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Targus Announces Its Newest Member of the EcoSmart Cases Line for Mac Users
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2009 MacWorld (Booth #512) - Targus Inc., maker of the world's top-selling laptop computer cases and accessories, has announced its Spruce EcoSmart line of MacBook Pro carrying cases. Specially designed for Mac users, Targus' newest bags are sleek and stylish as well as eco-friendly and economical.
The new cases are made of 100% recycled nylon and are PVC-free, making the production of these bags less harmful to the environment. Additionally the metal used in the Spruce EcoSmart case is nickel-free and all plastic components are recyclable.
"Targus continues its commitment to developing environmentally conscious laptop bags," said Al Giazzon, vice president of marketing at Targus. "With the growing popularity of MacBooks around the globe, Targus' new line of Spruce bags provides a stylish and eco-friendly alternative for carrying and protecting the MacBook Pro."
A perfect fit for the 15" MacBook Pro, these bags not only make a green statement but are fashionable with a sleek black design and green accent stitching. No matter what your preference, there's a Spruce EcoSmart for everyone.
The Spruce topload (TBT049US) measures 15.63" x 4.25" x 13.25" and weighs 1.80 lbs. with an estimated street price of $79.99.
The Spruce messenger (TBM015US) measures 16.63" x 4.50" x 13.75" and weighs 2.06 lbs. with an estimated street price of $79.99.
The Spruce backpack (TBB013US) measures 13" x 8.25" x 18.75" and weighs 2 lbs. and has an estimated street price of $89.99. All three bags are designed to offer ample room for all your belongings, including custom designed pockets for your Apple products and accessories.
Backed by a limited lifetime warranty, the Targus Spruce EcoSmart carrying cases will be available this spring through Targus Commercial Distribution, Resellers, Retailers, DMRs and at Targus.com
Celebrating its 25th anniversary, Targus invented the laptop case and continues to advance the mobile accessories category with innovative and relevant solutions for today's mobile lifestyle. Targus products enhance productivity, connectivity, and security, liberating users to work in any and all environments with the utmost convenience and comfort. Founded in 1983, Targus headquarters are located in Anaheim, Calif., with offices worldwide and distribution agreements in more than 100 countries.
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Google Releases Picasa For Mac
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Picasa software is now available for the Mac!
Organize
Manage your photos in one place, and find photos you forgot you had
Edit
Eliminate scratches & blemishes, fix red-eye, crop and more
Create
Turn photos into movies, collages, slideshows and more
Share
Upload seamlessly to Picasa Web Albums to share with friends, family & the world
Additional support information for Mac users » Picasa Basics: Introduction to Picasa for Mac Print
Picasa helps you:
• Control large photo collections
• Edit without worry
• Keep your online photos up-to-date
• Share with a click
Whether you're a Windows/Linux transplant or a brand new Picasa user, read on to find Mac-specific release notes, getting-started resources, and Mac support information. You can download the Picasa for Mac beta at picasa.google.com. It's a Google Labs release and is English-only at this time.
Picasa for Mac has been designed to play nicely with iPhoto.
Picasa doesn't store any of your photos. It simply scans your hard drive and displays the photo files it finds. In this way, Picasa folders represent the actual directories containing photos on your computer's hard drive.
Picasa handles the iPhoto Library in the same way, with a small variation made for the way in which the iPhoto Library organizes your photos: If you've made edits in iPhoto, each album or event in your iPhoto Library contains an 'Originals' folder and a 'Modified' folder. Picasa scans the photos and videos in both the 'Originals' and 'Modified' folders, and displays a single collective folder with the most recent version of each file.
The photos in your iPhoto Library will be displayed in Picasa in the 'iPhoto Library' collection as read-only files. The read-only status is necessary to ensure that Picasa and iPhoto work well together. You can do a lot with read-only files in Picasa -- upload, create a collage, create a movie, email, print -- but you won't be able to make any material changes: this includes editing, moving, deleting, and using Sync to Web.
