Year: 2007

802.11n Airport Extreme benchmarks

Feb. 06, 2007 – iFixit has released the first 802.11n Airport Extreme
benchmarks and disassembly. The photos and benchmarks are online at:
http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Mac/Airport-Extreme-802-11n/Disassembly-Page-1-Disassembly

Benchmarks are on page two:
http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Mac/Airport-Extreme-802-11n/Disassembly-Page-2-Disassembly

From the Guide, “The new base station is amazing. We achieved a 10x
performance boost, and a 3x usable range increase!” We achieved over
9 MB/s in short range lab testing with a MacBook Pro. Long range
testing was equally impressive.

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BlogAssist 2.1

System menu item to help with HTML markup for blogs and more.

PORTLAND, Oregon — February 5, 2007 — Dejal today announced the
immediate availability of Dejal BlogAssist 2.1, a handy tool to help
weblog and website editing by making HTML markup easier.

There are three easy ways to use it: you can use whichever one you
prefer, or all three as desired.

1. The System Menu: BlogAssist adds a small menu to the right-hand
side of the menubar in all applications.

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Wake Assist 1.0

UK, Europe – 6 February, 2007 – DssW, the leading developer of Mac
energy saving software, today announced the launch of Wake Assist 1.0
for Mac OS X. This free utility helps fix a rare stuck-until-clicked
wake bug in Mac OS X.

Wake Assist helps by providing a couple of automated mouse clicks
after waking from sleep; these clicks help nudge a stuck Mac to fully
wake up.

“We hope this tool delights those few Mac users having problems with
Mac OS X’s energy saving capabilities.” said Graham Miln, DssW’s
director.

Wake Assist needs no setting up.

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WebLink for Safari and Motion introduced

Ampede today introduced WebLink, a Motion FxPlug plugin and Safari SIMBL plugin that together allow motion graphics artists to export any Web page from Safari as a pixel-perfect WebLink, and then import those WebLinks into Motion, where they can be further animated using all of the tools available in Motion. WebLink puts a new command in Safari’s File menu: “Export as WebLink,” allowing a Safari user to export the current web page as a “WebLink.” WebLink is priced at US$100 and is available today.

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