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Mellel 1.6.8 Released: Panther Compatibility And Several Bug Fixes

RedleX have released Mellel 1.6.8, an update to its multilingual word processor for Mac OS X. This release fixes a few small problems with Mellel under Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther) and adds several bug fixes.

New Mellel 1.6.8 features in detail:

• Panther Fix: Fixed a bug with response for AppleEvents coming from Bookends. • Panther Fix: Keyboard navigation problems Shift+Left/Right Arrow, Option+Left/Right Arrow, Option+Shift+Left/Right Arrow.

• Improved Dutch Localisation

• Hyphen, Non Breaking Hyphen, Figure dash emulated: In fonts that do not include those characters they are emulated by using the minus character.

• Improved Line Breaking Behaviour: Mellel will break a line before a slash (solidus).

• Improved Shareware Limitation Warning: Users are now advised that there are limitations to using the unregistered version (Printing with a watermark) in the registration prompt screen and before printing.

• Zero Underline Problem Fixed: When fonts have a zero weight for Underline Mellel will ignore that setting and will display a default underline.

• Bug Fix: Fixed a bug that caused Mellel to crash sometimes when clicking in the menu bar after closing a (long) document.

• Bug Fix: Fixed a bug that caused Mellel to crash sometimes when opening and editing files with (long) lists of citation.

Mellel is an advanced, multilingual word processor built for Mac OS X and containing many sophisticated word processing features, with many more to come over the next few months.

Mellel's features include:

• Paragraph styles

• Character styles

• Tables

• Page styles

• FootnotesEndnotes

• Full citation and Bibliographic support

• Extensive RTF import and export support

• Check Spelling As You Type

• Style variations and style replacing

• Advanced and innovative text engine

• Easy to use user-interface

• Headers and footers

• Typographer’s Quotes

• Live changes of attributes

• Innovative tabs

• Multilingual support, including CJK languages, Arabic, Farsi, Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew, and more.

• Image placing and resizing

• Insert special characters

• Right to left writing support

• Services, spelling and other OS X features

• Real-time word count

• Keyboard navigation and selection

• Contextual Menus

• And much more

To come in Mellel 1.7 and 1.8 are an outline tool, numbered and bulleted lists, index, table of contents, columns, text flow around images, long-document management tools, and much more.

Mellel can be purchased for US$25.

For more details about Mellel:

http://www.redlers.com/mellel.html

To Download Mellel:

http://downloads.redlers.com/mellel/mellel.dmg.sit

Bookends 7.7.1 Bibliography & Reference Management Application

Announcing Bookends 7.7.1 reference management and bibliography software for Macintosh (and Mac OS X),and introducing Reference Miner 1.0.1, the perfect (and free) companion for Bookends.

Bookends 7.7.1 and the Mac OS X word processor Mellel now work together to integrate manuscript creation with reference and bibliography management. We are currently offering a 20% discount to Mellel users who purchase Bookends at the full or student price.

Reference Miner is a new free application that uses the Internet to search Amazon sites for books and PubMed for articles. Even better, Bookends users can save references and cover art they find by dragging and dropping them onto a database window.

Bookends is a full-featured and cost-effective bibliography/reference and information management system for students and professionals.

Bookends runs natively in Mac OS X as well as Mac OS 9.x.

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.

"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:

• Cosmetic changes for compatibility with Panther (Mac OS 10.3).

• The Show Hits Window and Show Palette menu items have been moved to the Window menu.

• A keyboard shortcut for Peek (Shift-Command-P).

System requirements:

• Mac OS 8.6 or higher

Bookends sells for$99.00

For more information, visit:

http://www.sonnysoftware.com/

Free Sorenson Video 3.3 Pro Codec Update for Mac OS X Panther

Sorenson Media has announced today an update to the Macintosh version of the Sorenson Video 3.1 Pro video codec. The Sorenson Video 3.3 Pro video codec addresses a compatibility issue with Apple's Mac OS X Panther. During Panther pre-release testing, the Sorenson Video 3 Pro codec was not listed within the Apple QuickTime codec options; however, the 3.3 update resolves this compatibility issue.

Sorenson Squeeze 3 Compression Suite and Sorenson Video 3.1 Macintosh customers are able to download the free Sorenson Video 3.3 Pro video codec update today by visiting.
http://www.sorenson.com/upgrades

New XpertMart POS & Inventory Control Software for Mac OS X

Dinari Systems LLC has announced the release of its XpertMart Point of Sale and Inventory Control software application for the Macintosh OS X platform.

XpertMart is a complete retail management system specifically designed for retailers of apparel, footwear, accessories and sporting goods. At the heart of XpertMart is a Style/Color/Size1/Size2 matrix used to input quantities into transactions such as Purchase Orders and to display stock levels, sales and other critical data.

