Brand: MacTech

AMD, Intel have huge share growth at Nvidia’s expense

Posted by | Jul 30, 2010 | , |

Jon Peddie Research (http://www.jonpeddie.com) — a research and consulting firm for graphics and multimedia, computer graphics — has announced its estimated graphics chip shipments and supplier’s market share for the second quarter of 2010 (Q2’10).

Overall graphics chip shipments were up 4% from Q1’10, while desktop discrete GPUs fell 21.4% reflecting the tremendous growth in notebooks. For the first half of the year, 2010 shipments are 38.6% above the same period last year.

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Speed Download for Mac OS X speeds to version 5.2.19

Posted by | Jul 30, 2010 | , |

Yazsoft (http://www.yazsoft.com) has released Speed Download 5.2.19, the latest version of its Mac OS X download manager that combines four products: a download manager with auto-resuming downloads, a secure FTP client, a file sharing utility with full encryption, and .Mac/iDisk/WEBDAV connectivity.

The upgrade is revved for tighter compatibility with Safari 5. Speed Download requires Mac OS X 10.5.8 or higher. It costs US$25 for a single-user license. Speed Download is available in US English, French and Polish localizations.

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KeynoteUser releases Elemental theme set

Posted by | Jul 30, 2010 | , |

KeynoteUser (http://www.keynoteuser.com) has released Elemental, a Keynote theme based on the four elements in nature. Keynote is the presentation component of Apple’s US$79 iWorks bundle.

Elemental sports brightly colored, gradient backed themes (plus a fifth, alternate bonus color) in all the standard presentation sizes (including HD). It costs US$29.95.

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Category Review: interdisciplinary apps for Mac OS X, part three

Category Review: interdisciplinary apps for Mac OS X, part three

Posted by | Jul 30, 2010 | , |

This MacNews Category Review is the third of our multi-part look at interdisciplinary apps for the Mac. Products covered include Graphing Calculator, GraphPad Prism, Gridgen, Gridirion XLR8, gridMathematica, Hipparchus, HyperRESEARCH, IDL, Igor Filter Design Lab, Image Processing Toolbox, Industrial Optimization, InforSense BioSense Guide, InStat Mac, Intel Math Kernel Library, IsingCocoa, iTeXMac, iThink, iUnitX, JANFEA, jBEAM, JMP, jPlot, KaleidaGraph, kSpectra Toolkit, LabAssistant, LandSerf, Luxus Software LX-Proscope, MacHREM, MacOSXLinPro, MacVector, Maple, Mapping Toolbox, Mathematica, mathStatica, MathTensor, MATLAB, Mechanical Systems, MeshViz, Metes and Bounds, MLAB, Moab Utility/Hosting Suite and Model Predictive Control Toolbox.

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The ‘religion’ of Apple

Posted by | Jul 30, 2010 | , |

I’m one of the biggest Apple supporters around — and have been even during its “beleaguered” years (when I actually did some freelance PR work for the local Apple education branch) — but I certainly don’t consider Apple my religion. Or a religion, at all.

I’m a Christian, and proud of it. On the other hand, I’m a fervent (well, usually) supporter of Apple products, but certainly don’t worship them or the company that makes them. The same can be said of other Christians — and Jews, Hindus, Muslims, etc. — worldwide.

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