Year: 2005

Prosoft Engineering announces TuneTech for iPod

Posted by | Sep 12, 2005 | |

Prosoft Engineering today announced the availability of TuneTech for iPod, software geared specifically toward iPod users. The utility allows users to recover lost or damaged music, repair corrupted data structures, backup an iPod to an exact copy, permanently delete unwanted files, or optimize the file layout of the music. It features eight iPod utilities: Backup, Optimize; Undelete: Shred; Duplicate; and Scan. TuneTech for iPod requires Mac OS 10.3.x or later and is priced at US$59.00.

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September 10th Inside Mac Radio show posted

Posted by | Sep 12, 2005 | |

The September 10th broadcast of the Inside Mac Radio Show is now available as a podcast download. The show featured Kevin Ames, Vincent Versace and Richard Harrington Live from Photoshop World Boston; Brad Wright was in the studio talking with Scott Sheppard about archiving video; Sam Levin with the Cool Mac Picks for the week; DPBuzz with Philip Hodgetts; and Ken Ray with the weekly Mac news roundup. Inside Mac can be heard live on Saturdays from 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. PT.

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Radical Breeze to launch DiscBlaze 6

Posted by | Sep 12, 2005 | |

Radical Breeze has announced the upcoming release of DiscBlaze 6.0, a major update to its CD/DVD burning software. Version 6.0 is completely re-written in Cocoa and designed to take advantage of Mac OS X 10.4. It offers the ability to drag and drop files between disc layouts, and a variety of aesthetic and functional enhancements. DiscBlaze 6 will be made available before October 15th for US$29.95 ($10 upgrades from version 5.1). Existing DiscBlaze users who purchased after June 1, 2005 will receive a free upgrade to version 6.

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LaCie introduces Biggest S1S 4-bay RAID solution

Posted by | Sep 12, 2005 | |

LaCie today introduced the Biggest S1S, a mid-range 4-bay RAID solution with SATA speeds of 80MB/s at RAID 0. The new bay offers 1TB or 2TB capacity, RAID 5 hardware combined with SATA technology, driverless installation, four hot-swappable drives and hot-spare options, and more. “A RAID subsystem is the easiest way to back up data securely,” Emanuela Boila, LaCie Product Manager, said in the announcement.

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Time Magazine offers report on iPod nano

Posted by | Sep 12, 2005 | |

Time Magazine has published a report to its Web site on Apple’s new iPod nano, including comments by Steve Jobs, Apple’s VP of industrial design Jonathan Ive, and senior vice president Phil Schiller, notes MacNN. The story calls the nano, an “absurdly tiny, unbearably sexy successor to the iPod mini.” Schiller said “We use every fraction of a millimeter of space to get things in there. It’s like a puzzle to fit all that stuff together.

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