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<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-97690"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Pioneer Electronics (http://www.pioneerelectronics.com) has unveiled a new line of 5.1 channel A/V receivers that are iPhone and iPod compatible.
Also, the Pioneer VSX-520-K and VSX-820-K feature wireless Bluetooth transfer of audio content, allowing users to enjoy their music directly from their Bluetooth-enabled device to their home theater system and are 3D ready with the latest HDMI, version 1.4, providing more high definition connectivity options for the Blu-ray 3D specification. Th
The VSX-820-K also features “Works with iPhone” certification, an works with iPhones and iPods. Pre-orders of both models are currently available at Amazon.com.
The new models feature expanded iPhone functions including an iPhone Control Button and Bluetooth Audio Streaming for portable media devices. The VSX-820-K's iPhone Control button that transfers iPod navigation control and on-screen display from the A/V receiver’s remote control back to the connected Apple device so users can navigate...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-97689"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">CS Odessa has released a beta version of its mind mapping tool (http://www.conceptdraw.com/en/mindwave) for Google Wave. This is a no-charge add-in to Google Wave that can be used as part of Google Wave to map out a strategy or brainstorm on a critical topic.
The ConceptDraw MindWave for Google Wave tool allows teams to collaborate on a mind map in an interactive flowing manner building a map structure that represents the planned work. The map add-in supports Google Wave playback that allows one to step back through a map.
Once a mind map is has the contents from the interactive session the mind map file can then be downloaded to one’s desktop to be further developed using ConceptDraw MindMap for Ma OS X or Windows.
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-97688"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Skooba Design (http://www.skoobadesign.com) as added a new cable/accessory organizer, as well as a new collection of multi-use protective wraps, to its expanding line of tech-travel carrying cases and accessories.
The US$39.95 Cable Stable DLX (shown), which looks and opens like a book, features a grid of elastic hold-downs in different sizes and orientations. The elastic strips “float” freely under reinforced retention strips, so they can stretch and contract to accommodate a nearly limitless assortment of portable gadgets, cords, adapters, and other accessories, according to Skooba spokesperson Lorri Diggory,
With the storage grid, pockets on the opposite side, elastic loops for batteries, pens and thumb drives, and an exterior document/CD pocket, the Cable Stable DLX offers approximately 18 different storage spaces in a 12 ounce case the size of a traditional day planner. Also, the new
SkoobaWraps are “portable padding” that can be wrapped and self-secured around virtually any...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-97687"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Divine Fiat has released The Complete Set (http://www.divinefiat.com/index.php?id=2), their entire collection of themes for Apple's Keynote. Keynote is the presentation component of Apple's US$79 iWork Suite.
All 14 themes are now available for US$130 -- 60% off the individual theme set price. Every theme comes in both standard and widescreen formats. Each theme also includes extras such as fully customizable icon objects, custom texture and color palates and video tutorials.
The Complete Set requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later and Keynote 5.0 or higher.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-97686"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Keynote Zone (http://www.keynotezone.com) has announced KeynoteZone Collection 7 for Keynote, the presentation component of Apple's US$79 iWork suite.
Several Keynote Zone themes are now available for US$69. Keynote Zone Collection 7 includes seven HD version themes. Each theme comes in five sizes, and you get everything you need for standard resolution, classic format projection, HD Projection systems or HD screens. Each theme comes in 5 sizes (800x600, 1024x768, 1280x720, 1680x1050, 1920x1080).
Keynote Zone Collection 7 works with Mac OS X 10.4.10 or higher and iWork '08 or iWork '09.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-97684"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Native Instruments has announced Alicia's Keys (www.native-instruments.com/aliciaskeys.info), software that recreates Alicia Keys' personal grand piano. Developed in close collaboration with the Grammy-winning artist, the software is used as the primary instrument on her new album and on the current world tour.
Designed as a comprehensive digital recreation of Key's own custom Yamaha "C3 Neo" grand piano, and based on Native Instruments' Kontakt 4 sampler platform, Alicia's Keys provides a piano sound designed to accommodate R&B, soul and pop styles. The instrument was recorded in Alicia's personal studio by her engineer Ann Mincieli and sampling expert Thomas Scarbee over the course of two years.
Alicia's Keys utilizes 17GB of high-resolution samples with 12 discrete velocity layers per note, and emulation of crucial sonic aspects like key release, sustain pedal functionality and sympathetic resonance. The user interface of the software gives e control over the sound to further...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-97683"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Wacom (http://www.wacom.com) has introduced the Cintiq 21UX, its interactive pen display delivering pen performance and ergonomics in a LCD display. It's designed for professional photographers, designers, artists and animators.
The Cintiq 21UX offers 2048 levels of pressure sensitivity. Other enhancements include rear-mounted Touch Strips placed for fingertip access while working. Each Touch Strip has an accompanying thumb-controlled Touch Strip Toggle button that controls up to four different user-assigned functions per application such as zoom, scroll, brush size adjustment and canvas rotation.
The Cintiq 21UX Grip Pen features Wacom’s new proprietary Tip Sensor technology, offering users near-zero (one gram) starting pressure for the most sensitive interactive pen display performance to date, according to Don Varga, senior product manager for Wacom Technology. The Grip Pen also features a pressure-sensitive eraser and two customizable side switches that can be customized for...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-97663"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">NetGear (http://www.netgear.com) has announced two new networking accessories for home theaters, as well as new networking accessories and NAS products.
The High-Performance Wireless-N HD Home Theater Kit (pictured) is a carrier-grade solution for wirelessly playing multiple jitter-free 1080p HD video and audio streams to every room in the house. The Universal WiFi Internet Adapter for Home Theater Devices and Gaming Consoles delivers Wireless-N performance of up to 300 Mbps through the Ethernet port of consumer electronic (CE) devices such as Internet TVs, game consoles, Blu-ray players and more.
The Universal WiFi Internet Adapter for Home Theater Devices and Gaming Consoles (WNCE2001) will be available in May at a manufacturer's suggested retail price of US$79. The High-Performance Wireless-N HD Home Theater Kit will be available in third quarter of the year with pricing for the kit and for single adapters to be announced at the time of market availability.
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-97662"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">SimpleLeap Software has released Cram 1.3.4 (http://www.simpleleap.com/cram/mac.htm), an update to their $29.99 flashcard and multiple-choice testing study app for Mac OS X. The upgrade sports a new installer and minor bug fixes.
Cram is designed for students, teachers, or anyone else looking to prepare for any subject matter on their Mac with flashcards and practice multiple-choice tests. Cram features multiple study modes, and the ability to share test material with friends.
Cram works with Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6. It costs US$29.99. Version 1.3.4 is a free update for registered users.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-97603"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Plextor (http://www.plextor.com), a developer and manufacturer of high-performance digital media equipment,has released its first line of solid-state drives (SSDs) – the PX-64M1S (64GB) and the PX-128M1S (128GB).
They use non-volatile NAND Flash memory as the storage medium. Utilizing Marvell controller chipsets, the new SSDs deliver faster speeds for system boot-up, application launch and file transfer, lower power consumption and longer battery life, among other benefits, according to Esteban Kim, director of New Business Development at PLDS.
Both the PX-64M1S and the PX-128M1S feature 2.5-inch small form factors and an integrated SATA II interface.The PX-64M1S delivers up to 110MB/second sequential read, 65MB/second in sequential write, and up to 4,200 random read IOPS and 1,200 random write IOPS.
The PX-128M1S delivers up to 130MB/second sequential read, 70MB/second sequential write, and up to 4,300 random read IOPS and 1,800 random write IOPS. Both drives offer low power...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-97602"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">The Franklin Group (http://www.franklin3d.com), a division of Paradigma Software, has released Franklin 3D 1.0 for Runrev. It's a 3D game and simulation engine that integrates with Runrev 4, the cross platform software design system from Mirye Software and Runrev.
With Franklin 3D 1.0 for Runrev Pro, you can build cross-platform, hardware accelerated games for Mac OS X (with OpenGL) or Windows (with DirectX or OpenGL). Franklin 3D includes over 400 methods, including support for display control, model loading and callbacks. It includes the engine plus a collection of example projects.
RunRev is a cross-platform, visual development tool that creates applications that run on multiple operating systems and is based on Rev, the English-like programming language inspired by Apple HyperCard.
Franklin 3D for Mac OS X costs US$199.99. Non-commercial, academic versions are also available, starting at $99. The professional version allows for royalty free, unlimited deployment of games and 12...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-97601"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">WD (http://www.wdc.com) has introduced its new My Passport Studio portable drives featuring FireWire 800 interface and a customizable e-label that's always visible, even when the drive is unplugged.

The drives are formatted for Macs, compatible with Apple's TimeMachine software, and feature automatic and continuous backup with WD SmartWare software, and 256-bit hardware-based encryption. Available now at select retailers and shopwd.com, the new My Passport Studio drives are offered in capacities of 320 GB, 500 GB and 640 GB with prices ranging from US$149.99 to $199.99.
The e-label smart display on the front of the My Passport drives can be changed as often as desired using the included WD SmartWare software. Users can y create a label to personalize their drive or remind themselves of its contents. The e-label also shows available capacity and whether the drive is locked. Utilizing e-paper technology, the information on the display remains clearly visible, even when the drive is...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-97600"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Blue Room Software (http://www.blueroomsoftware.com) has announces ImageArchiver for Lightroom 1.0. It's an Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Export Service plug-in designed to simplify the creation of disk image and compressed archives of your Photoshop Lightroom image collections.
