Year: 2009

Boinx Software has announced the availability of FotoMagico Remote
to control a live FotoMagico 3 slideshow with iPhone or iPod touch.
To help presenters with their live narration, FotoMagico Remote also
includes a teleprompter that displays a thumbnail and the speaker
notes for the currently displayed slide. FotoMagico Remote can be
puchased exclusively at the iTunes App Store for $19.95.

“Using the FotoMagico Remote on stage gives you unprecedented control
and makes you look cool,” says Oliver Breidenbach, CEO of Boinx
Software.

TayKrOn Games has released Slide Colors
(http://slidecolors.taykron.com/), an US$4.99 puzzle game for Mac,
Windows and Linux systems. It sports three different game modes (100
levels for each mode and two levels of difficulty): Puzzle Mode, Time
Attack and Clear Blocks.

Here’s how the game is described: “With a new an original game
mechanic, Slide Colors offers a unique gameplay experience based on
the combination of various elements of the same color using special
items with an amazing playability.

Toon Boom Animation Inc. today announced the release of Toon Boom
Animate Pro, the high-performance animation software for
professionals. Toon Boom Animate Pro is the most complete
professional animation software for serious animators, offering award
winning state-of-the-art content creation, animation and compositing
toolset for any animation style within a single all-in-one desktop
application.

“At Toon Boom, when it comes to building a strong and tightly-knit
animation community, we believe in giving more for less.

Adobe has released its Photoshop Camera Raw 5.4 Release Candidate,
available immediately as a free download from Adobe Labs at
http://labs.adobe.com. The “release candidate” label indicates that
this update is well tested but would benefit from additional
community testing before it is distributed automatically to all
customers.

The Camera Raw 5.4 Release Candidate extends raw file support to an
additional 26 camera and camera back models including the Canon EOS
500D (EOS Rebel T1i), Nikon D5000, Olympus E-620 and 18 Hasselblad
models.

There’s no lack of advice available for how to run a Mac efficiently
and solve pesky problems, but it’s scattered all over the Internet. A
pair of new ebooks from TidBITS Publishing Inc. – “Take Control of
Maintaining Your Mac, Second Edition” and “Take Control of
Troubleshooting Your Mac” – help Mac users achieve peak performance
from their Macs and handle any problems that might occur.