Year: 2009

Bare Bones Software today announced
the release and immediate availability of BBEdit 9.3, a significant
update to its professional strength HTML and text editor.

BBEdit 9.3 introduces significant enhancements to the Projects
feature that debuted in BBEdit 9.0, including support for adding
Finder saved searches to projects, and additional flexibility in
handling non-text files, including command-driven support for
examining files via QuickLook when running on Mac OS X 10.6.

“BBEdit continues to advance with features that significantly enhance
productivity in many areas,” said

Ableton has launched Able10, a season of special
offers and giveaways to celebrate the company’s
10th anniversary.

For Live 8 and Suite 8 users: Ableton is giving
away 10 free Live Packs from Ableton artists such
as Múm, Apparat, Thavius Beck, Swayzak and Junie
Morrison (formerly of the Ohio Players). The
company is also offering 20% off Live 8 and Suite
8, including upgrades.

During Able10, Ableton Live 8 and Suite 8 are up
to 20% cheaper. This discount offer applies to
new licenses and upgrades.

Ableton Live Intro is out now for US$99.

Boinx Software (http://www.boinx.com) has updated iStopMotion, the
stop motion and time lapse tool for Mac OS X, to version 2.1. The new
version has been revved for Mac OS X 10.6 (“Snow Leopard”) and has
been localized for Japanese.

iStopMotion comes in three flavors, targeting different users. The
US$49 Home edition is for the family. The $99 Express version is for
the serious hobbyist animator, and the $499 Pro edition is for the
animator who makes money (or plans to) with stop motion animation.

Digieffects (http://www.digieffects.com), a developer of visual
effects software plug-ins, has released Falloff Lighting (US$49),
which provides enhanced lighting for After Effects’ built-in lights.

Falloff Lighting is much more like that of the real world where light
naturally decays or “falls off” as surfaces increase distance from
the After Effects light, according to Robert Sharp, president of
Digieffects. With After Effects it doesn’t matter how far away a
layer is from a light, it is still illuminated the same amount by
that light.

This year Mac users can send out their Christmas greetings via Mac OS
X’s Mail. Following the success of their Stationery Pack Greeting
Cards, equinux (http://www.equinux.com) has released Season’s
Greetings Vol. 2, a collection of 22 festive greeting cards for Mail
in Mac OS X 10.5 (“Leopard”) and 10.6 (“Snow Leopard”).

You can send invitations to friends and family for Thanksgiving,
Christmas, Hanukkah or Kwanzaa. Season’s Greetings Vol. 2 provides 22
email templates for a range of occasions throughout the holiday
period.