Year: 2007

Acqualia announces Picturesque 1.0

Acqualia today announced the release of Picturesque 1.0, a new “drag and drop” style application designed to make images look great for the Web. With tasteful effects like reflections, glows, shadows, curves, soft fades and strokes, Picturesque adds a final touch to your images before displaying them on a site. Picturesque can also beautify images in batch, and with the ability to resize and apply effects on a whole folder of images, it is an an easy way to make sophisticated thumbnails and refined full sized images.

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LinkRenamer for QuarkXPress 7 available

XChange International today announced the release of LinkRenamer XTension for QuarkXPress 7 with Universal Binary support. LinkRenamer XT allows users to batch rename and automatically relink all picture links within a Quark document in a single step. LinkRenamer can be used to standardize link names, add descriptive wording, insert project labels, or remove unwanted characters. Once a user creates their custom naming scheme, LinkRenamer renames all picture files in the Finder and then updates the appropriate QuarkXPress links.

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Markzware ships FlightCheck v6 with CS3 support

Markzware today announced the major release of FlightCheck v6 for Macintosh that includes QuarkXPress 7 and Adobe InDesign CS3 support. FlightCheck is the patented quality control program for the print and publishing industries that, since 1995, has contributed to the verification of properly prepared digital content.

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Rogue Amoeba offers major update to Fission

Rogue Amoeba Software today announced the release of Fission1.5, a major update to its audio editor for Mac OS X. Fission provides lossless editing of MP3, AAC, Apple Lossless, and AIFF audio files. With Fission, users can trim, split, and fade audio files, then save the result with no quality loss. With version 1.5, Fission now has full audio insertion support, allowing audio to be copied and pasted in a single file or between multiple files. Files can also be merged with a simple drag and drop from the Finder.

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CSSEdit update offers ‘Intelligent CodeSense’ and more

CSSEdit 2.5 is the latest version of MacRabbit’s popular cascading style sheets editor. The free update adds: a powerful and easy to use X-ray Inspector that integrates your CSS and your Web pages; Selector Builder innovates by letting you describe styles in plain English; Intelligent CodeSense now analyses your CSS to offer smart, context-sensitive suggestions; and a greatly streamlined interface for a smoother workflow. CSSEdit 2.5 is available for US$29.95 to new users.

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