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Drive Genius 1.0.1 Storage Management: Maintain, Manage & Optimize
VueScan 8.1.28 Scanner Software For Flatbed & Film Scanners
MindCad Releases Pyramid 1.4 for OS X
WebCrossing ships Podcasting Support
Bandmateloops.com plugs in with Electric Guitar and Electric Piano for GarageBand
DVDThemePAK.com updates ALL Buttons and Themes for Apple's iDVD 5.0
Webseecon 2.0 Released For Macintosh[/url]
Drive Genius 1.0.1 Storage Management: Maintain, Manage & Optimize
Drive Genius is an OS X utility designed to provide unsurpassed storage management. Featuring an easy-to-use interface, Drive Genius is packed with powerful tools such as a drive optimizer, a comprehensive repair facility for analyzing, repairing and rebuilding volumes, plus excellent testing capabilities with media surface scanning, performance benchmarking and data integrity checking. It can be used to initialize drives, create and delete partitions, and erases them securely as per Department of Defense’s standard. Drive Genius can also hide partitions and duplicate volumes or drives swiftly. Last but not least, Drive Genius features advanced tools for resizing and moving of volumes without reformatting, and sports a sector editing tool to modify the data on any sector of the drive -- powerful features that will satisfy even the seasoned Mac experts.
Emails. Digital picutres. Work files. Music collection. Financial records. Lets face it, your computer has become and important part of your life. As you use your computer, your hard drive becomes bloated with thousands of files, mechanical parts wear and fatigue, your computer begins to operate more slowly, and eventually fails. Your only defense is to carefully monitor and manage your hard drive so you can be sure it is in good health and working at peak efficiency at all times - doing so might mean the difference between your productivity and complete data loss. Thankfully, Drive Genius makes these tedious tasks painless, fast, and easy. From performance tuning, to disaster recovery, Drive Genius provides all the tools needed to take control of your hard drive, and your digital life.
Drive Genius includes essential maintenance tools, effective optimization tools and powerful management tools.
Essential Maintenance Tools
• Duplicate - Fast and easy volume or entire drive cloning.
• Integrity Check - Find problems before they find you with these comprehensive hardware verification tests
• Repair - Quickly fix corruption on OS X volume structures to get your damaged drive up and running fast
• Rebuild - Rebuild and replace OS X volume structures to regain access to files that have become lost or hidden
• Verify - Check OS X volume structures for possible corruption
• Fix Permissions - Reset OS X boot volume permissions to improve application performance and compatibility
• SMART Status - Read and display SMART diagnostic codes from your hard drive to avoid dangerous hardware failures
Effective Optimization Tools
• Defragment - Get the most speed and efficiency possible by Optimizing your OS X volumes
• Benchtest - Make sure your hard drive performance is what it should be with comprehensive speed tests and graphical comparisons to other common configurations
• Surface Scan - Verify your hard drive’s reliability with a complete suite of non-destructive read verification tests for any drive or OS X volume
• Sector Editor - Fine tune all aspects of your system with direct, advanced byte viewing and editing of all data on your drives, volumes and files (for expert users only)
Powerful Management Tools
• Partition - Add, delete, hide, expand or shrink OS X partitions so you can organize your data more efficiently
• Shred - Stop prying eyes with DoD compliant (5220.22 - m) secure erase. Removes all traces of data from free space and deleted files on any device or OS X volume
• Details - In-depth report of specifications and space utilization of all devices and OS X volumes
• Initialize - Easy, high level OS X formatting to prepare new hard drives for use on your computer
New in this version:
• Updated internal manual
• Improved error handling before and during defragment operations.
• Improved error handling before volume duplication.
System requirements:
• Mac OS X Panther
• Mac OS X Jaquar
For more information, visit:
http://www.prosofteng.com/products/drive_genius_info.php
VueScan 8.1.28 Scanner Software For Flatbed & Film Scanners
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. VueScan gives you improved color accuracy and color balance, increases your productivity and saves you money: VueScan can make your existing scanner work as well as a brand new scanner.
VueScan supports more than 400 scanners and takes about 5 minutes to download and install.
VueScan changes nothing on your system, installs nothing in your operating system and all other scanner software will continue to function. The VueScan User's Guide is available in PDF or HTML format.
New in this version:
• Fixed problem on Mac OS X 10.2
• Fixed problem with some newer HP scanners
System requirements:
• Mac OS X 10.2.8 or higher
• Supported scanner
VueScan sells for$49.95
For more information, visit:
http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html
MindCad Releases Pyramid 1.4 for OS X
MindCad has released Pyramid 1.4 for OS X, a highly visual outlining and brainstorming tool. New features added include significantly improved topic and connector layout mechanisms, global search and replace, snap-to alignment guides, and better web proxy compatibility.
Pyramid allows text and images to be placed anywhere on multiple worksheets that grow dynamically in all four directions. Elements can then be arranged in elaborate visual hierarchies, and optionally linked to external documents and web pages. The software is designed to help people focus on ideas and their underlying relationships, as opposed to wasting creative energy on the mechanics of formatting and presentation.
A full-featured, save-disabled demo is available for free at:
http://www.mindcad.com
The demo includes an introductory tutorial. The full version of Pyramid sells for $49.
Product Link:
http://www.mindcad.com
Download link:
http://www.mindcad.com/downloads/Pyramid.dmg
WebCrossing ships Podcasting Support
Web Crossing, Inc., the leader in scalable message board and collaboration tools, today announced new standards-based support for Podcasting. Now for the first time, Web Crossing users can publish podcasts for distribution from a Weblog or over a Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feed.
