O’Reilly has announced the release of “iMovie 3 & iDVD: The Missing Manual,” the latest book by David Pogue, bestselling author and technology columnist for the New York Times. “Punctuated with Pogue’s trademark humor and strewn with bibelots of information found nowhere else, ‘iMovie 3 & iDVD: The Missing Manual’ puts you on the fast track to quality filmmaking.
Read MoreMakeMusic! has announced Finale 2004, a new version of its popular music notation software. Finale 2004 will bring native Mac OS X support and several enhancements, including a “Human Playback” feature, the SmartMusic sound font, faster note entry, simplified shortcuts, improved expressions, and more. The Mac OS X version of Finale 2004 will ship on October 20.
Read MoreApple has released AirPort Software 3.1.1, which includes version 5.1.1 of the AirPort Extreme base station firmware. According to the release notes, the update “is recommended for all users with an AirPort Extreme enabled computer or an AirPort Extreme base station.” However, the other improvements listed are identical to those provided with the AirPort 3.1 release. Version 3.1.1 is available via the Mac OS X Software Update preference pane.
Read MoreApple’s Darwin team has announced that version 2.0 of the Apple Public Source License (APSL) has been certified as a “Free Software License.” APSL 2.0 includes several changes to “make it even easier for Open Source developers to use and comply with.” It improves upon the OSI-approved APSL 1.2 by conforming to the definition of Free Software Licenses, as certified by the Free Software Foundation.
Read MoreCS Odessa today announced that ConceptDraw V, the next major version of its flowcharting and diagramming software, will be released in early October. “The completely redesigned version features new powerful capabilities aimed at facilitating charting tasks of business and technical users. ConceptDraw V also adds a built-in scripting language — ConceptDraw Basic that will empower developers to create custom visualization solutions based on ConceptDraw drawing engine.”
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