November 1st, 2006 - After months of hard work, we have finally released NetworkLocation 1.0. NetworkLocation is a new application designed to take the tedium out of using Mac OS X network locations. It uses your existing network locations in Mac OS X. With a single mouse click, you can set some of the most frequently changed settings you already manually set when you move your computer. See more at http://centrix.ca/NetworkLocation

Quicky Wireless Transceiver Antenna Doubles Wireless Performance USB Connects it to Apple PowerBooks WICHITA, Kan. --11/02/2006-- QuickerTek has debuted the first Transceiver/Antenna for wireless networking that only requires a USB port. The Quicky boosts wireless range and signal strength at least twice the standard range of the 12-, 15- and 17-inch Apple PowerBooks. The Quicky is a small product that easily clips (temporarily) to the PowerBook case top and features a small antenna. The Quicky is a unique combination of the power of a Transceiver product and an antenna. It requires no computer skills to either set up or use and is completely transparent to the PowerBook user. Once Quicky is clipped to the case and the short USB cord is plugged into the PowerBook's USB port, it's ready to use. Quicky has 500 milliwatts of RF (wireless) power - that's ten times the amount that the best PowerBook can muster. The Quicky, with it's built-in antenna, clipped to the PowerBook case is up and...

Free Extension for Dreamweaver Eases Integration with Google Innovations for Small Business and Web Pros WebAssist's Dreamweaver Tools for Google makes it easy for small business and Web pros to effortlessly enhance their Web sites with additional functionality Encinitas, CA (PRWEB) November 1, 2006 -- With today's release of Dreamweaver Tools for Google, WebAssist brings advanced Google functionality to small business owners and Web professionals alike. Dreamweaver Tools for Google, a free extension to Adobe Dreamweaver, makes it point-and-click easy to add Google Checkout, Google Maps and Google Search to any website. Dreamweaver Tools for Google provides a wizard that guides users through every step of the process, making it easy to add: * eCommerce capabilities by including a Google Checkout Add to Cart button. Google Checkout works with Google's search advertising program, AdWords, to increase merchant sales and minimize their expenses throughout the online sales and...

Universal version of SketchpadT offers peak performance on Intel- and PowerPC-based Macs Tuesday, October 31, 2006 - Emeryville, CA- The best software for learning and teaching mathematics just got better! The Geometer's Sketchpad is now a Universal Binary application-designed to run on both Intel- and PowerPC-based Mac computers. When installed, it will automatically run at peak performance for your Mac's architecture. "Making Sketchpad a Universal Binary opens up the full power of the Intel architecture to our Macintosh users," Sketchpad developer Nicholas Jackiw said. "Students and educators can now interact dynamically with complicated fractals and full-color surface plots in real time, thanks to Universalization and to Sketchpad's high-performance numerics implementation." Other updates: * The Help menu now includes Web links to the Sketchpad Resource Center, information about curriculum, and Sketchpad sample documents. * Key also made a variety of compatibility enhancements for...

MacIT Conference at Macworld Conference & Expo To Provide Comprehensive Training for Managers Deploying Enterprise Solutions Schoun Regan, nationally-recognized Macintosh Enterprise authority appointed as MacIT Conference Chair FRAMINGHAM, MA, October 31, 2006 -- IDG World Expo, the leading producer of world-class tradeshows, conferences and events for technology markets, today announced the schedule for the MacIT Conference at Macworld Conference & Expo, taking place January 8-12, 2007 at San Francisco's Moscone Center. In addition to covering the latest features and deployment techniques for Apple's IT products, the three-day conference will also provide in-depth training in client, security and network management techniques by industry luminaries. Schoun Regan, CEO of ITInstruction.com and internationally respected expert on Mac OS X Server has been named the Conference Chair for the event. MacIT is the industry's most comprehensive conference presenting technical training...

