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<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-91042"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">TuneWear (http://www.tunewear.com) is shipping VisualDock, an
US$79.95 AV docking station with a remote control for the iPhone and
iPod. Complete with S-video and line outputs, it lets you set up and
enjoy movies, photos and music stored in your Apple device by
connecting VisualDock to a television or stereo.
S-Video and AV cables are included. A special 3D like sound effect
button adds a new dimension to the stereo sound. The surfaces of both
the VisualDock and the remote control are rubber coated.
When the VisualDock is connected to a computer via a dock cable, a
switch on the back of the TuneWear device allows you to choose
between sync and charge, or charge only modes so you can control when
you want to sync your iPhone or iPod with iTunes.
Seven sizes of dock adapters ranging from old to new models of iPhone
and iPod are included. A USB power adapter is also included and can
be used not only to power the VisualDock, but also charge USB devices.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-91041"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">MetaCommunications (http://www.meta-comm.com) has announced the
launch and immediate availability of the new Software for Students
Program. Under the new program, any accredited educational
organization interested in teaching real-world estimating, billing,
scheduling, project collaboration, productivity techniques, and
project management skills to their students can acquire and use the
new Workgroups 2010 Suite for free.
"Educators preparing students for careers in ad agencies, internet
marketing, photography, video production, graphic design, printing,
and many other industries are telling us that it's now more important
than ever for their students to have a working knowledge of
real-world electronic workflow and project collaboration skills,"
says Robert T. Long, Executive Vice President of MetaCommunications.
"Our new Software for Students Program formalizes our commitment to
the industry and to educators interested in preparing students with
the essential skills demanded by a...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-91039"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Chronos (http://www.chronosnet.com) has released SOHO Notes 8 and
SOHO Organizer 8, upgrades to the, respectively, note manager and
personal/business productivity suite.products.
According to Robert McCullough, vice president of Development at
Chronos, SOHO Notes 8 offers the following new features: faster
performance; iPhone synchronization over Wi-Fi (requires the purchase
of companion software on iPhone); Cover Flow and Icon views; voice,
video, and photo recorder; a new backup system; a new encryption
system and more.
SOHO Organizer 8 offers the following new features: faster
performance; a desktop calendar; email integration; themes for
calendar customization; a voice, video, and photo recorder; print
preview and more.
SOHO Notes is a digital note-taking application for Mac. Customers
can use it to capture, organize, sync, and share all of their stuff
including text notes, PDF's, images, voice recordings, videos, forms,
and web archives.
SOHO Organizer is a l productivity suite...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-91038"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Mac users can now get a handle on user accounts and file sharing with
two new ebooks: "Take Control of Users & Accounts in Snow Leopard"
and "Take Control of Sharing Files in Snow Leopard" from Take Control
Books.
In "Take Control of Users & Accounts in Snow Leopard," author Kirk
McElhearn explains why a Mac has user accounts, as well as how to set
them up, manage them, and use them within a single Mac in various
real-world scenarios. McElhearn particularly looks at configuring
accounts for children or in a small computer lab.
In "Take Control of Sharing Files in Snow Leopard," networking guru
Glenn Fleishman helps readers decide if they should set up a local
Mac as a file server or use an Internet-hosted option. For those
interested in setting up a local file server, Fleishman walks them
through picking out hardware, setting up file-sharing services,
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-91037"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Miraizon, a digital media software company, has released Reframe for
Macintosh. It's a video standards converter that allows users to
convert video and audio from one standard to another. Priced at
US$129.95, Reframe for is available for purchase immediately at
http://www.miraizon.com/store/store.html .
Using pre-defined settings, users can convert between PAL and NTSC
video, SD (Standard Definition) and HD (High Definition) video, or
film and video. Reframe also provides options for advanced users to
custom-set video attributes such as frame size and frame rate, and
audio attributes including sampling rate and sampling size, to meet
their conversion goals.
Reframe supports a variety of input and output file formats. Users
can convert their movies into highly editable formats as well as
formats suitable for presentations, for posting on YouTube, or for
viewing on iPods or iPhones.
Priced at US$129.95, Reframe for is available for purchase
immediately at http://www.miraizon.com/store/...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-91036"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Paragon Software Group (PSG), which specializes in data security and
data management solutions, today announced their free portal for
software tools aimed at personal computer maintenance and data
security. These free tools provide the ideal introduction for home
users to backup and protect their computer systems.
For all those who have ever needed to read a Linux-based file on a
Windows computer or vice versa. End users can also read Mac files
from a Linux-based computer (and vice versa); read Mac files from a
Windows-based computer (and vice versa); and Windows '98 files from a
NTFS-based (XP) computer (and vice versa)
For Macintosh users, in addition to the File System Drivers
mentioned, there is also Rescue Kit for Mac OS X (an instant system
and data recovery kit) and CampTune (enabling the re-sizing of Mac
and Windows partitions through an intuitive and user-friendly
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-91033"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Absoft Corp. (http://www.absoft.com) has announced general
availability of the new Absoft Pro Fortran 11.0 for Mac OS X. It's
ready for Mac OS X 10.6 ("Snow Leopard")
Release 11.0 is the first of Absoft's high-performance,
auto-parallelizing Fortran compilers to include support for OpenMP
multi-core parallel programming standards for Mac OS X with Intel
Xeon (Nehalem) processors. Absoft's Fx3 debugger has added thread
support and the Absoft multi-platform IDE included with Pro Fortran,
now includes OpenMP and MPI features among other improvements.
Supported environments include Leopard (version 10.5) and Snow
Leopard (version 10.6).
Absoft Pro Fortran 11.0 includes both 32-bit and 64-bit compilers and
incorporates a new scheduler that the company says has demonstrated
performance increases of up to 10%. Auto-parallelization,
auto-vectorization and SSE4.1/4.2 instructions are also supported.
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-91030"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Zevrix Solutions has released a public beta of File Courier 1.0
(http://zevrix.com/download.php), an automatic digital delivery
solution.
It delivers files and folders to FTP and local destinations and sends
automatic e-mail delivery notifications. The e-mail messages are
based on customizable templates and contain the detailed info about
the item and its location. The software also lets users attach files
to e-mail messages and send them as encrypted disk images.
File Courier also lets users attach files to e-mail messages and send
them as encrypted disk images, test FTP locations to ensure the info
is entered correctly, and provides the detailed progress feedback
during file transfer. Both files and folders can be delivered, with
folders being compressed automatically when transferred to FTP
locations.
The File Courier beta program is currently open to everyone who's
interested. Qualified beta testers will receive a discount for a copy
of File Courier.
File Courier 1.0 Public Beta...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-91029"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Objective Development has released the final version of LaunchBar 5
(http://www.obdev.at/launchbar/) for Mac OS X, the next major release
of the productivity utility. The new version comes with built-in
Clipboard History and ClipMerge functionality for merging subsequent
Copy operations,
LaunchBar 5 also adds Quick Look support, iCal support for creating
events and to-do items. Plus, it includes lots of new and improved
actions and file operations and has an improved, extensible
Calculator. LaunchBar is now scriptable via AppleScript, provides
keyboard access to Mac OS X Services, and more.
