all-in-one with built-in wireless-n1 (IEEE 802.11n). The Epson Stylus NX420 printer/scanner/copier is designed for y families and students who want to conveniently share one printer with multiple users for various everyday printing tasks, such as schoolwork, recipes, or vacation photos.
 
Its individual ink cartridges and exclusive fade, smudge and water-resistant DURABrite Ultra ink make it simple to print everything from family pictures and photo projects to book reports and driving directions, according to Stacey Tieu, associate product manager, Consumer Ink Jets, Epson America,. In addition, the Epson Stylus NX420 boasts a 1.5-inch LCD screen and built-in memory card slots to effortlessly print stacks of borderless photos, all without turning on the computer.
The Epson Stylus NX420 lets you scan up to 2400 dpi (dots per inch) and make multiple black and color copies with just one touch. It reduces and enlarges copies...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-177131"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Federal regulators plan to impose some additional rules on broadband providers to ensure the government "has authority to move ahead with a sweeping plan to bring high-speed connections to all Americans," reports "USA Today" (http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/technology/2010-05-05-fcc-broad...).
Regulators also want to ensure they have jurisdiction to impose so-called "network neutrality" rules requiring phone and cable companies to give equal treatment to all Internet traffic flowing over their broadband networks, the article adds.
"USA Today" says that on Thursday Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski will unveil a roadmap for regulating broadband. Currently, the FCC regulates broadband as a lightly regulated "information service" and had maintained that this gave it legal authority to act on its national broadband plan, which it released in March, and to mandate net neutrality. But the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia rejected this...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-177128"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">OCZ Technology (http://www.ocztechnology.com/aboutocz/press/2010/376) has announced the Enyo Portable SSD, utilizing the next generation USB 3.0 interface. The Enyo features all the performance and durability advantages of an internal Solid State Drive but delivers portability with an external storage solution for on-the-go users who need to share files between various computer systems, according to OCZ CEO Ryan Petersen,.
The Enyo is an external SSD with up to 260MB/second read and 200MB/second. The drive features a sleek, anodized aluminum housing and will be available in 64GB, 128GB, and 256GB capacities. Enyo USB 3.0 Portable SSDs will begin shipping soon; pricing hasn't been announced.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-176975"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Who could have known (insert symbol for sarcasm here)? A new survey shows that dropped problems are a call for AT&T!
Wireless telecom provider Verizon has been trouncing AT&T for months in surveys of customer satisfaction and loyalty. But a recent survey by ChangeWave Research shows dropped calls are a growing problem for AT&T stock, reports InvestorPlace (http://www.investorplace.com/experts/jeff_reeves/att-dropped-calls-t-sto...). Even Sprint Nextel (S) and T-Mobile -- a subsidiary of Deutsche Telecom -- could see gains as customers think of leaving AT&T over the network troubles, the article adds.
Specifically, a March survey of 4,040 smartphone customers was conducted by ChangeWave Research, InvestorPlace.com’s consumer polling and research division. In it, Verizon customers reported only 1.5% of their calls being dropped over the past three months, the lowest in the smartphone industry. This is also the lowest percentage for a carrier ever recorded by ChangeWave...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-176974"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">The Wholesale Application Community (http://www.wholesaleappcommunity.com/default.aspx) has been laying out its philosophy ahead of a promised business plan next month, and all-out war with Apple next February, reports "The Register" (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/05/wacaday/).
The WAC is a coalition of network operators who've been looking at Apple's business model and wondering why they're not making any money out of it, with a view to launching an Apple App Store competitor on which they can make money, "even if it's not as good as the Apple experience," the article adds.
"The industry has decoupled application revenues from the network investment required to support them," interim WAC CEO Tim Raby told "The Register." Basically the operators are building the networks and Apple is making the money, which isn't what the operators want, the article adds.
 
WAC was established to increase the overall market for mobile apps. Teh company is a not-for-profit open global alliance...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-176973"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Apple seems to have tweaked its iPhone to support a Chinese security protocol for wireless networks, as companies increasingly adopt Chinese government-backed technologies to break into the country's market, reports "PC World" (http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/195524/apple_tweaks_wifi_i...). The move suggests Apple may soon launch a new version of the iPhone in China with Wi-Fi, a feature that regulations previously barred, the article adds.
