Year: 2009

Ambrosia Software has released Multiwinia,
(http://www.ambrosiasw.com/games/multiwinia), a real-time online
strategy war game for the Mac. It costs US$19; a 30-day demo is
availble for download.

Here’s how the game id described: “Multiwinia is a multi-player real
time strategy war game unlike any other. A chaotic war is raging in a
fantastic fractalized world populated by bloodthirsty little stick
men with a mission: follow your orders to annihilate their enemies.

Mariner Software has released its first iPhone and iPod touch
application: Mariner Calc
(http://www.marinersoftware.com/sitepage.php?page=136). It’s now
available for US$9.99 at the Apple App Store.

In development for more than a year, Mariner Calc takes advantage of
almost two decades of spreadsheet experience on the Mac, according to
Michael Wray, president of Mariner Software.

ASK Video Interactive Media, a creator of software tutorials on DVD,
is now shipping the first DVD in a 4-part training series for Pro
Tools 8. Pro Tools Level 1 (http://www.askvideo.com) is Mac and PC
compatible and features 32 tutorial videos for more than three hours
of instruction.

Pro Tools 8 has a sleek new interface, tons of new virtual
instruments, new scoring and MIDI options, and ASK Video new gets
users started and PT veterans up to speed quickly, says Steve
Kostrey, CEO of ASKVideo.

Other World Computing (http://www.macsales.com)
is offer DDR3 memory upgrades for the new iMacs
that were announced this week. You can upgrade
the systems to 8GB.

OWC says its memory upgrades cost up to 50
percent less than the factory upgrades. In
addition, with OWC Memory Upgrades, users retain
their original factory memory modules that can
either be set aside for future use or be sent to
OWC for a cash back trade-in up to US$19 per
Apple factory memory module.

Cocktail 4.3 (Tiger Edition)(/a), an update of the general purpose
utility for Mac OS X, has been released.