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Vicomsoft FTP Client - Now Panther Compatible
SmartSound Releases Only Soundtrack Creation Plug-in For Premiere Pro
MacMice SightFlex Flexible Stand For Apple iSight
MacMice CubePerch Acrylic Cooling Stand For G4 Cubes
MacMice CubeBreeze Aluminum Cooling Stand For G4 Cubes
CharisMac Discribe 5.0.47 CD / DVD Mastering Software
Circus Ponies NoteBook 1.2v170 Note-taking & Freeform Database
New Mac Game Release: Pop The Wheezil[/url]
Vicomsoft FTP Client - Now Panther Compatible
Vicomsoft have announced the immediate availability of FTP Client version 4.0.2, now fully compatible with Mac OS X 10.3, Panther.
Current version 4 users can download a free update for FTP Client here:
http://www.vicomsoft.com/cgi-bin/moreinfo.cgi?ID=8061
New users can obtain a 7 day trial version of FTP here:
http://www.vicomsoft.com/cgi-bin/moreinfo.cgi?ID=8060
SmartSound Releases Only Soundtrack Creation Plug-in For Premiere Pro
SmartSound Software, Inc., the leading provider of soundtrack creation technology for visual content creators, today announced the launch of Quicktracks for Premiere Pro, a plug-in which automatically creates custom-fit soundtracks for users of the Adobe Premiere Pro video editing software.
Priced at $99.95, SmartSound's Quicktracks for Premiere Pro improves on the soundtrack creation tools by SmartSound included in previous versions of Premiere. It includes a revolutionary way to access music tracks for use in soundtrack creation that debuted with SmartSound's recent Sonicfire Pro 3.0 product.
Quicktracks for Premiere Pro comes with 23 pieces of royalty-free music that span a broad range of musical styles and moods. New features not only gives users powerful search capabilities to find the right piece of music, but it also accesses the Internet to let users preview any of the more than 1,000 tracks in the SmartSound music library. If a user finds a perfect track for their project, they can purchase it for $19.95 and download it for immediate use.
Creating a soundtrack for a video clip is a quick and painless process with Quicktracks for Premiere Pro. Simply select the right piece of music, and the software will automatically create a perfect soundtrack that is an ideal fit for the length of video being scored. The user doesn't need to switch between programs to do this with Quicktracks for Premiere Pro, since the soundtrack creation is all done within Premiere Pro.
"Through our previous plug-ins for Adobe Premiere, we have a unique understanding of what users are looking for in soundtrack creation," said Kevin Klingler, president and CEO of SmartSound Software. "Quicktracks for Premiere Pro lets people get a perfect soundtrack for their video footage immediately, without having to exit Premiere Pro and open another program."
Adobe Premiere Pro has been redesigned with powerful, productivity enhancing features and advanced professional tools including sophisticated color correction, powerful new audio controls and multiple, nested timelines.
"With advanced new editing tools, Premiere Pro helps users achieve great results for their video projects while working under tight deadlines and budgets," said Richard Townhill, group product manager for Adobe Premiere. "SmartSound's Quicktracks for Premiere Pro compliments our product by making the soundtrack creation process quick and painless."
Quicktracks for Premiere Pro has an MSRP of $99.95 and can be purchased directly from SmartSound or through one of our authorized resellers. For more information, visit:
http://www.smartsound.com
MacMice SightFlex Flexible Stand For Apple iSight
MacMice SightFlex is a flexible metal tubing stand designed to provide virtually unlimited mounting and positioning options for owners of Apple's iSight Firewire web cam. The 20-inch tall, satin chrome plated flexible stalk can be easily adjusted to a variety of positions from very near the desk top to well above Apple's tallest Cinema Display.
The soft silver color hemispherical base is heavily weighted to provide a stable platform for the iSight. And, the clear coated, shielded, silver braid Firewire cable is five feet long and terminated in a clear 6-pin Firewire plug. The iSight camera is placed on another clear 6-pin Firewire plug at the top of the flexible metal stalk. The SightFlex is fully described and available from the MacMice Workspace Products Co. web site, will ship on November 7th, priced at $24.99.