Of course there's a solution: When you attempt to use Picasa to edit an iPhoto Library picture, Picasa will ask your permission to copy the entire folder containing that photo to a location outside of the iPhoto Library -- they're placed in a different folder under 'Pictures' titled 'Imported from iPhoto.' You'll then have access to the full range of tools that Picasa offers. \\Missing Ingredients
For those accustomed to Picasa for Windows, there are a few features that didn't make the Mac beta:
• Geotag
• Shop/Order prints
• Integrated webcam capture
• Automatic screen capture
• Export as HTML page
• Screensaver
• Picasa Photo Viewer
Once you've organized and edited your photos to perfection, Picasa for Mac makes it easy to share them online. Here are the facts: Upload = Sharing: Use the Share button in Picasa for Mac to upload to Picasa Web Albums and send invitations to view in one fell swoop. Free storage: Take advantage of 1 GB free photo storage in Picasa Web Albums, with additional storage available for purchase. Broadcast or keep them quiet: Album privacy levels to suit all of your sharing needs. Organize by face: Picasa Web Albums finds the faces, you add name tags, your photos come alive.
System Requirements:
Mac OS X 10.4+
Intel CPU
256MB RAM
100MB available hard disk space
Freeware
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Acorn Image Editing Program For OS X Updated to Version 1.5
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Acorn is a new image editor built with one goal in mind - simplicity. Fast, easy, and fluid, Acorn provides the options you'll need without any overhead. Acorn feels right, and won't drain your bank account.
Don't let Acorn's size fool you; it's a powerful little guy. Fancy math to keep your pencil strokes from having sharp edges, squeezing all the performance out of your computer's GPU as possible, and simple innovations to make your life easier.
• Take screenshots using Acorn and edit them right away.
• Chain together image filters to create stunning effects.
• Layer based image editing, an industry standard.
• Make new images and layers using your built-in iSight.
• Easy image and canvas resizing, just by changing the size of your window.
• Take advantage of every pixel of your monitor with full screen image editing.
• Tablet sensitive for pressure strokes and using the tablet's eraser.
• Vector shape and text layers.
• Freeform, elliptical, rectangular, and magic wand selections.
• Gradients.
• Create and apply custom text styles.
• Control opacity and blending modes for each layer.
• Write plugins using the Python scripting language, as well as in Objective-C.
• GPU powered. The same graphics card that makes your gaming experience smooth, helps Acorn fly through the toughest of graphics operations.
• And much much more. Download Acorn and try it out yourself.
New in Acorn 1.5: Brush Designer
Acorn's new Brush Designer is a great new feature where you can draw with a preset brush, and then modify the settings for the brush and watch your stroke update in realtime. No more hassle trying to get a brush "just right". Draw once, tweak, and save. And if you own a tablet, then Acorn's pressure sensitive brush options make drawing even more fun.
System requirements:
Requires Mac OS X 10.4.9 or later.
System Support:
PPC/Intel
$49.95
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For Charles W. Moore's full review of Acorn, click here.
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LaCie d2 DVD±RW 22x USB with LightScribe Hi-Speed USB 2.0 22x
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Create and record your own music, movie, and photo CD/DVDs LightScribe: design and burn custom, professional labels. Sturdy d2 casing. Record to DL DVD±R, DVD±R/RW, and CD-R/RW
Support Store, share, and archive your data, photos, music, and video quickly with this fast CD/DVD burner with 22x DVD write speed. This rewritable drive features Hi-Speed USB 2.0 for easy connection to your PC, and it's compatible with Linux.
Create totally customized DVDs with the bundled Easy Media Creator Suite 10 DVD/CD copying software for Windows users. Even import video and audio footage from your DV camcorder and easily burn projects onto DVDs. The LaCie d2 DVD±RW Drive comes with LightScribe labeling technology so you can burn custom, silkscreen-quality labels directly onto your discs.
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OWC USB 2.0 Drive AdapterCompatible with any 2.5”, 3.5”, 5.25” IDE device
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The USB 2.0 Universal Drive Adapter implements a bridge between one USB port and one ATA or ATAPI based mass storage device port. The USB 2.0 to IDE Drive Adapter turns any ATA drive into a convenient external drive. Easily transfer files from computer or notebook, back up files, or store large file archives on hard drives. The Hi-Speed USB interface provides for easy installation with its Plug and Play design.
USB 2.0 up to 480Mbps Transfer Speed
Backwards Compatible with USB 1.1
Plug and Play
The USB 2.0 Drive Adapter has been tested with: 2.5" Laptop Drives - all brands
3.5" Desktop Drives - Works with all brands, including Maxtor, Seagate, IBM, Hitachi, Samsung, Western Digital, etc. 5.25" Drives - The adapter supports all existing IDE/ATAPI devices such as CD-ROM, CD-RW, DVD-ROM drives. Removable Media drives, such as Iomega Zip.
