Year: 2008

Attendees at the 2008 AppleScript Pro voted it the “best event ever,”
which was valuable feedback since 15 alumni were in attendance. But
now concerns have arisen that there was something fishy with the vote
beyond all the seafood consumed that week. ”

We are not positive the vote was accurate,” says (with tongue in
cheek) Ray Robertson, session co-leader. “We are going to go back and
make sure we get it right this time. It is going to be grueling to
have so much fun again.”

“We were covering Leopard for the first time,” said Shane Stanley,
session co-leader.

iPresentee, the developer of add-ons for Apple’s iWork and iLife
applications, releases Keynote Themes 3.0 and free Keynote themes to
be used with Apple’s Keynote presentation software.

Keynote Themes 3.0 includes10 new awesome themes: Chocolate, Bloom,
Brown Conformation, Blue Conformation, Blue Curve, Yellow
Conformation, Metal Lead, Book, Black Sea and Stripe. Furthermore
iPresentee offers to try free Keynote themes: Chocolate, Autumn
Colors and Red Cloud. The new release extends iPresentee’s Keynote
themes collection up to 45 themes.

FileWave Inc. (http://www.filewave.com) has updated FileWave, the
software management suite for Mac OS X, to version 3.6.

Boris FX (http://www.borisfx.com) has released the Boris Continuum
Lens Flare Unit. OpenGL-accelerated Lens Flare filters draw their
real-time performance from your computer’s graphics card.

The new simulates a lens flare — streaks and spots of light on film
caused by light bouncing inside a camera lens. You can composite the
lens flare over a source image or generate a completely synthetic
image. A range of preset lens flares is included for quick
application or as a starting point for a custom effect.

As the U.S. Federal Government is busy managing a $700 billion
bailout for Wall Street, Marketcircle Inc. has decided to give Main
Street America’s Mac freelancers and small businesses a break – 20
bucks at a time – by lowering the price on Billings 3 time tracking
and invoicing software from US$59.95 to US$39.95 for a seven week
period. A Billings 3 upgrade for Billings 2.x users is also on sale
now for US$25 instead of US$35. Marketcircle’s Billings 3 “Give Main
Street A Break Sale” extends until Nov.