Year: 2009

Alesis (http://www.alesis.com), a manufacturer of professional audio
equipment and studio electronics, has released the TapeLink USB, a
digital-archiving cassette tape deck. It has an estimated street
price of US$199.99.

This dual-cassette deck enables musicians to store their recordings
on hard disk or flash, burn them to CD or take them on the go on
their iPod. Musicians can clean up their old tape recordings of band
rehearsals, performances, demos, jam sessions and song ideas.

TapeLink USB is a dubbing and playback deck that connects directly to
a computer via USB.

Bare Bones Software has released BBEdit 9.1.1, an update to its
professional strength HTML and text editor. The BBEdit 9.1.1 update
is a maintenance release that fixes reported issues.

The National Association of Photoshop Professionals
(http://www.photoshopuser.com) (NAPP) has announced the winners of
its 4th annual Photoshop User Awards
(http://www.photoshopuserawards.com), a worldwide competition for
Adobe Photoshop users. Winners were selected from more than 700
entries from 12 countries. Finalists in each of the 11 categories
also competed for Best of Show to win an all expense paid, five-day
trip for two to Barcelona, Spain.

MicroNet Technology (http://www.micronet.com), a provider of storage
solutions, has introduced its Genesis V RAID rackmount subsystem
product suite to deliver storage with enterprise performance and
features. Leading the portfolio is the 3U-16TB SAS-SAS/SATA RAID
subsystem.

A web browser-based RAID manager enables local or remote
configuration, management and monitoring of all system events and
provides email notifications indicating system health based on
user-defined policies.

Square Wheel Software (http://www.squarewheelsoft.com) has released
Next Read 2.0. It’s an update of the iPhone and iPod touch app that
allows users to build and manage their lists of desired books. It’s
available in the Apple App Store
(http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=299379727&mt=8)
for US$1.99.

Next Read 2.0 builds upon the introduced in the first version of Next
Read. Users are now given new options for adding and organizing
books.