All of the image archive creation features found in Blue Room Software's peer ImageArchiver products for both Aperture and iPhoto have been brought to the users of Adobe System's Photoshop Lightroom 2 photo processing tool.
ImageArchiver for Lightroom requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher and Photoshop Lightroom 2.0. It's Universal Binary so runs natively on both PowerPC and Intel Macs.
ImageArchiver for Lightroom 1.0 costs US$9.95. A fully-functional 15 day demo is available for download.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-97577"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Say it ain't so, Steve. I need an iPad RIGHT NOW, but I can (maybe) wait until the end of March. However, an analyst is speculating that the release may be delayed a month.
When it was unveiled by Apple, it was announced that the iPad will be available in late March worldwide for a suggested retail price of US$499 for the 16GB model, $599 for the 32GB model, $699 for the 64GB model. The Wi-Fi + 3G models of iPad will be available in April in the US and selected countries for a suggested retail price of $629 for the 16GB model, $729 for the 32GB model and $829 for the 64GB model.
However, Canaccord Adams analyst Peter Misek told clients in a report -- as noted by "Fortune" (http://brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2010/03/01/ipad-might-be-del...) -- that a manufacturing bottleneck could limit supplies or push the launch to April. On the bright side, he doesn't expect the delay to materially affect iPad sales for fiscal 2010 or 2011, which he had pegged for 1.2 million and 3.5...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-97574"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Mac OS X and Phone market share for Internet usage dipped from January to February, according to the latest market share survey from NetMarketShare (http://www.netmarketshare.com). However, the iPhone saw a slight increase.
According to the report, among operating systems, Mac OS X had 5.02% of the global market share in February, compared to 5.16% in January (that's global market share; in the US it's almost 10 percent). Windows remains dominant with 92.12% as of February. That's up from 92.00% in January. Apple's highest percentage was 5.27% in October 2009.
The iPhone's market share also rose, according to Net Applications. The Apple device had 0.50% of the global market share in February, compared to 0.48% in January. Of course, I've long argued that the iPhone should also be included in the Mac OS X market share, as it runs a derivative of Mac OS X. If it were measured this way, the Mac/iPhone OS would have 5.52% in February.
When it comes to browsers, Safari had 4.45% in...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-97572"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">The "Gizmodo" site (http://www.gizmodo.com) says that Apple has released a statement to them, admitting the production issues with iMacs.
According to the site, Apple says "We've addressed the issues that caused flickering and yellow tint. Customers concerned that their iMac is affected should contact AppleCare."
In February, Apple released the 27-inch iMac Firmware Update to address to address screen flickering/yellow tint issues. It was the second firmware released to fix the glitches; the first came in December. According to Apple, the 27-inch iMac Display Firmware Update 1.0 updates the display firmware on 27-inch iMac computers to address issues that may cause intermittent display flickering. You can obtain it via the Software Updates component of the Mac OS X System Preferences app.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-97569"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Rimage Corp. (http://www.rimage.com), a provider of on-demand CD/DVD/Blu-ray Disc publishing systems, has introduced its newest disc publishing systems: Rimage Professional Series 5400N and Rimage Professional Series 3400. Both are available with DiscFlow for the Mac.
Rimage Professional Series 5400N and 3400 are compact, all-in-one solutions designed specifically for retail applications and disc publishing in front office settings. The Professional Series offers an entry point into on-demand disc publishing. These systems provide an integrated solution, in a compact footprint, that combines the premier printing technology of the Everest thermal retransfer print system with full disc publishing capability for CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray Discs.
The new models feature a rotating input carousel with three bins enabling end users to keep CDs, DVDs, and Blu-ray Discs available at all times. This function is critical in network-attached devices and is an industry first at the 3400’s ground-...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-97568"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">EFI (http://www.efi.com) and Xerox Corp. is shipping the Fiery Network Controller for the Xerox WorkCentre 7700 series of color multifunction printers (MFPs) for office environments. Fiery controllers are easily deployed in Mac and Windows environments and support all industry standard networking protocols.
The WorkCentre 7700 Series MFPs are one of the first to support Fiery VUE, the desktop application that makes publishing of professional-looking finished documents fast and simple for all office workers, according to Leah Quesada, vice president of office marketing, Xerox.
With speeds up to 50 pages per minute (ppm) in color and up to 75 ppm in black and white, the WorkCentre 7700 Series handle everything from general office documents to high-volume color print jobs. These MFPs also manage multiple printing, copying, scanning and faxing tasks simultaneously.
Targeted at enterprise customers across all departments, the recently launched Fiery VUE desktop application allows users to...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-96318"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Clickable Bliss has released ProfitTrain 2.0 (http://clickablebliss.com/profittrain/), an update to Mac OS X (10.5 and higher) invoicing application that now features: built-in reporting, flexible invoice workflows, line item blueprints, multiple business support and more.
ProfitTrain is an application for Mac OS X that helps freelancers and small businesses keep track of what they are doing for clients and create invoices for services rendered. Additionally, ProfitTrain will help you keep track of invoice payments as well as business expenses.
A free, fully functional, 30-day demo of ProfitTrain is available from the Clickable Bliss web site. A license can be purchased for US$49.95 directly from the Clickable Bliss online store.
ProfitTrain was previously known as Billable. Previous owners of Billable are eligible for upgrade pricing to ProfitTrain 2.0. An upgrade license from Billable costs $24.95.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-97392"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Apple has admitted that child labour was used at the Chinese factories that build its Macs, iPods and iPhones, reports the "Telegraph" web site (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/7330986/Apple-admits-using-c...?).
At least eleven 15-year-old children were discovered to be working last year in three factories that supply the company. Apple didn't name the offending factories, or say where they were based, but the majority of its goods are assembled in China.
The "Telegraph" reports that that Apple said the child workers are now no longer being used, or are no longer underage. "In each of the three facilities, we required a review of all employment records for the year as well as a complete analysis of the hiring process to clarify how underage people had been able to gain employment," Apple said, in an annual report on its suppliers.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-97381"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Quantcast (http://www.quantcast.com/) -- a company that measures what people are doing on the Internet -- recently began publishing stats on operating system browser share. Its latest stats show that Mac OS X's relative browser share has grown by 29.4% in the past year, while Windows lost 3.8%.
As noted by VentureBeat (http://venturebeat.com), January data from Quantacast shows that Windows accounted for 86.8% share of North American web consumption, Mac OS X accounted for 10.9%, and mobile browsers accounted for 1.3%. The iPhone/iPod touch combo accounted for more than 60% of mobile web consumption in January in North America.
"When it comes to operating system share, as estimated from the relative share of web consumption observed through Quantcast’s audience measurement services, Microsoft Windows leads the market by a long way, though is experiencing a gradual decline," Quantacast says. "Having held steady in the last three months of ‘09 (reflecting Windows 7 adoption) the decline...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-97375"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Sample Logic’s virtual instruments The Elements EXP (US$359) and Synergy ($299) are now compatible and installable on Receptor using Muse Research's Direct Install technology. Direct Install is part of Receptor Tools and can be accessed via the Receptor Remote Control.
The Receptor is a standalone hardware plug-in solution for the professional composer and sound designer. It's Mac and PC compatible and is available in VST, DXi, RTAS, AU and standalone versions. For more info go to the Sample Logic web site (http://www.samplelogic.com).</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-97370"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Computational Engineering International (CEI) says EnSight CFD 2.0, the latest version of the company’s CFD visualization software, is now available with a free version, a native Mac version, and practical volume rendering.
EnSight CFD 2.0 includes improvements to the visualization product such as: surface rendering with transparency, faster and less memory required for models that include polyhedral cells, and session files to save work and replay it on other datasets. Key enhancements are a free version, a Cocoa Mac version, both of the free and paid kind, and the inclusion of the volume rendering in both the free and paid versions.
Volume rendering is an important visualization technique which has until now been unavailable to the average engineer and scientist, according to the folks at CEI. EnSight CFD 2.0 brings this capability to the field of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) for uses in aerodynamics, astrophysic.
A Mac Cocoa version was one of the primary goals of EnSight CFD...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-97330"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Equinux (http://www.equinux.com) has released iSale 5.6, the latest version of the eBay auction tool. Users can now invite Facebook friends to check out ongoing auctions. Version 5.6 also takes into account recent changes to eBay.
iSale 5.6 helps users take advantage of their social networks. With its one of a kind Facebook integration, iSale users can inform friends about running auctions by posting a note on their wall. Next to the image iSale also includes a direct link to the auction. In order to get a better picture of buyers, iSale also uses Google Maps to show where in the world they are located and eases up the whole after sales management when an auction is finished.
Version 5.6 now supports online storage accounts of two or more gigabytes with Google's free Picasa Web Album photo service. All thumbnails images now appear in the correct size in auctions when using the eBay picture service.
iSale 5.6 costs US$39.95, though it's a free update for registered users of version 5.x...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-97329"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Zevrix Solutions has updated BatchOutput Server (http://zevrix.com/BatchOutputServer.php), an output workflow automation solution for Adobe InDesign, to version 4.2.8. The new version addresses an issue related to auto-updating of modified links.
Under BatchOutput Server workflow, production artists and prepress operators simply submit files to hotfolders that reside on the network. BatchOutput Server automatically outputs the files from its dedicated station using hotfolder settings, and will auto-activate document fonts as well.
