Year: 2009

Jobs Sends Letter to Employees, Takes Medical Leave

Apple posted this on their web site earlier today.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs today sent the following email to all Apple employees:

“Team,

I am sure all of you saw my letter last week sharing something very
personal with the Apple community. Unfortunately, the curiosity over my
personal health continues to be a distraction not only for me and my
family, but everyone else at Apple as well.

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Education, school media is the focus for new ActionBacks

Suite Imagery has completed and released two volumes of royalty free
animations with school video production being the target market. In
today’s schools, there’s a lot more focus on video for school
announcements, student projects and school cable and web productions.

With the guidance and input from key educational professionals and
professors, Suite Imagery has produced 2 new volumes of stock
animations with the needs of schools in mind.

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SoniVox announces Playa, a hip hop virtual instrument

SoniVox (http://www.sonivoxmi.com) has announced Playa, a hop hop
virtual instrument for Mac and PC systems. It’s designed for
sequencing, beat construction, and hands-on remixing.

Playa’s user interface bridges the gap between MPC style beat
creation and the computer based virtual instrument environment. It
allows users to interface their MIDI pad controllers and controller
keyboards directly with the software.

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XChange releases database publishing plug-ins for InDesign CS4

XChange International (http://www.xchangeuk.com) has released four
database publishing plug-ins for Adobe InDesign CS4. They have
previously been available for InDesign CS through CS3 and as
XTensions for QuarkXPress — Xdata and Xcatalog — from version 3.0
and higher.

InData is a document building tool that brings the layout, design,
typographic and picture publishing power of InDesign to bear on all
data-driven repetitive publishing tasks.

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