Year: 2008

Fontlab has released Photofont Webready
(http://www.fontlab.com/photofont/webready/), a Mac OS X compatible
typography product for web designers. The folks at Fontlab say that
web page designers have struggled with the tradeoff between
searchability and good typography since the beginning of the Internet.

“If you wanted good typography you had to use bitmaps,” says Ted
Harrison of Fontlab. “But if you wanted your headlines indexed by the
search engines you had to use generic vector fonts. WebReady solves
this problem by creating ‘Flash text’ for web pages.

Chronos LC has released iScrapBox 1.0, a dedicated artwork manager
for digital scrapbooking. It requires Mac OS X 10.5 or later.

“As digital scrapbookers have collected thousands of artwork images,
they’ve found it next-to-impossible to find the perfect image when
needed,” says Jerry Halls, vice president of sales at Chronos. “We’ve
developed a new patent-pending way of bundling digital artwork into
‘iScrapKits’ which makes the artwork fully searchable.

Craft Animations has announced free light
versions of its Craft Director Tools.

Aerielle, developers of wireless audio solutions, has announced the
general availability of the i2i Folding Portable Speakers and the i2i
AudioWear Earphones. Both the lightweight speakers and the
lanyard-style AudioWear Earphones are designed for listening to music
around the home and on-the-go.

The i2i Folding Portable Speakers are compact, portable,
battery-operated stereo speakers. The AudioWear Lanyard-Style
Earphones are lightweight and adjustable. Both the speakers and
earphones are compatible with all popular MP3 players and work with
the Aerielle i2i Stream.

Melodis Corp. has unveiled MelodisVoice Dialer
(http://www.melodis.com/dialer), a free, voice dialer for the iPhone
(it’s suppred by mobile advertising). It uses the Crystal Engine, the
company’s recent achievement in speech search technology.

The Crystal Engine is a search engine with a unique design that
accepts voice as input instead of text, according to Keyvan Mohajer,
president and CEO of Melodis. By avoiding the traditional approach of
voice-to-text conversion, the Crystal Engine can achieve higher
accuracy compared to existing solutions, he adds.