PLAXO AND ZINGY TO OFFER A 'SMARTER' ADDRESS BOOK FOR MOBILE PHONES Plaxo Mobile Plus Enhances Mobile Address Books with Wireless Synchronization of Contacts, Interactive Maps and Photos October 31, 2006 (MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.) --Plaxo, operator of the largest and fastest growing address book network, today announced the availability of Plaxo Mobile Plus. For the first time, consumers can get a single, self-updating address book on their mobile phones, which will synchronize their contact information with all of their other communication tools, including Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express, AIM, Yahoo! Mail, the Mac OS X Address Book, and Thunderbird. Plaxo Mobile Plus is immediately available nationwide from a leading carrier on a variety of BREW handsets. Additional carriers will offer the service in upcoming weeks. Plaxo Mobile Plus is a joint offering for carriers from Plaxo and Zingy, a leading creator and distributor of mobile products for consumers around the world. Plaxo...

Horizon Wimba Introduces the Wimba Podcaster Wimba Voice Tools version 5.1 features new Podcaster and Voice Presentation Tool NEW YORK, Oct. 31, 2006 -- Creating podcasts for online college and high school classes just got significantly easier. Horizon Wimba, the leading provider of collaboration tools and software applications to the online education market, has released Wimba Voice Tools version 5.1 which most notably boasts two new voice tools - the Wimba Podcaster and the Wimba Voice Presentation Tool. Building off the most recent Wimba release which introduced compatibility with iPods and iTunes, version 5.1 introduces the Wimba Podcaster, a tool which makes it easy for teachers to add audio files to their online courses to which students can then subscribe as podcasts. To subscribe, a student clicks a single button on the Wimba Podcaster interface to sign up for the podcasts in iTunes or other podcast-ready software. Once a student is subscribed, he or she will automatically...

New ebook offers tricks and treats for managing passwords on the Mac Ithaca, NY USA (October 31, 2006) -- It's easy to keep track of a few passwords, but for any Macintosh user feeling overwhelmed by all the passwords asked for by the Mac and by many Web sites, help is now at hand in the form of a new ebook - "Take Control of Passwords in Mac OS X," by Mac expert Joe Kissell. Readers will learn to assess risk factors and devise a personal plan for generating different types of passwords, using a special system for creating strong passwords that are easy to remember but virtually impossible to crack. Once that's done, the ebook explains how to set appropriate passwords for the Mac (account login, master, root, firmware, email, AirPort, keychains), and how to use Apple's built-in password manager Keychain Access. Kissell also provides pointers for the best ways to use passwords on the Web and offers tips for preventing password-related problems. For readers who want to go beyond...

Creative Manager Pro, Ad Agency Software and Project Management Groupware for Creative and Design firms, has released version 8.37, with improvements for Accounts Receivable module and more. Anthem AZ - October 31, 2006 - Creative Manager Inc. (http://www.Creative-Manager.com), provider of Creative Manager Pro software, has released version 8.37 of its flagship product, Creative Manager Pro. "This new release 8.37 includes specific enhancements that our large agency clients asked for, proving once again that we are responding to our clients' needs," boasts Ron Ause, Creative Manager's director of marketing. "Clients keep asking us to take the lead in the industry with new and innovative solutions and we respond with an easier-to-use interface, and more powerful features in every upgrade." Among the variety of enhancements now available to all Creative Manager Pro users is the ability to automatically mass email AR invoices to customers with an option for the client to pay via credit...

ATTO Technology Introduces Comprehensive Line of Serial Attached SCSI PCI Express RAID Adapters For Performance-Focused IT And Digital Media Customers STORAGE NETWORKING WORLD, ORLANDO, Florida (October 31, 2006) -- ATTO Technology, Inc., a global leader of storage connectivity and infrastructure solutions for data-intensive computing environments, today unveiled the industry's most innovative line of SAS/SATA RAID Adapters, providing flexible SAS and SATA II connectivity while delivering blazing-fast 3-Gb/sec. per port performance for IT and digital media users requiring the highest performance SAS RAID solutions. ATTO's new ExpressSAS RAID adapters are the industry's first products with a true low-profile form factor that fit standard-length PCI Express slots, making them ideal for compact and blade server applications where real estate is at a premium, and are the only SAS RAID adapters with hardware RAID 6 and RAID 60 support, protecting valuable customer data against dual drive...

