– PCs will lose the war of the family room to video game consoles or entertainment servers, Merrill Lynch said in a research report released Monday. “It’s premature to know which (if any) device will become the centerpiece of the digital family room of the future,” the firm said. “Still, we doubt that PCs (even Media Center PCs) will win because they are too complex and unstable.
Read MoreMacSpeech today announced it will be doing presentations on speech recognition featuring its iListen software at 10 Apple Retail stores in and around the Los Angeles, Washington D.C.-Baltimore, and New York City metropolitan areas. MacSpeech will also be presenting at the Maryland Apple Core user group meeting on December 14th at 6:45 p.m.. The meeting is open to members of the group. Complete details on locations and time for the presentations are available from the Web site.
Read More– As noted earlier today, Merrill Lynch analyst Steve Milunovich expects Apple to unveil a flash memory-based iPod next quarter. In a research note obtained by MacMinute, Milunovich said that the new device will be priced in the US$149 to $199 range and could possibly make its debut at Macworld Expo San Francisco in January, where the iPod mini was introduced last year.
Read MoreNavicat 5.3 MySQL Client
What’s new in this version:
This new version of Navicat (MySQL Client) supports Character Set ( A new
function in MySQL 4.1 or above. ) and it includes a new feature – Filter
Wizard, allowing user to quickly and easily locate desired data. In
addition, XML Import feature is improved and user can now check the
History Log of executed SQL statements.
Navicat, a database management tool from PremiumSoft, is an integrated GUI
tool let you perform MySQL administration and database development in an
easier way.
Ditchnet Software has announced the availability of its new donationware photo resizing/cropping tool, iZoom. iZoom allows users to drag photos from their file system or directly from iPhoto onto the iZoom canvas and select a cropping region, photo size, and export quality. Use iZoom to optimize and resize photos for online photo galleries, photo thumbnails, email, iChat, or for display on an iPod photo or mobile phone display.
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