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<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-197914"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">The Clasp (http://newpcgadgets.com/products/ipad_clasp/index.html) is a new US$9.99 product that offers a solution for keeping your iPad case closed. It's constructed from a similar black rubber material as the Apple iPad Case and attaches with double-sided adhesive to the front.
The Clasp can be easily removed if necessary. Once attached, the Clasp adheres to the back of the Apple case with a Velcro tab and holds both sides closed.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-197912"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">The folks at WristOffice (http:/www.wristoffice.com) say their WristOffice "hands-free" solution, iPhone users no longer have to hold their iPhone and worry about signal loss.
WristOffice is a universal mobile device accessory (MDA) that attaches your cell or mobile device to your wrist, says company co-founder Walt Froloff. With WristOffice it becomes a hands-free and hands-on device while driving using the speaker phone or Bluetooth. WristOffice works with most mobile devices, he adds.
It's available in a variety of colors. The WristOffice costs US$34.77.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-197911"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Thursby Software Systems has announced the latest versions of its ADmitMac and DAVE software. Key enhancements to the ADmitMac and DAVE software include:
° Broader support for Microsoft Distributed File System (DFS), which is not offered native with Apple OS X;
° Better network volume integration for popular Mac applications such as Adobe’s Creative Suite and Apple Final Cut Pro;
° Deeper ADmitMac support for Microsoft Active Directory/Group Policy Objects (GPO) along with Mac Workgroup Manager (WGM) for identity and access management from either the PC or Mac sides of an organization.
Thursby’s client-based solutions allow Macs to be managed just like PCs. Support is by Mac-Windows specialists rather than AppleCare or UNIX generalists.
ADmitMac software turns a Mac into a true Active Directory client. DAVE software delivers commercial grade Mac file and printer sharing with Windows. For more info to to http://www.thursby.com/company/news/news.html .</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-197910"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Apple released Mac OS X 10.6.4 Update iMac (Mid 2010) for its new iMac models and has introduced the Magic Trackpad and Multi-Touch Update.
Mac OS X v10.6.5 Update iMac Mid 2010 (http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1065) is recommended for all users of the new iMacs. This update contains all the applicable fixes from the Mac OS X 10.6.4 Update, plus the following specific fixes for iMac (Mid 2010):
° Resolves compatibility and performance-related graphics issues;
° Improves compatibility with large-format SDXC memory cards'
° Adds support for Magic Trackpad.
It requires Mac OS X 10.6.3 or higher and is a 452.62MB download.
The Magic Trackpad and Multi-Touch Update enables Magic Trackpad support on Intel-based Macs. It also adds inertial scrolling and three-finger drag gesture support to recent MacBook Pro and MacBook models. It requires Mac OS X 10.6.4.
Both updates can be obtained via the Software Updates Component of Mac OS X's Systems Preferences app.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-197894"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Apple has been accused of censoring the iPad book chart after four pornographic titles mysteriously disappeared from the bestseller list, according to a "Telegraph" report (http://macosg.me/2/lo).
Of course, it's not the first time that Apple has faced accusations of censorship. The company embarked on a “great porn purge” in February, ridding its iPhone App Store of all “overtly sexual content," notes the "Telegraph."</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-197888"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Another day, another lawsuit. Apple is being sued over claims that its iPad easily overheats, then suddenly switches itself off, reports "Computerworld" (http://macosg.me/2/ln).
In a complaint filed with an Oakland, Calif. federal court last Friday, three plaintiffs accused Apple of everything from fraud and deceptive advertising to violations of California's consumer protection and unfair business practices laws by making, marketing and selling allegedly defective tablets, the article adds. Jacob Balthazar, Claudia Keller and John Browning claim they were duped into buying a defective device by Apple's claim that "reading on iPad is just like reading a book."
"The iPad does not live up to the reasonable consumer's expectations created by Apple insofar as the iPad overheats so quickly under common weather conditions that it does not function for prolonged use outdoors, or in many other warm conditions," the complaint read. According to the class complaint, the iPad unexpectedly shuts...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-197860"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Apple has unveiled a new Mac Pro line with up to 12 processing cores and purportedly up to 50% greater performance than the previous generation. It features the latest quad-core and six-core Intel Xeon processors, all-new ATI graphics and the option for up to four 512GB solid state drives (SSD).
“The new Mac Pro is the most powerful and configurable Mac we’ve ever made,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing, in a press announcement. “With up to 12 cores, the new Mac Pro outperforms our previous top-of-the-line system by up to 50% , and with over a billion possible configurations, our customers can create exactly the system they want.”
At the heart of the new Mac Pro’s performance are next generation quad-core and six-core Intel Xeon processors running at speeds up to 3.33 GHz. These multi-core processors use a single die design so each core can share up to 12MB L3 cache to improve efficiency while increasing processing speed. These systems...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-197859"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Apple has unveiled a new 27-inch LED Cinema Display with 2560 x 1440 resolution and 60% more screen real estate than the 24-inch LED Cinema Display. Featuring a built-in iSight video camera, microphone and speakers, powered USB 2.0 hub, and universal MagSafe connector, the new LED Cinema Display is designed as a companion for the MacBook family or a Mac desktop, and is available for US$999.
The new, larger 27-inch LED Cinema Display features a16:9 edge-to-edge glass display on an aluminum stand with an adjustable hinge for tilting the display almost effortless. The LED Cinema Display has vivid colors and exceptionally high contrast and uses a premium display technology called in-plane switching (IPS) to provide a brilliant image across an ultra wide 178 degree viewing angle, according to Apple.
Its three-port USB 2.0 hub allows users to charge their iPhone or iPod even when they take their MacBook with them. The new LED Cinema Display now includes a new ambient light sensor which...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-197858"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Apple has unveiled a new Mac Pro line with up to 12 processing cores and purportedly up to 50% greater performance than the previous generation. It features the latest quad-core and six-core Intel Xeon processors, all-new ATI graphics and the option for up to four 512GB solid state drives (SSD).
“The new Mac Pro is the most powerful and configurable Mac we’ve ever made,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing, in a press announcement. “With up to 12 cores, the new Mac Pro outperforms our previous top-of-the-line system by up to 50% , and with over a billion possible configurations, our customers can create exactly the system they want.”
At the heart of the new Mac Pro’s performance are next generation quad-core and six-core Intel Xeon processors running at speeds up to 3.33 GHz. These multi-core processors use a single die design so each core can share up to 12MB L3 cache to improve efficiency while increasing processing speed. These systems...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-197857"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Starting at US$1,199, the new iMac line is the fastest ever with dual-core processor speeds up to 3.6 GHz, quad-core speeds up to 2.93GHz and discrete graphics including the ATI Radeon HD 5750. Offered as an $69 option is a new Magic Trackpad, with a smooth glass and aluminum design, which gives iMac users the same intuitive Multi-Touch gestures that Mac notebook customers enjoy -- and is available separately for $69. 
“We took the world’s best all-in-one and made it even better,” says Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing, in a press release. “With the latest processors, high-performance graphics and signature aluminum and glass design, customers are going to love the latest iMac.”
He says dual-core Intel Core i3 and Core i5, and quad-core Core i5 and Core i7 processors set a new benchmark for iMac performance. The processors feature an integrated memory controller to access the system memory directly, allowing the new iMac to take full...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-197456"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Roxio has released Roxio Retrospect 8.2 for Mac, a key update to the company’s backup and recovery software that allows small and midsize businesses to protect critical data stored on Mac, Windows, and Linux servers, desktops, and notebooks.
Retrospect 8.2, the first release since Roxio took over the product line in May, delivers as much as three times faster network backup performance, adds 64-bit addressing to enable the backup of volumes containing tens of millions of files, and includes user interface enhancements that workflow and management tasks.
 
Another major feature included in Roxio Retrospect 8.2 for Mac is the ability to restore from backups created with Retrospect 6. This feature addresses a key request from users who wanted to upgrade to the Retrospect 8 platform, but didn’t want to manage and maintain a version 6 install in order to perform restores of older archived backups.
 
First introduced in 2009, Retrospect version 8 was redesigned from the ground up with a...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-197454"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">iwascoding has released version 6.0 of GarageSale (http://www.iwascoding.com/GarageSale/Features.html), the US$39.99 eBay auction software for Mac OS. The application has been rewritten to use Apple's CoreData technology and run in 64-bit mode on supported Macs for improved performance.
What's more, requested features as inventory tracking, improved batch editing, and
more controls for auction designs have been added. GarageSale is a client application for the eBay online auction system that lets you compose auctions with a Mac-like interface. GarageSale integrates perfectly with iPhoto, offers WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) text editing and comes with over 70 free design templates.
Garage Sale is a Universal Binary app, so runs natively on PowerPC and Intel Macs. It requires Mac OS X 10.3.9 or higher.
GarageSale 6 is a paid upgrade for existing users. Upgrade prices start at $16.99 for a single user license.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-197406"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Counting the iPad as a computer (and why not? it runs a specialized version of Mac OS X) Canalys (http://www.canalys.com) says Apple is now among the top five global personal computer vendors.
According to a new report by the research group, Apple rates in the top five, following the iPad’s capture of approximately 6% of the portable computer segment during the second quarter of 2010. Yep, Canalys counts the iPad as a portable computer.