For more information, visit:
http://www.macmice.com/
MacMice CubePerch Acrylic Cooling Stand For G4 Cubes
At the request of a large number of customers who own G4 Cubes, MacMice has created a special edition acrylic, fan-powered cooling stand to quietly blow cooling air upward through the Cube. Creating under 20dBA of sound, the CubePerch causes from 18 to 24-degrees (F) of temperature reduction inside the computer case. The CubePerch is fully described and available for pre-order from the MacMice Workspace Products Co. web site, and is priced at $69.99.
For more information, visit:
http://www.macmice.com/cubeperch.html
MacMice CubeBreeze Aluminum Cooling Stand For G4 Cubes
MacMice CubeBreeze is a perforated anodized aluminum cooling stand for the G4 Cube computer.
With the growing application of upgraded motherboards and more powerful graphics cards, Cubes are generating more heat than ever anticipated in Apple's original design. So effective, quiet auxiliary cooling products are needed. The CubeBreeze brings the same airflow enhancing perforated aluminum panel approach used in Apple's G5 tower to bear on the challenge of cooling the Cube. The CubeBreeze is fully described and available for pre-order from the MacMice Workspace Products Co. web site, will start shipping on October 22nd, and is priced at $49.99.
For more information, visit:
http://www.macmice.com/cubebreeze.html
CharisMac Discribe 5.0.47 CD / DVD Mastering Software
Discribe 5.0 is a comprehensive CD and DVD mastering softwarefor the Macintosh. Discribe provides the ideal solution for one-off CD and DVD production. Discribe brings the world of multimedia to your fingertips, allowing you to create your own data CD and DVDs, CD and DVD Audio, DVD video on CD or DVD and mixed-mode discs for personal or professional use.
With Discribe you can reliably archive valuable data, effortlessly distribute massive amounts of information, make custom CDs and DVDs or create professional quality multimedia demonstrations tailored for specific needs allowing you to write and play CDs and DVDs in a matter of minutes!
From simple data backup, to full featured multimedia productions, Discribe's intuitive interface will lead you through all the necessary steps for quickly mastering a CD or DVD.
Features
• Supports DVD Audio and Video formats using UDF (Universal Disk Format)
• Supports data writes using UDF
• Supports writing the CD Extra format
• Supports writing of Video CDs
• Direct CD to CD copy allows you to copy from any CD-ROM drive to your writer
• Can cache Disc to Disc image file to hard disk prior to writing.
• Supports disc verification after writing data discs
• Supports mastering bootable CD-ROMs for Mac OS 9
• Allows true hybrid (HFS and ISO-9660) disc creation with HFS link to ISO partition for shared information
• Multiple Orange book mastering modes including: Track-at-Once, Disc-at-Once, Multi-Session, and Multi-Volume
• Supports ISO-9660 and ISO 9660 XA file formats with automatic and manual character conversion options
• Firewire driver is iTunes and DiscBurner compatible and SDAP compliant, no need for multiple extensions sets to accomplish one task
• Supports Audio CD mastering using AIFF files
• OS 9 version bundles with AudioScribe, our direct-to-disk audio recording application
• Dragging a Quicktime movie file over the Discribe Audio Picker window will strip video allowing you to add the audio from the movie file as an audio track
• Through the app MP3, WAV, SDII and now Apple's AAC file format conversion (Requires Mac OS X version of Discribe, Quicktime 6.2, iTunes 4 and file authorization)
• Ability to set pre-gap on Audio CD's from 0 to 9 seconds
• Supports DAO (Disk-at-Once) and TAO (Track-at-Once) writing of Audio CDs
• Intuitive Audio Picker window allows for easy sequencing of audio tracks via drag and drop with use of multiple selections
• Discribe allows playback of audio tracks within the Audio Picker for easy previewing
Discribe 5.0 now features even more more format types, including DVD
General Features
• Supports Mac OS X and Mac OS 9
• Discribe sports a message log that can give you valuable feedback regarding your write
• Supports more writers than ever! (Over 300 CD and DVD writers!) Including DVD-R, DVD-RW and DVD+RW drives
• Full support of BurnProof, SafeBurn and JustLink enabled recorders for failsafe recording
• Now has support for Generic MMC compliant drives, so even if your drive is not listed in our supported drive list it may still be supported
• Supports virtually all CD-Recorders including 1x, 2x, 4x, 6x, 8x, 10x, 12x, 24x, 32x, 40x and NOW 48x!
