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<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-101958"><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 3.0.1. The new version improves the behavior of the new "fill-in"
snippets.
A fill-in snippet can have multiple blank fields in the snippet content that prompt for additional information to be entered manually in a window that opens when an abbreviation is typed. The fill-in window now supports Cut, Copy, Paste, and Select All keyboard equivalents. Fill-in snippets can now incorporate automatic date snippets.
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 3.0.1 from earlier versions costs $15. Version 3.0.1 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-101954"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">STM Bags (http://www.stmbags.com) has announced five new colors (black, burgundy, magenta, teal and orange) of their glove neoprene laptop sleeve. The gloves are available in four sizes: extra small (10.2-inch screens), small (13-inch screens), medium (15-inch screens) and large (17-inch) screens.

Pricing depends on the size. TM's glove protects your notebook from bumps dust and scratches and fits like a glove. The glove's "top-load" design allows for one handed access. For those who carry backpacks, the laptop can be removed without removing the sleeve. Moreover, all seams are double cross-stitched and taped. An internal "zipper guard" protects the laptop from any scratches and adds a bit more padding.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-101952"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">PocketMac, the creator of the original Mac-to-BlackBerry sync solution, has released version 5.0 of PocketMac for BlackBerry (http://www.pocketmac.com/PocketMac_for_BlackBerry.php). It comes with a synchronization engine redesigned from the ground up for Mac OS X 10.6 ("Snow Leopard").
The new engine accounts for the new quicker synchronization speeds, according to Tim Goggin of PocketMac. Also included are simpler, clearer preferences, reorganized to accommodate the way users want to work, he adds.
PocketMac for BlackBerry 5.0 includes two-way sync with the Apple Address Book, iCal, Daylite, Entourage 2008, LotusNotes, iTunes, iPhoto and Stickies. In addition, as part of every sync, PocketMac for BlackBerry will back-up all of your BlackBerry's SMS texts, and your call history. A separate viewer application is also provided so that you can access this data from your desktop.
PocketMac for BlackBerry 5.0 costs US$19.97. It includes a complete 90 day money-back guarantee.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-101948"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">App4Mac (http://www.app4mac.com/software/index.php) has updated CheckUp, a Mac OS X tool for checking the health and monitoring the behavior of a Mac computer (even from a remote computer), to version 2.6. The upgrade can detect the most common issues of Mac OS X and display details about how to fix them.
It also offers: enhanced alerts on disks or memory issues; better support of Macs with Intel Core i5 or Intel Core i7 processors; and improved support of Macs with Intel Xeon processors and hyper-threading. Version 2.6 also has an updated user interface.
A user license of CheckUp costs US$49 and can be installed on two computers. Version 2.6 is a free update for registered users. Discounts are available for education and volume licensing.
CheckUp Requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher. A trial version of CheckUp is available at app4mac.com. Some features are free and will stay free like the Tools that allows you to repair authorizations of Mac OS X or run maintenance scripts.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-101946"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">>Karelia Software has updated its free iMedia Browser (http://www.karelia.com/imedia/), an utility to add the familiar "media browser" experience to just about any Mac application, to version 1.2.2. The upgrade is compatible with Aperture 3, the latest version of Apple's software for professional and semi-pro photographers.
Built from the ground up to resemble the media browser found in several Apple applications, the Karelia iMedia Browser is a stand-alone utility that can be used to access a user's library of photos, sounds, movies, or bookmarks.
The Karelia iMedia Browser allows users to browse their libraries of photos (iPhoto, Aperture, and Pictures folders); music (iTunes library, GarageBand songs, and Music folders); movies (from iTunes, iPhoto, and Movies folders), and bookmarks (from several leading web browsers). It can be activated either from the dock or from a small icon in the menu bar.
The Karelia iMedia Browser is Universal Binary so runs natively on both PowerPC...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-101942"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Canto (http://www.canto.com) has released Cumulus Sites, a new product that "bridges web site ease of use with the power and control of Canto Cumulus digital asset management." It offers a live asset delivery platform organizations can stylize to suit their identities, and customize to suit their file sharing and distribution requirements.
Cumulus Sites features a “login-free” mode that offers instant “guest” level access. Common permissions for guests include browsing of approved files, and downloads of watermarked-on-the-fly variants, though any access level can be defined. Cumulus account holders can gain higher access levels through an “anytime” log-in option. User actions can be tracked for usage statistics reporting from within Cumulus.
Sites users can share one or more files using a collection link feature. Links can include passwords and expiration dates, and they may be emailed or even added to PDFs, YouTube/ Facebook/Twitter pages, etc. for “viral” distribution benefits,...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-101941"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">iKit (http://www.ikit.com) has released the US$S40 iPad Leather Folio Case. It's available in black and gray and comes with a screen protector and cleaning kit.
Made of genuine cow leather, the Leather Portfolio's slim padded design gives you access to all your functions and protects the device. It features an interior and exterior embossed design with secure access.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-101937"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Amazon.com has announced "Kindle for Mac," a free application that lets readers around the world enjoy Kindle books on their Macs.
The U.S. Kindle Store currently offers over 450,000 books, including New Releases and 102 of 111 New York Times Bestsellers. Kindle books can now be read on the Kindle, Kindle DX, iPhone, iPod touch, BlackBerry, PC and Mac, and, soon, the iPad. Customers in over 100 countries can go to http://www.amazon.com/kindleformac to download the Kindle for Mac application for free today.
Kindle for Mac features Amazon’s Whispersync technology that automatically saves and synchronizes bookmarks and last page read across devices. A customer can read some on their Mac, read some on their Kindle, and always pick up where they left off.
According to Jay Marine, director, Amazon Kindle, with Kindle for Mac, readers can:
° Purchase, download, and read hundreds of thousands of books available in the Kindle Store.
° Access their library of previously purchased Kindle books...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-101931"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">iPad pre-orders are now averaging 10,000 per day, according to Daniel Tello, a Venezuelan blogger-analyst who writes about Apple using the name "Deagol" (http://aaplmodel.blogspot.com/).
Tello has been tracking order numbers submitted by volunteers since March 12 at 8:30 a.m. (Eastern) when Apple began taking pre-orders for the iPad. By his calculations, which are based on a precise count of order numbers and an estimate of how many of them were non-iPad orders, Apple passed the 180,000 unit mark on Wednesday.
"I think sometime during Friday, perhaps before noon, the counter should roll to 200,000 units pre-ordered," he told "Fortune" (http://brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2010/03/18/ipad-pre-orders-1...).
Tello's tally doesn't include iPads reserved for pick-up at Apple retail stores on April 3.
At least the Wi-Fi only versions will; the Wi-Fi + 3G model will hit US store sleeves in late April. In addition, all models of iPad will be available in Australia, Canada, France,...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-101923"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">China Mobile hopes to offer both the iPad and a version of the iPhone that supports China's homegrown 3G mobile standard, comments by China Mobile's top executive showed on Thursday.
As reported by "Computerworld" (http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9172598/China_Mobile_wants_iPad_a...), China Mobile is "interested in the iPad" and has told Apple it hopes to see a version of the iPhone that works with the government-backed 3G standard it is using, Wang Jianzhou, CEO and chairman of China Mobile Limited, said at a news conference.
Wang's remarks are the first from a Chinese company interested in offering the iPad, notes "Computerworld." And Apple hasn't even said whether it will sell the device in China.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-101921"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Harman International (http://www.harman.com) is introducing new products this spring across three divisions: home entertainment, mobile/in-car and multimedia.
For the movie buff and sound enthusiast at home, Harman brings to the market new 5.1 home entertainment solutions: the Harman Kardon HKTS 20 (US$699) and HKTS 30 ($899). It boasts a 200W powered, 200mm subwoofer and two-way loudspeakers. It includes a dual-driver center-channel speaker.
The JBL MS-8 ($799) product for the mobile category. It's a system integration digital processor that can purportedly optimize any vehicle’s performance in about 10 minutes. By following a step-by-step procedure, the MS-8 maximizes frequency response, bass performance, dynamics, clarity, detail and stereo imaging.
In multimedia, Harman brings back new, improved versions of time-honored favorites such as the brand-new Harman Kardon Go + Play Micro ($299), the JBL On Time 200P ($249), the JBL On Time Micro ($249) and the JBL On Stage Micro II ($129...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-101918"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Not surprisingly, HTC Corp. says it disagrees with Apple's legal actin=ons against it and has outlined those disagreements and reiterated its commitment "to creating a portfolio of innovative smartphones that gives consumers a variety of choices."
Earlier this month, Apple filed a lawsuit against HTC for infringing on 20 Apple patents related to the iPhone's user interface, underlying architecture and hardware. The lawsuit was filed concurrently with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) and in U.S. District Court in Delaware.
"We can sit by and watch competitors steal our patented inventions, or we can do something about it," Apple CEO Steve Jobs said . "We've decided to do something about it. We think competition is healthy, but competitors should create their own original technology, not steal ours."
But now "HTC disagrees with Apple's actions and will fully defend itself. HTC strongly advocates intellectual property protection and will continue to respect other innovators...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-101659"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Jerome York, a director of Apple and former chief financial officer of IBM and Chrysler Corp., is hospitalized and in critical condition in Pontiac, Michigan.