Chinese regulators last month approved the frequency ranges used by a new Apple mobile phone with 3G and wireless LAN support, the web site of China's State Radio Monitoring Center shows. The device appears to be an iPhone and uses GSM and the 3G standard WCDMA, just like iPhones currently offered in China by local carrier China Unicom.
Apple removed Wi-Fi on the iPhones now sold in China because regulators there began approving mobile phones with WLAN support last year -- and only if they supported a WAPI (WLAN Authentication and...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-176964"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Attendees registering for the annual FileMaker Developer Conference (http://www.filemaker.com/developers/devcon/?nav=community-devcon) have until May 21 to save US$200 on their registration through the “Early Bird” pricing program. After May 21, the full conference fee of $1,495 will apply.
The 2010 FileMaker Developer Conference will be held at the Sheraton San Diego Hotel & Marina, Aug. 15-18. This year’s conference will feature more than 80 sessions and workshops, the most ever offered. Sessions will focus on FileMaker database development best practices and techniques. New features of FileMaker 11 will be covered in-depth.
Attendees can also sign up for the FileMaker Developer Conference Gold Package for $1,949 (valued at $2,800), an all-inclusive 4-day pass for pre-conference sessions, FileMaker Training Series sessions, over 80 conference sessions and workshops, conference exhibits, and networking events.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-176963"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">NRG Software has released NRGship Mac 1.1 (http://www.nrgsoft.com/products/mac/ups/mac/index.php), the latest version of the software that allows UPS shippers to switch to their Mac and manage all of the their shipping information in one place. The new version offers enhanced Mac Address Book importing, batch shipping and updated printer and USB scale options.
Mac users can streamline their shipping workflow without the use of My UPS (UPS.com). As of version 1.1, NRG has added default importers to allow UPS shippers to move their address books from UPS and Worldship in just a few minutes. In addition to the new address book imports, shippers can now batch ship to multiple recipients out of the Mac address book.
Additionally, NRGship 1.1 adds additional features to allow the use of networked or shared Zebra printers as well. There's also now support for the Dymo 4XL printer and Fairbanks Ultegra USB scale.
NRGship Mac costs US$18.95 per month or $189.95 annuallly. A free 15-day trial...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-176960"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">NEC Solutions of America (http://www.necdisplay.com) has announced updates to its professional display portfolio, including the addition of the new 27-inch MultiSync PA271W display to the MultiSync PA Series, the first release of the MultiProfiler display configuration application and SpectraViewII version 1.1.04, which adds support for the 24-inch MultiSync PA241W and the new MultiSync PA271W.
Featuring a new size for the professional desktop category, the MultiSync PA271W is a high-definition monitor designed for advanced graphics applications, digital photography, video editing, print production and other environments where color accuracy is critical, according to Art Marshall, product manager for NEC Display Solutions. Boasting a 10-bit p-IPS panel, a 2560 x 1440 pixel resolution and internal 14-bit programmable 3D lookup tables (LUTs), the MultiSync PA271W can display 1.07 billion colors out of a palette of 4.3 trillion when using the 10-bit DisplayPort input.
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-176959"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">About Objects has added extra class dates to its schedule to accommodate developers attending Apple's World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco June 7-11.
The classes, "Objective-C for Beginners," scheduled for May 29-30, and "Introduction to iPhone and iPad Development," scheduled for May 31 through June 4 (the week immediately before WWDC), will be held near the Apple campus in Cupertino, California,, and will give developers who are new to the platform an opportunity to get up to speed on Objective-C and the iPhone SDK (software development kit) before attending the conference's technical sessions.
About Objects will repeat the Objective-C for Beginners class June 5-6, and the Introduction to iPhone and iPad Development class June 7-11, in parallel with WWDC. The latter dates had been scheduled prior to Apple's announcement of WWDC 2010. The classes will be conducted at the Hilton Garden Inn Cupertino, located at 10741 North Wolfe Road in Cupertino, California. For...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-176958"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Unmarked Software has updated TextSoap (http://www.unmarked.com/textsoap) -- a Mac OS X utility for cleaning out the extraneous forwarding marks, invisible characters, and formatting that you often find in e-mails and long documents -- to version 6.4. The upgrade -- free to registered users of 6.x -- improves batch file processing support, speeds up the Markdown conversion and addresses additional issues reported by customers. It also includes an improved implementation of the cleaner that converts the Markdown format to HTML.
