Thursby Releases Intel Versions

I’ve been a long-time user of Thursby Software’s “Dave”. With the advances of OS X you may be asking, “Who cares?” I can tell you that if you’re in an environment where Microsoft Servers (especially Server 2003) are in use, your life and your relationship with IT will be vastly improved. It’s definitely worth a demo. -TG

DAVE is the first and only cross-platform networking solution of its kind. DAVE uses the fast, industry standard TCP/IP protocol. It is installed on the Macintosh, requiring no additional hardware or software on the PC. DAVE is a one product fits all solution for sharing between the different Microsoft platforms and Macintosh systems.

Making the IPod More Sensitive

Wired News: Making the IPod More Sensitive:
Apple Computer and Nike’s new iPod-sneaker combination for monitoring exercise could be just the first of several activity-aware applications for the iPod — and maybe even a new gesture interface that uses movement to select songs or adjust the volume.

In case you missed it, Apple and Nike have teamed up to develop a wireless Sport Kit sensor that tucks into new Nike sneakers that will be on the market shortly.

Sol Robots Releases Road Trip Effect Pro

I’ve used the standard version to create animated route movies for video editing. It’s simple, elegant and produces great results. -TG

May 30, 2006 – 08:00 EDT Sol Robots today announced today the release of Road Trip Effect Pro for generating transitions for movie clips in travel videos. The software makes it possible to add multiple road trip segments (layers) to the same movie. Each layer has its own icon, color, width, timing, points, labels etc., and Layers can be played in parallel, sequentially, or both. Both Road Trip Effect and Road Trip Effect Pro now support saving a Road Trip Effect Project, so users can always go back to the original and edit it. Road Trip Effect Pro is priced at US$24.95, while existing users of Road Trip Effect are eligible for a $5.00 mail-in rebate through the month of June 2006. Road Trip Effect standard edition sells for $9.95, and free demos of both versions are available.

Tech note: Using iWeb on more than one Mac

Apple has published a very helpful note on using iWeb 1.1 on more than one Macintosh. This is a much requested feature and will be helpful to many iWeb users. -TG

Tech note: Using iWeb on more than one Mac

There are many other helpful articles on the .Mac blog. Happy reading!

Metric Halo ChannelStrip for GarageBand

Here is an interesting twist – the $350 AU Channel Strip plugin by Metric Halo, is now available for $89, as an optimized Garageband plugin. This variation of the plugin will only operate at full capacity when running within Garageband. Channel Strip includes Delay, Expander/Gate, Compressor and EQ processing. This is a professional quality tool that has the potential to dramatically improve the ‘basic’ proprietary plugin support offered by Apple. There is a full demo available for download on the site.
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iWeb Update Success

I am very happy to report that, at least for this user, whatever Apple broke in the previous update has now been fixed. How silly to think the problem was mine. -TG

Another iWeb Update

Apparently I wasn’t the only one experiencing difficulties with the previous iWeb update. Publishing to .Mac after the previous update never did work correctly…even after re-creating most of the site! Update is available via “Software Update” and is 95.2 MB.

Apple Loses Battle to Bloggers

Apple Loses Bid to Unmask Bloggers’ Sources

A California appeals court has smacked down Apple’s legal assault on bloggers and their sources, finding that the company’s efforts to subpoena e-mail received by the publishers of Apple Insider and PowerPage.org runs contrary to federal law, California’s reporter’s shield law, and the state Constitution.

The Sixth District Court of Appeals on Friday roundly rejected (.pdf) Apple’s argument that the bloggers weren’t acting as journalists when they posted internal document about future Apple products. “We decline the implicit invitation to embroil ourselves in questions of what constitutes ‘legitimate journalis(m).’ The shield law is intended to protect the gathering and dissemination of news, and that is what petitioners did here,” the court wrote.

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Accordance Bible Study Software Updated

May 25, 2006

OakTree Software has updated its Accordance Bible study software for Mac OS X to version 7.0.

New features include the ability to search for Greek and Hebrew roots, new ways to graph the results of a search, automatic highlighting of text differences, a slide show view for presenting information to… [ read more ]

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New MacBook Benchmarks Well

13-Inch MacBook Benchmarks – by David Nagel.

Apple Final Cut Studio rendering and encoding tests By Dave Nagel As the replacement for Apple’s consumer-level iBook line, the new 13-inch MacBook isn’t being marketed toward creative professionals. Nevertheless, packed with one of the most powerful mobile processors on the market–a 2.0 GHz Intel Core Duo–this little notebook offers amazing rendering and encoding performance. But is it good enough to compete with the MacBook Pros and with desktop G5 systems? Surprisingly, yes, it is.

13-Inch MacBook Benchmarks 1

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