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<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-165409"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Ca-ching! Apple has announced financial results for its fiscal 2010 second quarter that ended March 27, 2010. The company posted revenue of US$13.50 billion and net quarterly profit of $3.07 billion, or $3.33 per diluted share.
These results compare to revenue of $9.08 billion and net quarterly profit of $1.62 billion, or $1.79 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. Gross margin was 41.7 percent, up from 39.9 % in the year-ago quarter. International sales accounted for 58% of the quarter’s revenue.
Apple sold 2.94 million Macs during the quarter, representing a 33% unit increase over the year-ago quarter. The company sold 8.75 million iPhones in the quarter, representing 131% unit growth over the year-ago quarter. Apple sold 10.89 million iPods during the quarter, representing a 1% unit decline from the year-ago quarter.
“We’re thrilled to report our best non-holiday quarter ever, with revenues up 49 percent and profits up 90 percent,” says Apple CEO Steve Job. “We’ve launched...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-165389"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">There are rumors that Apple and AMD execs are talking about the former using the chips of the latter in upcoming products. Rob Enderle, principal analyst with the Enderle Group, even thinks there's a slim chance that something more could be in the works.
Even though there's a team within Intel is dedicated solely to Apple, if Apple did decide to switch, however, the AMD microprocessors might be more suitable for Apple since the chips favor graphics over central processing units, he told "MacNewsWorld" (http://www.macnewsworld.com/rsstory/69816.html?wlc=1271794909).
If Apple were to dump Intel, it might actually be in the market to buy AMD, Enderle suggested. Apple is already making its own processor for the iPad, he pointed out, and it might be looking for more vertical integration. "AMD is relatively cheap, and Apple could afford to buy it," Enderle told "MacNewsWorld."</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-165387"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">On Wednesday the California State Senate's health committee will review a bill that, if passed, will make California the first state in the nation to create a live donor registry for kidney transplants. The bill will also require California drivers to decide whether they want to be organ donors when they renew their drivers' licenses.
Despite California State Senate Bill 1395's near universal support, the ideas behind the bill had languished for years on the desk of Senator Elaine Alquist, according to the "SAI Business Insider" (http://www.businessinsider.com/how-steve-jobs-got-sick-2010-04?utm_sourc...). The article says 'The bill exists today -- and the law will, in all likelihood, exist in the future -- thanks to Steve Jobs's illness last year and the huge, expensive effort it took for him to find a liver donor."
At a dinner in December Jobs sat next to Maria Shriver, California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's wife, the whole story of his liver transplant, according to "SAI...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-165368"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Super Talent (http://www.supertalent.com) has announced a new value solid state drive (SSD) product line dubbed Super Talent VSSD. The company says it offers shorter OS bootup time, faster application loading and less system power consumption.
VSSD purportedly takes full advantage of the 3Gbps SATA-II bandwidth and is capable of sequential read speeds up to 150 MB/second and sequential write speeds up to 100 MB/second. VSSDs are available now from Super Talent resellers worldwide at street prices ranging from about US$65 for the 8GB model to around $175 for the 64GB model.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-165367"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Native Instruments (http://www.native-instruments.com) has released Maschine 1.5, a free update of its computer-based music production system. The upgrade has more classic drum machine features, improved host integration, new sampling functions, an extended sound library, and a more efficient workflow.
Maschine 1.5 introduces two new "vintage sampler" modes designed to emulate the gritty sonic signatures of the popular MPC-60 and SP-1200 models through omponent modeling. The 1.5 version also loads the programs of nearly all MPC models ever built, opening up a vast resource of existing sound and sample material within Maschine.
Maschine 1.5 also enables a new level of DAW integration with host automation through new macro controls, MIDI pattern drag and drop export, direct DAW recording of Maschine events, MIDI pitch bend and CC support, and more. The real-time sampling features of Maschine benefit from extended slicing and mapping options. The 1.5 version also introduces a full...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-165366"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Tension Software has updated TS Calc (http://www.pomola.com/products_tscalc/tscalc.html), a Mac OS X app for solving mathematical models applied to technical problems of various types, to version 1.1.4. It's a maintenance release that fixes some bugs.
TS Calc is a document based application and its documents can be realized and used as calculation models for a specific mathematical technical problems. These documents can also be distributed as pre-made solutions for various type of technical problems with all the requested equations inside and all the variables pre-inserted with acceptable range already set.
A TS Calc document contains a series of equations and a list of variables and constants used by the equations. The user can insert different input and see the output generated by the TS Calc document using the equations solving the problem.
TS Calc includes a calculation engine entirely developed and coded internally by Tension Software in C and Objective-C, able to solve...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-165359"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Monkeybread Software has released version 1.2 of the MBS REALbasic Updater Kit, which is designed to help you in adding an automatic update feature to your application. Version 1.2 fixes a few bugs and improves the language handling.
The Updater Kit requires REALbasic 2008 or newer and a license of the MBS REALbasic Complete License. It's available for US$99. You can learn more and try the sample application at
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-165357"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Nemetschek North America has announced the publication of a new training guide for users of Vectorworks software. Architect, author and experienced Vectorworks user Daniel Jansenson wrote the guide, "Remarkable Renderworks," to help users gain proficiency in the rendering tool designed to work with Vectorworks software.
This tutorial uses an exercise-based format to cover the basic tools and techniques that will enable designers to create renderings of Vectorworks projects. By reading the chapters and then experimenting with the included files, the reader will gain a clear understanding of the methods discussed in the book, says Janeenson. This practice-based format was developed to help the newcomer become familiar with the tools quickly and achieve productivity in a short amount of time. The manual is intended for the Renderworks user who already has some experience with the fundamentals of
Vectorworks programs.
"Remarkable Renderworks" is part of Nemetschek North America's self-...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-165356"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Remo Software has announced a series of data recovery software tools (http://recovermac.remosoftware.com) for the Mac. Remo Recover (Mac) is an exclusively designed application with all-round poise of simplified recovery tasks and sophisticated recovery technology, according to the company.

It's available in two different editions, Remo Recover (Mac) - Pro Edition & Remo Recover (Mac) Media Edition. The former provides a dual mode of recovery tasks, including photo recovery. Remo Recover - (Media Edition) is designed for regular users and for advanced photographers to recover photos, videos, music and RAW image files from portable storage devices and hard drives. The Advanced mode offers scan options to accomplish tasks such as deleted/lost file recovery, formatted/lost volume recovery, from storage devices having healthy or corrupt HFS or HFSX file system.
The Pro Edition costs US$179. The Media Edition is $69. They require Mac OS X 10.4.11 or higher.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-165317"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">BOSS (http://www.BossUS.com) has released the US$276 ME-25 Guitar Multiple Effects, a line of floor-based multi-effects. The ME-25 inherits its sounds from the company's flagship ME-70.
The ME-25 features a full compliment of COSM amplifier models. The onboard Sound Library comes loaded with 60 effects combinations suitable for a wide range of playing styles. The portable ME-25 runs on six AA batteries or AC power.
The ME-25 is stocked with BOSS effects -- distortions, overdrives, modulation effects, delay, reverb, harmonist, and more. The built-in expression pedal controls a number of pedal effects, including wah, octave up/down, and a freeze effect. Three heavy-duty footswitches allow the user to select sounds and perform other functions, such as accessing the built-in tuner, tapping in delay times, and enabling the SOLO feature.
The ME-25 includes BOSS’ COSM amp-modeling technology. There’s a range of classic amps from clean combos to raging stacks, along with a Super Stack...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-165316"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Best Buy has set a target to collect one billion pounds of old or obsolete electronics and appliances for recycling.
Starting April 22, the company is asking consumers nationwide to pledge online to “Recycle It On,” encouraging increased use of its comprehensive, convenient recycling and trade-in programs. The one billion pound goal is a significant increase over current levels and is intended to help increase responsible consumer action and capture a greater share of the current electronics waste stream, says Paula Prahl, senior vice president, communications, public affairs, and corporate responsibility, Best Buy.
She says the company's recycling programs collected 120 million pounds of electronic goods in 2009 from U.S. consumers, including 60 million pounds of electronics and 60 million pounds of appliances. The company anticipates meeting the new goal in several years. Starting Earth Day, April 22, consumers can take the pledge to recycle, and encourage others to do the same....</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-165315"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">On Tuesday from its annual All Hands Meeting in Seattle, the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) unveiled more information about its forthcoming Bluetooth Core Specification version 4.0, with the hallmark feature of low energy technology.
Bluetooth 4.0, expected to be brought to market by the end of the second quarter of the year will feature a powerful low energy mode designed to enable expansion of the technology in m-health, sports and fitness, security and home entertainment scenarios where button-cell battery devices proliferate, according to Michael Foley, executive director of the Bluetooth SIG (http://www.bluetooth.com).
He says Bluetooth 4.0 is like three specifications in one -- Classic Bluetooth technology, Bluetooth low energy technology, and Bluetooth high speed technology -- all which can be combined or used separately in different devices according to their functionality. For example, sensors like those in pedometers and glucose monitors will run only low energy...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-165314"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Yesterday the 'Net was abuzz with reports that Apple would ship its 3G enabled iPad on May 7. Wrong. Today Apple announced that the Wi-Fi + 3G models of the device will be delivered to US customers who’ve pre-ordered on Friday, April 30, and will be available in Apple retail stores the same day starting at 5 p.m.