BatchOutput 4.2.8 can be purchased from the Zevrix Solutions web site for US$699.95, as well as from authorized resellers. A demo is available for download. BatchOutput 4.2.8 is available for Mac OS X 10.4 and higher, a Universal Binary, and works with Adobe InDesign CS-CS4.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-97309"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">iTacet Software (http://www.itacet.com) has released Cookie Platter 1.0, an US$9 Mac OS X application that automatically deletes all unwanted cookies and saves specific cookies based upon a user's favorite web sites.

The software can process cookies for multiple web browsers simultaneously and allows customization by browser, domain and type of cookie. Users can group all domains into their root domain, as well as the ability to preview the cookie's web site without opening a browser and more.
Cookie Plater requires Mac OS X 10.5 or higher, Safari 4 or better and/or Firefox 3.5 or greater. A 14-day demo is available for download.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-97307"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">In a report to clients issued Friday, Morgan Stanley's Katy Huberty offered a scenario in which Apple shares could US$435 by 2012 due to the iPad and new iPhones in June.
As reported by "Fortune," Huberty told clients she ewas anticipating unit sales of six million iPads in calendar 2010, considerably higher than the Street's consensus of 3-4 million.
She also forecasts iPhones in June that offer "both a lower total cost of ownership and new functionality, potentially including gesture-based technology."
Huberty offered three scenarios -- bull, base and bear -- but leans heavily toward the bull, describing three paths to share prices as much as 115% above Apple's closing price Thursday of $202 per share. You can read all the details here: http://brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2010/02/26/apple-3-paths-to-... .</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-97299"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Big Nerd Ranch Europe is offering a new Cocoa Bootcamp (http://bignerdranch.com/classes/cocoa_i) April 19-23. Taught by Cocoa instructor Scott Ritchie , it provides a look at Apple's object-oriented development environment.
The class offers both an introduction to the fundamentals of coding in Cocoa and a walk-through of some of its most challenging advanced features. Students attending the class should have some experience in Java or C++ programming in order to maximize their experience. The primary text of the class, "Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X," was authored by course instructor, Aaron Hillegass, and provides the framework by which lessons are taught. Short lectures are immediately followed by programming sessions.
Students signing up before March 15 can apply for the early bird fee and save €200 off the price of €2800. The Big Nerd Ranch Europe incorporates training classes for Mac OS X and Unix programmers in a retreat setting outside Frankfurt, Germany.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-97296"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">DevDay for iPhone (http://iphonedevday.com) is an interactive on-day conference for software developers and business professionals who want to learn how to build and market iPhone applications. DevDay for iPhone will take place at Dexter House in London, UK, on April 26.
Key speakers at DevDay for iPhone include Raven Zachary and Daniel Steinberg. Zachary, president of Small Society, who directed the Obama '08 iPhone application for the Obama Campaign, will provide the keynote presentation. Steinberg -- the editor for the new series of Mac Developer titles and the author of "Cocoa Programming, A Quick-Start Guide for Developers" by Pragmatic Programmers -- will present on the latest in iPhone app development with a deep dive into Core Animation and a workshop on developing applications for the recently announced iPad (subject to the release of the current NDA on the iPad software development kit by Apple).
In addition, the creators behind iPhone applications including Stanza, Deutsche...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-97213"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">At Thursday's shareholder meeting, Apple senior vice president of retail Ron Johnson said Apple is planning to open 25 retail stores in China, although he didn't say when.
Apple opened its first Chinese retail store in Beijing in July 2008. Plans for a second store in Beijing were announced in mid-2009, but it still hasn't materialized.
Apple now has 283 stores in 10 countries. Approximately 100 stores were remodeled during the 2009 calendar year and 10 new stores opened, including one in Louvre in Paris and Upper West Side in New York.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-97211"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Apple has released Digital Camera Raw Compatibility Update 3.1. The upgrade adds support for RAW images from 11 new cameras to Aperture 3 and iPhoto '09.
The upgrade is available via the Software Update Component of the Mac OS X System Preferences app. It's a 6.7MB download and requires Mac OS X 10.5.8 or later.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-97185"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">At Thursday's Apple shareholder meeting, CEO Steve Jobs defended the company's large cash stockpile of about US$40 billion. And two environmental proposals were rejected.
He said he prefers having cash for investments to paying dividends or doing stock buybacks, notes "Bloomberg" (http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=conewsstory&tkr=AAPL%3AUS&sid=aJg...). Apple is holding onto cash to take “big, bold” risks, he said.
"When you take risks, it's like jumping in the air," Jobs said. "When they don't work out, it's nice to know the ground is always there."
Also, during the meeting, shareholders rejected two proposals that sought to force the company to do more to analyze its impact on the environment, notes the "Associated Press" (http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Apple-shareholders-reject-apf-120261537.ht...).. One proposal would have asked Apple to produce a detailed environmental sustainability report. The other called for a board committee focused on sustainability. Apple,...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-97184"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Matias (http://matias.ca/) has released the USB 2.0 Keyboard + Smartphone Stand, which is iPhone and iPod touch compatible. It's available now for US$49.95.
It has a a stand built into the keyboard, so your iPhone or iPod touch can now be part of your desktop work environment. Matias CEO Edgar Matias says the arrangement offers quick access to iPhone/iPod touch apps that lets you do quick calculations, check your stocks, access Twitter, check Facebook updates, control iTunes and more.
The USB 2.0 Keyboard + Smartphone Stand also comes with custom keypad and trackpad apps to control your Mac.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-97136"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Some Boxee users have teamed up to resurrect the ATV-Usb creator and craft an updated solution specifically for the Boxee Beta (http://blog.boxee.tv/2010/02/25/get-a-bite-of-this-%E2%80%93-boxee-beta-...) on the Apple TV. If you already have Boxee Alpha installed on your AppleTV, you should be able to just update Launcher and then update Boxee to install it, as no new patchstick is needed.
Boxee provides cross-platform, freeware media center software with an user interface and social networking features designed for the living-room. It's still under development.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-97094"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Quicken Essentials for Mac is now available from Intuit. Its release marks Intuit’s first Mac-native application for Quicken -- that is, a product developed specifically to run on a Mac operating system, instead of adapting a product originally designed for a PC, says Aaron Patzer, vice president and general manager of Intuit’s Personal Finance Group. “
He says that QEM offers a Mac look-and-feel, easy navigation, and all the keyboard shortcuts users expect on Mac. Setup purportedly only takes 10 minutes. Users simply search for their bank, and synch using their online credentials.
QEM currently imports data from 12,000 financial institutions, with support from 18,000 expected by year's end. This is nearly quadruple the previous support of banks, credit unions, credit card companies, brokerage houses and lending institutions.
QEM “learns” the most popular categories from users, improving categorization over time, according to Patzer. The converter feature transfers historical data...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-97089"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">ProteMac has announced ProteMac LoginTrap 1.0 (http://protemac.com/LoginTrap/), a tool designed to prevent unauthorized usage of a Mac. It monitors all log-in events and detects whether a log-in attempt was successful or failed.
After a log-in attempt is made the program captures an image from the iSight camera, so that you are able to see who is trying to break into your Mac. An alarm e-mail with iSight camera snapshot attached is sent immediately after a log-in attempt.
ProteMac LoginTrap requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher. It's Universal Binary so runs natively on both PowerPC and Intel Macs. It costs US$29.95 for a single user license.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-97088"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Phidgets has released the 1120 FlexiForce Adapter, a tool designed to make it easy for users to connect the Tekscan FlexiForce force sensors to their computers.
"Phidgets users have been using our voltage divider to interface the FlexiForce sensors. While it does work, it was not a very elegant solutions and it did have some reliability problems," says Chester Fitchett, CEO of Phidgets.
Like all Phidgets sensors and adapters, the FlexiForce Adapter connects to one of the analog inputs on the 1018 -- PhidgetInterfaceKit 8/8/8. The FlexiForce sensor is a thin and flexible printed circuit, which can be integrated into most applications. The FlexiForce force sensor can measure force between almost any two surfaces.
Phidgets has also added three models of Tekscan's 8-inch FlexiForce sensors to its product line to cover the following force ranges: 0-1lb., 0-25lb., and 0-100lb. Users can program Phidgets using an application programming interface (API) that's supported under Mac OS X. Users...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-97087"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Apparent Corp. has updated Barcode Producer (http://www.itsapparent.com/barcodeproducer/), its barcode creation software suite for Mac OS X, to version 5.8. The app can now create wider ITF-14  barcodes for shipping containers and pallets of retail products.
Width is customizable by available W/N ratios for the ITF-14 symbology. Barcode 5.8 also has interleaved 2 of 5 barcode enhancements. The app now offers Light Margin Indicators for I2of5 barcodes, used for numeric industrial  applications. Light Margin Indicators ensure designers don't infringe upon the barcode's required quiet space. Finally, the new version has updated icons for Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop integration, automatically matching the version installed.
Barcode Producer is a tool for creating barcodes visually, with one-click export for Adobe Creative Suite products, including Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, and Acrobat Distiller. It's Universal Binary so runs natively on both PowerPC and Intel Macs.
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-97086"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">ActyMac has released ActyMac DutyWatch Remote 1.0 (http://actymac.com/DutyWatch_Remote/), a distant computer monitoring application for Mac OS X that can be used on an iPhone or iPod touch. The US$149.95 app lets you monitor a specific computer or a group of computers that have ActyMac DutyWatch installed within a local network.
The program's interface enables a user to check each employee's activity and control their productivity at any time during the day, week or month even being far away from the office. ActyMac DutyWatch records all typed emails, chats, IMs, web sites or web searches. The program captures screenshots of current activity and stores all running programs.
