Year: 2010

Those pre-ordering an iPad in the UK may now have to wait until next month for delivery, according to “Macworld UK” (http://www.macworld.co.uk/mac/news/index.cfm?newsid=3223366&pagtype=allchandate).

Currently the UK Apple Store has ‘Ships: By June 7th’ for the iPad, over a week later than the official launch date. Faced with “surprisingly strong” US demand Apple delayed the iPad launch internationally in nine countries – Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK – until the end of May.

Adobe has released Camera Raw 6.1 Release Candidate (http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Camera_Raw_6.1). It adds support for new cameras.

Camera Raw 6.1 also includes new lens correction functionality that can apply profile-based corrections to accommodate geometric distortions, chromatic aberration and lens vignette effects. Manual corrections for geometric distortion as well as vertical and horizontal perspective transforms are also available. A handful of lens profiles are included for automatic correction and more can be created by the community with the Adobe Lens Profile Creator.

Tension Software (http://pomola.com/products_privatecontact/privatecontact.html) has updated Private Contact, a native Cocoa software to manage an address book in an encrypted form in Mac OS X (10.4 and higher), to version 2.3.1. It’s a maintenance release with some bug fixes.

With Private Contact informations inside documents, relative to various persons, can be read only by the Mac owner. In case of unauthorized access or theft of the Mac, the data inside Private Contact documents can’t be read without the proper master password.