Product Specifications:
USB 2.0 to ATA connection (2 sided, for 2.5" and 3.5" drives)
Connect any device with an ATA Interface to a Mac or PC with USB interface
Transfer rate Approx. 480 MBps (USB 2.0)
Complies with USB 2.0 standards
Backwards compatible to USB 1.1 standards
Complies with ATA/ATAPI-66 Spe. V1.0
Simple to Install
Supports IDE and enhanced IDE hard drives
Supports ATA/ATAPI CD-ROM/R/RW DVD-ROM and more
External AC adapter provides drive power
System Requirements:
Mac OS 9.2 or higher incluing Mac OS X
Linux 2.4.X
Microsoft Windows 2000/XP (No driver needed)
$12.99
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Sunrise 1.7.7 Open Source Web Browser Especially For Web Developers
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Sunrise is the open-source web browser that based on WebKit framework for Mac. It is light and fast. The concept is to add some convenient functions that the other browsers have not equipped yet. It is using the same rendering engine as Safari.
Features
• Visual bookmarks
Bookmarks with a thumbnail image and a title. It achieve an easier selection and management.
• Window fader and auto-resize
The main window can be transparented and resized automatically.
• Search engine
You can change the search engine that Sunrise uses for searching.
• View source
The source of the web page is displayed with your favorite editor.
Functions
• Bookmarks
The web page is added to bookmarks as an thumbnail image. You can obtain an intuitive operation by the visualized bookmark item. If you apply the color label, it will improve further.
Mostly, the bookmarks of other browsers is composed only of text information. For instance, each web page has title information along various standards. When those pages are added to bookmarks one after another, an enumeration list very hard to see will be completed there. Then you should rename a title of item in list for a long time.
In bookmarks of Sunrise, because the thumbnail image of web page line up, the title of a item is not too important.
• Thumbnail and Settings
The bookmark item has a web page image that the size can be adjusted from 64 to 256px. You can apply some label colors to the item.
Moreover, you can set the item size and automatic update in preferences. The automatic update is the function that update the thumbnail image when Sunrise access URL of the item.
• Layout
You can toggle the layout of bookmarks in window?vertical or horizontal.
• Import Safari bookmarks
Sunrise supports the import bookmarks from Safari.
You can do it at any time, and whether the items are added or it replaces current items can be selected.
Window fader and auto-resize
• Fader
The main window has fader as slider control in toolbar. It operates the alpha value of the main window.
• Auto-resize
You can resize the main window quickly from menu in toolbar or View menu. Each Web pages assumes various screen resolution and is made. The user had to pull the small knob in lower right of the window for resizing.
Then, Sunrise has the function to resize to a regulated size by one click.
• Compact tools line
Because too large toolbar items and a fat title bar were cut down, the web page is displayed more widely in the lean space.
• Search engine
The user can select and add a search engine used to search the web from URL field or context menu.
• View source
You can open the source of web page with your editor application.
Download files from URL
• You can download the file by inputting URL.
• Auto-resizable window (640,800,1024,fullscreen fullheight)
• Transparent window (both web page window & source window)
• Able to create PDF file from web page
• Draw URL string on the screen
• URL copy command (page title copy)
• Icon of the web site is able to save
• URL input field & web searching field share the field
• URL specified downloader
New in version 1.7.7:
• Added the error pages of loading. (The shift to the web searching when the resource loading error occurred was abolished. )
• Added flag that determines whether the image should be automatically updated to bookmark item.
• Updated the bezel graphic of bookmarks.
• Updated a part of the icon set.
• Added the progress indicator to bookmarks
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.3 or later
System Support:
PPC/Intel
Free
For more information, visit:
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CheckUp 2.0 and FlexTeam 2.0 for Mac OS X Are Now Available
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App4mac has released the final version of CheckUp 2.0. Checkup is an innovative tool that allows you to check your memory and disks, monitor the health of a Mac computer. App4mac also released the final version of FlexTeam 2.0. Flexteam is a scheduling application that helps share information, work jointly on schedules, and use all available human resources as efficiently as possible.
About CheckUp 2.0
CheckUp is first designed to check the memory and disks of your Mac, monitor the usage of CPU, Memory, Disk Drives and Network Adapters. You can display detailed information about all running processes and pause or terminate these at any time. By adding rules that will be triggered when certain conditions are met for a specified resource on the computer, you can receive visual notifications.