• DVD video can be written to any media type your writer supports (CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW)
• Background writing supported (BurnProof, SafeBurn and JustLink recorder recommended for this function)
• Enhanced drag and drop features, including drag and drop Digital Audio Extraction, Build a Mac HFS (files and folders), volumes and ISO 9660
• Reads Backup Mastery scripts to backup to CD-R (ISO 9660 or HFS formats)
• Supports most popular CD-ROM formats and standards including mixed mode, CD-ROM/XA (Yellow book), Audio CD (Red book), and CD Extra (Blue Book)
• Includes Test Write Mode and Transfer Rate Speed Test features to ensure quality burns
• Includes iTunes compatible Firewire drivers
• Immediately play new CDs on any CD-ROM drive using the included universal CD-ROM device driver (Mac OS 9.x only)
• Site licenses available for large organizations
Requirements for Mac OS X
• G3 or better Power Mac capable of running Mac OS X
• Mac OS 10.1 or newer
• Supported CD or DVD writeable drive
Mac OS X System Suggestions
• PCI based Macintosh Power PC
• System 10.2 or newer
• Quicktime 6.2
• iTunes 4
• Internet connection
Requirements for Mac OS 9.x
• Power Macintosh 6100 or better
• 8mb RAM or more
• System 8.6 or higher
• Quicktime 4 or better
• Supported CD or DVD writeable drive
System Suggestions
• PCI based Macintosh Power PC
• 15mb RAM or more
• System 9.x or higher
• Internet connection
System requirements:
• Mac OS X
CharisMac Discribe sells for $69.00
For more information, visit:
http://www.charismac.com/Products/Discribe/
Circus Ponies NoteBook 1.2v170 Note-taking & Freeform Database
Circus Ponies NoteBook is a combination outliner and free-form idea organizer that lets you clip, organize, and share unstructured information from any source in any way they like. The program uses an easy-to-understand notebook interface to provide state-of-the-art media capture, multi-dimensional indexing, and inter-application clipping services. While you're busy taking notes and capturing your ideas, NoteBook indexes it all in the background -- it even remembers your stickers, keywords, and highlighting. Whatever you can remember, NoteBook can find.
Photos, e-mails, graphics, documents. NoteBook helps you keep track. Take notes, make outlines, share information. Clip images, e-mails, and news stories. Add formatted, searchable notes. Find anything using NoteBook's patented indexing technology.
Note-Taking & Organizing
Organize your information using a familiar notebook interface, complete with pages and tabs. Arrange notes hierarchically in each page's outline, in ways that make sense to you. Collapse or expand hierarchies to hide or show detail.
Annotation
Annotate your notes with keywords, stickers and highlighting. Add an action item checkbox, set a due date, or assign a priority.
Clipping
Copy text and other content directly into a Notebook without leaving the application you're working in. Pre-edit clippings before sending them on to your Notebooks.
Searching
View all of the words in your Notebook and where they appear. Or all of the keywords, stickers, highlighting and other attributes - Index Pages make simple searching as easy as clicking. Use NoteBook's Super-Find panel to perform complex searches involving multiple words and attributes.
Importing
Transfer photos, images, film clips, and sound files directly into a Notebook from your digital camera, or scans from your scanner. Then use Media Frames to enhance your images with special borders, drop shadows, rotation, and scaling. You can even add in video clips or movies, complete with a standard playback control strip for convenient viewing or replay.
HTML Publishing
Export your Notebooks to the web to share with non-NoteBook users. Use the default export options, or customize the look and structure of the exported pages to fit your project.
New in this version:
• 1-Step HTML Export
• allows NoteBook users to publish single pages, whole Notebooks, or anything in between to the web for sharing with Mac, Windows, and Linux users on corporate networks or on the World Wide Web. A full range of customizable export and publishing options allow users to configure the style, content, and site structure of their published Notebooks.
• NEW — Powerful, easy-to-use tools for publishing notes to the web
• NEW — Export control tools enable publishing of single pages, whole Notebooks, or anything in between (i.e., include or don’t include the Contents page, etc.)
