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FWB Software Ships Greatest Hits Software CDR
Econ and ResExcellence Sponsor Camtastic Caption Contest
MacGPS Pro 5.0.1 Connectivity To GPS Receivers
RBrowser 3.3.4 Graphical FTP/SFTP/SSH Client
iWatermark 1.1 Now Available - Secure, Protect And Get Recognition For Your Photos And Artwork
Bookends 7.7.4 Bibliography & Reference Management
Smart Groups! DV Cataloging Tool Foottrack Updated
Adobe Creative Suite Now Shipping With PageMaker Plug-in Pack
Linksys and Netopia Team to Offer Parental Control Services to Home Network Users[/url]
FWB Software Ships Greatest Hits Software CDR
FWB Software, developer and supplier of Macintosh storage solutions and developer of the award-winning Hard Disk Toolkit, announced today the availability of FWB's Greatest Hits - a CD containing most of FWB's Toolkit products from the past ten years.
Greatest Hits is fully loaded with past and present versions of FWB's storage utility products, including Hard Disk Toolkit, CD-ROM Toolkit, RAID Toolkit, DriveTest, and Partition Toolkit. Also included on the CD are Storage Wizard, and FWB's Windows drive cloning and restoration product, DriveUp '98.
Mark Hurlow, FWB's President said, "The idea of FWB's Greatest Hits was conceived when we received quite a few requests from consultants and support professionals for a CD that contains various versions of HDT and CDT. We liked the idea so much that we decided to expand on the concept and put all our hit products onto one CD."
FWB's Greatest Hits is shipping now, carries a suggested retail price of $249.95, and is available online via FWB Software's web site at:
http://www.fwb.com
For a complete list of products on the CD and for more information on system requirements, visit:
http://www.fwb.com/html/greatest_hits.html
Econ and ResExcellence Sponsor Camtastic Caption Contest
Econ Technologies and RexExcellence want you to have some fun and a chance to win some Econ products built exclusively for Mac OS X. To enter, just grab an image from the Econ Technologies webcam and add a caption. Prizes go to the five funniest entries. Go to http://www.resexcellence.com for all the details.
"This is not just another contest; you'll need to use your creative writing skills to enter this one. Here's how it works. Judges are looking for the funniest, cleverest, most irreverent caption you can come up with to go along with any of Econ Technoligies ImageCaster WebCam Shots. Look for that unflattering image and then add your caption. Be Creative! Get crazy! Have some fun! Don't hold anything back! This isn't your mother's caption contest, so don't worry about insulting us or hurting our feelings. You dish it out and we'll take it! And even reward it!"
"This is a chance to promote Econ's products and ResExcellence's website all while letting Mac Users have some fun," said Joseph Japes, Marketing Director of Econ Technologies.
Contest Rules
Contest entry is via email only.
All entries must be sent to
All entries must include a webcam image and caption.
Entries will be accepted from the start date of Monday, March 15th, 2004 at 6:00 a.m. Central Standard Time.
Deadline for contest entries is 6:00 p.m. Central Standard Time on Friday, March 19th, 2004.
Contest winners will be selected by the judging staff at Econ Technolgies.
Contest is open to all participants unless software export regulations are in effect for specific countries.
Limit 10 entries per person
Go to http://www.http://www.resexcellence.com/software_contest/03-15-04_econ.shtml to enter
Go to http://www.econtechnologies.com for information on Econ Technologies' products.
MacGPS Pro 5.0.1 Connectivity To GPS Receivers
MacGPS Pro is software for communicating with GPS Receivers and viewing your position on moving digital maps. It allows import of maps and waypoints from a wide variety of sources. It supports NMEA 0183 input from all serial port and Bluetooth receivers. Waypoints, Routes and Tracklogs can be graphically generated and edited for use on the Mac, or for transfer to and from Garmin and Magellan GPS receivers.