TextSoap is Universal Binary so runs natively on both PowerPC and Intel Macs. It requires Mac OS X 10.5 ("Leopard") or higher.
Pricing for new customers normally starts at US$39.95. Upgrades for users of TextSoap 4 and 5 start at $19.95.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-176957"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">publicspace.net has announced Vitamin-R 1.06 (http://www.publicspace.net/Vitamin-R/index.html), an update of its Mac OS X compatible productivity tool for creative professionals. The new version sports improvements centering around usability, presentation and workflow.
Vitamin-R is a collection of tools and techniques for managing attention and maintaining motivation. According to the folks at publicspace.net, it complements the task capturing and organizing features of modern to-do list managers by forcing you to concentrate fully on one task a time and keeping distractions at bay. It breaks down large, vaguely defined tasks into a series of short "time slices" of between 10 and 30 minutes, each with specific and actionable objectives.
Vitamin-R provides you with the "Now & Later Board," complete with FastType magic, to give you a place to quickly dump all those things that go through your head and allows to get back to the task at hand. It requires Mac OS X 10.5 or higher....</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-176956"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Dropbox, a provider of Internet file synchronization, sharing and security services, has released Dropbox Anywhere, a set of mobile apps and APIs (application programming interfaces). Users can now have access to their files from virtually any device or mobile app.
With this release, Dropbox is now available for the iPad, Android and BlackBerry, and joins the existing Dropbox iPhone app in providing native support for accessing, viewing and sharing documents and files stored in Dropbox directly from these devices. The company is also announcing the Dropbox mobile API, which will enable developers to create apps that access the contents of users' Dropbox accounts, while keeping them in sync across devices. The new Dropbox apps, as well as the first Dropbox-enabled partner apps, are available now at http://dropbox.com/anywhere .
Providing support for all major mobile platforms, Dropbox Anywhere solves this problem by making documents and media ubiquitously available across the multiple...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-176931"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">According to the latest update to the ''Entertainment Trends in America'' consumer tracking surveys conducted by The NPD Group (http://www.npd.com), market research company, 16% of Americans age 13 or older are using devices other than their home computers to download software applications, music, video, and other entertainment content from the web.
Based on NPD’s entertainment market research, 75% of iPhone and iPod touch users are connecting to the web to download entertainment content and apps, compared to 19 % of game console users and 17% of Blu-ray Disc (BD) set-top product users.
"It’s not surprising that Apple users are ahead of others when it comes to downloading Web-based content, given the breadth of the company’s app catalog and the head start iTunes had selling music for the iPod,'' says Russ Crupnick, entertainment industry analyst for NPD. ''Like other groups of early adopters, consumers downloading entertainment content are mostly younger and male; however, as app...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-176873"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Despite trying economic times, and an unprecedented decline in hard disk drive (HDD) terabyte shipments for enterprise applications in 2009, HDD vendors forged ahead by introducing new HDD products/form factors that address both current and future enterprise storage market requirements.
According to new research from the IDC research group (http://www.idc.com), HDD shipments for enterprise applications will increase from 40.5 million units in 2009 to 52.6 million units in 2014. Moreover, the HDD industry will ship more Petabytes for enterprise applications in the next two years than it did in the preceding 20 years.
Several ongoing trends will continue to impact enterprise HDD market revenue over the forecast period, including a continued shift away from higher cost performance-optimized HDDs to lower cost capacity-optimized solutions and solid state drives (SSDs) to complement HDDs in storage systems. HDD revenue derived from enterprise markets will grow at only a 1.7% CAGR (...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-176862"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Seagate (http://www.seagate.com) has introduced the next evolution of the company’s FreeAgent external hard drives -- its GoFlex storage solutions. The family includes plug-and-play portable and desktop drives with an array of interchangeable cables and desktop adapters that allow each drive to adapt to the interface or device being used.
GoFlex hard disk drives are also specially designed to provide interoperability between operating systems in order to work with both Mac OS X and Windows systems, according to Dave Mosley, executive vices president, Sales, Marketing and Product Line Management, Seagate. For the first time, Seagate will include an NTFS driver for Mac OS X on all GoFlex portable and desktop offerings, enabling storage and access of files from both Mac and Windows computers.