For example, CheckUp can alert you when a certain resource exceeds a certain value or when a hard drive seems to have hardware failures, even when the application is not opened (thanks to an innovative background process and the use of S.M.A.R.T technology). CheckUp can also help you to determine if your computer is able to run Mac OS X Leopard or determine if your computer have enough memory to run all your Applications at the same time.
The graphical user interface is designed with a top priority on high usability in mind. Unlike other competing products it takes a very short time to setup your environment. CheckUp is lightning-fast on the latest Intel-based Macs. One of the most innovative feature of CheckUp is the ability to monitor a Mac on a network or via internet. It's a powerful feature for IT administrators interested to check a remote computer or a remote server.
CheckUp 2.0 is available for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger and Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. It's an Universal Binary application working at full speed on both PowerPC and Intel Processors. A user license costs only 29 Euros. Version 2.0 is a FREE upgrade for customers of a previous version.
About Flexteam 2.0
Flexteam is an incredibly useful tool to manage people in your group, organization, or company. Our goal is to make the user's experience as intuitive and task oriented as possible.
Flexteam is a really powerful schedule management tool that is visually appealing. It helps you share information, work jointly on schedules, and use all of your available human resources as efficiently as possible (you can check daily working schedules, manage days off for each person and track holidays). Flexteam can show your schedule in different formats (view by day, week, month, or year). You can print your views, generate PDF files, or publish a schedule on your website with one click.
We designed Flexteam to be very user-friendly. Instead of wasting your time figuring out how to decipher complex software, you can be more productive and efficient. Our unique user-centric approach sets our product apart from any other, making it a powerful, easy-to-use software created to work with Mac OS X.
Flexteam is available for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard only. It's an Universal Binary application working at full speed on both PowerPC and Intel Processors. A user license costs only 49 Euros for a limited time (introductory price until end of february) and all updates/upgrades are free. Version 2.0 is a FREE upgrade for customers of a previous version.
app4mac: http://www.app4mac.com
CheckUp 2.0: http://www.app4mac.com/checkup.html
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FlexTeam 2.0:
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LaCie Hard Disk MAX, Design by Neil Poulton Hi-Speed USB 2.0 2TB
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Get an enormous amount of storage capacity in a hard disk that’s easy for anyone to use. The simple and efficient Hard Disk MAX, Design by Neil Poulton contains two internal disks for maximizing capacity. Setup is nearly effortless; it’s plug & play and offers customizable formatting with LaCie Setup Assistant. LaCie Backup Assistant software is also included for PC/Mac users. It comes with two RAID options so you can easily choose the configuration that best matches your needs: RAID 0 (BIG) for high capacity or RAID 1 (SAFE) for high security.
This sleek, subtle hard disk has an all-black mirror-polished finish and a unique feature—a cool, blue LED strip on its underside that creates an ambient glow. Thanks to the USB expansion port, it can even be connected to another USB device such as another external hard drive for backups.
$269.99
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Roxio Launches Toast 10 Titanium at Macworld Expo
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Macworld Expo, Moscone Center, San Francisco, California - Roxio, a division of Sonic Solutions, the leader in digital media software, today announced the immediate availability of Toast 10 Titanium, the latest version of the company's market-leading burning and digital media software for the Mac. The latest version helps greatly enhance and extend Mac OS X and iLife applications with a broad range of additional capabilities for creating, sharing, and enjoying personal digital media content.
Toast 10 delivers groundbreaking digital media functionality to Mac users with a range of pioneering features that includes: Mac2TiVo for sending home movies and other video content from a Mac to a TiVo DVR; an audiobook creator for converting audiobook CDs into files compatible with portable devices; AVCHD Archive for quickly backing up original content from high-definition camcorders onto DVD or Blu-ray Disc (BD), and a Web video file capture and conversion tool that allows Web-based video to be enjoyed on DVD or mobile devices. Toast 10 Titanium is available today at http://www.roxio.com and at Macworld Expo booth #2238.
