Author: dsellers

AppDelete for Mac OS X updated to version 3.1.1

Reggie Ashworth has updated AppDelete (http://reggie.ashworth.googlepages.com/appdelete), an application deleting app for Mac OS X, to version 3.1.1. It’s a maintenance update that fixes an issue where AppDelete might not launch on a user account, and includes various localization edits. Also, the Apps panel search has been expanded, as well as miscellaneous optimizations throughout.

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Pantone unleashes Pantone Plus

Pantone has announced Pantone Plus, the next generation of the Pantone Matching System. Enhancements include the chromatic arrangement of colors for more intuitive selection, an expanded palette of spot colors, the addition of new premium metallics and a broader range of neons.
 

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VueScan update for Mac OS X updated to version 8.6.29

Hamrick Software has released Vuescan 8.6.29, a new version of the VueScan software for Mac OS X that’s designed to let users produce better digital images from color snapshots, negatives, slides and documents. The new version offers an increase in the speed of saving files and refreshing the screen.

The Standard Edition of VueScan costs US$39.95 and the Professional Edition is $79.95 for a single user license. Multi-user licenses are available. A fully functional, trial copy of VueScan is available for download from the Hamrick web site (http://www.hamrick.com).

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‘AppleInsider’: Apple developing Gianduai — a kinda Flash alternative

Hmmm. So here’s another reason Apple CEO Steve Jobs may hate Flash. Apple is developing an alternative to the technology called Gianduia. Well, it’s more than a Flash alternative, but it definitely has the potential to harm Flash.

According to “AppleInsider” (http://www.appleinsider.com), it’s a client-side, standards based framework for Rich Internet Apps, to create production quality online apps for its retail users.

Apple introduced Gianduia last summer at WOWODC (World of WebObjects Developer Conference), an independent event scheduled near the company’s own WWDC event in June.

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Hands off my iPad

Friday morning the FedEx truck pulled into our driveway and set the stage for the turf war over the new iPad to begin. Ironically, later on the same day I had to turn my workhorse MacBook Pro in at the Apple store due to a one pixel wide vertical line that just showed up on the display the other day.

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