The NTFS driver is simply installed once on your Mac computer, and allows access and storage of files on a Windows-formatted drive. With capacities ranging from 320GB to 2TB, FreeAgent GoFlex...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-176861"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">LittleFin Software has introduced Compartments 1.0 (http://www.littlefin.com/compartments.html) for Mac OS X (10.5 and higher), an US$19.95 home inventory application. It allows household items to be entered, searched and sorted by location, type, value or any custom tag. Drag and drop photos and other info can be added to each item listing.
The first step in using Compartments is to set up Locations, which are the places in which the user's items are stored. A Location can be a room, a house, a piece of furniture, a briefcase, or a safety deposit box -- any place that contains things to be cataloged. Next, the user creates an Item for each one of their possessions.
The Add Item dialogue box permits one or more of the following entries: item photo, item name and type, location, date acquired, estimated value, make and model, serial number, notes, and tags. Items can be an object, document, or computer file, and all Items can be found in some Location.
Items that share the same tag...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-176835"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Karelia Software has announced the immediate availability of a screencast video training course for its Sandvox web site builder (http://www.karelia.com/sandvox/training/). The video training course runs for 2.5 hours total, divided into 19chapters.
The training is divided into five sections: The Basics, covering general document management; Page Components, describing the many types of pages, pagelets, and collections; Moving Along, delving into topics such as blogging, making use of the inspector, and customizing designs with banners and logos; Getting Published, showing how to upload a site to any web host, with specific tutorials on three of Karelia's hosting partners; and Advanced Features, walking the viewer through tasks such as injecting custom HTML code onto the page and performing Search Engine Optimization with Google's tools.
The course is available in two forms. Access for viewing the videos online has an introductory price of US$69; this goes up to $79 on May 25. There's...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-176834"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Apimac has introduced Encrypt Mail 1.0 (http://www.apimac.com/encrypt_mail/), an update of its mail encryption solution for Mac OS X 10.5 and higher. It now offers support for using Mail for sending messages and encrypted files.
Version 2.0 also gives the user the ability to compose messages with encrypted files for Mail. There are user interface tweaks and various code optimizations and improvements to product stability
Designed for both personal and business use, Encrypt Mail is a client for sending encrypted emails and/or encrypted attachments. Mac based recipients will receive a DMG password protected file. Windows and Linux based recipients will receive a ZIP password protected archive instead. All contacts are handled in a list separated from Mac OS X's built-in Address Book.
Encrypt Mail is an alternative solution to manual encryption or PSE keys. To send a message, double click a person in the contact list and a new message window appears already addressed. To send an...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-176832"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Flash'In'App (http://mac.eltima.com/cocoa-framework.html) by Eltima Software is a new Cocoa framework that helps developers load and fully manage Flash movies in their own Mac applications. It contains a set of classes, which offer the ability to load, play and manage any SWF files within the application.
The developed app can communicate with SWF file via an external API (application programming interface), FSCommands and Variables. It is also possible to create custom-shaped windows and running Windows Flash-enabled applications' GUI (graphical user interface) on a Mac.
Flash'In'App fully supports RealVideo files playback and partially supports Silverlight files. End users will need at least Mac OS X 10.4 and higher, and Flash Player 8 or higher to run applications that are developed with Flash'In'App.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-176831"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Dejal Systems, LLC has released Dejal Simon 2.5.7 (http://www.dejal.com/simon/), a site monitoring tool for Mac OS X. 7 The new version includes a couple of important fixes, and may be the last release before version 2.6, which drops Mac OS X 10.4 support.
Dejal Simon checks web pages, FTP and DNS servers, local or remote ports or volumes, and other services for changes or failures, and notifies you via e-mail, sound, speech, Twitter, HTML reports, and other means. You can 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 web sites, keep an eye on auctions, and other uses.
Services include Web (HTTP) to check web pages (including secure ones, and supporting POST and cookies), FTP files and...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-176830"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">SmileOnMyMac (http://www.smileonmymac.com) has updated TextExpander, a Mac OS X utility that lets users define abbreviations for frequently-used text strings and images, to version 3.0.3. The new version features support for Unicode line endings.
A number of bugs have been fixed and overall performance has been improved. The in-product purchases are now handled by e-commerce provider FastSpring.
