Bare Bones Software’s TextWrangler 5.5, an update to its general purpose text editor for Mac OS X, offers performance improvements, refinements to fit and finish, and changes to streamline workflow in specific areas, such as Find Differences. In all, this new version includes more than 250 new features, changes to existing features, and fixes for specific reported issues.
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Tension Software has updated Product Manager to version 2.1.1. It’s a Mac OS X application for managing company products from different standpoints.
Product Manager is document based and can manage an unlimited number of documents each with an unlimited number of products, subdivided in families. It can also be used for a different typology of products (not only software) to manage the activities associated to the improvements, distributions and marketing of the product. Version 2.1.1 is a maintenance upgrade.
Read MoreNew data from Parks Associates shows that 55% of OTT services in the U.S. have a subscription-only business model, such as Netflix or Hulu. In Canada, 50% of OTT services offer subscription-only services.
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Universal Audio (www.uaudio.com) has released UAD Software 8.7, featuring the Manley VOXBOX Channel Strip Plug-In exclusively for Apollo interfaces and UAD-2 DSP accelerator hardware.
Designed specifically for vocal production, it combines Manley’s high-fidelity tube mic preamp, vactrol optical compressor, Pultec-style passive EQ, and de-esser/limiter into a formidable 3U package. Owners of UA’s acclaimed Apollo audio interfaces can track in real time with this all-tube vocal channel strip.
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Apple has released the second public betas of macOS Sierra and iOS 10 to public beta testers. The finished versions of the operating system updates are due this fall.
If you’re not already signed up for the public beta program, you can do sign up at .https://beta.apple.com/sp/betaprogram/ . The public beta program is free, but remember: beta software is unfinished software so use with care.
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