Elgato Turbo.264 Software Update: Version 1.3 Direct YouTube upload, chapter markers and surround sound for Apple Devices, support for QuickTime Broadcaster Munich, May 21, 2007 -- Elgato Systems has released Turbo.264 version 1.3, a free update for its award-winning video encoder in USB stick format. The update includes many new features for YouTube users as well as owners of Apple devices such as video-enabled iPods, the iPhone, and Apple TV. Elgato Turbo.264 now enables YouTube users to convert video to a YouTube-friendly format and upload the encoded clips automatically. Navigating within Turbo.264-encoded movies is now easier for users of Apple devices thanks to Turbo.264's support for DVD chapter markers. The new software also preserves Dolby Digital audio for playback on surround sound speakers connected to Apple TV. Furthermore, this update to Turbo.264 version 1.3 supports QuickTime Broadcaster. YouTube Upload Turbo.264 1.3 makes it even easier to upload video to YouTube,...

NEWERTECH ANNOUNCES GUARDIAN MAXIMUS PLUG N' PLAY MIRRORED RAID 1 STORAGE Provides "Live Activity" Backup of Critical Data May 17, 2007, Woodstock, IL -- Newer Technology, Inc. (NewerTech ) http://www.newertech.com, the leading developer of PC, Macintosh and iPod performance upgrades and accessories, announced today Guardian MAXimus , the first low-cost FireWire and USB2 External RAID 1 Storage Solution for consumers and professional users alike. Guardian MAXimus is an external storage solution that works with any computer that has a FireWire 400, FireWire 800, or USB2 interface. It provides "live activity" backup/data redundancy via RAID 1 hardware mirroring, so that in the unlikely event of a hard drive failure its uninterrupted full data accessibility RAID-1 redundancy will ensure that there is no data loss. Convenient front panel LEDs display drive access and status information. Provides a Mirrored Copy of All Data for Optimal Data Protection Guardian MAXimus backs up financial...

PINGERsm NOW LETS MAC OS X USERS EASILY SEND MOBILE VOICE MESSAGES TO ANYONE OR ANY GROUP IN THEIR APPLE ADDRESS BOOK Macintosh Users Can Simply Call Pinger and Say Any Name in their Address Book to Send a Pinger Message SAN JOSE, CA--May 16, 2007--Pinger, Inc., a mobile voice messaging service, today announced it has made its service even easier for Macintosh users by releasing a simple application that lets its users upload their Apple Address Book contacts in seconds. Pinger now supports the Apple Address Book and Microsoft Entourage, the two most popular email programs for Macintosh users. Macintosh users can import their contacts into Pinger and instantly send quick voice messages. Sending a message is as easy as calling Pinger on a mobile phone, saying the name of the contact and leaving the voice message. "Pinger customers tell us they love using their voice to send thoughtful, expressive messages to friends, colleagues or whole groups with just one call," said Greg Woock, CEO...

May 16th, 2007 -- Glasgow, Scotland and Tel Aviv, Israel -- TLA Systems Ltd are pleased to announce the immediate release of DragThing 5.8, a significant update to their popular dock application for Mac OS X. It is available now from www.dragthing.com. Sig Software and TLA Systems are also both pleased to announce that DragThing is now the official upgrade path for all existing users of Sig Software's Drop Drawers. In a rare collaboration between independent developers, TLA Systems and Sig Software have worked closely together for the past few months to make this transition as smooth as possible. Beginning with this release, DragThing can now directly import your settings from Drop Drawers, including the contents, keyboard shortcuts, and appearance of drawers. Many new features have been added to this release specifically to make Drop Drawers users feel more at home, and we're confident DragThing users will enjoy them too. According to James Thomson of TLA Systems, "We're looking...

NEW COLLECTION OF BAGS AND CASES LAUNCHED - MacCase introduces leather to its already established line of portable protection solutions - Carlsbad, Calif., 16 May 2007 -- MacCase has unveiled its newest line of portable protection solutions with the launch of the Premium Leather Collection. Promoted as the Pinnacle in Apple Portable Protection, the collection is the first of its kind to deliver leather sleeves and shoulder bags specifically for Apple MacBook, MacBooks Pros and PowerBooks. The line also consists of matching cases for iPods and other accessories. "I wanted a product to juxtapose the cool, clinical feel of the computers with something warm, sensual and handcrafted. As a material, leather was the answer," states Michael Santoro, Chief Creative Officer and President of MacCase. "The result is a state of the art collection that brings the MacCase design vocabulary to the next level." Each piece is handcrafted to accentuate the quality of the leather and the precision in...

