By Cyndy Cashman
Ingeniously easy to use, BannerZest Pro 2 from Aquafadas (http://www.aquafadas.com) is an easy way to add professional-looking, Flash-based slide shows to your website, blog, or social network pages. Creating your first slide show or banner is as simple as dragging-and-dropping images into BannerZest, selecting a preset theme, making a few tweaks, and publishing.
Read MoreTension Software has updated Mac Restart X (http://pomola.com/products_macrestart/macrestart.html) — a Mac OS X app that can restart a Mac on a regular basis or one time only at a specific date and time or at launch using it via Apple iCal or other applications — to version 1.6. The upgrade sports Interface improvements in the Restart via Web page section.
Read MoreUSB Fever has released two new products for the iPhone 4.
The Retro Cassette Tape Case for iPhone 4G (http://www.usbfever.com/index_eproduct_view.php?products_id=2035) is an US$39.99 case for the Apple smartphone that looks like a cassette from yesteryear. The Aluminum (Metal) Back Cover for iPhone 4G (http://www.usbfever.com/index_eproduct_view.php?products_id=2038) is a $12.99 case made of aluminum and filled with a neoprene lining.
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Both the “Wall Street Journal” and the “New York Times” are reporting that Verizon will sell a CDMA version of the iPhone in 2011. In the U.S., that could help Verizon maintain its lead of total subscribers over rival AT&T and boost iPhone sales figures by an estimated 10 million handsets per year in 2011, according to “GigaOM” (http://macosg.me/2/y5).
Read MoreTuxera — a provider of Windows-compatible file systems for Mac, Linux, Android and other platforms — has released a new version of its Tuxera NTFS for Mac loaded with full 64-bit support, extended attributes, and other improvements.
Apple’s latest Mac Pro computers, released in mid-August, are the first to have the Mac OS X 10.6 (“Snow Leopard”) operating system installed in 64-bit kernel mode. Tuxera follows Apple’s direction with the revamped NTFS file system application that is guaranteed to work with future Macs, says CEO Mikko Välimäki.
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