According to "BusinessWeek" (http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-03-17/jerome-york-apple-director-h...), York, 71, collapsed at his Rochester, Michigan, home Tuesday night, according to his wife, Eilene York, and was taken to Pontiac Osteopathic Hospital by ambulance. She said today that doctors told her that he suffered a massive cerebral hemorrhage.
“Jerry had the guts and brains to identify the needed changes at many of America’s greatest companies, including Chrysler, IBM, General Motors and Apple, helping them to reach their greater potential,” Steve Miller, a director of UAL Corp. who worked with York at Chrysler, told "BusinessWeek."
York has been CEO of Harwinton Capital (formerly Harwinton Capital Corporation), a private investment company that he controls, since September 2000. He's also been a director of Dana...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-101470"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">iWrap (http://www.getiwrap.com/) is taking pre-orders for their invisible, scratch-proof cover for the upcoming iPad.
iWrap uses unique film that offers more clarity and more durability, according to iWrap Product Manager Tim Chaves. The film also uses advanced UV inhibiting technology and a strong adhesive, he adds.
In addition, iWrap's full-body wraps are designed to offer the most complete coverage possible, according to Chaves. iWrap for the iPad costs US29.95. There are also versions for the iPhone and all iPod models.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-101466"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Syncro Soft (http://www.oxygenxml.com) has released version 11.2 of its XML Editor and XML Author containing a set of tools supporting all the XML related technologies.
Oxygen combines content author features like the CSS driven Visual XML editor with a XML development environment. It has ready-to-use support for the main document frameworks DITA, DocBook, TEI and XHTML and also includes support for all XML Schema languages, XSLT/XQuery Debuggers, WSDL analyzer, XML Databases, XML Diff and Merge, Subversion client and more.
Version 11.2 of oXygen/XML Editor improves the XML authoring, the XML development tools, the support for large documents and the SVN Client. Also, he diff and merge support from oXygen is available also as a separate application, oXygen XML Diff.
Oxygen XML Editor and XSLT Debugger is available in three editions: Multi-platform Academic/Personal license: USS$64 (includes the one year support and maintenance pack); Multi-platform Professional license: $349; and...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-101465"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Ken Winograd and Space-Time Associates (http://www.winograd.com) has updated TinyBooks Pro, its Mac accounting and bookkeeping program, to version 7.0.3. The upgrade improves the importing of old TinyBooks documents, improves the built-in help text and error messages and improves the Recur Dialog.
It also adds the ability to delete all items in the current month, and adds three new Preferences (to Auto-Sort New/Modified transactions on entry, to enable/disable the Total Transaction Amount field, and to show Monthly and Reported Amounts as inclusive or exclusive of taxes.)
TinyBooks Pro is a single-entry bookkeeping and accounting system designed for sole proprietors, home and other small businesses, and family finances. To use you enter your expenses and income, and TinyBooks Pro does the rest. Current and year-to-date on-the-fly totals are continually displayed. Fully automatic bar-charting of all expense and income accounts make the determination of monthly trends intuitively...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-101464"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">iPresentee (http://www.ipresentee.com), a developer of add-ons for Apple’s iWork and iLife applications, has released iWeb Themes 7.0 to be used with iWeb. iWeb is the web site creation component of Apple's iLife suite.
iWeb Themes 7.0 is available in standard and iPhone editions. The new release includes five themes for iWeb: Blue Style, Shining Star, Greenish Style, Tango and Developer. Each iWeb user may build a web site for a desktop computer and mobile device while maintaining the same site design within iWeb.
iWeb themes for iPhone are specific resolution and incorporates bigger fonts, images etc. New themes for iPhone includes everything to create the impression of iPhone native site, according to the folks at iPresentee. What's more, all themes have standard edition templates so you can build two specific sites -- for an iPhone and Mac or PC while keeping the same design within minutes.
Standard edition themes include a "Choose Device" template that can be used as first page...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-101462"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Law firm Bingham McCutchen has announced that Daniel Cooperman, the former general counsel at Apple and Oracle, will rejoin its Silicon Valley office and focus on “corporate and transactional matters.”
Cooperman was at Apple between 2007 and 2009. "Perhaps in an indication of the pressures of Apple’s extra frenetic pace," Cooperman is the second of three general counsels that Apple has had since longtime counsel Nancy Heinen left the company in 2006, notes the "Wall Street Journal" (http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/03/16/former-apple-counsel-joins-bingha...). The role is currently being filled by Bruce Sewell.
When Cooperman left Apple, the official statement was that he was retiring (he's 59). However, in an interview with the "WSJ," he said he needed a break from the intensity of the general counsel job, which he had held for a total of 13 years.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-101458"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Purple Ghost Software has released Key Ace (ttp://www.purpleghost.com/news.php), an US$9.99 hotkey utility for Mac OS X that lets you assign actions to various key combinations.
You can configure shortcuts for daily tasks such as opening browsers or controlling play, pause and stop functions on iTunes. ou can specify any key combination to be used as the hotkey to activate the specified action.
There are many actions you can specify for a hotkey. These include controlling iTunes (play/pause, next track, prior track, stop), launch any application on your system, open any website URL, eject your CD/DVD, adjust system volume up/down, and send any keystroke.
You add hotkeys to groups and each group can be setup to have the hotkeys in that group work in all applications, work in only the specified applications or to work in all except the specified applications.
Key Ace installs as a system preference pane. This lets you change hotkeys and change Key Ace settings.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-101457"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Apple has added features to its iWork.com public beta. It's a service Apple is developing to share iWork ’09 documents online.
Using your Apple ID, just click the iWork.com icon in the Keynote, Pages or Numbers toolbar to upload your document and invite others to view it online. Viewers can provide comments and notes, and download a copy of your document in iWork, Microsoft Office or PDF formats. A consolidated online list of all your shared documents indicates when your viewers have posted comments.
With the latest public beta, you can share links to yourdocuments via social networking services. What's more, there's an updated interface for iPhone and iPod touch users to access info.
iWork ’09 is available through the Apple Store (http://www.apple.com), Apple’s retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers for a suggested retail price of US$79. iWork ’09 is available for $49 with the purchase of any Mac through the Apple Store, Apple’s retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers. </div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-101449"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Satmetrix (http://www.satmetrix.com), which specializes in customer experience programs, has released its 2010 Net Promoter Industry Benchmarks for the technology, insurance, financial services, airlines, telecommunications, retail and online services industries. Leaders included well-known brands such as Apple, USAA, Charles Schwab, JetBlue, Verizon Wireless, Trader Joe’s, Costco and Amazon.com.
The rankings are based on survey responses from more than 19,500 U.S. consumers nationwide who had purchased products or services from each company within the previous 12 months. A company’s Net Promoter Score, or NPS, is based on customers’ likelihood to recommend the company’s product or service. NPS is calculated as the percentage of customers who are Promoters, rating the company 9 or 10 on a zero-to-ten point scale, minus the percentage who are Detractors, rating 6 or lower. Consumers also rated each company on various aspects of customer experience including product or service features...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-101448"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Handmark (http://www.metropcs.com/pocketexpress/) -- which specializes in the development and distribution of mobile media -- has announced its support of the iPad.
The company plans to bring a variety of apps it powers for media partners to the iPad, in addition to its own, branded mobile apps. Handmark currently supports mobile applications for a variety of brands around the world including Zagat, New York Daily News, Forbes, Oxford University Press, Goal.com and others.
The iPad adds to the broad portfolio of mobile platforms Handmark supports, including iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Palm webOS, Kindle and others.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-101442"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Monkeybread Software has released version 1.1 of the MBS REALbasic Updater Kit for Mac OS X and Windows. It's designed to help you in adding an automatic update feature to your application.
Version 1.1 fixes a few bugs and improves the version number parsing. The Updater Kit requires REALbasic 2008 or newer and a license of the MBS REALbasic Complete License.
The Updater Kit is 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-101437"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Timac has released Cornichon (http://www.timac.org/cornichon/), a tool you can use to dynamically profile Mac OS X applications on the system and track the process' performance over time (CPU usage, resident memory size, total memory size, etc).
The Cornichon application includes the ability to see the different collected data of a process in real time in a graph and export the data as TAB files that you can later easily import in Apple Numbers or Microsoft Excel.
Cornichon requires Mac OS X 10.5 or later. It costs approximately US$7.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-101346"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Another day, another lawsuit. A company called Microunity (http://www.microunity.com) has filed a patent infringement lawsuit in a Texas court against Apple, Google, HTC, Samsung -- and well, all the main players in the mobile space.
According to court documents, Microunity is suing over patents that mostly deal with multi- and parallel processing technologies, as well as methods for dealing with data. The "IntoMobile" web site (http://www.intomobile.com/2010/03/16/microunity-sues-the-entire-mobile-i...) calls the company a "patent troll" and says me of the patents mentioned in the lawsuit were previously the focus of actions against Intel, Dell, Sony, and AMD.
The patent documents reveal that Microunity has 15 patents that they claim are being infringed by 22 different tech companies. The company doing the suing has patents dating back to early-1998, including patents that lay claim to having invented things like the “General Purpose, Multiple Precision Parallel Operation,...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-101345"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Magazine publishers may have a new way to boost flagging circulation: the iPad. The Audit Bureau of Circulations has changed its definition of a digital magazine to accommodate the new class of tablets such as the Apple device.