Apple retail stores will offer a free Personal Setup service to every customer who buys an iPad at the store, helping them customize their new iPad by setting up their email, loading their favorite apps from the App Store, and more. US Apple retail stores are also hosting special iPad workshops to help customers learn more about this magical new product.
The iPad is available in Wi-Fi models in the US for a suggested retail price of US$499 for 16GB, $599 for 32GB and $699 for 64GB models. The Wi-Fi + 3G models will be available on April 30 in the US for $629 for 16GB, $729 for 32GB and $829 for 64GB versions.
The iPad is sold in the US through the Apple Store (http://www....</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-165298"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Napatech (http://www.napatech.com) has announced what it says is the world’s first 2x10 Gbps Intelligent Real-time Network Analysis adapters based on PCI-Express Gen 2 with the introduction of the NT20E2 Capture adapter and NT20E2 In-line adapter products.
The NT20E2 In-line is designed for applications that require both capture and transmit in real-time, such as Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS) and Policy Enforcement applications operating at 10 Gbps line-speed. This is complemented by the NT20E2 Capture adapter, which provides full 20 Gbps packet capture throughput over the PCI-Express Gen 2 bus.
 
The NT20E2 Capture and In-line adapters provide a list of features for pre-processing, off-loading and accelerating network appliance performance. Both products are based on a low-profile form factor with SFP+ modules and PCI-Express Gen 2. Contact Napatech for pricing.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-165297"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Dekorra has updated EasyDraw (http://www.eazydraw.com/whatsNew.htm), its vector drawing app for Mac OS X, to version 3.4.1 The new version adds support for the required page size for iPad development.
It provides proper drawing size support for the main icon, Apple App Store icon, small icon and launch screens for the iPad and iPhone. EasyDraw 3.4.1 also provides a few new features and minor bug fixes for the recently released version 3.4.0, which introduced SVG support.
Version 3.4.1 requires Mac OS X 10.5 or higher. It's Universal Binary so runs natively on both PowerPC and Intel Macs.
EasyDraw 3.4.1 is a free upgrade for licensed owners of EazyDraw version 3.x license and a US$35 upgrade for owners of EazyDraw version 2.x. For new users the cost is $95 for the downloadable version.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-165098"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Mariner Software (http://www.marinersoftware.com) has released MacJournal 5.0, the latest version of the journaling software. It adds a "None" option to the settings for smart journals so you can set up a smart journal where none of the listed checks are true.
For example, the entry does not contain a certain tag. English-only until localizations can be updated.
MacJournal 5.2.1 is now available for download and requires Mac OS 10.4 or 10.5. It costs US$34.95 for the download version. Registered MacJournal 3 and 4 customers can upgrade for $19.95 on the Mariner web site with their serial number. Version 5.2.1 is a free update for registered users of version 5.x.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-165096"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Hamrick Software has released Vuescan 8.6.26, 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 adds more info to Release Notes for each scanner and fixes some bugs.
The Standard Edition of VueScan costs US$59.95 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-165093"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Yellow Lemon Software has updated FolderGlance (http://www.scsc.no/products/folderglance/), a utility for browsing files and folders directly from the Finder's contextual menus, to version 2.6.6. The new version adds the ability to create new files to the root context menu, as well as in folders you browse to.
FolderGlance 2.6.6 requires Mac OS X 10.6 or later. It costs US$20, though version 2.6.6 is a free update for users upgrading from version 2.6 or later.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-165092"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">You can now use your iPhone or iPod touch to "pay for lattes, pastries and other items at more than 1,000 Starbucks locations," reports "Computerworld" (http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/348055/Starbucks_Tries_Mobile_Pay...).
In these select stores, you can pay for your coffee using just the Starbucks Card Mobile app on your iPhone or iPod touch. Enter your card number and your device will display a barcode you can use the same way as your Starbucks Card to make purchases.
You can download the Starbucks Card Mobile app free at the Apple App Store.You can find a list of participating stores at Target, Seattle or Silicon Valley by going to http://www.starbucks.com/store-locator .</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-165091"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Apple has announced a Headphones with Remote Replacement Program (http://www.apple.com/support/headphones/replacementprogram/). The company says it's determined that the Apple Headphones with Remote included with the iPod shuffle (third gen) may fail under certain conditions.
Apple says a "very small percentage" of iPod shuffle owners have experienced this issue. These headphones were included with the iPod shuffle made between approximately February 2009 and February 2010.  
If your headphones stop working or work intermittently, Apple will replace them, free of charge, for two years from date of purchase. Symptoms of the affected headphones include: controls are non-responsive or work intermittently; unexpected volume increase or decrease; and/or unexpected playing of voice feedback.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-165058"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Palm has started handing out "golden handcuffs" to the key executives who've not already jumped ship, in what could be the run up to an acquisition announcement, reports "The Register" (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/19/palm_handcuffs/).
One key executive who's already left is Michael Abbott -- the man credited, in large part, with creating WebOS, the article adds. His last day will be next week, as explained in a Securities & Exchange Commission filing from Palm.
The filings also detail incentives of up to US$250,000 for key executives, including operation chief Jeff Devine and CFO Doug Jeffries, if they choose to stick with Palm.
The move comes as Palm purportedly explores options for its survival including an attempt to find a buyer. Analysts and investors viewed the loss of Abbott as yet another setback for Palm, sending the shares down 6% Monday. UBS analysts issued a note Monday saying the departure of Abbott and the retention plan signal that a takeover deal is not...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-165032"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Gomez (http://www.gomez.com), which specializes in web site and application performance analytics, says that the iPad is proving surprisingly swift when it comes to web browsing.
In fact, the new Apple tablet often outperforms netbooks -- perhaps its closest rival product category -- when it comes to interacting with a majority of popular web sites, according to the research group. In preliminary results, Gomez said that 74% of the pages, on what it determined to be the top 50 most visited sites by iPad users, loaded faster on the iPad than on netbook computers in the U.S.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-165030"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Connectivity solutions provider Gefen has released a newly redesigned fiber optics-based extender, the USB-400 Fiber Optic (http://www.gefen.com/kvm/dproduct.jsp?prod_id=9133). This US$1,599, long-range 4-port USB 2.0 hub powers multiple hi-speed peripherals at distances up to 1640-feet (500m) from the computer, enabling a reliable remote workstation.
The Gefen USB-400 FO extender provides a high-bandwidth method of extending up to four USB 2.0 devices, including printers, keyboard/mouse, cameras, hard drives and DVD burners, enabling complete connectivity when operating in the field. The solution is designed for professional applications as it offers invulnerability to electromagnetic and radio signal interference.
The USB-400 FO operates through compact sender/receiver units, with the sender connecting to the computer, and the receiver connecting to four remote USB devices. Two multi-mode fiber optics cables terminated in LC connectors connect local and remote locations; both sender...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-165029"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">SMEStorage, the multi-cloud data access provider, has released the first beta of a Mac Cloud Drive (http://www.smestorage.com/?p=static&page=clients_and_tools#Mac), which enables up to 10 commercial storage providers to be accessed directly from a virtual drive in Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6.
"This drive enables users to access their cloud storage files directly from their shell or Mac file manager," says SMEStorage CEO Ian Osborne. "The drive brings cloud computing directly into the Mac OS with over 10 popular Cloud Storage vendors supported, including Amazon S3, Google Docs, Microsoft SkyDrive and RackSpace Cloud Files."
Just remember: beta software is unfinished software so use with care.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-165028"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">PureCM (http://www.purecm.com/) has announced the latest version of their software configuration management solution, PureCM 2010--1. This new release includes a range of new and enhanced features to support agile application lifecycle management (ALM).
PureCM 2010-1’s agile planning capabilities fully support working with project releases, iterations and backlogs, linking these to configuration management to ensure that any rescheduling is fully reflected.  2010-1 also automates task tracking, making parallel development easy by matching tasks to releases.
Another enhancement is support for isolated features. When starting work on a feature, PureCM Professional automatically creates a feature stream and maps the developer workspace against it, avoiding the need for a developer to create a branch manually.  Also, PureCM Professional automatically updates features with any changes from their parent version as a default.  In the event of an update conflict, the feature owner is...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-164968"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">According to info on the Apple Online Store, the company will ship 3G-enabled iPads in the US by May 7, although there is still no news on European availability of any model. Last week Apple blamed surprisingly strong US demand" for pushing back the international launch of the iPad by a month.
The Wi-Fi + 3G models of iPad will be available in the US and selected countries for a suggested retail price of $629 for the 16GB model, $729 for the 32GB model and $829 for the 64GB model.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-164967"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Apple has reportedly has started development of the second generation iPad using the same design concept as for the iPhone 4G, and will use an OLED panel, according to sources in the component industry.
Apple is said to be aiming to launch the device in 2011, but a Digitimes Research (http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20100416PD211.html) senior analyst said the cost of OLED panels are much too high for the iPad. He pointed out that OLED panels' high price will still be the major obstacle for them to be adopted in the iPad in 2011.