LaunchBar is an utility that provides instant access to your
applications, documents, contacts and bookmarks, to your music
library, to search engines and more. A 30-day demo is available for
download.
LaunchBar 5 costs approximately US$36 for a single-user license and
$59 for a five-computer family license. Upgrades from previous
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-91028"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">eMedia Music Corp. (http://www.emediamusic.com) has released version
5.0 of eMedia Guitar Method. New advanced audio recognition software
technology actually listens to the student playing melodies and shows
whether the correct notes are played, the company says.
In addition, the new Finger Tracker shows the actual note being
played on an on-screen fretboard, and the new Note Tracker shows that
note in standard music notation. An expanded curriculum offers over
180 lessons that are now presented in full screen resolution for easy
viewing. The over 50 videos can also be viewed in full screen mode.
Lessons from Kevin Garry (Ph.D., University of Colorado-Boulder)
cover everything from the basics to chord strumming, playing melodies
and fingerpicking, and now include new interactive quizzes to speed
up learning.
The material covers folk, blues, classical and rock styles and
includes over 70 songs with hits from artists such as Bob Dylan, the
Grateful Dead, the Rolling Stones and Steve...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-91025"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Nemetschek North America (http://www.vectorworks2010.net) has
released its first Service Pack for the Vectorworks 2010 product
line. While addressing issues with wall joining and the snap loupe in
particular, this Service Pack has also improved the overall stability
and performance of the package.
"Early feedback from our customers indicates that the initial release
of Vectorworks 2010 was of very good quality," says Mark Farnan,
director of Software Development at Nemetschek North America. "We
traditionally create a Service Pack for our international localizers
about a month after our initial release, and this gives us a great
opportunity to fix any problems reported by early adopters."
Currently, this Service Pack is available for all licenses as a
downloadable updater. To install the Service Pack, go to the About
Vectorworks dialog box in the Vectorworks 2010 application and click
Check for Updates.
The 2010 release of the Vectorworks line of design software was
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-91024"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Noise Industries, developer of visual effects tools for the
postproduction and broadcast markets, has announced that new
development partner, Storek Studio, has released an update to its
nVeil video plug-in exclusively for the FxFactory platform.
nVeil creates kaleidoscopic visual effects by filtering source
imagery through vector graphic veils. nVeil's expanding library comes
preloaded with custom-designed veils and keyframeable parameters for
user customization. FxFactory powered plug-ins extend the visual
effects capabilities of Adobe After Effects CS3/CS4, Apple Final Cut
Studio, Apple Motion and Apple Final Cut Express applications.
nVeil is available at an introductory price of US$69 until Nov. 15.
Adobe After Effects CS3, Apple Final Cut Studio and Apple Final Cut
Express 4 users can sample hundreds of other FxFactory plug-ins by
downloading the free 15-day trial version of FxFactory from
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-91023"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Apple has introduced the new wireless Magic Mouse, the first mouse to
use Apple's Multi-Touch technology. Pioneered on the iPhone, iPod
touch and Mac notebook trackpads, Multi-Touch allows customers to
navigate using intuitive finger gestures.
Instead of mechanical buttons, scroll wheels or scroll balls, the
entire top of the Magic Mouse is a seamless Multi-Touch surface.
Magic Mouse comes standard with the new iMac and will be available as
a Mac accessory at US$69. "Apple is the Multi-Touch leader,
pioneering the use of this innovative technology in iPhone, iPod
touch and Mac notebook trackpads," said Philip Schiller, Apple's
senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. "Apple's
Multi-Touch technology allows us to offer an easy to use mouse in a
simple and elegant design."
Magic Mouse features a touch-sensitive enclosure that allows it to be
a single or multi-button mouse with advanced gesture support. Using
gestures, users can scroll through long documents, pan across large...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-91021"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Apple Unveils New iMac With 21.5 and 27-inch Displays
Features LED-Backlit Displays, Available Quad-Core Processors & the New
Wireless Magic Mouse
CUPERTINO, California--October 20, 2009--Apple today unveiled an all new
iMac line featuring brilliant LED-backlit 21.5 and 27-inch widescreen
displays in a new edge-to-edge glass design and seamless all aluminum
enclosure. The new iMac line, starting at $1,199, is the fastest ever with
Intel Core 2 Duo processors starting at 3.06 GHz, and Core i5 and i7
quad-core processors for up to twice the performance.* Every new iMac ships
with a wireless keyboard and the all new wireless Magic Mouse, the world's
first mouse with Multi-Touch technology pioneered by Apple on the iPhone,
iPod touch and Mac notebook trackpad.
"The iMac is widely praised as the best desktop computer in the world and
today we are making it even better," said Philip Schiller, Apple's senior
vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. "With brilliant LED displays
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-91019"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Apple has updated its MacBook with a new, durable polycarbonate
unibody design featuring a LED-backlit display, a glass Multi-Touch
trackpad and Apple's built-in battery for up to seven hours of
battery life.
Inheriting technology and design features from the MacBook Pro line,
the new MacBook is an ideal consumer notebook for students and new
Mac users, and is available for US$999, says Phil Schiller, Apple's
senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing.
"The new MacBook includes many of the great features found on the
innovative MacBook Pro, such as an LED-backlit display, glass
Multi-Touch trackpad and built-in long-life battery," he adds. "With
the only lineup of notebooks all featuring unibody enclosures,
LED-backlit displays and long-life battery technology, there's never
been a better time to switch to a Mac."
The new MacBook features a unibody, polycarbonate enclosure that
makes it lighter and more durable. The new design includes a non-skid
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-91018"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Apple has unveiled an all new iMac line featuring LED-backlit 21.5
and 27-inch widescreen displays in a new edge-to-edge glass design
and all aluminum enclosure. The new iMac line, starting at US$1,199,
is the fastest ever with Intel Core 2 Duo processors starting at 3.06
GHz, and Core i5 and i7 quad-core processors for up to twice the
performance, according to Apple.
Every new iMac ships with a wireless keyboard and the all new
wireless Magic Mouse, which Apple says is world's first mouse with
Multi-Touch technology pioneered by Apple on the iPhone, iPod touch
and Mac notebook trackpad.
"The iMac is widely praised as the best desktop computer in the world
and today we are making it even better," says Phil Schiller, Apple's
senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. "With brilliant
LED displays and the revolutionary Magic Mouse, the new iMac delivers
an amazing desktop experience that we think customers will love."
The new iMac features LED-backlit displays with a 16:9...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-91017"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Design Science and Syncro Soft have announced that the newly released
Oxygen XML Editor and Oxygen XML Author 11 have been designed to
support MathML editing with Design Science's three MathFlow equation
editors: Structure, Style and Simple.
