Type of Article: MacNews Web Site

CryptoEdit for Mac OS X adds Menu service

Tension Software has updated CryptoEdit (http://www.pomola.com/products_cryptoedit/cryptoedit.html), a Mac OS X program to create and edit protected encrypted documents, to version 1.6. In the update a Menu service available to create a CryptoEdit document with selected text within any other application.

CryptoEdit can import from other documents in standard TEXT or RTF or RTFD (RTF + images) . Documents can also be exported as TEXT, RTF or standard RTFD (included images)

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iPad and iPhone trade-in programs available from PowerMax

PowerMax (http://www.powermax.com) has launched a new trade-in programs for both the iPhone and iPad. S

CEO Kevin Anderson says that, compared to companies offering dedicated iPhone and iPad trade-in/upgrades for cash, “PowerMax can offer considerably more aggressive trade-in valuations (often 10-15% higher) on every iPhone and iPad model — new or used — because the credits are applied to purchases made through PowerMax.”

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New Take Control ebook help readers wrangle fonts in Snow Leopard

Take Control Books has released “Take Control of Fonts in Snow Leopard” (http://www.takecontrolbooks.com/snow-leopard-fonts). Created by font
expert Sharon Zardetto, who has been writing about the Mac professionally since 1984, this ebook covers not only Mac OS X 10.6 (“Snow Leopard”), but also special font situations in Adobe CS4 and CS5, Microsoft Office 2004 and 2008, iLife, and iWork.

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Apple releases iMac Display Brightness Update

Apple has released the iMac (Mid 2010) Display Brightness Update 1.0 (http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1080). It addresses an issue with 21.5-inch iMac (Mid 2010) display brightness.

It’s a 378KB download and requires Mac OS X 10.6.4. You can obtain it via the Software Updates component of Mac OS X’s Systems Preferences app.

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