Type of Article: MacNews News Article

‘Your Mac Life’ looks at Utah backcountry, TextExpander 3, more

On this week’s “Your Mac Life,” you’ll hear interviews with David Day about “Hiking Utah’s Incredible Backcountry”, Greg Scown, founder of Smile On My Mac about TextExpander 3 and a piece about “No Laptop, No Problem!”

You can listen in this and every Wednesday evening from 5:30 to 8 pm (Pacific). Live video is on Your Mac Life! You can watch the show live at http://yml.macosg.com/ — or you can listen in to the plain old audio feed at http://www.yourmaclifeshow.com/QT/stream.mov .

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iWrap taking pre-orders for invisible iPad covers

iWrap (http://www.getiwrap.com/) is taking pre-orders for their invisible, scratch-proof cover for the upcoming iPad.

iWrap uses unique film that offers more clarity and more durability, according to iWrap Product Manager Tim Chaves. The film also uses advanced UV inhibiting technology and a strong adhesive, he adds.

In addition, iWrap’s full-body wraps are designed to offer the most complete coverage possible, according to Chaves. iWrap for the iPad costs US29.95. There are also versions for the iPhone and all iPod models.

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Syncro Soft releases Oxygen XML Editor, Oxygen XML Author 11.2

Syncro Soft (http://www.oxygenxml.com) has released version 11.2 of its XML Editor and XML Author containing a set of tools supporting all the XML related technologies.

Oxygen combines content author features like the CSS driven Visual XML editor with a XML development environment. It has ready-to-use support for the main document frameworks DITA, DocBook, TEI and XHTML and also includes support for all XML Schema languages, XSLT/XQuery Debuggers, WSDL analyzer, XML Databases, XML Diff and Merge, Subversion client and more.

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TinyBooks Pro for Mac OS X improves importing, built-in help text, more

Ken Winograd and Space-Time Associates (http://www.winograd.com) has updated TinyBooks Pro, its Mac accounting and bookkeeping program, to version 7.0.3. The upgrade improves the importing of old TinyBooks documents, improves the built-in help text and error messages and improves the Recur Dialog.

It also adds the ability to delete all items in the current month, and adds three new Preferences (to Auto-Sort New/Modified transactions on entry, to enable/disable the Total Transaction Amount field, and to show Monthly and Reported Amounts as inclusive or exclusive of taxes.)

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