Zurich, October 30, 2006 -- QuantumSoft (http://www.quansoft.com/) today released the first beta version of pro Fit 6.1 for Mac OS X, the next iteration of its popular tool for the analysis of scientific data and mathematical functions. pro Fit 6.1 ist the first "universal binary" version of pro Fit that runs natively on both intel and PowerPC. It also comes with a large list of new features. Highlights include built-in multidimensional fitting capabilities, new inspectors for function and statistical analysis, revamped drawing rendering with improved Quartz and PDF support, new Menu layout with standardized keyboard shortcuts. This beta release is semi-public and reserved to current pro Fit 6.0 users. Everybody who bought pro Fit 6.0 since January 1, 2006 will be entitled to a free upgrade to pro Fit 6.1. All other users of pro Fit 6.0 will be entitled to a reduced upgrade fee. pro Fit 6.1B1 can be downloaded immediately from http://www.quansoft.com/beta.html. About pro Fit pro Fit...

refNum Software have released Nano 1.1, a major update to their open source C++ framework for developing modern high-performance Carbon applications. Nano 1.1 adds over a dozen new views, all of which are rendered with CoreGraphics for resolution independence, and several of which were previously only available to Apple's own applications. This release also includes over 30 improvements and bug fixes, such as splash screen support or an Open Recent menu that supports groups of items. Daily source code snapshots are now available through Subversion, and the svn repository can be browsed online. Nano provides: o A HIG-compliant application+document model o C++ wrappers around every HIToolbox view o An improved Interface Builder experience Built around the native Carbon framework, Nano allows developers to create full-featured, 64-bit clean, Universal Binaries with minimal effort using the industry-standard C++ language. More information on Nano is available from the project home page: (...

SubRosaSoft Inc. invites you to joins us for a free MacForensicsLab training session SubRosaSoft Inc. is offering free training courses on the operation of MacForensicsLab. Learn about the most complete software suite on the computer forensics market. Sign up today, seating is limited. First come, first serve. Date & Location: Thursday, November 16th 2006 Session 1: 9:00am -- 12:00pm PST Session 2: 1:00pm -- 4:00pm PST Huntington Beach Police Department 2000 Main St. Huntington Beach, CA 92648 USA To sign up, please email Sales@SubRosaSoft.com or contact Detective David Mc Cain, CFCE High Tech Crimes Unit, Huntington Beach Police Dept. (714) 375-8470 Please bring your Apple laptop if you have one. Otherwise one will be provided for you to use. More information about SubRosaSoft's forensics solution can be found at: (http://www.MacForensicsLab.com/)

Date: 2006-10-30 Title: Stairways Software releases Interarchy 8.2.2 Description: Stairways Software today released version 8.2.2 of Interarchy resolving a problem with Microsoft FTP servers. Perth, Western Australia - 30 October 2006 - Stairways Software Pty Ltd is pleased to announce Interarchy 8.2.2, the new Universal Binary version of its powerful, flexible, award-winning Internet application for Mac OS X. This release resolves a problem with parsing Microsoft FTP server listings. Interarchy can download and upload files via FTP (the Internet standard File Transfer Protocol), SFTP (Secure File Transfer Protocol), WebDAV (including iDisks), and Amazon S3 as well as FTP over SSH (FTP/SSH) and SSL-TLS. In addition, it can download files or whole web sites using HTTP, provide a wealth of information about your Internet connection, and help you work with remote servers across the Internet. Interarchy 8 follows on the long history of improvements to provide a host of new features. Major...

