Type of Article: MacNews Web Site

Rumor: Apple plans cloud capabilities for iTunes

“The Boy Genius Report” (http://macosg.me/2/gw) says that “one of our reliable Apple sources has just filled us in on some of the company’s iTunes plans, including cloud capability with capabilities broken down into three groups:

° Streaming music and movies from Apple’s servers to your computers, devices, etc.;

° Streaming music and movies from your home computers to your other computers, remote devices, etc.;

° Wireless iTunes syncing with devices.

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Filter Forge 2.0 released for Mac OS X, Windows

Filter Forge has released Filter Forge 2.0, an update of the plug-in for Adobe Photoshop allowing computer artists to build their own filters: textures, visual effects, distortions, patterns, backgrounds, frames and more.

With the second version of the software. Filter Forge 2.0 features full support for unlimited HDR colors, shadows via ambient occlusion, point and area lights, and dozens of new components to create filters from. Filter Forge is a Photoshop plug-in that lets users create a variety of realistic and abstract textures and effects.

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HoudahSpot for Mac OS X gets full set of tagging tools

Houdah Software (http://www.houdah.com/) has updated HoudahSpot, their Spotlight front end for Mac OS X, to version 3.0. The new version adds a full set of tools for tagging files as well as for finding tagged files.

Tags are non-hierarchical keywords assigned to files. They serve a similar purpose than folders. The crucial difference being that a file may be assigned several tags and be located by any of them.

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1Password for Mac OS X updated to version 3.2.5

Agile Web Solutions has updated 1Password (http://1password.com), a password manager for Mac OS X, to version 3.2.5. The upgrade includes multiple bug fixes and important improvements.

These include a change to the auto-submit feature — which fills and submits login forms automatically — to prevent the form from being instantly submitted if it contains a text field, as found in the comment areas of blogs such as The Unofficial Apple Weblog and others. This has been an issue for blog commenters in the past.

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