This combines Oxygen'sXML editing and development platform with
MathFlow's MathML editing technology. MathML is an XML standard for
representing mathematical notation and is a crucial component of
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-91015"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Gefen (http://www.gefen.com) has released its new 16x16 DVI Matrix,
delivering a one-to-one or one-to-many video distribution. Access is
controlled by the front-panel, RS-232 connection, IR remote or an IP
local area network. The front panel display lists status and
switching information.
This matrix switcher supports 1920x1200 resolutions, and offers a
fast switch with very low cross-talk between adjacent channels,
according to the folks at Gefen. It can be rack mounted and combined
with any of Gefen's DVI extension solutions to deliver high
resolutions to remote displays.
The Gefen 16x16 DVI Matrix can be used in a variety of applications,
including recording studios with a need to command and control
multiple workstations. It's also designed for digital signage, large
presentations in corporate, medical, education and broadcast
facilities, and for video walls. It will begin shipping in November;
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-91013"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">RadTech (http://www.radtech.com) has released the DockExtender, an
US$14.95 data extension cable for Apple 30-pin devices. It allows you
to dock your iPod or iPhone from a distance, or while in a case.
A small diameter, flexible cable provides connection pathways for
power, audio output, USB data sync, play controls, accessory power
and composite video. The DockExtender doesn't, however, support
S-video output or input for recording audio. It's compatible with the
iPhone, iPod (touch, classic, video), & iPod nano (second and third
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-91012"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Jeff Graber, owner of the Mac Support Store in Brooklyn, has
published "The Ultimate Mac Handbook: connect with your inner Mac
Genius! (https://www.createspace.com/3397323) . The 90-page book is
available for US$10
Graber says the book was written to offer "an insightful and witty
book on what you didn't know your Mac could do." It's filled with
advice, facts, tips and trick.
Graber has been using a Mac since 1984. He has published articles at
Macsimum News and is a member of the Association of Macintosh
Trainers. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife, two kids and
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-91011"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Zevrix Solutions (http://www.zevrix.com) has announced BatchOutput
3.5.4, a maintenance update to its professional solution to automate
printing and exporting to various formats from Adobe InDesign. The
new update introduces compatibility with Mac OS X 10.6 ("Snow
Leopard") and addresses some Flash export related issues.
BatchOutput automates InDesign output workflow of printers, ad
agencies, service providers and publishing houses. With the software,
users can select the files to output and adjust the settings, instead
of opening and printing each document manually. For example,
BatchOutput can be left to output hundreds of InDesign files
overnight, and the completed job can be picked up next morning.
BatchOutput also allows users to output InDesign documents as single
pages, update links automatically, and output files invisibly for the
user. The software automatically composes complex variable file
names. Because BatchOutput can run in the background, it allows users
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-91009"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">CalDigit (http://www.caldigit.com) is now offering support for 2TB
hard drives. Previously 1.5TB drives were the maximum capacity
available to users. CalDigit is now offering a 33% increase in
storage at no additional cost and, lesser capacity products now have
a lower price tag.
The CalDigit VR is now available in capacities up to 4TB. Supporting
a quadruple interface for easy connectivity, the CalDigit VR's
modular design also provides two hot swappable drive modules. It
sports a front LCD and includes software for configuration and
monitoring. It has support for RAID 0, 1, JBOD and SPAN. The CalDigit
VR starts at US$49.
The HDElement is an external storage solution that harnesses the
power of the CalDigit RAID Card. It's now available in capacities of
up to 8TB, in the same compact enclosure. The CalDigit RAID Card
provides RAID 0, 1, 5, 6 and JBOD support to the HDElement, and with
three ports up 24TB of storage can be run off a single card (up to
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-91007"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Dover Studios has released Maya Surface Materials 2nd Edition, their
latest visual effects training video. It provides visual effects
artists with an introduction to texturing and surface materials in
Maya.
The second edition has been completely updated and features 1080p
high definition video. Visual effects artists, Andrew Hazelden and
Russell Hazelden, share tips and techniques that will help you create
realistic surface materials.
Maya Surface Materials 2nd Edition begins with an overview of the
many render nodes available in the Hypershade. Topics include:
exploring common material attributes, shading models, specular
highlights, texture mapping, 3D projections, IPR rendering and
raytracing. The video shows in detail the methods used to render
reflective metallic and glass surfaces, and discusses photographic
techniques used to create environment maps. Both the Maya Software
and Mental Ray renderers are used throughout the video.
For more information visit http://www.DoverStudios...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-91006"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">XtraLean Software has released DataLore 1.0f for Mac OS X. It's a
front end to Spotlight hat makes it easier and faster to search and
share files both locally on one's own computer, and on the network,
according to its developer, Hagen kaye.
He says the app uses a "Search-as-You-Type" technology for finding
files fast. It also employs "Text Shorthand" and "Special Characters"
for highly defined or more complex search patterns. DataLore is both
a Dock application and menu-bar app. The companion menu bar
application acts as a mini-server for controlling remote access for
network searches.
DataLore lets users search filenames, file types, content and more.
The search can also be restricted to search only filenames. Users can
narrow down their search results by filtering the results list by
file type or by searching using special characters to define the
search by date range, Boolean operators, wild cards, exact matches,
plus much more.
Other features include filter searches by file type...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-91005"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Paradigma Software (http://www.valentina-db.com) has released
Valentina DB 4.3, an update of the columnar database for business and
developers, and and Valentina Reports 4.3, the cross-platform
database reporting solution for Windows and Mac OS X.
Valentina Database Technology Release 4.3 includes over 40 user
requested improvements to all Valentina DB products. You can now
return statistics about Valentina Server through PHP based server
calls, return names of registered databases and more. There are new
view related features; you can create temporary views not saved with
db.close and create a view if the view doesn't already exist.
Now multiple ->Operators can be chained together. Valentina for Cocoa
includes improvements to class-based database development and date
handling, as well as additional code examples. Example code was
updated for Valentina for REALbasic to account for changes in file
handling in REALbasic. Because of the integration between Valentina
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-90999"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Innovelis has released CordFits (http://www.CordFits.com), which
enables headphone cord length customization and tangle-free cord
storage.
Headphone designers include extra cord length to ensure the cord is
never too short. This approach ensures the cord is never too short,
but it often forces the cord to be too long, says Wes Schwie of
Innovelis. CordFits prevent the extra cord length from getting in
people's way, he adds.
"CordFits let people shorten their headphone cord length to fit their
style, and when they are done listening, they can quickly store their
cord without tangles," says Schwie. "Now people can listen to their
favorite pair of headphones without the cord getting snagged and
having to untangle the cord each time they want to use the
headphones."
Innovelis offered a sneak peek of CordFits earlier this year at the
2009 Macworld Conference & Expo and the International Consumer
Electronics Show. They're based on a patent-pending system of pulleys
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-90998"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">iSkin (http://www.iskin.com) has released the next generation of its
ProTouch keyboard protectors.
