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09-06-10 -
TidBITS Watchlist: Notable Software Updates for 06 September 2010
Radioshift 1.6 -- Rogue Amoeba has updated their Internet radio recording tool Radioshift to version 1.6, adding support for playing AAC and AAC+ streams, which makes hundreds more audio streams available to the software. Additionally, the new rel...
09-06-10 -
ExtraBITS for 06 September 2010
We were watching Google this week, as the company released Priority Inbox for Gmail and open-sourced Google Wave. We were also amused to see Autodesk bring AutoCAD back to the Mac and Borders drop prices on all its ebook reading devices to compete...
09-03-10 -
Radioshift 1.6
Rogue Amoeba has updated their Internet radio recording tool Radioshift to version 1.6, adding support for playing AAC and AAC+ streams, which makes hundreds more audio streams available to the software. Additionally, the new release fixes bugs af...
09-03-10 -
Audio Hijack Pro 2.9.7
Rogue Amoeba has updated Audio Hijack Pro, its tool to capture audio from any audio source on your Mac, to version 2.9.7. The minor update includes a slew of fixes: the Instant Hijack and LAME MP3 components - both of which provide behind-the-scen...
09-03-10 -
Fission 1.6.9
Rogue Amoeba has updated its audio editing software Fission to version 1.6.9. The minor update reduces CPU usage during playback, adds proper support for 24-bit mono files, and updates the LAME MP3 engine (which is used when pasting files into an ...
09-03-10 -
DealBITS Drawing: Win a Copy of Raskin 1.1
Apart from the iOS, it has been a long time since anyone tried to rethink the traditional desktop metaphor. But if you're interested in alternative ways of accessing your documents on the Mac, it's worth checking out Raskin. Inspired by the late J...
09-03-10 -
What's Wrong with Digital Cameras
I feel snappish today, as you can see: I'm feeling snappish because my wife Daphne's point-and-shoot died after only three years of infrequent use, and because I cannot find a sensible replacement. Each "simple" point-and-shoot that I...
09-03-10 -
External Link: The Fall and (Open Source) Rise of Google Wave
A month after shuttering Google Wave, the company has announced that it will be fleshing out the Google Wave code to turn the current example Web server and client into a complete application called Wave in a Box. Although Wave in a Box won't have...
09-02-10 -
External Link: Autodesk Puts Its CADs on the Table
It has been nearly 20 years since Autodesk last made its AutoCAD design and engineering software available for the Mac. But now, The New York Times reports, CAD-craving Mac users with $4,000 to spend will once again be able to buy AutoCAD for the ...
09-02-10 -
Things 1.4.1
Cultured Code has upgraded its task management software Things to version 1.4.1, hot on the heels of the 1.4 release. Things 1.4 dramatically improved synchronization speed (between the desktop software and the iOS apps), and also let users select...
09-02-10 -
External Link: Apple Mail's Parental Controls Flawed
Apple Mail offers controls for parents to monitor their kids' email usage, including the capability to add specific senders to a whitelist. However, Jonathan Kamens has discovered a fairly simple means by which a nefarious individual can trick Mai...
09-02-10 -
External Link: The Future of Books Discussed on MacNotables
It's a topic that many of us are struggling with these days - where and how should we acquire the books that entertain, educate, and enliven our worlds? In this MacNotables podcast, Andy Ihnatko and Adam range widely across the pros and cons of th...
09-02-10 -
External Link: Adam Pulls Back the TidBITS Curtain on MacNotables
In this MacNotables podcast, what started as a discussion between Adam and host Chuck Joiner about the Matias Tactile Pro 3 keyboard morphed into a look at some of the trials and tribulations we go through to keep publishing TidBITS with a small s...
09-01-10 -
External Link: Borders Drops Ebook Reader Prices
Not to be left out of the price war between Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble, Borders has dropped the prices of a number of ebook reading devices that work with the Borders online store. Their E-Ink-based Kobo eReader is now only $129, the Sony P...
09-01-10 -
BLT 1.0.4
The link testing utility BLT has been acquired by Before Dawn Software and given a small update (for more about BLT, see "Verifying Web Links in PDF Files," 14 March 2008). The just-released BLT 1.0.4 fixes a bug dealing with sites that ...
