Briefly: Audio Kontrolreview, Office promo, REALBasic

In brief: We have posted a review of the Audio Kontrol 1, REALbasic Professionals announces membership pricing, "Togg," a new theme for RapidWeaver 4.0 has been released, Xcode 3 unleashed debuts, and users can save 30% off Office 2008 with the purchase of a Mac ... We have posted a review of the Audio Kontrol 1 from Native Instruments, a perfect compact audio interface for today's music producer. It is small, compact, portable, and made of sturdy light-weight aluminum. It has a continuous controller knob, three buttons, a mic or instrument input, a line input, four outputs, a MIDI input and output, and a headphone output. It is a USB 2.0 bus powered interface and all inputs and outputs are balanced.

REALbasic Professionals announces pricing

The Association of REALbasic Professionals today announced the available membership levels as Free, Personal, Professional and Corporate. All memberships (other than Free) give you ARBP voting privileges. Academic discounts are available. A Personal membership, priced at $50, also includes the forums and additionally gives you access to a subset of available discounts. A professional membership, priced at $150, gives you access to everything that ARBP has to offer. This includes the forums, a subscription to REALbasic Developer Magazine, all available software discounts and inclusion in the membership directory

Togg theme for RapidWeaver 4.0

seyDoggy has released a new theme, Tagg, for RapidWeaver 4.0. Tagg is the first in the new Designer theme series. "Tagg is a fun and informal web template that would be perfectly suited to a photography site, music site or technology blog. With modern styling, tag will certainly stand out in a crowd." The theme is priced at $8.24 CAD.

Xcode 3 unleashed debuts

Xcode 3 Unleashed is a new book from developer Fritz Anderson. Anderson leads you through a simple project that covers the entire Xcode 3.x development lifecycle. It includes instruction for building and debugging command-line tools, creating Mac OS X user interfaces, modeling data, localizing languages, compiling applications, and much more. Along the way, he introduces each of Apple's remarkable development tools from the latest version of Interface Builder to Instruments—a powerful new tool for analyzing and optimizing your code.

30% off Office 2008 with purchase of a Mac

A new promotion allows consumers to save up to 30% on Office 2008 for Mac with the purchase of any Mac. Mactopia has a full list of details and participating Apple resellers

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