Kuo noted that the current price of the 9.7-inch LCD panel for iPad is about US$60-70, but the price of a 9.7-inch OLED panel is about US$500. He said the price gap is unlikely to narrow significantly in 2010 or 2011.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-164960"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Another day, another lawsuit. Apple is being sued by denying warranty service to its iPod and iPhone customers based on data supplied by allegedly inaccurate liquid sensors, reports "InformationWeek" ("http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/app-security/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=224400647&cid=RSSfeed_IWK_All).
Apple began including liquid contact indicators (LCI) in its iPods and iPhones in 2007 and also added them to its MacBook and MacBook Pro computers in 2008. The company uses these sensors to determine the eligibility of devices for repair under warranty.
Devices brought in for service that have been damaged by water or some other liquid are not covered by Apple's one-year limited warranty or the company's AppleCare Protection Plan. The lawsuit filed last week alleges that Apple "uses [the LCIs'] false-positive readings to avoid its [warranty] obligations..."
The plaintiff in the case, Charlene Gallion of San Francisco, had two iPhones cease functioning in the space...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-164956"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Apple has bumped Google out of first place as Silicon Valley's most valuable company. With the total value of its publicly traded stock at US$224 billion, up 107% from a year ago, Apple now has a market capitalization greater than all but two companies in the U.S, Exxon Mobil and Microsoft, reports the "Silicon Valley Mercury News" (http://www.mercurynews.com/science/ci_14900422?source=rss&nclick_check=1).
Last year, amid the worst recession in decades, the company recorded a 39% ncrease in profit to $9.4 billion. That was the highest profit earned by any company in the SV150, according to the "Mercury News." Apple's revenue grew 20% percent to $46.7 billion, returning the company to its standing as Silicon Valley's second-largest by revenue, a ranking it hasn't held for 23 years.
The "Mercury News" says that last year, one of every five dollars Apple took in was profit, giving it a profit margin three times that of Hewlett-Packard, the valley's revenue leader. Much of Apple's...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-164910"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Mac users can now benefit from the safety and comfort of VPN Tracker 6 in partnership with WatchGuard security appliances.
equinux VPN Tracker 6.2.1 is an update to the market leading IPsec based VPN client for Mac OS X. The new version supports Watchguard Fireware XTM-based devices, such as the Firebox X Edge, Core and Peak e-Series and all XTM Series devices.
VPN Tracker 6.2.1 contains pre-configured device profiles for the WatchGuard XTM-2, 5, 8 and 10 Series and the firewalls of the Firebox X Edge, Core, and Peak e-Series. The related configuration instructions for the devices are already available at vpntracker.com/interop .
VPN Tracker 6 offers the new Secure Desktop, gathering your standard applications in a central location: check e-mails, open files and disks from remote servers, use Remote Desktop or restart Windows applications using Parallels Desktop or VMware Fusion. The Secure Desktop automatically builds the necessary VPN connections, disconnecting safely once...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-164909"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">publicspace.net has announced Vitamin-R (http://www.publicspace.net/Vitamin-R/index.html), its new Mac OS X compatible productivity tool for creative professionals. It's a collection of tools and techniques for managing attention and maintaining motivation.
According to the folks at publicspace.net, Vitamin-R 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.
Vitamin-R may be purchased for US$14.95. Family, business and enterprise licensing are also available....</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-164691"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Apple has reshuffled several positions on its Board of Directors, putting the company back into compliance with its own rules after the sudden death last month of director Jerome York left it out of compliance, according to the "Wall Street Journal" (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230349130457518845195307584...).
Apple's changes to its six-member board add extra duties to its co-lead directors, Avon Products Inc. Chief Executive Andrea Jung and Genentech Inc. Chairman Arthur Levinson. Intuit Chairman Bill Campbell and Mr. Levinson now co-chair the audit committee that Mr. York had led for more than 12 years, according to Apple's site.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-164644"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">The San Francisco Bay Area is the biggest U.S. market for Apple products, according to the results of a survey conducted by research firm Experian Simmons.
As reported by "CNET" (http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-20002715-36.html?tag=mncol), the study found that 32.3% of adult residents of the region own at least one Apple product -- an iPod, iPhone, or Mac computer -- compared to 21.6% in the nation as a whole, which makes Bay Area residents 49% more likely to buy Apple products.
A close second in Experian Simmons' "Mac Metropolis" list is Boston, where 31.3% of adult residents own at least one Apple product. In third, fourth, and fifth places are San Diego, New York, and Washington D.C., respectively. Chicago, Ill. comes in sixth, and Denver, Colo. is seventh.
According to "CNET," the biggest surprises on the list are probably the metro areas of Monterey-Salinas, and Santa Barbara-Santa Marina, Calif., which come in eighth and ninth place.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-162010"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Apple and AMD are in "advanced discussions" to bring the chipmaker's processors to upcoming Macs, reports "AppleInsider" (http://www.appleinsider.com). If that's true, it would end the exclusive Apple-Intel relationship that's been around since 2006.
According to "AppleInsider," Apple and AMD execs have been meeting to allow Apple to begin working with AMD processors in its labs as part of an initiative to position the chips inside some upcoming products. Apple seems to be mainly interested in AMD's workstation and notebook class CPUs, the article says.
"It is believed that Apple is working with AMD to expand its potential sources for CPUs in order to increase its flexibility and broaden its competitive options, but also likely in response to problems it has encountered with Intel," says "AppleInsider." "These issues include limited availability of new processors (which is rumored to have slowed Apple's notebook refreshes) as well as new chipset designs imposed by Intel that have...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-161976"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Millennial Media (http://www.millennialmedia.com), an independent mobile advertising platform, said today that mobile connected devices like the iPad and Sony PSP displayed more than 20% of the giant ad networks’ ad impressions in March, a trend that could have far reaching impact on mobile advertising as these devices grow more popular.
Millennial Media decoupled the device and OS trending information from the company’s monthly Scorecard for Mobile Advertising Reach and Targeting (SMART); the new Millennial Media Mobile Mix will now complement the company’s monthly SMART report. The company’s mobile advertising network reaches 83% of mobile users in the U.S.
Millennial Media also reported that, for the first time, Android’s OS was in the top three in the ranking of smartphone impressions in March. Android OS impressions share increased 3% in March alone to bring the Google platform to a total of 6% of U.S. smartphone impressions for the month. Globally, Android impressions increased...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-161975"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Virtual Programming (http://www.vpltd.com) is releasing the Mac version of Atari's The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena today, reports Inside Mac Games (http://www.insidemacgames.com). It costs US$49.95, has an age rating of 18+ and requires Mac OS X 10.6.3 or higher.

Here's how the game is described: "Be Riddick, the most ruthless criminal in the universe. In his latest chronicle, Riddick has been captured by The Dark Athena, a mercenary ship hell-bent on eliminating him once and for all. Using his intense hand-to-hand combat skills, explosive firepower, and lethal stealth, Riddick must shut down the maniacal Captain Revas and her deadly crew. When Riddick steps into the darkness, no one is safe.
"Before battling the Necromongers on Helion Prime — even before the crash landing of the Hunter-Gratzner on a deserted planet in Pitch Black — Riddick stalked his enemies across the universe. Play the award-winning Escape from Butcher Bay campaign, which has been re-mastered...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-161954"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">The Gibbon Fairfax Winthrop (GFW) High School school district in Winthrop, Minneapolis, has allocated US$267,748 to its technology fund to become what is believed to be the first school in the country to buy iPads at a cost of US$479 each, reports the "The NU Journal" (http://www.nujournal.com/page/content.detail/id/512977.html?nav=5009).
The money will be used to buy 320 iPads with extended, two-year warranties for students and staff, create Wi-Fi (wireless) infrastructure including routers and access points plus professional development (staff training). Last fall, the GFW School Board was told by Maplewood-based, educational technology and K-12 online learning consultant David Glick that if they didn't keep up with the latest computer technology, they would get behind in a future world without traditional schools, according to the "Journal."
Glick said iPads are capable of replacing textbooks and calculators while offering online research capacity. Bertrang told the school board...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-161945"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Intego (http://www.intego.com), a Mac security specialist, says it's has discovered a new variant of a malware for Mac, called HellRTS, which, when installed on computers running Mac OS X, opens a backdoor that allows remote users to take control of infected Macs and perform actions on them.
Intego identifies this backdoor as OSX/HellRTS.D, a variant of an early Mac OS X malware first spotted in 2004. HellRTS, built in RealBasic, and a Universal Binary able to run on both PowerPC- and Intel-Based Macs, is able to perform a number of operations if installed on a Mac.
It sets up its own server and configures a server port and password. It duplicates itself, using the names of different applications, adding the new version to a user’s login items, to ensure that it starts up at login. (These different names can make it hard to detect, not only in login items, but also in Activity Monitor.) Intego says OSX/HellRTS.D can send e-mail with its own mail server, contact a remote server, and...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-161944"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">The iFixIt site has offered a teardown of the new 15-inch MacBook Pro (http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/MacBook-Pro-15-Inch-Unibody-Core-i5-Teard...). It doesn't look any different than its predecessor, but Apple has made quite a few subtle tweaks within their latest professional laptop. Here are some highlights of the teardown:
° For some odd reason, Apple has stopped using five-point Torx screws found on other MBP 15-inch Unibodies in favor of Tri-Wing screws. Perhaps the sound of a thousand technicians crying out in unison made them change their mind?
