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Corel PHOTO-PAINT and CorelDRAW for Mac OS X Included With HP Scanners
Corel PHOTO-PAINT and CorelDRAW for Mac OS X Included With HP Scanners Corel Corporation has announced that Corel PHOTO-PAINT 10 and CorelDRAW 10 for Macintosh will be bundled with the HP Scanjet 7400 series scanners. These two core applications of the Corel Graphics Suite will streamline the image-editing and layout process by enabling users to work directly in native Mac OS X mode. "Corel PHOTO-PAINT 10 and CorelDRAW 10 provide HP scanners with the essential tools for professionals who demand high-quality results," said Steve Houck, executive vice-president of strategic relations at Corel Corporation. "With intuitive features and import/export support for industry standard file formats, Corel PHOTO-PAINT 10 and CorelDRAW 10 fit seamlessly into the workflow of creative Mac users." "We chose Corel's Macintosh applications for our professional scanner line because they offer the power and OS X stability our customers need," said Hugh Amick, Mac-connect program manager, HP Imaging and Printing Group. "The high-speed, uncompromising image quality and versatility of our scanners, coupled with the professional image-editing, painting and layout tools provided by Corel PHOTO-PAINT 10 and CorelDRAW 10 for Macintosh, make for a robust solution for business professionals." These bundles will be localized in English, French and German. Corel PHOTO-PAINT 10 will be bundled on the entire HP Scanjet 7400 series scanners, while CorelDRAW 10 will be included on the HP Scanjet 7490c model. For more information on Corel PHOTO-PAINT 10 for Macintosh and CorelDRAW 10 for Macintosh, see http://www.corel.com. For more information on the HP Scanjet 7400 series scanners, see http://www.hp.com Keyspan Expands Its Family Of PC Remote Controls With A "Presentation Remote" Keyspan is now shipping its new Presentation Remote, the perfect tool for Microsoft PowerPoint. The remote has an MSRP of $79 and is available now at leading retailers including CompUSA, and from direct marketers such as MicroWarehouse and CDW. The Presentation Remote features a 900 Mhz radio frequency (RF) signal with a range of up to 40 feet, even through walls and other obstacles. It is the first remote control to provide RF reliability, mouse control and a laser pointer at a price under $100. Keyspan's new remote allows presenters to focus on their audience rather than the keyboard. It is compatible with both Windows and Macintosh versions of PowerPoint and with all brands of projectors. One of the most attractive features of this remote is that both Windows and Mac OS recognize the Presentation Remote as a keyboard. Hence, there is no software to install, and once the RF receiver is plugged into a USB port you can begin your presentation within seconds. In November of 1999, Keyspan released the Digital Media Remote (DMR), an innovative infrared remote (IR) control for PCs. The DMR was designed to control audio and video players on a PC, including MP3 players, DVDs and audio CDs. Keyspan's new remote focuses on the presentation market, offering full cursor control and a laser pointer. "Though our Digital Media Remote has been a popular accessory with presenters, we knew that we could tailor a remote more specifically for the presentation market," noted Mike Ridenhour, president of Keyspan. "For this remote we reduced the number of buttons, added mouse control and also added a laser pointer." About Keyspan Keyspan products provide "Connections for Your Computer. "The company's first products provided serial ports for connecting to traditional computer peripherals such as modems, printers and graphics tablets. Over time, Keyspan has expanded its horizons, connecting the PC and Macintosh to other items found in the home, school and office. Keyspan is rated the #1 USB Connectivity vendor in the United States as ranked by NPD Intellect (formerly PC Data) for the year 2000 and again in 2001. Editors can reach Keyspan at 510-222-0131 or via e-mail at info@keyspan.com. The Keyspan website is located at http://www.keyspan.com Deneba Canvas 8.0.4 Vector, Bitmap, Text Media Graphics Software Canvas has always been slightly ahead of its time -- the first to integrate drawing, image editing, document design, presentations and web graphics design into one program. Not to mention Canvas's breakthrough Sprite technology which made it possible to apply transparency and layer effects to any object, bitmap image or text. Canvas 8 includes over 100 new features and enhancements including new and improved Bézier curve selection and manipulation tools. New real-time Pixel View of your vector art. Enhanced context-sensitive pop-up menus, and more of them. Instant drawing tool selection with a single key press. A new Favorite Inks palette and improved color managers. One-click docking bar and window management commands. A manual web image slicer, new text tools, new effects. Use Canvas 8's new Sequence recorder/player to capture tedious, multi-step effects and other repetitive tasks, and distill them into a single command you can play back later with absolute accuracy an infinite number of times. You can even share Sequences with others no matter what their platform might be. Or use Canvas' new Scripting engine. Using AppleScript, Visual Basic, VB Script, JScript, or any other programming or scripting language, you can now automate downloads, connect with other scriptable applications, or process thousands of files for print or the Web without lifting a finger or breaking a sweat And while Canvas has always been a most accommodating graphics software, new, easy-to-use DenebaShare? makes sharing digital photos and files a piece of cake. Plus you can password protect your files for absolute confidentiality. So if you're the type of person with boundary issues, perhaps you should think twice before trying out the boundless capabilities of new Canvas 8. For the rest of you, we say more power to you, and hey, enjoy the ride.
