A new, free Bento template kit posted today for World Cup Soccer fans on the Bento Template Exchange -- http://solutions.filemaker.com/database-templates/detail.jsp?serial=25517053

It includes four pre-designed, ready-to-use templates for tracking the fixtures, games, player statistics and participating countries.

Kanex (http://www.kanexlive.com) has released the US$34.95 iAdapt HDMI V2, a a Mini DisplayPort to HDMI adapter with audio, for new and revised Mini DisplayPort connectors on MacBook and MacBook Pro mid 2010 models as well as all 21.5-inch and 27-inch iMacs.

MacBooks and MacBook Pros released in mid 2010 as well as 21.5-inch and 27-inch iMac models are now equipped with a new and improved Mini DisplayPort that can support both audio and video output. The iAdapt HDMI V2 is a single cable solution designed to pass both audio and video through the Mini DisplayPort connector. You can connect the iAdapt HDMI V2 and view high definition playback in 1080p and uncompressed digital audio with HDTVs, projectors, or monitors.

The iAdapt HDMI V2 supports video passthrough for all Mac models with a Mini DisplayPort connector. Its design allows for a single cable solution for HDMI connectivity.

The black iPhone 4 is available to pre-order today with free shipping or in-store pickup on Thursday, June 24. However, the white iPhone 4, however, is “currently unavailable for pre-order or in-store pickup."

The 8GB iPhone 3GS, which will replace the iPhone 3G at the lower $99 price point, is also available to pre-order today with free shipping or in-store pickup. Some new iPhone 4 gear apparently won't be ship by June 24. For example, the new $29 dock for the iPhone 4 won't ship until July 2.

At last week's Worldwide Developer Conference, Apple unveiled the new iPhone 4 featuring a new feature called "FaceTime" and a "Retina display," the highest resolution display ever built into a phone. In addition, iPhone 4 features a 5 megapixel camera with LED flash, HD video recording, Apple’s A4 processor, a three-axis gyro and up to 40%.

All this comes in a new design of glass and stainless steel that's purportedly the thinnest smartphone in the world. iPhone 4...

AnyBizSoft (http://www.anypdftools.com) has completed its PDF solution line for Mac by simultaneously releasing three flagship products, including PDF Converter for Mac, PDF to Excel for Mac and PDF to PowerPoint for Mac.

AnyBizSoft PDF Converter for Mac (US$69.95) is an integrated 6-in-1 solution that provides Mac users with a f way to transfer PDF to a range of document formats, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, EPUB, HTML and Text. With it, Mac users can edit PDF contents in Word, rearrange information or calculate data of PDF table in Excel, create interactive PowerPoint presentations from PDF materials, read PDF eBooks on the iPad or other portable devices by converting PDF into EPUB format, publish PDF content on the web and extract text from PDF files.

AnyBizSoft also released single functional products -- PDF to PowerPoint for Mac and PDF to Excel for Mac. They cost $49.95 and $49.95...

Apple has unveiled a completely redesigned Mac mini, featuring up to twice the graphics performance, a new HDMI port and a new SD card slot, all in an aluminum enclosure. Pricing starts at US$699.

"The sleek, aluminum Mac mini packs great features, versatility and value into an elegant, amazingly compact design," says Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing, in a press release. "With twice the graphics performance, HDMI support and industry-leading energy efficiency, customers are going to love the new Mac mini."

Created with the unibody construction process pioneered by Apple, the new Mac mini features a compact aluminum enclosure just 7.7 inches square and 1.4 inches thin. A new integrated power supply eliminates the need for an external power adapter, reducing overall system volume by 20% and keeping cable clutter to a minimum.

A removable panel underneath provides access for memory expansion. The new HDMI output...

In this week's poll, we're asking whether you were happy with the specs of the updated Mac mini. The poll can be found on the right side of the "Macsimum" home page, below the "Macsimum Opinion" column.

In our last poll, we asked if you were happy with Apple's announcement at the Worldwide Developer Conference? Forty-one percent of you said "yes." Twenty-six percent wanted more Mac hardware news, 20% wanted more Mac OS X news, and 14% wanted an Apple TV announcement.

