O’Reilly today announced the release of “Unix Power Tools, Third Edition,” the latest edition of its best-selling book with advice on nearly every aspect of Unix, covering Linux, Mac OS X, and BSD. The US$69.95 book also offers more coverage of bash, zsh, and other new shells, along with discussions about modern utilities and applications.
Read MoreStupendous Software has updated four iMovie plugins with 9 new effects and 10 improved effects. This brings the total number of iMovie effects available from the company to 141. Existing Stupendous Software customers can download these effects for free from its online store: Color Effects 1.1 (1 new effect, 4 improved), Crops & Zooms 1.1 (4 new effects, 1 improved), Glows & Blurs 1.1 (4 new effects), and Time Effects 1.1 (5 improved effects). The iMovie effects are priced at US$25 per plug-in pack, and require iMovie 2.1.1.
Read MoreHandspring has kicked off a new holiday promotion that offers customers a free Apex DVD player with the purchase of a Treo 90 organizer or Treo 270 or Treo 300 communicator. All three handhelds feature color screens, built-in keyboards, 16MB of memory, as well as the usual suite of Palm OS-based features.
Read MoreFirewireDirect today announced new additions to the company’s hard drive storage line utilizing new high capacity drives as large as 320GB. The popular Ultra III 3.5″ external FireWire hard drive is now available in 180, 200, 250 and 320GB configurations.
Read MoreNative Instruments today announced the Traktor DJ Studio 2.0 Bundle, which consists of a copy of Traktor DJ Studio 2.0 and an Ego Systems USB audio card GIGAPort AG for US$349 ($49 savings). The GIGAPort AG is small in size, extremely portable, and has 8 analog outs, an optical output as well as ASIO 2.0 drivers for minimal latency, and 24-bit D/A converters. It works with Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X, and can be connected to USB 1.1 and USB 2.0 ports.
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