Year: 2009

One Laptop per Child (OLPC), a non-profit organization focused on
providing educational tools to help children in developing countries
“learn learning,” will partner with PocketMac for a fundraising
promotion.

All fundraising efforts will be related to PocketMac’s RingtoneStudio
2 for iPhone (http://www.CreateiPhoneRingtones.com/), software to
create iPhone ringtones. For every copy of RingtoneStudio 2 for
iPhone sold during August and September, PocketMac will donate US$10
to OLPC (http://www.laptop.org). RingtoneStudio 2 for iPhone is
available now for $29.95.

REAL Software, creator of REALbasic, a cross-platform development
tool (http://www.realsoftware.com/) for creating software for Mac,
Windows, and Linux, today announced the availability of their new VB
Migration Assistant to help developers migrate their applications
from VB to REALbasic.

Software Architects
(www.softarch.com/SA_ImageFlow/) has released
CoverFlow Software Developer Toolkit for Mac OS
10.5 (“Leopard”). It provides developers with a
way to add a customized “Coverflow like” dynamic
visual interface to their Mac applications.

Designed for developers using the Cocoa
framework, the software development kit saves
development time when compared to integrating
native Apple Cover Flow, and it provides the
option for customizing the visual display to
match the developer’s application, according to
the folks at Software Architects.

Media 100 (http://www.media100.com) — a provider of editing systems
for the corporate, broadcast, postproduction, and new media
industries — has announced that Media 100 Suite, next-generation
Media 100 software with MultiClip Editing and Boris RED, is now
available. Media 100 Suite adds new support for Matrox MXO2 for
portable, input/output, monitoring, and up/down/cross conversion.

Native Instruments has introduced Essential Bass
(http://www.native-instruments.com/essentialbass.info), a new US$79,
KORE-powered instrument that provides an arsenal of visceral,
production-ready bass sounds.