With the help of DutyWatch Remote the monitoring statistics can be viewed on iPhone and/or iPod touch devices or in an Internet browser. A user can find out what applications are used, what web sites are visited and more.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-97077"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">V-Moda (http://www.v-moda.com) has announced the Remix Remote, their latest fashion-forward in-ear headphone with an integrated three-button remote. It's designed to work with the iPhone, iPod and Mac notebooks and ha a suggested retail price of US$99.99.
A remote and high fidelity microphone allows hands-free access for users to answer calls and control their music library. The in-line three-button remote allows the user to control the music playback, volume, VoiceOver or Voice Control functions.
The Remix Remote sports a newly tuned 9mm V-Masque neodymium dynamic driver and a Beat-Port air flow system. V-Moda's BLISS (Bass Level Isolating Soft Silicone) noise-isolating technology further reduces outside noise and enables deep punchy bass, according to Val Kolton, V-Moda CEO and founder.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-97076"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">InfoLogic has announced MathMagic Pro Editions 6.91 for Adobe InDesign and QuarkXPress for Mac OS X (http://www.mathmagic.com/product/pro.html), their multi-purpose equation editor for mathematical equations and symbols. MathMagic Pro Editions come with InDesign Plug-ins and Quark XTensions to enable InDesign and QuarkXPress the equation editing capability right inside their documents.
Version 6.91 can extract all equations out from MS Word documents(.doc and .docx) to external files. It can batch-convert the equations to any formats that MathMagic support, such as EPS, JPEG, PDF, PICT, MathML, or LaTeX. Equations created with MS Equation Editor, MathType, and MathMagic are supported in the conversion. Other graphic objects used in MS Word documents can also be extracted and saved in a folder as separate files.
Additionally, MathMagic 6.91 includes other new and improved features such as more Macro support, new Variable height angle template, and new updated CS3 and CS4 plug-ins. It...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-97071"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">The Escapers has released Flux 2.0 (http://theescapers.com/flux2/), an update of the Mac OS X app that allows drag 'n drop creation of web pages without the need of knowledge of XHTMLICSS (though you can twiddle with the code if you like).
Now users can work directly off FTP and SFTP sites, so there's no need to repeatedly download and publish your site. But if publishing your site from your local computer suits your workflow, Flux can not only publish to FTP, SFTP, and MobileMe, but Flux can also compress all your images on the fly while publishing. This means that your large PNGs get compressed before they get uploaded.
You can apply effects to images from within the app. You can also attach JavaScript actions to your page and embed QuickTime movies, Flash and other objects. Some templates are supplied to get you started.
Flux is Universal Binary so runs natively on both PowerPC and Intel Macs. It requires for Mac OS X 10.5 or higher. A 30-day demo is available at The Escapers web...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-97069"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">On the new "MacVoices" (http://www.macvoices.com), security guru Rich Mogull of "TidBITS" and Securosis talks about what is and isn't worthy of concern in the world of computer, iPhone and iPad security.
He wrote the cover article in the March 2010 issue of "Macworld," and helps makes sense of what you really need to pay attention to when it comes to your online activity. Mogull delivers the top tip in iPhone security, talks about the iPad, and where your biggest vulnerabilities are.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-96981"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Pentax (http://www.Pentaximaging.com) has announced the eleventh generation Pentax Optio waterproof digital camera (US$329.95). It offers enhanced waterproof, shockproof, dustproof, and coldproof performance and features a Digital Microscope mode with LED lighting to capture small subjects.
Designed with the look of mountaineering equipment, the Optio W90 kit includes a woven web fabric strap complete with a carabiner to attach the camera to a backpack and other outdoor gear. The 12.1-megapixel Optio W90 with a 5X optical zoom (28-140mm equivalent) is waterproof to 20 feet and shockproof to four feet. Other features include: Eye-Fi wireless SD memory card connectivity; a 2.- inch LCD with 16:9 widescreen aspect ratio; movie capture in widescreen 720p HD video at 30 frames per second; and an HDMI por.
Pentax also announced the latest model in the manufacturer’s megazoom digital camera line: the Pentax X90, which has an extra-wide zoom, longer battery life than its predecessor and an...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-97051"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Apple says that music fans have purchased and downloaded over 10 billion songs from the iTunes Store (http://www.itunes.com), the world’s most popular online music, TV and movie store. The 10 billionth song, “Guess Things Happen That Way” by Johnny Cash, was purchased by Louie Sulcer of Woodstock, Georgia.
As the winner of the iTunes Countdown to 10 Billion Songs, Sulcer will receive an US$10,000 iTunes Gift Card. According to Apple, the iTunes Store has a catalog of over 12 million songs, over 55,000 TV episodes and over 8,500 movies including over 2,500 in high definition video.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-96934"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Apple has released version 3.0.1 of Aperture, its software for professional photographers. It includes several overall stability and addresses a number of issues in Aperture 3.
You can find a list of all the changes here at http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1006 . It's a 29.41MB download and requires Mac OS X 10.5.8 or later.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-96930"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Parallels says it's extending its server virtualization offerings for Apple environments with the introduction of the world’s first bare metal hypervisor solution for the Apple Xserve: Parallels Server for Mac Bare Metal Edition.
The new edition offers greater performance for applications running in virtual machines on the Xserve, enabling businesses to standardize on the Apple platform, and opening a new opportunity for cloud services providers to offer profitable Mac OS X services, according to Serguei Beloussov, CEO of Parallels. The addition of Parallels Virtual Automation provides comprehensive management tools for monitoring and maintaining the virtual environment.
 
Parallels Server for Mac Bare Metal Edition builds on Parallels’ virtualization portfolio for Apple environments, most notably the existing server virtualization solution, Parallels Server for Mac.  Launched in June 2008, Parallels Server for Mac brought virtualization to the Apple Xserve for the first time. The...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-96916"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Mozilla says the next major version of Firefox will drop support for Mac OS X and require Mac OS X 10.5 or 10.6.
"We believe a Mac OS X 10.5 minimum will allow us to provide the best experience possible to our users," Mozilla Mac programmer Josh Aas said in a mailing list announcement (http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.planning/browse_thread/thread...). "This does not affect current users of Firefox, or updates to Firefox 3.6: Mac OS X 10.4 will continue to be supported via Firefox 3.6 until its end-of-life (not yet scheduled)."</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-96913"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Apple carries just 5% of the total worldwide home computer market, but the Mac commanded 10.5% of the market's dollar share during the holiday buying season, according to Needham & Company analyst Charlie Wolf.
In a note to clients -- as reported by "AppleInsider" (http://www.appleinsider.com), he says Apple's pricing discipline has been a tremendous asset. Apple's dollar share of the worldwide consumer computer market has continued to grow since early 2004, when it was just 3%, according to Wolf.
The Mac's dollar share in the U.S. home market is even more impressive, at about 20%, while it unit share sits around 10%, per the analyst. In the European home market, Apple has about 6.4% of sales, but 14.2% of revenue.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-96896"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Algoriddim has released djay 3.1, an update of the music software application for Mac and iTunes. Users can now apply a new set of features, including Auto-Saving cue points and automatically aligning cue points and precise beats with Quantized Cue Points.
In addition, djay 3.1 includes keyboard shortcuts based on key position instead of letters, making the software's shortcuts more accessible to international users. djay 3.1 also has the ability to integrate with some of the most popular available MIDI controllers.
djay 3.1 is available for a free 15-day trial or for purchase from the Algoriddim web site (http://www.djay-software.com). It costs US$49.95. Version 3.1 is a free update for registered users.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-96894"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Zevrix Solutions (http://www.zevrix.com) has updated File Courier, a 5 digital delivery solution for Mac OS X (10.4.2 and higher) with timesaving options, to version 1.1.2. The upgrade addresses some issues related to SMTP authentication.
File Courier delivers files and folders to FTP and local destinations and sends automatic e-mail delivery notifications. The e-mail messages are based on variable templates and contain the detailed info about the item and its location. The software can also create a low-res version of a PDF file and attach it to e-mail, compress folders and protect deliveries with password.
File Courier is designed to automate and simplify the process of preparing, sending and confirming delivery to free up users from time consuming, tedious manual tasks which can also lead to mistakes and miscommunication between a sender and a recipient, according to the folks at Zevrix. With File Courier, users only need to drop a file or a folder on the program's icon, and the...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-96850"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">After facing criticism "that its board is too close-knit," Apple will hold its first shareholder meeting tomorrow with a new co-lead director: Avon Products CEO Andrea Jung, notes "Bloomberg" (http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=conewsstory&tkr=AAPL%3AUS&sid=azX...).
Jung is the newest director and only woman serving on the seven-member board. She took over as co-lead in December and succeeds former Apple executive Bill Campbell, chairman of Intuit.
The handoff to Jung follows complaints by corporate- governance experts that Jobs had too much sway over a group of hand-picked directors, says "Bloomberg." That may have affected the limited disclosures about Jobs’s health last year, when he had a liver transplant, said Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, a dean at Yale University’s School of Management. Jung’s elevation to co-lead director gives a more independent voice to the board, he said.
“This is a really good move and I applaud them,” Sonnenfeld, who studies corporate-governance issues...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-96844"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">DevonTechnologies (http://www.devon-technologies.com) has released the final, non-public-beta version 2.0 of all editions of its information manager DevonThink as well as of the smart note-keeper DevonNote.
