Year: 2009

QuickerTek has announced the MacBook Battery and Charger Lite for
MacBooks
(http://www.quickertek.com/products/macbook_charger_lite.php). Users
purportedly gain up to five hours of additional battery power beyond
the power of the built-in MacBook battery.

This MacBook External Battery Charger Lite charges the internal
battery of the MacBook, MacBook Pro and the MacBook Air while in use.
Tekserve is the exclusive stocking reseller for US$249.95.

The machined aluminum anodized case is designed to match an MacBook.

CalDigit (http://www.caldigit.com) is shipping the CalDigit VR mini,
a bus-powered, two-drive RAID system, supporting a quadruple
interface. Its modular design provides two removable drive modules
and a frontside LCD.

The CalDigit VR mini has support for RAID 0, 1, and JBOD. It includes
software allowing for firmware updates, configuration, monitoring and
even supports email notification. The CalDigit VR mini is bus-powered
via FireWire, so no extra power supply is needed. When additional
speed is needed, you can use eSATA for data and FireWire for power.

BeLight Software has released Get Backup 2.2
(http://www.belightsoft.com/products/getbackup/overview.php) for Mac
OS X. The upgrade introduces the ability to secure your backups using
one of four encryption standards (AES-128, AES-256, Blowfish or
Triple DES) to prevent unauthorized restore.

The folks at BeLight say that Advanced Encryption Standard (AES-256)
should be used as the highest level of protection, while AES-128 is a
good alternative when faster encryption is required and lower
security level is acceptable.

Aquafadas (http://www.aquafadas.com) has released VideoPier and
VideoPier HD 1.3, updates of the family of products aimed at
videographers who own MPEG-2 or AVCHD camcorders and who struggle
with these video formats on their Mac. The new version now provides
complete support for Elgato’s Turbo.264 and Elgato’s Turbo.264 HD.

In addition, the new version offers tools for clip management. It’s
now possible to delete clips — both from the application and the
hard drive. Also, you can now use drag and drop functionality to move
clips from one event to another.

Seapine Software (http://www.seapine.com), a provider of
quality-centric application lifecycle management (ALM) solutions, has
released Surround SCM 2009.1, an update of its RDBMS-based software
configuration management solution.