Year: 2010

Lift Audio announces Icon Series of headphones

Lift Audio (http://www.liftaudio.com) has announced the Icon Series 6mm Premium Headphone, which has a list price of US$79.99. One of the smallest headphones in the world, the 6mm driver is smaller than a dime.

An elongated cone-shape creates a deep yet comfortable tight seal within the ear to block ambient noise, according to the folks at Lift Audio. Three sizes (S,M,L) of soft silicone fittings create a personalized feel.

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Solver line now available for Mac OS X, Excel 2011

Frontline Systems, developer of the Solver in Microsoft Excel, is shipping new Mac OS X and Excel 2011 compatible versions of Premium Solver Platform and five plug-in, large-scale Solver Engine.

They’re “designed to bring unmatched ease, speed, and power to solving challenging mathematical optimization problems with up to millions of decision variables,” says Daniel Fylstra, president of Frontline Systems. The new products are released as Version 10.5, in line with their counterparts on Windows.

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Doozla for Mac adds ‘My Doozle’s area

iPlasq (http://www.plasq.com) has released Doozla 1.2 for the Mac, an update of their full screen drawing application for kids.

Doozla features free-hand drawing and painting tools, color-in templates, background images, auto-archive library management with webcam and tablet support. Version 1.2 offers a new “My Doozles” area that can automatically save and store all the Doozles that are created, as well as added the capability to export Doozles so they can easily be used in other applications.

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Barcode Producer update supports Acrobat X

Apparent Corp. has updated Barcode Producer (http://www.itsapparent.com/barcodeproducer/), its barcode creation software suite for Mac OS X, to version 6.2. The upgrade adds support for Adobe’s new Acrobat X release.

Other minor improvements in this release include a smaller program size for faster downloading, and a new copy to clipboard option for bitmap barcode images.

Barcode Producer is a tool for creating barcodes visually, with one-click export for Adobe Creative Suite products, including Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, and Acrobat Distiller.

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