Version 2.0 of DevonThink and DevonNote brings a number of improvements over version 1.x and many enhancements over version 2.0 public beta, according to the folks at DevonTechnologies. This release is the first of six major releases scheduled for 2010, they add.
Version 2.0 sees a polishing of the user interface, including a new Welcome Assistant. There's support for templates, external linking, and some plug-ins in DevonNote. Other additions or enhancements include functional tag view and improved smart tagging and improved PDF annotations
Also, a new script lets the user open tabs from DevonAgent to DevonThink Pro and new smart templates open Google, Bing, or a manually entered web address in a new tab. DevonThink Pro Office retains the color depth as well as the rotation and...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-96817"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Kaufman Bros. analyst Shaw Wu told clients today that a check of the distribution channel suggests that MacBook Pro supplies are tight and that a refresh of the laptop line is due soon.
He expects the next rev of MacBook Pros to use that Intel's next-generation mobile processor, Arrandale, which is shipping in large volumes. Wu sys the processor will deliver some new features that will help Apple engineers differentiate their laptops from other portables on the market.
"Benefits of the new mobile architecture, helped in part by its new 32 nanometer process (vs. previous 45 nanometer), include much better performance through hyper-threading and turbo mode, battery life, and weight characteristics, which we believe give AAPL engineers more room to further differentiate the MacBook Pro," the analyst said."We believe new Mac models could ship in the March quarter, or at the latest the June quarter. It is not clear to us whether AAPL will introduce these new Macs through special event or...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-96806"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Elgato (http://www.elgato.com) has announced the new EyeTV Netstream DTT, an "intelligent" network dual TV tuner for DVB-T. EyeTV Netstream DTT streams digital television (DVB-T/Freeview) to all the Macs or PCs on your home network.
A dual tuner, EyeTV Netstream DTT enables two people to watch and record different TV programs at the same time. It has built-in support for Bonjour and UPnP. EyeTV Netstream DTT comes with EyeTV 3, Elgato's Mac TV software. It also works with Windows 7 Media Center and ships with TerraTec Home Cinema (THC) software for Windows. EyeTV Netstream DTT is available immediately at a price of 249.95 Euro.
Traditional USB 2.0 DVB-T receivers are susceptible to “dead spot," so reception can never be optimal in every location within a room, according to the folks at Elgato. EyeTV Netstream DTT is designed to solve this problem; as a network device, it doesn't have to be installed near your computers. Simply locate EyeTV Netstream DTT wherever you have an antenna...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-96805"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Dot Hill Systems Corp. (http://www.dothill.com) -- a provider of storage solutions and software for OEMs (original equipment manufacturers), open storage partners and system integrators -- has announced it's now shipping its next-generation 3000 Series disk arrays with support for 8Gb Fibre Channel storage area networks (SANs), dual interface 8Gb Fibre Channel and 1Gb iSCSI, and optional AssuredRemote data management software.
Dot Hill's 3000 Series enables storage network implementers to protect their investments and provides non-disruptive storage upgrades through the use of 8Gb Fibre Channel and/or dual interface 8Gb Fibre Channel/1Gb iSCSI solutions that are backward compatible with existing 4Gb Fibre Channel and 1Gb iSCSI installations. With the addition of drive spin-down, mixed drive type support and dual protocol interfaces, users can now combine both high performance primary volumes and secondary storage with different performance and energy usage profiles in the same...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-96802"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Native Instruments has introduced Scarbee Vintage Keys (http://www.native-instruments.com/Scarbeevintagekeys.info), a set of software instruments that provide renditions of the legendary electric pianos, for use in Kontakt 4 and the free Kontakt Player.
Based on the Scarbee sample libraries, Scarbee Vintage Keys gives musicians and producers of all genres a way to integrate the sounds of these classic keyboards into their music. It features electric pianos of the 60s and 70s, dubbed Mark I, A-200, Clavinet and Pianet, all based on 24-bit sample material.
The instruments utilize up to 16 velocity layers per key as well as special "Horizontal Release Technology" to recreate the complex dynamic behavior of each instrument. Each instrument also offers an integrated multi-effect section with up to 10 algorithms, including phaser, chorus, reverb and various other effect types.
All four instrument emulations contained in Scarbee Vintage Keys are also available as separate download...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-96801"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">iPresentee (http://www.ipresentee.com), a developer of add-ons for Apple’s iWork and iLife applications, has extended its iWeb Intros collection to be used with iWeb, Apple's web site building component of the iLife.
iWeb Intros design uses short flash animations and sounds to give visitor a first impression of the web site. iWeb Intros 3.0 adds five new welcome intros: Cityscape, Sunset, Highway, Nature and Factory. Each intro can stand alone as intro page for any web site or can be incorporated into any iWeb template as a part of the page.
Each iWeb Intro package includes video instructions and other documentation. In addition iPresentee offers an updated iWeb Suite for US$70, which includes 35 iWeb themes, 35 iWeb themes for business, 15 iWeb intros, 75 iWeb animations and 181 Keynote 3D Stuff objects.
iWeb Intro 3.0 requires iLife '08 or iLife '09 installed. Each iWeb Intro is available for $10. The set of five iWeb Intros 3.0 may be purchased for $30. Samples and more information...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-96787"><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 7.0.1. The upgrade sports some bug fixes, improved import of old TinyBooks documents, and restoration of the Add button in the Professional Invoice Printer window.
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 obvious, according to the folks at Space-Time Associates.
TinyBooks Pro 7.0.1 is exclusively for Intel-based Macs and is available now. TinyBooks (the non-Pro TinyBooks) is still available for those running on older PowerPC Macs or those running Mac OS 8.x. or 9.x TinyBooks...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-96672"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Apple has posted its "2010 Progress Report on Supplier Responsibility." Apple requires its suppliers to commit to their Supplier Code of Conduct as a condition of their contracts.
Apple says it drives compliance with the Code "through a rigorous monitoring program, including factory audits, corrective action plans, and verification measures." It also "helps our suppliers meet Apple’s expectations by supporting their efforts to provide training in workers’ rights and occupational health and safety."
"To further improve factory conditions, we proactively address industrywide issues through collaboration with our suppliers, government agencies, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and other companies," Apple says. "And by making social responsibility a fundamental part of the way we do business, we insist that our suppliers take Apple’s Code as seriously as we do."
You can find the "2010 Progress Report on Supplier Responsibility" at http://images.apple.com/supplierresponsibility/pdf/...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-96671"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">LaCie (http://www.lacie.com) has announced its next generation line of network storage devices for small to medium-sized businesses: the LaCie d2 Network 2 (single disk), LaCie 2big Network 2 (two disks) and LaCie 5big Network 2 (five disks). 


Delivering data access of up to 70 MB/second, the central storage devices allow users to share files instantly or back up any Mac or PC on a network. They're Time Machine compatible and include Intego Backup Manager Pro for the Mac, which lets you make encrypted, compressed backups, restore office files, and even perform disaster recovery. 


The LaCie desktop solutions can be stacked or installed in racks to conserve space. The LaCie d2 Network 2 and LaCie 2big Network 2 can be connected directly via USB to a Mac or PC. They can also be accessed remotely through automatic port forwarding and Dynamic IP integration. The LaCie 2big Network 2 and LaCie 5big Network 2 feature hot-swappable disks and RAID 1 for redundancy, and the 5big Network 2...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-96668"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Axaio Software (http://www.axaio.com) -- a developer of PDF creation, printing and content correction workflow solutions for Adobe InDesign and QuarkXpress environments -- has added support for IDML, Flash CS4, SWF and INX formats, as well as easy integration with InDesign Live Preflight, to its MadeToPrint product line.
As a result, the company says MadeToPrint users will enjoy even tighter quality control, more automation and streamlined collaboration and processing of multi-channel publishing jobs, which are increasingly using these formats and the Live Preflight solution. MadeToPrint products offer output enhancement and automation features.
The updated MadeToPrint product line is immediately available. Pricing remains the same: MadeToPrint Standard sells at US$490, MadeToPrint Auto is available from $3,490 and MadeToPrint Server from $7,690.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-96667"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Monkeybread Software has released version 1.0 of the MBS REALbasic Updater Kit (http://www.monkeybreadsoftware.de/realbasic/UpdaterKit/). It's designed to help developers in adding an automatic update feature to their application.
It's cross platform and runs on Mac OS X and Windows. MBS REALbasic Updater Kit comes with: full source code access; the use of Sparkle on Mac OS X for updating and our own code for Windows; a script file for the Inno Setup engine. (you can use others if you like); the ability to use digital signatures on Mac and MD5 Checksum on Windows to ensure download integrity; and a generator for XML file for a server and code to parse this file and find newer versions.
The Updater Kit requires REALbasic 2008 or newer and a license of the MBS REALbasic Complete License. It costs US$99.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-96619"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Apple’s presentation at the Goldman Sachs Technology & Internet Conference will begin at approximately 1:10 pm (Pacific) on Tuesday, Feb. 23. Apple Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook will speak.
To listen to the webcast, go to http://www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/goldmansachs10 . QuickTime is required.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-96597"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Belkin (http://www.belkin.com) has introduced a new line of SuperSpeed USB 3.0 products, including a PCIe Add-In Card, ExpressCard, and Premium A-B and Micro-B Cables.
