Author: dsellers

The Tiffen Company (http://www.tiffen.com) has released two new Domke bags to the line — the Quick-Shot Sling and the Photo Courier. The Quick-Shot Sling camera bag is a light weight bag with padded interior and adjustable dividers.

It’s available in small and medium sizes in Brown RuggedWear and Black Canvas. The bags will be available in May at manufacturer’s suggested retail prices ranging from $104.99 to $129.99.

RadTech (http://www.radtech.com) has released the STM Glove (US$24.95) in four new colors. The vertical-loading STM Glove protects your notebook from impacts, dust, scratches and spills.

They’re constructed from neoprene and ringed with YKK zippers. The Glove features deep, protective flanges to prevent the zipper from contacting your laptop. They comer in five tailor-made sizes to fit all Apple and many PC notebooks.

On one hand, Apple is being criticized for censoring apps at the Apple App Store. On the other, the socially conservative Parents Television Council (PTC) thinks many of the iPhone/iPod touch apps available — such as “My Vibe,” which converts the iPhone into a vibrator, and “Love Positions Free,” which has drawings of couples having sex — should be banned as well, notes “FOX News” (http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/04/27/apple-iphones-porno-apps-stimulating-opposition-parents/).

While law-enforcement officials ponder the legality of computer equipment seized from the home of a blogger, analysts on Tuesday say Apple may be doing itself harm in the case of a missing iPhone prototype that ended up on the Internet, according to a “MarketWatch” (http://www.marketwatch.com/story/apple-doing-itself-harm-in-case-of-missing-iphone-2010-04-27?siteid=rss&rss=1) report.

Roger Kay of Endpoint Technologies Associates said in an interview that Apple blundered by making the case a criminal one, as opposed to a civil case.

Electric Peel Software is making their newest application, Ariena (http://www.electricpeelsoftware.com/ariena), available for pre-order at a 50% discount. It’s an upcoming Mac application designed to help music teachers organize their teaching businesses by keeping track of student information, payments, and lesson notes.