Year: 2010

Super Talent (http://www.supertalent.com) has announced a new value solid state drive (SSD) product line dubbed Super Talent VSSD. The company says it offers shorter OS bootup time, faster application loading and less system power consumption.

VSSD purportedly takes full advantage of the 3Gbps SATA-II bandwidth and is capable of sequential read speeds up to 150 MB/second and sequential write speeds up to 100 MB/second. VSSDs are available now from Super Talent resellers worldwide at street prices ranging from about US$65 for the 8GB model to around $175 for the 64GB model.

Tension Software has updated TS Calc (http://www.pomola.com/products_tscalc/tscalc.html), a Mac OS X app for solving mathematical models applied to technical problems of various types, to version 1.1.4. It’s a maintenance release that fixes some bugs.

Monkeybread Software has released version 1.2 of the MBS REALbasic Updater Kit, which is designed to help you in adding an automatic update feature to your application. Version 1.2 fixes a few bugs and improves the language handling.

The Updater Kit requires REALbasic 2008 or newer and a license of the MBS REALbasic Complete License. It’s available for US$99. You can learn more and try the sample application at
http://www.monkeybreadsoftware.de/realbasic/UpdaterKit/ .

Nemetschek North America has announced the publication of a new training guide for users of Vectorworks software. Architect, author and experienced Vectorworks user Daniel Jansenson wrote the guide, “Remarkable Renderworks,” to help users gain proficiency in the rendering tool designed to work with Vectorworks software.