Year: 2009

Sonoma Wire Works (http://www.sonomawireworks.com), makers of
RiffWorks recording software and the FourTrack and InstantDrummer
iPhone Apps, has acquired the entire Submersible Music product line,
including the DrumCore and KitCore software and drum content.

Submersible was created by Paul Allen, the philanthropist and
Microsoft co-founder, to help him in his own songwriting. DrumCore
(http://www.drumcore.com) gives songwriters and composers access to
grooves and instrument sounds of over a dozen famous drummers and
percussionists.

MACTECH SURVEYS APPLE ECOSYSTEM ECONOMIC OUTLOOK
– 70.7% of respondents feel good or great about their next 6 months
– Nearly 90% see 2009 as almost as good or better than 2008
– MacTech sees 13% increase in ad revenues 2009 over 2008 YTD
– 72.9% feel good or great when asked about the Apple/Mac segment

Westlake Village, CA — October 8, 2009 — MacTech(r) Magazine today
announced the results of its latest economic outlook survey of the Apple
market ecosystem. The survey asked five questions about the experience
companies are having in the Apple related markets.

O’Reilly has released “Mac OS X Snow Leopard: The
Missing Manual”
(http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596153298/?utm_content=Snow+Leopard+TMM&utm_campaign=PR&utm_source=iPost&utm_medium=email)
by David Pogue.

Independent software developer Martin Wengenmayer has updated Cheetah
3D (http://www.cheetah3d.com/) — software for modeling, animating
and rendering 3D objects — to version 5.0.

Faronics has released Insight 7.4, an update of the tool that
empowers instructors to educate, monitor, and communicate with an
entire class from one central computer. The latest version of Insight
allows teachers to run the console within the Mac OS X operating
system.

Insight 7.4 also features expanded internet controls for Internet
Explorer 8 and Mozilla Firefox. The software allows instructors to:
monitor user computers; blank user screens; mute audio; remote into
their computers; open, close, block applications and web activity on
user workstations.