Year: 2010

The Beatles come to iTunes

The Beatles come to iTunes

Posted by | Nov 16, 2010 | , |

Apple said today was be a “day you’d never forget” due to some exciting iTunes news. If you’re a Beatles’ fan, that’s true. If you’re not, well, it may be, despite Apple’s assertions, just another day.

You can download individual Beatles songs, the legendary group’s original studio albums or buy a box set with the whole shebang. The box set is US$149, individual songs are $1.29 and albums are $12.99 each.

iTunes also has videos of Beatles performances and new TV ads announcing the group’s arrival on iTunes.

— Dennis Sellers

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Cheetah 3D 5.6 for Mac OS X gets rewritten transform tool

Posted by | Nov 16, 2010 | , |

Cheetah 3D (http://www.cheetah3d.com/) — software for modeling, animating and rendering 3D objects — has been updated to version 5.6. The upgrade adds a rewritten transform tool.

The new transform tool now support multi-object selections, a gadget mode to arbitrarily align the transform gadget and much improved snapping tools for precise modeling. Version 5.6 also introduce post- and pre-rotations which are great for orienting joints. The added support for many video codecs like H.264 or MPEG4 plus many small workflow enhancements rounds up the new features.

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Verbatim rolls out new MediaShare Mini

Verbatim rolls out new MediaShare Mini

Posted by | Nov 16, 2010 | , |

Verbatim (http://www.verbatim.com) has introduced the MediaShare Mini, an US$89.95 home networking solution designed to make any USB drive and its files network accessible.  The new unit also allows for seamless content sharing with friends and family as well as multimedia streaming, says Verbatim Product Manager Ron Hanafin. 

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Graphic Inspector for Mac OS X updated to version 1.7.9

Posted by | Nov 16, 2010 | , |

Zevrix Solutions (http://www.zevrix.com) has updated Graphic Inspector, which checks entire folders of graphic files for potential problems, to version 1.7.6. improves GPS metadata handling and includes other improvements.

Graphic Inspector lets graphic professionals et crucial info on multiple graphic files instead of checking them manually. Users automatically get information on multiple raster and vector files. Graphic Inspector will display the file kind, color mode, resolution, compression, color profile, spot colors, fonts, metadata and other attributes.

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iWisdom for Mac OS X beefs up publishing capabilities

Posted by | Nov 16, 2010 | , |

PowerSurge Publishing has just released iWisdom 2.2 for Mac OS X and Windows. The new version enhances the program’s publishing capabilities.

iWisdom can now publish a collection of quotations or other brief insights as a web site or an ebook. Ebooks are created in the EPUB format, ready to be dragged and dropped into iTunes, and synced to an iPhone, iPod touch or iPad. Generated web sites can be hosted on MobileMe, and are viewable via mobile devices.   

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