Southern California MacFair 2006 This Weekend! Mac Seminars, Workshops, Keynote, Vendor Expo and Door Prizes! Norwalk, CA-- It's fun in the sun this weekend, November 3 and 4 at the Southern California MacFair 2006 http://www.macfair.org at Cerritos College in Norwalk California. Only a few days left to advance register and save on admission to this years event. The deadline is this Wednesday, November 1st at 10pm. Over 40 Mac related companies, 28 Mac Seminars, 15 Mac Workshops and a few hundred Mac Enthusiasts are all participating at the Southern California MacFair 2006 this Friday and Saturday November 3 and 4. This year's Keynote address will feature Neil Ticktin, Editor-in-Chief & Publisher, MacTech Magazine. There are over 28 presentation seminars including Peter Mellow, senior lecturer at the Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand and winner of the Apple Outstanding Tertiary Educator Award and a presentation from Arthur Maddalena, lead Mac genius at Apple...

New Ebooks Help Readers Purchase Macs and Digital Cameras Ithaca, NY USA (October 26, 2006) -- With the holiday season fast approaching, it's time to start researching larger purchases such as a digital camera or a Macintosh computer. A pair of new Take Control ebooks - the 107-page "Take Control of Buying a Digital Camera" and the 91-page "Take Control of Buying a Mac" - provide up-to-date advice for anyone bewildered by the many choices and options currently available. "Take Control of Buying a Digital Camera," now in its third edition, helps readers sort out the latest camera trends and marketing jargon in order to find a camera that matches their budget, needs, and style, whether they want an inexpensive snapshot camera or a professional digital SLR camera system. Written by professional photographer and instructor Larry Chen, the book includes a printable, customizable shopping checklist, specific model suggestions for different types of cameras, 25 color photos illustrating...

SubRosaSoft Inc. announces version 1.6 of MacForensicsLab --Our newest Universal Binary version of Mac OS X forensics software features enhancements in performance, user summary audit, and a new dual-boot CD-- Union City, CA October 26th, 2006 -- SubRosaSoft.com Inc., a software company focusing on system utility and data recovery software, today announced the availability of MacForensicsLab version 1.6. MacForensicsLab is a complete suite of forensics and analysis tools in one cohesive package. Designed to work on Windows, Macintosh, and Linux storage devices, MacForensicsLab is the first all-in-one, easy-to-use forensics software suite for Mac OS X. The new version sports better performance, a much-requested user audit feature, and a dual-bootable CD which supports the latest machines. Version 1.6 of MacForensicsLab represents SubRosaSoft's first fully Universal Binary application. This allows the software to automatically run at peak performance on any Mac architecture. Combined...

KBasic Software Ships Objective-Basic 2006 Release 1.0 BETA FRANKFURT AM MAIN, Germany (October 26, 2006) - KBasic Software, providers of Objective-Basic, announced today that Objective-Basic 2006 Release 1.0 BETA is available now for Macintosh. All feature updates and improvements to this latest version are the result of customer requests. "KBasic Software is committed to ensuring the best customer experience that we can provide," stated Bernd Noetscher, creator of Objective-Basic. "As such, I am constantly improving the capabilities, usability and functionality of Objective-Basic to address ongoing customer feedback." Among the improvements, the new release of Objective-Basic offers: a.. Full featured object oriented modern BASIC programming language a.. Full featured IDE b.. Modern BASIC syntax c.. State of the art interface designer d.. Get the power of Objective-C with C and Carbon or Cocoa e.. Extend native Objective-C classes using inheritance f.. Create small and fast native...

Merax eSATA Xpress TM Connects Growing Markets CITY OF INDUSTRY, CA (October 20, 2006) -- Merax (www.merax.com), a pioneer in connectivity and storage solutions, announced today the release of its eSATA Xpress TM. The eSATA XpressTM supports the connection of eSATA RAIDs and hard drives to a PCI ExpressCard slot, providing a 2.5GB/s interface on the host side and dual, fully compliant 3GB/s ports on the device side. It includes drivers for Mac OS X and for Windows, and so provides the only solution that can benefit both MacBook Pro users and high-end PC notebook users. Who needs an eSATA connector? Aside from expensive SCSI solutions, eSATA is the best and fastest connection method available to anyone needing to read, write or move large files on external hard drives. So who might these users be? Demand for high-speed storage has mushroomed in recent years, as access to digital video, music and images has become increasingly universal. This digital revolution has not only greatly...