"XpertMart gives retailers the tools they need to optimize their inventory for every size and color combination," says Stephen Searfoss, President of Dinari Systems LLC. "Soft good retailers will live or die depending on their ability to keep in stock the sizes and colors customers want to buy."

The release of XpertMart for Mac OS X is significant as for the first time retailers will have a broad range of POS peripherals to work with. XpertMart's Macintosh edition has been certified to be compatible with such popular peripherals as Zebra barcode printers, Symbol barcode scanners, Epson POS printers and MagTek credit card readers among others.

For many years retailers wanting to run a Point of Sale system on their Mac were constrained by limited choices. One of the biggest limiting factors was the scarcity of POS peripherals that were compatible with the Macintosh.

"We are committed to serving the Macintosh market now and into the future," says Searfoss. "Our technology makes us uniquely suited to adapt our software to each new upgrade in the Mac platform."

XpertMart is developed entirely in Java and runs on any ODBC database including InterBase, Oracle, Informix, MySQL and others.

A demo version of XpertMart for Mac OS X is available for immediate download at the website:

http://www.mac-pos.com

Readerware 2.86 for Mac OS X Released

Readerware Corporation has released version 2.86 of all products for Mac OS X.

Readerware is an easy, fast way to catalog your books, music and videos. Have a large collection? The unique Readerware auto-catalog feature lets you scan barcodes, enter ISBNs, LCCNs or UPCs. Readerware does the rest, searching the web and cataloging your books, music and videos. Readerware can merge information from multiple web sites to build the most complete database possible, with cover art. Automatically and effortlessly.

This release includes a number of new features that add to the power and convenience of Readerware products:

Readerware can now catalog your past purchases from

online retailers. A great way to get started with

Readerware products, all your past purchases can be

added to your database in no time. No data entry, no

scanning, everything is imported automatically.

You can now copy/paste links from your browser to

Readerware and catalog an item. Readerware has always

supported drag and drop, copy/paste means that you can

now use Readerware with browsers that do not support

drag and drop.

New video catalog sites added, you can now use

ReaderwareVW auto-catalog with IMDb and Michael's Movie

Mayhem. Australian users can now catalog their DVDs

from FBO Entertainment and DVD Plaza.

New option to allow duplicates in the replace wizard.

You can now scan the same ISBN/UPC more than once. This

can be used by dealers to easily reduce available copies

of sold items.

Some tweaks for Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther) and new G5 Power

Macs.

With the release of 2.86 Readerware continues to offer customers free barcode readers with selected purchases. Readerware Corporation offers bundles of all three products, Readerware for books, ReaderwareAW for CDs and ReaderwareVW for DVD and videos on CD with a free USB barcode reader starting at $85.

Readerware supports virtually any USB barcode reader. So cataloging your books, music and videos is as simple as scanning the barcode. Readerware support for portable barcode readers means that you can scan your items on the shelf instead of dragging them to your computer. Then simply upload the scans directly into Readerware.

Want to catalog a few items or build your database while you browse the web? Readerware drag and drop support will do just that. Find a new CD by a favorite artist? Drag from your browser and drop on Readerware. It is cataloged! It really is that easy.

Palm OS support means you can take your database with you wherever you go.

Readerware Corporation offers three products:

Readerware - The easiest, fastest way to catalog your

books. From a few books to thousands, It will

automatically catalog your library complete with cover

art.

ReaderwareAW - The easiest, fastest way to catalog your

CDs. It will automatically catalog your collection

complete with full track information and cover art. No

need to keep loading CDs into your drive, just scan the

barcode or enter the UPC.

ReaderwareVW - The easiest, fastest way to catalog your

videos. It will automatically catalog your collection,

complete with full credits and cover art. And not just

DVDs but video tapes and LaserDiscs as well.

Readerware Corporation offers single user and client/server versions of all products, prices start at $40 for an individual product or $75 for all three. For a limited time, Readerware Corporation is offering free USB barcode readers with selected bundles:

Readerware Standard Edition Bundle on CD. This includes

all three products, Readerware, ReaderwareAW and

ReaderwareVW on 1 CD. All for $85.00 (US Orders),

$95 (International orders). Includes shipping and a

free USB barcode reader.

Readerware Palm Edition Bundle on CD. This includes

Readerware Standard Edition plus the Palm version of all

three products. All for $95.00 (US Orders), $105

(International orders). Includes shipping and a free

USB barcode reader.

Readerware Client/Server Home Edition Bundle on CD.