The regular cost is US$34.95 for a single user license or $44.95 for a five-pack family license. A 30-day fully-functioning demo of TextExpander can be downloaded at the SmileOnMyMac web site. Upgrades to TextExpander 3.0.2 from earlier versions costs $15. Version 3.0.3 is a free update for registered users of version 3.0. It requires Mac OS X 10.6 or later.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-176829"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Reinvented Software has updated Feeder (http://www.reinventedsoftware.com/feeder/), a Mac OS X app for for creating and publishing RSS feeds and podcasts, to version 2.1. The upgrade adds support for WebDAV publishing, a completed updated iTunes Store preview and customizable colors for iTunes U page previews.
This release also adds drag and drop Sparkle appcasts, improves MP3 tagging, working with Twitter accounts, gesture support and will now run as a 64-bit application on Mac OS X 10.6 ("Snow Leopard").
Feeder requires Mac OS X 10.5 and QuickTime 7.0 or better. Feeder 2.1 costs US$39.95 for new users and is a free upgrade for all registered Feeder 2.x users. Upgrades from version 1.x are $14.95. Education discounts are also available. A demo is available at the Reinvented Software web site.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-176824"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">OCRKit (http://ocrkit.com/), a text recognition app for Mac O X 10.4 or higher, has been updated to version 1.2. The new version improves overall text recognition accuracy and stability, and features a new de-screen image filter, which reduces print moire patterns, helping to improve the text recognition rate such difficult documents.
OCRKit transforms images and PDF files into searchable PDFs. With built-in OCR it allows for editable PDF files via drag and drop. And you can find 'em with the Mac's built-in Spotlight desktop search.
OCRKKit comes with support for several OCR languages, including English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish, and even more user-interface translations: English, Dutch, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, Simplified-Chinese and Traditional-Chinese. It's designed for Intel Macs only.
OCRKit costs approximately US$49, though version 1.2. is a free update for registered users. A demo is available for download.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-176783"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Gray Matter Labs has updated SnapRocket (http://graymatterlabs.com/snaprocket), a Mac OS X windows switcher, to version 1.0.2. It's a maintenance release with some bug fixes and performance tweaks.
SnapRocket is a keyboard based desktop navigator that doesn't rely on arbitrary window grids or lists. Instead, users can navigate among their open windows using only the cursor keys, switching to any application running on their desktop.
SnapRocket requires Mac OS X 10.5 or higher. It's Universal Binary so runs natively on both PowerPC and Intel Macs.
SnapRocket costs US$19.95 for a single-user license and $24.95 for a family license. A fully-functional download includes 150 free uses.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-176782"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Other World Computing (OWC) has added a new highest capacity 400GB model to its OWC Mercury Extreme Pro SSD line. Designed and made in the U.S. from imported parts, the new 400GB model doubles the capacity of previously announced OWC Mercury Extreme Pro SSD models.
It comes with enterprise level 28% over-provisioning, five year warranty coverage, and is compatible with Mac and PC computers that can utilize single or multiple 2.5-inch SATA compatible drives including all RAID configurations. Priced at US$1,599.99, the 400GB model is available for pre-ordering with shipping to begin 5/21.
Existing models in the line (previously named the Mercury Extreme Enterprise SSD) are available for immediate ordering and share the same redundancy, reliability, and form factor as offered by the 400GB model. For more information on the OWC Mercury Extreme Pro RE SSD, including Reseller inquiries, visit http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/internal_storage/Mercury_Extreme_SSD_Sand... .</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-176781"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Keynote Zone (http://www.keynotezone.com) has announced their Desktop Keynote theme. This general-purpose theme is designed to provide a strong association with your desktop and creates a kind of working atmosphere in the entire presentation.
The theme includes 30 layouts, custom designed charts and tables. Available in both Standard and HD versions, the Desktop standard version theme comes in two sizes, and the HD version theme comes in five sizes. Standard versions are US$16, and HD versions are $20. Or you can get 'em all in the Keynote Zone Collection 8 ($69).
Seven more Keynote themes are now available for sale in standard or HD formats at Keynote Zone. They require Mac OS X 10.4.10 or later and iWork '08 or '09.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-176779"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Cocoamug Software, developers and publishers of great Mac software, has released CosmoPod 4.4 (http://www.cocoamug.com/cosmopod/index.html), an update of the Safari extension that lets you download Flash videos from web sites such as YouTube, Vimeo, DailyMotion, etc. The upgrade adds support for saving audio MP3, WMA and more from last.fm, mp3.com, vivamusic.org and others. It also improves command key down user interaction when dropping multiple files for audio extraction.