“Apart from the ‘Apple effect,’ the iPad owes its success to a lack of advancement in other portable computing segments, such as netbooks,” Chris Jones, a Canalys principal analyst, said in a statement to "eWeek" (http://macosg.me/2/lm). "To capture share moving forward, PC makers will have to take the netbook to the next level or go after new customer segments with their own pads.”
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-197375"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Apple was threatened Monday with a fine if it didn't act on a dispute in which thousands of visitors to its online store in Taiwan tried to buy computers that were wrongly priced at massive discounts, reports "AFP" (http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100726/ts_alt_afp/taiwanuscomputercompanya...).
The Taipei city government said Apple had mis-priced two models Friday afternoon, with one on sale for a little over 40% of what it should have been. Apple corrected the prices hours later but by that time more than 200,000 units had been ordered.
"AFP" says Apple hasn't said if it would deliver the products on the misquoted prices. After an initial investigation, the city government's Law and Regulation Commission issued an ultimatum to the company, the article adds.
"The city government has tried to reach Apple since Friday afternoon but has not yet received any response from it over the more than 30 consumer complaints," Yeh Ching-yuan, chief of the commission, said in a statement.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-197357"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Owners of the iPhone will be able to legally unlock their devices so they can run software applications that haven't been approved by Apple, according to new government rules announced Monday.
The "Associated Press" reports (http://macosg.me/2/lk) that the decision to allow the practice commonly known as "jailbreaking" is one of a handful of new exemptions from a 1998 federal law that prohibits people from bypassing technical measures that companies put on their products to prevent unauthorized uses. The Library of Congress, which oversees the Copyright Office, reviews and authorizes exemptions every three years to ensure that the law does not prevent certain non-infringing uses of copyright-protected material.
The new government rules, however, won't stop Apple from continuing its practice of disabling jailbroken phones with software upgrades, notes the "AP." That means owners of such phones might not be able to take advantage of software improvements, and they still run the risk of...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-197351"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">AT&T (http://www.att.com) has reportedly begun a fix for a glitch in software supplied by Alcatel-Lucent SA that was causing slower download speeds in some areas of the U.S. for customers using the iPhone 4 and other devices, reports "Bloomberg" (http://macosg.me/2/l).
Mark Siegel, an AT&T spokesman, said in an e-mail the company expected the issue to be resolved within two to three weeks. AT&T said earlier this month that fewer than 2% of its wireless customers were affected. Customers were experiencing slow responses when sending data such as photos or e-mail from their devices, Alcatel-Lucent said earlier this month.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-197346"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">The Khronos Group has released the OpenGL 4.1 spec, bringing the latest graphics functionality to the cross-platform 2D and 3D graphics API (application programming interface). It's the sixth update to OpenGL specification in two years.
This new version continues to maintain full backwards compatibility to enable developers to begin using new features whenever they choose, while portably accessing state-of-the-art GPU functionality across diverse operating systems and platforms, according to Barthold Lichtenbelt, OpenGL ARB working group chair and senior manager Core OpenGL at Nvidia.
The OpenGL 4.1 specification has been defined by the OpenGL ARB (Architecture Review Board) working group at Khronos, and includes the GLSL 4.10 update to the OpenGL Shading language and is accompanied by a number of extensions introducing cutting-edge functionality to the OpenGL standard. The full specification is available for immediate download at http://www.opengl.org/registry .</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-197328"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Comm-Unity Networking Systems has released CNS Audit 1.5 (http://cnsaudit.cnsplug-ins.com), an update of the audit trail plug-in for FileMaker Pro to add to your databases. This version brings speed improvements all around, especially for FileMaker Pro 11.
It also adds support for multi-file database solutions, including solutions based on the Data Separation Model. 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....</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-197291"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Visitors can now access internet anywhere in the UK without roaming costs or needing to find wifi hotspots. Through MifiClub (http://mificlub.com/tour), international travelers with iPhones, iPads, and laptops can go online anywhere in the UK without roaming costs or WiFi hotspots.
MifiClub offers mifi device rentals online and sends it to the visitor's UK address such as their hotel. It purportedly only takes three minutes to order mobile WiFi and have it waiting for you in the UK.
The mifi is a small device with a button on it. You push it and get WiFi. MiFiClub says they'll make sure your mifi is charged, loaded, and waiting for you at your hotel or friend's address. You'll get the small device and USB charger, along with a pre-paid return envelope. Drop it off at a postbox or hand it to a member of staff at the hotel on or before your last day.
Visitors can have their own portable wifi hotspot for about £3.57 per day. MifiClub offers three day, one week, two week, three week...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-197290"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">RapidWeaver theme developer seyDoggy (http://www.seydesign.com) has reinvented their Creamy theme as Creami3, which includes six ExtraContent areas, a built-in slide show with 20 customizable banners, variable size rounded corners, many widths to choose from, sidebar width and positioning, and a selection of typographical control.
Creami3 uses seyDoggy's new smart navigation method to distribute the sub-navigation components to their designated areas. The end result is a multi-tiered navigation system that is produced with 50% to 66% less markup for cleaner, more semantic code, according to the folks at seyDoggy. The company has also employed the new HTML5 and CSS3 working drafts, and is fast-tracking their upcoming modern browser support policy by a few months as a result.
Creami3 officially supports IE8 , Safari 4 , Firefox 3.5 , Opera 10.5 , and Chrome 5 . Creami3 can be used with IE7 but user experience may be somewhat hindered by speed.
It requires Mac OS X 10.4.11 or higher and...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-197289"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Syncro Soft has released version 6.0 of its Mac compatible SVN client (http://www.syncrosvnclient.com). The new version sports a redesigned application layout, configurable working copy view, synchronized history view and guiding hints.
Syncro SVN client license with a one year maintenance pack costs US$59. A Syncro SVN client site license with a one-year maintenance pack is $2,970. Volume discount rates are available starting with five licenses. Syncro SVN Client can be run on Mac OS X, Windows, Linux and Solaris systems.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-197288"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Norbert M. Doerner has updated CDFinder (http://www.cdfinder.de), software for organizing your disk and data archive and keeping track of digital media assets, to version 5.7.1. The upgrade can now catalog GeoTags in iPhone movies, and import native DiskLibrary databases.
Since CDFinder now supports Elgato EyeTV recordings (.eyetv), it will show the thumbnail for the recording, and also extensive metadata as well, such as the EPG description, director, actors, and much more. All that is cataloged, displayed, and can be searched as well.
The GeoFinder inside CDFinder now uses the street-level OpenStreetMap for the GPS search (this requires Mac OS X 10.5 or higher). That's much nicer than the built-in map, but since it requires Internet access, the old map is still available, says Doerner.
CDFinder requires Mac OS X 10.4 and higher. As a Universal Binary, it runs natively on both PowerPC and Intel-Macs. A single user license is US$30, though version 5.7.1 is a free update for...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-197276"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Apple's iPhone has been named the "Coolest Thing on the Planet" in an UK poll of 3,000 Brits by Costs Coffe To take top slot in the poll, the must-have phone beat off competition from things like the Aston Martin DB9, the internet and Johnny Depp, reports "Newslite" (http://macosg.me/2/le). Apple placed number two on the list, and the iPad came in at number 17.
"It's been interesting seeing what the nation deems to be cool," says a spokesperson for Costa Coffee. "I's no surprise gadgets like the iPhone and supercars like the Aston Martin DB9 feature highly."</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-197270"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Artman21 (http://www.artman21.com/en/jedit_x/) has updated Jedit X, the Cocoa-based text editor for Mac OS X, to version 2.2.5. It's a maintenance update with three improvements and five bug fixes.
Jedit X is an Universal Binary app so runs natively on both PowerPC and Intel Macs. It requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher. The cost is US$28 for a single-user license, though version 2.2.5 is a free update for registered users.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-197264"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Apple’s iPhone 4 will be available in 17 more countries this Friday, July 30. On this date customers can purchase iPhone 4 in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, New Zealand, Singapore, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland.
The iPhone 4 will be available for purchase through Apple’s retail and online stores and Apple Authorized Resellers. It's currently available in France, Germany, Japan, the UK and the US for a suggested retail price of US$199 (US) for the 16GB model and $299 for the 32GB model.
iPhone 4 will roll out to many more countries later this year and Apple will announce availability and local pricing for these additional countries at a later date.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-197085"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Tablet computers such as the iPad may allow the news industry a "re-set" and to start charging for content after years of giving it away for free, News Corp. chief digital officer Jon Miller said Friday,
He added that it was too early to make any judgements about the experiment of News Corp.'s The Times with a paid website but charging online readers was "an idea whose time has come," according to an "AFP" report (http://macosg.me/2/l9).
"A year ago, we were pretty out front with the idea that content has value," Miller told an audience of top technology and media executives at the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference in Aspen, Colorado. Now, "it's accepted at a variety of levels. It's more about how it gets done."
Miller said tablet computers such as the iPad offer opportunities for news organizations to develop paid applications.
"You see apps being consumed that are paid-for apps," he said. "I think we're seeing a fundamental shift in where content is consumed and it's on to these...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-197042"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Aimersoft Studio, has released its new upgraded video converter family products -- Video Converter, Video Converter Pro and Video Converter Ultimate -- which offer a more quick and simple way for users to edit and convert videos, rip DVDs and even download online videos for all mobile devices like smartphones, Apple devices and other portable players.
