If you’re striving for a paperless office, Fujitsu’s (http://us.fujitsu.com/scanners) US$495 ScanSnap S1500M for the Mac is a product you should add to your must-buy list. The scanner transfers paper docs into digital docs without having to adjust scanner settings — and is a breeze to use.
Read MoreYou can now plunge into the mind’s eye of a tragic heroine in the first episode of Winter Voices, the narrative-driven, episodic, single player role-playing game from independent game developer Beyondthepillars. Players can download the first episode, “Those who have no name,” now for the Mac and PC at the Winter Voices web site for US$4.99.
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By Greg Mills
The big returns are really coming in regarding Microsoft’s Mobile Vista 7. I mean big numbers of phones physically being returned by customers to the cell companies who sold them.
Big as in a very large sales disappointment for both cell phone companies around the world and cell phone hardware manufacturing partners who were willing to give the Kin crew one more chance. Numbers like 2% of all new phone sales being the new Microsoft phones isn’t good news for Redmond.
Read MoreDxO Labs (http://www.dxo.com) has released the latest version of its image enhancement software for photographers: DxO Optics Pro 6.5.1. The upgrade adds RAW support in both its Standard and Elite editions for the Nikon D7000 and Sony Alpha DSLR-A390.
DxO Optics Pro and upgrades for both Mac OS X (10.5 and higher) and Windows will be offered at a 30% holiday season discount through Dec. 25. They’re available from both DxO Labs’ e-store and selected resellers at the holiday season discount of:
° DxO Optics Pro Standard edition: US$99, reduced from $169;
Read MoreEpic Games (http://www.epicgames.com) has released the November 2010 UDK Beta, the latest version of the Unreal Development Kit (UDK), the free edition of Unreal Engine 3 that provides access to the toolset used in blockbuster video games, 3D visualizations, digital films and more.
Epic says it’s committed to providing the UDK community with regular software releases at no charge, and the latest beta is available now at http://www.udk.com/download .
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