CosmoPod can automatically convert downloaded files to an Apple device friendly format, tag them and add them to iTunes. Additionally, you can convert most video already on your hard drive via drag and drop so can be used as a tool to import your DVD collection to your Mac, iTunes, AppleTV, and iPhone.
CosmoPod costs US$12. Version 4.4 is a free update for registered users of version 4.x. CosmoPod 3 and earlier users can upgrade for $3.90.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-176775"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">D-Zed Software has released Dragon Stop Motion 2.1 (http://www.dragonstopmotion.com/), an update to their professional stop motion animation software for Mac OS X and Windows. The upgrade includes support for the new DDMX-S2 Lighting Controller and the new IOTA 3D Stereoscopic Slider, in addition to other exciting features.
Designed specifically to meet the needs of feature film, commercial, broadcast television and independent film, Dragon Stop Motion controls digital still and HD cameras for shooting single frame animation and effects. The version 2.1 update includes new features that expand on the application's support for monitoring, exporting, composing, animating, automating lighting, and automating 3D shooting.
The Auxiliary Monitor feature allows the user to send the main view to a second monitor (video village). The Image Sequence Export provides flexibility in choosing image formats for frame export, as well as customized naming, etc. Advanced Composition Guides emulate...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-176769"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">FileMaker, Inc. (http://www.filemaker.com), a wholly owned subsidiary of Apple, has announced the latest FileMaker Business Productivity Kit, which is designed to allow businesses selling both goods and services to become more productive and tackle everyday business tasks.
Optimized for FileMaker Pro 11, the new Business Productivity Kit offers ready-to-use templates for businesses that streamline a variety of operations, from managing contacts and suppliers to tracking projects to processing sales and service orders. Two versions are available: a Standard Edition for companies that sell physical goods and a Services Edition for companies that provide services to clients.
 
Small businesses can use the Business Productivity Kit immediately for tracking customer and vendor contacts, sales, product information, invoicing, shipping and other key business data -- all in one database solution, says Ryan Rosenberg, vice president of marketing and services with FileMaker, Inc.. The kit is...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-176768"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Extensis (http://www.extensis.com) has announced a free update (v8.5.5) to Portfolio 8.5, its single-user digital asset management software product.
 
The update is recommended for users and includes Camera Raw filter support for the latest and 
most popular camera models. Also, full DNG workflow support preserves color adjustments and allows XMP metadata embedding series of performance and stability improvements
 
With this updated support, Portfolio works with the leading professional Raw-processing applications. The Extensis app automatically catalogs media in any folder, and provides advanced search, batch convert/email and metadata management for various camera formats, including Adobe DNG and Raw files.
Version 8.5.5 is a free update for registered users of version 8.5.x. For new users the cost is US$199.95. Upgrades from previous versions are $99.95.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-176766"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Nova media (http://www.novamedia.de) has unveiled launch2net Premium, an US$49.90, 3G connection manager with the ability to share your Mac's 3G connection with iPads and other devices.
Launch2net Premium supports most 3G surfsticks available and already includes connection settings for network providers worldwide. Connection information is provided by a statistics feature. It also includes an integrated SMS text message manager with support for multipart and multigroup text messages and is linked to the address book of Mac OS X.
Launch2net Premium can share a 3G modem connection using its Mobile Hub technology. Mobile Hub turns a Mac into a Wi-Fi hotspot with just a few clicks and allows other WLAN devices to log into the new network just like any other Wi-Fi network. Mobile Hub features a blacklist to deny access and offers WEP 128-bit security.
Launch2net Premium requires an Intel-based Mac running Mac OS X 10.5.x or 10.6.x. A demo version of launch2net Premium is available for...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-176765"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Paradigma Software (http://www.valentina-db.com) has released Valentina DB 4.5, an update of the columnar database for business and developers, and and Valentina Reports 4.6, the cross-platform database reporting solution for Windows and Mac OS X. The upgrade provides performance improvements, database diagnostic features and user requested improvements and optimizations.
Valentina Reports is a visual report creation and generation engine that drops right into the Valentina DB kernel and generates charts, graphs, complex layouts of data with groups and sub-reports, PDFs and more. It's available on Mac OS X and Windows and for every major development environment -- from .net to Cocoa applications on Mac OS X. Unlimited Report deployment is available starting at US$200.