"Toast is far more than better burning on Mac OS; it's about enabling users to manage, create, enjoy and simply do more with their personal library of digital photos, music, and video," said Vito Salvaggio, vice president of consumer products, Sonic Solutions. "This latest version will have special appeal to consumers that want to easily move digital media between their Mac and digital devices such as the iPhone and TiVo, or enjoy Web-based video content offline." New in Toast 10 Titanium:
AVCHD Archive – Backup original video from AVCHD camcorders direct to DVD or BD media in one easy step. Use the discs in BD players or as source materials in future iMovie or Toast projects. Mac2TiVo – Send standard definition and HD video from your Mac to your TiVo DVR for viewing on your TV. Web Video To Go – Save Web video from your favorite video sharing sites to view offline, burn or convert it for viewing on portable players such as an iPod or iPhone. On-the-go Entertainment – Stream and watch television programs, such as EyeTV recordings and TiVoToGo transfers on your iPhone or iPod touch over Wi-Fi with the new iPhone native application Streamer. Portable Audiobooks – Convert audiobook CDs into single audiobook files for playback on your iPod or other portable player– complete with individual chapters – no more individual audiobook chapter files scattered throughout your iTunes library or iPod. Music Builder – Expand your audio library by capturing streaming audio.. Toast now automatically splits captured songs into tracks, tags them with title and artist information, and then sends them to iTunes. Folder Sync – Synchronize folders bi-directionally between multiple computers, network volumes or external hard disks. Stunning DVDs – Create personalized DVDs with any of the over 20 new DVD and Blu-ray Disc menu styles—available in both full screen and high-definition widescreen versions. Introducing Toast 10 Titanium Pro
Today Roxio also released Toast 10 Titanium Pro aimed at prosumers, creative professionals and designers, as well as photo and video hobbyists. In addition to offering everything available in Toast 10 Titanium, Toast 10 Pro includes the High-Definition/Blu-ray Disc plug-in as well as these award-winning, third-party applications for developing advanced photo, video, and audio projects: HD/BD Plug-In – Author HD video content on to standard DVDs and Blu-ray Discs. Take high-def (HD) video footage from AVCHD camcorders, TiVo and EyeTV and create Blu-ray Discs or even standard DVDs with HD content that can be played on any standard Blu-ray set top box or PlayStation 3 game console. SmartSound Sonicfire Pro – Orchestrate the perfect sound track to accompany videos and slideshows. Use Sonicfire Pro's unique automatic "Mood Mapping" feature or select from a library of included music tracks and adjust the mix and feel of the score to perfectly match your videos and slideshows. BIAS SoundSoap – Remove unwanted noise like wind, hisses, scratches, and pops from LPs, cassettes, or almost any audio, music or video soundtrack. LightZone – Produce striking photos in a simple and intuitive way. Sophisticated features such as zone mapping and relight give you the control to achieve professional quality results. FotoMagico – Turn pictures into spellbinding slideshows with a few simple clicks, and then present them in high definition. Innovative text, transition and alignment tools ensure astonishing results. Burn your slideshow to DVD or Blu-ray Disc for easy viewing and sharing. Pricing and Availability
Toast 10 Titanium is available direct from Roxio at http://www.roxio.com for $99.99. Special pricing is available at Macworld tradeshow, running January 6-9. An accompanying High Definition/Blu-ray Disc (HD/BD) plug-in, which is needed to author Blu-ray Disc video, is sold separately for $19.99 and is available free for those who purchase Toast 10 Titanium online at roxio.com through February 5, 2009. Toast 10 Titanium Pro also goes on sale today for $149.99.
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New FileMaker Pro 10 Ships With Sleek New Interface and Breakthrough Reporting / Automating Features
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FileMaker, Inc. has announced it is shipping the new FileMaker Pro 10, a breakthrough version of the award-winning database software, which features a sleek new interface and intuitive new design.
With a fresh new interface, FileMaker Pro 10 delivers the most dramatic design changes in over a decade. The redesigned and customizable Status Toolbar -- similar to browser toolbars -- puts commonly used FileMaker Pro features, previously only accessible from the main menu, right at users' fingertips for streamlined navigation, better workflow and time-saving shortcuts.
Other major new features, such as the ability to save the results of a search, and Script Triggers, which launch scripts triggered by user actions or based on time limits, make using databases easier than ever before.
Also shipping today is the entire FileMaker Pro 10 product line, which includes FileMaker Pro 10 Advanced, FileMaker Server 10 and FileMaker Server 10 Advanced.
A database for everyone
"The new FileMaker Pro 10 interface is the result of years of in-depth research into how people actually interact with databases," said FileMaker president Dominique Goupil. "The result is a major new version of FileMaker Pro that brings the power of databases to everyone whether they create their own databases, or use one from someone else. Also, the new customization and scripting features in version 10 will save both end users and developers time and money."
