Adobe today announced Photoshop Elements 3.0, a major update to its digital imaging software aimed at consumers. Billed as “the perfect companion to Apple’s iPhoto,” Photoshop Elements 3.0 includes several advanced editing tools that were previously only available in Photoshop CS such as the powerful Healing Brush, which fixes blemishes and imperfections with one click.
Read MoreSpeck Products has announced the FlipStand hard case for Apple’s fourth-generation iPod. The clear FlipStand offers “the most protection available” while allowing easy access to the scroll wheel and song control buttons, and doubles as a stand. The US$29.95 FlipStand will begin shipping on September 30.
Read MoreDestineer’s MacSoft unit has released a new patch for the Mac version of Unreal Tournament 2004. The 3323 patch brings the Mac version of Unreal Tournament 2004 into parity with the PC version, which was updated yesterday. According to the release notes, the patch is needed for many mods, including those featured on the “Editors’ Choice Edition” PC discs.
Read MoreApple has posted a three-page profile on the 1,566-node Xserve G5 supercomputer cluster built by US Army contractor COLSA. (See MacMinute’s report from June.) “At its peak, the supercluster can exceed 25 teraflops — calculating more than 25 trillion floating-point operations per second. By comparison, the world’s fastest computer — NEC’s $350 million Earth Simulator — runs at a peak speed of 40 teraflops.
Read MoreThe Apple Developer Connection (ADC) has published a new article entitled “Writing Open Directory Plug-ins.” Open Directory is Apple technology that lets Macs participate on a network and access network resources, along with Windows and UNIX machines. This article describes the implementation of an Open Directory plug-in, which responds to requests for information about resources.
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