The new rules allow publishers to count paid digital subscriptions as part of a magazine's overall circulation as long as all the same editorial and advertising material is included, according to the "Associated Press" (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100316/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_magazine_circulat...). That means publishers can custom design their articles and photo spreads for the iPad. Without the rule change, they could only count digital editions that appear exactly the way they do in print, notes the "AP."
The iPad is available for pre-order at the online Apple Store ("http://www.apple.com). It's due to ship on Saturday, April 3.
At least the Wi-Fi only version will; the Wi-Fi + 3G model will hit US store sleeves in late April. In addition, all models of iPad...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-101267"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra was on the West Coast last week, where his schedule included meetings with Apple, Amazon, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Mozilla, and other tech companies. According to "InformationWeek Government Blogs" (http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2010/03/federal_cio_se...), he says that U.S. government employees are at a disadvantage when it comes to the technology they use, and he's looking for better ways of working.
Kundra was named federal CIO by President Obama a year ago this month, and closing the technology gap between the private sector and the public sector has been a pursuit of his since day one, the article adds. In a recent blog post, Kundra makes reference to Apple's Apps Store, which served as a model for the government's Apps.gov site (https://www.apps.gov/cloud/advantage/main/start_page.do), launched in September.
It's a source for cloud computing applications. Among other things, Apps.Gov will allow third-party...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-101265"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Apple has released updated printer drivers for Samsung and Brother printers for Mac OS X 10.6 ("Snow Leopard").
The Samsung drivers are a 23.25MB download. You can download 'em at http://support.apple.com/kb/DL905 . The Brother drivers are a 100.02MB download; they're available at http://support.apple.com/kb/DL894 .</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-101197"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Another day, another lawsuit. A man named Stephen Vale is suing Apple because his iPod shuffle isn't sweat resistant. Or make that wasn't sweat resistant as it's bitten the dust, it seems.
According to a "Gizmodo" report (http://gizmodo.com/5494573/ipod-shuffle-owner-files-lawsuit-against-appl...), Vale is suing for five breach of warranty counts, one of false advertising and one of unfair competition, "all after Apple gave him a replacement cord and everything." It's not known whether he was using the third-gen iPod shuffle (pictured) or the previous version.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-101196"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">BiddingForGood (http://www.biddingforgood.com), a cause-related e-commerce platform connecting affluent consumers and marketers to online fundraising auction events, has announced the top performing brands and categories in its platform. And Apple is in the top 10.
Our favorite tech firm places number six on the list. Ahead of it are the Hillton family, the Marriott family, Starbucks, the Starwood family and Nintendo. Trailing it in the top 10 are Mary Kay, Four Seasons Hotel, Ritz-Carlton and the Cheesecake Factory.
Charity auctions are a unique cause marketing channel because they reach the nations most affluent consumers through their trusted causes just as they are making purchasing decisions in specific categories, such as travel, says BiddingForGood CEO Jonathan Carson. These affluent consumers are educated females who, in bad economic times, retain the buying power for luxury items, he adds. BiddingForGood works with brands to take advantage of this unique marketing channel.
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-101154"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Pragmatic Bookshelf has released "Beginning Mac Programming" (http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781934356517/?utm_content=em-pb-pr-Beginning...) by author Tim Isted. The US$34 book teaches non-programmers how to move from idea to application.
They'll learn how to: code in Objective-C, the programming language behind Apple applications program within the Cocoa framework Apple provides for developers; find and use free tools for developers, including Xcode and Interface Builder; and connect with Apple's thriving developer community and expanding base of users. By the second chapter of the book, readers start coding their first program.
"We'll be jumping headfirst into creating applications on the Mac that look and behave like the other Mac applications you're used to," Isted says. "We'll certainly be learning general programming principles, but we will be putting them into practice in real-world situations, right from the start. Over the course of the book, you'll learn enough that you can...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-101142"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Digital Anarchy (http://www.digitalanarchy.com), a provider of software for photographers and digital artists, has announced a free update to their ToonIt! Photo plug-in for Aperture, Apple's software for pro and semi-pro photographers.
ToonIt! 2.5 is now fully compatible with the 64-bit mode introduced by Apple’s Aperture 3, while still supporting 32-bit architectures and Aperture 2. The plug-in automatically takes photos and gives them a variety of cartoon and illustrated looks.
A "toon" effect is created, and Aperture users have a control in customizing the cartoon with different paint styles, shading and outlines. The software uses algorithms from Toonamation to create its cartoon shading and lines. One of the key features of ToonIt! is the ability to turn people and faces into believable cartoons. It’s never been so easy to turn photographs into illustrated portraits or a graphic novel.
ToonIt! Photo 2.5 for Aperture is regularly priced at US$129, but will be on sale for $99...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-101133"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Xeric Design has released version 5.3 of EarthDesk (http://www.xericdesign.com/earthdesk.php), the real-time dynamic desktop map for Mac OS X. It provides a work-around for a long standing screen saver hang in Mac OS X 10.6 ("Snow Leopard").
EarthDesk replaces your static desktop with a photo-realistic image of the Earth showing current sun, moon and city illumination as well as real-time global cloud coverage (hurricanes, storms, and worldwide weather systems) on your desktop. It operates silently in the background, keeping your desktop updated while you work. Unlike a screen saver, which only appears when your system is idle, EarthDesk's dynamic desktop is continuously displayed as your desktop background (and optionally as a screen saver).
EarthDesk requires Mac OS X 10.5 or newer. Single user copies may be purchased online for US$24.95. Upgrades are available for $12.95 for licensed users of version 4 and $17.95 for licensed users of versions 1, 2 and 3. Version 5.3 is a free...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-101130"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Yazsoft has introduced Playback Media Server 1.5.1 (http://www.yazsoft.com/products/playback/information/), an update of their zero configuration media server for Mac OS X 10.5 and higher. Many MKV files that failed to convert previously will now work.
Playback Media Server 1.5.1 changes the way pictures are organized for improved browsing via the Playstation 3. Also, it now broadcasts a UPnP "reset" if/when the machine's IP address changes.
Playback can share media stored in folders or even make entire disks available to a Playstation 3 or Xbox 360. No configuration is required. By default, it will share almost any content on the users system. And Playback automatically integrates with iTunes, iPhoto, and Aperture. Users can share all content from these applications transparently or choose specific playlists and albums.
Those who like to tinker will appreciate Playback's built-in Access Control List (ACL) and bandwidth throttling. The ACL allows users to control which devices have...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-101124"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Seznick Scientific Software has updated Password Wallet for Macintosh (http://www.selznick.com/products/passwordwallet/mac/index.htm) to version 4.5. The app now allows the user to automatically share all of their passwords between their Mac, iPhone and MobileMe accounts, as well as their Windows, Android, Windows Mobile and Palm Pre devices.
PasswordWallet is designed to offer a secure place to store all your usernames, passwords, PIN numbers, or combinations. For security, it uses the BlowFish encryption algorithm with 448-bit keys to protect your data. For safety, it lets you copy your password to the clipboard and clear it automatically after you paste. PasswordWallet can save URLs with your entries and launch your default browser for you. One "master" password unlocks all of your other passwords. It can automatically add your "master" password to the Keychain Control Panel.
PasswordWallet is compatible with Mac OS X 10.4 and higher. It costs US$20, though version 4.5. is a free...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-101117"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">WD has introduced its new 1TB and 750GB capacity My Passport SE for Mac portable USB drives. Available at WD's online store (http://store.westerndigital.com/store/wdus/en_US/DisplayHomePage), the new My Passport SE for Mac portable drives are formatted for Mac and compatible with Apple Time Machine software.
They're USB-powered and don't need an external power adapter. They're also quipped with 256-bit hardware encryption with password protection for an extra level of security.
The manufacturer's suggested retail price for the My Passport SE for Mac 1TB portable drive is $199.99. The 750GB model costs $179.99.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-101116"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Noise Industries, developer of visual effects tools for the postproduction and broadcast markets, announced that one of their newest development partners, Phyx., has released Phyx Color for the FxFactory platform.
Phyx Color is a collection of professional color processors designed to work inside Adobe After Effects CS3/CS4, Apple Final Cut Pro, Apple Motion and Apple Final Cut Express applications. Its range of color processing tools let users add diffusion, sample color, control saturation and process a color shift/tint.
Artists can also use Phyx Color to simulate the legendary Technicolor 2-strip process utilized in such films as "Gone with the Wind," and "The Wizard of Oz," and actualize dramatic imagery with its Bleach Bypass process as seen in a multitude of cult films, including "300" and "Fight Club."
       
Phyx Color is available for $99 USD via the Noise Industries web site (http://www.noiseindustries.com). A trial version is also included with the standard FxFactory...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-101114"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Point In Space Internet Solutions has announced the availability of FileMaker Pro 11 database hosting on FileMaker Server 11 Advanced.
"FileMaker Pro 11 provides many new features and updates to the FileMaker product," says John May, Point In Space's president.  "By hosting on FileMaker Server 11 Advanced, all of these new features are available to our clients, including Instant Web Publishing and ODBC/JDBC connectivity."
Point In Space is offering FileMaker Pro 11 hosting, available immediately, at the same price as their other FileMaker accounts. Current Point In Space clients should contact the company directly ( http://www.pointinspace.com/filemakerpro11hosting/) regarding special offers for migrating from previous FileMaker versions.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-101113"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Monkeybread Software (http://www.monkeybreadsoftware.de/) has released version 2.0 of the MBS plug-in for FileMaker. It purportedly extends Filemaker with over 400 functions.