Saved Finds and Script Triggers: new time-saving features
FileMaker Pro 10 now saves searches automatically and allows you to name and save a set of specific searches. For example, if you want to create a find request for customers in California who have spent more than $1,000 in the past year, but have not ordered in the last three months, FileMaker Pro will save the search so you can access it over and over again in the future. The new Saved Finds feature makes searching a "no-brainer."
FileMaker Pro 10 also introduces Script Triggers, allowing both users and developers major new options for automating tasks and boosting productivity. Now you can specify that a FileMaker Script (similar to a spreadsheet macro) will run based on timing or whenever users take a specified action in Browse Mode or Find Mode, such as clicking in a field or exiting a viewing mode. FileMaker Pro comes with 12 ready-to-use Script Triggers (five object-based and seven layout-based).
Create live Dynamic Reports based on your actual data
One of the most popular uses of databases is to create reports. With FileMaker Pro 10, you can now create beautiful reports -- simple or sophisticated -- that are based on your data. And, unique only to FileMaker Pro 10, you can actually make changes directly to the underlying data from within your report "on-the-fly" as you work. Any changes you may make to the data within your report will also show up immediately in the database, without ever having to switch views!
Other new FileMaker Pro 10 features include:
-- Enhanced Quick Start Screen -- Get going quickly with the new "See it, Use it, Learn it" interface to start learning how to use FileMaker Pro. Plus easily create databases from existing data sources like .CSV, Tab, and also now from Excel 2007 (.xlsx) or Bento 2.
-- Enhanced SQL support -- Now you can display, access and use data from even more SQL sources, including SQL tables in Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Oracle 11g and MySQL 5.1 community edition.
-- Send Mail via SMTP -- Save time by sending email directly from FileMaker Pro instead of having to open your email client.
Click here for more information on these and other additional features.
New FileMaker Server 10 Products
FileMaker Server 10 has several new features, including: simplified server management that allows administrators to import and export records using server-based scripts -- no more robots are required; an enhanced PHP Site Assistant with 10 PHP Site Assistant themes plus one for the iPhone -- to create visually stunning websites in minutes; the ability to send mail via SMTP directly from FileMaker Server 10 without the need for an e-mail client; and a new Database Log Viewer that provides a snapshot of your database logs to quickly pinpoint trouble spots. FileMaker Server 10 Advanced now allows up to 999 users to simultaneously connect to FileMaker Pro databases -- about four times the number of live connections in FileMaker Server 10 and in previous versions of FileMaker Server Advanced.
FileMaker Third Party Developers and End Users Are 'Jazzed' About FileMaker Pro 10
"I am so jazzed about the new features and user interface of FileMaker 10!" remarks Rich Willis, director of technology, Strong Parachutes, Division of SE, Inc., Orlando, Florida. "The ability to add buttons on the Status Toolbar is going to make life here so much easier."
"Script Triggers gives me file-making wings and raises development productivity," said Martti Tumanto, third party FileMaker developer, Martinova Oy, Espoo, Finland. "But customers will be even more delighted -- my solutions will now become friendlier than ever."
"FileMaker Pro 10 definitely takes the 'scary' out of database management!" comments Brian Seidman, managing editor, New South Books, Montgomery, Alabama. "I was impressed with how much bigger and brighter everything is in FileMaker Pro 10. FileMaker has always been a database program that allowed non-programmers to create their own databases with ease, and the new icons in the Status Toolbars have a very comforting feel. It's a big step forward in terms of accessibility and out-of-the-box deployment."
"Mail via SMTP through FileMaker directly is a god send," notes Sascha Kunze, senior manager, Japan Management, Ltd., East Sussex, United Kingdom. "Together with the Script Triggers e-mail can now be sent location independent from specified accounts and this makes a huge difference to mobility of our consultants and our ability keep track of communication with our clients and candidates."
