Year: 2010

Opera Software has debuted the newest version of its web browser today. Opera 11 is available for Mac, Windows and Linux computers at http://www.opera.com/ . New features include:

° Tab stacking: simply drag one tab on top of another to create a stack.

° Extensions, which help you personalize your browser and enhance what Opera can do.

° NoAds, an ad-blocking extension.

° LastPas, a password manager and form filler.

° FastestTube, which lets you download any video from YouTube.

° Image preview, which displays a pop-up preview of an image.

Universal Audio, a manufacturer of audio hardware and UAD-2 powered plug-ins for Mac and Windows has released the Studer A800 Multichannel Tape Recorder plug-in for the
UAD-2 platform.

The Studer A800 Multichannel Tape Recorder is a professional 2-inch multitrack tape machine ever made. Modeled by UA’s DSP engineers with help from AES magnetic recording expert Jay McKnight over a 12-month period, the Studer A800 Multichannel Tape Recorder plug-in for UAD-2 models the entire tape path and circuit electronics of the hardware, plus the sounds of four distinct tape formulas.

Paradigma Software has released Valentina 4.8, an update of the cross platform columnar database system. This release offers greater native support for Apple Cocoa development, Valentina Studio support for SQLite databases and enhancements to Valentina Reports.

Fidelity Media, creator of MegaSeg, the DJ Software and Radio Automation System for Mac, has revealed two new editions, MegaSeg DJ and MegaSeg Pro.

The new DJ edition targets DJs on a budget, home DJs, and those just starting out, giving them a live mixing feature set. The DJ edition also includes the same waveform visualizer and Magic Trackpad beat synchronizing features recently introduced in MegaSeg 5.5.

TranslateIt! for Mac (http://www.mac.gettranslateit.com/) — a multilingual dictionary that allows looking up words on the fly — has been updated to version 3.1. You can now ccreate user dictionaries, and add/edit/delete entries in user dictionaries.

Version 3.1 also offers more TID dictionaries in TranslateIt!. Plus, there’s now enhanced processing of links inside entries in the pop-up window and the widget .