Year: 2009

Happier.com (http://www.happier.com) — a web site created to help
users measure, track and improve their level of happiness —
released a mobile application for the iPhone. Users of happier.com’s
“gratitude journal” are directed to make a daily entry of three
positive events that happen each day.

A 24-question assessment then informs the user of their happiness
score. Users can track milestones and increase their happiness over
time using the gratitude journal.

REAL Software, creator of REALbasic — a cross-platform development
tool for creating software for Mac, Windows and Linux — is now
shipping REALbasic 2009 Release 1. The first release of 2009
continues to focus on product quality and reliability, while
introducing 27 new features and 100 improvements, according to Geoff
Perlman, founder and CEO of REAL Software.

Among other things, this release includes a new Quickstart window
that helps new users get started developing software in REALbasic.

Adobe has released Photoshop Lightroom 2.3 and Camera Raw 5.3,
available immediately for download at
www.adobe.com/downloads/updates/. The Lightroom 2.3 and Camera Raw
5.3 updates, originally posted as release candidates for community
testing on Jan. 23, provide raw file support for the newly-released
Nikon D3X and Olympus E-30 cameras.

The Lightroom 2.3 update also provides support for eight additional
languages including Dutch, Italian, Portuguese (Brazilian), Spanish,
Swedish, Korean, Chinese (simplified) and Chinese (traditional).

Apple has introduced the new Mac Pro using Intel “Nehalem” Xeon
processors and a next-generation system architecture to deliver up to
twice the performance of the previous generation system. The new Mac
Pro starts at US$2,499.

“The new Mac Pro is a significant upgrade and starts at $300 less
than before,” says Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of
Worldwide Product Marketing.

Apple has updated its iMac and Mac mini desktop lines. The iMac
update doesn’t include a quad-core option as many have hoped but does
include a 24-inch iMac that’s priced more affordably. There’s also a
Mac mini with new integrated graphics.

For the same US$1,499 price as the previous generation 20-inch iMac,
the new 24-inch iMac delivers a 30 percent larger display, twice the
memory and twice the storage, according to Apple.