• NEW — Export configuration tools allow you to preserve or change the look of your published Notebooks, as well as define the export/output path and other site set-up options
• NEW — Exported Notebooks can be customized to preserve margins, Media Frames, tabs, cell controls (for expand/collapse) or can be pared down to simple HTML text
• Security Framework created for corporate, SciTech, higher education and other users whose computing environments require a higher level of security. NoteBook's Security Framework provides configurable covers, password protection, and optional encryption of data file pages for privacy and safekeeping of sensitive information in networked or multi-user environments.
• NEW — User-defined cover pages
• NEW — “Cover if inactive” feature
• NEW — Password protection of Notebooks
• NEW — Optional data file encryption of pages for privacy and safekeeping of sensitive information
• Multidimensional Sorting allows users to sort their data using one or more criteria, and includes several built-in "sorting routines." Users can also save their frequently-used sorting routines as "Favorites."
• NEW — Sorting based on text, date, action item status, priority, highlighting, or keyword (text-based sorts can be based on first or last word in the cell)
• NEW — Sort by a single parameter or multiple (i.e., by Text and Date)
• NEW — Drag and drop ordering of sort parameters
• NEW — Frequently-used sorts can be saved as ‘Favorites’
• Enhanced Searching introduces three new kinds of searches for case-sensitive, wildcard, and literal or "exact phrase" searches. These can be used either alone or in combination with other search criteria via NoteBook’s exclusive Super-Find feature.
• NEW — Case-sensitive wildcard and literal (“exact phrase”) searches, usable alone or in combination through NoteBook’s exclusive Super-Find
• ENHANCED — Improved search of non-Western text/scripts
• Action Item Management enhanced and now offers personalized color choices for completed, overdue, and due-today action items.
• NEW — Enhanced tracking with personalized color choices for completed, overdue, and due-today action items
• NEW — Cell priority attribute for Action Items
• Fully Illustrated Online Help created using NoteBook’s own HTML Export feature — provides step–by–step instructions accompanied by screen shots to help users get started or learn advanced techniques.
• NEW — Drag and drop of attachments onto tabs within the same Notebook or onto the current page or tabs of another Notebook
• NEW — NoteBook Tabs now support user-defined background images with tiling, scaling, and image opacity/transparency
• ENHANCED — Improved OPML import, with progress panel and background indexing
• NEW -- Brushed metal or pinstripe theme choices
• NEW — Optional cover labels
• NEW — More cell numbering and cell number formatting options (including right-justification)
• Power Outlining: NEW — MORE-style commands (NoteBook now supports all of the old MORE commands)
• NEW — Indent Siblings and Unindent Children commands (Ă la MORE’s Demote and Promote commands)
• NEW — Cell Joining
• Software Update and Maintenance - NEW — Automatically checks for new versions
• Media Management - NEW — AAC file handling
• ENHANCED handling of aliases within Media Frames
• Clipping Services - NEW — Notebooks with Clipping Services are now movable
• NEW — Clip and Annotate sheet is now resizable
• ENHANCED Clipping Services presentation
• Printing - More flexible printing features
• Improved indexing speed
• Overall speed increases throughout
System requirements:
• Mac OS X 10.1 or higher
Circus Ponies NoteBook sells for $49.95/$29.95 education
For more information, visit:
http://circusponies.com/
New Mac Game Release: Pop The Wheezil
Pop the Wheezil is a new action-packed arcade game for the Mac OS published by Ground Zero Software, Inc. It is an energetic and stimulating game with a wealth of features, including great graphics and music as well lots of effects to make for fun and exciting action. Pop the Wheezil is designed to be versatile, so you can play by yourself, play against Wisker the Wheezil, or play with a friend of family member.
The object of the game is to rack up as many points and complete as many levels as you can. It will require lightning-fast reflexes and quick thinking to achieve your goal! You must align different colored balloons in rows and columns as they float to the top. Your balloons will pop and disappear when four of the same color are together. You'll also find lots of goodies and surprises in each level. Complete each level by getting the Wheezil balloon to the top, popularly known as popping the Wheezil.
System requirements:
Pop the Wheezil is Mac OS X native and also plays great on Mac OS 8.6 - Mac OS 9.x with Apple's CarbonLib.
Pop the Wheezil is available at:
http://www.GroundZeroSW.com/wheezil
For more information about the latest Mac software releases and updates, you'll find it on the Applelinks Search Engine here:
http://www.applelinks.com/pages/search.shtml