Microsoft Releases Word OOXML Converter for Office for Mac As the Mac BU continues to forge ahead with completing development on Office 2008 for Mac, Microsoft today announced the release of its standalone, drag and drop Word converter for Office 2004 for Mac and v. X users. To aid customers during the period of transition to the Office Open XML file format, the standalone, drag and drop converter was developed as a provisional solution until the final, integrated converter is available. Details on today's converter release include: * The converter provides read-only access to Office Open XML files and converts Word documents to a Rich Text Format (.rtf). * The converter offers both individual and batch file conversion. * PowerPoint and Excel drag and drop updates to the converter will be released this summer. * Upon the release of the final application update, the Mac BU will offer the only free, suite-wide Office Open XML converter tool. * The Word converter is available for...

SMALL TREE INTRODUCES SINGLE PORT PCIe DESKTOP CARD FOR PCIe MAC PRO AND POWER MAC G5 Cost-Effective Solution Provides Increased Performance and Efficiency Oakdale, MN, May 14, 2007-- Small Tree Communications, a leading provider of networking and storage components, announces the introduction of PEG1D, a new 1-port PCI-Express (PCIe) card that provides additional basic Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) connectivity for PCIe Mac Pro and Power Mac G5 users at an attractive price point -- $99. See (http://www.small-tree.com/products/GB-cards/PEG1D.htm) Offering high performance, reliability and low power use in a single integrated GbE controller chip, the PEG1D delivers increased performance, while significantly reducing CPU utilization. Additionally, with the ability to achieve Gb speeds on commonly deployed CAT-5 cabling without costly cable replacement, PEG1D seamlessly enables migration to faster networks. "PEG1D is a cost-effective solution for customers seeking increased network...

Why Type in the Dark when You Can Simply Say: "Create New Daylite Project" MacSpeech Releases ScriptPak for Marketcircle's Daylite Productivity Suite APPLE RETAIL STORE VENDOR FAIR, DENVER CO, SALEM NH, and TORONTO ON -- 10 MAY 2007 -- Macintosh speech recognition authority MacSpeech Inc. has released a ScriptPak for Daylite and Daylite Productivity Suite from Marketcircle, the Mac business software company. The new ScriptPak adds almost 200 commands to iListen, allowing users to do virtually anything in Daylite they would normally do using the Mac keyboard or menus. "This new speech recognition ScriptPak from MacSpeech brings a new level of productivity to our users," said Alykhan Jetha, CEO of Marketcircle. "Controlling Daylite with iListen and this ScriptPak increases the software's flexibility and provides small business users improved access to Daylite." "Daylite Productivity Suite is a powerful program for any individual or any business team needing to organize day-to-day work...

OWC ANNOUNCES HIGHEST CAPACITY 2.0TB RAID SOLUTION Plug-n-Play, Built for High-Performance Data Transfer & Storage for Audio and Video Production May 9, 2007, Woodstock, IL -- Other World Computing (OWC) http://www.macsales.com, a leading Mac and PC technology company, announced today the new OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro Dual 2.0TB RAID solution, the highest capacity 2-drive array on the market. Based on the award-winning OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro line of RAID drive solutions, the OWC 2.0TB RAID solution is A/V rated, specifically designed to meet the high-performance demands of audio and video production with data transfer rates of over 80 Mbytes per second. The OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro Dual 2.0TB RAID solution is a high-performance 7200RPM, 64MB RAID 0 Striped SATA-Equipped Drive Solution. The highest capacity top performance external drive available of its kind, the new OWC 2.0TB RAID solution features Plug & Play simplicity through FireWire 800, FireWire 400, and USB 2.0...