This includes all the features of Readerware Palm

Edition plus the Readerware server. You can run all

three products in standalone or client/server mode. All

for $135.00 (US Orders), $145 (International

orders). Includes shipping and a free USB barcode

reader. All products may be downloaded for a free 30

day evaluation from the Readerware web site at

http://www.readerware.com

Latest CINEMA 4D Upgrade Offers Big Punch For A Small Price

MAXON's development cycle continues as another upgrade to CINEMA 4D is available. CINEMA 4D R8.5 provides a host of new features for the basic CINEMA 4D package and the Advanced Render module. This is the third significant upgrade to CINEMA 4D R8, but only the first with a small update fee. MAXON has strived to include something for everyone including numerous workflow enhancements and extra features. Motion graphics artists will no doubt be pleased to hear about great new additions such as FBX support and Vector Motion Blur. And R8.5 also caters for the more general user by offering countless workflow enhancements and powerful new features.

Additions and improvements to the CINEMA 4D basic package include a completely reworked Material Editor. Now users can customize the previews in terms of size and object type to have better visual feedback. All SLA shaders, SLA Baker and DirtyNuts have been fully and seamlessly integrated into the program and enhanced for overall workflow improvement. Full access to all parameters via XPresso means more control over surfaces. New shaders are also part of this upgrade; a new Layer Shader offers stackable material functionality at ease, the new Ripple shader creates amazing water surface effects, and the new SplineShader gives additional control when applying materials onto objects.

Important to all industry professionals is the inclusion of an importer/exporter for the industry-leading FBX format. This format allows users of other production tools in the industry (such as Kaydara's MOTIONBUILDER) to share and exchange not only resources, but in some instances, complete project files with CINEMA 4D.

Other significant augmentations have been made to the Bones system to make them smarter, faster, better and compatible with FBX. Better Boole, the well known Boolean operations plugin, has now been incorporated into the program. Compositing artists will also love the new Camera Mapping Feature, which allows easy 3D compositing without texture distortion.

MAXON has also added a direct menu link from CINEMA 4D to the BuyCreative.com digital marketplace, where creative professionals can showcase and sell their work in 3D models, audio, software and plugins, as well as vector art, textures and more.

Significant enhancements have been added to the Advanced Render module priced at a fraction of their real value. Working with the renowned team at Cebas, MAXON's programming team has added Subsurface Scattering, a sophisticated light distribution algorithm that takes into account the slight translucency and reflective properties of skin and other objects. Also included is Vector Motion Blur, a long awaited feature providing the fastest and most effective blurring of objects in motion. This new feature is completely incorporated into CINEMA 4D and therefore offers motion blur for every object. Additionally, post effects can now be rendered as a separate layer through CINEMA 4D's multipass rendering option. That is an extra-added bonus, especially for After Effects users utilizing the unprecedented AEC output which is already a part of the program. Finally, Object GI rendering rounds out the fantastic feature set of this significant upgrade, by reducing noise in radiosity rendered animations even further.

For more information, visit:

http://www.maxon.net/jumps/cinema4d_r85_e.html

Sketch And Toon for CINEMA 4D

"Sketchy" details are a thing of the past as MAXON announces the availability of Sketch and Toon - a new CINEMA 4D module for non-photorealistic output offering technical illustration styles, advanced cartoon cel and artistic rendering technologies. This exciting new module boasts the most comprehensive feature set of any non-photorealistic renderer on the market.

MAXON went "back to the drawing board" to bring its users the latest in 3D and rendering technologies. Artists can choose from many preset styles and various options to achieve the look they desire. This versatile new module provides the ability to draw lines that match geometry accurately, or create freehand interpretations, or generate distorted styles, or produce cloned variations, or motion lines, or stroke connections and more more more.

Sketch and Toon also goes way beyond adding simple lines to your work. The faces of 3D objects can be "filled in" with shaded, rendered, colored and textured styles incorporating different shaders like cel, hatch and artistic. The final result can be delivered in still images, drawn animations or even vector-based Illustrator files.

Sketch and Toon features three different user levels for fast, simple and streamlined workflow. A multitude of presets is included for immediate quality results. More adventurous users can dig deeper into all aspects of functions for ultimate control. User-created styles can also be saved and loaded as presets for later use or sharing with other artists. Video tutorials are also included at no additional cost to further flatten the learning curve and make artists productive in record time.

Sketch and Toon is fully integrated with CINEMA 4D which not only gives optimum workflow, but opens up a whole wealth of extra possibilities. CINEMA 4D specific features such as Radiosity can be used in conjunction with Sketch and Toon giving artists even more ways to produce an original result.

For more information, visit:

http://www.maxon.net/jumps/cinema4d_mod_sketch_e.html

Panther Compatibility Confirmed For iPrint, PrintMagic, and WebPrint Plus

Steve Becker of macease.com writes:

"I'm pleased to announce that Panther compatibility testing has been completed for iPrint, PrintMagic, and WebPrint Plus and that all three of these highly rated programs are compatible with Panther.