The most noticeable changes for this upgrade include:
° The removal of DRM copy protection from WMV WMA, iTunes M4P M4A M4V AAC M4B ASF;
° The ability to download online videos from YouTube, Metacafe, Google, etc. directly;
° The ability to directly transfer songs & videos to portable players like iPod, iPhone, iPad and PSP, etc;
° The ability to rip DVD movies to common video/audio files;
° The ability to burn files to DVD disc, DVD folder or ISO files;
° The ability to edit videos by splitting, clipping, cropping and merging, etc.
Besides these changes, the new Video Converter also simplified its interface and improved maximum user...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-196941"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Early bird registration for MacTech Conference 2010 has been extended to Aug. 9. In only a week since registration opened, the conference has had attendees register from around the world: from Sweden to Japan, from New York to Hawaii, and just about everywhere in between. 
Fortune 500 companies, small companies, and individual consultants are coming together to meet up at the conference. However, space is limited so those interested in attending are encouraged to register now. You can register here: https://forms.mactech.com/fillsurvey.php?sid=141 .
The MacTech Conference is a three-day technical conference designed to raise the level of knowledge for the entire Apple/Mac community. It will be held Nov. 3-5, 2010, in Los Angeles at the Sheraton Universal in Universal City. The event will have sessions and activities throughout the day and evening giving attendees the opportunity to not only learn from the best, but also to get to know others in the industry.
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-196934"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">MacProVideo (http:www.macProVideo.com) has released new "Tips 'N Tricks" (TNT) tutorials for Cubase and Native Instruments Komplete. These two new tutorials provide users with up to 30 minutes of new tips and tricks tutorials every month.
The first title, called "Native Instruments 303: NI Komplete TNT 1" provides monthly tips on using Native Instrument's flagship audio program. The second title, "Cubase 303: Cubase TNT 1" covers workflow techniques for Steinberg's Cubase software and is produced by Steinberg's y own product demonstrator Matthew Loel T. Hepworth.
These tutorials are available from MacProVideo.com’s web site for both HD Download and streaming through the company’s extensive Online Tutorial Library.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-196933"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">SmartSound has released a set of three video tutorials showing a new royalty free music workflow for Adobe After Effects CS5 users.  
SmartSound’s Sonicfire Pro 5.5 Scoring Edition offers several workflow options designed to make it easy for an After Effects user to create compelling soundtracks that are synchronized to their visuals. The free video tutorials can be watched at SmartSound’s web site (http://www.smartsound.com/university/After_Effects.html).
In addition to automatically delivering music in custom lengths, SmartSound enables control of the music arrangement and instrument mix for a customized end result.  All of these features are available in a roundtrip workflow that allows unlimited fine-tuning of the music without the need to save any project files in Sonicfire Pro.
The video tutorials were created by Jeff Foster, an video producer and author/educator on video topics including Adobe After Effects. He's an Adobe Certified Expert and has served as an instructor and...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-196858"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">LG Display may cut production of its liquid crystal displays (LCD) next month due to weak demand from TV makers but is unable to meet strong demand tied to Apple's iPad tablet computer, reports "Reuters" (http://macosg.me/2/l5).
"We are now running at full capacity but we are considering production cuts in August," LG Display CEO Kwon Young-soo told reporters. "The level of reduction will be smaller than the industry average."
LG is a suppler for the iPad, which has sold 3.47 million units since its April launch. Kwon said LG Display was unable to meet growing demand from Apple.
"Demand (from Apple) keeps growing and we can't meet it all," he told reporters."Apple may have to delay launches of the iPad for some countries due to tight component supplies and strong demand. We are considering increasing production lines for iPad products but overall supply is likely to remain tight until early next year."</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-196831"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Apple has been named a finalist as "Tech Brand of the Year" and "Retailer of the Year" by "T3 Magazine" (http://awards.t3.com/) in its annual Gadget Awards. The company also racked up several other nominations.
About Apple, "T3" had this to say: "Originally known for its sleek, Jonathan Ive-designed Mac computers, Apple has shamed the collective mobile industry with its sudden iPhone dominance, and the launch of the iPad has seen a whole new front open.
"As every other manufacturer scrambles to launch a tablet PC too, Apple has shown just how visionary it's design and marketing departments still are.
"The closed Apple app ecosystem has a Marmite flavour to it, but the simplicity of use has seen millions flock to it, and created brand power that all others must be studying with interest. With the iPhone 4 launch interest already reaching near hysteria, it's certain that Apple will continue to be one of the top brands of the year."
The Gadget Awards also see the following Apple products...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-196830"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">iPhone 4 owners can now order free bumpers from Apple. The bumpers are made by companies such as Speck, Belkin, Griffin and InCase. However, you'll have to download an app for their iPhone that handles the process.
To request a free case, iPhone 4 owners must enter their Apple ID or iTunes Store account info into the app -- available at the Apple App Store (http://www.itunes.com/appstore/) -- before picking our their bumper or case. For iPhone 4 purchases made before July 23, 2010, you must apply no later than Aug. 22. Otherwise, you must apply within 30 days of your iPhone 4 purchase, says Apple.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-196828"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Apple has been named a finalist as "Tech Brand of the Year" and "Retailer of the Year" by "T3 Magazine" (http://awards.t3.com/) in its annual Gadget Awards. The company also racked up several other nominations.
About Apple, "T3" had this to say: "Originally known for its sleek, Jonathan Ive-designed Mac computers, Apple has shamed the collective mobile industry with its sudden iPhone dominance, and the launch of the iPad has seen a whole new front open.
"As every other manufacturer scrambles to launch a tablet PC too, Apple has shown just how visionary it's design and marketing departments still are.
"The closed Apple app ecosystem has a Marmite flavour to it, but the simplicity of use has seen millions flock to it, and created brand power that all others must be studying with interest. With the iPhone 4 launch interest already reaching near hysteria, it's certain that Apple will continue to be one of the top brands of the year."
The Gadget Awards also see the following Apple products...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-196827"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Amazon says the iPad has helped boost its own e-reader, after Kindle sales rose every month since its rival's launch in May, reports the "London Evening Standard" (http://macosg.me/2/l1).
"The iPad has made more people aware of e-readers," says Brian McBride, managing director of Amazon in the UK. "We're selling more Kindles, which means we're selling more Kindle books. Even when people buy iPads, they are downloading the Kindle app in pretty significant numbers. For every 100 hardbacks we've sold in the past three months, we've sold 143 Kindle books.”</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-196826"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Vodafone Group, the world’s largest mobile-phone company," unexpectedly" returned to service revenue growth after a year and a half, riding demand for the iPhone in the U.K. and other markets, reports "Bloomberg" (http://macosg.me/2/l2).
The company began selling iPhone in the U.K. in January after initially missing out on offering the device. Service revenue excluding currency swings and acquisitions in the three months ended June 30 rose 1.1% to 10.6 billion pounds ($16.2 billion).</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-196812"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Apple has released the second preview version of its Xcode 4 developer preview at the Apple Developer web site (http://developer.apple.com/). It sports a new interface, automatic code fixing as you type and includes iOS SDK 4.
Xcode is the complete toolset for building Mac, iPhone, and iPad applications. Apple says that, with Xcode 4, the tools have been redesigned to be faster, easier to use, and more helpful than ever before.
"The Xcode IDE understands your project’s every detail, identifies mistakes in both syntax and logic, and will even fix your code for you," says Apple. "Quite simply, Xcode 4 will help you write better code."</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-196811"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">XanEdu (http://www.XanEdu.com), a faculty-preferred provider of CoursePacks and custom textbooks, has launched an iPad publishing program. The move, conducted in concert with several major institutions in North America and Harvard Business School Publishing, will allow students and instructors greater flexibility in accessing course materials.
"The launch of our iPad platform for coursepack publishing is in keeping with XanEdu's legacy of innovation, which included the introduction of online coursepack publishing over a decade ago," sys Dan Arbour, CEO of XanEdu Publishing. "Mobile computing is a way of life on campus, and enabling the iPad to be part of the classroom is a new way to engage students."  
Instructors will use the XanEdu CoursePack Management System to publish materials that students will then be able to access on an iPad. This capability is in addition to being fully integrated into learning management systems on campus. XanEdu's iPad platform also enables students to...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-196810"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">FileMaker, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Apple, has announced three special sessions focusing on FileMaker Go for iPhone and FileMaker Go for iPad to the FileMaker Developer Conference 2010 schedule.
The three workshops will provide exclusive information for FileMaker Pro developers about optimizing FileMaker Pro databases for iPhone and iPad. The conference, the largest annual gathering of worldwide FileMaker independent and corporate database developers, trainers, and users will take place at the Sheraton San Diego Hotel & Marina Aug. 15-18.
Introduced just two days ago and now available on the iTunes App Store, FileMaker Go for iPhone and FileMaker Go for iPad enable users to work with FileMaker Pro databases on an iPhone or iPad. With FileMaker Go, users can view, edit, and search for information in FileMaker databases on their iPhone or iPad.