• MacGPS Pro works with NOS/GEO and BSB v. 1, 2, & 3 marine charts
• MacGPS Pro converts Maps On Us directions to an uploadable route
• MacGPS Pro imports GPX waypoint files from Geocaching.com
• MacGPS Pro reads ".jpr" & ".map" georeferencing calibration files
• MacGPS Pro displays USGS topo map names for any USA location
• MacGPS Pro shows date, time & elevation for clicked-on track points
MacGPS Pro works with Garmin and Magellan GPS receivers for transferring Waypoints, Routes and Tracklogs.
MacGPS Pro works with almost all GPS receivers for moving map images on the Mac screen in real-time.
MacGPS Pro works with no receiver connected for viewing digital maps, measuring distances, editing waypoints.
MacGPS Pro works with ETopo maps for Canada.
MacGPS Pro has been OS X Native since November 11, 2002. It is still available in Mac Classic as well.
MacGPS Pro connects to your GPS receiver through a serial interface (with a USB to Serial adaptor for modern Macs) or through a Bluetooth wireless connection.
New in this version:
• Bug fixes.
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.2.2 or higher, or
System 6.0.7 - Mac OS 9.2.2
MacGPS Pro sells for $39.95
For more information, visit:
http://www.macgpspro.com/
RBrowser 3.3.4 Graphical FTP/SFTP/SSH Client
RBrowser provides access to files on the local host as well as remote Unix systems with an easy-to-use graphical interface. RBrowser provides a uniform interface to distributed file transfer and file related operations, greatly simplifying access and use of files on remote systems scattered across the Internet. RBrowser uses FTP and SSH as transport.
RBrowser Features:
WORKSPACE
• Remote File System Browser using UNIX/SSH/FTP/SFTP/FTP-SSL-TLS
• Column, List or Icon View in all File Viewers
• Easy downloads/extracting of URL's
• Protocol Helper for browser's or other apps
• Drag and drop file transfers between Local and Remote hosts
• Drag and drop file transfers between the Finder and all RBrowser File Viewers
• Direct secure file transfers between Remote hosts with SSH/SCP
• Change (su) to root or another user after login with SSH
• Full connection transcript attached to every viewer
• Easy to see progress monitoring in the dock icon
• Site aliases on the desktop, with direct launch
• All FTP Modes Supported: Binary, Automatic and Text
• FTP File Transfer Restart
• Local File System Browser
• Open, edit, and automatic saveback of documents in any application
• SSH access through firewalls with tunneling
• Support for Firewalls (SOCKS v4/4A)
• Full MacBinary support
• Local printing of documents while editing
• Character set translation in the browser
• Automatic display of available file system space
• Computes sizes of folders and file systems
• Inspector window displays file attributes
• Change file group, file owner (if root) and permissions
• Set Type and Creator (on HFS+ only)
• Customizable appearance
• Automatic connection configuration
• Supports all document types known to local system
• Copy, move, remove, and rename files on remote system
• Compress/uncompress files or entire folders (both local and remote)
• Create/delete folders and symbolic links
• Duplicate files and folders
BENEFITS
• GUI access to files on remote systems eliminating the need to know shell commands
• No need to know all the varieties of UNIX
• No root/superuser/administrator privileges needed for installation or use
• No special software required on remote systems
• Automatic analysis and configuration to handle remote systems
• Remote files can be on systems in different Netinfo or NIS domains
• User and group ids can be different on each system
• Multiple simultaneous connections
• Easy interface to FTP servers
FILE TRANSFERS
• Drag and drop user interface to transfer files between machines
• Multiple simultaneous transfer operations
New in this version:
• App starts up faster
• Minor bugfixes
System requirements:
• Mac OS X 10.3 or higher
RBrowser sells for $29.00-49.00
For more information, visit:
http://www.rbrowser.com/Features.html
http://www.rbrowser.com/DownLoad.html
iWatermark 1.1 Now Available - Secure, Protect And Get Recognition For Your Photos And Artwork
If you own a digital camera and you email or put your images on the web then anyone can take and use them for whatever they want. iWatermark gives you the protection and recognition for your digital photos and artwork. Like the master painters, you can now sign your art work with iWatermark. iWatermark is easy to use on 1 or 1000 images at a time. Add your signature, url, email address or logo to all your photos. Professional photographers especially who care about their property will appreciate the security iWatermark can give and will find it an essential tool in the arsenal. Don't get ripped off. Use iWatermark to protect your images.