The new line-up -- which includes ProTouch Classic, FX and Vibes --
provides protection against food spills, dust, key wear and more,
while embedded Microban antimicrobial product protection helps
inhibit the growth of odor and stain causing bacteria on the product,
according to the folks at iSkin.
Additionally, a newly re-engineered design optimizes the way each key
is protected, allowing a comfortable, non-obtrusive typing
experience, they add. The ProTouch Classic is available in one color
(for MacBook keyboards) or three colors (for Apple Aluminum
Wired/Wireless keyboards), and retails for a suggested US$24.99.
Educational institutions are also eligible for volume discounts when
purchasing directly from iSkin.
The new ProTouch FX -- designed specifically for MacBook, MacBook Pro
and MacBook Air users -- features color-printed key caps against a
glow-white background for enhanced...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-90997"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Softpress Systems (http://www.softpress.com) has eleased version
5.4.2 of Freeway, its web site design software. This latest update
includes native support for Intaglio files to allow easy editing of
drawings and illustrations.
For a limited period, Softpress is offering a free copy of Intaglio
for every full-priced purchase of Freeway Pro made through either the
Softpress Store or through the Apple Store. You can learn more about
the Intaglio bundle at
http://www.softpress.com/offers/intagliobundle.
Intaglio from Purgatory Design offers graphic manipulation tools.
Able to convert most Mac legacy files, Intaglio harnesses the full
power of Quartz and CoreImage. Intaglio normally sells for US$89.
Freeway 5.4.2 is a free maintenance update for all registered owners
of Freeway 5. Freeway 5 Pro and Freeway 5 Express are available for
purchase and immediate electronic delivery directly from the
Softpress Store. Freeway 5 Pro is $249, and Freeway 5 Express is $79.
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-90996"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Mixamo (http://www.mixamo.com) has announced support for Autodesk 3ds
Max software biped system control rigs, streamlining animation
workflow for 3D artists and game developers.
Previously relying only on traditional motion-capture and keyframing
processes to animate biped characters, 3ds Max users are now able to
obtain access to Mixamo's online collection of customizable,
motion-capture quality character motions and bake them directly onto
their bipeds. Mixamo accelerates productivity of artists and game
developers by allowing the creation of premium 3D character
animations up to five times faster than current industry averages,
according to Marc Stevens, Autodesk vice president, Games Group.
Mixamo allows animators, game artists and 3D professionals to browse
through a collection of 3D character motions developed from actual
motion-capture data. After selecting a desired animation, a user can
customize the motion using director-level, slider-based controls in
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-90995"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Dingo Games has released The Three Musketeers: The Game
(http://www.dingogames.com/three-musketeers-game/) for the Mac.
Available exclusively online, the US$24.98 game closely follows the
plot of the original "Three Musketeers" novel. The adventure story
and the rarely used setting of 17th century France make this game a
unique experience.
Players take on the role of the young gentleman d'Artagnan as he sets
off for Paris in hopes of becoming a Musketeer. Soon after arriving,
d'Artagnan finds himself in duels with each of the famous three
Musketeers: Athos, Porthos, and Aramis. By fighting alongside them,
he is able to prove that he has the heart of a Musketeer and is
accepted by them as a friend. When the evil Cardinal Richelieu
launches a plot to disgrace the queen, only d'Artagnan and his three
friends can defend her honor.
Created by independent developer Dingo Games, the game features an
old school top-down perspective with hand-drawn 2D graphics. Players
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-90993"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Zengobi has released Curio 6 (http://www.zengobi.com/curio), an
upgrade of the note taking, mind mapping, brainstorming, and task
management application for Mac OS X. The upgrade adds completely
style-able index cards for jotting down and organizing notes.
Version 6.1 also adds a decoration image well for associating an
image with a figure, smarter text exporting of multiply selected
figures and other features and fixtures. Using Curio's freeform
interface and tools, you can gather, associate, and recall your
ideas, while managing all the notes and documents associated with
your project.
Curio is available in two editions: Standard (US$99) and Professional
($149, US$69 academia). Discounted Curio 6 upgrades are available to
current Curio 5 (and earlier) customers. Version 6.1 is a free
upgrade to registered users of version 6.0.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-90992"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Epson (http://www.epson.com) has released the PictureMate Charm, a
new entry in its photo printer line. It's compact and portable and
can print 4 x 6 inch photos with true-to-life skin tones, detail and
sharpness in as fast as 37 seconds, according to Stacey Tieu,
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-90991"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">MacSpeech (http://www.macspeech.com) has announced the Plantronics
Calisto Headset with Bluetooth USB Adapter is now certified for use
with MacSpeech Dictate, the speech recognition solution for the Mac.
By combining the Calisto Headset with Bluetooth USB Adapter and
MacSpeech Dictate, customers can now use a single wireless headset
for dictation and control of the Mac, that can also simultaneously
pair to a Bluetooth-enabled mobile device, such as the iPhone, to
make and receive calls, according to Andrew Taylor, founder and CEO
of MacSpeech. The Calisto Headset with Bluetooth USB Adapter is the
only Bluetooth-enabled device certified for use with MacSpeech
Dictate, he adds.
The Calisto Headset with Bluetooth USB Adapter is available today for
use with MacSpeech Dictate 1.5.5 or higher. MacSpeech Dictate
requires Intel-based Macintosh hardware and requires Mac OS X 10.5.6
or higher.
Currently registered customers of MacSpeech Dictate 1.5 are being
notified about special pricing...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-90990"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">WD (http://www.westerndigital.com) has introduced the US$149.99 WD TV
Live HD media player featuring network capability and Full-HD 1080p
resolution. The new WD TV Live HD media player makes it easy for
anyone to play HD (high definition) videos stored on USB and network
drives, as well as Internet content from popular web sites, on the
biggest screen in their home -- their HD television, according to
Dale Pistilli, vice president of marketing for WD's branded products
group.
The network capability of the WD TV Live media player enables users
to stream or transfer movies from Macs, PCs or a network-attached
storage device such as WD's My Book World Edition(TM) and WD
ShareSpace network drives to their HD TVs. The WD TV Live media
player also allows users to stream rich content from YouTube, Flickr
and Pandora.
Like the first-generation WD TV HD media player introduced last fall,
the WD TV Live media player connects directly to a users' HD TV and
plays almost any file stored on a...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-90989"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Toon Boom Animation (http://www.toonboom.com) has announced that its
entire line of products is compatible with Mac OS X 10.6 ("Snow
Leopard").
All software for kids, home users and professionals were thoroughly
tested and proved to be running smoothly on the new operating system,
according to Joan Vogelesang, president and CEO at Toon Boom. Only
Toon Boom Studio and its plug-in required a new build which is
available to all Studio 5 customers.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-90987"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">ProStor (http://www.prostorsystems.com) -- which specializes in
enterprise-class removable disk storage systems for business backup,
archiving and retention management -- has announced the general
availability of the new ProStor InfiniVault Model 5.
