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Totally Hip Software has announced a new promotion that offers Mac OS X users its QuickTime authoring products—HipFlics 1.1, LiveSlideShow 2.0, and LiveStage Professional 3.0—for US$899.95, a $150 savings compared to purchasing the products individually.

This week’s Byte of the Apple column for BusinessWeek Online examines the value of Mac OS X, concluding that the operating system’s US$130 price of admission is worth it. Writer Charles Haddad notes that he hasn’t crashed using Mac OS X in eight months, and says that the “Cocoa shareware” applications are his favorite part of Mac OS X.

PC Magazine has published a review of Apple’s iPod, awarding the device a four-out-of-five rating. “Leave it to Apple, maker of some of the world’s sleekest computers, to come out with the world’s coolest MP3 player,” begins the review, concluding with, “the pricing is at the extreme high end for an MP3 player, but this is a tremendously good product.”

VersionTracker notes the release of Adobe SVG Viewer 3.0, a final version of its Web browser plug-in for viewing Web content that uses the open-source Scalable Vector Graphics format.

Feelorium has released Textation 1.0, which it describes as an easy to use QuickTime text track editor. Users point, click and type the text needed to display, without the need to manipulate text descriptors manually or type time codes individually. Textation is available for US$29 for Mac OS X only and requires QuickTime 5.