New in version 2.0 are URL Scheme, GraphicsMagick and RPC. The URL Scheme handling functions allow you to register a filemaker runtime solution as an URL handler on Mac OS X. MBS plug-in version 2.0 adds over 200 functions for GraphicsMagick. You can load picture files from a container field or a file, modify them and write them back.
In your FileMaker database you can crop, scale, flip, rotate and roll images. There are image effects like Colorize, Emboss, Enhance, OilPaint, Quantize, Solarize, Shear, Sharpen, Swirl, Unsharpen and more.
With version 2.0 of the MBS plug-in, a FileMaker database can send a request to, for example, a REALbasic application and receives a response. This communication goes over a TCP Socket. Monkeybread includes a sample project for REALbasic and a specification which any developer...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-101111"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Syncro Soft has released version 5.1 of SVN client (http://www.syncrosvnclient.com).
The upgrade improves working copy load time, automatically refreshes the working copy on external file changes, makes repository browsing more responsive, adds support for repository imports at file level, adds support for replacing resources, improves handling of obstructed resources, improves history support, allows creating branches/tags directly from the repository and offers options to print or save as image a revision graph.
Syncro SVN client license with a one year maintenance pack costs US$59. A Syncro SVN client site license with a one year maintenance pack is $2,970. Volume discount rates are available starting with five licenses. Syncro SVN Client can be run on Mac OS X, Windows, Linux and Solaris systems. Version 5.1 is a free update for registered users of version 5.0.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-101097"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Google's Nexus One phone is selling at a a slower pace than the first iPhone, reaching about 135,000 units in the time it took Apple to sell one million, according to Flurry Analytics (http://www.flurry.com/) -- a cross-platform mobile application analytics provider.
The original iPhone hit the one million mark after 74 days on sale in 2007. The Nexus One will have sold about one-eighth as many units on its 74th day on March 19, estimates Flurry.
Google introduced the Nexus One in January, selling it through its web site. U.S. consumers aren’t accustomed to buying phones that way, which may have hurt sales of the Nexus One, Peter Farago, vice president of marketing at Flurry told "Bloomberg" (http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601204&sid=ajrMKRizVpxI).
“As successful and talented as Google is online with paid search and other kinds of related businesses, the hardware business is very different,” he said.
However, Google says it's pleased with orders. “They demonstrate the...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-101096"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">UK broadband company TalkTalk is running a trial that will see staff in its London head office ditch PCs for MacBook Pros.
TalkTalk confirmed to silicon.com (http://www.silicon.com/technology/hardware/2010/03/15/talktalk-staff-swa...) on Monday that 150 of its employees have been moved over to the laptop devices -- with the possibility of extending the trial more widely over the course of the year. A move from PCs to Macs is relatively unusual in the business world as confirmed by a recent silicon.com CIO Jury poll which suggested a wholesale switch to Macs is unlikely for the majority of enterprises, the article adds.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-101085"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Pre-order numbers for the iPad topped 150,000 pre-orders -- and that doesn't count people’s store reservations, according to a BGR report (http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2010/03/15/apple-ipad-pre-order-numbers-t...).
"We have also been told Apple’s flagship 5th Avenue store in New York now holds around 1600 reservations for iPads, with 800 in the first day, and about 400 a day since," the article adds. "Lastly, store reservations seem to be split around 50% for the 32GB unit, 30% for the 64GB unit and about 20% for the 16GB, which is what Apple was expecting.”
The iPads themselves are still expected to ship on time. However, if you've ordered iPad accessories, they're being delayed, according to dates at the Apple online store, though Apple doesn't say why.
Apple's iPad case is delayed until mid-April. The iPad keyboard dock and power adapter are delayed until May. And there's no ETA for the Camera Connection Kit. However, the regular iPad Dock and the Dock Connector to VGA adapter...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-101078"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Monotype Imaging (http://www.fonts.com) has released the Creative Companion Library offering, which features designs from the company’s Monotype, Linotype and ITC typeface collections.
Comprising 2,433 fonts based on the OpenType® format, Monotype Imaging’s newest library combines typefaces previously unavailable as a single collection from any source, according to Allan Haley, director of words and letters at Monotype Imaging. Typefaces include newer members of families such as the Frutiger Serif and Palatino Sans faces from the Linotype collection, the Malabar font, also from the Linotype library, the popular Soho and Neo Sans designs from the Monotype collection, and the ITC Conduit typeface from the ITC library.
The Creative Companion Library includes a variety of fonts based on the OpenType Pro format, which enables the ability to use advanced typographic features and effects, such as the automatic insertion of old style figures, ligatures and small capital letters. OpenType...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-100961"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Nearly 40% of Blackberry users continue to prefer Apple's iPhone as their next smartphone purchase, but a third of them would also switch to the Android operating system, according to the second smartphone brand loyalty survey conducted semi-annually via Crowd Science's (http://www.crowdscience.com) research platform for online audience measurement.
The Crowd Scientists also found Android users rivaling iPhone users in loyalty, with about 90% of each user group planning to stick with their current brand when buying their next phone. Asked specifically if they'd swap their present phone for Google's new Android-based Nexus One, 32% of Blackberry users said "yes," compared with just 9% of iPhone users. This figure zoomed to 60% for users of smartphones not made by Blackberry or Apple.
"These results show that the restlessness of Blackberry users with their current brand hasn't just been driven by the allure of iPhone," says John Martin, CEO of Crowd Science. "Rather, Blackberry as a...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-100960"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Apple has released Aperture SlideShow Support Update 1.1, which addresses an HD video clip playback issue. According to Apple, for Mac OS X 10.6 ("Snow Leopard") users, Aperture 3 slideshows with trimmed HD clips should “now remain properly synced” with their audio.
Apple says this is a recommended update (3.29MB) for Aperture 3 users You can obtain it via the Software Updates component of the Mac OS X Systems Preferences app.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-100935"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">In February, two weeks after Apple unveiled the iPad, Flurry Analytics (http://www.flurry.com/) -- a cross-platform mobile application analytics provider -- says there's been a dramatic upturn in the number of developers installing its analytics tools in new apps for the iPhone OS (which the iPad uses).
As reported by "Fortune" (http://brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2010/03/15/flurry-new-apps-u...), the company took a look at February's data and found that the pace of new development 00 "the single sharpest spike in Flurry history," in its words -- continued nearly unabated. In fact, the number of new iPhone OS projects started in Flurry after the iPad announcement shot up 187%.
"Over six weeks since Apple announced the iPad, Flurry continues to measure a significant increase in iPhone OS new application starts within its system," writes Peter Farago of Flurry. "We continue to attribute this growth to excitement generated by the impending launch of iPad, now set for April 3...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-100896"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">MaBaSoft has updated Application Wizard (http://www.mabasoft.net/products/applicationWizard/), a Mac OS X tool that provides access to your applications, document and pictures, to version 2.5. You can now choose what types of volumes appear in the Special menu and allows you to eject disks, partitions, and servers and mount ejected disks.
On Mac OS X 10.5 or later, the Recent Documents and Recent Servers items can now be added to the Special menu so that you can quickly open recently used files and connect to recently used servers. Also in Application Wizard 2.5:
° The Activity Monitor command has been added to the System Memory submenu so that you can quickly open Activity Monitor and learn more about the processes running on your computer and their memory usage.
° The Aperture Library submenu now fully supports Aperture 3.
° The iPhoto Library submenu solves some incompatibilities with iPhoto '09, fixes some bugs, and lets you see how your published albums appear online.
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-100865"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Intel (http://www.intel.com) has announced today a new addition to its line-up of solid state drives (SSDs): the Intel X25-V Value SATA SSD.
Priced at US$125, the 40GB drive is aimed at value segment netbooks and dual-drive/boot drive desktop set-ups. SSDs can replace or coexist with traditional hard disk drives (HDDs). With no movable parts or spinning platters, SSDs are more reliable and higher performing than HDDs.
In a dual-drive configuration, the Intel X25-V SSD is added to a desktop with an existing HDD. The SSD is loaded with the operating system and favorite applications to take advantage of the speedy performance which is nearly 4x faster than a 7200RPM HDD, according to the folks at Intel.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-100853"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">AJA Video Systems (http://www.aja.com), a manufacturer of professional video interface and conversion solutions, is now offering its KONA line of capture cards with software for both Mac and Windows-based systems.
The company is folding its XENA line of capture cards, designed for the Windows platform, into the KONA product line. The KONA family is AJA's line of 10-bit uncompressed capture and playback cards for video and audio input and output. Initially designed solely for the Mac platform, KONA now supports SD, HD, Dual Link 4:4:4 HD and 2K formats, and all of the functionality of the former XENA products within the single, cross-platform KONA line.
Effective immediately, every new KONA package shipped will include both Mac and Windows software and documentation. Updated drivers for either Mac or PC platforms are always available online.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-100809"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Sustainable Softworks has released Phone Amego 1.1.13 ( http://www.sustworks.com/site/prod_phoneAmego_help/PhoneAmegoHelp.html), an update of the Mac OS X (10.5 and later) tool designed to make using your phone easier when you're near your computer by providing on-screen caller ID, letting you click to dial a phone number from your Address Book or on your screen, and optionally dialing through Google Voice.
