Year: 2009

Adobe has unveiled a free preview of Adobe BrowserLab, a new hosted
service that enables web designers to view and test their sites on a
wide variety of browsers and operating systems.

Previously code-named Meer Meer, Adobe BrowserLab provides web
professionals with real-time accurate screenshots of browser
renderings and includes multiple viewing and diagnostic tools to help
designers pinpoint compatibility issues that can compromise the
design and layout integrity of a web site or page, according to Lea
Hickman, director, Creative Solutions Business Unit at Adobe.

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Cocktail 4.3.4 (Leopard Edition), a general purpose utility for Mac
OS X, has been released (http://cocktail.maintain.se). This version
adds clearing of Renepo.A, Renepo.B and Tored.A trojans, fixes
compatibility issues with Mac OS X 10.5.7, Firefox and Google Gears
as well as addresses minor bug fixes discovered in the previous
release. It also contains updated Automator actions.

The update is highly recommended for all users of Cocktail (Leopard
Edition). Cocktail 4.3.4. (Leopard Edition) is distributed as a
Universal Binary and runs natively on both PowerPC and Intel Macs.

LTB Soft has announced LTB Light 8.0 (http://www.ltblight.com), an
update of the US$299 Mac OS X application that permits natural and
artificial lighting calculation with a color radiosity method applied
to a finite elements plan.

LTB Light implements OpenGL. Data management take places through an
internal CAD system, directly in a perspective view. It’s possible to
introduce flatten surfaces with colored glazing, furniture, curved
surfaces like cylinders, cones, ellipsoids, hyperboloids and complex
objects like cross vaults.

Primera Technology has partnered with Imagine Products to offer
support for Imagine’s award-winning ShotPut Pro software. Primera and
Imagine recently introduced their combined solution at NAB 2009 in
Las Vegas. The products are now shipping.

Video professionals can now streamline their workflow and
automatically archive content onto write-once DVD and Blu-ray Disc
media using Imagine’s software and a Primera Bravo-Series Disc
Publisher.

Apimac (http://www.apimac.com) has released version 7.0 of Mac
Notepad, the Mac OS X application that helps users organize text. The
upgrade sports: user interface improvements, a new mail note feature,
a new categories source list; and support for multiple selection of
notes.

You can also now drag and drop to export and import notes. Mac
Notepad 7.0 offers new import and export formats.