New in version 1.1:
- [add] A Cancel option in the progress dialog
- [add] Ability to save thumbnails to a seperate folder.
- [add] Combo boxes for the text font and size.
- [add] duplicate file name support.
- [add] facility to scale the watermarked images
- [add] Process Subfolders
- [bug] Fixed a bug that could prevent the application from launching. (Mac OS X only)
- [bug] file locations not being saved (Windows only)
- [bug] fixed possibility of copied images being corrupted (Windows only)
- [bug] Preview is not being updated. (Windows only)
- [bug] Sub folders no longer cause an error.
- [mod] Simplfied interface
You can download a demo for Mac or Windows here:
http://www.scriptsoftware.com/iwatermark/
Bookends 7.7.4 Bibliography & Reference Management
Bookends is a full-featured and cost-effective bibliography/reference and information management system for students and professionals.
With Bookends you can easily import references (information about journal articles, books, etc.) from hundreds of online sources. Import PubMed and Amazon references from Reference Miner by drag and drop. Import references with your browser directly from PubMed, Medline on BioMedNet, and some OVID databases without intermediary files.
Import references from EndNote, Papyrus, and Reference Manager databases. Here are step-by-step instructions.
"Scan" your manuscripts to generate finished versions ready for submission or publication, with full in-text citations and bibliographies that meet the most exacting requirements. Plug-ins let you access the power of Bookends from within Microsoft Word and Nisus Writer/Nisus Writer Express to directly format manuscripts for publication. Mellel is "Bookends-aware", with special features to manage citations and bibliographies. Bookends can also scan manuscripts saved by any word processor in RTF format.
Bookmark favorite web sites (such as PubMed, Ingenta (Uncover/Reveal), etc.) and instantly access them via your browser.
Attach any file to a reference and with a single click open it in Bookends (if it is QuickTime-compatible) or in the application that created it. This means you can, for example, search Bookends for an article and, if present on the hard disk or server, instantly open its pdf file. Pictures and graphics (figures, graphs, diagrams, etc.) are just as easily accessed.
Got an iPod? Want to take your references (including abstracts) with you? You can with Bookends.
New in this version:
• First-run installation of the Bookends add-in and template for Word X now works consistently (requires that Microsoft Office X be in the user's Applications folder).
• Adding letters after dates for an author-date formatted bibliography (e.g. 2003a, 2003b) works again.
• Journal Glossary names with accented characters correctly find a match during bibliography generation.
• The last column in the Hits Window can no longer be resized by the user (which incorrectly opened an empty and unused column).
• Import filters recognize the tag for a new reference only if the match begins on the first character of the text. This ensures that a false "tag" in the middle of the text doesn't match.
• Importing BibTeX: a closed curly bracket (right brace) is retained if it is part of a formatting instruction and occurs at the end of a field.
• Importing BibTeX: the characters '},' (without the apostrophes) are not removed on import if they are in the middle of a field.
• Setting certain options in BibTeX Preferences no longer disables the BibTeX group box.
• Commas are inserted in author names in which the surname is last when importing BibTeX references with author parsing enabled.
• BibTeX super (^{}) and subscript (_{}) codes are inserted correctly in BibTeX-formatted references.
Reference Miner 1.2.1 is a perfect (and free) companion for Bookends that uses the Internet to search PubMed, Amazon, and the Library of Congress for articles and books. Bookends users can save references and cover art by drag and drop. Download from URL below.
System requirements:
• Bookends runs natively in Mac OS X as well as Mac OS 9.x.
Bookends sells for $99.00
You can try a fully functional (but limited to 50 references per database) version of Bookends before you buy.