Version 1.1.13 offers several user interface improvements including minimizing an active call window to the Dock, an option to translate mnemonics (letters in phone numbers), and remotely dialing a landline phone attached to another computer running Phone Amego sharing. Phone Amego is Universal Binary so runs natively on both PowerPC and Intel Macs.
In addition to Mac OS X 10.5 or later it requires: a Google Voice account or a compatible Bluetooth cell phone or a landline phone connected through a compatible USB modem and caller ID service or VoIP phone connected through a Linksys...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-100810"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Other World Computing (http://www.macsales.com) has announced the addition of a new 1TB model to the OWC Mercury On-The-Go Pro FireWire 800/400 and USB 2.0 bus powered 2.5-inch portable storage solution line.
The pocket-sized portable storage solution for Mac or PC users features FireWire 800, FireWire 400, and/or USB 2.0 connectivity for data transfer speeds up to 100MB/second and is bus powered, so it can be used without an AC adapter.
The new Mercury On-The-Go Pro 1TB model is available in three interface configurations:
° "Triple interface" with FireWire 800/400 and USB 2.0 connectivity, US$269.99;
° "Combo Interface" with FireWire 400 and USB 2.0 connectivity, $249.99;
· USB 2.0 only connectivity, $229.99 MSRP
The new OWC Mercury On-The-Go Pro 1TB models are available for immediate ordering from Other World Computing at http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/firewire/on-the-go . They're compatible with Mac OS 8.6 to 9.2.2 and all versions of Mac OS X.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-100807"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">An in-depth look at iTunes U is the subject of three upcoming Apple and MacLearning.org webcasts.
The new series, which give audience members an opportunity to interact live with Apple product managers and engineers, will provide an overview of iTunes U, and discuss the implementation and integration of the service.
The first webcast, "iTunes U - Overview and Update" (http://maclearning.org/userpage.php?page_id=19), will be delivered at 10 a.m. (Pacific) on March 18. "Integration of Internal iTunes U Sites" (http://maclearning.org/userpage.php?page_id=20) will be webcast at 10 a.m. (Pacific) on April 1. "iTunes U in the iTunes Store" (http://maclearning.org/browse_pages.php?s=&type=2) will take place at 10 a.m. (Pacific) on April 15.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-100805"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">R.J. PittmanÔøº, a prominent product manager at Google, has left the company to join Apple, reports "TechCrunch" (http://techcrunch.com/2010/03/14/google-product-manager-rj-pittman-defec...).
At Google, he has served as director of product management for Google Labs and Google Search. It's not clear what he'll be doing at Apple.
Before Google, Pittman was co-founder and CEO of Groxis, a web search company; a managing partner of Venture Factory Partners, a technology venture capital and venture management firm; co-founder and CEO of Digital Courier Technologies, an ecommerce company; vice president of technology at Paradigm Systems Corp., a global IT systems and strategy consulting firm; and vice president of technology for Metric, a software start-up. He has a MS in Engineering-Economic Systems from Standford University.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-100803"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">After the initial burst of excitement on Friday that saw iPad pre-orders coming in at the rate of 25,000 per hour, there was a dramatic fall-off over the weekend. Friday was when the Apple device was available for pre-order.
According to Daniel Tello, the Venezuelan blogger-analyst who has been tracking order numbers submitted by volunteers at Investor Village's AAPL Sanity board, orders on Saturday and Sunday slowed to an estimated 1,000 per hour -- as reported by "Fortune" (http://brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2010/03/15/apple-ipad-orders...). Telloattributes roughly half of the estimated 120,000 first-day sales to "pure overexcited fanboism."
The real demand for the iPad in the weeks before its April 3 release, is probably closer to 30,000 per weekday and half that on weekends, he told "Fortune."
"With three weeks and two weekends left before they ship, I wouldn't expect much more than half a million in pre-orders and reservations," he says. "My best guess, although very...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-100791"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">If you buy an iPad and the battery conks out, Apple will replace it with a new iPad, Apple says on a web page called "Battery Replacement Service" (http://www.apple.com/support/ipad/service/battery/).
According to the page, if your iPad requires service due to the battery’s diminished ability to hold an electrical charge, Apple will replace your iPad for a service fee. The service costs $99, plus $6.95 shipping. The total cost is $105.95 per unit.
However, Apple notes: Your iPad is not eligible for Battery Replacement Service if the product has been damaged, for example, as result of an accident, liquid contact, disassembly, unauthorized service or unauthorized modifications, or if the product is not operating correctly as a result of a component failure."

iPad is now available for pre-order. They're due to ship on Saturday, April 3.
At least the Wi-Fi only versions will; the Wi-Fi + 3G model will hit US store sleeves in late April. In addition, all models of iPad will be available...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-100790"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">PA Semi founder and CEO, Dan Dobberpuhl, has apparently left Apple to join a Silicon Valley startup company founded by other former PA Semi employee, although exactly when he left is uncertain, as reported by CNET (http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-10465618-64.html).
Dobberpuhl isn't alone. Other key PA Semi team members have left Apple, including one of PA Semi's leading members, Mark Hayter, adds "CNET."
On April 22, 2008, it was made public that Apple had agreed to buy a boutique microprocessor design company called PA Semi. The company was known for its design of sophisticated, low-power chips.
PA Semi is a fabless semiconductor company that makes PWRficient processors for the embedded-computing markets. It was established in 2003 by industry veterans, including Dan Dobberpuhl, lead designer of the DEC Alpha series of microprocessors, the StrongARM microprocessors, and the first multicore systems on chip with the SiByte 1250. PWRficient processors are based on, and fully software...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-100759"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Small Tree (http://www.small-tree.com) will introduce its new 2TB GraniteSTOR ST-RAID direct attached shared storage system at NAB 2010.
Offering real time editing for Final Cut users while supporting 12 streams of ProRes 422HQ with no dropped frames, ST-RAID provides consistent performance over Ethernet networks. The 2TB system is available in eight, 12 or 16-drive configurations. 
 
GraniteSTOR ST-RAID enables instant availability and background initialization along with automatic insertion/removal detection and rebuild. For greater flexibility, more storage can be added for system expansion. Contact Small Tree for pricing options.
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-100757"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">PagePlanet Software (http://www.PagePlanetSoftware.com/products.html) has announced the golden master release of Modular Gateway Interface (MGI) 3.2 for the Mac OS X and Linux operating systems. MGI is an Apache 2 module that adds full functionality to every web site on your server using a simple tag structure.
MGI includes 67 tags to enhance a web site with everything from simple counters and form processing to custom databases and shopping carts. You can also combine MGI's programming tags to make your web site accomplish a variety of things.
MGI 3.2 includes the new Advanced module and mgiPHP tag to process PHP code on any MGI page. The mgiPHP tag is flexible including parameters to exchange information between MGI and PHP.  You can dynamically create PHP code, dynamically create MGI code or both. MGI's implementation of PHP also includes the GD graphic extension that can be used to resize images and create thumbnails on the fly.
PHP is bundled with MGI so it's plug and play....</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-100416"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Victor Castroll, an analyst with Valcent Financial Group, says Apple sold 51,000 iPads within two hours after the device went on sale.
As noted by "CNN Money" (http://brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2010/03/12/apple-sells-50000...), his estimate -- which is adjusted for the roughly 15,000 online orders that come in a typical day -- jibes with a 20,000-per-hour figure published earlier by "Silicon Alley Insider" (http://www.businessinsider.com/is-apple-selling-20000-ipads-an-hour-2010-3) and the photo sharing Phanfare site (http://blog.phanfare.com/2010/03/apple-is-currently-selling-20000-ipads-...). That number was based on two sales made within 30 minutes that were 10,000 order numbers apart.
And in other iPad news...
° The Camera Connection Kit previously mentioned by Apple isn't listed among the iPad accessories for sale. gives you two ways to import photos and videos from a digital camera. It lets you import your photos and videos to iPad using the camera’s USB cable. Or...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-100418"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Zevrix Solutions has announced a public beta of Package Central 1.0 (http://zevrix.com/PackageCentral.php), a new document packaging workflow automation solution for Adobe InDesign.
Originally developed for a publisher in the United States, the software automates InDesign packaging by processing files from hotfolders. Package Central offloads packaging to a central system, leaving operator workstations free from the output process. Package Central offers font auto-activation, e-mail notifications, detailed logs and much more.
Everyone who downloads Package Central public beta and registers with Zevrix Solutions can purchase Package Central with a 30% discount once it's released. Estimated release time and pricing are March 22 for US$499.95.
Package Central is a Universal Binary and runs on Mac OS X 10.4.2-10.6. Remember: beta software is unfinished software so use with care.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-100414"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">The next round of legal smackdown between Apple and Nokia won't take place for a while. And look for a long, drawn-out battle.
The two will seek a U.S. court hearing in a key patent battle in mid-2012, a court filing shows -- as reported by "Reuters" (http://www.reuters.com/article/idCNLDE62A2JN20100312?rpc=44). Last week federal judge in Delaware signed an order staying litigation in a lawsuit in which Nokia claims that Apple is infringing on seven Nokia patents in products ranging from the iPhone to computers.
The order also covered counterclaims in which Apple alleges that Nokia has infringed on nine Apple patents that are the subject of an ITC complaint by Apple.
Last month it was announced that Apple's patent-infringement complaint seeking to block Nokia Oyj’s phone imports into the U.S. will be investigated by a U.S. trade agency. The U.S. International Trade Commission in Washington will consider the complaint filed last month and decide whether to ban the imports.
