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Agile Web Solutions releases 1Password 3
After two private betas and a public beta, the well-received Mac OS X password manager 1Password 3 has been officially released.
MacUpdate Desktop 5 adds smart scanning, drops price
A major update to MacUpdate Desktop brings a refined user interface and features such as smart scanning and one-click updating, in addition to a lower price.
More Mac bundles for the masses
TheMacSale 2 and TheMacBundles offer their own respective bundles of Mac software for $50, but at what cost to developers?
Bare Bones Software releases Yojimbo 2.1 update
Barebones Software has announced an update to Yojimbo, its intuitive information organizer. Yojimbo 2.1 includes a few fixes and refinements to version 2.0.
Apple posts Wireless Keyboard Update 2.0
Wireless Keyboard Update 2.0 is available for OS X 10.5.8 and later, allowing access to the "special features" on the Apple Wireless Keyboard.
xGestures updated for Snow Leopard
xGestures is a program that allows mouse movements to trigger menu items, keystrokes, and AppleScripts; it's recently been updated to work with Snow Leopard.
Secrets pref pane updated for Snow Leopard
The Mac preference pane with hundreds of hidden user interface tweaks is updated for Snow Leopard.
New DiskTool Pro update includes CPU meter, improved Snow Leopard support
Macware on Tuesday announced an update to DiskTools Pro, the company’s software utility for hard drive management.
Backblaze opens online backups to businesses
Backblaze has been offering online backup services to individual Mac users since last April. Now it's expanding those services to businesses, too.
1Password 3 beta now open to all
1Password 3, the latest version of Agile Web Solutions's password storage utility for Safari, is now available in beta mode for all interested parties.
First Look: VMware Fusion 3
VMware Fusion3 brings better overall performance and a number of major new features to the virtualization app. Fusion now supports "Aero" 3D effects in Windows 7 and Vista, improves 3D graphics performance, and includes full Snow Leopard support.
ScreenFlow 2.0 adds powerful new editing features
Telestream's already-powerful screencasting studio, ScreenFlow, gets more powerful with version 2.0.
DoorStop X security suite ready for Snow Leopard
In addition to adding Snow Leopard compatibility to the suite's firewall and the firewall advisor, DoorStop X 2.3 also includes a new read-only mode in the firewall for non-admin users while the Who's There? Firewall Advisor offers an improved geo-location service.
Psystar selling software to run Snow Leopard on generic hardware
Psystar has released a product called Rebel EFI, which lets users install Snow Leopard on generic PC hardware.
Mac News Briefs: Chronos rolls out version 8 of SOHO Notes, Organizer
Both the notes management and information organization applications from Chronos feature a slew of new features. Also, Sente announced a new version of its self-titled academic reference manager, while NetNewsWire, Delicious Library, Twitterrific, and Snowtape all saw minor updates.
LaunchBar 5 adds clipboard history, more
The popular launching software LaunchBar has reached version 5, bringing new features such as clipboard history along with it.
Mac News Briefs: Business Card Composer 5 adds map integration
Google Maps integration in the latest version of the business card creation tool lets users include a map and directions on their business cards. Also, Ambrosia Software updated Snapz Pro X and RecoSoft announced a version of its PDF2Office file conversion utility aimed at iWork users.
PhoneView 2.3 can retrieve iPhone MMS, Visual Voicemail
The latest version of Ecamm Network's PhoneView lets you easily archive MMS messages and Visual Voicemail messages from your iPhone onto your Mac.
Mac News Briefs: Acrobat, Reader updates tackle security vulnerability
The 9.2 updates for Acrobat and Adobe Reader address vulnerabilities that could cause the applications to crash and potentially allow an attack to take control of the affected system. Also, SuperDuper and Cocktail both saw maintenance updates released on Tuesday.
Evernote 1.5 gains more languages, fixes, beta option
Evernote, the cross-platform and portable digital filing cabinet, gained a smorgasbord of new features and fixes in its version 1.5 update, including Safari and Windows Ink notes, new language localizations, and the option to go beta.
Mac News Briefs: Logic Pro update enhances features, addresses stability
The minor update to Apple's professional music recording, editing, and mixing software allows Flex Markers to align and snap to MIDI notes, makes performing a punch-in recording with Replace Mode behave correctly, adds an option for latency measurement to he I/O plug-in, and causes TDM plug-ins to behave as expected.
Herald of your email
Herald may be what you're looking for if you previously used Mail.appetizer.
Quicksilver lives again on Snow Leopard
Open-source utility Quicksilver is a jack of all trades; a recent update finally brings it into accord with Snow Leopard.
RIM releases official BlackBerry desktop software for Mac
After a long wait, RIM has released BlackBerry Desktop Manager for Mac, allowing users of the popular mobile platform to sync data with their Macs.
Snow Leopard can once again Growl
The Growl notification framework has been updated for Snow Leopard with the release of Growl 1.2.
Mac News Briefs: PDFpen has new OCR engine
PDFpen 4.5 uses version 15.5 of the OmniPage OCR engine, which should improve accuracy in the PDF editing program. Also updated on Tuesday were Typinator, RealBasic and Real Studio, VideoFlash Converter, and Djay.
BusyCal 1.0 is calendaring for power users
BusyMac has released version 1.0 of its new calendar software, BusyCal, which aims to compensate for many of the shortcomings of Apple's iCal.
Latest version of StuffIt Deluxe incorporates cloud computing
Among its other new features, StuffIt Deluxe 2010 supports the new "cloud-based" StuffIt Connect service, which lets you share large files with other users more easily.
Mac News Briefs: Major update for Workgroups suite
Workgroups 2010, the productivity management software suite for marketing, creating design, packaging, and prepress workgroups, features a new Document Organizer and browser-based proofing tool. Also, IntelliScanner released a sub-$100 version of its scanner-based organizational tool, and a Carbon Copy Cloner update now works with Snow Leopard’s HFS+ filesystem compression.
Mac News Briefs: Tidy Up updated for Snow Leopard, iTunes 9
In announcing the 2.1 update to Tidy Up, Hyperbolic Software also said it was selling the software at a lower price for a limited time. Also, Zengobi released Curio 6, while Skype issued an update to stamp out some bugs.