"iPrint, PrintMagic, and WebPrint Plus provide Mac users with unique, powerful, and easy-to-use tools that make them considerably more productive while working with their Macs. Additionally, these programs save Mac users out-of-pocket expense by significantly extending the life of their ink/toner cartridges and by reducing the amount of paper they need to use."

For more information, visit:

http://www.MacEase.com

Softpress Releases Freeway WYSIWYG html Editor Panther Update

Softpress has released an update for the latest versions of its Web-authoring tool Freeway to coincide with the launch of Panther, Apple's latest operating system.

Whether you are an HTML Pro, a designer with traditional training and work-experience or a Novice to the exciting world of the Web - Freeway's integrated design environment makes life easy offering you advanced functionality blended with a superbly accessible user interface. Freeway is designed to encompass the whole workflow, including the production of Web-ready graphic elements, flexible and precise HTML page layout, site upload and automatic site maintenance. In short, it's a complete solution for producing professional-looking Web sites.

"We are delighted at the progress Apple has made with Mac OS X. The productivity improvements found in Panther are another major step forward," said Softpress Managing Director Richard Logan. "We are very pleased to offer a Panther-tuned update to our Pro and Express users."

This update of Freeway also debuts localizations in Swedish and Dutch to join French, German, Italian, Japanese and Spanish. The update can be downloaded free-of-charge by all registered owners of Freeway Pro and Freeway Express. Updater disks may be purchased for $15 post-paid. http://www.softpress.com/panther

The Freeway family of Web-authoring tools allows Macintosh users at all skill levels to create well-designed and dynamic Web sites. Offering a full range of features to support site production and management, Freeway is the tool of choice for creative people who don't see the world as code.

Freeway Express offers home, school and small business users an easy-to-use, accessible and powerful tool to design and build great Web sites - without having to worry about writing code. The "What You See Is What You Get - Really!" approach to Web design means they can start building sites with an idea, not a list of "can't do that in HTML" restrictions.

Freeway Pro 3.5 extends this paradigm by adding great high-end features and workflow improvements without sacrificing the ease of use and direct control over page layout that makes Express so seductive.

FAST Packs, available for both Pro and Express extend Freeway's core functionality. With a choice of the Graphics FAST Pack (for real-time image manipulations), or the Navigation FAST Pack (for constructing complex navigational schemes), users have everything they need to paint their ideas on the canvas of the Web.

System requirements:

• Mac OS 9 - OS X 10.1 or higher

Freeway Pro sells for $249.00

For more information, visit:

http://www.softpress.com/en

Perforce Applauds Apple's Tool Integration, Giving Xcode Developers Powerful Version Control

Perforce Software has announced the integration of its fast Software Configuration Management (SCM) system with Xcode, Apple's newest and most powerful set of development tools. Now Apple developers can be more productive by seamlessly accessing the Perforce source control system directly from their Xcode development environment.

"The push for Apple to implement this integration came from the Mac community," said Christopher Seiwald, founder and chief technology officer of Perforce Software. "And we're happy for the opportunity to show leading edge Macintosh developers the leading edge of SCM."

Specific SCM features available in this integration include: check-in and check-out; file comparison via either the built-in Apple Filemerge tool or UNIX diff; file history; and updates to new and old versions. One important feature, conflict resolution with diff markers, advances concurrent development allowing developers to work on the same file at the same time, and then resolving conflicting entries at check in.

Perforce SCM provides Macintosh developers with the leading and most comprehensive SCM system for the native Mac OS X environment. A high-powered enterprise SCM system, Perforce is a fast and easy-to-use tool for version control, logically packaging changes to multiple files into one unit. Perforce is efficient and flexible, managing project files on local disks and providing for distributed development from remote locations. Perforce's extensive platform support enables Mac developers to share code easily among developers on more than 50 operating systems.

For more information, visit:

http://www.perforce.com

osXigen 2.5

osXigen is a fully featured FTP/SFTP client for Mac OS X. This new version adds compatibility with Mac OS 10.3 "Panther" and some bug fixes.

OsXigen is a fully multithreaded, queue-based FTP/SFTP client developed for the creative professional with powerful workflow features like : BBEdit integration; support for AppleScript, including hot folders and droplets; web site mirroring/synchronization and more.

OsXigen 2.5 is a free upgrade. A single-user license is $20.00 with 5-user and 10-user packs at $80.00 and $140.00 respectively. Prices include full support and upgrades.

For more information refer to:

http://www.osxigen.com

Download from:

http://www.jomosoft.com/download.html

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

Charles W. Moore

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