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-100400"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Apple's shares have surged on iPad pre-orders, making Apple America's third most valuable company, reports "CNN Money" (http://brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2010/03/12/apple-overtakes-w...).
Ninety minutes after Apple opened its online store for iPad pre-orders Friday morning, a burst of trading -- roughly 2 million shares in 30 minutes -- pushed its stock price to US$227.73 and its market cap to $206.5 billion.
Apple has moved, at least for now, ahead of Wal-Mart to become America's third largest company by market capitalization. It only trails Exxon and Microsoft.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-100395"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Alesis (http://www.alesis.com/), a manufacturer of professional audio equipment and studio electronics, has released the MultiMix 6 USB six-channel USB mixer for Mac and Windows. It costs US$149.
The MultiMix 6 USB is a six-channel desktop mixer designed for integration into a computer-based recording environment. This compact mixer is built for use in recording setups, video editing and production studio,s as it outputs not only line-level analog audio, but also stereo 16-bit, 44.1 kHz digital audio over USB for low-noise computer connection.
 
The MultiMix 6 USB mixer has six input channels, all of which can accept a 1/4-inch line input. Users can plug XLR microphones into channels one and two, including condensers, thanks to the mixer's switchable 48V-phantom power supply. They can also plug a guitar or bass directly into channel one's switchable high-impedance input.
 
Channels one and two offer switchable high-pass filtering at 75Hz to eliminate low-frequency rumble, handling...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-100334"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">BKeeney Software has updated Task Timer (http://www.bkeeney.com/products/tasktimer4), a project management and time-tracking tool for Mac OS X (10.4 and 10.5), to version 4.3.3. The new version adds the daily total to the dock and status menus for Mac OS X users and fixes some minor bugs.
Task Timer allows users to track time spent on individual tasks and projects to the minute. It generates a variety of reports using relative and specific date ranges and other filters. Users may also synchronize their data on their local machine with a database server.
New users can purchase Task Timer for US$24.95 A free 14-day trial may be downloaded from the BKeeney Software web site. Upgrade pricing for existing customers is $12.50 and may be obtained by sending an email to support requesting an upgrade coupon code. Version 4.3.3 is a free update for registered users of version 4.x.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-100329"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Bohemian Coding and Laurent Baumann have updated Fontcase (http://www.bohemiancoding.com/?Fontcase), a font manager for Mac OS X 10.5 and higher, to version 1.5. The new version adds auto-activation, duplicates detection, a speed increase and stability, among other things.
Fontcase focuses on metadata. For every font and weight, you can add a variety of metadata. You can set tags, genres, assign designers and foundries and more. They are not just pieces of text, but actually show up in the source list, right under your smart collections. Everything in the interface can be dragged.
Fontcase has several preview options. You can preview fonts with any sample text you want and you can view individual glyphs, as a waterfall text and as body text. If you want to go in more detail, there's a special Compare mode which was designed to compare a small set of fonts and allow you to choose the right font from them.
Just like in iTunes, you can share your Library with other people. However, in...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-100242"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Aye yi yi! No, make that "i, i, i." Apple has been told that it no longer has a monopoly on the letter "i" when trademarking its products.
As reported by the "Sydney Morning Herald" (http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/mp3s/apples-future-wont-be-brought-to...), IP Australia -- the government body that oversees trademark applications-- has knocked back Apple's bid to stop a small company from trademarking the name DOPi for use on its laptop bags and cases for Apple products. Apple argued that the DOPi name -- which is, in case you hadn't noticed -- iPod spelt backwards -- was too similar to its own product.
IP Australia says that (http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/cth/ATMO/2010/7.html) Apple seems to have overlooked the fact that there were already a large number of products that have the "i" prefix. While the case doesn't affect Apple's current trademarks, companies wanting to use the "i" prefix will have a better chance of getting away with it, lawyers told the "Sydney Morning...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-100241"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">The iPad and its accessories are now available for pre-order at the online Apple Store (http://www.apple.com). They're due to ship on Saturday, April 3.
At least the Wi-Fi only versions will; the Wi-Fi + 3G model will hit US store sleeves in late April. In addition, all models of iPad will be available in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK in late April.
The Wi-Fi iPad sells for a suggested retail price of US$499 for 16GB, $599 for 32GB, $699 for 64GB models. The Wi-Fi + 3G models will be available in late April for a suggested retail price of $629 for 16GB, $729 for 32GB and $829 for 64GB. iPad will be sold in the US through the Apple Store, Apple’s retail stores and select Apple Authorized Resellers.
The iPad Keyboard Dock -- which combines a fully functional iPad dock with a slim, compact aluminum Apple keyboard featuring special iPad function keys -- costs $69. The iPad -- which not only protects your iPad, but holds in it positions...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-100228"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Apple has released Safari Security Update (APPLE-SA-2010-03-11-1) for Mac and Windows, which brings the web browser to version 4.0.5.
According to the Apple, the update is recommended for all Safari users and includes improvements to performance, stability, and security including:
° Performance improvements for Top Sites;
° Stability improvements for third party plug-ins;
° Stability improvements for web sites with online forms and Scalable Vector Graphics;
° Fixes an issue that prevented Safari from changing settings on some Linksys routers;
° Fixes an issue that prevented some iWork.com users from commenting on documents.
Mac users can obtain the update via the Software Updates component of the Mac OS X Systems Preferences app.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-100225"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">The Macinmind gang has updated Radiologik (http://macinmind.com/Radiologik), radio DJing and automation software for Mac OS X, to version 1.7. This release includes several optimizations for 24/7 radio stations, both streaming and terrestrial.
Radiologik is comprised of a set of two programs that seeks to address the specific needs of radio broadcasting in an accessible and focused way. It's made up of two program queue players, one independent/voiceover player, and one library player. It has audio outputs that are selectable with user labels. The players overlap for proper cold starts and stops (no cross-fades). Radiologik also offers: custom start/stop and fades per track; live searching in its library (a la iTunes); and iTunes Library importing. It plays MP3, AAC, ITMS protected AAC, Apple Lossless, AIFF and WAV files.
Radiologik Scheduler user]s iTunes as its database utilizing playlists and, particularly, smart playlists for song selection with its own top logic. Smart...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-100223"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Mac-Chi has updated WhoPaste (http://www.whopaste.com/), a contact acquisition utility for the Mac OS X Address Book, to version 4.5. The upgrade adds instant iCal To Dos.
The new iCal To Dos can be created with just a control click on Mac OS X 10.6 ("Snow Leopard") or with a user configurable hot key on Mac OS X 10.5 ("Leopard"). Mac-Chi has also enhanced the underlying data model and simplified the installation process. The older two-step installation process has been replaced with the more familiar and customer-friendly "drop a file on a folder"process.
With WhoPaste installed Mac users can simply copy any contact information (e.g. just a phone number in a Sticky note, a whole signature block in an email, or even multiple rows from a spreadsheet) and without switching applications or navigating to a web site, with a single keystroke they can create a new contact in their address book.
WhoPaste requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later. It costs US$15 for a single machine license. A free...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-100222"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">The PandaWare Company (http://www.pandaware.com) has updated TimeCache -- its time and expense billing app for oMac OS X 10.3.9 and higher -- to version 8.0.7. The upgrade offers a new Project Totals report for viewing only totals of selected projects
TimeCache 8.0.7 also offers the option to automatically show a "business information" text block in reports and invoices. The new version also sports a number of small improvements and bug fixes.
TimeCache is a Universal Binary Macintosh application. It offers support for timed or manual entries, retainer billing, customizable invoices and reports, printing options, and flexible data entry options. It also offers tracking of all a user's computer activity, the ability to save fine-grained details with time and expense entries, can use Apple Address Book entries for client contact information, can produce charts of billable time and expenses, and can import from and export to iCal calendars.
TimeCache Manager costs US$70 per user,...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-100214"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">One Software (http:/www.ononesoftware.com) has announced the immediate availability of two fully-functional Photoshop plug-ins: PhotoTools 2.5 Free and the new PhotoFrame 4.5 Free.
The free plug-ins for Photoshop are based on the versions of PhotoTools 2.5 Standard Edition and PhotoFrame 4.5 Standard Edition and are compatible with Photoshop CS2, CS3 and CS4.
The free versions provide photographers with select content from the Standard Editions of each product, while maintaining the full functionality, unlike the traditional restrictions of 30-day timed trials or watermarked images, according to Craig Keudell, president of onOne Software.
Based on the same feature set as PhotoTools 2.5 Standard Edition, PhotoTools 2.5 Free includes 15 of the most popular effects found in PhotoTools 2.5 Standard Edition. PhotoTools offers action-based effects that can improve images and let you find, experiment, combine, apply and fine tune effects. The 15 effects available in PhotoTools 2.5 Free...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-99793"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Ever wonder what graphics really looks like side-by-side comparing VMware Fusion 3 to Parallels Desktop 5? This video will show you a wide variety of graphics tests, running on side-by-side machines so that you can see for yourself.
Interesting in the full analysis of which product is faster? Check it out at:
and read the most comprehensive and definitive set of benchmarks in the industry about virtualization on the Mac. Thousands of real world tests run, primarily with a stopwatch, to give you the best answer possible on which is faster in each area and by how much.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-100047"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Global smartphone shipments grew 37.2% last year -- and the iPhone saw a 97.9% year-over-growth in shipments. While Apple saw the greatest success, Nokia's shipments also jumped 37.3 percent and Research in Motion saw a spike of 41.2 percent.
