Type of Article: MacNews Web Site

BannerZest for Mac OS X gets jQuery compatibility

Posted by | Jul 13, 2010 | , |

Aquafadas has updated BannerZest (http://www.aquafadas.com), a flash presentation tool for professional and amateur web designers, to version 2.2.2. The upgrade adds jQuery compatibility for the alternate slideshow (javascript).

With BannerZest you can turn your pictures into a flash slideshow. BannerZest doesn’t require you to know or even possess Flash, according to the folks at Aquafadas. It uses the concept of themes, which work like templates.

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Apple to open retail store in Hong Kong

Posted by | Jul 13, 2010 | , |

Apple will open a retail store in Hong Kong sometime in 2011, reports “CrunchGear” (http://macosg.me/2/im).

The first Shanghai store opened last week, and Apple plans on opening 25 new retail outlets in the country. “CrunchGear” notes that the The retail expansion is a huge strategy shift for Apple. Up until last week’s opening, there was only one Apple Store in all of China — Beijing, which opened in 2008.

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Kool Tools: AccountEdge 2010

Kool Tools: AccountEdge 2010

Posted by | Jul 13, 2010 | , |

Acclivity (http://accountedge.com/mac/)’s AccountEdge 2010, the latest version of their small business accounting software for the Mac, is a solid update — especially if you need web store integration. Among the new features are integration with Sofa’s web store Enstore, more detailed tracking of item information, profitability of a sale analysis, and bank deposit slip printing.

EnStore is the new web store developed by Acclivity’s Checkout partners, Sofa. This feature should appeal to anyone that wants to offer their customers a simple, elegant online shopping experience.

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More thoughts on the future of the Mac

Posted by | Jul 13, 2010 | , |

Last week I devoted several columns to what I perceive as the future of the Mac. I’ve asked my “MacNews” compadres to offer their thoughts. And here they are…

Scott Alexander says:

“Five years — that’s a long time in technology. There’s the obvious stuff like speed, speed, and more speed. There are a lot of directions I could go here; for example practical 3D displays with multi-touch and then move to my perennial favorite home servers (my newest term for that is now ‘femtocloud’ — owing to the popular cloud mentality and the AT&T home cell phone access points).

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