May 09, 2007: Charmas 2.0 more practical Charmas, the practical tool for finding fonts and creating font catalogs very fast, has now reached version 2.0. You can now also use external font sources to find fonts much faster and print catalogs even when they are not registered in Mac OS X already. Here is a list of all enhancements in Charmas 2.0: General: -------- * External font sources can be used for wathing fonts or printing font catalogs. * GUI (Graphical User Interface) enhanced. Font Finder: ------------ * Search functions enhanced. * Text presentation enhanced. Font Book: ---------- * Font Book layouts enhanced. * New Font Book layout lists up to 22 fonts per page. * On export in image format you can choose between various formats and resolutions: TIFF, JPEG, JPEG-2000, PNG and GIF. Get your new Charmas 2.0 for only 29 EUR. You can upgrade from former versions of Charmas for only 10 EUR. Order right now! http://www.dsd.net/prod/mac/charmas.php?lan=en&pmode=5

BVS Announces Complete Handheld 802.11b/a/g Solution METUCHEN, New Jersey. -- May 8, 2007 -- Berkeley Varitronics Systems, Inc, the leader in handheld wireless test tools, announces a powerful new Yellowjacket handheld 802.11b/a/g Wi-Fi Analyzer & Spectrum Analyzer. Berkeley's latest Yellowjacket branded 802.11 spectrum/packet analyzer will be demonstrated at booth# 207 in Orlando at the ISPCON show (May 23rd-25th) and booth# 161 at the Las Vegas Interop Expo (May 20th-25th). BVS' latest test receiver system demodulates, sweeps and analyzes all popular 802.11 Wi-Fi network packets including 802.11b (2.4 GHz), 802.11g (2.4 GHz) and 802.11a (5 GHz). Yellowjacket B/A/G is also a powerful spectrum analyzer (accurate to within +1 dB) that measures RF energy allowing not only detailed interference analysis but the ability to see the "whole picture" of your 2.4 and 5 GHz network WISP or hotpsot. When equipped with a BVS DF (Direction Finding) antenna, Yellowjacket B/A/G locates and...

Get your Mac up-to-date and optimized with VersionTracker Pro and Mac Pilot PORTLAND, OR. -May 8, 2007- TechTracker, Inc., publisher of VersionTracker.com, MacFixIt.com, and VersionTracker Pro, is now bundling Koingo Software's Mac Pilot for every new and renewing VersionTracker Pro Mac subscriber. For years VersionTracker Pro has streamlined the update process for the Mac community by providing a central database of updates coupled with peer feedback ensuring users can get the right update every time, for the applications they care about most. Mac Pilot enables over 300 hidden features built into Mac OS X and lets users easily modify preferences to streamline performance. Mac Pilot offers one-click access to commands only accessible to users with deep familiarity with the Terminal and UNIX. "We have been impressed with Mac Pilot's ease of use, broad and deep feature set, and overall potential benefit to any active Mac OS X user," says Ben Wilson, Editor-in-Chief of MacFixIt.com....

Elastic Window v1.3 for REALbasic Ships RALEIGH, NC, USA (May 7, 2007) -- Pariahware, Inc, consulting firm and shareware developer, announced today it is shipping Elastic Window v1.3, a set of classes for REALbasic developers which allows controls on a window to be resized proportionally with the window. Version 1.3 of Elastic Window sports the following new feature: - Robust handling of window initialization, which allows controls to be adjusted programmatically in the Open Event. "Elastic Window has been used and maintained for years in our own applications," stated Christian Miller, president of Pariahware, Inc. "We are now happy to share it with other REALbasic developers." Using Elastic Window, developers can design windows with a particular look in mind and ensure it will maintain a uniform look no matter what size the user makes the window. There are a number of reasons why Elastic Window should be used: - Making your application more user-friendly for the visually impaired...

Greenpeace Responds To "A Greener Apple" Apple Computers, Inc. has publicly declared its new environmental commitment, "A Greener Apple," on its website, at (http://www.apple.com/hotnews/agreenerapple/). The announcement would elevate Apple's score on Greenpeace's 'Guide to Greener Electronics,' which will be updated in June, to approximately a 5 (from a previous score of 2.7) out of 10 points. Below is Greenpeace's response to this announcement. Apple has decided to bring us closer to the greener apple that Mac users all over the world have been asking for. Apple's new commitment to environmental transparency and the phase out of the worst chemicals in its product range are genuine steps forward. We look forward to Apple going further to green their existing products, to get non-toxic products on the market, and to announce a worldwide take-back and responsible reuse/recycling policies. We will continue to work with Apple users to ask Apple to do just that. We have seen the...

