ROCHESTER, New York — January 6, 2009 — Ambrosia Software announced today
the immediate release of iToner 2, a free update to its best- selling
custom iPhone ringtone utility. The new version retains iToner’s drag,
drop, and sync simplicity, but adds ClearTone technology that optimizes
ringtones for the iPhone’s speaker, the ability to crop ringtones at will,
and a selection [...]
In Steve Jobs's stead, Phil Schiller introduces iLife '09, iWork '09 and a unibody version of the 17-inch MacBook Pro.
companion for Pulse smartpen
$99.95 dock with FireWire 400/800, USB 2 and eSATA for SATA drives
Chronosync updated; ChronoAgent added
Intel-only beta of future Retrospect
Microsoft's Mac Business Unit announces a Document Collaboration Companion beta and Entourage for Exchange Web Services.
REAL's major update of the cross-platform, multi-user database server is due next month.
Widget Press released ModelBaker, a rapid application development tool that "features point and click development for web, iPhone, iPod touch and Google Android applications."
Global Delight introduced Voila, an image capture, annotation, and sharing program.
MediaSilo, a web-based video content management and collaboration service, introduced a Final Cut Server MediaSilo bridge to provide integration with Apple's media asset management and workflow automation software.
Intego updates VirusBarrier, ContentBarrier, VirusBarrier Server and VirusBarrier Mail Gateway.
Bartas Technologies' program for audio transcribers adds library-based operation with folders for organization, support for QuickTime video, support for web-based audio or video without downloading, improved performance, and more.
Humble Daisy's all-in-one presentation-to-podcast tool adds support for PowerPoint 2008, automatic detection of presentation software, and numerous bug fixes and tweaks.
The hard disk and removable media cataloging program adds support for movie files, faster cataloging, GeoFinder to search for photos near a place, KMZ export, XMP Support for integration with Adobe products, and other improvements.
This beta runs on Leopard on Intel Macs.
Available in regular and "Pro" versions, with optional Blu-ray authoring module, the new release brings a variety of new features.
"redesigned and customizable Status Toolbar" plus
"the ability to save the results of a search, and Script Triggers, which launch scripts triggered by user actions or based on time limits"
"As many of you know, I have been losing weight throughout 2008. The reason has been a mystery to me and my doctors. A few weeks ago, I decided that getting to the root cause of this and reversing it needed to become my #1 priority."
Written by Sal Soghoian and Bill Cheeseman, the book "is designed to give those new to AppleScript an understandable way to make their computer lives easier through automation, and requires no prior knowledge of AppleScript or programming."