Type of Article: MacNews Web Site

Apple adds new countries to the Apple App Store

Posted by | Feb 19, 2010 | , |

Apple has expanded its Apple App Store (http://www.itunes.com/appstore). Developers can now distribute their apps to more customers.

Apple has added App Store support in Armenia, Botswana, Bulgaria, Jordan, Kenya, Macedonia, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Niger, Senegal, Tunisia, and Uganda. Developers can log in to iTunes Connect (https://itunesconnect.apple.com/WebObjects/iTunesConnect.woa) to view and update the countries where their applications are available.

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DF Studio for Mac OS X adds Google Docs functionality

Posted by | Feb 19, 2010 | , |

Qoppa Software, which specializes in PDF tools, has updated PDF Studio (http://www.qoppa.com/psindex.html), a PDF editor, to version 6.2. The new version adds PDF review and edit functionality to Google Docs.

The software can now open, edit and save documents directly from and to Google Docs. Additionally, it provides an integrated Google Docs file manager to upload, download and share files or whole folder structures.

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Paradigma Software ships Valentina DB 4.5

Posted by | Feb 19, 2010 | , |

Paradigma Software (http://www.valentina-db.com) has released Valentina DB 4.5, an update of the columnar database for business and developers, and and Valentina Reports 4.5, the cross-platform database reporting solution for Windows and Mac OS X. The upgrade sports over 100 improvements, including 64-bit versions on Mac OS X, Windows and Linux.

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‘MacVoices’ looks at Buffalo’s Dualie

Posted by | Feb 19, 2010 | |

On the new MacVoices (http://www.macvoices.com), Brian Verenkoff of Buffalo Technology explains the two primary functions of their new Dualie.

A combination hard drive and iPhone/iPod dock, Dualie also offers two USB ports for connecting additional drives, and a 500GB 2.5-inch drive with both USB 2.0 and FireWire 800 ports. Dualie puts all this on your desk and is designed to keep both the iPhone/iPod and the harddrive in easy reach while eliminating cable clutter.

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‘The Tech Night Owl’ looks at the Macworld Expo, the iPad, more

Posted by | Feb 19, 2010 | |

On this week’s “Tech Night Owl,” Gene Steinberg, the Owl himself, and guests look at back at last week’s MacBook Expo, the iPad and more.

On this week’s all-star episode, they talk about Macworld Expo and how it fared without Apple’s presence. You’ll also hear comments about the forthcoming Microsoft Office 2010 for the Mac, which will restore Visual Basic and replace the Entourage email app with a genuine Mac version of Outlook. The iPad and Mac virtual machine software are also front and center.

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