iWeb Themes Park (http://www.iwebthemespark.com) has unveiled five new iWeb themes for iWeb, the web design component of Apple’s iLife suite.
These themes — Picture Frame, Strategic, Wood Wall, Sunny Clouds and Photo Lab — are made specially for building web sites viewable on any traditional computer, iPad or any other touch screen device.
Read MoreNulana LTD has released NuKit 1.1 (http://nulana.com/nukit), an update of the productivity and timesaving toolkit for Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6. The upgrade includes a dictionary and abbreviation search in the Launcher, speed improvements, shortcuts to anything, and three new language versions.
NuKit combines different utilities such as a launcher, tweaker, shortcut editor, window mover and advanced calculator. It costs US$19.99, though version 1.1 is a free update for registered users.
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On the new “MacVoices” (http://www.macvoices.com), Omaha Sternberg of iGameRadio spent her Labor Day weekend at the Penny Arcade Expo (PAX), and explains what it is and where computer gaming in general, and Mac gaming in particular fit in.
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Apple has been granted several patents by the US Patent & Trademark Office. Following is a summary of each.
Patent D623,404 is for the design of an armband for the 3G iPod nano. The inventors are Bartley Andre, Daniel Coster, Daniele De Iuliis, Evans Hankey, Richard Howarth, Jonathan Ive, Duncan Kerr, Shin Nishibori, Matthew Dean Rohrbach, Peter Russell-Clarke, Douglas Satzger, Calvin Seid, Vincent Keane, Christopher Stringer, Eugene Whang and Rico Zorkendorfer.
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Parallels (http://www.parallels.com) has released Parallels Desktop 6 for Mac, the latest version of the software for running Windows and Mac applications side-by-side on a Mac without rebooting. The new version has more than 80 new and enhanced features, says Serguei Beloussov, chairman and CEO of Parallels.
He says 3D graphics run nearly 40% better than before. Boot time for Windows is 41% faster than before, and Parallels Desktop 6 also boosts speed for working with files on USB drives, networks and in shared folders, says Beloussov.
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