Year: 2010

PDF2Office Professional 5.1 for Mac OS X released

Posted by | Sep 16, 2010 | , |

Recosoft Corp., the developer of the PDF2Office family of products, has released PDF2Office Professional 5.1 for Mac OS X (http://www.recosoft.com/products/pdf2office/macintosh/macpro5.htm), the next version of the PDF-to-Office formats conversion tool for the Mac. The upgrade is compatible with the Office 2010/2011 family of products.

In particular several issues when converting PDFs to the native 2010/2011 formats have been addressed. What’s more, PDF2Office 5.1 correctly integrates with the latest Office family of products.

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‘MacVoices’ looks at iTunes 10

‘MacVoices’ looks at iTunes 10

Posted by | Sep 16, 2010 | |

On the new “MacVoices” (http://www.macvoices.com), Kirk McElhearn talks about his new book, “Take Control of iTunes 10: The FAQ.”

He discusses the new features of iTunes 10, including the new use of cover art, and the limitations of the Ping social network. McElhearn also talks about some of the features of
iTunes that are often unknown but are very useful, new ways to manage and organize your music for your enjoyment, and more.

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Url Extractor X beefs up international Google site support

Posted by | Sep 16, 2010 | , |

Tension Software has released Url Extractor X 3.2 (http://pomola.com/products_urlextractor/urlextractor.html). Url Extractor X is a Mac OS X app for extracting emails address and generic URLs from files on the HD or directly from the web using a list of “starting” web addresses and working unattended after the startup. You can now retrieve and start search from web pages using keywords from various international Google sites.

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VueScan for Mac OS X updated to version 8.6.58

Posted by | Sep 16, 2010 | , |

Hamrick Software has released Vuescan 8.6.58, a new version of the VueScan software for Mac OS X that’s designed to let users produce better digital images from color snapshots, negatives, slides and documents. The new version adds support for new Canon scanners and multi-core scanning.

The Standard Edition of VueScan costs US$39.95 and the Professional Edition is $79.95 for a single user license. Multi-user licenses are available. A fully functional, trial copy of VueScan is available for download from the Hamrick web site (http://www.hamrick.com).

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Adobe releases Square for Mac OS X

Posted by | Sep 16, 2010 | , |

Adobe Labs (http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/) has released a preview version of Flash Player “Square” that enables native 64-bit support on Linux, Mac OS, and Windows operating systems.

Adobe says they’ve made this preview available so that users can test existing content and new platforms for compatibility and stability. Because this is a preview version of Flash Player, don’t expect it to be as stable as a final release version of Flash Player. Use caution when installing Flash Player “Square” on production machines.

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