° The battery is now rated at 77.5 Wh. That's just a tad bit bigger (6%) than the 73 Wh battery we found in last year's 15-inch model, but not enough to explain the two-hour...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-161931"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Minder Softworks has updated MYStuff (http://www.mindersoftworks.com/products/mystuff), a "stuff manager" for Mac OS X, to version 1.3. The upgrade adds one-click internet searching for manuals and images, and CSV import.
Combining features of PDF managers and home inventory programs, MYStuff adds additional features, and gives users a way of filing and finding their information. It makes it easy to file and find information about the things you own, according to the folks at Minder Softworks. You make a new record, and key in what you bought, where you bought it, how much you paid and how you paid for it, warranty information, and other key data. Then you can add an unlimited number of files to the record: a scan of the receipt, photos of the item, a PDF of the manual, and anything else you'd like to add. What's more, MYStuff's MYInbox feature allows users to add files to MYStuff from other applications.
MYStuff will run on any Intel or PowerPC Mac running Mac OS X 10.5.8 or later,...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-161930"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">AudioBooktoMP3.com has released AudioBook to MP3 Converter for Mac 1.02 (http://www.audiobooktomp3.com), an update of the tool that converts audio books from iTunes to MP3, AAC or WAV for playback on any MP3 player. It's a maintenance update with some tweaks and bug fixes.
It converts purchased audiobooks to MP3 or AAC files from iTunes on Mac OS X. AudioBook to MP3 Converter uses a "virtual CD-RW" to automate the process of burning and ripping an audio book. It works with iTunes and Virtual CD burning technology to convert audio books to keep users on the legal side.
AudioBook to MP3 Converter for Mac is available immediately for $29.95. Version 1.02 is a free update for registered users. A demo is available for download. AudioBook to MP3 Converter requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later and iTunes 8 or higher.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-161835"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">The curtain has risen on Sam & Max: The Devil’s Playhouse with the premiere of the first episode, entitled "The Penal Zone," on Macs, iPads, PCs and the PlayStation 3.
Here's how the game is described: "Telltale’s landmark series returns for the biggest, best looking, most bizarre installment yet as the dog and rabbit detective duo battle an onslaught of fearsome villains bent on acquiring the source of Max’s newfound psychic powers."
With new episodes releasing monthly, season passes are available now for the full five game series for US$34.95. The PC and Mac version can be downloaded at http://www.samandmaxgames.com/thedevilsplayhouse.
 
Also available on the iPad, The Penal Zone was a launch title for Apple’s new tablet device and is available now for the introductory price of $6.99 on the Apple App Store.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-161833"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Black Cat Systems has updated Graph Paper Maker (http://www.blackcatsystems.com/software/graphmaker.html), Mac OS X software for creating custom sheets of graph paper, to version 1.6.0. The latest version adds the ability to set the background color of produced charts, as well as plot marker points on graphs with logarithmic, hydraulic, and probability axes.
With Graph Paper Maker, you can control the graph characteristics. X and Y axis can independently be set for linear or log scale, and scaling. Youc an select from a dozen standard paper sizes, or custom create your own. Graphs can be saved as PDF files, and you can choose whatever color you want for the lines. Also, you can specify independent line weights for the X and Y axis lines.
Graph Paper Maker costs US$19.99, though version 2.2.0 is a free update for registered users. It works with Mac OS X 10.2 and later. Graph Paper Maker is Universal Binary so runs natively on both PowerPC and Intel Macs.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-161831"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Zevrix Solutions (http://www.zevrix.com) has updated InPreflight Pro -- its quality control, packaging automation and preflight reporting solution for Adobe InDesign -- to version 2.7. The new version features a revamped user interface and addresses some minor issues.
InPreflight provides a preflight solution for service providers, printers, ad agencies, designers and publishing houses. It gathers information about document fonts, colors and links and lets users locate potential problems according to preflight presets. The software is also a packaging automation solution that allows users to preflight and package multiple documents. Among other abilities, it can collect all files into one folder, eliminating the need to collect the same links multiple times for each design. In addition, InPreflight lets users print graphic preflight reports and save them as fully searchable interactive PDF files, providing an easy way to analyze, archive and send reports to service providers....</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-161834"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">SONiVOX (http://www.sonivoxmi.com), on behalf of Fable Sounds, has announced the availabliity of the latest version of the Broadway Big Band virtual Instrument for Mac and PC systems. It's designed to let you accurately portray contemporary jazz, blues, pop, and rhythm 'n blues woodwind, brass, and rhythm instrument’s playing techniques in a playable virtual instrument plug-in.
By integrating the Broadway Performer technology directly into the Kontakt 4 Player via Kontakt’s l scripting engine, this new version of Broadway Big Band is designed to simplify use as well as add greater control over expressiveness. For the first time Broadway Big Band users will be able to use Broadway directly in their DAW environment without having to use any virtual MIDI cabling or more elaborate midi routing.
Fable Sounds is offering a special cross-grade price for registered users who wish to cross-grade to the new Kontakt 4 Player Edition of Broadway Big Band. This upgrade is available directly...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-161832"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Spiderweb Software has updated Avernum 6 for Mac OS X (http://www.avernum.com/avernum6/index.html) to version 1.0.3. Avernum 6 is the final game in the epic Avernum series. This upgrade fixes a handful of bugs and balance issues.
Avernum 6 is set in the world of Avernum, an enormous series of caves far below the surface of the world. Here's how the game is described: "Avernum is a world underground. It is a nation of people living in an enormous warren of tunnels and caverns, far below the surface of the world. Once a prison colony for rebels and thugs, it is now a wild frontier, full of adventurous souls looking for wealth, fame, and magical power.
"And then the Blight came. Almost overnight, the mushrooms Avernum needed to feed itself withered and died. Then the denizens of the low tunnels, the savage, reptilian Slithzerikai, emerged. Sensing weakness, they struck, destroying much of a weakened Avernum and creating waves of hungry, desperate refugees. This final set of disasters...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-161830"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">For the sixth consecutive year, Apple has topped the list of Bloomberg BusinessWeek’s annual special report, “The 50 Most Innovative Companies,” produced in collaboration with partner Boston Consulting Group.
Google, Microsoft, IBM, and Toyota Motor round out the top five. For the first time since the rankings began in 2005, the majority of corporations in the Top 25 are based outside the U.S. and 15 of the Top 50 companies are Asian -- up from just five in 2006. China’s rise is biggest. A year ago its only representative was computer maker Lenovo Group, at No. 56. This year Greater China is tied with Asia’s postwar powerhouse, Japan, thanks to showings by BYD (8), Haier Electronics (27), Lenovo (29), China Mobile (44), and Taiwan-based HTC (47). Just ahead of General Electric in seventh and eighth places are newcomers LG Electronics of South Korea and BYD, with Korea’s Hyundai Motor claiming a spot at No. 22.
Boston Consulting Group’s annual survey of top executives, which provides...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-161823"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">The iPad is causing the entertainment, publishing and information industries to undergo a radical paradigm shift in their methods of delivering entertainment and information to consumers, according to a new report from Rider Research (http://www.riderresearch.com) of Baton Rouge, La.
The impact started on day one, says Geoff Whiting, who prepared the report.. Apple said it sold over 300,000 the first day the iPad went on sale in the U.S. and that over one million iPad apps were downloaded. With the iPad, Apple has created a leisure media device that consumers can use thoughout the home: for reading books, playing movies and music or as an instruction manual for home repairs or cooking, Whiting says.
"Studios, TV networks and magazine/newspaper publishers are no longer limited to immobile TV sets, mobile phones with tiny screens or PCs that place entertainment in a secondary role," he adds. "Instead, the major TV networks, online video services, newspapers, magazines and book...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-161675"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Native Instruments (http://www.native-instruments.com) has introduced Paranormal Spectrums, a new Kore-powered instrument that creates "mysterious and unsettling" sonic atmospheres.
For use with Kore 2 and the free Kore Player, it's designed as a resource for suspenseful film and game scores in the horror, thriller and mystery domain, and is also suitable for dark electronic music styles. Based on atmospheric field recordings, unusual sampled sounds and intricate synthesizer programming, Paranormal Spectrums offers an assortment of evocative pads and sinister soundscapes, as well as intense mallets, flutes, bells and synth sounds.
It takes advantage of the integrated engines of Kore 2 and Kore Player. It also combines the advanced sampling features of Kontakt with the versatile synthesis functions of Massive and Absynth and the sound processing capabilities of Guitar Rig to create deep, complex and charismatic sounds that can be efficiently modulated and brought to life, according to...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-161674"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Quark (http://www.quark.com) has become an associate member of RIXML.org, a consortium of buy-side, sell-side, and vendor firms committed to the development and implementation of the first open standard for investment research.
Quark offers Quark XML Author, an XML authoring tool that allows anyone to create XML content directly in Microsoft Word. Quark XML Author can be configured for RIXML so that research analysts and other non-technical professionals in the financial services industry can create RIXML content easily, without having an understanding of XML coding.
