Year: 2007

TechRestore begins selling pre-upgraded Apple TVs

TechRestore today announced that they have begun offering pre-upgraded Apple TV systems for sale. These systems have been pre-configured with storage upgrades up to 160GB. The 160GB units allow for up to 200 hours of video storage, 36,000 songs, or 100,000 photos, notes the company. Prices start at US$399 for an Apple TV with double the factory storage space. TechRestore includes a 1-year warranty on upgraded Apple TV systems.

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Deals: Desktopple Pro for 41% off today only

Today’s featured promo on MacUpdate offers Desktopple Pro 1.2 for US$9.95 (41% off, retail $17). “Desktopple is for you if you’ve ever needed to take a screenshot and had to clean all of those icons from your Desktop before you could. Or maybe you needed to make a presentation and had to tidy up before hooking into the projector for the whole audience to see. Perhaps you just want to hide those messy Desktop icons so you can concentrate better on whatever task is at hand.

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Produce your photo books directly with iCalamus

The current iCalamus 1.07 gives you a new plug-in called Photographerbook which you can use for typesetting and purchasing photobooks in various versions directly in iCalamus, a desktop publishing application for Mac OS X. Photographerbook is a service exclusively offered to Apple users with Mac OS X by Friedmann Print Data Solutions. Photographerbook  is the alternative to the photobook creation with iPhoto. The Photographerbook prices start at €14.90.

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New masking tool for Photoshop CS3 announced

Paravue today announced Turbo Mask, an image masking tool designed for graphic and Web designers, photographers, and motion graphic artists that work with Adobe Photoshop CS and Photoshop CS Extended. “Most image masking tools rely on skill to get the desired results. Turbo Mask works like human eyes to pick out the important subject in an image. Leveraging the Paravue technology, Turbo Mask understands images like people do and can isolate subjects and remove them from backgrounds accurately — often with just one click.

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