ProStor InfiniVault Model 5 is designed for the storage needs of the
SMB (small-to-medium businesses) that may have two different data
retention requirements, and where two copies of the data are
necessary for disaster protection. It's an integrated storage
appliance in a tower design with five slots for RDX removable disks
and a 1.8TB file area that can manage 250 million files.
Using 500GB RDX removable disk cartridges, ProStor InfiniVault Model
5 is able to keep 2.5TB (5TB compressed) data online (in RDX
removable disk cartridges) and an infinite amount of data capacity
offline. In an application requiring two separate retention periods,
the Model 5 can be configured to provide self protection while
allowing RDX removable disks to be...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-90985"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Stick Software (http://www.sticksoftware.com/) has announced version
1.5 of Fracture, their screensaver for Mac OS X, and version 3.1 of
Constrictor, their screen shotshot utility. Both are now compatible
with Mac OS X 10.6 ("Snow Leopard").
Fracture generates a variety of fractal images based upon
mathematical formulas such as the Mandelbrot Set. If you have
multiple processors, it will use all of them to calculate its images
as quickly as possible. If you have multiple monitors, it will
display fractals on all of them, in any of several different
multimonitor modes. It's also user controllable.
Constrictor helps you take screenshots, using a positionable frame to
grab the right area every time. Snapshots can be scaled, framed and
feathered by Constrictor, to save you from having to post-process
your shots manually. They can be saved in five different file
formats, copied to the clipboard, or even, using Constrictor's
AppleScript support, e-mailed.
The apps cost US$10 each. Demos are...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-90984"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Prosoft Engineering (http://www.prosoftengineering.com) has released
Data Rescue 3, a new version of the data rescue utility for Mac OS X.
Improvements have been made to speed and overall performance as well
as an all-new user interface with new features like FileIQ, says Greg
Brewer, CEO of Prosoft Engineering,
Data Rescue is a hard drive and file recovery software for the Mac.
It works even when your hard drive fails to mount or boot. The
software doesn't attempt any repairs to the drive it's scanning; it
focuses on data recovery, not hard drive repair. You will need to
save your recovered files to either an internal or external hard
drive (USB or FireWire), removable media device (such as a Zip or MO)
or a networked drive.
There are two ways to run Data Rescue 3. You may run it from the Boot
DVD or you may run it as an application, depending on your
circumstances. Data Rescue 3 costs US$99 for a personal use license
and $249 for a professional use license.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-90983"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Atlona Technologies (http://www.atlona.com), a solutions based
manufacturer of audio video products, has released their new line of
Matrix switchers for component, composite, and S-Video applications.
Because this new series of units are matrix switchers, any number of
the inputs can be routed to any number of the outputs independently;
or the same input can be routed to all outputs simultaneously, or any
other combination.
For AV component switching needs, there are the AT-COMP-42M (US$399)
and AT-COMP-88M ($1,999). The COMP-42M offers four component inputs
and two component outputs, while the COMP-88M offers eight inputs and
eight outputs. Atlona's new Component Matrix Switchers feature
lossless component with stereo audio and digital optical/coaxial.
These componentswitchers feature manual, infrared remote, or RS232
control.
For composite/S-Video, Atlona has released the AT-SAV-42M ($189) and
the AT-SAV-84M ($699). The SAV-42M has four composite and four
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-90982"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">The Omni Group has announced a partnership with The David Allen
Company, founded by David Allen, author of "Getting Things Done: The
Art of Stress-Free Productivity." The companies will be working
together to support the Getting Things Done methodology through the
Omni Group's task management application, OmniFocus.
Directly inspired by the GTD methodology, OmniFocus is a personal
productivity solution for the Mac, iPhone and iPod touch. OmniFocus
for Mac is now listed as the recommended Mac GTD solution on The
David Allen Company's online store. OmniFocus for iPhone and iPod
touch is available from the Apple App Store.
OmniFocus is designed to quickly capture your thoughts and allow you
to store, manage, and process them into actionable to-do items,
explains Allen. Tasks can be assigned to projects and stored within
contexts (for example: "Home", "Work", or "Garden"), with built-in
visual cues that highlight the next action you need to take care of.
More information about OmniFocus...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-90981"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">QNAP (http://www.qnap.com) has expanded their Turbo NAS lineup with
the addition of the TS-210 desktop NAS server targeted specifically
at the SOHO (small office/home office)and prosumer market segments.
The TS-210 supports up to 2 3.5-inch SATA hard drives with up to 4TB
of total capacity (using 2TB drives) and features a Marvell 800MHz
CPU and 256MB DDRII memory which purportedly provides sustained high
performance with low power consumption. The TS-210 can be configured
to RAID 1 for high data redundancy.
The TS-210 also supports iSCSI Target service with Thin Provisioning
and a Gigabit LAN port, features generally found on much higher end
NAS servers. The TS-210 is equipped three USB ports (one on the front
and two on the back) for expanding the storage capacity, printer
sharing, or data backup to an external storage device. It's
compatible with Mac OS X, Windows, Linux and UNIX systems.
It features a built-in UPnP/ DLNA media server (with TwonkyMedia
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-90979"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Pariahware has introduced version 2.1 of File Stitcher
(http://www.pariahware.com/filestitcher.php), an utility that
provides users an easy way to merge either MP3 files or text files
together. The upgrade is compatible with Mac OS X 10.6 ("Snow
Leopard").
To use File Stitcher, drag and drop files into the window and click
the "Stitch the files" button to start the process. A progress bar
will show the process, and after MP3s are merged, the user has the
option of editing the ID3 tags for the new file.
File Stitcher is shareware and costs US$15 to register. Version 2.1
is a free update to registered users of version 2.0. An unregistered
copy will work in a limited mode, allowing only two files to be
merged or stitched at a time. File Stitcher requires Mac OS X 10.4 or
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-90977"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">WoodWing Software (http://www.woodwing.com) has unveiled the next
generation of its Enterprise publishing system. Enterprise 7 offers
flexibility when it comes to the integration of social media into
modern multi-channel publishing environments, according to Erik
Schut, president of WoodWing Software.
Also, the planning of editorial content can now be based on instant
analysis of online reader interests, while the new Search 2.0
provides highly relevant results when doing research, he adds.
Enterprise 7 comes with Content Station 7, a new version of the
client application that provides publishers with the ultimate tool to
plan, produce and manage content for multiple destinations.
WoodWing Enterprise 7 can publish to virtually any channel, including
Twitter, Flickr, Facebook and YouTube. More traditional channels such
as web, mobile, e-mail, SMS and print are also covered. Enterprise 7
has the open-source Apache Solr search engine on board, and the
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-90975"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Future Media Concepts (FMC) -- an authorized digital media training
organization for postproduction, broadcast, and content creators,
announced that they're working alongside Pearson VUE
(http://www.pearsonvue.com) for test delivery.