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Granite Digital Ships Smart Drive FireWire Enclosures Granite Digital has announced it has begun shipping its new Smart Drive Series of FireWire enclosures. The Smart Drive Series includes low-profile, external storage enclosures with built-in LCD+keypad user interfaces. "The built-in user interface is like having a technician in each box," said Frank Gabrielli, President of Granite Digital. "With traditional enclosures users find it really frustrating not knowing what's really happening. With our Smart Drive enclosures users see real-time performance, they see how everything is configured, and they can easily spot and fix problems before those problems cause trouble and aggravation. And our new Smart Drive external enclosure is by far the smallest and best looking case we've ever built." The Smart Drive user interface incorporates a 2-line by 20 character LCD and a 2-button keypad. By default the user interface shows the enclosure's real-time status or performance. Using the keypad, users navigate menus offering information on the FireWire-IDE bridge, the hard disk, the FireWire connection, and the host computer. Additional diagnostic and utility menus allow testing, verifying, and even erasing the hard disk without a host computer. We're planning to add more features for failure prediction, RAID, and even host application integration," said Vice President of Engineering Robert Botchek. "And since we have the best field update utility in the industry, our current customers will be able to download new firmware and keep their Smart Drives up to date." Granite Digital's Field Update Utility is available for Apple (Nasdaq:AAPL) computers running OS X or OS 9 and for PCs running Microsoft's (Nasdaq:MSFT) Windows XP/2000/ME/98se operating systems. Granite Digital will be demonstrating the OS X version of its Field Update Utility at Macworld (booth #572), July 17-19, 2002. Each Smart Drive enclosure uses a Granite Digital FireVue 1394-IDE bridge controller. Customers can order Smart Drives with or without 3.5" hard drives. FireVue bridge controllers use the industry-leading Oxford Semiconductor OXFW911; and Granite Digital's proprietary firmware and hardware enhancements enable unique features like ATA-6 compatibility for hard drives larger than 137GB.
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DEVONThink Personal Edition 1.2.3 Available DEVONthink Personal Edition 1.2.3 introduces auto-classification of added contents, allows to use TextLightning (http://www.metaobject.de) to add PDF files as RTF contents, is faster (up to 40 percent), more stable and more secure. Additionally, the registration info file is now visible and can be backed-up more easily. With the time-saving auto-classification feature it's now possible to add new contents using the services sub-menu and have them categorised completely automatically. Without the need for any indexing at all, DEVONthink fully or semi-automatically classifies elements, lists similar contents and words immediately using fuzzy algorithms, finds and compares text and even images, summarises texts intelligently and provides high performance concordance tools. As a Cocoa application it's perfectly integrated into Mac OS X including it's own services for storing and summarising text clippings, has advanced text editing functions including rulers and provides a Finder-like interface with contextual menus, different views and drag-and-drop. Finally, DEVONthink is the first product based on the powerful and language independent DEVONtechnology. DEVONthink Personal Edition 1.2.3 runs on Mac OS X 10.1 or higher and is immediately available as a free download from http://www.devon-technologies.com. It must be registered for US$39.95 after the two weeks evaluation period. Sybase ASE is First Major Enterprise-Class RDBMS to Ship to Mac Developers Sybase, Inc. has announced its Apple Early Adopter Program for Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) 12.5, the company's enterprise-class relational database management system (RDBMS). Under the program, Sybase will provide free use and newsgroup support of an Early Adopter version of ASE 12.5 for Mac OS X from July 17, 2002 until the product becomes generally available in September 2002.
