Category archives for: Mac Software

Flame Painter Goes To Version 2.0 – Expands Brush, Layer Options

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Escape Motions has released Flame Painter 2.0, an update of the developer’s illustration software. The v2.0 upgrade brings in a host of new features, such as smoother antialiasing, unlimited layers and editable vector layers in the Professional edition. Brush options include new Flame, Follow, and Ribbon brushes; presets; Normal, Lighten, and Darken modes; gradient transitions; [...]

Yahoo Launches New Flickr – 1TB of Free Storage, New Android App

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Speaking at tonight’s Yahoo press event in New York City, Marissa Mayer and Yahoo’s  Mobile Engineering Senior Vice President and Flickr product manager Adam Cahan  revealed the new Flickr and accompanying new Android app, offering users 1TB  of photo storage in a “metro like” user interface. A casualty of the new system is Flickr Pro, [...]

Symantec Debuts Norton Zone Secure Cloud Storage

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Symantec announced the availability of Norton Zone, a secure file sharing service that allows users  to easily and safely access, sync and share photos, videos and documents. The  new cloud file-sharing service leverages Norton’s security expertise to keep  data safe. Norton Zone provides 5 free GB of storage and users in the US can  now  [...]

Apple Updates Xerox Printer Drivers for Snow Leopard, Lion, Mountain Lion

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Apple released updated printer drivers for its supported Xerox printers for users of OS X Snow Leopard (10.6), Lion (10.7) and Mountain Lion (10.8). Unusually for such a release, there is not yet a list of the specific changed or added models supported by the built-in software. All three versions of OS X support a [...]

Sorenson Squeeze 9 Sports New UI, HTML5 Optimization

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Sorenson has released Squeeze 9, a major upgrade of its video transcoding software. The focus of the new version is on HTML5 support; using the appropriate preset will automatically generate MP4 and WebM videos along with an HTML5 page, the latter of which can be used on its own or as a source of code [...]

Support for Office for Mac 2008 End Tuesday

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Microsoft will end support for Office 2008 for Mac on April 9, according to an official blog post. After that deadline, the company will no longer release any new updates for the software. People will, however, be able to download existing updates until April 19. It’s unknown if Microsoft will post one final patch before [...]

Chrome Beta Released – Promises Five Percent Speed Increase

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Google has released a new beta of its Chrome browser for the desktop and mobile. New in this release is a revamped user interface for HTML 5  date and time input forms, DevTools updates, the ability for Chrome Packaged Apps to use the Sync FileSystem API for offline storage, support for live audio input with [...]

Google Forks WebKit to Give Chrome Increased Performance

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Google has announced that they are forking the open-source WebKit browser rendering engine that Chrome and Safari currently use and that Opera recently said it would start using. Google says that using WebKit is slowing down innovation, because “Chromium uses a different multi-process architecture than other WebKit-based browsers, and supporting multiple architectures over the years [...]

Extensis Updates Portfolio Server to Version 11 – Adds EC2 Support

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The Extensis digital asset management (DAM) tool Portfolio Server has been upgraded to version 11. Boasting powerful new features such as a web client able to be customized with company branding, and Amazon Electric Compute Cloud (EC2) support, Portfolio Server 11 lets users adapt the solution to specific needs. Additionally, the DAM server includes robust [...]

Amazon’s Cloud Drive Now Has File Synchronization – Insures Same File Version Across Mac OS X, Windows, Android

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A Monday update to Amazon’s Cloud Drive application has delivered a crucial feature — cloud drive users can now synchronize content between Windows, Mac OS X or Android devices. Changes to files stored on the cloud drive are automatically propagated to other connected devices. The update removes the biggest flaw most reviewers saw for the [...]

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