Pearson VUE specializes in computer-based testing for information
technology, academic, government and professional testing programs.
Testing is offered exclusively through FMC Washington, D.C. using the
Pearson VUE Authorized Test Center network of more than 5,000 sites
in 165 countries.
Pearson VUE's real-time testing system allows FMC to administer a
variety of their Adobe Certification examinations through a
centralized scheduling system. Pearson VUE also provides FMC with
instantaneous access to reporting and tracking, alongside 24-hour
technical support.
FMC Washington D.C. is currently offering Pearson VUE certification
testing for a variety of Adobe software, including: After Effects,
Illustrator, Photoshop, Premiere Pro and After Effects. For a...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-90974"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Adobe has introduced the Photoshop.com Mobile for iPhone application,
delivering Adobe digital-imaging technology to users on the go.
Photoshop.com Mobile provides consumers a way to edit photos, apply
effects and share images instantly with friends, says Doug Mack, vice
president and general manager of Consumer and Hosted Solutions at
Adobe.
Integration with users' free Photoshop.com accounts enables photo
sharing and data back-up, saving them valuable space on their
iPhones. The application is available free of charge at the Apple App
Store.
Photoshop.com Mobile for iPhone provides an experience to view photos
with full-screen previews and edit images with gesture-based editing.
Consumers can transform their photos with edits like crop, rotate and
flip. Users can correct and play with color by adjusting the
saturation and tint, enhancing the exposure and vibrancy and
converting images to black and white.
Photoshop.com Mobile for iPhone also offers special effects. The
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-90973"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Syncro Soft Ltd, the producer of Oxygen XML Editor and Author, has
announced the immediate availability of version 11 of its XML Editor
and XML Author containing a comprehensive set of tools supporting all
the XML related technologies. Oxygen combines content author features
like the CSS driven Visual XML editor with a fully featured XML
development environment. It has ready to use support for the main
document frameworks DITA, DocBook, TEI and XHTML and also includes
support for all XML Schema languages, XSLT/XQuery Debuggers, WSDL
analyzer, XML Databases, XML Diff and Merge, Subversion client and
more.
Oxygen XML Editor 11 comes with new features covering both XML
authoring and XML development like: integrated documentation for XSLT
stylesheets, improved support for very large documents, an XQuery
debugger for the Oracle Berkeley DB XML database, MathML rendering
and editing support, DITA 1.2 features, a smarter Author mode for an
improved visual editing experience, and XProc...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-90972"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Sonoma Wire Works (http://www.sonomawireworks.com), makers of
RiffWorks recording software and the FourTrack and InstantDrummer
iPhone Apps, has acquired the entire Submersible Music product line,
including the DrumCore and KitCore software and drum content.
Submersible was created by Paul Allen, the philanthropist and
Microsoft co-founder, to help him in his own songwriting. DrumCore
(http://www.drumcore.com) gives songwriters and composers access to
grooves and instrument sounds of over a dozen famous drummers and
percussionists. It includes a groove library of both audio loops and
MIDI files plus a VST/AU/RTAS software instrument loaded with the
drummers' sounds for Mac and PC systems. KitCore and KitCore Deluxe
offer most of the features found in DrumCore, but include only the
MIDI content (grooves and a drum instrument).
Content is arranged into song-like GrooveSets, that group related
loops, fills and variations together and supports typical song
variations for verse/chorus/etc...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-90971"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">MACTECH SURVEYS APPLE ECOSYSTEM ECONOMIC OUTLOOK
- 70.7% of respondents feel good or great about their next 6 months
- Nearly 90% see 2009 as almost as good or better than 2008
- MacTech sees 13% increase in ad revenues 2009 over 2008 YTD
- 72.9% feel good or great when asked about the Apple/Mac segment
Westlake Village, CA -- October 8, 2009 -- MacTech(r) Magazine today
announced the results of its latest economic outlook survey of the Apple
market ecosystem. The survey asked five questions about the experience
companies are having in the Apple related markets. Despite a generally
gloomy or worse feeling towards the general U.S. economy, the Apple related
markets are fairing well and many are actually forecasting growth.
"The MacTech team decided to survey those in the market after seeing three
significant trends starkly contrasting the general U.S. economic news.
First, MacTech experienced a 8% increase in advertising revenues for the
first three quarters of 2009 when compared to...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-90970"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">O'Reilly has released "Mac OS X Snow Leopard: The
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-90968"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Faronics has released Insight 7.4, an update of the tool that
empowers instructors to educate, monitor, and communicate with an
entire class from one central computer. The latest version of Insight
allows teachers to run the console within the Mac OS X operating
system.
Insight 7.4 also features expanded internet controls for Internet
Explorer 8 and Mozilla Firefox. The software allows instructors to:
monitor user computers; blank user screens; mute audio; remote into
their computers; open, close, block applications and web activity on
user workstations. Contact Faraonics for pricing options.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-90966"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Sewelltech and Apple are co-sponsoring a seminar on Mac OS X 10.6
("Snow Leopard") later this month. It's a free, half-day event, but
you do have to register (go here:
http://www.sewelltech.com/snowleopard/).
It will be held in Washington, D.C. on Oct. 13, New York on Oct. 15,
Dallas on Oct. 20, Chicago on Oc. 22, Los Angeles on Oct. 27 and San
Francisco on Oct. 29. The seminar will look at best practices for
deploying, managing, and securing the Mac for the enterprise.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-90964"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">MetaCommunications (http://www.metacommunications.com) has announced
the immediate availability of Workgroups 2010's built-in rapid
development tool for IT departments and developers in marketing,
creative design, packaging and prepress industries. The new
development environment provides IT groups and developers with the
ability to build and deploy database, workflow, and document
management applications.
While the development tools in the new Workgroups 2010 suite are
primarily intended for developers with basic to advanced knowledge of
JavaScript and SQL, more experienced developers can extend
functionality with plug-ins and integrate with third-party systems
using .NET plug-ins, SOAP, JSON, and more, according to Robert Long,
executive vice pesident of MetaCommunications.
Concurrent with the release of the new development tools available in
Workgroups 2010, MetaCommunications also launched a Developer Center
community web site. The new Developer Center provides Workgroups...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-90963"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Linotype GmbH and its parent company, Monotype Imaging Holdings, a
provider of text imaging solutions, have announced that the Linotype
FontExplorer X Server font management solution
(http://www.fontexplorerx.com) is available for 10 users at US$999
until Dec. 31.
Included with each downloaded package are the server installer, the
FontExplorer X Server administrator software, the FontExplorer X Pro
client software, and the respective number of user licenses for
working with the Pro software on Macs within the workgroup.
FontExplorer X Server runs on both Mac systems (Mac OS X 10.4 and
10.5) and servers (Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5), as well as Windows server
(2003 Server, XP and 32-bit Windows Vista) environments. The
FontExplorer X Server license fee includes one year phone or e-mail
support. Applications are available in English or German and include
comprehensive documentation. Font licenses must be purchased
separately.
