The Apple Blogs

Sono sempre stato piuttosto scettico riguardo agli ebook. Ho sempre ritenuto che leggere un libro su uno schermo fosse un’esperienza frustrante, decisamente inferiore al piacere di sfogliare delle pagine cartacee, decisamente più faticoso e stressante per la vista.

Steve Jobs consiguió contratar a Mark Papermaster (un veterano de IBM por 25 años) y estará como vice-presidente de la división Devices Hardware Engineering, específicamente en Apple’s iPod and iPhone hardware engineering. Supuestamente este individuo es un “wiz kid” desarrollando cosas nuevas y radicales al estilo de Steve Jobs. Es tan así, que cuando renuncio a IBM para trabajar en una división no especificada de Apple, esta lo demando por tener demasiado conocimiento de cosas en IBM y sus “trade secrets”. Steve Jobs no se esta durmiendo en los laureles y definitivamente la adición de este individuo a su staff comprueba eso. Así que esperen más mejoras significativas en el iPhone/iPod.

Wynnewood, PA - Brainjuice announced today that Blogo 1.1, the latest version of its weblog editor for Mac OS X, is now available to the public for download. Blogo makes posting easy even for users with no knowledge of HTML, and now includes support for the WordPress, Blogger, Drupal, TypePad, MovableType, and typo weblog systems. In addition to Drupal, the application has also added Twitter to its growing list of supported services.

Version 1.1 adds new features in addition to fixes for many outstanding issues. Highlights include:

New formatting options:
Text can now be formatted as quotes and lists, and can be aligned or justified.

iPass today announced service availability for Windows Mobile 6 devices. Users of the iPass Mobile Office service for enterprises and iPassConnect™ mobility service for individuals can now connect to the Internet via Wi-Fi using their Windows Mobile 6 smartphone and handheld devices. iPass plans to support the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch later this year and intends to support Wi-Fi-enabled Blackberry devices as well.

Innsbruck, Austria - Many Tricks has released Leech 1.1, a free update to its download manager for Mac OS X. With Leech, users can organize all of their downloads within one streamlined application. This update adds seamless browser integration; a rule system to define individual download folders as well as applications to open complete downloads based on a given download’s file type and host; a searchable downloads history; and various minor improvements and bugfixes.

Dallas, TX - Perceptive Automation, the leading provider of Mac-based home automation software, today announced the immediate availability of Indigo version 3.0, a major update to the company’s intelligent home control and automation server for Mac OS X. With Indigo, users can easily control lights, appliances, thermostats, lawn sprinklers, hot tubs and dozens of other items found in the home, literally from anywhere in the world using Indigo’s built-in Web server.

Enschede, Netherlands - May 7, 2008 - Pieter Omvlee is proud to announce DrawIt 3.5, the latest version of his easy-to-use, layer-based, vector-drawing and image editing application for Mac OS X. Designed from the ground up to be intuitive and powerful to use, DrawIt is unique in that it presents the user with a simple and clean interface, yet packs an impressive assortment of useful, professional grade features.

Richmond, VA - Like Thought is proud to announce Opacity 1.1, a major update to their innovative editor for screen graphics. This update adds SVG support, for creating vector graphics for the web, a screencast showing how to use Opacity, a new Image Fill option, and much more. Opacity requires Mac OS X 10.5.2 Leopard.

Opacity has traditional graphical features like vectors, layers and filters along with exclusive features including variables, templates, factories and much more. By leveraging the power of Core Animation and Quartz, Opacity combines all of the tools artists need to create beautiful images for the icons, applications and the web.

Denver, Colorado - Third Street Software today announced the release of Sente 5.5 with enhanced PDF management. In this new version, users can create references directly from the PDF files they already have, as well as new PDFs that they receive from colleagues. Sente uses Google Scholar, the Library of Congress and PubMed to create complete references when importing a new PDF.

These new features complement the improved PDF acquisition tools introduced in Sente 5.4, which enable Sente to automatically download, rename and file any PDF the user clicks on in the new Links view.

Sente 5.5 also includes a new Quick Add feature that lets users create complete citations from only an ISBN, DOI or PubMed ID.

Lancaster, Pennsylvania - Volitans software today announces SMART Utility 1.2, a significant update to the hard drive diagnostic scanning application. The new features include more readable attribute names, displaying the model family, sending additional information to the smartctl engine, and French localization. Other smaller features and minor bug fixes are included as well.

Richmond, VA - FMWebschool will be presenting a Free webinar on creating online registration systems with FileMaker Pro. Online registration systems are extremely popular. In this teaching webinar, attendees will get the opportunity to learn how to create their own online system. All attendees receive the finished website and database files.

Are you a FileMaker developer? Would you like to learn more about FileMaker web publishing? This free webinar will demonstrate the power of FileMaker driven websites. Here’s how.

One of the most frequently requested solutions we are asked to create are online registration systems. One type of registration system that is extremely popular and requested year round is youth sports and camps.

Here is the first part of our monster tutorial for the iphone, update, learn and hack your iphone while wait for the 3G version…. Enjoy and keep coming for the rest of the serie, this is intended for all kind of iphone users, hacks, productivity applications and games tutorials….

Cupertino, California - Tumult Co. today announced the release of version 1.6 of its lightweight HTML and PHP editor for Mac OS X, HyperEdit. Tumult HyperEdit uses a split view with text editor and a preview pane to display the web page live as a user types.

HyperEdit breaks the tedious cycle of writing HTML/PHP, saving the file, then reloading and viewing the page in the browser by combining the writing phase with the viewing phase. This clarifies the effects of changes and speeds up the overall process of making a web page. W3C-based validation will red-underline any mistakes. It uses the same rendering engine found in Safari, so it is not only standards compliant, but also very fast.

Los Angeles, CA - The next meeting of the Los Angeles Final Cut Pro User Group (lafcpug) will be Wednesday, April 30, 2008 beginning at 6:45 PM at the Gallery Theater in East Hollywood, California.

Scheduled to present will be Apple’s Luke Tristram who will give us the Los Angeles debut of the the recently released Final Cut Server. Also, Adobe will show how to create and burn a Blu-ray DVD using Encore. Philip Hodgetts will debut what may be the scariest “editing” tool you will ever see, The Assistant Editor. Plus, Stump The Gurus, Show and Tells and of course, World Famous Raffle.