Analyst Charlie Wolf with Needham & Company -- as reported by "AppleInsider" (http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/03/11/apple_sees_98_iphone_growt...) -- told clients that the smartphone market has turned into a "land grab" that's "virtually certain" to lead to a brutal battle between Microsoft and Google.
He said Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 Series won't kill the iPhone, which exists in a class by itself, but it will be a potential "Android killer." Windows Phone 7 Series, Wolf said, is evidence that Microsoft "finally gets it."</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-100046"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">At this year’s Game Developers Conference® (Booth BS506, Moscone South), Dolby Laboratories has announced new tools that will soon make it possible for gamers to enjoy Dolby Axon surround voice chat on more of their favorite gaming platforms -- including the Mac.
Dolby unveiled new software developer kit (SDK) ports that enable game developers to integrate the Dolby Axon surround voice technology to Mac OS X, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360versions of multiplayer online game titles. General availability of these ports is planned for April.
According to Matt Tullis, marketing director, Games, Dolby Laboratories, already adopted by several online games, including the most recently announced Dragon Nest by Nexon Corp., as well as ZT Online (Giant Interactive), Mission Against Terror (Kingsoft) and Jumpgate Evolution (NetDevil), the Dolby Axon SDK enables game developers to raise the online gaming experience to a new level through a number of features:
° Voice communication complete with...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-99983"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Barnes & Noble (http://www.barnesandnoble.com) says it will soon be adding a new B&N eReader for the iPad.
 
Designed specifically for the Apple device, the B&N eReader will give customers access to more than one million eBooks, magazines and newspapers in the Barnes & Noble eBookstore, as well as the existing content in their Barnes & Noble digital library. That includes eBooks and content customers have downloaded to their nook™ eBook reader.) 
 
To be released around the time of iPad’s expected availability, the new Barnes & Noble eReader will join B&N's growing list of free eReader software for most computing and mobile devices including the Mac, PC, iPhone, iPod touch and Blackberry. </div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-99982"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">O'Reilly has recently released the Mini Missing Manual series (http://search.oreilly.com/?q=mini+missing+manuals&utm_content=em-orm-pr-Mini+MM&utm_campaign=O'Reilly&utm_source=iPost&utm_medium=email&imm_mid=056d26&cmp=em-orm-pr-Mini+MM), available in ebook format only. They're US$4.99 each.

The current titles in the series are "Creating Keynote Slideshows," "Layout in Pages '09," "Sharing Keynote Slideshows," "Word Processing in Pages '09," "Add Audio and Video to Your Site," "Add Interactivity to Your Site," "Attract Visitors to Your Site."</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-99981"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Novothink (http://www.novothink.com), a global manufacturer of energy alternative electronic devices, has released the Solar Surge, anApple licensed solar charger case for the iPod touch. The solar charger case enables anyone to power up from the sun while carrying their iPod.
iPod touches can now be effectively and efficiently charged anywhere under the sun by simply being attached to a Solar Surge, according to Ian Dorfman, president of Novothink. Along with the custom designed and engineered charger case that includes solar panels that provide continuous charging from the sun, Solar Surge also includes a USB 2.0 cable that is compatible with standard USB charging ports to provide high capacity charging and data exchange.
To estimate solar needs for iPhone 3G and 3G S usage, Novothink encourages users to take advantage of their free Solar Planner available at the company's web site. Available in a variety of colors, Solar Surge for the iPod touch is priced at US$69.95 and will be...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-99910"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">SONiVOX (http://www.sonivoxmi.com), a virtual instrument manufacturer, has released Grand Piano Virtual Instrument, Eighty Eight. It has a manufacturer's suggested retail price of US$199.
Eighty Eight is conceived and designed as a virtual embodiment of a Steinway CD 327 grand. It was recorded within the same acoustic confines as the SONiVOX Symphonic Collection. Eighty Eight sports: over 11GB of premium instrument content; 35 piano and pad presets; 52 solo piano presets; 15 adjustable split point multi-instrument combination patches; up to 16 velocity layers per key; onboard EQ, reverb and limiter; a seven-step velocity re-mapper; and more. It has Mac standalone, AU, VST and RTAS compatibility.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-99905"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Maintain has released Cocktail 4.6.1 (Leopard Edition), the latest maintenance update of Cocktail (http://www.maintain.se) for users running Mac OS X 10.5.x ("Leopard").
This version adds ability to stop Cocktail from logging out, restarting or shutting down the computer at the end of a scheduled program. The update also features improvements on the clear Adobe Flash Player caches and cookies procedure as well as overall performance improvements.
Cocktail 4.6.1 (Leopard Edition) requires Mac OS X/Mac OS X Server 10.5 or later and is tested for compatibility with Mac OS X/Mac OS X Server 10.5.8. 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-99904"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">NAB has debuted a new digital video workflow presentation stage, complete with a networking lounge and series of mini sessions, which will be held on the show floor at the 2010 NAB Show (http://www.nabshow.com), April 12-15.
Located in the South Lower Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center, the Post Pit brings together user groups and individuals who use post-production and other digital story-telling software and hardware products on display at the NAB Show.
Produced in partnership with Final Cut Pro User Group (FCPUG) Network SuperMeet, fxguide, Digital Production Buzz and Future Media Concepts (FMC), Post Pit will offer attendees and exhibitors an interactive experience in which to showcase creative content, while top talent take the stage to share tips and tricks to aid digital video creators and editors in navigating the various tools used in the trade
Some of the presenters include Ted Schilowitz of RED Camera Company, post guru Scott Simmons with tips on editing a Canon 5D...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-99903"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Developer Benedict Lowndes has released a beta of WindowFlow (http://windowflow.com) for Mac OS X. The app provides keyboard commands for organizing your application windows.
You can move and resize windows which will snap into alignment with each other. Window tiling allows you to select a messy group of windows to be re-organized to make the most of your screen space. The app's interface also acts as a window switcher, allowing you to browse all of your open application windows.
WindowFlow is currently in the final stages of beta testing, with a discounted for early adopters. WindowFlow Pro will be priced at $22, but is available for purchase during the beta period for $12. WindowFlow Standard will be priced at $12, but is available for purchase during the beta for $8.
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-99895"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Vinotekasoft has uncorked Vinoteka 1.6.2 (http://www.vinotekasoft.com), an update of their wine cellar management software for Mac OS X. The upgrade adds Grapes, Regions and Subregions and improves the German localization.
Vinoteka costs US$34.90 for a single user license. You can get a family pack for $79.90 or a business pack for $109.90. Version 1.6.2 is a free update for registered users.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-99900"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Monkeybread Software is offering new REALbasic DynaPDF plug-in licenses. For adding PDF creation to your applications, you can now use the new DynaPDF Starter License for US$199.
In addition Monkeybread is offring new prices for the other REALbasic DynaPDF Plug-in licenses: For the different between Starter, Lite, Pro and Enterprise licenses (and pricing), go to http://www.monkeybreadsoftware.de/realbasic/dynapdf.shtml .</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-99864"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Apple CEO Steve Jobs ranks number 136 on the list of the world's billionaires (http://www.forbes.com/2010/03/10/worlds-richest-people-slim-gates-buffet...) as compiled by "Forbes." The magazine lists his net worth at US$5.5 billion .
Here's what "Forbes" has to say about Jobs: "Following months of rumor and speculation, cultish king of the iGeeks presented the highly anticipated iPad in January; ten-inch, multi-touch computer intended to fill gap between smartphone and laptop. Delighted: nerds everywhere. Scared to death: newspaper and magazine publishers. Also unveiled new iBookstore and iBooks application in direct challenge to Amazon's Kindle; several book publishers have committed to content agreements. Apple shares up 100% in past 12 months. Reed College dropout founded Apple in 1976. Revolutionized music industry with iTunes, iPod. Best investment: bought Pixar from George Lucas in 1986 for $10 million. Created string of hits (Finding Nemo, Toy Story); sold to Disney in 2006 for...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-99863"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Smith Micro has launched Poser Pro 2010, an update of the Mac OS X compatible (10.4 and higher) tool that lets professional artists and production teams add 3D characters to their projects. It sports over 2.5GB of ready-to-use content such as pre-rigged, fully textured 3D characters.
Poser Pro 2010 also boasts such advanced features as a Talk Designer, Walk Designer, Morph Brush, Face Room, Dynamic Hair and Cloth Tools and many more. New in the latest version are:
° A revamped user interface with a user configurable work environment;
° A content management system that allows easier access to content collections with the ability to search both a library’s content and Smith Micro’s online market Content Paradise by category and keyword, providing a hierarchy list view and more detailed pop-up expanding previews;
° The ability to combine indirect diffuse illumination with improved irradiance caching and path tracing;
° An improved rigging system that includes multiple Falloff Zones and a...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-99856"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">The Khronos Group (http://www.khronos.org), an industry consortium creating open standards to enable the authoring and acceleration of graphics and dynamic media on a variety of platforms and devices, has released the OpenGL 4.0 specification, an upgrade to the 2D and 3D graphics API (application programming interface) that is deployed on all major desktop operating systems.