As a solution that combines the FontExplorer X Pro client edition...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-90962"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Ingres Corp., an open source database management company, has
released Ingres Database 9.3, the latest version of the company's
flagship open source database product. The new version offers
migration from MySQL, as well as from proprietary databases such as
Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, and Sybase.
Ingres Database 9.3 boasts a number of key features to help java
application developers be more productive and is specifically
designed to help meet the demands of a rapidly growing partner
community with Liferay certification, according to Deb Woods, vice
president of product management, Ingres. Ingres Database 9.3 also
highlights the importance community contributions play in the
innovation of open source software by including features to the
database engine that were added by its community members, she adds.
To download the latest version, go to http://esd.ingres.com/ .
Ingres Database 9.3 also provides support for pluggable
authentication modules (PAM), which enables the database to...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-90960"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">RadTech (http://www.radtech.com) has released ClearCal anti-glare
film for the glossy displays on the 17-inch MacBook Pro and the
17-inch and 20-inch iMacs. They're US$19.95 each.
ClearCal AG (anti-glare) films improve the viewability of glossy
glass displays when used in brightly lit or outdoor environments.
ClearCal films combine a tempered 2-mil matte finished,
anti-reflection layer, permanently laminated to a 3-mil flexible
transparent base. A blemish-healing siliconized adhesive provides an
optically-correct, yet easily removable bond that conceals existing
surface defects like abrasions and scratches, according to the folks
at RadTech. The siliconized adhesive is permanently bonded to the
base layer and doesn't leave any residue behind if removed.
ClearCal's tempered, optically-correct surface resists scratches and
abrasions and is easy to clean, says RadTech. In addition to glare
reduction, ClearCal provides a level of impact protection and
minimizes the appearance of oils or...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-90959"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Sonoma Wire Works (http://www.sonomawireworks.com), makers of
RiffWorks recording software and the FourTrack and InstantDrummer
iPhone apps, has acquired the Discrete Drums
(http://www.discretedrums.com) brand and product line of drum
recording libraries.
This move will ensure the continuation and expansion of drum library
products for both Discrete Drums and Sonoma Wire Works customers,
according to Doug Wright, president of Discrete Drums. Discrete
Drums' libraries are available in a variety of formats, and new
Discrete Drums products will be launching soon in various styles,
including the Heavy Mental 2 multitrack drum library of performances
by drummer Tony Morra, recorded in the Big Boy Room at The Sound
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-90958"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Ultrasone Inc. (http://www.ultrasone.com), distributor for German
headphone manufacturer Ultrasone AG, has released its flagship HFI
Series headphone: the HFI-2400. It's a black and silver, open-backed
headphone.
The HFI-2400s are the flagship headphones in Ultrasone's HFI Series.
Its 40mm gold-plated driver provides the finest of three-dimensional
sound thanks to Ultrasone's patented S-Logic technology, according to
the folks at Ultrasone. The HFI-2400 comes outfitted with MU Metal
shielding, similar to all other Ultrasone headphones, which
purportedly reduces the amount of magnetic radiation emitted from
standard headphones, up to 98%.
Each HFI-2400 comes with a removable three-meter long, straight cable
with 6.3 millimeter gold-plated stereo plug, a velvet carrying bag
and the Ultrasone demo CD. It has a manufacturer's suggested retail
price of US$329 and will be available late this month or in early
November from all Ultrasone retailers and distributors.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-90957"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">MacSpeech (http://www.macspeech.com) has released MacSpeech Dictate
1.5.5, an upgrade to the speech recognition solution for the Mac. The
upgrade addresses several minor functional and cosmetic issues when
used with Mac OS X 10.6 ("Snow Leopard").
All MacSpeech Dictate products, including MacSpeech Dictate Legal,
MacSpeech Dictate Medical, MacSpeech Dictate International and
MacSpeech Dictate localized in German, French and Italian can update
to version 1.5.5 today. MacSpeech Dictate 1.5.5 adds a contextual
menu for the Available Commands window, providing options to Edit,
Execute, and Copy Description to Clipboard, and is also a maintenance
release that fixes other reported issues.
MacSpeech Dictate requires Intel-based Mac hardware and Mac OS X
10.5.6 or higher. New MacSpeech Dictate solutions, with a choice of
headsets, are available today starting at US$199. Registered
customers of MacSpeech Dictate are eligible to purchase MacSpeech
Dictate 1.5 at special upgrade price of $54.95...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-90956"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Blastwave FX (http://www.blastwavefx.com), the HD sound effects
label, has announced that all of its sound effects hard drives will
now feature free updates for life in the form of new sound effects,
metadata and search software.
Owners of Sonopedia, The BlastDrive, Titlewave and .wavFX S will
receive free updates every three months delivered via download from
the Blastwave FX web site. All the solutions feature high definition
sound effects on a hard drive, and are Mac and PC compatible.
The Blastdrive is an US$5,999 anthology of the entire Blastwave
catalog with 31,700 sound effects and production elements. Sonopedia
is an encyclopedia of HD sound effects. It costs $3,999 and has
20,000 sound effects. Titlewave is a $2,999 product elements hard
rive with 3,000 sound effects and production elements.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-90955"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Group Logic (http://www.grouplogic.com) has announced today a
partnership with Symantec (http://www.symantec.com) to market a joint
solution for file system archiving (FSA) for Mac-based organizations.
The solution is based on Symantec's Enterprise Vault software and
Group Logic's newly released ArchiveConnect software. Prior to
availability of this joint offering, customers with Mac populations
were blocked from deploying FSA software, despite its potential to
alleviate major storage management challenges, according to Simon
Jelley, senior director of Product Management in the Information
Management Group of Symantec. Now, with the combined solution,
Mac-based enterprises and departments can take full advantage of file
system archiving to reduce storage costs by up to 60 percent and
increase both IT and user productivity, he adds.
"Until now, customers utilizing the Macintosh have been challenged
when attempting to deploy file system archiving," Jelley says. "In
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-90954"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">LaCie (http://www.lacie.com), in collaboration with designer,
Philippe Starck, has announced the LaCie Starck Desktop Hard Drive
and the LaCie Starck Mobile Hard Drive.
Exclusively featured on the LaCie Starck Desktop Hard Drive, you can
customize the touch-sensitive surface to open an application of your
choosing with the touch of a finger. It's an easy, efficient way to
streamline your digital life, according to LaCie CEO Philippe Spruch.
Encased in sturdy aluminum, the LaCie Starck Desktop Hard Drive and
LaCie Starck Mobile Hard Drive offer the most resistant choices for
consumer hard drives on the market, he adds.
LaCie Starck Desktop Hard Drive features a status LED in the form of
Starck's signature symbol. The symbol glows orange or green to
indicate different activity. The LaCie Starck Mobile Hard Drive
offers a built-in USB cable for storing and data accessibility.