This year's FileMaker Develper Conference will feature more than 80 sessions and workshops, the most ever offered. You can learn...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-196780"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Wanting a white iPhone 4? You'll have to wait a bit. Apple put out a statement today saying the phones have been delayed.
"White models of Apple’s new iPhone 4 have continued to be more challenging to manufacture than we originally expected, and as a result they will not be available until later this year," Apple says. "The availability of the more popular iPhone 4 black models is not affected."</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-196717"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Other World Computing (http://www.macsales.com) has announced the OWC Multi-Mount custom engineered powder-coated aircraft grade aluminum bracket kits for securely installing smaller form factor (2.5-inch and 3.5-inch) hard drives and Solid State Drives (SSD) into larger sized (3.5-inch and 5.25-inch) drive bays in Mac Pro, Power Mac G5, and PowerMac G4 computers produced since 1999.
Available in seven different adapter bracket kits from US$17.99 to provide drive size use versatility, the OWC Multi-Mount gives Mac Pro and Power Mac G4/G5 users, as well as PC tower users, the freedom to expand their computer’s drive capacity and configuration. The OWC Multi-Mount is available in seven different kits that come complete with all required installation hardware and a color installation manual for easy assembly. Two Mac Pro specific kits include power and drive connection cables.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-196715"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Red Giant Software (http://www.redgiantsoftware.com) has released Magic Bullet Colorista II, a high-end color correction app for Mac OS X 10.5.8 or higher. It's compatible with Apple Final Cut Pro, Adobe After Effects and Adobe Premiere Pro. Features include:
° A keyer that allows you to adjust individual colors or ranges of colors. You can create color keys with a direct sampling interface. You can often, choke or invert the matte, and use it in conjunction with Power Masks for ultimate control.
 
° Eight HSL channels: you have three color adjustment controls for changing Hue, Saturation and Luminance across nine color ranges.
° A Pop slider with two uses. You can give your image more visual "pop" by increasing the sharpness. Alternately, set Pop to negative values to smooth and clean up skin tones while keeping important detail.  
 
° Highlight recovery, which intelligently rebuilds blown-out highlight detail. Now you can save shots by hiding problems like blown-out areas in a sky...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-196703"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Apple has released Mac OS X Server v10.6.4 Update (v.1.1). The 615.34MB update is recommended for all servers currently running Snow Leopard Server version 10.6. It includes Safari 5 and general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility and security of your server, as well as specific fixes for:
° CalDAV querying of email addresses with Active Directory and Open Directory servers;
° Stability and reliability accessing Wiki Server pages;
° The ability to view movies on Wiki Server with Safari on iPad;
° Accessing publicly accessible Wikis when logged in to the Wiki Server;
° Listing blogs on Wiki Server;
° Vacation mail notices that span across multiple days;
°  Updates from Software Update Server viewable by clients;
° Stability and reliability to Software Update Server synchronization;
° Downloading of software updates by Software Update Server;
° Creating NetInstall images which include iLife updater packages;
° Addressing of issues copying, renaming, or...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-196642"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Graphic.ly (http://www.graphic.ly), the new digital media platform for comic books and communities of fans, has announced at Comic-Con that it now offers the first comic app available on smartphones, tablets, computers and desktop, another signal event in the transformation of comics to a digital medium that is more accessible by a wider audience and promises to bring new talent and content to the medium as well.
Graphic.ly is also offering exclusive bonus content in its store from notable creators including Heroes star Milo Ventimiglia and BOOM! Studios’ Mark Waid. By providing additional content, Graphic.ly has extended the digital comic experience similarly to how DVD Extras extend movie watching, according to CEO Micah Baldwin.
In addition, Graphic.ly’s exclusive relationship with Archaia will bring all of Archaia’s titles, such as Mouse Guard and Fraggle Rock, to its digital platform. Graphic.ly is also partnering with fashion and beauty site Modelinia to offer a title featuring...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-196641"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">I thought netbook sales were declining, but ABI Research (http://www.abiresearch.com) says this isn't true. This year, almost 60 million netbooks are expected to ship worldwide. According to a new set of forecasts from the research group.
This is almost double that number will be reaching global markets in 2013. This is the result of the rapid netbook market growth observed since the introduction of the new computer category in 2008, a trend which will only start to abate in 2014-2015, according to ABI Research.
As the netbook market matures, market shares are beginning to shift among vendors. Half a dozen vendors commanded 78% of the market in 2009, says ABI Research. Acer and ASUS (which pioneered the whole netbook concept with its Eee PC) held almost equal one-third shares of the market in 2008, but ASUS didn’t maintain that lead and lost half of its market share in 2009.
“Instead of having a preeminent two, it looks as if only Acer will continue to maintain its commanding lead;...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-196635"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Digital Anarchy has announced a 64-bit release to their Primatte Chromakey plug-in. Primatte 3.5 adds compatibility for Adobe Photoshop CS5 and 64-bit operation on Mac and Windows systems.
Primatte Chromakey is the blue/greenscreen solution for photography. Version 3.5 update also provides an improved interface for easier workflow, and adds behind-the-scenes improvements like background rendering to make Primatte faster and more responsive. 
 
Primatte Chromakey removes a blue/green background from a still image or footage, leaving the subject against a transparent background with any color cast removed. Versioin 3.5 excels in preserving important, difficult details like wisps of hair, translucent glass and mesh fabrics, according to Digital Anarchy President Jim Tierney. This makes it easy to convincingly place the subject on a custom background, then substitute that background as needed, he adds.
Primatte’s new 64-bit speed takes advantage of Photoshop Action and Batch...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-196625"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">A flaw in the implementation of Safari's AutoFill mechanism can be exploited to grab Mac users' names, street addresses, and e-mail addresses. Apparently, the web browser will give away a user's Mac OS X Address Book data if asked by a malicious web site.
Jeremy Grossman, the founder and chief technology officer of WhiteHat Security, says (http://macosg.me/2/kx) at the moment a user of Safari 4.x or 5.x visits a web site, even if they’ve never been there before or entered any personal information, a malicious website can uncover their first name, last name, work place, city, state, and email address.
All a malicious web site would have to do to surreptitiously extract Address Book card data from Safari is dynamically create form text fields with the names from AutoFill, probably invisibly, and then simulate A-Z keystroke events using JavaScript, he says. When data is populated, that is AutoFill’ed, it can be accessed and sent to the attacker.
"I have no idea when or if Apple plans to...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-196522"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">The software for Doxie (http://www.getdoxie.com), a paper scanner that scans directly to the cloud, is now shipping, has been updated to version 1.2. It adds a "Send to iPhone/iPod" feature.
Doxie now integrates directly with iTunes and Apple's free iBooks 1.1 app, so you can carry your PDFs anywhere.Designed for home and small businesses, the US$129 portable scanner is for scanning, sharing, and organizing paper and photos.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-196518"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Apple is seeking to hire engineers in as many as a dozen U.S. retail stores to put together Apple-based computer systems for small businesses, according to the "Wall Street Journal" (http://macosg.me/2/ku), noting job postings on Apple's web site.
The employees would implement computer systems for clients and are expected to be proficient in networking hardware and server platforms. "Thousands of businesses run on Apple products," the posting reads. "Many more would like to, and that's where you come in."
Apple is targeting smaller, local businesses that it can reach through its chain of nearly 300 retail stores, according to two Apple employees familiar with the company's strategy, according to the "Journal." The new jobs could pay up to US$80,000 a year, one of them said.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-196517"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Apple has appointed a new Senior Vice President of Operations dedicated to ensuring that Apple products meet "the highest standards of quality, reports "AppleInsider" (http://www.appleinsider.com).
Jeff Williams, who came from IBM to Apple more than a decade ago, was promoted this month to join Apple's executive team as chief operation officer Tim Cook's right hand man, the article adds. He could be Cook's replacement if and when Cook takes over the CEO position from Steve Jobs -- not that there's any indication this will happen anytime soon.
Williams joined Apple in 1998 as the company's head of worldwide procurement and in 2004 was promoted to the position of Vice President for Operations. Since the launch of the iPhone in 2007, Williams has led worldwide operations for both the iPhone and iPod. Prior to his arrival at Apple, Williams spent 13 years at IBM in a number of capacities.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-196516"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Jeri Chandler, president of Dat-A-Syst (http://www.datasyst.net), announced today that her company has been designated as an “Apple Authorized Service Provider."
A Charlotte, North Carolina, business for over 23 years, Dat-A-Syst has been servicing printers and plotters, maintaining computers and networks, iPods and even Sony game consoles and Xbox. Their location at 4035 South Boulevard is convenient to most of Charlotte.
Because of the easy access and parking, dropping off equipment is not the challenge that occurs with other Apple service companies, Chandler says. As an Authorized Service Provider, Dat-A-Syst can provide Apple Care service and warranty work for Apple products.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-196511"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">The PandaWare Company (http://www.pandaware.com) has updated TimeCache Manager, allows for streamlined management of a workgroup's TimeCache data, to version 1.1.3. The new version offers workflow and allows additional customization.
TimeCache Manager gives workgroups a way to easily coordinate billing for multiple PandaWare TimeCache users. A demo is available for download; registration is US$250.Version 1.1.3 is a free update for registered users.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-196510"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Pomola Software has updated Mac Shutdown X (http://pomola.com/products_macshutdown/macshutdown.html), a Mac OS X utility for shutting down a Mac on a specified event or on a specified date and time, to version 1.5.3. It's a maintenance update with some bug fixes.