Falkon Ware (http://www.falkonware.com) has updated its SerialMailer bulk email app for Mac OS X (10.4 and higher) to version 7.0. The upgrade adds a database manager, personalized attachments, test runs with separate databases and TLS support.

The date of the last successful mail delivery is saved for each recipient and tools for e-mail address verification were added. Data imported from the AddressBook now includes all available data fields and the support for CSV files has been improved.

The software helps with sending mass communications to large groups like customers, students, employees, family or friends. The full version of SerialMailer costs US$34.95. The update to version 7.0 is free for everyone who registered an older version of SerialMailer after April 1, 2010. Otherwise it costs $14.95.

Hamrick Software has released Vuescan 8.6.37, a new version of the VueScan software for Mac OS X that's designed to let users produce better digital images from color snapshots, negatives, slides and documents. The new version changes maximum dust spot size from 64 to 32 pixels for performance improvements.

The Standard Edition of VueScan costs US$39.95 and the Professional Edition is $79.95 for a single user license. Multi-user licenses are available. A fully functional, trial copy of VueScan is available for download from the Hamrick web site (http://www.hamrick.com).

Limit Point Software has updated AddMovie (http://www.limit-point.com/Utilities/AddMovie.html), a tool for combining multiple movies or images into a single movie and batch exporting movies to any format supported by QuickTime, to version 1.8.2.

Export settings can be saved and reloaded from settings files. This is done from the Preferences window using the new "Save" and "Load" buttons under the export component menu. Settings files have extension "amse." Also, as of version 1.8.2, the menu items in the export component menu now have "tool tips" that contain the export components description, as provided by the component itself.

AddMovie is a utility for concatenating several files into one single movie, or batch converting movies to other formats. It upports all formats provided by Quicktime. Since the output format is configurable, you can...

Many Tricks has released version 3.2 of Witch (http://manytricks.com/witch), its window switching utility for Mac OS X. The new version adds support for Spaces in Mac OS X 10.6 ("Snow Leopard"). You can now show a live preview of every open window; just leave a window selected for two seconds (changeable) in the switcher to see its preview.

With 3.5 the app adds a pref to control the interval before the live preview window appears (including Never and No Delay). You can now optionally use a small version of the live preview in place of the usual icons in the switcher. And the new version adds a pref to let the selector wrap around (as it does when using the keyboard) when scrolling via a scrollwheel or trackpad.

Spaces users can now work with windows in all Spaces using Witch 3.2. Users can optionally choose to see Space number badges on the window icons in Witch's switching panel.

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Samsung Electronics (http://www.samsung.com) has rolled out a new drive series, a BD Combo and an external DVD writer.

Samsung is now shipping the Spinpoint F4, the newest model of its Spinpoint F series drives. It's engineered for high-end computing in Macs, PCs high-end workstations and server applications. The one-head platform of the new 7200rpm Spinpoint F4 packs up to 320GB of storage capacity per one head in half platter.

With a one-head platform design and fewer mechanical parts, the reliability and acoustic features of the Spinpoint F4 have been improved, says In-Chul Park, vice president of sales, storage systems division, Samsung Electronics. The drive delivers 10% increased read/write performance and 7% lower power consumption than the Spinpoint F1, he adds.

The Spinpoint F4 features 7200rpm speed rotation, advanced areal density technology and a SATA 3.0 Gbps interface. The drive...

Media 100 (http://www.media100.com)-- a provider of editing systems for the corporate, broadcast, postproduction, and new media industries -- has released Media 100 Suite 1.6 is now available. The new version offers enhanced support for tapeless digital formats and new support for Adobe After Effects CS5.

Version 1.6 supports Calibrated Software’s Calibrated{Q} MXF Import, AVC-Intra Decode, and DVCProHD Decode products, allowing Media 100 Suite editors to directly open MXF files, import and playback AVC-Intra media, and playback media created in the DVCProHD codec. In addition, it includes Boris XML Transfer Version 2 for Media 100 Suite, giving users the ability to export Media 100 Suite timelines to Adobe After Effects CS5.


Media 100 Suite supports AJA’s KONA 3X/3, KONA LH/LHe, KONA LHi, and KONA LS/LSe video I/O hardware; the Matrox MXO2 family of I/O devices; Blackmagic Design’s Intensity Pro,...