To reduce the database size and server load, all articles from 2004 or earlier are archived here.
- December 2004 (52)
- November 2004 (33)
- October 2004 (54)
- September 2004 (43)
- August 2004 (41)
- July 2004 (57)
- June 2004 (82)
- May 2004 (53)
- April 2004 (45)
- March 2004 (49)
- February 2004 (40)
- January 2004 (46)
- December 2003 (44)
- November 2003 (48)
- October 2003 (57)
- September 2003 (45)
- August 2003 (54)
- July 2003 (62)
- June 2003 (46)
- May 2003 (47)
- April 2003 (51)
- March 2003 (63)
- February 2003 (69)
- January 2003 (72)
- December 2002 (63)
- November 2002 (70)
- October 2002 (72)
- September 2002 (73)
- August 2002 (41)
- July 2002 (39)
- June 2002 (19)
- May 2002 (3)
- April 2002 (1)
Mon, 13 Sep 2004
Hansen's TEC-BASE 2.0
Hansen's TEC-BASE 2 (a product of Hansen Solutions, Inc. - http://www.hansensolutions.com) is a customized data management tool for school and business technology coordinators. Built in FileMaker Pro, Hansen's TEC-BASE allows tech support personnel to effectively track hardware and software inventory, record IP addresses and data drop locations, manage user accounts and group memberships, and prepare purchase orders. Work orders submitted online by users are automatically routed to the appropriate technicians. Designed by a K-12 tech director with feedback from his staff, TEC-BASE's Web interface has proven to improve communication between technical support personnel and users. Priced at a fraction of comparable products (starting at $100), Hansen's TEC-BASE is a perfect solution for schools and small businesses with small budgets and big needs. Supporting technology in both school and corporate environments can be overwhelming, Hansen's TEC-BASE may be just what you need to get things organized.
Additional details, price lists, and a trial version can be found on the Hansen Solutions, Inc. Website (http://www.hansensolutions.com).
Apple issues revised security update
Apple has released a revised version of last week's Security Update 2004-09-07, which fixes problems with Safari & FTP server in the original security update. The new update is now available via the Software Update panel and can be installed over the previous update.
More information about this update is available at http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61798 .
Buena Software Releases Swatch Buckler for After Effects
CHICAGO, IL: Buena Software, Inc. today announced the release of Swatch Buckler for Adobe After Effects 6.0 and later for Mac OS and Windows. Swatch Buckler provides After Effects users with a floating color swatch palette with integrated color picker. The product sells for $24.95 and can be downloaded from Buena’s site at http://www.buena.com/swatchbuckler.shtml .
Swatch Buckler presents the user with a floating palette containing a set of color swatches that can hold as many colors as your computer has memory for. It also includes an integrated color picker for choosing new colors. It has the ability to read and write Photoshop color swatch files, and provides an eyedropper tool that allows the user to choose colors from anywhere on screen. In addition, it lets users sort their colors by luminance, hue, saturation, and value, or red, green, and blue color channels.
“Swatch Buckler brings one of users’ favorite features from Photoshop into After Effects,” said Darrin Cardani, Buena Software’s president. “Motion graphics designers will appreciate the ability to keep around a palette of related colors for choosing text, solids, and paint colors for a particular project. And video editors will love the ability to be able to choose an exact color from their video clips.”
The product, which works on both Mac OS and Windows operating systems, can be downloaded for free from Buena Software’s web site at http://www.buena.com/swatchbuckler.shtml. Users can obtain a free serial number each day to test it out by going to http://www.buena.com/sb/sbserial.shtml.
Buena Software, Inc. offers video, image and audio processing software and development services. For more information about their consulting services and/or products, visit their web site at http://www.buena.com/.
Pressrelease: iURL 1.2.3 for OS X released
Kiel, Germany (September 12, 2004) - turingart [http://www.turingart.com/] is pleased to announce the immediate availability of iURL 1.2.3 for Mac OS X.
iURL is a universal URL management system for internet power users and multimedia designers. iURL is designed to be the one central place, which stores any kind of URL, being local file:// URL or internet based http://, https://, ftp://, aim:// or virtually
any other URL type.
iURL is full featured. Smart groups organize URLs by means of URL and keyword filters. Besides URL management, iURL includes a download manager, a unique Discover feature to find embedded URLs in web pages and a Multiload feature, which downloads
multiple files using one URL.
The most current version includes besides graphics preview, a new Quicktime preview feature, which read files from local volumes or streams media through the internet. Preview now shows GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, MOV, AIFF, MP3 and more formats.
Besides this, iURL integrates well with OS X and provides nice drag and drop functionality.
The unregistered version limits the number of URLs in each database. Furthermore, it limits the number of downloads. Registered iURL removes that restriction.
iURL is EUR 19.95 to register.
Download locations:
English localization: http://www.turingart.com/downloads/addURL.sit
German localization: http://www.turingart.com/downloads/addURL-DE.sit
New version of biOpen for life scientists
AbOrygen announces the release of biOpen 1.1, a new DNA and protein sequence analysis and 3D structure visualisation software with a a unique modular architecture. Main feature in this release is the multiple sequence alignment editor which allows you to import and edit your alignments in the software. A new demo version of biOpen is now available to download at http://www.aborygen.com/
Navicat (MySQL GUI) for Mac OS X database administration released!
Mac database tool - Navicat 5.2.2 is released.
What's new in this version:
This new version provides a powerful scheduling feature. This feature enables user to create a shedule for their backup, database migration and execution of saved queries. Furthermore, batch job capability is available for scheduling of multi-tasks.
Navicat, a database manager from PremiumSoft, is an integrated GUI tool let you perform MySQL administration and database development in an easier way. Advanced features allow you to import/export data, backup, transfer database from server to server, create query and manage local or remote MySQL server.
An evaluation version of Navicat for Mac OS X 10.1 or later is avaliable for download at http://www.navicat.com/shareware.php3