Mac Shutdown X costs US$20. Version 1.5.3 is a free update for registered users. The software is Universal Binary so runs natively on both PowerPC and Intel Macs. It requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-196505"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">OTAG Technologies has updated iSMARTtrain (http://www.ismarttrain.com), a Mac OS X application for downloading from Polar heart rate monitors and tracking and analyzing sports training, to version 3.0.7. The latest release contains new features and bug fixes including support for Garmin's Edge 500 and route mapping. Development work on the software has been carried out in conjunction with leading sports scientist, coach and writer Joe Beer.
The software is designed to allow multi-sport and single sport endurance athletes, for example triathletes, duathletes, runners and cyclists, to download training data, such as heart rate, cadence, speed and power, from Polar heart rate monitors and analyze it in graph, table and list formats. Information about training sessions, for example duration, distance and speed can also be reviewed.
Any number of different sports can be tracked, using either metric or imperial units for each sport. Commonly used routes and sessions can be stored and...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-196503"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">AT&T (http://www.att.com) has reported solid second-quarter results highlighted by double-digit earnings growth, an increase in consolidated revenues and improved margins. These results were driven by continued growth in mobile broadband, including a record quarter for iPhone activations, gains in IP-based and strategic business services and disciplined execution on cost initiatives.
The company saw 3.2 million iPhone activations in second quarter. AT&T saw a 10.3% increase in wireless service revenues, with postpaid subscriber ARPU (average monthly revenues per subscriber) up 3.4%.
For the quarter ending June 30, 2010, AT&T's consolidated revenues totaled US$30.8 billion, up $194 million, or 0.6%, versus the year-earlier quarter, marking the company's second consecutive quarter with a year-over-year revenue increase. Versus the first quarter of this year, consolidated revenues were up $278 million, or 0.9%.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-196500"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">According to the latest research from Strategy Analytics (http://www.strategyanalytics.com), global smartphone shipments grew 43% year-over-year to reach 60 million units in the second quarter of 2010.
RIM shipped 11.2 million smartphones worldwide in Q2 2010, beating Apple’s 8.4 million units during the quarter. RIM is the number one smartphone player in North and South America, but its global marketshare of 19% is still a long way behind Nokia’s leading 40% share.
"Global smartphone shipments reached a record 60 million units during Q2 2010, accounting for 19% of handset volumes, and growing a healthy 43% from 42 million in Q2 2009," says Strategy Analytics analyst Alex Spektor. "Sales are being driven at an above-average rate by strong operator subsidies, vigorous competition between high-end vendors and a growing tide of lower-cost models using operating software like Symbian and Android."
"The global smartphone industry is growing volume but the industry’s value is beginning to...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-196228"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Publicspace.net (http://www.publicspace.net/) has released A Better Finder Rename 8.6.3, an update of the renaming solution for the Mac. The upgrade improves the "rename from file list" feature with improved compatibility for Microsoft Excel exported file lists.
A Better Finder Rename costs US$19.95. Business, family and enterprise licensing is also available. Customers may chose to include a "forever upgrade" with their purchase.
A Better Finder Rename requires Mac OS X 10.5 or 10.6. It's Universal Binary so runs natively on both PowerPC and Intel Macs.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-196227"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Xeric Design has released version 5.4.1 of EarthDesk (http://www.xericdesign.com/earthdesk.php), the real-time dynamic desktop map for Mac OS X. The new version fixes some bugs.
EarthDesk replaces your static desktop with a photo-realistic image of the Earth showing current sun, moon and city illumination as well as real-time global cloud coverage (hurricanes, storms, and worldwide weather systems) on your desktop. It operates silently in the background, keeping your desktop updated while you work. Unlike a screen saver, which only appears when your system is idle, EarthDesk's dynamic desktop is continuously displayed as your desktop background (and optionally as a screen saver).
EarthDesk requires Mac OS X 10.5 or newer. Single user copies may be purchased online for US$24.95. Upgrades are available for $12.95 for licensed users of version 4 and $17.95 for licensed</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-196226"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Tagtrum has released version 2.1.11 of beaTunes (http://www.beatunes.com), the iTunes add-on for Mac and Windows. The new release is a maintenance update that fixes some bugs.
BeaTunes can detect various types of metadata, such as beats-per-minute and musical key, as well as find and fix typos and inconsistencies such as misspelled artists and rarely used genres. It analyzes the color and tempo (BPM) of your songs, intelligently creates playlists of matching songs, corrects your iTunes Music Library (typos, wrong genres, etc.), lets you blog about your playlists and more.
A seven-day demo version is available at the product web site. Registration is US$31.95. Upgrades to version 2.1.11 from 1.x are $11.95 and free for registered 2.x users. beaTunes requires Mac OS X 10.5.8 or higher.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-196350"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Toon Boom Animation has announced the upcoming release of Toon Boom Storyboard Pro 2 (http://www.toonboom.com/products/storyboardpro/), a new version that the company says infuses more power and flexibility into the idea creation, development and visualization process.
New feature highlights include:
° Content creation tools: an extended set of tools and tool properties; the creation and reuse of brushes with specific settings; creation of custom brushes using a stroke or a series of strokes; setting of separate colors for Brush, Pencil and Paint tools; selection of strokes based on the current color selection; extended rich text support for captions; and the addition of sketch captions on a panel-by-panel basis.
° Input/output capabilities: Final Draft 8 support; customization of the PDF export on a panel-by-panel basis; improved PDF Export with Analyze functionality; extended export to Final Cut Pro through XML; Final Cut Pro conformation (import/export); and the ability to...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-196307"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Despite the smaller screen, web video viewers stick around longer on mobile devices than they do on the desktop, according to data from MeFeedia (http://www.mefeedia.com), media search website that features videos, TV shows, movies, and music among other material that target the male demographic of age ranging 18-35.
MeFeedia analyzed the habits of 125,000 unique mobile visitors to its site since July 1 and found on average, iPad users are sticking with videos for five minutes, Symbian users are sticking around for 4.1 minutes, Android users are lasting three minutes, and iPhone users last 2.4 minutes.
"While those numbers sound rather small, in the world of web video, they're pretty good," notes "Silicon Alley Insider" (http://macosg.me/2/ko). In March, TubeMogul reported the average video view time was below two minutes, which means video viewing on mobile devices is higher, and in the case of the iPad significantly higher."</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-196306"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Verizon? Who needs Verizon? T-Mobile USA "is very close" to getting the iPhone in the fall, ending Apple’s exclusive relationship with AT&T, according to "Cult of Mac" (http://macosg.me/2/kn), quoting a "highly placed source at the wireless company."
Talks between Apple and T-Mobile are at an advanced stage, the source says. "Cult of Mac" says its "80% likely" that the iPhone will be coming to T-Mobile in the third quarter of 2010.
T-Mobile’s parent company, Deutsche Telekom, which carries the iPhone in Germany, was able to influence, the source said. T-Mobile USA is the fourth-largest U.S. carrier with 33.7 million customers.
This is not the first time T-Mobile was rumored as a possible iPhone carrier. In November 2009 Thomas Weisel analyst Doug Reid predicted that T-Mobile and NOT Verizon will land the deal. Why?
Verizon and Google represent one side of the warring wireless camps vying against Apple/AT&T, while the Motorola Droid effort represents another, he said. In that...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-196270"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Twelve South (http://www.twelvesouth.com) has introduced Compass, an US$39.99 compact folding stand made exclusively for the iPad. It's designed to hold the iPad in two different modes.
In the upright easel mode, Compass displays iPad in both portrait and landscape positions. The work mode positions iPad at an angle for typing. Adding to the convenience, Compass folds down to the size of a candy bar for easy portability. Silicone feet prevent it from slipping or scratching whatever surface it’s placed upon.
Made of heavy gauge steel, the stand is purportedly easy to set up. Simply unfold the three legs, flip open the iPad supports, and it’s ready for use. To switch to work mode, flip open the secondary leg and lean it on a work surface to use. The stand can be used even if iPad is in a case like the Apple iPad Case.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-196208"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Samsung (http://www.samsung.com) has announced the latest additions to its DualView camera portfolio, the 14.2 mega-pixel ST600 (pictured) and ST100. They're due in September for US$329.99 and $349.99, respectively.
The new flagship models of the Samsung DualView camera family each received an upgrade to their front LCD screens, activated by a simple tap, which now measure 1.8 inches compared to the 1.5-inch front LCD screens found on their DualView predecessors. The Samsung DualView ST600 and ST100 are encased in a slim compact frame with a metallic finish.
The cameras come equipped with Schneider Kreuznach lenses supported by Optical and Digital Image Stabilizations. The ST600 combines a 27mm wide-angle focal length with a 5x optical zoom, while the ST100 is the first Samsung DualView digital camera to feature an internal, 5x optical zoom.
The new ST600 and ST100 feature Samsung’s Smart Auto (Still & Movie) scene recognition technology. Smart Auto (Still & Movie) analyzes...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-196206"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">A group of media and electronics companies have announced an agreement on an all-formats system called UltraViolet for digital downloads. The single standard will allow the consumer to purchase films to be viewed on any device -- a computer, smartphone, game console, Blu-ray player, and television.
