Year: 2008

Paragon Software Group
(http://www.paragon-software.com/), which makes
Mac cross-platform technology, has announced that
QuVIS (http://), a provider of high fidelity
motion imaging technology, has selected its
Universal File System Driver (UFSD) technology to
embed within their new Wraptor DCP (Digital
Cinema Package) mastering plug-in for Apple Final
Cut Studio.

Paragon’s technology fulfills the
high-performance requirements for creating a
digital cinema content distribution hard drive
according to the DCI (Digital Cinema Initiative)
specifications by enabling a Mac

From http://developer.apple.com/iphone/program/

We have decided to drop the non-disclosure agreement (NDA) for released
iPhone software.

We put the NDA in place because the iPhone OS includes many Apple
inventions and innovations that we would like to protect, so that others
don’t steal our work. It has happened before. While we have filed for
hundreds of patents on iPhone technology, the NDA added yet another level
of protection.

Ekim Software (http://www.ekimsoftware.com) is shipping BuildMate
1.0, a free, cross-platform build process automation tool for
REALbasic projects. It allows you to set properties and constants in
a project with static and dynamic values from the build configuration
file, moving the resulting built applications to a builds directory.

Many different situations, like running a schedule to perform nightly
builds to reducing a complicated build process down to a single
command, can benefit from the use of BuildMate, therefore saving
developers a lot of time.

echno-Grafik eU (http://www.itaskx.com) has released iTaskX 2.5, an
update of the project management solution. The new version offers a
number of new features and improvements like, opening native
Microsoft Project files in the .mpp format, multiple task splits, new
interface, improved support for Mac OS X 10.5 (“Leopard’) and more.

iTask 2.5 is a free update for current users. For new users the cost
is US$112 for a single-user license.

Intelli Innovations has introduced Barcode Automator
(http://www.intellisw.com/barcodeproducer/), giving designers, small
businesses, and inventory control specialists the ability to create
thousands of barcodes at once. It’s a plug-in for Barcode Producer,
the Mac OS X (10.4 and higher) barcode creation tool.

Barcode Producer and the Barcode Automator plug-in let you create a
barcode; simply select the type from the interactive Symbology Guide
barcode encyclopedia, then customize the barcode with a live preview
and finishing tools like borders, colors, and scaling.