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 Deneba shipped Canvas 8 Professional Edition for Mac OS X on October 12. The professionals they have especially in mind are technical illustrators and their science, engineering and business savvy colleagues, and they’ve added a ton of new features to the product. They’ve also made work automation via AppleScript a special focus in this release and added support for ColorSync and QuickTime. There’s no demo yet for Corel Graphics Suite 10, nor screen shots on their web site, but the product is shipping and a demo is promised soon. The suite includes CorelDRAW 10, PhotoPaint10, R.A.V.E. (for creating Flash animations), and CorelTrace 10. Up at the high end, LightWork Design has released LightWorks, its photorealistic rendering and lighting engine, for Mac OS X. A number of CAD system vendors use the engine in their software, and its arrival is a sign of good things to come from others now that it’s been ported. |
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 Unix lovers don’t love Unix for its arcane commands and its relentless unfriendliness to the rest of us. Well, okay, some of them do, but most just like it because they work on problems which require better management of computing resources than personal computer operating systems have been capable of handling. Mac OS X puts Unix power and Mac elegance on the same computer and software that takes advantage of that convergence is beginning to show up. Leading the charge from the Mac side over to the Unix side is BBEdit, the HTML and text editor from Bare Bones Software. Among the additions to their latest release (version 6.5) is the ability to invoke Unix commands from within BBEdit and vice versa. Elsewhere, the folks at Dauger Research have released a 10.1 compatible version of Pooch, their Mac app for using a network of Power Macs to run numerically-intensive parallel applications. It’s now scritable and can be directed from the Unix command line. And Advanced Science Corporation has set for itself the goal of delivering a first rate scientific word processor (called ScientificAssistant), leveraging technical typesetting technology (LaTeX) and database technology freely available in the Unix community. Their beta is free, and the product is a work in progress, but if you’ve need of such an animal and time to risk on helping them out, click here to check it out. |
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 MacPlay’s Giants: Citizen Kabuko is the first Mac game built only for Mac OS X, where it leverages both Open GL and multithreading (and thus multiprocessing on a dual processor system) for a stunning graphical experience. |
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 There’s been a fair amount of iTunes visualizer activity lately, including Andy Meara’s G-Force and WhiteCap, the ArKaos Visualizer, and the TechRTA Plug-in (a 31-band real time analyzer from a developer of audio tools). |
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 This automation utility is out of beta and shipping. It supports QuicKeys shortcuts for Unix commands, the ability to trigger shortcuts, edit toolbars and control shortcut playback from the Dock, and more. Mac OS X, version 10.1 required. |
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