VueScan is a powerful scanning program that works with most scanners. Photographers, home users, scanning services and corporations around the world use VueScan for a wide range of scanning needs.

iRocker is the perfect guitar companion for beginner guitar players and pros alike. Designed specifically for iPod, iRocker comes packed with essential guitar skill-building tools: Guitar Tuner, Virtual Chordbook, Metronome, and Riffs! Have an amazing musician's tool at your fingertips anywhere you bring your iPod.

Positive Spin Media has announced NetScrape 1.9, an update to the image collector's web spider and search agent for Mac OS X.

ViewIt is a shareware, OS X native, fast and easy to use image viewer that supports most popular image formats: JPEG, TIFF, PNG, PSD , RAW, DNG, animated GIF and more. Now even corrupted JPEG files load in no time.

Converts Video for Playback on iPods, Memory Sticks or Mobile Phones in Just 3 Simple Steps

Create a video travel log of all the places you visit on your vacation, then turn it into a movie that iMovie and other movie editors will recognize.

MutantMaker helps researchers performing site directed mutagenesis screen their potential mutants with restriction enzyme digests rather than costly sequencing. The oligonucleotide sequences suggested by MutantMaker will create or destroy restriction sites while both creating the desired mutant and retaining flanking amino acids.

Paul McCartney Guitarist Brian Ray Rocks Pop Classic

MacSoft, a division of Destineer, has announced the Macintosh version of Microsoft's top-selling and award-winning Zoo Tycoon 2 has gone gold. As an added extra, the Mac version includes a bonus DVD featuring film segments and trivia from the National Geographic Totally Wild series. Originally developed for the PC by Blue Fang Games, Zoo Tycoon 2 is scheduled for release in November 2005 at a suggested retail price of $39.99.

Jack Thompson gets booted for abusive language. This is not a joke.

Aqueous Software LLC has announce the release of Gambit 1.0, a Mac OS X application for chess play and analysis. It allows games to be played against the chess engine Crafty, which can use an opening book and endgame tablebases, and also "learns" as it plays. Gambit also allows completed chess games to be recorded, replayed, annotated and analyzed. The level of play can be adjusted, the board appearance can be customized, and the style of chess pieces can be selected.

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