Year: 2007

Pricing lowered on Mercury Elite-AL Pro ‘Quad Interface’

Posted by | Feb 1, 2007 | |

Other World Computing (OWC) today announced lowered pricing on its award-winning Mercury Elite-AL Pro “Quad Interface” FireWire 800/400 + USB 2.0 + eSATA line of external storage solutions. The Mercury Elite-AL Pro “Quad Interface” line, starting as low as US$179.99, is available in up to a 750GB capacity. Elite-AL models are EMC Backup Certified, supported for high demand audio-video, and include FireWire 800 Cable, FireWire 400 Cable, USB 2.0 Cable, eSATA cable and EMC Retrospect Backup.

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PandaWare Simple Help Editor 2.0 released

Posted by | Feb 1, 2007 | |

The PandaWare Company today announced it has released Simple Help Editor 2.0, its help authoring application for Macintosh and Windows developers. Version 2.0 supports creation of help systems in HTML and Apple Help Book formats, as well as version 1.0’s proprietary styled-text format for REALbasic developers. Other improvements include the ability to add graphics (to HTML output), to link to external resources, and a number of options for saving to HTML. Simple Help Editor 2.0 is priced at US$30.

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Plasq releases Comic Life 1.3.1

Posted by | Feb 1, 2007 | |

Plasq today announced the availability of an update to Comic Life with the latest 1.3.1 update for Mac OS X. This update includes many new features: multiple images per panel; multi-tailed speech balloons; and rotatable panels, captions and lettering. A new visual menu makes it easy to preview and select the included styles for images, panels and text. Auto-updates have also been added via the open library, Sparkle. Comic Life standard is priced at US$24.95 and $29.95 for Comic Life Deluxe.

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A Prompter 2.1.3 now available

Posted by | Feb 1, 2007 | |

Osborn Entertainment Software today released a new and improved version of their teleprompting software for Mac OS X. Some features of A Prompter include the main capability of a smooth scrolling text window, along with many useful features such as full text editing, bookmarks, fine tuning of scroll speed, text file queues (linked files to be scrolled in series), styled text, non-verbal cues, horizontally and vertically flipped text, scrolling with a picture background, save scroll to a quicktime movie, and more.

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AP: ‘Time Extended in Cisco-Apple iPhone Suit’

Posted by | Feb 1, 2007 | |

Apple and Cisco Systems have “agreed to extend the time Apple has to respond to Cisco’s lawsuit surrounding the iPhone, in order to discuss trademark rights and interoperability,” reports AP. “San Jose, Calif.-based Cisco, which makes routers and switches to link networks and power the Internet, sued Apple over alleged trademark infringement for calling its new cell phone-iPod device iPhone.

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