The LaCie Starck Hard Drives are compatible with Mac and PC systems.
In addition, the drives comes with software...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-90953"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Until now, iPhone users have been stuck with a very bland incoming
email tone. With the launch of Electric Pocket's new MailTones,
iPhone users will for the first time be able to change the email
alert tone and set a different tone for each and every friend, family
member or colleague in their Address Book. MailTones will help users
to distinguish high priority emails from their boss or spouse from
lower priority emails from college buddies or email lists.
With MailTones, iPhone users can set a tone for a specific user, or
one for all incoming emails from a specific domain - making it easy
to recognize incoming emails from work colleagues or customers.
MailTones can also filter and provide custom tones for messages which
include specific words in the Subject line.
MailTones comes with a collection of 25 tones ranging from discrete
bells to more audacious horns and buzzers. Many users will find it
convenient to set their default mail tone to silent, or ignore, and
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-90952"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">VMware Fusion 3 -- the Best Way to Run Windows on the Mac -- Now Available
for Pre-Order
VMware Fusion 3 with More than 50 New Features will be Available Worldwide
on Oct 27
PALO ALTO, Calif., October 6, 2009 -- VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global
leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop through the datacenter
and to the cloud, today announced that VMware Fusion 3, the best way to run
Windows on the Mac, will be available worldwide on October 27 and is
available for pre-order today. VMware Fusion 3 makes it easier than ever
for users to move to the Mac and to run Windows applications -- including
graphics-intensive games -- alongside Mac applications, with a Mac user
experience.
VMware Fusion 3 will include more than 50 new features and enhancements,
delivering a better-than-ever Windows on Mac experience. Key highlights
include:
* Optimized for Snow Leopard. Built from the ground up for the Mac, VMware
Fusion 3 leverages Mac OS X Snow Leopard's advanced architecture...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-90951"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Realmac Software has acquired the Mac OS X social networking
application EventBox, which allows users to keep up to date with
multiple social networks such as Twitter, Flickr, Digg, as well as
featuring Google Reader syncing for reading RSS feeds.
EventBox, which is currently in public beta, will also be renamed
Socialite for its official launch which is currently planned for
November. Customers who previously purchased a copy of EventBox from
the original developers will receive a full license to Socialite upon
launch. Socialite Information
Further details on Socialite will be made available via the Socialite
website in the run up to launch:
http://www.realmacsoftware.com/socialite/ .
Socialite will be available in November; upon the final release
single user licenses will be available for US$20. Users who purchased
a copy of EventBox from its original developers before the
acquisition will receive a new serial number once the application
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-90950"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">WD has introduced its new My Book Elite desktop external drives
featuring a customizable e-label that's always visible, even when the
drive is unplugged, so you'll know what's on the drive and how much
space is left.
The new My Book Elite also features 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 Book
Elite drives are offered in capacities of 1TB, 1.5TB and 2TB.
The e-label smart display on the spine of the My Book drives can be
changed as often as you'd like. It utilizes e-paper technology that
reads like ink on paper. With the included WD SmartWare software,
users can create a label to name their drive or remind themselves of
its contents. The e-label also shows available capacity and whether
the drive is locked via WD SmartWare software's password protection
and hardware-based encryption. Utilizing e-paper technology, the
information on the display remains visible, even...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-90948"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Clickfree (http://www.clickfree.com) has released the US$89.99
Transformer SE (Special Edition), which allows users to automatically
backup their irreplaceable digital photos, videos music and other
data files onto the excess storage space of any external USB hard
drive, iPod or iPhone.
It can also be used to automatically import music from any iPod or
iPhone to any computer, Mac or Windows. The Transformer SE has two
key functions; it transforms any external USB hard drive into a
Clickfree Automatic Backup solution. It also allows users to backup
their files onto the extra storage space of any iPhone or iPod.
In addition, the Transformers SE also allows you to retrieve music
collections and playlists off any iPhone or iPod with the click of a
button. This allows users to import music that had been locked on any
model iPod/iPhone to any computer.
Backup starts automatically simply connecting your USB hard drive,
iPod or iPhone to the Transformer SE. Only the excess capacity of...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-90947"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Pearson is releasing four new books for Mac programmers including
"Cocoa Design Patterns," "iPhone for Programmers," "Sams Teach
Yourself Cocoa Touch Programming in 24 Hours" and "Sams Teach
Yourself iPhone Application Development in 24 Hours."
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-90946"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">QNAP Systems (http://www.qnap.com), a provider of NAS servers, NVR
video surveillance systems, and network-based video players -- has
expanded their Turbo NAS lineup with the addition of the TS-410
desktop NAS server targeted specifically at the SOHO (small
office/home office) and prosumer market segments. It will be
available in October; pricing hasn't been announced.
The TS-410 features four hot-swappable SATA hard drives with up to
8TB of total capacity (with 2TB drives) and supports 2.5-inch or
3.5-inch hard drives. It features a Marvell 800MHz CPU and 256MB
DDRII memory. The TS-410 can be configured for RAID 0/1/5/6/5+ spare,
and JBOD with online RAID capacity expansion and online RAID level
migration for high data redundancy.
The TS-410 also supports iSCSI Target service with Thin Provisioning
and dual Gigabit LAN ports, features generally found on much higher
end NAS servers. The TS-410 also features four USB ports and 2 e-SATA
ports for expanding the storage capacity or...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-90945"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Extensis is sponsoring competitive scholarships to the Museum
Computer Network (MCN) Annual Conference to be held in Portland,
Oregon on Nov. 11-14.
The Digital Asset Management Scholarship is sponsored by Extensis and
is available to help heritage and culture professionals offset the
cost of attending this annual gathering. Individuals awarded the
scholarships will receive 50% off MCN conference registration and
automatic registration in the digital asset management workshop
offered during the conference. These are competitive scholarships
awarded to a limited number of applicants.
The deadline to apply for the scholarship is Oct. 9. Anyone
interested in digital asset management and wishing to attend the MCN
conference is encouraged to submit an application at
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-90943"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Digieffects (http://www.digieffects.com), a developer of visual
effects software plug-ins, has released Aged Film. It costs US$29 and
creates an aged "old movie look", an effect which helps viewers
understand what era the shot is set and believe that the story is set
in the past.
Aged Film supports Adobe After Effects and Premiere Pro, Final Cut
Pro, Grass Valley Edius, Autodesk Combustion and Boris RED. According
to Robert Sharp, president of Digieffects, it includes the ability to
customize characteristics such as grain, dust, scratches, frame
jitter and color and all those little details that tell the viewer
that they're looking at historical footage, an the ability to
deinterlace and control source blend and random seed. All effects are
rendered in 16bpc. All Aged Film effects can be animated over time in
After Effects. Aged Effects includes dozens of presets such as 8mm,
armageddon, grandpa's attic, old home video, scratched film, shaky
projector, speakeasy, the 70s and more....</div></div></span>
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