Year: 2009

Skydda Design has introduced the BambooBook
(http://skyddadesign.com/products/bambooBook/bambooBook.html), a case
for 13-inch Macbook Pros. It’s manufactured of bamboo and lined with
padded suede fabric.

The BambooBook measures 1 5/8 x 14 3/8 x 11 inches and weighs three
pounds, seven ounces. Even with the MacBook Pro inserted, users will
will have full operation of their laptop without having to remove it
from the case. Just set it down anywhere, open the lid and it’s ready
to go.

Insider Software and Moksa have announced the release of TypeTrax
(http://www.typetrax.com) for Cumulus 8, which manages Adobe InDesign
CS4 project workflows and associated fonts with Cumulus 8, Canto’s
industry-leading digital asset manager.

As designers import InDesign projects into Cumulus, TypeTrax
automatically imports all the fonts and files required. Users can
preview fonts and their metadata with a few clicks.

QNAP Systems (http://www.qnap.com), a
manufacturer of NAS servers, has announced an
update to the NAS management software that powers
its business-class Intel®-based Turbo NAS servers.

The NAS management software version 3.2, embedded
as firmware, provides an iSCSI target solution
supporting SPC-3 persistent reservation, MPIO and
MC/S allowing SMB and corporate customers the
ability to deploy the NAS as a storage server in
the virtualized and clustered infrastructure.

Additionally, the newly updated management
software also steps up its backup capabilities by
adding A

Michael Amorose has released Newsreader, an iPhone application
template project for Xcode. It provides a table-based starting point
project for creating new newsreader iPhone apps in Xcode.

Newsreader includes an application template, UITableView and
UITableViewCell subclasses, a tab bar controller, four table view
content views, four tab bar icons, a default app launch image, and an
application icon. Newsreader is free and can be downloaded from the
author’s web site
(http://www.michael-amorose.com/software/cocoa_classes/index.htm).

Autodesk has announced that it’s ready to start
shipping Autodesk Smoke 2010 for Mac OS X
(http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/pc/index?id=5561833&siteID=123112
), a software-only editorial finishing tool and
the first Autodesk finishing product designed to
run on the Mac.

Smoke software’s proven editorial finishing tools
harness the 64-bit power of Snow Leopard to
provide an interactive, all-in-one finishing
experience, says Stig Gruman, Autodesk vice
president of digital entertainment.