Through April 11, Cirrus Thinking is offering free 10GB accounts of the Dolly Drive service for a limited time.

DollyDrive provides a four-in-one solution for online storage, access and protection of everything on a Mac. You can create a bootable clone of a Mac on an external drive for immediate recovery from any hard drive related failures. For more info go to http://www.dollydrive.com .

A company called Mobile Telecommunications (MTEL) is suing Apple, claiming its Messages services violates seven of its patents, reports "Patently Apple" (http://tinyurl.com/dy68yus).

The lawsuit concerns iMessage, Airport Express, Airport Extreme, Time Capsule and devices such as the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. According to the formal complaint, Apple has directly infringed and will continue to directly infringe claims of the 5,809,428 Patent by making, using, selling, offering for sell, and/or importing in the United States mobile devices using iOS and networks that provide Apple's iMessage communication service and other messaging services.

At NAB 2013, EditShare (www.editshare.com) announced it has added support for a new content panel on all EditShare Shared Storage systems to its list of new features and integration.

The new panel integrates EditShare's advanced project-sharing/project-locking capability directly inside Adobe Premiere Pro. With this new feature, editors can more easily store and share their project files in a common central location and know that only one editor at a time can open a Premiere Project file with "write" access.

Subsequent users are restricted to "read only" access until the first user with "write" access gives up that privilege. EditShare prevents multiple users from obtaining "write" access simultaneously and thus promotes a collaborative workflow that eliminates accidental overwrites.

Support for Adobe Premiere Pro Panels on EditShare Shared Storage systems is the first step in plans for even...

Dalet Digital Media Systems (www.dalet.com) -- a developer of Media Asset Management (MAM) solutions, software and services for broadcasters -- is featuring Dalet Cube, a 3D graphics solution for news production at NAB 2013.

This IT-based offering is available as an optional package that integrates natively with Dalet News Suite and Dalet News Pack. The modular suite incorporates tools to create a production workflow for graphics creation and playout. Graphics artists can use the Cube Designer to construct multilayered 3D animations that project the style and individual look of different programs and channels.

Design models from Adobe After Effects and other software programs can also be imported. Both Dalet News Suite and Dalet News Pack are open to integration with third-party systems, including graphics systems other than Dalet Cube.

An internal document from the Drug Enforcement Administration complains that messages sent with iMessage, Apple's encrypted chat service, are "impossible to intercept," even with a warrant, reports "CNET" (http://tinyurl.com/bm7jfve)

An internal DEO document seen by "CNET" discusses a February 2013 criminal investigation and warns that because of the use of encryption, "it is impossible to intercept iMessages between two Apple devices" even with a court order approved by a federal judge. When Apple introduced iMessage in mid-2011, the company said it would use "secure end-to-end encryption." It has became the most popular encrypted chat program in history, according to "CNET."

Monotype Imaging Holdings -- a provider of typefaces, technology and expertise for creative applications and consumer devices -- has released a collection of typefaces designed for digital reading environments, including e-books, Web content, mobile applications, digital publications and online newspapers.

Device manufacturers, digital publishers and Web designers can now turn to a selection that includes some of the most popular text faces used in print -- designed and tuned for readability on e-readers, tablets, smartphones and other Web-enabled devices. Monotype’s initial collection includes multiple weights of nine typeface families, designated for digital publishing: Amasis eText, Monotype Baskerville eText, PMN Caecilia eText, ITC Galliard eText, Malabar eText, Neue Helvetica eText, Palatino eText, Sabon eText and Ysobel eText

The new typefaces can be integrated in a number of ways. They may be embedded in consumer devices for use as system fonts that can be...

Tension Software has released AutoMailer 1.4.for Mac OS X 10.6 or higher. AutoMailer is available for US$20 and can be downloaded at http://www.pomola.com/products_automailer/automailer.html . Version 1.1 is a free update for registered users and has been optimized for Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion.

AutoMailer allows you to send serialized emails to multiple users with a button click, starting from data imported from a text file and merging the data with a template email you can create. It merges data from the internal database with an email template creating for any recipient a personalized and custom email. AutoMailer doesn’t requires scripting or coding.

