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Multi-factor authentication market worth US$13.2 billion in 2020

Posted by | Feb 17, 2015 | , |

Market intelligence from ABI Research (www.abiresearch.com) finds that the global mobile multi-factor authentication software and service market will be worth US$1.6 billion by the end of 2015.

Username and passwords have been widely used to authenticate user identity but fail to provide adequate authentication, says the research group. Authentication-based attacks continue to plague organizations of all sizes with the majority of breaches being attributed to weak or absent authentication.

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EarthDesk 6.5 adds screen spanning in Mavericks and Yosemite

EarthDesk 6.5 adds screen spanning in Mavericks and Yosemite

Posted by | Feb 17, 2015 | , |

Xeric Design (http://www.xericdesign.com) has updated EarthDesk, its real-time dynamic desktop map, to support screen spanning in Mac OS X Mavericks and Yosemite.

The app replaces your static desktop with an image of the Earth showing current sun, moon and city illumination, as well as global cloud coverage. The software operates silently in the background, keeping your desktop updated while you work. EarthDesk’s dynamic desktop is continuously displayed as your desktop background.

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Kool Tools: Allocator for Mac OS X

Kool Tools: Allocator for Mac OS X

Posted by | Feb 17, 2015 | , |

Solbits Software’s Allocator 1.0 (http://allocatorapp.com/) is a financial investment application designed for Mac OS X Yosemite.

It provides investors with a dashboard to organize and track important assets by portfolio performance, allocation, and total value based on current market value. You can also view current stock details, add transactions and compare target versus actual allocation.

Allocator supports foreign investments and will convert values to current portfolio currency. The application supports 165 different currencies.

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Polished Play Releases Core Animator 1.0 for Mac OS X

Polished Play Releases Core Animator 1.0 for Mac OS X

Posted by | Feb 16, 2015 | , |

Polished Play has introduces Core Animator 1.0, an animation tool for Mac OS X. Available at the Mac App Store, the utility was developed to help designers, animators, and developers bring more creativity and interactivity to their apps.

Core Animator allows iOS and Mac developers to create animations and export them to native Objective-C or Swift code. Users can visually create 2D animations based on properties such as translation, scale, rotation and opacity. Several options help to smooth out the animations and give them life.

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AKVIS Magnifier 8.0 adds new print options

AKVIS Magnifier 8.0 adds new print options

Posted by | Feb 16, 2015 | , |

AKVIS (www.akvis.com) has announced AKVIS Magnifier 8.0, an update of the image resizing software that can be used both as a standalone application and plugin for Photoshop, on Mac OS X (10.6 and higher) and Windows. The program now lets you print “super high resolution images.

AKVIS Magnifier lets you resize images without loss in quality. It can not only reduce an image, but can also increase a picture by dozens of times with no artifacts or halos.

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