USB 3.0 is specified to transfer at five gigabits per second, or 10 times faster than USB 2.0. In its tests Belkin says it observed speeds of up to 180 megabits per second, or three times faster than USB 2.0. USB 3.0 products are backward-compatible with USB 2.0 devices and will interoperate with them, as well. Belkin's products, which will be rolling out in April and May, will include:
° The US$79.99 SuperSpeed USB 3.0 PCIe Add-In Card, which lets you connect up to 127 USB devices (through cascading additional hubs);
° The $79.99 SuperSpeed USB 3.0 ExpressCard, which also lets you connect up to 127 USB devices (through cascading additional hubs);
° The SuperSpeed USB 3.0 Premium A-B Cable: four feet, $39.99; eight feet, $49.99;
° SuperSpeed USB 3.0 Premium Micro-B Cable: four feet, $39.99; eight feet, $49.99.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-96591"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Atlona Technologies (http://www.atlona.com) has released a new version of the DP200 with the ability to convert HDMI sources like the Xbox360, PS3, cable or satellite receiver, Blu-Ray player and Apple TV into a Mini DisplayPort signal.
This US$149, USB powered HDMI to Mini DisplayPort converter, the AT-DP200HD, is an adapted version of Atlona’s DP200, designed to convert HDMI signals from to a Mini DisplayPort Connection featured on popular Mac displays such as the Apple LED 24-inch Cinema display or the 27-inch iMac.

Like the original DP200, the HD version is complete with an attached DVI Cable sporting a DVI to HDMI adapter and USB power Ppigtail.  This unit has the ability to display signals at resolutions as high as 720p, allowing optimal viewing experiences for Mac users looking to play video games or watch Blu-Ray movies. Along with passing all EDID and HDCP information, this device converts while allowing your computer to scale to the optimal resolution offered by your...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-96582"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Contour Design has released a new ShuttlePro and ShuttleXpress Mac driver with optimized settings for Apple Final Cut Studio.
The driver includes settings for Apple Final Cut Pro 7, Apple Soundtrack Pro 3, Apple Motion 4, Apple DVD Studio Pro 4, and Apple Color 1.5. All-new settings for Adobe Lightroom and Media 100 Suite are also included.
ShuttlePRO V.2 allows one-handed access to 15 fully-programmable buttons, a jog knob, and a spring loaded shuttle wheel. At the head of the ShuttlePrp are nine programmable buttons complete with removable keycaps. The inner ring or "jog knob" at the center of the ShuttlePRO rotates a full 360Àö to provide frame-by-frame control, while the outer black ring or rubberized "shuttle wheel" facilitates fast forward and rewind. The jog and shuttle can also be configured for many other purposes including scrolling, volume control, and sequencing.
The ShuttleXpress offers a professional multimedia controller, five oversized buttons, a jog knob, and a...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-96574"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Yummy Software (http://www.yummysoftware.com) has updated Yummy FTP -- an FTP, FTP SSL/TLS, and SFTP client -- to version 1.8.2. The upgrade gains a Transmit favorite import capability, amongst several other enhancements, as well as some bug fixes.
Yummy FTP is normally US$28 for a single user license. Multi-user discounts are available beginning at 10 seats. Site licenses and other discounts are available upon request.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-96573"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">SmileOnMyMac has updated PDFPen (http://www.smileonmymac.com/PDFpen/download.html), its PDF editing and form-filling tool for Mac OS X, to version 4.6. The update adds optical character recognition (OCR) support for 11 European languages.
 
PDFpen costs US$49.95, and PDFpenPro is $99.95. Family pack licenses, which cover up to five computers in one household, are $74.95 for PDFpen and $129.95 for PDFpenPro. Upgrades from earlier versions of either application are $25, and free to users who purchased after June 1, 2008. Upgrades from any version of PDFpen to PDFpenPro 4.0 are $50.
PDFpen 46and PDFpenPro 4.6 require Mac OS X 10.4 or later. An Intel 1.8GHz processor or above is recommended for OCR. Demo versions are available for download.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-96569"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Arxan (http://www.arxan.com) is expanding GuardIT application hardening solution to protect Mac OS X applications against tampering, piracy, malware insertions and unauthorized use.
 
“The Mac platform has long been viewed as a safer and more secure than Windows,” says Paul Roberts, senior analyst at The 451 Group. “The truth is that Mac's small share of the total OS market explained the rarity of Mac-focused threats. That's changing. The growing popularity and widespread use of Mac in the digital media market makes the platform an attractive target for hackers. Mac developers no longer view themselves as immune to application attacks and are adopting appropriate security measures to protect their code and valuable IP from malicious attacks.”
 
He adds that key features and benefits of Arxan GuardIT for Mac OS X include:
°  Diverse and customizable Guard types for code security,  including obfuscation, encryption , anti-debug, repair, and checksum;
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-96568"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Nova media (http://www.novamedia.de) has updated FoneSync for LG, a solution to synchronize LG phones with Mac OS X, to version 1.0.2. FoneSync allows users to synchronize contacts and calendars with LG phones.
FoneSync can be set to synchronize single address book groups and single calendars. The synchronization of contacts can be restricted to those that include at least one phone number and the time frame in which calendar events are synchronized can be altered as well.
FoneSync for LG 1.0.2 supports a host of new phones: LG CU515, LG CU720, LG CU920, LG KE990, LG KF310, LG KF700, LG KU250, LG KU311, LG KU380, LG KU800, LG TU720, LG U250, LG U310, LG U830, LG U960, LG U97 and the LG U990."
FoneSync for Samsung phones is available for US$19.95. It requires Mac OS X 10.5.8 or higher and a Bluetooth-enabled Mac.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-96563"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Class on Demand, a provider of professional educational products for creative markets, has announced that "Complete Training for eyeon Fusion‚Ñ¢ 6" is now available for pre-order.
"Complete Training for eyeon Fusion 6" helps both transitioning artists and existing users acclimate to the high-end compositing application, says Susan Samonig, client relations manager, eyeon Software. The three-hour training is broken down into nine logical segments, covering Fusion 6 capabilities ranging from interface and basics to keying, particle generation, and 3D composition.
The Class on Demand training methodology provides a modular approach to learning the ins-and-outs of Fusion 6's new architecture, giving users of all levels the option to pick and choose the components they want to focus on. For a sampling of Class on Demand's "Complete Training for eyeon Fusion 6," including Fusion Basics, 3D Basics, and Product Overview, go to http://www.classondemand.net/media/eyeon-training/fusion6.aspx ....</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-96562"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Creaceed (http://www.creaceed.com) has released Hydra 2.2 The upgrade addresses a major feature request from the HDR user community: an HDR plug-In for Adobe's Photoshop Lightroom.
All Hydra's features are from now on available directly in the Lightroom workflow. From a series of regular photographs of the same scene, the plug-in creates an High Dynamic Range image that's much closer to what your eyes actually see, according to the folks at Creaceed.
Hydra 2.2 works with Mac OS X 10.5 and higher. It's Universal Binary so runs natively on both PowerPC and Intel Macs.
A time-unlimited trial version of Hydra and the Lightroom Plug-In is available in English, French, German, Italian and Japanese on Creaceed's web site. The demo version generates watermarked image files. A license key for Hydra 2.x costs US$79.95, and can be used for registering both the stand-alone version and the plug-Ins. The upgrade is free for Hydra 2.x registered users. The upgrade from Hydra 1.x costs $19.95.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-96561"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">The Araelium Group has released DMG Canvas 2.0 (http://www.araelium.com/dmgcanvas), a Mac OS X (10.5 and higher) tool for building disk images from template documents that you create. Version 2.0 offers advanced background layout with customizable text and image objects, and more.
With DMG Canvas, you design your disk image's appearance using the graphical editor and click Build. Each time you release a new version of your disk image, click Build again and DMG Canvas will pull together all of the latest versions of your files. DMG Canvas also allows you to specify the license agreements displayed when the disk image is mounted.
With DMG Canvas, you customize every aspect of your disk image, including: window background; icon size and positions; license agreements; the volume's name; the volume's icon; the disk format; encryption; compression; and Internet enabling. It's donationware. You can download and try it for free; however, if you like it and use it regularly you're asked to...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-96559"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Cheetah 3D (http://www.cheetah3d.com) -- software for modeling, animating and rendering 3D objects -- has been updated to version 5.3. It adds 64-bit support for Intel 64-bit CPUs and sports some user interface tweaks.
Cheetah3D costs US$149 for a single user version; however, version 5.3 is a free update for all registered users of version 5.x and is a $69 for an upgrade from versions 1.x, 2.x, 3.x and 4.x.. It requires requires at least Mac OS X 10.4 and 16MB of VRAM. It's a Universal Binary product, which means it will run natively on both PowerPC and Intel Macs.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-96548"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">SanDisk Corp. (http://www.sandisk.com) has begun shipping its SanDisk G3 Solid State Drives (SSD) to retailers in North America and Europe. The flash memory-based SanDisk G3 SSD offers an alternative to a 7,200 RPM hard disk drive (HDD) for some customers.
The 120GB SanDisk G3 SSD can endure up to 80TB of data written to it over its lifetime, says says Eric Bone, vice president, retail product marketing, SanDisk. The solid state drives open files up to twice as fast as a 7,200 RPM HDD, he adds.
SanDisk G3 SSD has sequential performance of up to 220 megabytes per second (MB/sec) read speed and up to 120MB/sec write speed. SanDisk G3 SSD is compatible with Mac OS X 10.6 ("Snow Leopard").