Perth, Western Australia - 26 October 2006 - Stairways Software Pty Ltd is pleased to announce Interarchy 8.2.1, the new Universal Binary version of its powerful, flexible, award-winning Internet application for Mac OS X. This release adds a number of fixes for various issues. Interarchy can download and upload files via FTP (the Internet standard File Transfer Protocol), SFTP (Secure File Transfer Protocol), WebDAV (including iDisks), and Amazon S3 as well as FTP over SSH (FTP/SSH) and SSL-TLS. In addition, it can download files or whole web sites using HTTP, provide a wealth of information about your Internet connection, and help you work with remote servers across the Internet. Interarchy 8 follows on the long history of improvements to provide a host of new features. Major new features in Interarchy 8 include: * Universal Binary for PowerPC and Intel native code. * Automator Actions (Download, List, Upload). * Dashboard Widgets (Bookmark, Network Status). * Growl support. * WebDAV...

INTEGO SECURITY MEMO - OCTOBER 25, 2006 INQTANA.D BLUETOOTH EXPLOIT Exploit: Inqtana.d Bluetooth exploit Discovered: October 25, 2006 Risk: Low Description: This proof-of-concept exploit, which has not yet been seen in the wild, is installed on a Mac OS X computer via Bluetooth from a computer or PDA running a Linux system. This can affect Macs running Mac OS X 10.3 and 10.4 that have not been updated with all available security updates or system updates. Bluetooth must be active, but Bluetooth file transfer does not need to be turned on. The attacking computer must be within Bluetooth range, which, by default is 10 m or 30 ft, but can be extended with repeaters and/or antennas. This exploit is installed from a Linux system, and exploits an rfcomm security hole in Bluetooth software. Unlike previous versions of Inqtana malware, no user interaction is required. It installs a user account (named "bluetooth"), with no password, which grants root access to malicious users logging into...

Midway Manages Quality with Seapine TestTrack Pro Seapine Software provides Midway's Quality Assurance team with leading issue management solution MASON, Ohio--October 25, 2006--Seapine Software, a leading provider of application lifecycle management (ALM) solutions, announced today that Midway has selected its TestTrack Pro issue management solution. TestTrack Pro is a highly scalable client/server solution with cross-platform clients that let teams access projects and manage issues anytime, anyplace. It is powerful, configurable, and easy to use--plus, timesaving communication and reporting features keep all team members informed and on schedule. "We are delighted to be working with Seapine Software. They have been very flexible to our particular needs and willing to work with us in any way to ensure we receive exactly what we need to fulfill our near-term goals," said Paul Sterngold, director of QA and customer support, Midway Home Entertainment Inc. TestTrack Pro's customers...

October 25th, 2006 - Gideon Softworks, Inc. announces the release of FileXaminer v2.5.9, the award-winning File/Folder information utility for Mac OS X. FileXaminer allows you to modify file and folder attributes that the Finder cannot ( ex. Type/Creator Info, UNIX permissions, and much more... ). FileXaminer is powerful and easy to use - making it the best "Get Info" application for Mac OS X. See website for release notes. FileXaminer eliminates the need to use Terminal, and makes changing attributes on files/folders a breeze. FileXaminer Home Page ( feature list and download ) : (http://www.gideonsoftworks.com/filexaminer.html)

Planeshift Software Releases iThemeOS 2 Planeshift Software is excited to release iThemeOS 2. This new release marks a significant milestone in iThemeOS' development and includes several great new features. We have added a Custom Icon Setter to iThemeOS that allows you to set a custom icon for virtually any file on your Mac! Additionally, iThemeOS 2 now supports icon folders as well as icon cloning. Using icon cloning, you can use almost any file or folder as a source icon for the file or folder that you want to set. iThemeOS 2 is a full featured application designed to let you change either your "work" or "play" environment to be more like you. Modify dock icons including Trash, Finder, and Dashboard. Modify the boot panel and login screen background image. Change all of the storage volume icons (hard drives and all optical disk types). Change a full suite of system folder icons, network icons, and more! iThemeOS 2 allows you to make your own icons using our built-in image converter...