O’Reilly Media has announced the release of “iPhone: The Missing Manual,” (US$19.99) by David Pogue. “The Missing Manual readers will find an entertaining, generously illustrated guide detailing how to use iPhone, along with tips, shortcuts, and workarounds.
Read MoreCOMM-UNITY NETWORKING SYSTEMS RELEASES CNS AUDIT 0.5, A FILEMAKER PLUG-IN.
Fort Worth, TX, August 6, 2007 — Comm-Unity Networking Systems announces
the immediate availability of CNS Audit 0.5, an Audit Trail plug-in for
FileMaker Pro. CNS Audit allows anyone to add an Audit Trail to their
FileMaker Pro databases within minutes of installing.
“Jesse presented the idea of CNS Audit to me a year or so ago and I thought
it was a great idea.
Elgato has released a complimentary software update adding a number of new features to the Elgato Turbo.264, a hardware video encoding accelerator in USB stick format. Elgato Turbo.264 now supports iPhone video, offers user-customizable settings for video conversion, and enables manual selection of sound tracks from DVDs. Furthermore, this software update to Turbo.264 version 1.1 includes improved widescreen detection, performance improvements, and a number of bug fixes. Elgato Turbo.264 is priced at US$99.95.
Read MoreSmall Tree Communications has recently completed work on new firmware for its single port optical Gigabit adapters that will allow users to NetBoot Apple systems that use Open Firmware Standard (this includes all of Apple’s Power PC systems). With NetBoot, users can boot from the network rather than from a local disk. The NetBoot capability in Mac OS X’s server permits multiple Mac systems to boot from a single server-based disk image, instead of from their internal hard drive.
Read MoreBare Bones Software today announced the release of BBEdit 8.7, a significant update to its professional strength text editor. The 8.7 update introduces built-in support for the Lua programming language, brings significant improvements to the File Groups and Disk Browser workflow features, and powers the use of Finder Smart Folders as sources for Text Factory and for multi-file search operations. BBEdit 8.7 can now remember the open documents upon quitting and reopen the identical documents upon subsequent launch.
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