Backed by 48 companies, including film studios such as Paramount, Warner Bros., Sony and Fox, and tech firms like Microsoft, Toshiba, Panasonic as well as Intel and Comcast, the consortium, called the Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (DECE) covers the spectrum of entertainment, software, hardware, and retail companies. The only holdouts are the Walt Disney Company, which has developed its own system called KeyChest, and Apple, according to "The Independent" (http://macosg.me/2/kl). Whether they will participate in the future is unknown.
UltraViolet, a universal file format, could launch by the end of the year or in 2011, after the system is tested with an unnamed retailer.
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-196205"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Kensington says six of its products have met the compatibility requirements to become Apple iPhone 4 certified.  All of the products are available now at: http://us.kensington.com/html/17765.html .
The US$24.99 Kensington PowerBolt Micro Car Charger lets you charge iPad, iPhone and iPod in your vehicle. The $19.99 PowerBolt Car Charger does the same for the iPhone or iPod; there’s even a detachable cable for charging and syncing from your home computer.
The Kensington 2-in-1 Car Charger and AUX Audio Cable ($39.99) charges your iPhone and connects directly to your car stereo´s AUX port. The 3.5-foot long charging and audio cable powers both iPhone or iPod with an input of 10V-24V DC and output of 5V-700mA DC.  
The Kensington Noise-Reducing AUX Audio Cable ($19.99) offers direct AUX (auxiliary) connection and noise reducing technology combine. The $14.99 Kensington Power and Sync Cable offers a second cable for your iPhone, iPod or iPad to keep in your desk or in your notebook case....</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-196203"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Apple is poised to become the world's biggest buyer of semiconductors in 2012, as it rides the wave of strong demand for its iPad and iPhone, according to the iSuppli research group (http://www.isuppli.com).
Apple s expected to steadily move up the rankings in chip spending, fueled by the success of the iPad and iPhone, which "have garnered tremendous sales on a scale unequaled by rival devices," according to a report by iSuppli. Apple, shares of which were up 3% in early trades, is expected to spend $12.4 billion this year, making it the third biggest chip buyer, behind HP and Samsung, notes "MarketWatch" (http://macosg.me/2/kk).
However, the company is on track to surpass Samsung for the No. 2 spot in 2011, when Apple is projected to spend $16.2 billion. H-P is expected to be the top chip buyer with $17.1 billion.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-196190"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Another day, another lawsuit. The Lanier Law Firm is announcing a patent infringement lawsuit filed on behalf of Longview, Texas-based InNova Patent Licensing LLC against a group of 36 corporate defendants -- including Apple -- accused of infringing an InNova patent that represents one of the cornerstones of email communications.
The lawsuit, filed July 20, 2010, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas in Marshall, also names JCPenney, Google, AOL, Bank of America, HP, Frito Lay and others as defendants. If nothing else, it's an eclectic group of companies being sued.
The federal lawsuit focuses on a InNova patent, U.S. Patent No. 6,018,761, that covers technology used to differentiate between spam email messages and those that users actually want to receive. The InNova patent was purportedly awarded to inventor and mathematician Robert Uomini nearly 15 years ago when Internet email was still in its formative stages. Uomini is the founder of InNova.
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-196176"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">During a conference with the press and analysts on Tuesday to discuss Apple's latest financial results, Apple Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook said that the Mac is doing better than the industry average for computer sales -- and still has lots of room for growth.
Cook also said that the iPad market is "very big" and could cannibalize PC sales (though it doesn't seem to be hurting Mac sales at all). In fact, Apple hopes the iPad will, like the iPod, have a "halo effect" and actually increase Mac sales.
"Our guts tell us that the iPad market is very big, and if it turns out that iPad cannibalizes PCs, that's fantastic for us because there is a lot of PCs to cannibalize," Cook says. ""Historically, the iPod created a halo for the Mac and, in fact, as the iPod volumes took off we saw a dramatic change in Mac sales. So, could that happen on iPhone and iPad? We'll see."
He adds that the Mac has lots of room for growth. Though it's outgrown the market for the past 17 quarters, the Mac...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-196175"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">On the new "MacVoices" (http://www.macvoices.com), Neil Ticktin, editor-in-chief/publisher of "MacTech Magazine" talks about the MacTech Conference, coming up in November in Los Angeles.
He explains that the MacTech Conference may be new as a stand-alone event, but it is also an
extension of their past conference presences. Geared to the programming and Mac IT Professional parts of the Mac community, the MacTech Conference plans to be an immersive kind of experience, with both formal and informal activities designed to facilitate sharing, education and interaction. Ticktin provides details, explains why Andy Ihnatko is the perfect keynote speaker for the event, and more.
"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-196173"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Wulven Game Studios is working on Shadow Era (http://www.shadowera.com/), their upcoming collectible trading card game for the Mac, PC, iPhone, iPad and Android systems. It's due this fall and is inspired by the more strategic trading card games.
The initial download will be free while players will be able to earn new cards through gameplay or purchase additional booster packs. Packs of 15 cards will be able to buy for US$0.99, using in-game gold, or by completing special "trial offers" from SuperRewards.
Shadow Era is inspired by the more strategic trading card games, bringing the traditional printed cards into into the digital realm and adding a rich backstory and RPG elements, according to the folks at Wulven Game Studios. You'll build a deck from a total of 200 unique cards and complete missions against the Shadow Warriors, or battle against other players to gain experience, and win new card packs each time you level up.
The core card game features two enemy Heroes battling, and...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-196171"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">HungrySeacow Software has updated YummySoup (http://www.hungryseacow.com/home/yummysoup.html), its recipe management software for Mac OS X, to version 2.0. The new version introduces brand new features such as Recipecasts, Keywords, Themes, and more. Also, Recipecast is a brand new feature in YummySoup! 2, allowing you to publish whole groups of recipes to your MobileMe account.
YummySoup! 2 sells for US$30, but version 1.x owners can upgrade for $10. A 15-day demo is available at the HungrySeacow Software web site.
YummySoup is a Universal Binary app, so runs natively on both PowerPC and Intel Macs. It requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-196170"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Tension Software has updated Cronette (http://pomola.com/products_cronette/cronette.html), a Cocoa task launcher for Macs and Mac servers, to version 1.3.1. It fixes a bug that in some situations can produce a wrong task execution order.
Cronette lets you specify tasks to be launched automatically by the Mac. It can be used on unattended Mac Servers or also on regular Mac workstations for tasks to execute during the night or for recurring tasks to be performed on a regular basis. It provides different type of launch tasks: daily, weekly, monthly, yearly.
Any task can be specified to launch different type of execution: open applications or documents from disk; open different type of URL; execute different type of actions: restart, shutdown, sleep; sending a message to the log; execute a complex UNIX command.
Cronette costs US$30 for a single user license, though version 1.3.1 is a free update for registered users. A demo is available for download. Cronette requires Mac OS X 10.5 or...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-196167"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Ricoh (http://www.ricoh-usa.com) has announced the new Aficio SP C430DN and SP C431DN color laser printers. It offers two printer engine options, allowing users to choose what print speed works best for their business needs.
The SP C430DN turns out full color and monochrome prints at 37 pages per minute (ppm), while the SP C431DN addresses busier workgroups with a color and black and white output speed of 42 ppm. Users can install up to three optional 550-sheet paper feed units for a maximum 2,300 sheet capacity that supports up to 120-pound index. The system also accepts up to 140-pound index through its 100-sheet bypass tray capable of handling special media, such as static cling, waterproof and coated papers.
The Aficio SP C430DN/SP C431DN sports 1200 x 1200 dpi resolution, three color cartridges that yield 21,000 prints each and one black cartridge that yields 24,000 prints, and network data encryption and user authentication. It comes standard with additional features, including...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-196158"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Panasonic (http://www.panasonic.com) has announced the LUMIX DMC-LX5, a compact digital camera sporting an ultra-bright F2.0 ultra-wide-angle 24mm LEICA DC Vario-Summicron lens. Its 24mm wide angle lens offers extraordinarily large viewing space and now the optical zoom is extended to 3.8x(90mm) making the LX5 even more versatile, according to David Briganti, senior product manager, Imaging, Panasonic.
In addition to the newly-designed lens, the LUMIX LX5 features an image processing engine that combines technologies resulting in professional-quality photos, especially in low-light situations, he adds.Like its predecessor, the LUMIX LX5 features a 10.1-megapixel CCD, but it has an expanded dynamic range by increasing the sensitivity and the saturation.
In addition to capturing high-quality still photos, the LUMIX LX5 can record HD videos in AVCHD Lite, a format that allows almost doubling the recording time in HD quality compared with the conventional Motion JPEG format. Creative...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-195843"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">The United States still trails much of the world in broadband development, ranking 23rd on the list of the top 57 countries, according to rankings released this week by analyst firm Strategy Analytics (http://www.strategyanalytics.com).
South Korea holds on to the title of the world’s most advanced broadband market. Hong Kong, the Netherlands, Lithuania, and Japan round out the top five slots.
