Were you as glad as I was with the announcements of the new MacBook Pros yesterday? It’s not that I’m in the market for a new laptop; it’s just that I’m glad to see some love for what I maintain is still Apple’s most important product line: the Mac.
Read MoreIf Apple really wants to sell an additional boatload (or a thousand boatloads) of iPhones, it should be eyeing China — and TD-SCDMA.
According to the latest research from Strategy Analytics, China’s 3G TD-SCDMA handset shipments will grow 600% during 2010. Yep, 600%. With the backing of the world’s largest mobile operator, China Mobile, TD-SCDMA will be one of the fastest growing mobile technologies in the world, making China an important 3G market.
Read MoreRadical Breeze has updated DoThisNow, their action/script scheduling software for Mac OS X (10.2.8 and higher), to version 1.3. The update, which is free to registered users, adds the ability to run any action with the press of a hotkey. DoThisNow can be purchased for US$19 or as part of the RadicalBreeze “6 Pack” (which also contains DiscBlaze, Macabinet, RadicalPhoto, Zephyr and RadicalSqueeze) for $35. Discounts for larger volume and educational purchases are also available.
Read MoreProavio, U.S.A. (http://www.proavio.com), a developer of storage systems and tools for digital media production, has introduced the new EditBox EB8Sx, a3G SAS expansion solution for video.
Featuring a native internal 3G SAS design, the EB8Sx offers users the choice to use SATA disks for most media applications or enterprise SAS hard disk for DI, VFX and full resolution grading requirements. Designed for today’s commercial post facilities in mind, the EB8Sx is capable of scaling capacity to over 100TB or RAID-5 protected storage.
Read MoreApple has released MacBook Pro Software Update 1.3 (http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1026) for all 15-inch and 17-inch MacBook Pro mid-2010 models. It contains improvements for graphics stability for high-performance video and gaming applications, as well as various bug fixes.
MacBook Pro Software Update 1.3 is a 258.32MB download and requires Mac OS X 10.6.3. You can obtain it via the Software Update component of Mac OS X’s Systems Preferences app.
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