Brand: MacNews

The Cloud just had a thunderstorm … now what?

Posted by | Mar 3, 2017 | , |

By Denis Goodwin

We’ve all heard about and likely experienced the impact of the most recent Amazon S3 outage, and while it’s easy to pick on Amazon for the wide-spread fallout this outage caused, that’s not the point. Whether your business critical apps are hosted on AWS, Azure, GCP, or any other cloud or hosting platform, you need to be monitoring those apps. The impact of the AWS outage shows us how much companies rely on cloud and hosting providers, like AWS, for the critical applications their customers and employees use every day.

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Bare Bones to retire TextWrangler

Bare Bones to retire TextWrangler

Posted by | Mar 2, 2017 | , |

Bare Bones (www.barebones.com), the company behind the BBEdit and TextWrangler text editors, will retire the latter and make BBEdit free for basic features.

In a note to customers (http://tinyurl.com/gv848lv) the company has this to say: “What you may not know is that last July, we released BBEdit 11.6. You can use this version unlicensed, forever, for free. Without a license, BBEdit now includes all of the features that TextWrangler offers, plus quite a few others. That’s right. You no longer have to pick between them.”

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Troi Automatisering Releases Troi Serial Plug-In 4.5.1 For FileMaker Pro

Posted by | Mar 2, 2017 | , |

Troi Automatisering (http://www.troi.com/) has rolled Troi Serial Plug-in 4.5.1 for FileMaker Pro 14. It’s an update of the serial communication plug-in.

Version 4.5.1 is a maintenance update that fixes a bug in the Serial_Receive function, where in some cases not all data would be returned directly. Troi also updated the code in several places to make the plug-in more robust and made several small improvements to the example files.

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MCE ships 1TB PCIe-based SSD upgrade for the Mac Pro

MCE ships 1TB PCIe-based SSD upgrade for the Mac Pro

Posted by | Mar 2, 2017 | , |

MCE Technologies (MCE) is shipping what it says is the world’s fastest 1TB Internal PCIe-based SSD Upgrade for the Mac Pro (late 2013). Based on 4-Lane PCIe bandwidth, the MCE 1TB SSD Upgrade features read speeds of up to 1400MB/sec and write speeds of up to 1150MB/s.

All necessary tools to perform the installation, an illustrated installation guide, and drive cloning software are included. The MCE 1TB Internal SSD upgrade (http://tinyurl.com/jk52wo7_)costs $699 and is available for immediate shipment.

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