09-01-10 -
Apple Previews iOS 4.1 and 4.2
In what has become a familiar September media event (though one that Apple provided via live streaming for the first time, reducing the need to read the numerous liveblogs), Apple CEO Steve Jobs gave a preview of iOS 4.1, due this week for the iOS...
09-01-10 -
Second-Generation Apple TV Shrinks and Streams
After talking about new iPods, iOS updates, and iTunes 10 at Apple's media event last week, Steve Jobs got a laugh from the audience by swapping his traditional "One more thing..." slide for one reading "One more hobby...," a r...
09-01-10 -
iTunes 10 Goes "Ping!"
Almost 10 years after releasing iTunes in January 2001, Apple last week announced and released iTunes 10. The new version offers a slightly refined interface that stacks the Close, Minimize, and Zoom buttons and desaturates the sidebar of all colo...
09-01-10 -
Apple Releases Smaller and Thinner iPods
iPod sales have been falling, despite the inclusion of the massively popular iOS-based iPod touch in that category (see "Apple Reports $3.25 Billion Profit for Q3 2010," 20 July 2010). Some people, like Charles Arthur, writing in The Gua...
09-01-10 -
Lightroom 3.2
Adobe has updated its photo processing tool Lightroom to version 3.2. You can now publish photos to Facebook and SmugMug directly from Lightroom. Also included in the update are numerous bug fixes, tethered capture support for the Leica S2, suppor...
09-01-10 -
SpamSieve 2.8.3
C-Command Software's powerful Bayesian email filtering tool SpamSieve has been bumped to version 2.8.3. The update adjusts SpamSieve's tokenizer to make the spam filter even more accurate. In addition, SpamSieve now supports pre-release versions o...
09-01-10 -
Dreamweaver CS5 11.0.3
Adobe has updated its Web site-building software Dreamweaver CS5 to version 11.0.3. According to Adobe, the update addresses issues with workflows established in the Dreamweaver CS5 HTML 5 Pack Update, including Multiscreen Preview, Media Queries,...
08-31-10 -
External Link: Google introduces Priority Inbox for Gmail
One of Gmail's most ballyhooed features is its excellent spam filter. But having reduced spam annoyance to a dull roar, Google has moved on to another troubling inbox management issue: even "legitimate" e-mail contains plenty of both whe...
08-30-10 -
External Link: iTunes U Downloads Exceed 300 Million
Apple has announced that iTunes U content downloads have rolled past the 300 million mark. iTunes U doesn't get much press, but the division of the iTunes Store brings together audio and video educational content from hundreds of universities; it ...
08-30-10 -
TidBITS Watchlist: Notable Software Updates for 30 August 2010
MacBook Pro EFI Firmware Update 1.9 -- Apple has released EFI Firmware Update 1.9 for mid-2010 15-inch and 17-inch MacBook Pros. The update addresses a rare issue where the Mac could freeze during startup or stall during use. The update also impro...
08-30-10 -
ExtraBITS for 30 August 2010
As school starts for college students, we note that iTunes U downloads have passed the 300 million mark and that Seton Hall University is relying on Art Authority for iPad for several art history classes. Also, Garmin is recalling 1.25 million nÃ¼...
08-27-10 -
iWork 9.0.4 Gives Pages EPUB Support
Apple has released iWork 9.0.4, fixing a few bugs and extending Pages to be able to export the EPUB format used by the iBookstore. Bugs fixed in Keynote include problems printing handouts with rule lines, the slide switcher, and automatically resi...
08-27-10 -
Speed Up Your iOS 4-Based iPhone 3G
Apple's iOS 4, released only a few months ago roughly in concert with the iPhone 4, works not only on the iPhone 4, and the previous generation iPhone 3GS, but also on the iPhone 3G; the original iPhone can't run it. But to judge from vociferous c...
08-26-10 -
MacBook Pro EFI Firmware Update 1.9
Apple has released EFI Firmware Update 1.9 for mid-2010 15-inch and 17-inch MacBook Pros. The update addresses a rare issue where the Mac could freeze during startup or stall during use. The update also improves compatibility with external display...
08-26-10 -
External Link: Will Royalty-Free H.264 Revolutionize Web Video?
Over at Macworld, Lex Friedman spends more than 1,000 words talking about video codecs. But it's not all nerd-speak. MPEG LA has announced that it will never charge royalties for free H.264 videos. That's important because HTML5 video, which lets ...

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