Year: 2010

App Store needs a Playlist feature

Posted by | Sep 9, 2010 | , |

I haven’t yet decided if iTunes 10 is, for me, an good upgrade or not. Quite frankly, I doubt I’ll use Ping. I’m on Facebook and that’s about enough social networking for ome.

However, it occurred to me that the Apple App Store needs playlists like the Music Store has. In other words, if I’m a very successful real estate agent that others are trying to emulate, and I want to share my setup, I should be able to create a playlist of apps that others can see.

Now maybe this will be taken care of once Ping adds Apps, Books, etc. In that case, I might use Ping after all.

— Dennis Sellers

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BatchOutput update improves image exporting

Posted by | Sep 9, 2010 | , |

Zevrix Solutions (http://www.zevrix.com)has released BatchOutput 3.9.2, an update to its professional solution to automate printing and exporting from Adobe InDesign. The update suppresses color settings warnings and improves image export from InDesign CS3.

BatchOutput is designed to automate and simplify InDesign production workflows of service providers, printers, ad agencies and publishers. With BatchOutput, users only need to select the files to output and adjust the settings, and the rest will be done automatically.

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‘YML’ looks at Ping, new Apple hardware

Posted by | Sep 9, 2010 | |

The new “Your Mac Life” episode looks at Ping and Apple’s new hardware.

You can listen in this and every Wednesday evening from 5:30 to 8 pm (Pacific). Live video is on Your Mac Life! You can watch the show live at http://yml.macosg.com/ — or you can listen in to the plain old audio feed at http://www.yourmaclifeshow.com/QT/stream.mov .

You can join one of the two Chat Rooms that run during the live show — on the live video site or on the dedicated IRC Server at irc.chat-solutions.org in the #yourmaclife Channel.

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OCRKit for Mac OS X now lets you save HTML, RTF formats

Posted by | Sep 9, 2010 | , |

OCRKit (http://ocrkit.com/), a text recognition app for Mac O X 10.4 or higher, has been updated to version 1.5. The new version allows you to save HTML and RTF formats and TXT UTF-8 encoded plain text. In addition it improves the recognition and stability of OCRKit plus the user-interface translations got updated.

OCRKit transforms images and PDF files into searchable PDFs. With built-in OCR it allows for editable PDF files via drag and drop. And you can find ’em with the Mac’s built-in Spotlight desktop search.

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