Year: 2009

The Plugin Site (http://www.thepluginsite.com) has released version 2
of Plugin Galaxy for Mac OS X. Plugin Galaxy 2 is a plug-in for
creating special effects and enhancing images with the help of more
than 160 basic effects.

It works in various graphics applications including Photoshop,
Photoshop Elements, Fireworks, Photoline, GraphicConverter and
Illustrator. It supports 8bit and 16bit RGB and grayscale images.

Version 2 of Plugin Galaxy is now available as an Universal Binary
that runts natively on both PowerPC and Intel Macs.

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Spiderweb Software has announced the upcoming release of Avernum 6
(http://www.avernum.com/avernum6/index.html), the final game in the
Avernum series. Avernum 6 is set in the world of Avernum, an enormous
series of caves far below the surface of the world.

Here’s how the game is described: “Travel into the strange
subterranean land of Avernum, full of dungeons, labyrinths, and
constant warfare. Avernum is a world underground. It is a nation of
people living in an enormous warren of tunnels and caverns, far below
the surface of the world.

SoftPress’s Freeway 5 will be featured at a pair of Los Angeles-area
events followed by a presentation at the North Coast Mac User Group.
First up will be a presentation for the Los Angeles chapter of the
American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP) on Thursday, July 16.

Next up is the Digital Actor Workshop, a special event for actors
looking to improve their online presence on Sunday, July 19. The tour
will conclude with a presentation to the NCMUG on Tuesday, July 2.

“We are excited to participate in these events,” says Ian Schray, US
marketing manager for Softpress.

Trans International, a company known for “maximizing Macs,” has
announced the availability of the Pro Sled
(http://www.transintl.com/store/prosled.cfm) — Mac Pro hard disk
drive sleds — for 3.5-inch and 2.5″-inch SATA/SAS and SSD hard
drives.

The Pro Sled gives you the capability of unlimited swappable drives
for your Mac Pro. Drives can be assigned and labeled for different
clients, projects or backup. In a high volume professional setting,
power users need more drives ready for easy replacement that can save
time and avoid misplaced data.