 
As an associate member, Quark says it brings more than a decade of experience in XML authoring, including extending the usability of XML and advancing XML standards. Quark will help advance the RIXML specification through direct participation in RIXML workgroups to discuss trends, solve issues, and develop future releases of the standard, according to company execs.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-161673"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Apple now sites at 56 on the Fortune 500 list, "Fortune" magazine's annual ranking of America's largest corporations. That's up from 71 on the previous year's list.
"Fortune" says Apple's profits are up 12.5% from 2009 and that, as of March 26, the company has over $53.8 billion in asssets. The top 10 on the list are Wal-Mart, Exxon Mobile, Chevron, General Electric, Bank of America Corp., ConocoPhilips, AT&T, Ford Motor, JP Morgan Chase & Co., and HP.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-161671"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Houdah Software (http://www.houdah.com/) has updated HoudahGeo, a geocoding solution for the Mac, to version 2.5. The new version brings full integration with Aperture 3 Places.
HoudahGeo costs US$30 for a single-user license for new users. Version 2.5is a free update for registered users. HoudahGeo requires Mac OS X 10.4.8 or higher.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-161668"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Plustek Technology (http://www.plustek.com/usa) has announced the new SmartOffice PL1530 scanner, Plustek's newest ADF scanner with an integral flatbed. It will go on sale next month with a manufacturer's suggested retail price of US$349.
The SmartOffice PL1530 features two USB ports that allow the scanner to be shared between two computers for business users who want to save money and space. It's bundled with business card reading software and a suite of document management and scanning applications.
Documents can be scanned with the flatbed or ADF and sent to either computer with the press of a button. Multi-page documents can be scanned on both sides to be processed into electronic searchable PDF files.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-161667"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">MacForensicsLab (http://www.MacForensicsLab.com) has updated their self-titled, computer forensic suite, MacForensicsLab, to version 3.0 The new version offers new features, more stability and speed improvements.
The latest version of MacForensicsLab features redesigned core functions. Speed improvements make all tasks faster than ever, says MacForensics CEO Marko Kostyrko. Some operations were benchmarked to run up to 12 times faster then the previous version, he adds. New 64-bit operation helps to maximize speed and take full advantage of newer Mac's Intel processors. What's more, MacForensicsLab has redesigned memory allocation algorithms to prevent system freezes due to memory leaks or inefficient memory distribution by the operating system. 
MacForensicsLab is priced at US$1,195 for licensed law enforcement and $1,495 for private industry. Upgrade pricing is available for owners of previous versions of MacForensicsLab for $495.  Those that purchased MacForensicsLab after January...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-161656"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">It’s "a sure thing that the iPad will get a camera in its second generation," according to the "Cult of Mac" site (http://www.cultofmac.com/apple-is-hiring-ipad-camera-engineer/38256). There’s already an empty, iSight-shaped slot in the iPad’s frame and Apple is looking for a performance QA engineer to work on still and video capture in the iPad Media department.
At the "Jobs at Apple site" (http://jobs.apple.com/index.ajs?BID=1&method=mExternal.showJob&RID=47818...), it says: "The Media Systems team is looking for a software quality engineer with a strong technical background to test still, video and audio capture and playback frameworks. Build on your QA experience and knowledge of digital camera technology (still and video) to develop and maintain testing frameworks for both capture and playback pipelines. You will work together with the development team to ensure quality. Your focus will mainly be on performance testing and developing performance measurement test tools....</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-161650"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Apple CEO Steve Jobs, the co-founder and chief executive officer of Apple, is the entrepreneur most admired by teenagers, according to a new survey by Junior Achievement USA (http://www.ja.org), the world’s largest organization dedicated to educating students about workforce readiness, entrepreneurship and financial literacy through experiential, hands-on programs.
In a poll of 1,000 12-17-year-olds, 35 per cent thought that Jobs was more impressive than Facebook-founder Mark Zuckerberg or television host Oprah Winfrey, reports the "Telegraph" (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/7593141/Steve-Jobs-is-entrep...). Zuckerberg was the favorite of 10% of respondents, and Winfrey the favorite of 25%.
Of those polled, 61% said that Jobs "made a difference in or improved people's lives or made the world a better place." Another 33% cited his "success in multiple fields," referring to Jobs' record at Apple and Pixar and his involvement with Disney.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-161647"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Hyberbolic Software (http://www.hyperbolicsoftware.com) has released Tidy Up! 2.1.5, the latest version of their disk, file and folder processing utility for Mac OS X.
Tidy Up! can find duplicate files and packages using any criteria. Version 2.1.5 improves the search for content within email messages of Mail. Now it will find messages even if they differ by the number of spaces at the end of the message.
Tidy Up 2.1.5 requires Mac OS X 10.5 ("Leopard") or higher. Upgrades from version 1.x are $20, and upgrades from version 2.x are free.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-161643"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Apple's newly released MacBook Pro models now support audio output via their mini DisplayPort, and Dr. Bott's mini DisplayPort to HDMI adapters fully support this new feature. With these adapters, a single HDMI cable can transmit both audio and video to your LCD-TV or LCD-display.
Older Macs with a non-audio mini DisplayPort can achieve the same result by using the Dr. Bott Audio and mini DisplayPort to HDMI Adapter Pro. This adapter combines digital audio and digital video to a single, unaltered HDMI signal to pass to the display via HDMI cable.
All Dr. Bott HDMI adapters for mini DisplayPort support HDCP copy protection. They're plug and play; no driver installation is necessary.
The US$29 Mini Display Port to HDMI Adapter is designed to connect your flat panel display or LCD-TV with HDMI-Port to a computer equipped with a Mini DisplayPort. It supports audio output on the MacBook Pros released this week.
The $99Mini DisplayPort to HDMI Adapter Pro w/Optical Audio transmits the...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-161637"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">vjoon (http://www.vjoon.com) says its cross-media publishing platform, K4 6, will be compatible with Adobe Creative Suite 5 in the second quarter of 2010.
With its explicit workflow features for multiple output channels, content management for multimedia, and automation of exports for digital publishing, K4 version 6 complements the latest Adobe creative software by "providing an ideal platform for creative teams to collaborate," says vjoon CEO Andreas Schrader. He adds that, in K4, content isn't simply reused for different channels, but is adapted to the different demands of specific media and devices, including web sites, print publications and handheld devices such as the iPad and Amazon Kindle.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-161635"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Oki Data Americas (http://www.okidata.com ), which markets its products under the OKI Printing Solutions brand, has added two new series of digital color printers designed for medium and large workgroups with the launch of the C610 Series and the C711 Series. Pricing ranges from US$699 to $1,449.
Offering HD (high-definition) Color Technology, both the C610 Series and C711 Series allow users to produce high-quality, color documents in-house, reducing lead/turn-around time, cost and potential waste associated with outsourcing, according to Mike Garofola Sr. of OKI Data Americas.
The C610 Series from OKI Printing Solutions comes in four configurations that deliver a footprint of 17.1 x 21.5 x 13.4 inches and print speeds up to 32 ppm color and 34 ppm mono. With a monthly duty cycle of 75,000 pages, it’s designed for small-to-medium sized businesses and medium workgroups.
The C610 Series features a 400-sheet standard paper capacity (which is expandable to 1,460 with optional second and...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-161628"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Maintain has released Cocktail 4.7.3 (Snow Leopard Edition), the latest maintenance update of Cocktail (http://www.maintain.se/c) for users running Mac OS X 10.6 ("Snow Leopard").
This version addresses an issue in which the system log server (syslogd) may not be properly restarted, fixes a bug where clearing the virtual memory swap files may cause kernel panics and addresses minor compatibility issues with Mac OS X 10.6.3 (v 1.0 and 1.1) identified in the previous release.
Cocktail 4.7.3 (Snow Leopard Edition) requires Mac OS X/Mac OS X Server 10.6 or later and is tested for compatibility with Mac OS X/Mac OS X Server 10.6.3. Cocktail (Leopard Edition) for Mac OS X 10.5 and Cocktail (Tiger Edition) for Mac OS X 10.4 are available for download from the Maintain web site.
Cocktail is a general purpose utility for Mac OS X that offers a variety of practical features designed to simplify the use of advanced UNIX function. A single user license costs US$14.95.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-161627"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">ClueTrust has announced Cartographica 1.2 (http://www.macgis.com), an update to their Geographical Information System (GIS) software for Mac OS X. Due in May, the new version builds on Cartographica's exploratory interface and adds:
° Flexible labeling that can show multiple fields in multiple styles on one or more lines;
° Improved Illustrator export, using layers to provide all the geospatial and textual data, plus legends that can be styled for direct inclusion into documents;
° New formula fields that enable calculations using higher math as well as ready use of geoprocessing data, and can be updated in real time;
° Live Maps that incorporate access to a variety of tile-servers and WMS services to put data into context quickly;
° Increased speed and reduced memory footprint.
Cartographica provides a set of tools that enable the user to explore, analyze and present geospatial data. It supports importing from over 100 different raster and vector formats, as well as bringing in...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-161616"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">nova media has unveiled the iCON XY (http://www.novamedia.de/en/icon-xy.html), a 3G USB surfstick made by the Belgium company Option. The HSPA modem reaches download and upload speeds up to 7.2Mbps and 5.76Mbps.
