Year: 2010

Rumors say we’ll be bidding goodbye to iDVD around November

A new book listing on Amazon’s German web site appeared yesterday and offered some details off the next version of Apple’s iLife suite, which will reportedly arrive this month or next. And apparently iLife ’11 will continue to show Apple’s disdain of physical media by dropping iDVD.

Could it be that the giant server site that Apple is building in Maiden, North Carolina, will be the replacement for iDVD? Rather than burning DVDs Apple may want us to send movies to the cloud from which they can be accessed almost anywhere.

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WebDesign 3.0 for Mac OS X adds support for HTML 5

Rage Software has released WebDesign 3.2 (http://www.ragesw.com/products/webdesign.html), an update to the web development software for Mac OS X. The new version provides support for HTML 5 with the addition of new auto-complete features and a syntax checker that supports all the new HTML 5 tags and attributes. It also adds faster website publishing.

WebDesign sports over 40 HTML wizards. Features include live side-by-side web page previews, auto code completion as you type, integrated HTML help, and much more.

WebDesign is compatible with Mac OS X 10.5 and higher. It costs US$59.95.

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SonicMood for Mac OS X sounds off to version 4.9.83

SonicIdeas (http://SonicMood.com) has released SonicMood 4.9.8.3 for Mac OS X 10.3.9 and higher. It’s a maintenance update with some bug fixes.

There’s also now an undo/redo for the main SonicMood window, the Edit window, and the Mixer window now share a common stack. The other windows, like Preferences and the Picture window, continue to have separate undo/redo stacks.Version 4.9.8.1 also makes some changes to the Edit window to make it a little more understandable.

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MoneyWell for Mac OS X rings up version 1.6.2

No Thirst Software has updated MoneyWell (http://nothirst.com/moneywell/), the personal financial application for Mac OS X, to version 1.6.2. The new version adds an automatic refresh of exchange rates.

It also adds: Quicken 2010 for Windows OFX direct connect emulation; an user option to disable automatic update prompt for similar transactions; and a check all/none command to update.

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