-- Sybase ASE 12.5 is the first major enterprise-class relational database management system to ship to Mac developers
"Sybase provides a cost efficient, enterprise-class data management technology that answers the performance, security and scalability demands of mission-critical enterprise applications," said Dr. Raj Nathan, senior vice president and general manager, Sybase Enterprise Solutions Division. "Up until now, the Mac community has not been able to enjoy these benefits, and we are pleased to be the first to ship an enterprise-class RDBMS on the Mac platform." Sybase's Adaptive Server Enterprise 12.5 has established itself as the product of choice for mission-critical applications requiring high availability, intensive transaction handling and scalability within the financial services, government, healthcare and telecommunications markets. ASE 12.5 offers customers superior database capabilities with a dramatically lower total cost of ownership than many of its competitors. ASE 12.5 for Mac OS X includes XML Management Package, which provides support for Java and XML. This enables customers to decrease time-to-market with applications running on Mac OS X, essentially delivering a quicker return-on-investment. "Sybase's ASE on Mac OS X is the fastest database we have ever worked with on the Mac platform," said Obul Kambham, president and CEO of Effigent. "We were also surprised at how effortless it was to port from other platforms and databases to ASE, making it very easy and affordable for our customers to upgrade to Sybase's enterprise grade performance." "With Adaptive Server Enterprise, it took us only a couple of days to port TeleScope Enterprise from Microsoft SQL Server running on NT to Sybase's ASE running on Mac OS X," said Steve Sauder, CTO, North Plains Systems, the leading enterprise-class digital asset management company. "Our customers are ecstatic that Sybase brought enterprise-class database technology to the Mac platform." Sybase partners with industry-leading solution providers to bring innovative technologies to market to solve customer business problems. To learn more about partnering with Sybase, go to http://www.sybase.com/partner. Sybase Developer Network (SDN) offers a single point of access to developer software, services, related technical information from Sybase, and collaboration with other Sybase developers. For more information about the network, or to join, visit http://www.sybase.com/developer.
An Early Adopter version of ASE on Mac OS X will be offered free to Mac developers from July 17, 2002 until the product becomes generally available in September 2002. For more information, visit the Sybase Web site:
El Gato Eye TV Digital Video Recorder Lets You Watch TV on your Mac Eye TV Digital Video Recorder frees you from TV schedules. Find shows you want to see and watch them when you want to watch them. Pause live television. Skip Commercials. Record your favorite shows permanently using your CD burner. EyeTV will change the way you watch television. EyeTV’s integrated program guide helps you find shows of interest using keyword searches. Enter the name (or just part of the name) of your favorite actor, type of show (sports, comedy, action) or show title and let EyeTV find out when it is playing next. EyeTV includes a 124-channel cable-ready TV tuner and MPEG encoder to digitize and send TV signals to your Mac over a standard USB cable (included). EyeTV software then displays the TV show in a resizable window or you can even watch full screen. EyeTV can do everything a VCR does without the hassle of bulky VHS tapes. EyeTV only needs 650 MBs of disk space to store an hour of video on your hard disk. If you want a permanent copy, use your CD recorder to burn a VideoCD that is playable in your home DVD player. EyeTV gives you the freedom to attend to interruptions without missing your favorite shows. You can pause whatever you're watching, whether it's a live television broadcast or a recorded show, and then resume watching whenever you're ready. EyeTV is compatible with the Keyspan Digital Media Remote. The install CD includes a Keyspan key mapping file which can be imported into the Keyspan Digital Media Remote software. This will automatically configure your Keyspan remote for use with EyeTV. The EyeTV User's Guide has complete instructions on how to add a Keyspan Digital Media Remote for use with EyeTV. EyeTV lets you see more or less. You can use the Jump button to skip over the stuff you don’t want to see, like commercials or use the Instant Replay button to watch a favorite scene over and over . . . Digital Video Recording (DVR) allows you to record TV programs directly onto your Mac’s hard drive instead of videotape. It is just like a VCR without the clutter and hassle of bulky VHS tapes. You can watch recorded shows whenever you like, and use Pause, Reverse, Fast Forward, Skip Ahead, and Instant Replay.
