Year: 2010

Mapdiva updates Ortelius map illustration software for Mac OS X

Mapdiva has updated Ortelius (http://www.mapdiva.com/), its map illustration software for Mac OS X, to version 1.0.9. Mac users can now make custom tourism and recreation maps with the full set of U.S. National Park Service (NPS) recreation map symbols included with Ortelius cartography software.

Ortelius is a vector-based drawing program made especially for (though not limited to) map design and presentation. Through its drag-and-drop interface, Ortelius offers a solution for floor plans, landscape plans, scaled drawings, and a variety of custom maps.

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Witch for Mac OS X conjures up version 3.5

Many Tricks has released version 3.2 of Witch (http://manytricks.com/witch), its window switching utility for Mac OS X. The new version adds support for Spaces in Mac OS X 10.6 (“Snow Leopard”). You can now show a live preview of every open window; just leave a window selected for two seconds (changeable) in the switcher to see its preview.

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Apple sued over iAd name

Another day, another lawsuit. Online ad firm Innovate Media Group of Costa Mesa, California, has filed suit in the US District Court of the Central District of California, charging that Apple has knowingly usurped their rights to the term iAds, reports “The Register” (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/14/innovate_media_sues_apple/)

“It appears that Apple’s strategy with respect to Innovate Media and the ‘iAds’ mark is just another sequence in a pattern of conduct by Apple, of ignoring and trampling the intellectual property rights of others,” the suit reads.

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