Type of Article: MacNews Web Site

Maybe we’ll see Macs with USB 3.0, after all

Posted by | Sep 17, 2010 | , |

My gut had been telling me that Apple — always an innovator — would forego USB 3.0 entirely and go straight to Light Peak technology in 2011. Apparently, my gut was wrong. Maybe the feeling was indigestion.

Whatever it was, Intel said this week that Light Peak won’t be shipping in computers or other devices until 2012. The chipsets to drive the fiber optic data link WILL be ready by late 2011, but that means Macs with Light Peak won’t arrive before early 2012, at the latest.

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Acorn for Mac OS X grows to version 2.5

Posted by | Sep 17, 2010 | , |

Flying Meat has updated Acorn (http://flyingmeat.com/acorn/)h, a layer-based bitmap image editor. A free update for registered users, to version 2.5. The new version adds support for layer masks and the ability to set a matte background color for transparent images via the program’s Web export tool. There are also new Automator actions for using Acorn to watermark, crop, and manipulate images with JavaScript.

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LightSpeed gets maintenance upgrade

Posted by | Sep 17, 2010 | , |

Xsilva Systems (http://www.xsilva.com/explore) has released LightSpeed 3.2.1, an update of the multi-user Point of Sale (POS) system built exclusively for Mac OS X. It’s a maintenance upgrade.

LightSpeed offers sales, service, tracking and purchasing tools that employ SQL searches, natively multi-user operation and “intelligent” workflows. LightSpeed also features administration and reporting tools. Pricing starts at US$749.

LightSpeed is Universal Binary so runs natively on both PowerPC and Intel Macs. It requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.

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