SanDisk G3 SSD is available now in 60GB and 120GB capacities with prices of US$229.99 and $399.99, respectively. The drive will be available at retailers in North America and Europe soon, with exact pricing to be set by retailers.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-96537"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Smith Micro Software has announced Photo A.K.A. (http://store.smithmicro.com/productdetails.aspx?id=13019) , a free image management tool for Mac OS X (10.4.2 or higher) that allows photo enthusiasts to simultaneously rename groups of photos being transferred from digital cameras. Photo A.K.A also simplifies the process of archiving photos and sharing them through Flickr or Picasa web services.
"Photos being transferred from your camera to your computer automatically receive cryptic file names that make them impossible to search intuitively," says Pauline Shumake, senior product Manager of Productivity and Graphic s at Smith Micro Software. "Photo A.K.A. lets users rename groups of photos with logical, searchable names that reflect the content of the photos or a preferred naming convention, thereby saving users valuable time and energy by eliminating the hassle of searching for photos from months or even years ago."
Photo A.K.A. also allows for the transfer of images to a CD, DVD or...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-96518"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Incoming freshmen who enroll at George Fox University (http://www.georgefox.edu/offices/inst_technology/it_servicedesk/computer...) this fall will have a choice to make before they arrive on campus in August: iPad or MacBook?
The Christian college in Oregon has opted to give new students the option of choosing the new iPad or selecting its current offering, the MacBook. For more than 20 years, George Fox has supplied a computer for each incoming undergraduate student to keep upon graduating. The cost is included in tuition.
"With this, we’re basically asking students ‘What computing system will work best for you?’” Greg Smith, the university’s chief information officer, says. “By giving them this option, they can choose between the iPad, a mobile device known for its networking and E-textbook capabilities, or the laptop, which offers more computing horsepower.”
The trend in higher education computing is this concept of mobility, and this fits right in with that trend, he adds. "At the...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-96502"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Mobile phone sales fell by almost 1% last year, according to Gartner (http://www.gartner.com) researchers. However, sales of smartphones grew, thanks to the success of the iPhone, BlackBerry and Google Android phones.
Worldwide mobile phone sales to end users totaled 1.211 billion units in 2009, a 0.9 %decline from 2008, according to Gartner. In the fourth quarter of 2009, the market registered a single-digit growth as mobile phone sales to end users surpassed 340 million units, an 8.3% increase from the fourth quarter of 2008.
"The mobile devices market finished on a very positive note, driven by growth in smartphones and low-end devices," says Carolina Milanesi, research director at Gartner. ”Smartphone sales to end users continued their strong growth in the fourth quarter of 2009, totalling 53.8 million units, up 41.1% from the same period in 2008. In 2009, smartphone sales reached 172.4 million units, a 23.8% increase from 2008. In 2009, smartphone-focused vendors like Apple and...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-96499"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">A "trusted source at Comcast told "Broadband Reports" (http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Comcast-Exploring-250-Mbps-Service-10...) that before the end of the year, we'll begin hearing "rumblings" of a 250 Mbps service.
Comcast has already pushed DOCSIS 3.0 past 90% of their footprint, delivering 50 Mbps speeds in the process. While the company only offers 100 Mbps service in one market, a source told "Broadband Reports" that Comcast will be pushing faster 100 Mbps service to around 20% of their market by year's end. 250 Mbps will take a bit longer.
"We'll get there, but for many practical reasons the early DOCSIS 3.0 systems are designed for 160 meg shared down, 100 meg shared up, using four channels in each direction," industry analyst Dave Burstein told "Broadband Reports."
The DOCSIS 3.0 specification was unveiled in August 2006 when CableLabs outlined the methodology for downstream and upstream channel bonding, along with other features such as IPv6, IP multicasting and AES...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-96412"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">In response to an annual survey concluded in January 2010 by the Enterprise Desktop Alliance (http://www.enterprisedesktopalliance.com ), an organization started to help IT departments integrate Macs into the corporate environment, 66% of 322 IT administrators from large organizations with both Macs and PCs stated that their organization expects to increase the number of Macs in their sites.
Additional responses show management priorities and organizational approaches to managing Macs. The respondents cited user preference, increased productivity, and ease of technical support as leading reasons for choosing Macs.
"As a greater percentage of enterprise applications become OS-neutral, the cost to support a more diverse hardware and OS mix will decrease, making Macs a more viable choice for a greater number of users who continue to demand them," says Michael Silver, vice president and research director at Gartner in the their report, "Gartner Predicts 2010: PC End-User Issues." "...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-96396"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Pentax (http://www.pentax.com) has launched the Pentax K-7 Limited Silver digital SLR camera. It will be marketed in a limited quantity of 1,000 sets.
This special-edition model comes with several features that distinguish it from the original black-colored Pentax X K-7 (launched in summer 2009), including a silver-colored body and a “golden section ratio” focusing screen. Pricing hasn't been announced, but the original K-7 costs approximately US$1,300.
The Silver K-7's camera body is finished in silver. and is identical with the color of the high-performance FA Limited interchangeable lens series. Set in lower area of the camera body, the SR (Shake Reduction) lettering is in a special gold color that stands out against the subdued black-colored, leather-like finish.
The K-7 Limited Silver comes equipped with an exclusive “golden section ratio” focusing screen. Since the guiding lines and points are curved on the screen, the photographer can swiftly and effortlessly compose a...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-96377"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">On the heels of Macworld 2010 event, IDG World Expo says that the Macworld Mobile Application Showcase area for iPhone, iPod touch and now iPad developers will double in size at Macworld 2011. IDG World Expo also announced that free expo hall registration for next year's event will open on Monday, Feb. 22 for two weeks only.
The Mobile Application Showcase, a special area of the show floor dedicated to new-to-market products by iPhone and iPod touch developers, debuted at Macworld 2010. The showcase was met with resounding success from vendors and exhibitors alike with over 100 app developers and enthusiastic crowds four to five people deep over the duration of the three-day expo, according to Paul Kent, vice president and general manager, Macworld.
Macworld 2011, the world’s premiere event focused exclusively on the Apple products platform, is scheduled to take place Jan. 25-29, at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Mobile Application Showcase spaces are now available for app...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-96375"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">ColcaSac (http://www.colcasac.com/) has announced a line of sleeves for the MacBook. They're made from natural fibers and come in a range of designs and colors.
They're heavily padded to protect your laptop from drops, dents and scratches. Prices range from US$30 to $33.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-96374"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">PCI Geomatics, a developer of geo-imaging software and systems, has announced the availability of an upgrade to its remote sensing and image processing software. Geomatica 10.3.1 (http://www.pcigeomatics.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id...) is the latest version of the image-centric desktop software and now includes imaging tools for GIS.
The new version adds imaging tools for GIS. It also adds additional satellite and aerial sensor support.
Geomatica is PCI Geomatics’ set of software for remote sensing, digital photogrammetry, raster spatial analysis, mosaicking and automated production workflows. There are a variety of pricing options, which you can find at https://store.pcigeomatics.com/ .</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-96373"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Comm-Unity Networking Systems has released CNS Audit 1.0.2 (http://cnsaudit.cnsplug-ins.com/), an update of the audit trail plug-in for FileMaker Pro to add to your databases. The upgrade updates the Init function to also find records that were not previously audited correctly. It also fixes some bugs.
CNS Audit includes full Roll Back support for undoing field changes and record deletions. CNS Audit is available for both Mac OS X and Windows systems. immediately at for both Mac OS X and Windows.
Whether you just want peace of mind about being able to get a record back that you have accidentally deleted or if you have to comply to regulatory mandates like HIPAA, you can use CNS Audit to create an Audit Trail of your data within minutes, according to the folks at Comm-Unity.
You can download a demo copy of the plug-in to test it out before purchasing. An one-user license for the client version of CNS Audit is US$95. There are several other price points on the purchase page for the plug...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-96323"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">The Gartner research group says Apple shipped 182,000 Macs in the fourth quarter of 2009 in France, earning the company a 5.5% total market share in France. Apple's emergence in fifth place came as a result of 43.5%year-over-year growth in the market.
And, as reported by "AppleInsider" (http://www.appleinsider.com), Apple's success in Western Europe "went well beyond" France, with Gartner finding that the company saw a large increase in Mac shipments in the fourth quarter of 2009. Alas, Apple didn't crack the top five in any other countries in Western Europe.
Last quarter, Apple's profits increased 50% on sales of 3.36 million Macs globally.Mac sales were up 33% year-over-year for the holiday season.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-96322"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">On the new MacVoices (http://www.macvoices.com), Neil Ticktin, editor-in-chief and publisher of MacTech, and Macsimum News' Chief Macsimizer Dennis Sellers announce MacTech's acquisition of Macsimum News to create MacNews, the most comprehensive and up-to-date place to keep up with the rapidly changing Apple and Mac universe.
The duo discuss the combination, the new site (in preview at the moment), and why it will launch with a huge archive of information.
"MacVoices" is an Internet show and podcast that delivers in-depth discussions with the most influential people in the Mac industry, as well as "the individuals who are out there making it happen on the front lines of the global Apple community," according to host Chuck Joiner.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-96281"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Not only has Apple topped the “2010 Computer Reliability Report” from Rescuecom, it's received two A pluses from "BusinessWeek" (http://bwnt.businessweek.com/interactive_reports/customer_service_2010/) its its annual (and fourth) customer service awards.
Apple received an A+ in both the quality of the staff at its retail stores and the efficiency of the store's service. Our favorite tech company tallied an overall score of 1016.55. The only companies ahead of it were L.L. Bean (with a score of 1055.95) and USAA (1042.76).
