Year: 2009

Native Instruments has introduced the Berlin, New York and Vienna
Concert Grand as well as Upright Piano, four software instruments
that offer detailed reproductions of some of the world’s most revered
pianos. Previously available within the Akoustik Piano, these
instruments (http://
www.native-instruments.com/Kontakt_powered_pianos.info) can now be
purchased individually or as a bundle.

All four pianos are powered by the Kontakt engine, and are playable
in the free Kontakt Player as well as the full Kontakt sampler.

ABBYY (http://www.ABBYY.com) — a provider of document recognition,
data capture and linguistic software — has announced that as of
version 10.

ABBYY FineReader Express Edition for Mac is an optical character
recognition (OCR) application that turns scanned paper documents, PDF
files and camera images into electronic formats such as RTF
documents, XLS spreadsheets, searchable PDFs, and HTML files.

Other World Computing (http://www.macsales.com) is now offering the
Axiotron Modbook tablet Mac at reduced pricing. The company has
announced an US$500 price reduction and expanded options on the
Modbook.

OWC, as a fully certified Axiotron Authorized System Manufacturer
(AASM), has also reduced the price of its MacBook to Modbook
Modservice conversion by 40%.

Bare Bones Software (http://www.barebones.com ) has released Yojimbo
2.1, an upgrade to the information organizer for Mac OS X. The
upgrade adds Speech and Transforms commands to the edit menu and text
view contextual menus for text-based notes.

Also, Yojimbo 2.1 now supports .vncloc clipping files. Enhancements
to scripting support allow opening the Quick Input Panel via
AppleScript and accessing a collection’s icon property from the
scripting interface.

nPulse Network Systems (http://www.npulsenetworks.com) has released
the nPulse HammerHead 10 Gbps Capture and Replay system based on the
Napatech NT20E 2 x 10 Gbps In-line adapter. HammerHead is the a
traffic testing product that provides full line-rate 10 Gbps packet
capture, record-to-disk and replay capabilities.

“Capturing, recording and generating 10 Gigabits per second of
traffic on a sustained basis are difficult technical challenges, and
existing approaches have relied on proprietary hardware and software
solutions.