The rankings are the result of a new broadband measurement tool just launched by Strategy Analytics. The “Broadband Composite Index” (BCI) examines and scores the broadband development of 57 individual countries in five categories, including household penetration, speed, affordability, value for money, and urbanicity. The resulting score provides a more balanced and robust view of broadband development, according to the firm.
“The traditional single metric approach of looking at broadband is becoming less relevant,” says Ben Piper, director of the Strategy Analytics Multiplay Market Dynamics...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-195835"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">When ABI Research (http://www.abiresearch.com) first examined the media tablet market, neither Apple’s iPad nor any other multinational-branded tablet had been released.
Six months later, the firm has revisited its forecasts, almost tripling the original estimate to reach about 11 million tablets expected to ship by the end of 2010. Its long-term estimates, however, remain basically unchanged.
"Our forecast of 11 million media tablet shipments in 2010 is based both on the broader availability of the iPad and on the delayed introduction of competing products," says ABI Research principal analyst Jeff Orr. "Assuming that competing tablets from other vendors do arrive in the second half of the year as expected, we believe that the iPad will account for a significant portion -- but not all -- of the projected 11 million units. To capitalize on the usual fourth quarter sales boom, other tablets need to reach retailers’ shelves by early September."
Orr suggests that the media tablet...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-195890"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Infinity Data Systems has updated MailForge (http://www.infinitydatasystems.com/mailforge/), the Eudora style email client formerly known as Odysseus, to version 2.0. The upgrade offers speed, composition, junk filtering, signature, stationery, IMAP and mailbox display enhancements.
Built from the ground up for Mac OS X and Windows, MailForge is designed to be a successor to the Eudora email client, providing users with a familiar look and feel, while at the same time adding features and abilities to further enhance the user experience. Harnessing the power of SQLite, MailForge offers significant performance advantages, ranging from the ability to have a virtually unlimited number of emails in a single mailbox, to search capabilities that offer near instantaneous results, according to the folks at Infinity Data Systems. Even routine tasks, such as moving tens of thousands of emails from one mailbox to another, takes only seconds, they add.
Due to the success of the MailForge Project...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-195948"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Cakewalk has released the free Rapture / Rapture LE 1.22 and Dimension Pro/Dimension LE 1.5 updates. They're compatible with Mac OS X 10.6 ("Snow Leopard") and Windows 7.
The Rapture/Rapture LE Update is a available as a free download for registered customers along, with a comprehensive list of what is included in the update at: http://www.cakewalk.com/support/kb/reader.aspx?ID=2007013167 .
The Dimension Pro / Dimension LE Update is a available as a free download for registered customers along, with a comprehensive list of what is included in the update at:
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-195933"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Apple retail stores generated record revenue and customer traffic in In the the fiscal 2010 third quarter that ended June 26. Revenue was US$2.58 billion, an increase of 73% over the same time period in 2009.
With an average of 287 stores open, the average revenue per store was $9 million compared to $5.9 million a year-ago. The stores saw 60.5 million visitors in the quarter, compared to 38.6 million in the year-ago quarter.
Twenty-four more stores will open this quarter including Paris and Shanghai, London Covent Garden, Barcelona and Madrid. Apple Chief Financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer said the stores sold 677,000 Macs during the latest fiscal quarter compared to 492,000 last year, an increase of 38%.
Oppenheimer said that -- wait for it, it's coming -- half of the Macs sold were still to new Mac users. It's always half. Never 40% or 60%. How is that possible?
Not that I'm doubting Peter. I'm thrilled that more and more folks are buying Macs. But, reallly, 50% -- quarter after...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-195931"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">For the fiscal 2010 third quarter that ended June 26, Apple shipped 9.4 million iPods, compared to 10.2 in the same period a year-ago. However, according to the latest info from the NPD Research Group, it still accounts for over 70% of the US market for MP3 players -- as it has for years.
In fact, as Apple Chief Financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer points out, the iPod is the top selling MP3 player internationally and growing in popularity in almost every country.
Oppenheimer says that the iPod touch is going strong with sales growing 48% year-over-year. With its growth, the iPod ASP [average selling price] is up.
The iTunes Store generated approximately US$1 billion in revenue, growing 25% year-over-year. Over 225,000 apps are now available -- with more than 11,000 just for the iPad, Oppenheimer says. Over five billion apps have been downloaded from the Apple App Store.
Speaking of the iPad, Apple shipped 3.27 million iPads to customers in 10 countries through the end of the June...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-195932"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">In the the fiscal 2010 third quarter that ended June 26, Apple sold 8.4 million iPhones, including over 1.7 million iPhone 4s in the initial five countries in which it went on sale. Apple Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook said the demand for the iPhone 4 has been "phenomenal."
‚Ä®"Antennagate" or note, he said that Apple is selling every iPhone 4 it can make.
Apple's recognized revenue from the smartphone line-up for the latest fiscal quarter was $5.33 billion compared to $3.06 billion in year-ago quarter. The iPhone -- currently on sale in 88 countries -- now generates 34% of Apple's revenue.
Sales value of iPhones alone in the third fiscal quarter was about $5 billion -- with an ASP [average selling price] of $595. Apple Chief Financial Officer says Apple has surpassed sales of 100 million iOS devices.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-195930"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">For those of you who have forecast the impending demise of the Mac, well, forecast again. Fo the fiscal 2010 third quarter that ended June 26, Apple shipped 34.7 million Macs, beating their previous-best ever quarter by over 100,000.
That's year-over-year growth of 33%, compared to 22% growth for the market overall, based on the latest stats by the IDC research group.
Apple Chief Operating Office Office Tim Cook said that most Mac sales were still in the consumer market, but that there are signs it's gaining group in the business and enterprise markets.
Apple saw double digit Mac growth in all geographies, lead by the iMac and the MacBook Pro. The company's computer sales outgrew the global market in both desktops and laptops.
There were record Mac sales in the US education arena, despite continued budget restraint issues, says Apple Chief Financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer. If you do the math, you'll see that the Mac accounts for 28% of Apple's revenue.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-195919"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">If you listen closely, you can hear 'em singing Abba's "Money, Money, Money" at One Infinite Loop because Apple has announced great financial results for its fiscal 2010 third quarter that ended June 26.
The company posted record revenue of US$15.7 billion and net quarterly profit of $3.25 billion, or $3.51 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $9.73 billion and net quarterly profit of $1.83 billion, or $2.01 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. Gross margin was 39.1 % compared to 40.9% in the year-ago quarter. International sales accounted for 52 percent of the quarter’s revenue.
Apple sold 3.47 million Macs during the quarter, representing a new quarterly record and a 33% unit increase over the year-ago quarter. The company sold 8.4 million iPhones in the quarter, representing 61% unit growth over the year-ago quarter. Apple sold 9.41 million iPods during the quarter, representing an 8% unit decline from the year-ago quarter. Of course, the company began...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-195915"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Amid indications that Apple Inc. is ratcheting up its iPad production targets to meet booming demand, iSuppli Corp. (http://www.isuppli.com) is ratcheting up its shipment forecast as well.
iSuppli now predicts Apple will ship 12.9 million iPads in 2010, an increase from the previous forecast issued April 2 of 7.1 million units. Shipments will rise to 36.5 million in 2011 and 50.4 million in 2012, predicts the research group.
“The iPad is shaping up to be the ‘Tickle Me Elmo’ of the 2010 holiday season, with product demand expected to vastly exceed available supply,” says Rhoda Alexander, director of monitor research for iSuppli. “Apple has hiked its iPad manufacturing goals to suppliers across Asia. As iSuppli stated in its initial forecast, the key to continuing success will be how quickly Apple responds to issues as they arise and whether the company can align suppliers to meet demand needs. Apple’s acceleration of its component demand indicates that the company has raised its iPad...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-195914"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Blue Microphones (http://www.bluemic.com) says the second generation Mikey will be available online and in-stores on Aug. 20 with a manufacturer's suggested retail price of US$99.99.
Building upon the audio technology developed for the original Mikey, the second generation portable mic is designed for iPhone, iPod and iPod touch, featuring improved circuitry for superior recording and enhanced new features, says John Maier, CEO of Blue Microphones.
Like the original, Mikey features two custom-tuned Blue capsules for professional-quality stereo recording capabilities.
To accompany its sleek new design, Mikey features an improved acoustic circuit that allows for higher quality recordings of high-volume events, like concerts, Maier says. Mikey also now boasts a 3.5mm line-input for direct recording of other sound sources such as a guitar or mixer along with a USB pass-thru connection to allow for charging while recording.
With an updated case design, the second generation Mikey is...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-195913"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Zevrix Solutions (http://www.zevrix.com) has released LinkOptimizer 4.4.2, an update of its workflow automation solution for Adobe InDesign. The new version addresses an important issue related to resolution handling.
LinkOptimizer lets you reduce InDesign job size and speed up processing by eliminating excess image data and performing essential image adjustments.
LinkOptimizer Light 4.4.2 can be purchased from the Zevrix Solutions web site for US$259.95 , as well as from authorized resellers. LinkOptimizer works with Mac OS X 10.4.2-10.5 and InDesign CS-CS4.
Version 4.4.2 is free for LinkOptimizer 4.x users and a $98.98 to upgrade from previous versions. A demo is available for download.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-195867"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Media measurement technology firm, General Sentiment, has released its quarterly Top 20 report highlighting the brands that made the biggest media impact for the quarter. Apple topped General Sentiment's Impact Value rankings this quarter on the strength of its iPad and iPhone 4 product releases.