MacTech's VBA/AppleScript Transition Guide Now Online See it today at http://www.mactech.com/vba-transition-guide/ With Office 2008 for Mac no longer supporting VBA, most Mac Office scripters need to move to AppleScript. To help with this transition, MacTech Magazine has published its approximately 150 page transition guide in the April issue of MacTech Magazine. This triple-size issue was sent to subscribers as part of their normal subscription. With overwhelming response, MacTech has now made the guide available for free online, as well as provided PDF download and printed copy options. For months, MacTech worked with a team of VBA, AppleScript and Office experts from around the industry to create the most comprehensive guide available to aid users in migrating from VBA to AppleScript. Chock full of step-by-step examples, it not only helps people migrating from VBA, but is useful for anyone who would like to AppleScript Microsoft Office. Bundled with the PDF download, the Macintosh...

Vela Design Group releases VelaClock 2.0 and VelaClock Deluxe 2.0 Berkeley, California - May 1, 2007 - Vela Design Group announces VelaClock 2.0 and VelaClock Deluxe 2.0, Dashboard widgets. For current VelaClock customers, VelaClock 2.0 is a free update and VelaClock Deluxe 2.0 is a $6 upgrade. VelaClock Deluxe is a new product. VelaClock is a world clock widget with a highly configurable user interface. Users can quickly display the time of sunrise, sunset, or twilight, duration of daylight, moonrise, moonset, phase of moon, time zone information and more. VelaClock Deluxe 2.0 introduces two significant and highly requested features: 1. Add user-defined places: defining and adding places allows cities that are not already built into VelaClock to be included. Any latitude and longitude will work; a GPS can be used to enter your current location. This feature provides accurate times for sunrise, sunset, twilight, moonrise and moonset for any location one enters. 2. Change the...

Rixstep are pleased to announce the immediate release of the 'Xfile package' as a standalone application suite for Apple's OS X. The package comes with more than a dozen closely integrated file management utilities. Xfile from Rixstep is the only file manager for OS X capable of seamlessly handling all file systems - fdesc, HFS+, HFS+ case-sensitive, UFS, volfs, ZFS. It is the only file manager capable of detailing all file information available on OS X - and offering full editing capabilities for all these system features. Xfile manages 'file flags' (user and system append, immutable, etc); 'sticky bits'; set user and group ID bits; it displays major and minor device numbers, inodes (CNIDs), number of links, blocks used, optimal block sizes, and file generation numbers for the superuser; it creates both hard and symbolic links. Additional utilities included allow manipulation of two Unix and five HFS time stamps; batch and recursive mode and time stamping; and more. Scanned in 90...

Mark/Space has just released a version 1.0.1 update to The Missing Sync for BlackBerry, a free update to v1.0. With the 1.0.1 release, The Missing Sync for BlackBerry now includes native French- and German-language support. Version 1.0.1 also adds a Folder Sync plugin for syncing the contents of folders between the Mac and a BlackBerry with an inserted microSD card, implements additional Address Book field mappings, properly handles all-day calendar events synced from Entourage 2004 via Sync Services and lots more. Complete release notes are available from the downloads page (linked below). Users may update to version 1.0.1 either by choosing the Check for Updates menu command in the software or by visiting the downloads page at the Mark/Space website: (http://www.markspace.com/downloads.html) The Missing Sync for BlackBerry requires Mac OS X 10.4.8 or later and a BlackBerry device running version 4.0 or later of the BlackBerry operating system. The Missing Sync for BlackBerry sells...

DISCLABEL 4.2 FEATURES NEW VISUAL EFFECTS San Francisco, CA - May 1, 2007 - SmileOnMyMac has released DiscLabel 4.2, an update of its award-winning CD/DVD label design software for Mac OS X, with a new visual effects dialog and enhanced tools for applying design features to objects. The update is free for registered users of DiscLabel 4. A fully-functional demo version is available at http://www.smileonmymac.com/DiscLabel/download.html. DiscLabel 4.2 offers more flexible image manipulation with the new Effects and Filters dialog. Effects and Filters allows users to preview and combine over 40 visual effects, including blurs, sharpening, color effects and masks. Also new in this upgrade is the ability to add a drop shadow to any object and to apply a stroke to an image. DiscLabel 4.2 costs $32.95. Mac OS X 10.4 or later is required. The DiscLabel Family Pack, for up to 5 computers in one household, is $49.95. Upgrades from earlier versions of DiscLabel are $15.00, and free to users...

