TidBITS Publishing today announced “Take Control of iWeb: iLife ’08 Edition,” a 133-page book by iWeb expert Steve Sande, providing step-by-step instructions and plenty of time-saving tips for building a Web site and publishing it on either .Mac or another Web host. Readers can watch over Sande’s shoulder as he enhances iWeb’s templates with a designer’s eye, using tools like masks, reflections, and Instant Alpha.
Read MoreToday’s featured promo on MacUpdate offers Decompose for US$14.99 (50% off, retail $29.99). “Decompose is an utility for Mac OS X to extract objects from images. The extracted objects can then easily be inserted in a new composite image. It is saved as a TIFF file with transparency. Decompose corrects colors to remove all traces of the previous background, thus generating perfect mattes.” Decompose requires Mac OS X 10.2 or later.
Read MoreNew Take Control book helps iWeb ’08 users make professional-looking Web sites
Ithaca, NY USA (March 24, 2008) — Apple intends iWeb ’08 to help Mac users
create polished-looking Web sites, but not all of iWeb’s features are
easily understood or fully explained by the online help. The new “Take
Control of iWeb: iLife ’08 Edition,” a 133-page book by iWeb expert Steve
Sande, provides step-by-step instructions and plenty of time-saving tips
for building a Web site and publishing it on either .Mac or another Web
host.
From Concentrate Software has to announced Paperclip 1.3, the latest version of their notes utility for Mac OS X Leopard. With a focus on ease-of-use, Paperclip is a simple yet powerful menu bar application that allows users to attach persistent, stickies-styled notes to their documents. Version 1.3 features: Note Viewer window can now be seen across all Spaces; adds support for user-defined app schemas via applescript or nu; adds VoodooPad schema; and much more.
Black Cat Systems has announced the release of DX Toolbox 3.3.0 (US$24.99), a radio propagation / conditions analysis and forecasting tool for amateur radio operators, shortwave listeners, and other radio enthusiasts. This release adds: HTTP Proxy support for those behind a firewall; added a graph of the Planetary Kp Index; can now copy the Grayline map to the clipboard; automatic setting of the UTC offset; and updated for the new Space Environment Center URL which affects data for the Proton and Electron Flux graphs.
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