The surfstick sports a swivel USB connector and a micro-SD slot compatible to SDHC cards with up to 32GB memory. The iCON XY isn't IM locked and can be used in any 3G network running on 900 or 2100 MHz and on any EDGE/GPRS network running on 850, 900, 1800 or 1900 MHz.
"The real benefit of the iCON XY is the ability to use it with prepaid SIM cards all around the world." says Jan Fuellemann, PR spokesperson at nova media. "Using a prepaid SIM card abroad can save hundreds of Euros otherwise spend for data roaming costs."
The iCON XY features a self-installing connection manger, "uCAN Connect" software from Option. It's compatible with all Intel Macs running Mac OS X 10.4.11 and higher. It offers a SMS text message manager, a statistic manager for online time and data volume...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-161615"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Paragon Software has updated NTFS for the Mac (http://www.paragon-software.com/home/ntfs-mac/) to version 8.0. The upgrade is purportedly the first NTSF driver to support Mac OS X 10.6 ("Snow Leopard") in both 32-bit and 64-bit modes.
The purpose of NTFS for Mac OS X is to provide rapid reading and writing data to NTFS volumes under Mac OS. It comes in a single edition that includes a standard DMG disk image containing the installation package.
NTFS for the Mac costs US$39.95. NTFS for Mac OS X requires Mac OS X 10.4.6 or higher.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-161469"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">According to the latest results from the Gartner research group, Apple has 8% of the US computer market for the first quarter of 2010. That's up 34% from the 7.2% of the same period a year ago.
That places Apple fifth among US computer vendors. Ahead of it, with first quarter 2010 market share percentages, are HP (25%), Dell (23.4%), Acer (15.6%) and Toshiba (8.6%). Worldwide, Apple still doesn't rank in the top five, which are: HP (18.2%), Acer (14.2%), Dell (12.1%), ASUS (5.5%) and Toshiba (5.5%). The Mac has, by most estimates, a 5% global market share.
Worldwide computer shipments totaled 84.3 million units in the first quarter of 2010, a 27.4% increase from the first quarter of 2009, according to preliminary results by Gartner. These first quarter results have exceeded Gartner's earlier market outlook. Gartner had been expecting first quarter computer shipments to grow 22%.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-161468"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Okay, Gartner says Apple's US market share has grown. IDC says it's shrunk for the first quarter of 2010. As the old joke says, "99% of all statistics are made up," so I guess you can pick which one you like best.
According to IDC, Apple had 6.4% of the US market share in quarter one of 2010, compared to 7% in the same time period a year ago. The research group says Apple sold 1,130,000 Macs for 1Q 2010 compared to 1,043,000 in 1Q 2009.
According to IDC, Apple is fifth among US computer vendors. Ahead of it are, with market shares for 1Q 2010 are HP (25.4%), Dell (24.1%), Acer (13.1%) and Toshiba (8.6%).</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-161467"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Apple has released a security update for users of Mac OS X 10.5 ("Leopard") and 10.6 ("Snow Leopard"), as well as Server Admin Tools 10.6.3
Security Update 2010-003 for Snow Leopard (http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1029), Leopard Client (http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1027) and Leopard Server (http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1028) fixes an issue with the potential execution of arbitrary code when viewing or even just downloading a document with a maliciously crafted embedded font.
Server Admin Tools 10.6.3 (http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1032) contains remote administration tools, documentation, and utilities that you can install on a computer other than your server. The Server Admin Tools update is recommended for remote administration of Snow Leopard Server.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-161461"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Other World Computing (http://www.macsales.com) has announced OWC DDR3 1066MHz Memory Upgrades up to 8GB and internal 2.5-inch hard drive upgrades up to 1TB for the new MacBook Pro 13-inch, 15-inch and 17-inch models announced this week.
OWC Memory and internal drive upgrades offer owners of the newest MacBook Pro models savings of up to 46% versus factory installed options as well as upgrade options not available from the factory, according to the folks at OWC. Details and ordering information for OWC Memory, internal hard drive upgrades, and other accessories for the new MacBook Pro models, as well as existing MacBook and MacBook Pro models introduced since 2006, is available at http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/memory/Apple_MacBook_MacBook_Pro/Upgrade .</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-161459"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Apple has released firmware updates for its 27-inch iMacs. You can obtain the updates via the Software Update component of Mac OS X's Systems Preferences app.
27-inch iMac EFI FW Update 1.0 (http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1031) is recommended for all quad-core Intel Core i5 and Core i7 processors 27-inch iMacs. This 2.1MB update requires Mac OS X 10.6.3.
It resolves an issue that sometimes caused high processor utilization while playing audio through the headphone output mini-jack. It also resolves an issue that prevented the display backlight from turning on after powering on the iMac.
27-inch iMac SMC Firmware Update 1.0 (http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1030) fixes Target Display Mode compatibility issues on 27-inch iMac computers. It's a 397KB download and requires Mac OS X 10.6.3 and 27-inch iMac EFI Update 1.0.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-161457"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Limit Point Software has released Mailings 1.9.46 (http://www.limit-point.com/Mailings/Mailings.html), an update of the application for batch emailing that delivers any web page or plain text document with attachments to multiple recipients for marketing, news announcements, product updates, etc. It's a maintenance release
Mailings delivers web pages, plain or HTML text documents to multiple recipients for marketing, news announcements, product updates etc. It integrates with mail clients, most common browsers, Address Book and Entourage.
Mailings is Universal Binary so runs natively on both PowerPC and Intel Macs. It requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher. For a limited time, it's available for US$10; upgrades are always free. A demo is available for download.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-161435"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">ABC is the only TV network so far to offer an application for watching its shows free -- with ads, naturally -- on the iPad, and it says its business model is proving successful, according to the "Wall Street Journal" (http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/04/13/abc-sees-success-in-ipad-app/).
The network said that in the 10 days since the iPad’s debut, its TV-show watching app has been downloaded 205,000 times, giving the Walt Disney unit a presence on nearly half the 450,000 devices that Apple says it has sold. What's more, users have watched at least part of 650,000 television episodes using the app, generating “several million” ad impressions, an ABC spokesman told the "Journal." Disney-ABC television President Anne Sweeney says the network is pleased with the initial results.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-161433"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">FadingRed has introduced Koku 1.0 (http://www.fadingred.com/koku), a personal finance management for the Mac. It lets you track checking, savings, and credit card accounts, and generate beautiful custom reports to analyze your spending and income.
Key features of Koku include the ability to automatically and securely download transactions as they occur from a wide array of financial institutions via Direct Connect. Also, with inbox-like status indicators, you can find and review what's new. Koku also provides the option to automatically tag transactions as they are downloaded.
Koku also has Smart Tagging, which allows users to categorize transactions with multiple tags free of hierarchy. The software also lets users import from all the standard financial data formats -- OFX, QIF, QFX and OFC.
Koku 1.0, available for Mac OS X 10.6 or later. A demo is available for download. Registration (for a limited time) is US$25.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-161375"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Apple will announce its latest financial results on Tuesday, April 20. And two analysts have upped their price target for the company's stock.
As reported by AppleInsider (http://www.appleinsider.com), Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster is predicting sales of 7.5 million iPhones for the first quarter of calendar 2010 and 2.9 million Macs. Those would be year-over-year growth increases of 93% and 39%, respectively. Munster has raised his price target to US$299.
Meanwhile, Caris & Company analyst Robert Cihra has raised his estimate to $300. He's forecasting sales of 7.5 million iPhone sales and 3.1 million Mac sales.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-161374"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Apple has updated Backup (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3991), a MobileMe component, to version 3.2. It's recommended for all users of Backup 3.
According to Apple, this update improves the overall reliability of Backup and uses space more efficiently on your iDisk or local storage by automatically recycling older backup data. When backing up to iDisk, older backups are recycled every 30 days for daily backup plans and every 12 weeks for weekly backup plans.
For example, if you are backing up to your iDisk on a daily basis, Backup will maintain a minimum of 30 days of backup history. You may choose not to recycle when backing up to a hard disk, CD, or DVD, but recycling is recommended as it uses storage space more efficiently and improves reliability when restoring your data, says Apple.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-161372"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Patent Calls (http://www.patentcalls.com) -- an independent research firm that provides comprehensive patent reports and analysis --has conducted an independent analyst report on US Patent 5,515,369 (‘369) -- the patent that 19 tech companies, including Apple, are allegedly infringing according to a complaint filed by Wi-LAN on April 7. The report says the companies aren't infringing on the patent.
In its filing, WiLAN claims that these companies have infringed and continue to infringe WiLAN’s patent by making and/or selling various products enabled with Bluetooth technology including cellular handsets and personal notebook computers. WiLAN is represented in this action by McKool Smith.
However, despite Wi-LAN’s claims, an in-depth analysis of patent ‘369 and of the Bluetooth specifications by Patent Calls finds otherwise. Patent Calls' analysis concludes that compatibility with the Bluetooth standard does not require infringement of Wi-LAN’s ‘369 patent, and that the Bluetooth...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-161370"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">DIGLLOYD, a resource for Mac configuration and performance optimization, and hardware vendor Other World Computing (OWC) have announced a new Mac laptop upgrade service, the MPG Pro Laptop.
