Year: 2008

Other World Computing (OWC) has announced a 4GB DDR3 OWC Memory
Upgrade Kit for Apple’s new MacBook 13-inch and MacBook Pro 15-inch
models, which were announced yesterday and are just starting to
ship. OWC Memory is also available in modules and kits of up to 4GB
for all previous MacBook and MacBook Pro models, as well as for
nearly every current and past Apple computer model.

OWC Kit pricing for upgrading new MacBook and MacBooks Pros are
US$139.99 for a 4GB DDR3 Memory Upgrade Kit (a matched pair of 2GB
memory modules).

Yenco has just has released Agenda 4.0.4
(http://www.yenco.com/agenda/), an update of the Mac OS X (10.4 and
higher) app that keeps track of your events and tasks, lets you enter
your thoughts, and create calendar or journal web sites. This update
fixes a bug with task import from iCal files.

Agenda 4 is a shareware application. You can evaluate it free for 15
times to try out its features and decide if you like it before you
buy it. Registration is US$40. Version 4.0.5 is a free update for
registered user of version 4.x.

Absoft Corp. has announced advancements for customers developing and
maintaining Fortran programs on Intel-based Mac OS systems. These
improvements affect three areas of code development and are
incorporated into Absoft’s newly released Pro Fortran v10.2 for Mac
OS/Intel: 1) increased application speed, 2) superior debugging and
3) new tools for Fortran developers on Mac OS/Intel.

Wood Lotz president of Absoft says the primary increase in
application speed is a result of Absoft’s support for the Intel’s new
SSE4.1 vector instructions.

Opera Software has led a project to create a search engine that
tracks how web pages are structured on the World Wide Web. When
released publicly in the coming months, this engine will help browser
makers and standards bodies work towards a more standards-driven and
compatible web, the company says.

Opera has announced results from its MAMA (Metadata Analysis and
Mining Application) search engine, a brainchild of Opera engineers
that indexes the markup, style, scripting and technology used while
creating web pages.

Stellar Data Recovery has launched Stellar Phoenix Macintosh Data
Recovery 3.0 (http://www.stellarinfo.com/mac-data-recovery.htm), an
update of the application for retrieving lost data. You can now
retrieve data from Mac hard drives, Lacie drives and iPods.

Stellar Phoenix Macintosh Data Recovery is backed up with 24X5
technical support and also continues to offer advancements of the
product through Live Updates option. It’s an Universal Binary product
that works on both Intel and Power PC Macs.

A demo is available at the Stellar Phoenix web site.