"Web Crossing regularly adds standards-based collaboration tools to its legendary message board platform," said Tim Lundeen, president and CEO of Web Crossing, Inc. "Podcasting MP3 audio files is an exciting supplement to our wide range of collaboration capabilities. Whether providing audio format educational tools, complete tutorials, workgroup reports, or simply entertainment, podcasting support nicely extends Web Crossing's weblog and RSS capabilities."
Podcasting from Web Crossing Boards or Blogs Podcasting is a hot, new audio file distribution technique for time-shifting audio broadcasts to a self-selecting audience who chooses when to listen to it on their iPod or other MP3-compatible listening device. Often posted as part of a blog, podcasting provides a convenient means for individuals to publish audio files online. Already popular with individual bloggers and content publishers, work-related applications of podcasting include reports, tutorials and other educational aids.
Podcasting, in general, utilizes a combination of audio file (MP3 or other format) and XML to publish descriptive data and metadata associated with the audio file. The XML files used in podcasting from Web Crossing sites are compatible with RSS 2.0 and can include dates, titles, descriptions and links to the audio files themselves. Web Crossing's RSS feeds now use Unicode Transformation Format (UTF) encoding to prevent any non-ASCII characters in a file from creating XML parsing errors of the feed.
The new Podcast capabilities are incorporated in the latest Web Crossing Weblog and RSS plug-ins. The Weblog and RSS plugins require no knowledge of XML, allowing administrators to add Podcasting support in minutes with a simple point-and-click.
The Web Crossing RSS plug-in gives a site's visitors current access to podcasts, using any modern RSS Reader. In addition, the Web Crossing Weblog plug-in makes podcasting audio files as easy as attaching an MP3 file to any Weblog entry.
In Weblogs, RSS subscription designations automatically apply to categories assigned by the blogger and chosen by the reader. Alternatively, the new RSS support provides podcasting in addition to the RSS plug-in's traditional integration with weblog categories, weblog comments, topic folders, and individual discussions.
Free for a limited time, the new Podcast-enabled Weblog and RSS plug-ins are available today and compatible with all Web Crossing 5 installations. Additional information can be found at:
http://www.webcrossing.com/podblog/
Bandmateloops.com plugs in with Electric Guitar and Electric Piano for GarageBand
Bandmateloops.com has unveiled two new loop collections today for the GarageBand community. The collections are available via electronic delivery, along with all current Bandmates products via their website.
BMT-014-LPE - Bandmates Guitar Player - Electric Guitar
Bandmates Electric Guitar features a solid, yet edgy tone as the main theme. A classic dirtier approach is taken for hard rock. From funky wah, to classic rock and blues, to hard rock- this collection puts on a show of maximum performance. Bandmates Electric Guitar is well suited for cross-genre applications and is an effective contributor to most genres.
Bandmates Guitar Player - Electric Guitar is available now via electronic delivery for $13.95 USD.
BMT-015-LPE - Bandmates Keyboard Player - Electric Piano
Bandmates Electric Piano is a true vintage keys collection- no synthesizers here and it shows. A pure velvet tone is the foundation, while the funky riffs and motifs take your rock, funk and jazz to the next level. Bandmates Electric Piano is suitable for most cross-genre applications.
Bandmates Keyboard Player - Electric Piano is available now via electronic delivery for $13.95 USD.
Bandmates for GarageBand are the ideal companion for all GarageBand users interested in creating their own unique musical compositions.
For more information, visit:
http://bandmateloops.com
DVDThemePAK.com updates ALL Buttons and Themes for Apple's iDVD 5.0
DVDthemePAK.com today released all ThemePAK and ButtonPAK collections for Apple's iDVD 5.0 software - part of Apple iLife '05. All products maintain compatibility with iDVD 4.0 as well. The new ThemePAKs include collections like Holidays, Weddings and Photography. Each theme includes completely custom button designs and animated or composite graphic backgrounds. Updaters are available for current customers to bring existing ThemePAKs and ButtonPAKs up to iDVD 5.0 compatibility. 10 Free Themes are also available - 6 for immediate download from our web site.
Our Theme and Button designs offer a much needed boost of creativity to the variety of choices for any DVD project. The Themes and Buttons that come with iDVD are nice but offer only an introduction to the possibilities for DVD menu design. So we developed some really fantastic choices to increase the options available to professionals and hobbyists.
Designed for the iDVD creative enthusiasts, every iDVD ThemePAK's themes ship with custom buttons, layouts and completely unique graphic backgrounds.
System requirements:
Users must have iDVD 4.0 or 5.0 or later running in Apple's OSX operating system.
iDVD ThemePAK 1,2,3,4,6,7,8 are priced at US$29 ThemePAK 5 at $49.00 and ThemePAK 9 at $39.00.
All ThemePAKs are NTSC and PAL compatible and may be shipped anywhere in the World. The new products can be purchased through the DVDThemePAK website:
http://www.dvdthemepak.com
Webseecon 2.0 Released For Macintosh
Astoundit Software has released a major update to the Macintosh OS X native utility, "Webseecon". This new release adds numerous feature enhancements, speed optimizations, and increased performance that allow Macintosh users to easily create customized graphically-rich icons for their Internet shortcuts.
"Webseecon 2.0 includes many of the most-requested features from our customers, while improving support for all major web browsers," said Ross Rampias, Astoundit Software's lead programmer. "With so many great web browsers now available on the Macintosh platform, Webseecon is compatible with everyone's needs."
Webseecon 2.0 is available now for $9.00 USD.
For more information, visit:
http://www.astoundit.com
Charles W. Moore
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