Following on the heels of the MPG Photo Workstation, the MPG Pro Laptop upgrades any recent model MacBook Pro to 8GB of memory and dual internal drives, offering any of the following combinations:
° Dual 100GB or 200GB enterprise-grade solid state drives, for a 200GB or 400GB capacity;
° One 100GB or 200GB solid state drive paired with a 500GB 7200 hard drive, allowing internal Time Machine backup capability and/or additional data storage;
° Dual 500GB 7200 rpm hard drives as a RAID-0 mirror, so that either drive can fail without loss of functionality.
The MPG Pro Laptop targets Photoshop and Lightroom users, professional photographers, graphic designers, and audio/video producers. For details, including technical specifications and the ordering process, go to http://macperformanceguide.com/bto-mbp...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-161323"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Morgan Stanley analyst Katy Huberty has released the results of a survey of 2,500 American consumers that found that 4.6% were "extremely interested" in buying an iPad and 16.4% were "somewhat interested."
Applying what Huberty calls a 77% discount rate on those forecasts (based on previous surveys of consumer interest in the iPhone and the iPod touch) and excluding non-Apple product owners (who are significantly less likely to buy an iPad), the survey suggests 4-5 million iPad sales in the U.S. over the first 12 months and 7-9 million worldwide, reports "Fortune" (http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/04/14/ipad-survey-4-6-extremely-interes...). Among the survey's other findings:
° 20% or more of current Mac desktop, iPod Touch and iPhone owners are extremely interested in purchasing an [iPad] vs. 4.6% overall.
° iPad extreme interest skews towards males but the current iPhone installed base is about half males and females.
° The highest demand for the iPad comes from the 25-34 (29%) age...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-161322"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Comm-Unity Networking Systems has released FTPit Pro 2.0.6 for FileMaker Pro. The new version brings the plug-in to full compatibility with the recently announced FileMaker Pro 11.
It also has several bug fixes improving the overall stability of the plug-in as well as fixes for some networking issues. FTPit Pro is available immediately at http://ftpitpro.cnsplug-ins.com/ for both Mac OS X and Windows platforms.
With this plug-in you can transfer files, text, and entire directories to and from your computer using the File Transfer Protocol (FTP) all from within FileMaker Pro. Version 2.0.4, which is available immediately for both Mac OS X and Windows, enhances a few functions and includes bug fixes.
A single-user license for the client version of FTPit Pro is US$65. To use the Server Edition of FTPit Pro, you'll need to purchase at least a 10-User License for $319. There are several other price points on the purchase page for the plug-in.
If you own an existing license of Classic...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-161321"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Equinux (http://www.equinux.com) has released CoverScout 3.3 and SongGenie 2, software tools designed to complement iTunes.
CoverScout is a tool for completing album covers in iTunes. It searches multiple music archives like Amazon, WalMart and Google Image Search simultaneously. It can also be adjusted to include additional search sources. In the integrated cover editor, each album cover can be edited with pixel precision, rotated, cropped, scaled and the colors can be adjusted. CoverScout even offers the option to photograph rare albums with one’s iSight. Version 3.3 now integrates with SongGenie 2, which helps to identify music tracks and find song lyrics.
CoverScout is available for US$39.95 in the equinux online store. It runs on Mac OS X 10.5 and higher. Version 3.3 is a free update for registered users of version 3.x.
SongGenie is a software application designed to analyze, detect and label music data. Version 2.0 automatically searches online for lyrics.
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-161312"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Pro Softnet Corp. has released IDrive Portable for Mac (http://www.idrive.com/portable/mac_download.htm) that allows for a "quick and easy" backup of a Mac to a portable drive. It's an external drive that can be plugged directly into your Mac and works right off the box since it comes preloaded with the IDrive Portable backup software. 
IDrive Portable is comprised of features such as automatic selection of your most commonly used folders for backup with options to customize, multiple Mac backup, search for backed up data, and Smart Sync. The latter brings the data on your portable drive in sync with that on your Mac, mounted drive backups, an intuitive interface to select files/folders, etc.
The US$69 IDrive Portable drive comes with 320GB of storage space. That's enough space to carry almost 10,0000+ pictures of your Photo library, 150 hours of your favorite videos, and almost over 10,0000+ hours of your favorite music on iTunes, says Gokul H, designer at IDrive.
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-161311"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Wow You Design (http://www.keynotethemepark.com) has released Nation Elements, an add-on collection of flexible graphic elements for use with Keynote and the other iWork applications. iWork is Apple's US$79 suite of productivity tools.
Each set, Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe (plus Oceania) include a number of standardized elements. These include country flag and aqua-style orb, location maps that are made from up to six isolated elements.
The national border shapes will take a Keynote fill (image, color, stroke and shadow). There are national symbols such as coats of arms or other national icons. Also included are translucent overlays, metallic frames and custom masking shape. Each set comes with 40 slides.
Each set -- Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe -- is downloadable for US39.95 each. Or you can get all four for $99.95. </div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-161302"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Arten Science has released cuteCipher (http://www.cutecipher.co.uk/), cross platform software for encrypting and protecting your documents and files. cuteCipher has been tested on Children, Parents, Elder Relatives and Other Innocents.
To use you drag your files onto cuteCipher, enter a secret word and click the Encrypt button. It's based on the R10Cipher software from Arten Science and offers Blowfish encryption.
cuteCipher works with Mac OS X 10.4 and higher, Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7. It's Universal Binary so runs natively on both PowerPC and Intel Macs.
Pricing is approximately US$20 for a single user license with bulk purchase discounts dropping the price by up to 75%.  A demo is available for download.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-161301"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">AEC Software, a developer of project management business solutions, today announced the release of FastTrack Schedule 10 (http://www.aecsoftware.com/project-management-software/fasttrack-schedul...), the latest version of the company’s flagship project management (PM) software, which includes a redesigned interface.
FastTrack Schedule’s new user interface closely resembles iWorks and also includes capabilities previously found only in more expensive project management suites, says Dennis Bilowus, president and CEO of AEC Software. Among them are:
 
° Work Usage Inspector -- using this feature, managers can manage employee workloads and assign resources as new business arrives and tasks are completed.
° Advanced work calendars -- integrated project, task, base, and resource work calendar system to efficiently schedule tasks, team members, and account for exceptions such as holidays or non-standard work schedules. Work calendars can also be unified across all projects, resources, and...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-161299"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">About Objects (http://www.aboutobjects.com) will offer an updated version of its iPhone development training course that now includes overage of iPad development.
The five-day course is entitled "Introduction to iPhone and iPad Development. Classes have been scheduled in Cupertino, California, June 5-11, and in Reston, Virginia, July 12-23.
There are two other courses in the series: ANSI C Programming, and Objective-C for Beginners. The courses have been designed as a sequence to allow developers to "right-size" their training by choosing the mix of classes they need. Go to the About Objects web site for details.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-161298"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">The iPhone OS is the clear favorite smartphone platform for developers, according to Ovum’s first mobile application developer survey. While all five major smartphone platforms score well, it is BlackBerry OS and Windows Mobile that currently lead the opposition, rather than Android or Symbian.
Overall, Java ME remains the leading mobile development environment, showing there’s still life -- if not necessarily big profits -- in an old and rather neglected technology. Ovum’s 2010 survey of 217 mobile application developers exposes a wide range of important trends that are either already having or will have a profound bearing on the future of device manufacturers, mobile operators, software platform vendors, and content providers.
Among the most pertinent is the varying degree of support for different mobile device operating systems and associated developer environments -- whether mobile-specific or web-oriented. Among smartphone platforms, iPhone OS garnered most support, with 81% of...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-161297"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Singular Software, developer of automation applications for post-production, says its flagship product PluralEyes for Final Cut Pro and Sony Vegas Pro has expanded its support for non-linear editing applications to include the just announced Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 software.
PluralEyes will also support Adobe Premiere Pro CS4. With support for the latest versions of Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 and CS5, it provides users with features for managing multi-camera, multi-take, and dual-system audio productions; including a level audio option, preserving the order of clips, clip locking for integration into existing workflows, options to include all synced clips in one sequence and choose sequences to sync from all available, as well as sync drift correction and audio replacement features.
By analyzing audio information, PluralEyes synchronizes audio and video clips automatically, without the need for timecode, clappers or other manual preparation. It's optimized for fast performance on both Mac...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-161281"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Apimac has announced Timer 7.0 (http://www.apimac.com/timer), an update of the freeware stopwatch, alarm clock, countdown and clock utility for Mac OS X (10.4 and higher). The upgrade offers, among other things, support for multiple timers.
The new version offers the: ability to save the state of a timer; the ability to navigate between running timers in full-screen mode using the contextual menu or keyboard's arrow keys (Pro feature); user interface changes; an various code optimizations and improvements to product stability.
Apimac Timer features include a log (also automatically updated when some event occurs) and tickers that remember user that some timer is running every specific amount of time. Events include the ability to play alarms with your favorite sound, play song files, speak a specific message, or announce the time. The stopwatch lets you specify events occurring after a specific amount of time or events that repeats every specific amount of time. The countdown can be...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-161279"><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 3.0.2. The new version offers improved performance overall.
