Year: 2009

Apple has unveiled the next version of Logic Studio with major
upgrades to Logic Pro and MainStage and more than 200 new features.
Logic Pro 9 features new Amp Designer and Pedalboard plug-ins that
provide realistic virtual guitar amps and stompbox effects to create
custom guitar rigs.

A new set of Flex Time tools allow Logic users to manipulate the
timing and tempo of audio. MainStage 2, Apple’s live performance
application, includes the new Playback and Loopback plug-ins to
provide backing tracks and creative, real-time loop recording for
performing on stage.

Apple has announced an update to Final Cut Studio with more than 100
new features and new versions of Final Cut Pro, Motion, Soundtrack
Pro, Color and Compressor.

PhatWare Corp., a provider of software products and professional
services for mobile and desktop computers, has released WritePad
Professional Edition (http://www.phatware.com/writepad) for the
iPhone. It’s available for US$9.99 at the Apple App Store.

WritePad Professional Edition is a combination of three previously
released applications: WritePad Affairs, WritePad Notes, and WritePad
Events. It also features voice notes.

Matterform Media has announced the 2.0 release of Yank, the universal
uninstaller for Mac OS X. Yank 2.0 offers new features and is now
compatible with Snow Leopard, Apple’s forthcoming update to OS X.

Yank is an all-purpose uninstaller for Mac OS X. Yank 2.0 monitors
the hard drive for changes when new software is installed and creates
a log of all files that were added or modified.

The world’s easiest programming language today launched on the Web
with the debut of a free “alpha test” version of revMedia 4.0. This
new version of the company’s popular cross-platform development tool
can now deploy to all major browsers on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.