Author: dsellers

About Objects has added extra class dates to its schedule to accommodate developers attending Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco June 7-11.

Unmarked Software has updated TextSoap (http://www.unmarked.com/textsoap) — a Mac OS X utility for cleaning out the extraneous forwarding marks, invisible characters, and formatting that you often find in e-mails and long documents — to version 6.4. The upgrade — free to registered users of 6.x — improves batch file processing support, speeds up the Markdown conversion and addresses additional issues reported by customers. It also includes an improved implementation of the cleaner that converts the Markdown format to HTML.

publicspace.net has announced Vitamin-R 1.06 (http://www.publicspace.net/Vitamin-R/index.html), an update of its Mac OS X compatible productivity tool for creative professionals. The new version sports improvements centering around usability, presentation and workflow.

According to the latest update to the ”Entertainment Trends in America” consumer tracking surveys conducted by The NPD Group (http://www.npd.com), market research company, 16% of Americans age 13 or older are using devices other than their home computers to download software applications, music, video, and other entertainment content from the web.

Based on NPD’s entertainment market research, 75% of iPhone and iPod touch users are connecting to the web to download entertainment content and apps, compared to 19 % of game console users and 17% of Blu-ray Disc (BD) set-top product users.