Avondale Media says they want Mac users to get an iLife. The company today announced iDay 2003, a series of fun, informative, one-day seminars devoted to Apple’s iLife programs: iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie, and iDVD, as well as the iPod, iCal, and iSync. Veteran and known Mac journalist Jim Heid is the host and editorial director of iDay 2003, and the author of “The Macintosh iLife,” an upcoming book/DVD hybrid published by Peachpit Press.
Read MoreEnd If Software today released GrabbyWindow MetaPro, a new tool to easily edit IPTC data. The software offers advanced IPTC-meta data handling, including the ability to write IPTC in batch, use templates, and define your own popup menus for every IPTC. GrabbyWindow MetaPro also contains all the features of the company’s original GrabbyWindow, such as creating previews, thumbnail overviews, playing movies and sound files, the useful drag and drop functions, and more.
Read More@Last Software today announced the release of SketchUp 2.2 for Mac OS X, the latest version of the company’s 3D design software. Version 2.2 offers drag and drop support for a wide range of image files, a Texture Palettes Picker, customizable keyboard shortcuts, enhanced template support, and much more. SketchUp for Mac OS X is priced at US$495.
Read MoreOpenOSX today announced complete product compatibility with Apple’s new X11 application, bringing full Quartz graphic acceleration to the OpenOSX product line: OpenOSX Gimp, OpenOSX Grass GIS, OpenOSX Office and OpenOSX FilmGimp. These OpenOSX products, which utilize X-Windows, the “UNIX” standard graphical environment, will benefit in “dramatic performance and aesthetic improvements when using Apple’s X11 application in place of OroborOSX and/or XDarwin.”
Read MoreApple CEO Steve Jobs is scheduled to appear today on CNBC’s “Business Center” between 5:00 and 6:30 PM ET, according to the guest list published on the CNBC Web site.
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