Valentina DB based products include Valentina ADK and Valentina Developer Network for developers desiring to incorporate the incredibly fast Valentina DB into their applications. VDN also allows royalty free deployment...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-176761"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Stardom (http://www.stardom.com) has released SohoRaid SR2 with USB 2.0, FireWire 800, & eSATA interfaces. It's a two-drive hardware SATA RAID array for mobile digital content with Hardware RAID 1 mirroring.
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Because of the built in hardware RAID & no need for software, no additional system resources are used. To reduce energy consumption, the Stardom SohoRaid SR2 is designed of aluminum for heat dissipation and energy savings. A large fan provides cooling and a constant airflow. Contact Stardom for pricing options.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-176760"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">ProStor (http://www.prostorsystems.com) -- which specializes in enterprise-class removable disk storage systems for business backup, archiving and retention management -- has announced the general availability of its ProStor InfiniVault product line shipping with the newly released 1TB RDX removable disk cartridge.
 
The availability of the new cartridge with an uncompressed capacity of 1TB will immediately benefit InfiniVault customers in rich media applications like healthcare, video archiving and surveillance, according to the folks at ProStor. Users now have access up to 100TB of managed online capacity without having to purchase new hardware.
A ProStor InfiniVault Model 100 System can purportedly manage over two billion studies in DICOM format. A 100 slot system with 1TB RDX cartridges can store 100,000 Multi-slice CT scans or 500,000 MRIs or 2,000,000 X-Rays. Similarly, the same system can store 12,594 standard or 9,773 HDTV broadcast streams or 1,527 uncompressed one-hour...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-176740"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Yellow Lemon Software has updated Screen Sieve (http://www.scsc.no/products/screensieve), its screen-searching utility for Mac OS X, to version 1.2.1. The new version gives users the ability to search not only the currently focused window, but also search the window currently under their mouse cursor.
Screen Sieve is an application that lets users search the contents of their currently active window. Utilizing Mac OS X's built-in support for Accessibility, the software is able to search the windows of any application that supports Accessibility, including most Cocoa- and Carbon-based applications. As the user types, Screen Sieve highlights all visible occurrences of characters, words and phrases, allowing you to locate text in a crowded web-page or highlighting the location of a file in a Finder window.
Screen Sieve supports both PowerPC- and Intel-based Macs, and requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later. Screen Sieve is free, but donations are accepted.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-176739"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Ergonis Software (http://www.ergonis.com) has released Typinator 4.0, the latest version of its tool for auto-typing text and auto-correcting typos system-wide across all Mac OS X applications.
The new version introduces a new feature called "QuickSearch." Instead of inventing and remembering hundreds of cryptic abbreviations, you just type a keyboard shortcut and enter a few characters. Typinator instantly displays a list of matching snippets. Pick the one that you want, and it appears in your document right away. It's like Spotlight for snippets, only much faster, says Ergonis CEO Christoph Reichenberger. QuickSearch can also be used for quickly opening and editing existing snippets.
Typinator 4.0 requires Mac OS X 10.4 or newer, and Mac OS X 10.6 ("Snow Leopard") is recommended.
Typinator can be purchased on the Ergonis Software web site for $19.99 for a single user license. A family pack for installation on up to five computers is $29.99. The upgrade to Typinator 4.0is free for...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-176732"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">REAL Software, creator of REAL Studio -- a cross-platform development tool for Mac OS X, Windows and Linux developers -- has begun shipping REAL Studio 2010 Release 2. The upgrade introduces 17 new features and 68 improvements.  
Improved database connectivity, reporting, ActiveX and IDE printing can be found in this release. Also flickering in Windows applications that occurred when several different types of controls were moved or resized, has been greatly reduced. Finally, this release adds more DLL placement options and a new TextEncoding feature that determines if a string is correctly encoded or not.  
REAL Studio Personal Edition for Mac, Windows or Linux is priced at US$99 and is geared for hobbyists and students. REAL Studio Professional Edition, required for cross-platform compilation, is $299. REAL Studio Enterprise Edition, made for full-time developers, is priced at $995. All editions of REAL Studio are now available and can be downloaded directly from REAL Software: http...</div></div></span>
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