Apple has released Aperture SlideShow Support Update 1.1, which addresses an HD video clip playback issue. According to Apple, for Mac OS X 10.6 (“Snow Leopard”) users, Aperture 3 slideshows with trimmed HD clips should “now remain properly synced” with their audio.
Apple says this is a recommended update (3.29MB) for Aperture 3 users You can obtain it via the Software Updates component of the Mac OS X Systems Preferences app.
Read MoreHere are the latest iPhone/iPod touch/iPod/iPad apps announced. You can find ’em at the Apple App Store (http://www.itunes.com/appstore/).
Nicolas Seriot and Anton Anton have announced TweetyShow 1.0 for the iPhone and iPod touch. The US$0.99 app shows photos posted on Twitter in real time. iPhone users can scroll through an grid of photos coming live from the Twitter-sphere.
Tuparev Technologies of the Netherlands has introduced Plants 1.0 for the iPhone and iPod touch. The $2.99 consists of a photo reference guide to plants, and a plant maintainance scheduler.
Read MoreIn February, two weeks after Apple unveiled the iPad, Flurry Analytics (http://www.flurry.com/) — a cross-platform mobile application analytics provider — says there’s been a dramatic upturn in the number of developers installing its analytics tools in new apps for the iPhone OS (which the iPad uses).
Read MoreMOG (http://www.mog.com), an on-demand music listening service and music blogging hub, hasy demonstrated its new MOG All Access mobile streaming music application for smartphones. The application will be available initially on iPhone and Android platforms.
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In a note to clients today, Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster expects Mac sales for the current fiscal quarter to beat the Street’s estimates and anticipates iPod sales will meet those estimates. He bases his prognosis on data from the NPA research group.
Munster says that NPD retail data points to sales of 2.8 to 2.9 million Mac units sold for the March quarter. The Street estimate is 2.7. Munster is forecasting Mac unit growth of 26 to 315 year-over-year.
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