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Accessory announcements for the week of September 8-12

Accessory announcements for the week of September 8-12

Here are some of the latest accessory and hardware announcements of the week: ° Blackmagic Designs’ new Camera ProDock offers connections to iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max, making it even easier to use as a fully featured production camera. It works...

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Software announcements for the week of September 8-12

Software announcements for the week of September 8-12

Here are some of the latest software announcements of the week:  ° Red Games Co., Moonbug Entertainment, and Crayola have launched a brand-new preschool app — Coloring with Blippi & Friends. This app brings kids’ favorite Moonbug characters — Blippi,...

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Apple reportedly once considered a battery-powered HomePod

Apple reportedly once considered a battery-powered HomePod

Apple once considered a battery-powered HomePod-like speaker years ago, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman in his new Power On newsletter.  He says — and the Sellers Research Group (that’s me) — thinks he’s right that such a device will never see the light of...

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DRM market value predicted to reach $6 million by 2025

The Digital Rights Management (DRM) market was valued at US$2.9 million in 2019, and is expected to reach $6 million by 2025, registering a compound annual growth rate of 12.65%, by 2025. The continuous evolution of the Internet as a platform for business and trade...

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Reviews and KoolTools

Kool Tools: Getting Ready for Yosemite

Kool Tools: Getting Ready for Yosemite

Nektony has launched Getting Ready for Yosemite (http://tinyurl.com/nj6mmff), a free step-by-step guide designed to help users migrate to Mac OS X Yosemite.

In addition, the company highlights Boost & Memory, Disk Expert & ClearDisk, three of its disk utilities that serve to aid Mac users prior to installing Yosemite for OS X.

Boost & Memory is used to check the current memory usage and releases the inactive RAM. It forces the system to recover wasted memory and make it available to processes that need it. Boost & Memory allows clearing inactive RAM using automatic or manual modes.

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Kool Tools: Peppermint code editor for Mac OS X

Kool Tools: Peppermint code editor for Mac OS X

InSilo.co’s Peppermint (http://www.osxpeppermint.com) code editor for Mac OS X supports more than 50 syntaxes and provides advanced editing features with dozens of extensions, giving developers the ability to create new apps.

Peppermint is designed to provide a one-window no-distractions experience” with extensibility features like plug-ins, live JavaScript console and third party extensions. You can instantly run different plug-ins and tools that cover everyday coding needs. Peppermint comes with 10-plus themes, aFTP/SFTP mapping console, and a scriptable interface.

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Kool Tools: Offload camera footage back-up utility

Kool Tools: Offload camera footage back-up utility

Red Giant’s Offload (http://tinyurl.com/kewtxm5) is a useful, standalone application for backing up camera footage in the field. Available alone or as part of the Red Giant Shooter Suite, Offload lets you back up files from a camera card to laptop and external drives.

Too often, shooters discover that their footage has been lost through a corrupted offload process or through damaged hardware. Red Giant Offload eliminates the stress that every filmmaker goes through between shooting and delivery.

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Kool Tools: NewerTech Snuglet for MagSafe 2 power connections

Kool Tools: NewerTech Snuglet for MagSafe 2 power connections

NewerTech’s Snuglet is a precision-manufactured ring designed to sit inside your MagSafe 2 connector port and provide a more snug fit to prevent your power cable from unintentional disconnections.

The original MagSafe design by Apple had a nice balance when it came to how much, or how little effort, it took to disconnect the power cable. A common complaint with the newer MagSafe 2 power connection is that unintended power cable disconnections occur too easily.

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Kool Tools: App Store Icon Resizer for Mac OS X

Kool Tools: App Store Icon Resizer for Mac OS X

Power App AG]s (http://www.powerapp.ch) App Store Icon Resizer 1.0 is a new developer tool for Mac OS X. With a single action, it takes care of creating all sizes of app icons that are needed for every app in Apple’s App Store.

With the latest release of Apple’s software development kit, it became necessary to upload app icons in 15 different sizes. This was done to support different screen resolutions for the various Mac OS X and iOS devices.

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