Year: 2007

Lithium now supports Xserve, Xserve RAID and Airport

Posted by | Apr 3, 2007 | |

LithiumCorp has officially launched it’s new range of monitoring plug-ins to provide hardware and software monitoring for Xserve (G5 and Intel), Xserve RAID, Qlogic Fibre Channel Switches, Airport wireless base stations (including the new 802.11n units), and Mac OS X Server. These new plug-ins extend LithiumCorp’s network, server and appliance monitoring suite — “Lithium” — to provide a depth of monitoring for these specific products that the company says is not found in any other third-party application.

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PDFpen 3.1.1 is released with user-friendly enhancements

Posted by | Apr 3, 2007 | |

SmileOnMyMac has released PDFpen 3.1.1, an update to its PDF editing tool for Mac OS X. The updated version lets users start editing more quickly by remembering zoom level and page position of previously-opened documents. The company also released PDFpenPro 3.1.1, the Pro version which can create PDF forms in addition to all the PDF editing functionality of PDFpen. The updated version of PDFpenPro respects default font size preferences when creating form fields. PDFpen is priced at US$49.95, while PDFpenPro costs $94.95.

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Deals: Avenir for 43% off today only

Posted by | Apr 3, 2007 | |

Today’s featured promo on MacUpdate offers Avenir 2.3.3 for US$16.95 (43% off, retail $29.99). Avenir is a new kind of software for writers. Part word processor, part database, and completely focused on the creative process. Whether you are brainstorming for your first short story or putting the finishing touches on your latest best-seller, Avenir provides you the tools you need to manage the creative process from inception to publication.

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Axiotron doubles pen pressure sensitivity for ModBook

Posted by | Apr 3, 2007 | |

Axiotron today announced that it has doubled the pen pressure sensitivity on its ModBook Mac tablet line to 512 levels, offering graphic artists, photographers and other users of applications such as Adobe Photoshop or Corel Painter twice the sensitivity and control of their pen strokes than any other TabletPC on the market, the company says. The upgrade is free and is being rolled retroactively into every ModBook order placed since its introduction, moving first customer shipments to May 2007.

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Poll: iPod ownership shows no sign of stopping

Posted by | Apr 2, 2007 | |

The results of a new Web poll survey, conducted by Rock radio consultants Jacobs Media, shows that iPod/personal MP3 player growth continues to be impressive. But iPod owners — in particular — want an FM radio in that next nano or shuffle, notes the survey. The study was conducted in late February through early March, and consisted of more than 25,000 respondents from over 69 Rock-formatted stations from all over the US. “The study asked about the most important new feature that consumers desire in their next personal MP3 player.

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