All FileMaker 10 products are immediately available. New users may order FileMaker Pro 10 for $299 /$179 upgrade (U.S. suggested list price) and FileMaker Pro 10 Advanced for $499/$299 upgrade (U.S. suggested list price). FileMaker Server 10 is $999/$599 upgrade (U.S. suggested list price) and FileMaker Server 10 Advanced is $2,999/$1,799 upgrade (U.S. suggested list price). Additional pricing and upgrade information is available at:
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FileMaker Pro 10 and Bento at MacWorld Expo
Attendees at MacWorld Expo will see FileMaker Pro 10 and Bento 2, the personal database for Mac, at the FileMaker booth (#1225). The FileMaker Pavilion, booth #1125, will feature solutions and tools from independent FileMaker developers including .com Solutions ( http://www.fmpromigrator.com ) Beezwax Datatools ( http://www.beezwax.net ); Cornerstone Solutions ( http://www.thinkcornerstone.com ); ECL Software ( eclsoftware.com ); NRG Software (nrgsoft.com); and Virtual Training Company ( vtc.com ). •Software Updates •Software News •Business •Comments •Tell-a-Friend
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Accordance Bible Software Releases ESV Study Bible
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OakTree Software, Inc. announces the release of the ESV Study Bible for use with Accordance Bible Software.
Released in print in October of 2008, the ESV Study Bible has already enjoyed record sales. Accordance is among the first Bible software programs to offer an electronic edition of this wildly popular resource.
The ESV Study Bible offers rich content in a beautiful format, including full-color maps and images, attractive timelines and tables, and detailed study notes which follow the literary outline of each book. In addition, there are numerous articles discussing the literary divisions within the Old and New Testaments, introducing each Biblical book, giving historical background information, and covering such topics as doctrine, ethics, interpretive methods, the biblical canon, archaeology, the original languages of the Bible, and more.
The Accordance module preserves the rich formatting of the print edition, while offering instant searchability and seamless integration with the wide array of other Accordance modules.
The ESV Study Bible Notes can be purchased in conjunction with the English Standard Version of the Bible for just $70. Users who already own the ESV translation can add the ESV Study Bible Notes for just $40.
Accordance is the leading Bible study program for Macintosh computers, offering features for everything from high-end academic analysis to personal Bible study.
More information can be found at
http://www.accordancebible.com/
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Microspot Releases Builder Pro - Home Design Made Easy
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Microspot Ltd. developers of 2D and 3D graphics and photo applications, announces the release of Alan J Maki's Builder Pro sample plans and symbol libraries as an add-on to MacDraft Professional, the powerful 2D CAD drafting and architectural drawing software package.
Alan J. Maki owner of Beyond Basics Drafting & Design has been using MacDraft since 1985 and in that time has designed his Builder Pro libraries that allow him to be more efficient in the design process. Thanks to his libraries and MacDraft he can produce an average of 160 new home and remodeling plans a year working a 10-15 hour week. Alan says "With MacDraft and my libraries I concentrate on what is really needed and so I produce drawings in a fraction of the time it takes other home designers."
Microspot have been aware of Alan's libraries for some time and knew of his success in the drafting business. They have managed to talk Alan into making them available to all MacDraft Professional users to help them with their home designs. With Builder Pro you receive the complete system that Alan has been using for 15 years to produce his plans. From additions libraries that can be completed in minutes to 100's of his common library items for plan, elevation, sectional views and more.
There are two finished sample plans and a sample plan book containing over 150 sample plans to give you and your customers ideas. These sample plans are also available on the CD in PDF format and you can use them to make your own custom plan book and add your own plans. There are plenty of other sample plans and sample documents and it is all explained in an easy to follow printed manual.
After you register your Builder pro you will be given access to the members web pages where you will receive updates and technical support by email, forum or telephone free for the first year. You can also purchase complete plans from the sample plan book at discounted rates to customize in MacDraft or supply to your customers unmodified. This membership can be renewed in subsequent years.
Robert Coulling Managing director of Microspot said, "We are excited to be able to offer the benefit of Alan's years of experience with MacDraft to our users to help them to design home plans in the fastest possible time. Builder Pro is the perfect add on to MacDraft for home designers, contractors and builders that wish to submit plans to customers or for permitting. We intend to continue working with Alan to further improve and refine the system in the future."
The Builder Pro System including MacDraft can be purchased from the Microspot web site. Owners of MacDraft can purchase just Builder Pro but they will need version 5.6.6 to run it. Pricing For the Builder Pro System including the first year support is $944.00 (USD). Existing users of MacDraft can purchase Builder pro alone for just $595.00 including the first year support. Support is renewable for $99.00 and includes free up dates of Builder pro libraries (All prices exclusive of tax). For further information on this or any other Microspot product please visit our website.
Microspot Ltd.:
http://www.microspot.com/
Builder Pro Home Planning System:
http://www.microspot.com/products/builderPro/index.htm
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