Year: 2008

Enfocus has announced the availability of anew addition to the
PitStop product family. PitStop Extreme is a standalone PDF editor
for checking and correcting PDF files. PitStop Extreme also
incorporates Enfocus’ preflighting engine and Certified PDF
technology to prevent editing errors and safeguard the file.

PitStop Extreme is standards-compliant, including PDF/X and the Ghent
PDF Workgroup specifications. Its familiar editing environment means
a limited training requirement.

A Vampyre Story (http://www.vampyrestory-game.com) is a new adventure
game for the Mac from Virtual Programming; it will be released in the
fourth quarter of the year. The game has been developed by Autumn
Moon Entertainment, a company founded by ex- LucasArts employee Bill
Tiller.

Here’s how the game is described: “This new point and click adventure
tells the tale of the beautiful, gifted opera singer Mona De Lafitte,
whose life is brought to an abrupt end by the vampire baron, Shrowdy
Von Kiefer.

Craft Animations
(http://www.craftanimations.com/index.cfm?objectid=27B47796-AC74-49F2-5BCB089111A3FC5E)
has introduced Mac OS X versions of its Craft
Director Tools for users of Autodesk’s Maya.
Tools is a process-driven animation suite based
on neural networking, artificial intelligence and
autonomous control systems.

Craft Animations’ co-founder and chief technical
officer, Luigi Tramontana, says Craft Director
Tools offer an entirely new way of animating by
quickly and accurately directing the physical
motion paths of objects such as cars, planes and
helicopters.

Yamaha Corporation of America (http://www.yamaha.com) is now shipping
their new AudioGram 6 and AudioGram 3 Computer Recording Systems.
Recently named Best in Show at the annual NAMM music trade show,
these audio interfaces are designed to turn a computer into a tool
for recording from virtually any microphone, instrument or audio
device.

In addition, the company is offering a $20 rebate on the AudioGram
when purchased with a qualifying Yamaha keyboard, guitar, or bass.

Ramjet now carries DDR3-1066 RAM for the new aluminum MacBook and the
black bezel MacBook Pro. The new MacBooks and MacBook Pros have two
slots, and memory is to be installed in matched pairs.

Users will remove the two original 1GB modules and replace them.
Ramjet offers a 4GB kit, containing two 2GB modules for US$139.
These modules are fully compatible with the latest Apple firmware,
and are SPD configured for the MacBook and MacBook Pro.