Apple releases Aperture 3; update includes Faces, Places & Brushes
Dennis Sellers 
Feb 9, 2010 at 9:00am
Apple has introduced Aperture 3, the next major release of its photo editing and management software, with over 200 new features including Faces, Places and Brushes. Building on the innovative Faces and Places features introduced in iPhoto ’09, Aperture 3 makes it even easier and faster to organize large photo libraries, says Phil Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing.
Apple second largest smartpthone vendor in the US in December
Dennis Sellers Feb 8, 2010 at 7:30pm
comScore, which measures the digital world, released data from the comScore MobiLens service, reporting key trends in the U.S. mobile phone industry over the three month period between September and December 2009.
Pacific WebWorks to release Mac compatible WebWizard 5
Dennis Sellers Feb 9, 2010 at 10:00am
Pacific WebWorks will release WebWizard 5 early next week. This product, which will be optional for a brief time before becoming mandatory for customers within the next 60 days, will support Mac OS X, Windows 7 and Linux operating systems.
Kerio Connect Groupware Server targets organizations with multiple branch offices
Dennis Sellers Feb 9, 2010 at 9:00am
Kerio is announcing Kerio Connect 7 at this week’s Macworld Conference & Expo. Previously known as Kerio MailServer, marks the messaging server’s entry into the market of midsize, multi-office deployments, giving customers an option to link standalone servers into a single distributed domain system.
‘MacTech’ releases comprehensive virtualization benchmarks
Dennis Sellers Feb 9, 2010 at 8:00am
MacTech Magazine—a monthly magazine focused on the Mac at the technical level (and for which Yours Truly is a contributing writer)—has released an extensive benchmark study of virtualization solutions running on Intel-based Macs.
An iPad by any other name…
Dennis Sellers Feb 9, 2010 at 7:00am
An iPad by any other name would still be an iPad. And another name would probably have been a better choice for several reasons.
Expo to offer largest ‘face-to-face viewing’ of iPhone, iPod touch apps
Dennis Sellers Feb 9, 2010 at 12:00am
Macworld 2010 will purportedly host the largest face-to-face viewing of applications for Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch devices, IDG World Expo, owner of Macworld 2010, has announced.
‘MacVoices’ continues down the ‘Road to Macworld’—the importance of attending
Dennis Sellers Feb 8, 2010 at 11:00pm
MacVoices continues the “Road to Macworld 2010” series.
Smart Slate available for Mac users
Dennis Sellers Feb 8, 2010 at 10:00pm
Smart Technologies says the Smart Slate WS200 wireless slate is now available for use on the Mac platform. It enables teachers and students to interact with digital lessons projected on a screen, interactive whiteboard, interactive display or interactive pen display from anywhere in the classroom.
nova media unveils synchronization solution for LG phones and Mac OS X
Dennis Sellers Feb 8, 2010 at 9:00pm
nova media has unveiled FoneSync for LG phones, an utility to synchronize address book contacts and iCal calendars between Mac OS X and LG phones. The program currently works with the phone models HB620T, KF750 and KU990.
Adobe on Flash bug: sorry ‘bout that
Dennis Sellers Feb 8, 2010 at 7:46pm
Adobe Systems has apologized for letting a 16-month-old bug in Flash Player “languish without a patch, even though it updated the popular plug-in four times since the flaw was reported,” reports Computerworld.
iPhone/iPod apps for Feb. 8
Dennis Sellers Feb 8, 2010 at 7:00pm
Here are the latest iPhone/iPod touch/iPod apps announced. You can find ‘em at the Apple App Store.
Mac software updates for Feb. 8
Dennis Sellers Feb 8, 2010 at 6:00pm
ZiggySoft has released a new version (2.3.7) of iWeb Valet, a tool to enhance and upload iWeb pages. The upgrade: adds basic support for international fonts; removes FTP real-time logging to increase listing speed; corrects an iDisk transfer bug; and enhances the Text menu.
Macsimum Recommended Reading’ for Feb. 8
Dennis Sellers Feb 8, 2010 at 5:00pm
“Ten Myths of Apple’s iPad, Number 6: It Needs HDMI for HD video output: Here’s segment five in my series taking on iPad myths: no the iPad doesn’t need an HDMI 720p HDTV output.”—Roughly Drafted Magazine
Label Interactive to release GameTable, a virtual board, games card app for the iPad
Dennis Sellers Feb 8, 2010 at 4:17pm
Label Interactive plans to release GameTable, which it says is the world’s first virtual game table application for the Apple iPad. GameTable provides all of the pieces necessary for iPad owners to play such games as Checkers, Chess, Backgammon, Poker, Solitaire and more.
Intel unveils Itanium 9300 processor
Dennis Sellers Feb 8, 2010 at 3:16pm
Intel has introduce the Itanium processor 9300 series, previously codenamed “Tukwila,” which purportedly delivers more than double the performance of its predecessor, boosts scalability and adds reliability features to the Itanium platform.
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An iPad by any other name…
By Dennis Sellers 
Feb 9 at 7:00am
An iPad by any other name would still be an iPad. And another name would probably have been a better choice for several reasons.
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- An iPad by any other name…
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