For more information, visit:
http://www.sonnysoftware.com/
Smart Groups! DV Cataloging Tool Foottrack Updated
-T-Squared Software has updated FootTrack to version 1.6 with some great new features. FootTrack is a Mac OS X application that allows you to capture, catalog and easily search your digital video tape footage. You can think of it as iPhoto for your digital video. The new features:
· You can now have groups of clips that are independent of any tapes.
· Smart groups. Familiar with smart playlists in iTunes or smart albums in iPhoto? Now you have the same functionality in FootTrack. Want every clip from 2003 in a group? How about every video clip with no description yet? No problem!
· When you select the top level 'Tapes' or 'Groups' you now see a table view that shows information about all your cataloged tapes or groups.
· You can now easily see which clips have been compressed and/or have their original DV clip available at a glance. Each clip now has a "C" or "D" badge at the bottom corner of the clip image where appropriate.
· Fixed a bug where importing analog footage that had been moved to a digital tape was losing it's timecode on import.
· Some performance enhancements and minor bug fixes.
· Updated help files with many new pages
A non-expiring, non-hassling demo version is available at:
http://foottrack.com/download.html
FootTrack is available in both English and Dutch (with German in the works). A single user license costs $39.95US. Educational pricing is also available.
This update is free for all registered users.
For more information, visit:
http://foottrack.com
Adobe Creative Suite Now Shipping With PageMaker Plug-in Pack
Adobe Systems Incorporated has announced that the Adobe PageMaker Plug-in Pack is now shipping with Adobe Creative Suite. The PageMaker Plug-in Pack is a set of innovative plug-ins, templates and training materials that help PageMaker users make a quick and successful transition to InDesign CS software, Adobe's award-winning layout and design package that has established itself as a key component of the Adobe Creative Suite.
Adobe Creative Suite combines new full-version upgrades of the company's market-leading creative professional software -- Adobe Photoshop CS, Adobe Illustrator CS, Adobe InDesign CS, and Adobe GoLive CS. It also incorporates Acrobat 6.0 Professional, and introduces the innovative Version Cue(TM) file version manager. The Plug-in Pack adds essential PageMaker capabilities to Adobe Creative Suite, a complete design platform that gives creative professionals, business users and educators everything they need to publish content to print and the Web faster, more easily, and more efficiently than ever.
"Adobe Creative Suite with the PageMaker Plug-in Pack is the best way for PageMaker users to migrate to Adobe's next generation creative applications, including InDesign CS," said Jim Heeger, senior vice president of Creative Professional Products at Adobe. "Millions of PageMaker customers can now take advantage of the new levels of integration across Adobe Creative Suite components, as well as the performance enhancements and advanced design capabilities that enable our customers to push the boundaries of creativity."
The Plug-in Pack includes familiar features such as automated bullets and numbering, Data Merge, the Position tool, which works similarly to the Crop tool in PageMaker, the ability to switch keyboard shortcuts in InDesign CS to match PageMaker 7.0 shortcuts, and over 80 new professional templates, based on real world projects, created by well known designers, including: Clement Mok of The Office of Clement Mok; Roberto de Vicq of HarperCollins; and Matteo Bologna of Mucca Design Corp. The templates jump-start the process of creating corporate identity kits, advertisements and book jackets, among other design projects, helping solve the blank page syndrome by giving users a place to start.
PageMaker users also can take advantage of advanced design capabilities -- such as drop shadows, superior typographical and editable transparency controls -- through InDesign CS. Compatible with the latest hardware and operating systems, including Mac OS X Panther, InDesign CS also supports PageMaker workflows via the inclusion of enhanced versions of Story Editor and Control palette, as well as native file support for Photoshop CS and Illustrator CS assets.
"As a former PageMaker user, I am thrilled to see that Adobe has enhanced and extended some of the most-loved features of PageMaker to InDesign CS with the PageMaker Plug-in Pack," said Jack Connick, president and graphic designer, Jack Connick Creative Services. "For PageMaker users who have been waiting to upgrade to InDesign because of PageMaker features they felt they would miss, the wait is over."
