Axiotron has released Quickscript 3.0, an update of its handwriting recognition application for Mac users.
Quickscript is now available for a 30-day free trial at http://www.axiotron.com/quickscript . Customers can purchase Quickscript beginning next week for the introductory price of US$29 — a $10 savings from the regular price of $39. This introductory offer expires May 31.
Read MoreSpeck and Artsprojekt have teamed up to offer another four all-new limited-edition Fitted Artsprojekt cases for iPhone 3G and 3GS: Fnky CES, Flower Girl, Pace Will Come and Boys vs. Dragon Number 5.
Each design is printed on fabric that is then fused to Speck’s road-tested “Fitted” two-piece snap-together hard shell case. The fabric increases in-hand comfort, while helping phones stay securely in place when set down, according to the folks at Speck.
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Apple says movies from major film studios including 20th Century Fox, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (MGM), Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Universal Studios, The Walt Disney Company and Warner Bros. Entertainment, as well as European studios including E2 Entertainment, Lionsgate UK, Optimum Releasing, Pathé, SND and StudioCanal are now available on the iTunes stores in France (http://www.itunes.fr) and Ireland (http://www.itunes.ie) for rent or purchase.
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The Steam gaming service and Valve gaming engine from Valve (http://www.valuesoftware.com) will steam up things on the Mac starting May 12. Steam and Valve’s library of games include Left 4 Dead 2, Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike, Portal, and the Half-Life series.
“As we transition from entertainment as a product to entertainment as a service, customers and developers need open, high-quality Internet clients,” says Valve President Gabe Newell, “The Mac is a great platform for entertainment services.”
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A note at the Lala web site (http://www.lala.com) says “The Lala service will be shutting down on May 31” and “unfortunately, we are no longer accepting new users.”
Lala — which offered “the first and only free fully licensed service to instantly provide anywhere web access to an existing music library such as iTunes” — was purchased by Apple earlier this year. The goal is probably to allow Apple to implement a new iTunes feature that would allow users to stream their purchased media content remotely. In fact, rumors of such a service surfaced earlier this year.
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