To complete the scores, "BusinesWeek" started with existing data from J.D. Power, which surveys consumers each year about customer satisfaction. To assess customer service, "BW" looked at just two of its several measures: the perceived friendliness and competency of a company's workers, and what customers think of its processes, such as return policies or reservation procedures. Therefore, their results may differ from J.D. Power's satisfaction rankings, which also...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-96264"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Developer Christian Kienle has released Ebbinghaus 3.2 (http://christian-kienle.de/Ebbinghaus/) for Mac OS X. It's an update of the US$20 flash card application with an iTunes-like user interface.
Version 3.2 offers the ability to resize the study window. When resizing the study window the current card becomes larger. Scrolling is now enabled in the study view.
With Ebbinghaus you can organize your cards in decks, folders and smart decks. When selecting a deck, its cards will be shown in a table. Each card has a progress indicator so that you see your overall performance at a glance. Ebbinghaus was a German psychologist, who invented the learning curve.
Ebbinghaus comes with a formula editor. The formula editor lets you create graphical formulas by typing in a LaTeX style text. For example, you can then drop the formula on any card. That's the best way to learn formulas of nearly any complexity.
If you own an iPod or iPhone, Ebbinghaus lets you export decks as a series of images...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-96263"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">The CompactFlash Association (CFA) has announced the availability of the recently approved CF5.0 Specification.
The CF5.0 work group was formed in November, 2008 to add key features to the already popular CF4.1 specification based on the PATA (Parallel ATA) interface. The new CF5.0 specification adds the several key features/benefits to the memory card that started the digital photography revolution. You can see the complete list at http://www.compactflash.org/pr/100222cf5prs.pdf .
To help manufacturers and consumers differentiate the new CF5 cards, the CompactFlash Association has created an evolutionary CF5 compatibility mark, according to Shigeto Kanda of Canon and the CFA chairman of the CFA. Additionally, since the Video Performance Guarantee feature is optional, the CompactFlash Association has created a Video Performance Guarantee compatibility mark that host and card manufactures can use to help end users choose the right card, he adds.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-96254"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">General Imaging (http://www.general-imaging.com/us/) is unveiling four new cameras, including new additions to the GE brand's Power Series and Smart Series.
The GE E1486TW and E1480W are the latest additions to the Power Series. Both the E1486TW and E1480W sport the ability to film high-definition movies, 14-megapixel resolution, an 8X optical zoom and a 3-inch LCD screen. At only .83 inches thick, the cameras offer one of the slimmest 8X optical zoom performance in the market, says Paul Meyhoefer, General Imaging's vice president of Marketing and Product Planning.
Both the E1486TW and E1480W offer OIS image stabilization and a 28-mm angle glass lens. In addition, the E1486TW offers a touch screen control. A swipe of your finger lets you scroll through recent shots and swipe the screen to zoom photos. The E1486TW and E1480W are priced at US$179.99 and $149.99, respectively. They will ship this spring, and are available in black, red and silver among other colors.
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-96253"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Casio (http://www.casio.com) has introduced two new compact models to their Exilim line. The EX-S7 (shown) and the EX-Z35 boast intelligent automated features in a slim and compact design.
Developed with Casio’s latest Exilim Engine 5.0, which purportedlyl delivers higher image quality and lower power consumption, the EX-S7 is a 12.1 effective megapixel digital camera with a 3X optical zoom lens and a 2.7 inch, high-quality LCD screen. With a quick-access dedicated movie button, users can record moments in 720p high-definition (HD). Additionally, the EX-S7 is compatible with SD and SDHC memory cards.
The camera also features Casio’s Dynamic Photo, a Hollywood-like green-screen effect that adds animated graphics into still photos where users can create e-greetings to share with friends and family. The visuals can be emailed, posted on social networks or printed out at home.
The EX-Z35 features Casio’s Mode function, a simplified menu screen and Face Detection. The camera produces...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-96236"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Stairways Software (http://www.stairways.com/main/) has released Keyboard Maestro 4.1, the new version of its productivity enhancer for Mac OS X. The upgrade adds an in-application tutorial, documentation, and welcome page, sorting by trigger, improved select menu action, and more.
Using Keyboard Maestro's macros you can: control applications, windows, or menus; insert text; open documents, applications or URLs; execute scripts; control the system or iTunes; and more, all with the touch of a key, click of the mouse, periodically or at specific times, when an application is launched or running, or even over the Internet using Keyboard Maestro's built in web server.
Using Keyboard Maestro's Program Switcher and Window Switcher you can cycle through applications or windows, closing, hiding, launching, and more. The software lets you close or hide multiple windows or applications. Using Keyboard Maestro's Clipboard Switcher, you can select from a number of named clipboards, storing...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-96235"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Media 100 (http://www.media100.com)-- a provider of editing systems for the corporate, broadcast, postproduction, and new media industries -- has released Media 100 Suite 1.5 is now available. The new version includes the ability to create, save, and export presets, improved media management capabilities, AVCHD import, and support for Apple’s ProRes 4444, LT, and Proxy codecs.
Media 100 Suite supports AJA’s KONA 3X/3, KONA LH/LHe, KONA LHi, and KONA LS/LSe video I/O hardware; the Matrox MXO2 family of I/O devices; Blackmagic Design’s Intensity Pro, DeckLink SDI, DeckLink Studio, and DeckLink HD Extreme video I/O hardware; and the Media 100 HDx. FireWire I/O and Panasonic P2 and Sony XDCAM import are also supported.
Media 100 Suite Version 1.5 is immediately available through the Media 100 worldwide reseller channel and direct from the Media 100 web site for an MSRP of $1,295 USD. Customers can upgrade to Media 100 Suite Version 1.5 from Media 100 Version 10 and higher, including Media...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-96234"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Dover Studios released "Maya Shading Networks 2nd Edition," their latest visual effects training video. It's a guide to creating shading networks in Autodesk Maya.
The second edition has been completely revised and updated and features crystal clear 1080p high definition video. It's taught by visual effects artists, Andrew Hazelden and Russell Hazelden.
Topics include: aging a shiny metal surface by adding a layer of tarnish, using the Mental Ray IPR renderer to interactively preview shading networks, creating 2D and 3D procedural textures, adjusting specular highlights, exploring various ways to assign materials to objects, using environment maps to create reflective materials, and adjusting 2D texture placement attributes.
Participant will learn how to use incandescence and glow to simulate materials that emit light. This effect is often used when creating materials for light fixtures, television sets, and glowing hot lava. Participants will also discover how PSD networks can be...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-96233"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">VVI (http://www.vvi.com) has released DAQ Plot 10.6.4 for Mac OS X. The upgrade includes some bug fixes.
The US$59.96 eight strip chart recorder includes software and hardware and measures voltages from sensors and presents them in a strip chart format. It plots electrical signals and controls devices in realtime using digital output channels and built-in feedback control loops. With DAQ Plot you can control other hardware such as valves and switches using the digital output connectors and their associated user interface switches.
It also has built-in feedback loops so you can control processes based on input values. The effect of the feedback and control switch settings are immediately viewed on the real-time strip chart so you can monitor and assure your process as it happens.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-96223"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">SanDisk (http://www.sandisk.com) has begun shipping the 64GB SanDisk Ultra SDXC memory card (US$349.99), the company’s highest capacity SD card ever. It touts up to 15MB/second read speed and a Class 4 speed rating.
It's designed for capturing and storing 1080p High-Definition video files and then transferring them to a computer. SDXC cards are based on the new SD 3.0 specification, which makes it possible to manufacture SD cards with storage capacity up to 2TB. The SDXC card’s exFAT file structure helps consumers record long-duration HD videos. The 64GB SanDisk Ultra SDXC card can store more than eight hours of high-definition video with recording speed of 9 Mbps (HD standard), according to Susan Park, director, retail product marketing, SanDisk.
Because the SD 3.0 specification was recently released, only a handful of devices may be immediately available that support SDXC cards. However, the pace of new camera model introduction supporting the SDXC format is accelerating. Canon...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-96222"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Apple topped the "2010 Computer Reliability Report" from Rescuecom (http://www.rescuecom.com/2010-annual-computer-reliability-report.html), a company that provides homes and businesses with 24/7 computer repair and support.
Apple had an overall score of 365. Other companies in the top five, and their scores, were: Asus (305), IBM/Lenovo (305), Toshiba (199) and HP/Compaq (149).
Rescuecom determines the reliability of a manufacturer by comparing their market share of shipped computers, weighed against the percentage of computer support calls Rescuecom handles for that same manufacturer. (Rescuecom lists Apple has having 8% of US market share.)
Higher scores indicate better reliability. Reliability is attributed to a combination of two areas: quality of components used by a manufacturer, and the success of after sale support provided by the manufacturer. Low-quality components lead to more frequent repairs, and a lack of manufacturer support will lead to customers seeking outside...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-96166"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Apple is purging some adult-themed content from the Apple App Store, purportedly at the urging of both customers and developers.
"Whenever we receive customer complaints about objectionable content we review them," an Apple spokesperson said in an e-mailed statement to "Information Week" (http://www.informationweek.com/news/services/data/showArticle.jhtml?arti...). "If we find these apps contain inappropriate material we remove them and request the developer make any necessary changes in order to be distributed by Apple.
Letters that Apple has sent to creators of adult-themed apps state that customer complaints prompted the company to change its policy and to ban "overtly sexual content" from the Apple App Store. The "ChilliFresh iPhone apps" site (http://chillifresh.com/2010/02/20/5000-apps-banned-the-new-rules/) says that over 5,000 apps have been banned.</div></div></span>
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