Ascender Corp., a provider of advanced font products, announced a new web fonts service on its http://www.AscenderFonts.com site to appeal to web designers and web developers.
 
Web Fonts from Ascender is a new service to format web sites with CSS @font-face using licensed downloadable fonts. Web Fonts eliminate the hassles and expense of using Flash, JavaScript or image replacement techniques for headlines, says Bill Davis, vice president at Ascender. It also offers text fonts for web designers to extend their typographic choice beyond the limited set of "web-safe," he adds.
 
Ascender’s Web Font service supports every major web browser, including mobile Safari found on the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Current web browsers with web font support include Internet Explorer 5+, Firefox 3.5+, Chrome 2.0+, Safari and Mobile Safari 3.1+ and Opera 10+.

Apple today said it has delivered more than 500,000 iPads during its first week. The company says demand is far higher than they predicted and will likely continue to exceed their supply over the next several weeks.

Apple says that it has also taken a large number of pre-orders for iPad 3G models for delivery by the end of April. Faced with this "surprisingly strong US demand," the company is postponing the international launch of iPad by one month -- until the end of May.

Apple will announce international pricing and begin taking online pre-orders on Monday, May 10. "We know that many international customers waiting to buy an iPad will be disappointed by this news, but we hope they will be pleased to learn the reason -- the iPad is a runaway success in the US thus far," the company says in a statement.

Apple has released MacBook Pro Software Update 1.3 (http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1026) for all 15-inch and 17-inch MacBook Pro mid-2010 models. It contains improvements for graphics stability for high-performance video and gaming applications, as well as various bug fixes. 

MacBook Pro Software Update 1.3 is a 258.32MB download and requires Mac OS X 10.6.3. You can obtain it via the Software Update component of Mac OS X's Systems Preferences app.

VideoUpLink for Mac OS 10.5 (http://www.videouplink.net) is a new, US$9.99 application designed to make video on your Facebook page just a drag and drop away. It requires Mac OS X 10.5 and higher and QuickTime 7.6 or better.

VideoUpLink employs Facebook Connect for a clean, single window log-in experience, according to developer Mark Morris. Facebook Connect allows Facebook's millions of users to log-in and share movies with their friends using their Facebook username and password.

Using Facebook Connect enables persistent sessions. Return to VideoUpLink and it will check your log-in status, so you won't have to log in each time you open the application. After a Facebook video upload you can log out at any time.

VideoUpLink features a large table view for dropping movies onto. Users can drag movies from iPhoto, Media Browser or the Finder. Each movie can be given its own title and...

Apple has topped the list in a RetailWire/Dechert-Hampe survey ranking retail stores for the best shopping experience. Stores were ranked on: satisfaction experience and customer satisfaction, product assortment, and price.

Respondents to the survey rated the Apple retail store as well above all others as the retailer delivering the best shopping experience. According to Ben Ball, senior vice president, Dechert-Hampe, some might question how the research could show technology being down on the list of ways to improve the shopping experience when Apple, a store that totally revolves around the use and sale of technology, tops the list of retailers that get it.

"People are underestimating Apple's mastery of the fundamentals," he says. "If it were just the technology, Circuit City and CompUSA would have been on this list instead of in Chapter 11. I think the ability to experience the products that Apple provides; the knowledgeable brand advocates that are there in the...

BorisFX (http://www.borisfx.com) says that its entire product line will be available for 64-bit operating systems as well as the upcoming Adobe Creative Suite 5 release.

The Boris FX product line includes Boris Continuum Complete, Final Effects Completel, Boris RED, Boris FX, Boris Graffiti, Boris Blue and Boris XML Transfer. The Boris Box Set includes all Boris technology at a manufacturer's suggested retail price of US$1,995.

lynda.com -- an online training provider of computer skills education for consumers, businesses and schools -- has released 12 courses covering the products in the newly announced Adobe Creative Suite 5.

Course topics include Photoshop CS5, Dreamweaver CS5, Flash CS5, Illustrator CS5, InDesign CS5, After Effects CS5, Premiere Pro CS5, Flash Catalyst CS5, Fireworks CS5, Encore CS5, and Bridge CS5 tutorials. Ten percent of the tutorials in each of these courses are free to non-members.

lynda.com now has over 24 hours of Adobe CS5 training available, with more being released in the coming weeks. The CS5 courses augment the already over 340 Adobe Creative Suite courses in the lynda.com Online Training Library, from early CS versions, CS2, CS3, and CS4 titles. On April 30, lynda.com will be releasing over 75 hours of additional CS5 training.

VVI (http://www.vvidget.org) has released Vvidget Code 10.6.4.2 which lets you integrate graphs into iPhone, iPad and Mac applications.

Vvidget Code now includes a Universal library used to make iPhone and iPad visualization applications. A simulator library is also available for prototyping within the iPhone Simulator.

CodeFab and Gigapixel Creative have announced Apple iPadDev Camp on the East Coast. It will be a "think tank, boot camp-style event for developers", sponsored by Barnes & Noble, taking place at AOL headquarters and in New York City April 16-18.

iPadDevCamp is an event where existing iPhone developers, designers and publishers will come together to build and demo new iPad applications, share knowledge, explore and make friends and connections. The NYC iPadDevCamp satellite event will link to the primary event in San Jose, California, and is designed to encourage shared dialogue from over 30 iPad DevCamps across the globe.

iPadDevCamp will kick off Friday night with a party and introductions. Saturday’s schedule features a DevCamp keynote by Alex Cone, CEO of CodeFab, a Publisher Panel on Media in the Age of the iPad featuring Peter Costanzo, director of online marketing for Perseus Books Group, and Nina DeFrance, vice president of consumer marketing for Forbes...

Vinotekasoft has uncorked Vinoteka 2.0 (http://www.vinotekasoft.com), an update of their wine cellar management software for Mac OS X. The upgrade adds new types of racks and new bottle shapes.

It also features an enhanced search feature and user interface improvements. Plus, there are localization improvements in all languages and localization improvements in English in the printing feature.

Vinoteka costs US$34.90 for a single user license. You can get a family pack for $79.90 or a business pack for $109.90. Version 2.0 is a free update for registered users.

BitDefender has released BitDefender Antivirus for the Mac (http://www.bitdefender.com/solutions/antivirus-for-mac-and-pc.html). It costs US$49.94, requires Mac OS X 10.4.6 or higher, and is designed to keep your Mac safe from viruses and other malware.

According to the folks at BitDefender, at the moment, there are more than 270 different threats specifically targeting Mac OS X operating systems, from JavaScript-based advertisements advising users to purchase fake antivirus software to DNS changing malware along with a quickly changing variety of spam and phishing attacks that are platform independent. While this number is significantly less than the total threats towards Windows systems, it only takes one data breach to bring down a user’s system and possibly expose their identity and other valuable data, they add....

Orbicule has announced Undercover 4 (http://orbicule.com/undercover/mac), an upgrade to their theft-recovery software for Mac OS X. The new version offers users the ability to remotely monitor a stolen Mac using the UndercoverCenter.com web application.

Thanks to the new UndercoverCenter, users can follow their stolen Mac in real-time. They can view iSight pictures of the thief, they can see what he's doing on their stolen Mac, and they receive a Google Earth file pinpointing the stolen Mac's locations. In addition, they can use UndercoverCenter to completely lock the lost or stolen Mac and set a custom message that is displayed on top of all other applications.

Because the mobile version of Undercover uses the same UndercoverCenter web app, users can manage all their Macs, iPhones, iPads and iPod touches in one, convenient place, says Orbicule President Peter Schols.

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