Year: 2010

PCgadgets offers ‘dog tags’ for your iPad

PCgadgets has announced Identify Plates (http://newpcgadgets.com/products/ipad_vanity_plate/index.html ), “dog tags” for the iPad. It offers a custom look while providing contact information in the event your Apple tablet is lost or misplaced.

The stainless steel plate secures to any iPad. The Identify Plates are US$12.95 each.

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Jewel Quest: The Sleepless Star comes to the Mac

Macgamestore.com has announced iWin’s Jewel Quest: The Sleepless Star Premium Edition for Mac OS X 10.4 or later. It’s available as an US$19.95 digital download; a 60-minute trial version is also available.

The Sleepless Star Premium Edition is the fifth game in the casual game series. Here’s how it’s described: “Follow the travels and travails of intrepid explorer, Percy Pack, in Jewel Quest: The Sleepless Star. On a quest for a jewel called the Sleepless Star, Percy discovers that the jewel has been stolen from a Native American village by an unscrupulous jewel collector.

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SQLabs announces SQLiteConverter

SQLabs has announced SQLiteConverter (http://www.sqlabs.com/sqliteconverter.php), an US$49 tool that offers a way to convert your mySQL, PostgreSQL and Oracle database to sqlite.

The app guides you step by step to five operations in order to completely convert your remote databases. The entire process obviously depends on how much data you need to convert, but most of the time you’ll be able to complete it in few seconds, according to the folks at SQLabs.

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Adobe ships Acrobat X Pro

Adobe has released Adobe Acrobat X Pro, its document collaboration tool for creative professionals. It allows users to deliver communications using PDF Portfolios, and work together with shared document reviews.

Users can also simplify workflows with integrated online services for storing and sending documents, and ensure designs will print accurately with advanced print production tools, according to Adobe. Additionally, the company has added two new cloud services — Adobe SendNow and Adobe CreatePDF — designed to improve document exchange and enable easy PDF creation. In Acrobat X:

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PDF Checkpoint update automates file routing, more

Zevrix (http://www.zevrix.com) has updated PDF Checkpoint, an automated PDF preflighting and conversion solution, to version 1.3. The new version automates file routing and report creation after preflighting.

PDF Checkpoint lets users review and analyze preflight results. The program is equally suitable to process hundreds of files as well as single PDF documents.

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