All the settings, data and email templates can be saved inside documents and retrieved and reused at any time. AutoMailer offers a preview of any email to prepare. The user has...

The new Spotdox is the "missing link" for Dropbox. It allows users to use their phone to not only browse their entire Dropbox but see all the files on their computer (Mac OS X only) back at the office, home or even hotel room.

Effectively this makes a Dropbox account behave like its the size of an entire computer, says Tom Andersen, one of the founders of Spotdox.

"The free Dropbox account limits you to just a few GB of space, and while a paid account increases that limit, there is no way for Dropbox to offer multi - terabyte access," he adds. "With Spotdox, you can access your entire Mac, and all the drives on it. You can pick any of the millions of files on your MacBook to share with others, or simply add to your Dropbox. In many ways this is like having a huge multi terabyte Dropbox account."

Your computer can be accessed from your iPhone, Android device, or web browser. With no extra passwords to remember (other than your Dropbox one), usage and...

Moving Tales has released "Elly's Lost & Found Sounds" as a free browser based interactive story for Macs and PCs.

Written and illustrated by best selling author Jacqueline O Rogers, like its iBook precedent, "Elly Online" brings together an "enchanting story, original sounds, music, animation, and magical interactivity," according to the folks at Moving Tales. Through this test of free and open distribution, Moving Tales is exploring the meaning and value of stories in today's hyper-connected and abundant content world and what role creators like Moving Tales play in it.

Creating a browser based interactive story experience was a new challenge for the company, who are renowned for their iOS Apps and Ebooks, including the critically acclaimed and best selling "The Pedlar Lady of Gushing Cross".

"Elly is a wonderfully compelling character, full of curiosity and insight. We're bringing Elly to life on-line as a completely accessible interactive experience,...

Forget Computers and 55 Minutes have launched Device Scout 2.0 under the Robot Cloud brand. Device Scout's simple yet intelligent web interface brings critical information to Mac network administrators.

Device Scout (http://devicescout.com) is an add-on to any JAMF Software Server (or JSS). It collects data from a JSS then organizes and presents this information in an easy-to-read manner.

Device Scout also adds a layer of data intelligence as it provides insight into the massive quantity of data collected by the JSS. Device Scout is designed for those Mac IT administrators who manage a JSS.

Device Scout is available as a standalone SaaS subscription and as part of Forget Computers’ Robot Cloud solution. Robot Cloud is a buildout of the JSS framework with additional, custom tools that enable IT administrators to work smarter when managing their Mac and iOS devices. Robot Cloud's time-saving...

Comm-Unity Networking Systems has released CNS Image 1.6, an update of the FileMaker Pro plug-in for working with images stored in container fields or on your hard drive.  The big change in the FileMaker Pro plug-in is an update to the latest version of ImageMagick bringing in almost two years of improvements to the image manipulation library.

With this plug-in you can: do custom imports and exports; change image formats; stretch, crop, resize, rotate, and flip images; and apply filters like blur, contrast, brightness, emboss and the like to images. Version 1.5 is a complete rewrite of the plug-in, which fixes several issues and brings with it a Server Edition for using with FileMaker Server.  

CNS Image is available immediately at http://cnsimage.cnsplug-ins.com/ for both Mac OS X and Windows. a demo is available for download. Version 1.6 is a free upgrade for anyone with a 1.x.x...

Dalet Digital Media Systems is announcing new configurations for the Dalet Brio servers that offer broadcasters tremendous flexibility for all types of ingest, production and playout workflows at NAB 2013, which will be held in Las Vegas April 8-11.

The Brio servers can now be scaled to a maximum of 12 ports in a single server, through a four-port extension board. When combined with the range of Dalet or third-party tools, the Dalet Brio servers provide even greater versatility with more improvements for workflows in news, sports, studio production and MAM, says Raoul Cospen, director of marketing and business development, Dalet.

Dalet Brio units are designed to ingest and playout broadcast quality video in SD and HD formats. These servers are built on IT-standard components and delivered in a compact 2RU chassis with a choice of inputs and outputs (up to 12 simultaneous channels) and storage combinations (local or direct connection to SAN). The "Ingest Once, Write...