Year: 2009

Elgato (http://www.elgato.com) and Hauppauge Digital have teamed up
to bring high definition TV recording using H.264 to the Mac. Using
the Hauppauge HD PVR USB 2.0 personal video recorder and the latest
version (3.1) of Elgato’s EyeTV 3 software, users can watch and
record HDTV from a cable or satellite set top box and create TV and
movie libraries on their Mac using high definition H.264 encoding.

HD PVR is the world’s first consumer device for recording video from
high definition cable TV and satellite set top boxes in resolutions
up to 1080i.

Craft Animations (http://www.craftanimations.com)
has announced versions of its Craft Director
Tools. Created to introduce users of Maxon’s
Cinema 4D software.

Canto partner Moksa, has announced Typetrax, software that links
Canto Cumulus (http://www.canto.com) with Insider Software’s
FontAgent Pro for users of Adobe’s InDesign and Illustrator. Typetrax
enables Cumulus-based creative groups to see and manage the fonts
used in their InDesign and Illustrator documents, right from within
Cumulus.

TypeTrax adds the missing link to digital design projects.

Midway (http://www.midway.com) has announced that five games from the
TouchMaster series will soon be available for download from the Apple
App Store for play on the iPhone and iPod touch. TouchMaster
favorites Prismatix, Dice King, Combo 11, Carpet and Spellwinder are
expected to be available by the end of this month for US$0.99 each —
or in a TouchMaster Volume 1 bundle of all five for $3.99.

The titles will be fully localized in English, French, Italian,
German and Spanish. Here’s how teh games are described:

“Spellwinder: This is a word search game with a twist.

Redlex has released version 2.6 of Mellel
(http://www.mellel.com/), its word processor. The
company describes it as a “major update.”

“With Mac OS X 10.5 Apple introduced a wonderful
new feature called QuickLook, which allow you to
peep into documents without opening them,” says
Eyal Redler, RedleX’s CTO. “The default for word
processor documents, however, was only so-so: the
document was not divided into pages, elements
like footnotes were missing or misplaced, images
were not placed correctly or, in short, it did
not look like a PDF.