News Archive for 01/07/15

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c|net: Is movie piracy the next big front?

07/15, 6:45pm

c|net: Is movie piracy the next big front?

c|net has posted an article discussing the relatively new area of movie piracy, noting that the RIAA's legal forces have largely been concentrated on Napster, but the article notes that the film Snatch has "earned the dubious distinciton of being the most-pirated movie on the Internet, according to a survey released this week."

Ziff Davis: How important is Apple to you?

07/15, 6:40pm

Ziff Davis: How important is Apple to you?

MacNN Reader Rusty Powell has notified us that a Ziff Davis poll asks "How important is Apple/Macintosh to you?" The poll is located on the lower right portion of the page.

CDFinder cataloger updated for speed

07/15, 6:20pm

CDFinder cataloger updated for speed

CDFinder 3.1.2, Norbert M. Doerner's disk cataloging tool, has been updated to improve speed and fix several bugs.[Classic: 716 KB, Carbon: 632 KB]

Jasmine 1.0.5 adds VBR MP3 import capability

07/15, 6:15pm

Jasmine 1.0.5 adds VBR MP3 import capability

Jasmine v1.0.5, a multitrack editor/mixer, now includes Variable Bit Rate (VBR) MP3 import/convert capabilities as well as tape display and other bug fixes.

PBG3 replacement adapters are silver model

07/15, 6:15pm

PBG3 replacement adapters are silver model

A MacNN reader has informed us that he has received a replacement adapter for the PowerBook G3 series adapter he sent to Apple about a week after he ordered it. The adapter is one of the new "silver discus" models, not the thin black model that was shipped with the older PowerBook G3 portables.

XMorph 2.0: new interface for OS X theme util

07/15, 1:50pm

XMorph 2.0: new interface for OS X theme util

XMorph 2.0 and XMorph 2.0 DE are "completely" rebuilt versions of the OS X theme tools with a new interface. The Developer Edition (DE) contains a class that REALBasic developers can use to write their own theme switching programs that use the TPKG format. [XM, XMDE]

SampleTank Free Piano: VST instrument demo

07/15, 1:50pm

SampleTank Free Piano: VST instrument demo

IK Multimedia has released SampleTank Free Piano, a limited, freeware version of SampleTank, a software sound module which combines a sophisticated sampler/synth engine with hundreds of high quality multisampled sounds, into a VST instrument. It plays a single instrument, the smallest grand-piano included in the full version.

ClipCleaner 1.0b3: freeware clipboard util

07/15, 1:45pm

ClipCleaner 1.0b3: freeware clipboard util

ClipCleaner 1.0b3 is a freeware utility for "cleaning up clipboard text, with functions such as converting straight quotes to smart quotes, converting ligatures , converting em and en dashes, removing multiple spaces & returns, guessing paragraphs from email text, removing quote characters (""), converting ellipsis, removing spaces before punctuation, removing spaces at the start of paragraphs and more..."

One Trick Pony 1.0: folder monitor utility

07/15, 1:40pm

One Trick Pony 1.0: folder monitor utility

One Trick Pony 1.0 is a freeware application that will monitor a 'hot folder' and send an email if someone added or removed an item."

iOrganize 3.5 has new printing, OS X features

07/15, 1:35pm

iOrganize 3.5 has new printing, OS X features

The shareware advanced notepad utility, iOrganize 3.5, adds new print commands, preferences to customize font display, as well as several MacOS X-specific changes such as mouse wheel support. [Classic, Carbon]