Media 100 Ships Version 11.6; Support for Intel-based Macs Media 100 Editing and Effects Product Family Now Available for new Apple hardware Las Vegas, NV - April 16, 2007 - Media 100, a leading provider of advanced editing systems for the corporate, broadcast, post-production, and multi-media industries, today announced the release Media 100 version 11.6 for the Intel-based Macintosh systems. Media 100 Version 11.6 is the Universal Binary release of Media 100's 10-bit uncompressed HD/SD editing systems for Mac OS X. The Media 100 Version 11.6 product family includes Media 100 HD Suite, Media 100 HDe, Media 100 SDe, Media 100 Producer Suite, and Media 100 Producer. Attendees to NAB 2007 can see the new Media 100 version 11 systems on stand SL10520. About the New Media 100 Product Family The Media 100 product line offers 10-bit uncompressed HD and SD editing capabilities, support for broadcast-quality format conversions, and increased system performance leveraging the new Intel-based...

April 25, 2007 -- Script Software (scriptsoftware.com) announced today version 5.3.3 of KnowledgeMiner. KnowledgeMiner can be downloaded from: http://www.knowledgeminer.com/ - [new] improved significance testing during model self-organization to avoid using non-relevant inputs in a model; - [new] call for papers for the 2nd International Workshop on Inductive Modeling which aims at state, progress, applications, and outlook of inductive modeling technologies like self-organizing networks of active neurons: http://www.iwim2007.org/ - [bug] when building models from just 2 inputs fixed (in version X 5.3.2, only); - [bug] fixed that may produce, for very complex nonlinear models, minor differences between the generated model equation and the calculated model output (graphics); the export of models to MS Excel has not been affected by this bug; - [bug] fixed that occasionally causes KM to crash when reading the clipboard at program startup; KnowledgeMiner is being used by NASA, Boeing,...

FRESNO, CA - April 26, 2007 - Redcort Software today announced the release of Virtual TimeClock Pro 5.5, the industry leading time and attendance software for small to medium sized businesses. This new release features two of our most requested enhancements: simplified timecard editing and expanded worker information tracking. The new 5.5 release also contains a number of fixes and changes that improve overall program reliability and usability. "We've really tried to spoil our customers with ease-of-use" said Keith DeLong, President of Redcort Software. "As a result, our users have not held back in telling us how Virtual TimeClock could be even more useful. Customer feedback enabled us to make the day to day editing and managing of timecards significantly easier in this new release." "Our users also told us they'd like Virtual TimeClock to track additional worker information" continued DeLong. "So in 5.5, we've added new worker hire and termination date tracking along with the ability...

Ovolab Geophoto 1.1: introducing the loupe for precise positioning of photos. Torino, Italy (Europe) - April 23, 2007 - Ovolab(R) today released version 1.1 of Ovolab Geophoto, its geotagging application for Mac OS X. Geophoto is an all-in-one application for geotagging, collecting, browsing and sharing pictures. Geophoto displays photos on a three-dimensional representation of the Earth, pinned to the location where each photo was taken. The user can pan, zoom and fly through the photos, thanks to high-resolution satellite images of the Earth. Users can easily drag their pictures to a specific location on the globe in order to "geotag" them. Once geotagged, pictures can be shared with other users and will automatically appear in the correct location on the Earth when opened in Geophoto. New in version 1.1 are the Loupe, which uses Google Maps to provide a close-up view of the area below the mouse; and the Tag cloud, a heads-up display of the terms used to tag every picture, which...

TheCodingMonkeys are proud to announce a cooperation with Panic Inc. regarding online simultaneous text-editing as well as the release of SubEthaEdit 2.6.3 . April 23, 2007 - We are proud to announce that today our collaborative technology, the Subetha Engine, has found its way into another application: Panic Inc. released its new one stop solution for web developers, Coda. Coda features online simultaneous text-editing powered by the Subetha Engine, just like SubEthaEdit 2.x. This widens the collaborative plattform: SubEthaEdit users and Coda users can connect to each other and work together simultaneously. SubEthaEdit and Coda users' potential to work together is the result of a long-standing collaboration of Panic Inc. and TheCodingMonkeys. We are happy to welcome Coda as a new member to the Subetha Engine family and look forward to a broadening user base that will benefit everyone using SubEthaEdit and Coda. Some fruits of this cooperation also found its way into SubEthaEdit 2.6....