After months of beta testing, David Watanabe has released NewsFire 1.0, a stylish RSS news reader for Mac OS X. NewsFire sports a “gorgeous animated interface” with “design cues from iChat and Safari,” according to the developer.
Read MoreAlco Blom, developer of the popular URL Manager Pro, today announced the availability of SMS Mac public beta 0.9.4. SMS Mac is an Address Book plug-in that allows users to easily enter an SMS message and send it to any mobile number world-wide through the Internet. A mobile phone is not required. SMS Mac supports Flash SMS (Europe only), Unicode and long messages (concatenated SMS). Many more features are planned in future releases. SMS Mac requires Mac OS X 10.3 or later.
Read MoreApple has added over 1,000 Chinese tracks to 15 iTunes Music Stores, notes iPodlounge. The Financial Times reports that “More than 1,000 tracks by top Chinese artists on the books of Universal, the world’s biggest record company, including Jacky Cheung, Kelly Chen, Hacken Lee and Alan Tam, will be available from Apple’s iTunes stores in 15 countries, including the US, UK and Canada.”
Read MoreJoy of Tech has announced new Mac-related eCards designed to be sent to people who have recently received one of Apple’s new product offerings. Available cards include “Congratulations on your new iPod shuffle,” a stork delivering a baby Mac mini, a new PowerBook card, and even a delivery man — Steve Jobs. The Joy of Tech comic series routinely delivers a humorous look at technology and the issues surrounding it.
Read MoreScroll Down Books, the newest Macintosh ebook publisher, today announced its first two titles. In “Buying Used Macs,” Neale Monks walks users though the process of spending their money wisely when used Macs. He offers the background on the different Mac models and points out the good and bad points of each model and whether it’s a good idea to buy, upgrade or not even bother. Chris Siebold’s “iMovie – On the Cheap” will take users through the process of becoming a movie mogul; quickly, painlessly and cheaply.
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