July 02 - 04:30pm EDT   iPresentee has announced iWeb Intros, a set of Flash welcome clips meant for Apple's iWeb design tool. The templates can either stand on their own, or be incorporated into an existing static template. Arrangements in the initial package include Desert, Groove, Paint, Splatter, Dreamy Intro and Multilingual Greetings. [full story]

July 01 - 11:55pm EDT   Gridiron Software has launched its workflow tool for professional product management, Gridiron Flow. The application provides creative professionals and workgroups with the ability to see, access and share project files within one interface. Gridiron Flow was recently available as a public beta and has added several new features with its full release, such as Share Maps and support for Adobe CS4. Other functions provide users with real-time access tracking, and time-tracking of how much time was spent on a file or project. [full story]

July 01 - 11:45pm EDT   Electric Rain has released Swift 3D 6.0, the latest update to its standalone 3D modeling and animation tool. Swift 3D allows designers to build and export vector and raster-based 3D animations for Macromedia Flash, as well as QuickTime, AVI and other formats. Version 6 delivers additional support for Boolean Operations, bump map texture, and soft shadow, and is said to provide five-times faster Raster Rendering speeds. Support has also been added that allows users to export to Papervision 3D 2.0 and Collada .dae formats, while automatically creating the full Papervision project. [full story]

July 01 - 09:55pm EDT   The Omni Group on Wednesday released OmniGraphSketcher 1.0, a program designed to help users build graphs for presentations. The tools combine data plotting capabilities of charting applications, but with a simple interface similar to a basic drawing program. [full story]

July 01 - 09:20pm EDT   Syntext has released its Serna Free XML editor as open-source software. The application is a WYSIWYG XML editor designed to help writers freely author XML documents and allows users to work with DITA, DocBook and other common XML formats. To help in reducing time from the authoring process, composite documents are rendered using XSLT and XSL-FO, in order to achieve a print-like sequence. Other features include full support for UNICODE, and a multilingual spell checking function based on Aspell library. [full story]

July 01 - 04:30pm EDT   LightWork Design has announced the latest version of its 3D rendering engine, LightWorks 8.1. The code is designed for developers of 3D graphics software, and allows them to create a wide range of rendering functions and simulated effects such as radiosity and ambient occlusion. Version 8.1 focuses on real-time rendering, and includes improvements to EPix output such as anti-aliasing. When using programmable shading, real-time rendering has been given support for soft shadows and shadow catching. [full story]

June 30 - 03:40pm EDT   Extensis has released Portfolio Server 9, an upgraded backbone for its digital asset management suite. Groups using the software can more rapidly share media files across a network, while also handling tasks like file conversion, applying metadata, or tracking license and copyright restrictions. Server 9 incorporates a Flex-based web client, which duplicates functions of the dedicated client but with more freedom of movement. [full story]

June 29 - 09:50pm EDT   In brief: Tenonedesign.com has announced its $500 art challenge for all Pogo Stylus users who draw, sketch and doodle with its touch-screen tool. AmazingMail.com has introduced its latest web-to-print service for the iPhone that allows developers to integrate on-demand printing capabilities, enabling users to send personalized mail directly from the iPhone. Rexi Media has launched a new application for delivering professional presentation training to iPhone users. [full story]

June 29 - 04:55pm EDT   callas has posted an update to pdfToolbox, its signature publishing suite. The software is claimed to handle every stage of PDF workflow, from initial creation through to font and color management, as well as preflight. Layers allow users to selective combine or separate elements. Version 4 lets users generate a PDF directly from layers or layer views; the feature primarily aids in creating alternate versions of a document, such as foreign translations. [full story]

June 27 - 10:05am EDT   App4Mac has released two new software updates, Sequence 2.1and Twin 1.1. Sequence allows users to capture and save an image or movie of their screen, in a variety of different formats to the clipboard. Version 2.1 of the program delivers improved preferences, enhanced performance and user feedback, support for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, and a variety of bug fixes. Additional features provide a voice recording function, and the ability to simultaneously record from a webcam and the user’s screen. Each video or screenshot can be e-mailed or uploaded to the web for sharing with other users. [full story]