The OpenGL standard serves as the basis for OpenGL® ES, the graphics standard on virtually every shipping smart phone. The OpenGL 4.0 specification has been defined by the OpenGL ARB (Architecture Review Board) working group at Khronos, and includes the GLSL 4.00 update to the OpenGL Shading language in order to enable developers to access the latest generation of GPU (graphical processing unit) acceleration with enhanced graphics quality, acceleration performance and programming flexibility. The full specification is available for immediate download at http://www.opengl.org/registry .
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-99857"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">The rock band Pink Floyd have won a High Court battle to stop their record label, EMI, from selling album tracks as singles at places such as the iTunes Store.
The legendary band, signed to EMI since 1967, said their contract meant their albums could not be split up without their permission. The BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8561963.stm) reports that a judge agreed, saying the contract contained a clause to "preserve the artistic integrity of the albums". EMI has been ordered to pay £40,000 (approximately $60,000) in costs, with a further fine to be decided.
The group, whose latest contract was signed before download stores like iTunes appeared, also disputed the way royalties for digital sales were calculated.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-99737"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Demand for the iPhone and Google’s Nexus One will help propel smartphone sales past those of personal computers in two years, according to a new report by the Gartner research group.
As reported by "Bloomberg" (http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=conewsstory&tkr=AAPL%3AUS&sid=arm...), Gartner says smartphone sales will more than triple to 491.9 million units by 2012 from 139.3 million in 2008. The computer market will expand to 443.1 million units from 290.8 million in the same period.
“Smartphones are headed towards that billion-unit category that handsets are in today,” says Jim McGregor, an analyst at research firm In-Stat in Scottsdale, Arizona. “The smartphone is the billion-unit pot of gold that everyone wants.”</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-99734"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">"Consumer Reports" has published results of its latest survey (http://blogs.consumerreports.org/electronics/2010/03/best-and-worst-tech...) on the best and worst companies for computer tech support. And Apple, as you might expect, excelled.
Scores are based on an annual survey from the Consumer Reports National Research Center this past January of over 7,000 desktop- and laptop-owning subscribers to "Consumer Reports." Respondents weighed in on the ability of manufacturer's tech support to solve their problems, the communication and knowledge of phone support staff, how long they were placed on hold, and the quality of the company's online support. "Consumer Reports" grouped together computer labels made by the same company (HP and Compaq were ranked together, for example).
Of the six major manufacturers, one earned top marks across the board (guess who?), and left the others in its wake in terms of overall satisfaction. In striking contrast, another manufacturer received...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-99733"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Troi Automatisering has releasedTroi Dialog Plug-in 5.5 for FileMaker Pro 11. Troi Dialog Plug-in is a tool for displaying all sorts of dialogs in FileMaker Pro 11. The text of the dialog and of the buttons can be created dynamically by using a calculation.
Troi Dialog Plug-in 5.5 is an update for FileMaker Pro 11. It adds support for the PNG image format, including support for transparency in the icon. The new version also implements Cococa versions of the Progress and InputDialog dialogs.
A fully functional demo version of Troi Dialog Plug-in 5.5 is available for downloading at Troi's web site (http://www.troi.com/software/dialogplugin.html). It works with FileMaker Pro 9, 10 and 11. The plug-in can also be used with runtimes from FileMaker Pro Advanced 9, 10 or FileMaker Pro Advanced 11. The plug-in is available for Mac OS X and Windows.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-99731"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">WD has introduced its new My Passport AV portable media drives (http://www.westerndigital.com/MyPassportAV), which are designed specifically for video storage and playback and come with 320GB of capacity for US$109.99.
A large and increasing number of game consoles, camcorders, TVs, DVRs, Blu-ray players and media players, including the WD TV Media Player family, allow consumers to connect a USB drive and play the multimedia content from the drive on an HD TV. The My Passport AV portable media drive is designed to meet the requirements of this video streaming environment.
The My Passport AV portable media drives operate with the Direct Copy feature offered in Sony's new Handycam video recorders. Direct Copy lets Handycam users offload and archive HD video directly to a My Passport AV portable media drive without a computer, creating room to shoot more HD videos when their Handycam hard drive becomes full.
Consumers can then play back their stored videos using Sony's latest Blu-ray...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-99719"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Markzware has released PageZephyr 2.0 (http://www.pagezephyr.com), which is targeted to publishing companies, advertising firms, legal eDiscovery and other companies possessing so-called proprietary files. It captures, indexes, and converts content created in proprietary or non-common formats without the need for the original authoring application.
This transformative technology substantially reduces the cost for time spent searching and cataloging unmanaged content residing within these file types on local or network drives, according to the folks at Markzware. Before PageZephyr, documents had to be opened by the original application and manually searched, one by one. Now PageZephyr 2.0, enables anyone to instantly find content in these documents by  simply typing in a search term or phrase.
This new release of PageZephyr includes expanded file support for: versions of QuarkXPress 4.0 to 8.x; Adobe InDesign CS through CS4; and Microsoft Publisher 2002 to 2007.
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-99718"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Another day, another lawsuit. Apple, AT&T, Research in Motion and other mobile companies are defendants in a new patent suit that covers a broad range of smartphone related technologies, including e-mail syncing and Bluetooth connectivity.
According to "AppleInsider" (http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/03/10/apple_iphone_targeted_in_p...) the suit was filed earlier this month in a U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of Texas by a company called SmartPhone Technologies, based in Frisco, Texas. It accuses Apple of violating six patents owned by the company covering a range of topics, including Bluetooth connectivity, e-mail syncing, bandwidth conservation and general smartphone functionality.
The suit alleges that Apple and its iPhone are liable for infringement of the patents and have caused damage to SmartPhone Technologies, notes "AppleInsider." In addition to Apple, a number of prominent smartphone companies and mobile operators are named as defendants, including...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-99670"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Media Lab has released SiteGrinder 3.0 (http://www.medialab.com/sitegrinder/overview.php) , an update of its web site production plug-in for Adobe Photoshop, which lets you build a web site via the addition of one-word hints, such as "rollover" or "menu," to the names of layers in a Photoshop design file. Its developers say it sports over 300 new features and supports two new optional add-ons: Commerce and Control.
The SiteGrinder 3 Commerce add-on builds web stores with a fully-integrated shopping cart from within Photoshop. Users can now create online stores with shopping carts from image galleries using Photoshop text and art layers. After publishing their store to the web, users can edit products, pricing, images and descriptions remotely using any web browser.
The SiteGrinder 3 Control add-on enables web site content management from any Internet-connected computer through a web browser. The designer/developer (or client) can change any site content including page additions, text...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-99668"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Sun Microsystems' former CEO, Jonathan Schwartz, says that Apple CEO Steve Jobs threatened to sue Sun for infringing on its intellectual property in 2003 for a user interface design.
According to "CNET" (http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20000215-264.html?part=rss&subj=news&t...), Jobs delivered his threat to Sun personally, Schwartz said, calling his office to say the graphics in Sun's operating system 3D interface, Project Looking Glass, were "stepping all over Apple's IP," and that if Sun commercialized it, "I'll just sue you."
Sun countered with its own patent portfolio, according to "CNET." With Apple, Schwartz raised the similarities between Apple's Keynote presentation software and Concurrence, software from Schwartz's start-up Lighthouse Design, which Sun acquired, the article says. And he pointed to Sun's operating system patents, relevant given its Unix history and the fact that Apple's Mac OS X uses Unix technology. "Steve was silent," Schwartz said.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-99666"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">comScore (http://www.comscore.com), a company that measures the digital world, has released data from the comScore MobiLens service, reporting key trends in the U.S. mobile phone industry during the three0month period between October 2009 and January 2010. The report shows that iPhone usage grew.
The comScore report ranked the leading mobile original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and smartphone operating system (OS) platforms in the U.S. according to their share of current mobile subscribers age 13 and older, as well as popular activities and content accessed via the subscriber's primary mobile phone. The January report found Motorola to be the top handset manufacturer overall with 22.9% market share, while RIM led among smartphone platforms with 43% market share.
In the three-month average ending in January, 234 million Americans were mobile subscribers ages 13 and older, with device manufacturer Motorola ranking as the top OEM with 22.9% of U.S. mobile subscribers. LG ranked second...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-99665"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Apple has released MainStage 2.1.1 (http://www.apple.com/logicstudio/mainstage/), an update of the live performance application that turns the Mac into a streamlined live rig. It's part of the Logic Studio suite.
This update resolves several issues, among them stability fixes for 32-bit Audio Unit Bridge plug-ins. MainStage 2.1 requires Mac OS X 10.5.7 or later. Logic Studio Pro costs US$499.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-99660"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Coming soon to a Mac near you? Probably. Intel (http://www.intel.com) previewed platforms featuring the latest Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition processor and announced the latest release of Intel Graphics Performance Analyzers (Intel GPA) that will aid developers in optimizing game performance.
In addition, Intel introduced a number of initiatives designed to spur innovation in the computer game developer community, and in support of the company's Visual Adrenaline and Intel Atom Developer programs. The company is previewing its latest computer platform, the Intel Core i7-980X Extreme Edition processor, codenamed "Gulftown," the first 32nm, six-core processor with 12 computing threads.
Intel says its Intel GPA helps computer game developers analyze and optimize game performance on Intel Architecture-based platforms. Intel GPA provides application analysis and customization that allows developers to pinpoint performance bottlenecks and optimize games for desktop computers and laptops...</div></div></span>
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