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DEVONtechnologies and MetaObject are teaming up to offer ThunderPack, an attractive bundle of DEVONthink Personal Edition and the TextLightling PDF-to-RTF conversion filter. TextLightning is a Mac OS X native utility for converting PDF files to RTF format. TextLightning reconstructs as much of the original formatting as possible, including fonts, paragraphs, justification, margins and international characters as well as ligatures. DEVONthink uses this feature to store a plain text representation of a PDF document together with the PDF itself to offer all it's intelligent text analysis and categorisation features. DEVONthink PE 1.2.3 also allows to store only the RTF representation of a PDF file. DEVONthink is a completely new knowledge base ideal for storing, organising and retrieving documents, pictures, source codes, multi-media files, code-fragments or structured data (HTML, XML) of any kind, based on the flexible yet robust and language independent DEVONtechnology. Without the need for any indexing at all, DEVONthink fully or semi-automatically classifies elements, lists similar contents and words immediately using fuzzy algorithms, finds and compares text and even images, summarises texts intelligently and provides high performance concordance tools. As a Cocoa application it's perfectly integrated into Mac OS X including it's own services for storing and summarising text clippings, has advanced text editing functions including rulers and provides a Finder-like interface with contextual menus, different views and drag-and-drop. DEVONthink Personal Edition 1.2.3 runs on Mac OS X 10.1 or higher and is immediately available as a free download from http://www.devon-technologies.com. It must be registered for US$39.95 after the two weeks evaluation period. TextLightning 1.2.1 runs on Mac OS X 10.1 or higher and is available as a free download from http://www.metaobject.de or http://www.devon-technologies.com. The shareware fee for TextLightning is US$20.
Fast Online Chat For Lasso And CDML
Weblets are petite collections of format files and databases to get you started building your own system. Weblet Chat is the fastest way in the universe to implement a fully functional online chat system in Lasso or CDML. It's powerful enough to use as it is, but flexible and easy enough to modify and integrate into your existing Lasso or CDML web site. Like all Weblets, it is provided fully open source.
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Knowledge of Lasso or CDML is required to make your own format files. The CDML Master Class and Lasso Master Class tutorials are also available at Sapphire Plugins Pack 6 - Perspectives For Illustrator Released Sapphire Innovations have just released "Sapphire Pack Vol 6 - Perspectives" - an Illustrator plugin set for Illustrator 8, 9, 10, Mac, OSX and PC
An easy-to-use perspective guideline grid/a perspective grid path plugin for stunning 3D effects, either as is, or by aligning paths or text outlines to the grid.
The set costs £6.99 (approx 10 dollars) + P & P. Prices subject to change. Purchase from the e-commerce site http://www.sapphire-innovations.com. A bundle of our existing plugins sets is also available at a special price To unsubscribe from this mail press shot, please conact us. Illustrator is registered trademark of Adobe
Aladdin Ships Spring Cleaning 5 Japanese, German, French
Mac users who relied upon Spring Cleaning as an uninstaller and computer clean-up kit will enjoy the improved cleaning tools and take advantage of new customizable searches and root access allowances for power users. Internet users will appreciate Spring Cleaning 5.0 for its privacy features in iClean, a desktop Internet clean up tool. Used weekly, iClean can get rid of Internet cookies and cache to erase Internet trails and to keep privacy at a maximum. Spring Cle | |||