Any customer who currently has a copy of Photoshop (purchased either as a standalone product or part of an Adobe Collection) can upgrade to Adobe Creative Suite Premium Edition for an estimated street price of US$749, or the Standard Edition for US$549. Estimated street price for the Adobe Creative Suite Premium Edition is US$1229 and US$999 for the Standard Edition. For more detailed information about the Adobe Creative Suite, please visit:
http://www.adobe.com/creativesuite
Adobe Creative Suite for Mac OS X 10.2.4 or later, Microsoft Windows 2000 with Service Pack 2, and Windows XP Professional and Home Edition, is currently available in the United States and Canada through Adobe Authorized Resellers and the Adobe Store at:
http://www.adobe.com/store
Linksys and Netopia Team to Offer Parental Control Services to Home Network Users
Linksys, a division of Cisco Systems Inc. and a leading provider of broadband, wireless and networking hardware for the consumer and Small Office/Home Office, and Netopia, Inc., a market leader in broadband equipment and software, today announced they have teamed to offer a Parental Control Service to select Linksys home networking customers. Linksys will incorporate Netopia Parental Controls into its flagship Wireless-G Broadband Router with SpeedBooster (model number WRT54GS), which is now available nationwide at leading electronics superstores, through major online retailers, and other Linksys resellers.
"This new offering underscores our commitment to providing complete best-in-class solutions to our customers," said Victor Tsao, Vice President and General Manager of Linksys. "Netopia's Parental Control service improves the value of our products and offers parents an effective way to safeguard their families as they install broadband home networking."
The Linksys Parental Control Service provides parents a centralized, secure, flexible and easy-to-use management tool that can help protect their families from the perils of the Internet.
"As households continue to deploy broadband and Wi-Fi connections which deliver content and connectivity, a simple to use Parental Controls service becomes more important to parents who want to protect their children from inappropriate Internet content. This Parental Controls offering lets Linksys provide additional value to its customers," said Alan Lefkof, Netopia's President and CEO.
The Parental Control service uses a thin-client model, delivered on the Broadband Router, which functions as the "choke point" of Internet access going into a home. This solution automatically covers all Internet-capable devices (wired or wireless) on the home network and can deliver far stronger protection than desktop or ISP-based parental control software that is installed separately on each computer. While family-specific security functions are embedded in the WRT54GS, the core service is network-hosted in order to minimize deployment costs and offer the most robust features.
Parental Control Service Highlights
The Linksys/Netopia's Parental Control solution is the ideal home networking service delivering protection and peace of mind to broadband networked households. Advanced features include:
1 Manages access for all major Internet applications -- web
browsing, e-mail, chat, and instant messaging.
2 Enforces time-of-day and day-of-week restrictions
3 Router-based protection of all Internet-capable devices on the
home network including desktops, laptops, game consoles and
PDAs.
4 Support for popular operating systems including Windows (98,
ME, 2000, NT, and XP), Mac OS, Palm OS, Windows CE, Linux and
others.
5 Internet usage and governance based on personal profiles,
rather than devices, to reflect individual maturity levels and
needs.
6 Web site filtering based on millions of URL classifications
within 18 separate categories including, for example,
pornography or violence, which are updated on a daily basis by
an independent rating service.
7 Web site classifications can be overridden on a case-by-case
basis based on parental judgment.
8 Online reporting to monitor household Internet activities
(including Web surfing and chat), on-demand from any location
inside or outside the home network.
9 Intuitive setup and management allows any parent or guardian
to increase the safety of their household's Internet access.
Linksys will provide a 30-day trial of the Parental Control Service with the purchase of the Wireless-G Broadband Router with SpeedBooster. If customers sign up for the extended service of the Parental Controls service within the first 15 days of the trial, they can take advantage of special pricing:
$24.95 for 6 months
$39.95 for 1 year
$59.95 for 2 years
For less than 10 cents a day, the Linksys Parental Control Service makes it easy for users to try to keep their families safe on the Internet, by monitoring web browsing, email and instant messaging, enforcing time-of-day restrictions, and providing complete activity reports by family member.
For more information, visit:
http://www.linksys.com
http://www.netopia.com
Charles W. Moore
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