Google fell to the number three spot despite generating record levels of discussion for the brand.  This marks the fourth quarterly analysis of its kind by General Sentiment, whose premier report was for the third quarter of 2009. General Sentiment also announced the launch of a new media value metric called Perception Value, which measures the brand with a greater emphasis on the quality of the content and exposure.
For the first time, General Sentiment has produced a top-10 ranking of winners and losers based on Perception Value. Perception Value isolates effects of the public sentiment on brand value by assigning positive value to positive mentions and negative value to negative mentions...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-195864"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">McAfee has launched McAfee Internet Security and McAfee Family Protection for the Mac (http://www.mcafee.com/mac). 
McAfee Internet Security empowers consumers to surf the web safely, while McAfee Family Protection allows parents to filter inappropriate content from their children, says Todd Gebhart, executive vice president and general manager, consumer, mobile and small business at McAfee. 
McAfee Internet Security for Mac includes the following features and benefits:
° McAfee SiteAdvisor technology protects users from malicious web sites, browser exploits and notifies users whether an ecommerce site has been scanned by McAfee for potential vulnerabilities.

° SiteAdvisor technology provides site ratings in 22 search engines, and features advanced phishing protection that will alert users to sites that may try to steal personal identities or gain access to financial information.

° Secure Search is a a dedicated search tool that allows users to search, explore and shop more...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-195862"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Other World Computing (http://www.owc.com) has announced the US$39.99 Slim eSATA ExpressCard Adapter for adding a high speed 3.0Gb/s eSATA port to any Apple MacBook Pro model that offers a built-in ExpressCard slot.
Featuring a flush fitting design, the OWC Slim eSATA ExpressCard Adapter fits completely inside the MacBook Pro ExpressCard slot and is AHCI compliant requiring no drivers for Mac OS 10.5.x and later. No drivers are required and the “hot swappable” card can be inserted at any time and sits flush with the edge of the ExpressCard slot.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-195847"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">GEAR4 (http://www.GEAR4.com), an UK iPod and iPhone audio brand, has expanded its presence in the U.S. market with the introduction of new portable audio solutions for the iPhone and iPod touch. They'll be available for purchase in the U.S. by Oct. 1.
 
The US$149 Explorer SP is a lightweight iPod/iPhone speaker that comes with a carrying case and a remote. It has a lithium-ion battery with a fast-charge feature, purportedly giving it 10 hours of continuous play after only two hours of charge.
The StreetParty Size 0 is a slim and slender dock. Then there's teh StreetParty 4, a device dock that actually folds completely flat for storage. Both are powered with AA batteries, and manufacturer's suggested retail price is $99 and $69, respectively.
 
Rounding out GEAR4’s portable solutions, the StreetParty Compact is an option with a MSRP of $49. It's smaller in height than the other portable speakers.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-195846"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Paradigma Software (http://www.valentina-db.com) has released Valentina DB 4.7, an update of the columnar database for business and developers. The new version sports over a dozen of user requested improvements and optimizations, as well as several core improvements and updates for 64-bit operations under Mac OS X.
Valentina DB based products include Valentina ADK and Valentina Developer Network for developers desiring to incorporate the Valentina DB into their applications. VDN also allows royalty free deployment of Valentina Embedded Server. Developer solutions start at $199 for every major development environment for Mac OS X, Windows, Linux and iPhone.
Standalone, business ready Valentina Office Server is also available for Mac OS X, Windows and Linux, and includes full PHP development, PDF reports generation, SSL security, Bonjour auto-lookup features and more.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-195844"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Aquafadas (http://www.aquafadas.com) has updated PulpMotion and PulpMotion Advanced, slideshow and animation software for Mac OS X 10.5 ("Leopard") or later, to version 3.1. The new versions offers a new photo frame theme and a brand new version of animated books.
With all these new features there are now more than 190 themes available in PulpMotion Advanced, including 30 new wedding themes.
PulpMotion 3.1 costs US$129 for PulpMotion Advanced and $49 for PulpMotion Standard. Complimentary upgrades are available to customers who purchased PulpMotion on or after Jan. 1. Other upgrade options are available to existing PulpMotion customers who purchased before this date. Version 3.1 is a free update for registered users of version 3.0.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-195845"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">PFiddlesoft has updated the PFiddlesoft Frameworks, Cocoa frameworks for writing assistive applications for persons with disabilities using Apple's Accessibility and Quartz Event Taps APIs on Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6.
The PFiddlesoft Frameworks were upgraded today to include the PFAssistive Framework version 3.1.1 and the PFEventTaps Framework 1.3.1. Both frameworks can now be used with an assistive application that runs as a trusted accessibility process, so that its user does not have to turn on the global "Enable access for assistive devices" setting in the Universal Access pane of System Preferences.
You can download the PFiddlesoft Frameworks now at pfiddlesoft.com/frameworks/ . The frameworks are written using Objective-C 2.0. They are Universal Binaries supporting 32-bit and 64-bit architectures using reference counted memory management.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-195831"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Centrify Corp., which specializes in securing and auditing access to cross-platform systems and applications through Active Directory, has announced availability of Centrify Express, a new set of free software applications and tools, content resources and community forums designed to help organizations improve security and compliance of data center and desktop systems.
A subset of the company’s award-winning Centrify Suite of identity and access management solutions (IAM), Centrify Express is ideal for organizations interested in establishing a single sign-on experience for Mac and Linux users based on their existing Active Directory credentials. To download the free software, visit http://www.centrify.com/express .
 
Centrify Express comprises:
° DirectControl Express, which enables Mac OS X and Linux servers and workstations to participate in a Windows Active Directory domain and gives users Active Directory-based single sign-on;
° DirectManage Express, which automates deployment...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-195811"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Apple told Congress it collects location information about users of the iPhone, iPad and Mac computers in batches and encrypts it before sending it over a WiFi connection from the device to Apple's servers every 12 hours, reports "eWeek" (http://macosg.me/2/kd).
Apple said its iPhone, iPad and Mac computers collect location information, but do so anonymously in batches and encrypt it before sending the data over a WiFi connection from the devices to Apple's servers every 12 hours. Apple's info was in response to a list of questions from U.S. Reps. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Joe L. Barton (R-Texas).
Last month the Congressmen sent Apple a letter demanding to know about the company's practice of collecting, storing and sharing the location of users' mobile devices. Apple, which will not let users download any applications from the iTunes store without agreeing to the new terms and conditions, shares location data with application providers when consumers opt in to providers'...</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-195807"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">SQLabs has updated SQLLiteManager (http://www.sqlabs.com/sqlitemanager.php), a SQLite database manager tool for Mac OS X and Windows, to version 3.5. The upgrade adds a table editor with foreign key support and an advanced low level SQlite 3 database analyzer.
SQLiteManager is a graphical user interface (GUI) database manager for SQLite databases. it allows you to open and work with SQALite 2.x, SQLite 3.x, in memory databases and REALSQL Server databases. It allows you to create and browse tables, views, triggers and indexes. SQLLiteManager enables you to insert, delete and update records and supports arbitrary SQL commands.
It works with Mac OS X 10.4 or higher. A SQLiteManager single license is US$49, and a $20 discount coupon code is available for SQLiteManager 1.x registered users. Company and multiplatform licenses are also available. SQLLiteManager is a Universal Binary product, so runs natively on both PowerPC and Intel Macs.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-195803"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">Buzzard AG has announced a web front-end for OmniFocus as an additional feature to their Spootnik web service (http://www.spootnik.net), which provides synchronization between OmniFocus and Basecamp to enable collaboration between co-workers and customers.
A Spootnik Account functions as a hub, keeping OmniFocus on iPhone and Mac in sync, synchronizing tasks with the online collaboration app by 37signals Basecamp, and now also providing access via a web browser. Spootnik makes OmniFocus accessible from everywhere; only a web browser is required
Device requirements are: OmniFocus on Mac OS X computer or iOS device; OmniFocus 1.5 or higher; and a web browser (Firefox 2+, Safari 4+, Chrome 5 and IE 7+).
The Spootnik web service is available via monthly subscription plans. A 30-day free trial is available.</div></div></span>
<span class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-195802"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;">WaterField Designs (http://www.sfbags.com) has announced two new protective keyboard cases for Apple's wireless keyboard. Mobile iPad and laptop users may now carry their keyboard in the minimalist Keyboard Slip Case (pictured) that safeguards the keyboard with ballistic nylon and light padding or in the Keyboard Socket, a soft, padded keyboard pouch.
The $29 Keyboard Slip Case offers protection in a slim ballistic nylon case with a lightly padded liner. The Apple wireless keyboard slips y into the custom-fitted, snug case. Six trim choices allow users to add a splash of color. The Keyboard Socket is an US$15 padded, custom-fitting pouch designed to provide scratch-free keyboard protection from other bag contents. It's available in black.
WaterField also offers the $39 Keyboard Sleeve to tote the keyboard and the $49 Keyboard Travel Case to protect and carry the keyboard, mouse and additional laptop accessories. The Keyboard Sleeve is cushioned with high-grade neoprene wrapped in a...</div></div></span>
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