Type of Article: MacNews Web Site

BannerZest for Mac OS X now offers direct access to iTunes

Aquafadas (http://www.aquafadas.com) has updated BannerZest, a flash presentation tool for professional and amateur web designers, to version 2.2. The upgrade offers a new theme and minor bug fixes.

The new theme is 3D Curved Wall. It combines 3D with reflections and curves.

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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Two Macworld Expos and new beginnings on ‘Your Mac Life’

Last week was the biggest week of the Mac calendar. This week’s “Your Mac Life” looks at Macworld Expo, both the “successful” and “unsuccessful” one.

You can listen in this and every Wednesday evening from 5:30 to 8 pm (Pacific). Live video is on Your Mac Life! You can watch the show live at http://yml.macosg.com/ — or you can listen in to the plain old audio feed at http://www.yourmaclifeshow.com/QT/stream.mov .

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MacVoices’ looks at the new version of Neat Receipts

On the new MacVoices (http://www.macvoices.com), Mark Gollin, vice president of Mac Product Development of The Neat Company shows off the new version of the Neat Receipts software that lets you can, organize and search documents, receipts, business cards and more.

He also provides a summary of their mobile and desktop scanners that can be purchased with the Neat software as a bundle.

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Bill Atkinson guests on ‘MacVoices’

On the new MacVoices (http://www.macvoices.com), Bill Atkinson guests. He earned his place in Macintosh history as part of the original Macintosh development team, and as the author of MacPaint.

These days, Atkinson is is a nature photographer, looking for a way to create affordable “art for the rest of us”. As part of that objective, he has created Bill Atkinson PhotoCard, an iPhone app that lets you access some of his work and send it to friends as either an email or physical postcard.

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