Year: 2009

Playrix Entertainment (http://www.playrix.com), a developer and
publisher of casual games, has launched The Rise of Atlantis, Fishdom
and 4 Elements for the Mac. The Universal Binary games run on both
PowerPC and Intel Macs running Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.

Here’s how the games are described: “The Rise of Atlantis: Are you
ready for an exciting quest of adventure and discovery? Embark on a
journey around ancient Greece, Babylon, Carthage, Egypt and Rome in
the search for one of the greatest mysteries of all time – the lost
city of Atlantis.

Zevrix Solutions has released BatchOutput 3.4, its solution to
automate printing and exporting from Adobe InDesign. The new version
adds the ability to automate export of InDesign CS4 documents to the
Adobe Flash CS4 Pro file format, XFL. With BatchOutput 3.4, users can
repurpose multiple InDesign documents for Flash Pro with just a click
of a button instead of opening and exporting each document manually.

With BatchOutput, users only need to select the files to output and
adjust the settings, instead of opening and printing each document
manually.

Seagate Technology has recently re-released a firmware upgrade to fix a
“potential firmware issue in limited number of Barracuda 7200.11 hard
drives and related SATA drives based on this product platform, manufactured
through December 2008.” See MacTech News item at
https://www.mactech.com/news/?p=1011544

To determine whether your product is affected, visit the Seagate Support
web site at:

http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/selfservice/news.jsp?DocId=207931

Mac users have questions regarding doing this update on Macs, and MacTech
has secured the answers.

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Workamajig (http://www.Workamajig.com) — which makes web-based ad
agency software and project management groupware for creative and
design firms, says the next version of its self-titled software will
include new general ledger functions, and Support for Apple’s Mac OS
X Leopard 10.5.7.

The general ledger functions will include cash-basis financial
reporting and basis financial reporting.

The Foundry (http://www.thefoundry.co.uk) — a developer of visual
effects, image-processing and compositing software — says that,
under an exclusive arrangement with Autodesk, it can once again offer
support for the Autodesk Sparks range of its Tinder, Furnace and
Keylight products.

The Foundry had previously been winding down support and development
for plug-ins on Autodesk System products following Autodesk’s
termination of The Foundry’s Authorized Developer Network programme
membership at the end of 2008.

The Foundry’s CEO, Bill Collis says maintenance releases for 200