Year: 2007

Lionsgate movies now on iTunes

Posted by | Feb 12, 2007 | |

Lionsgate and Apple today announced that movies from Lionsgate will be available for purchase and download on the iTunes Store starting today. iTunes customers will be able to purchase films such as “Terminator 2,” “LA Story,” “Basic Instinct,” “The Blair Witch Project,” “Dirty Dancing” and more than 150 titles coming to iTunes this month. “We’re delighted to offer these incredibly popular Lionsgate films on iTunes, and look forward to adding even more films in the future,” said Steve Beeks, president of Lionsgate.

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New Mac technologies help blind translator

Posted by | Feb 12, 2007 | |

AssistiveWare today announced the release of a “It has made the world of difference,” a new video and video podcast, featuring Anne Robertson, a blind translator. Anne Robertson became blind as a small child. She is now a professional French to English translator. In this short video, she shows how she uses Apple’s VoiceOver in combination with naturally sounding French and British English text-to-speech voices of Acapela Group’s Infovox iVox to do her work.

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Citigroup upgrades Apple to ‘buy’

Posted by | Feb 12, 2007 | |

Citigroup analyst Richard Gardner has upgraded Apple to buy from hold, reports MarketWatch, citing several “meaningful product catalysts and expectations of significant gross market upside due to declines in flash memory and DRAM pricing.” Apple’s 12-month price target remains at US$105. “The stock was last up 1.7% at $84.70 in pre-open trading. As of Friday’s close of $83.27, the stock had lost 15% since reaching an all-time high of $97.80 on Jan.

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Little Snitch available for 40% off today only

Posted by | Feb 12, 2007 | |

MacUpdate’s promo today is Little Snitch 1.2.4, which is available for US$14.95 — 40% off the regular retail price of $24.95. Little Snitch runs in the background and hooks into the operating system kernel while you are logged in. When an application tries to establish a network connection, Little Snitch intercepts the attempt and brings up an alert panel, telling you all the connection details including the name of the application which initiated the connection.

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Disco 1.0 disc burning software released

Posted by | Feb 12, 2007 | |

DiscoApp.com today announced the release of Disco 1.0, a utility for disc burning on your Mac. Utilizing a simple and fun workflow-based interface, users are able to accomplish real burning tasks with minimal effort. Disco also includes a standout feature called Discography, which tracks all of your burns and lets you search through tens of thousands of previously burned files to find out what disc they are on. Changes and improvements in this final release over the public beta version are documented on the site.

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