Expansions work properly in Spotlight and in the quick entry windows of other applications. An issue with double expansion in LaunchBar has been fixed. And in version 3.0.2., users can exclude applications in capitalization options in Preferences.
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 3.0.2 is a free update for registered users of version 3.0.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-161278"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Monkeybread Software has released version 10.2 of the MBS plug-in for REALbasic. The MBS plug-in comprises a collection of several plug-in parts that extend the REALbasic development environment with 1,300 classes featuring over 28,000 documented functions.
Monkeybread has updated DynaPDF to use all the new functions there. Also they have more classes for GraphicsMagick, improvements on the SQL Plugin and a few additions to the QTKit classes.
Plugin licenses are available for components or for the complete collection. Starting at US$29 for one component. The complete package costs $284.20 for commercial usage.
If you buy a current license, you will get free updates for one year. After that year, you can update your license to cover an additional year. The plugins can be downloaded on MBS' website as one big package or several smaller ones: http://www.monkeybreadsoftware.de/realbasic/plugins.shtml .</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-161277"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Ascender Corp., a provider of advanced font products, announced a new web fonts service on its http://www.AscenderFonts.com site to appeal to web designers and web developers.
 
Web Fonts from Ascender is a new service to format web sites with CSS @font-face using licensed downloadable fonts. Web Fonts eliminate the hassles and expense of using Flash, JavaScript or image replacement techniques for headlines, says Bill Davis, vice president at Ascender. It also offers text fonts for web designers to extend their typographic choice beyond the limited set of "web-safe," he adds.
 
Ascender’s Web Font service supports every major web browser, including mobile Safari found on the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Current web browsers with web font support include Internet Explorer 5+, Firefox 3.5+, Chrome 2.0+, Safari and Mobile Safari 3.1+ and Opera 10+.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-161276"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Belkin (http://www.belkin.com) has released nine cases for the iPad. The US$39.99 Cap Sleeve (shown) is a close-fitting knit design that provides access to all the device's functions.
The $59.99 Contour Sleeve sports a contoured, reinforced, fused-rubber design. The $49.99 Grip Vue is a translucent case that provides protection and grip-ability. The Grip Ergo is a $49.99 case with an ergonomic design built to offer comfort while reading, gaming, or surfing the Internet.

The $49.99 Grip Swell is made with snug layer of rugged silicone for shock absorption. The $49.99 Grip Groove features a grip-able textured surface with in-molded pattern to protect iPad and made with durable silicone.
The $59.99 Leather Sleeve is made with luxury leather and offers access to the iPad's functions. The $59.99 Leather Folio is made with luxury leather and features a soft inner lining. The $49.99 leather Envelope sports a secure ribbon closure provides extra security in keeping iPad in place. And the $...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-161275"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Apple today said it has delivered more than 500,000 iPads during its first week. The company says demand is far higher than they predicted and will likely continue to exceed their supply over the next several weeks.
Apple says that it has also taken a large number of pre-orders for iPad 3G models for delivery by the end of April. Faced with this "surprisingly strong US demand," the company is postponing the international launch of iPad by one month -- until the end of May.
Apple will announce international pricing and begin taking online pre-orders on Monday, May 10. "We know that many international customers waiting to buy an iPad will be disappointed by this news, but we hope they will be pleased to learn the reason -- the iPad is a runaway success in the US thus far," the company says in a statement.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-157679"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Proavio, U.S.A. (http://www.proavio.com), a developer of storage systems and tools for digital media production, has introduced the new EditBox EB8Sx, a3G SAS expansion solution for video.
Featuring a native internal 3G SAS design, the EB8Sx offers users the choice to use SATA disks for most media applications or enterprise SAS hard disk for DI, VFX and full resolution grading requirements. Designed for today’s commercial post facilities in mind, the EB8Sx is capable of scaling capacity to over 100TB or RAID-5 protected storage.
Powered by an 8x PCI-Express storage controller, the EB8Sx is designed to fully support editing, grading and VFX environments. An Intel RAID core delivers an excess of over 750MB/second of storage bandwidth (this requires compatible PCI-e RAID controller). EditBox EB8Sx supports DVCPro HD, Pro Res 422(HQ), ProRes444, uncompressed 8-bit 1080i HD, uncompressed 10-bit HD (4:4:4) and 2K DPX/TGA file sequences. Contact Proavio for pricing.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-157622"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Apple has released MacBook Pro Software Update 1.3 (http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1026) for all 15-inch and 17-inch MacBook Pro mid-2010 models. It contains improvements for graphics stability for high-performance video and gaming applications, as well as various bug fixes. 
MacBook Pro Software Update 1.3 is a 258.32MB download and requires Mac OS X 10.6.3. You can obtain it via the Software Update component of Mac OS X's Systems Preferences app.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-156861"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">VideoUpLink for Mac OS 10.5 (http://www.videouplink.net) is a new, US$9.99 application designed to make video on your Facebook page just a drag and drop away. It requires Mac OS X 10.5 and higher and QuickTime 7.6 or better.
VideoUpLink employs Facebook Connect for a clean, single window log-in experience, according to developer Mark Morris. Facebook Connect allows Facebook's millions of users to log-in and share movies with their friends using their Facebook username and password.
Using Facebook Connect enables persistent sessions. Return to VideoUpLink and it will check your log-in status, so you won't have to log in each time you open the application. After a Facebook video upload you can log out at any time.
VideoUpLink features a large table view for dropping movies onto. Users can drag movies from iPhoto, Media Browser or the Finder. Each movie can be given its own title and description within the table before uploading. These titles and descriptions will then appear on your...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-156728"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">With just under six billion mobile applications forecast to be downloaded this year, up from an estimated 2.4 billion in 2009, app development has no indication of slowing down. First weekend sales of the iPad estimated over 700,000 units and iPhone app developers are switching gears and rapidly turning to iPad app development.
In a survey of hundreds of iPhone app developers conducted by Optimum Lead Generation, the company behind iPadApplicationQuotes (http://www.iPadApplicationQuotes.com), a new web site that connects business and entrepreneurs with experienced iPad app developers, the survey revealed:
° 88% of iPhone app developers surveyed anticipate the porting of existing iPhone apps to iPad apps;
° 76% of iPhone app developers surveyed currently have at least one iPad app in development.
"iPad application development represents new ground and opportunity for mobile developers" says Gregg Weiss, founder of iPadApplicationQuotes. "Larger screen size, faster processor and richer...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-156104"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Apple has topped the list in a RetailWire/Dechert-Hampe survey ranking retail stores for the best shopping experience. Stores were ranked on: satisfaction experience and customer satisfaction, product assortment, and price.
Respondents to the survey rated the Apple retail store as well above all others as the retailer delivering the best shopping experience. According to Ben Ball, senior vice president, Dechert-Hampe, some might question how the research could show technology being down on the list of ways to improve the shopping experience when Apple, a store that totally revolves around the use and sale of technology, tops the list of retailers that get it.
"People are underestimating Apple's mastery of the fundamentals," he says. "If it were just the technology, Circuit City and CompUSA would have been on this list instead of in Chapter 11. I think the ability to experience the products that Apple provides; the knowledgeable brand advocates that are there in the store; the...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-156103"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">HP has bolstered the HP LaserJet Pro printer line (http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press_kits/2010/plugandprint/index.html) with a new "plug and print" technology that purportedly allows customers to begin printing in as little as two minutes by simply connecting a netbook, notebook or desktop computer to the printer with a USB cable. No CD is required.
New monochrome printers featuring HP Smart Install include the HP LaserJet Pro P1100 Printer series, the HP LaserJet Pro M1130/M1210 Multifunction Printer (MFP) series and the HP LaserJet Pro P1566/P1606dn Printer series. HP also unveiled the HP Scanjet Professional 1000 Mobile Scanner, the company’s first portable scanner.
The new HP LaserJet Pro lineup features a black finish and delivers professional, cost-effective results while enabling small and midsize businesses (SMBs) to reduce their environmental impact, says Ron Coughlin, senior vice president, LaserJet and Enterprise Solutions, Imaging and Printing Group, HP. The printers...</div></div></span>
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The Boris FX product line includes Boris Continuum Complete, Final Effects Completel, Boris RED, Boris FX, Boris Graffiti, Boris Blue and Boris XML Transfer. The Boris Box Set includes all Boris technology at a manufacturer's suggested retail price of US$1,995.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-156100"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">iWebThemesPark (http://www.iwebthemespark.com/Home.html) has launched 10 new iWeb themes: Answers, Black Blocks, Blueness, Connection, Growing, Ice Cubes, Ink, Moss, Red Lines and Rising Columns. In addition a free Intense theme was released for all iWeb users. iWeb is the web site creation component of Apple's iLife suite.
Each iWeb Theme has eight templates: Welcome, About Me, Photos, My Albums, Movie, Blog, Podcast and Blank. Each is customizable.
iWeb Themes requires iLife '08 or iLife '09. Each template is available for US$10.99, and the package of 10 themes costs $30.99.</div></div></span>
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