Year: 2006

Free utility converts Google Gadgets into Dashboard widgets

Mesa Dynamics today announced the public beta release of Amnesty Generator, a free utility for Mac OS X that converts any Google Web page Gadget into a Dashboard widget. Earlier this week, Google announced that it was opening its Google Desktop Gadgets framework to Web developers allowing “Universal” gadgets to be embedded into Web pages without the need for additional software.  Amnesty Generator automates the process of embedding this gadget code into locally hosted Web pages that are implemented inside Dashboard widgets.

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Wireless Amplifier for MacBooks announced

QuickerTek today announced a new wireless amplifier for Apple MacBooks. The company says the Connect product “boosts the signal between the internal AirPort card and the AirPort and AirPort Extreme Base Station or other 802.11 wireless access point from vendors such as Belkin, dLink, Linksys and others. This signal boosting then doubles the wireless range of the MacBook – and maintain fast and satisfying network speeds.” MacBook Connect is priced at US$199.95.

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Updates For DEVONthink, DEVON agent and DEVON note

Coeur d’Alene (Idaho, USA), 5th of October, 2006 —
DEVONtechnologies, LLC updates all its commercial applications: the
document and information managers DEVONthink Professional and
Personal, the Internet research agent and alternative Web browser
DEVONagent, and the intelligent notepad application DEVONnote.

DEVONthink Professional 1.2.1 features full screen editing of rich
text files with customizable background and foreground colors, allows
to manually rearrange the items in the Three Panes view, and
recognizes more plain text file types.

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PowerSlides

PowerSlides gives a fresh new edge to Keynote and PowerPoint users

OMAHA, NE – October 5, 2006 – Everyone’s done it. We have all given
an AppleR KeynoteR or MicrosoftR PowerPointR presentation at some
time that simply uses the same recycled look that has been around for
years.

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