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• e-on software today offered Bryce 5 users a limited-time special competitive upgrade offer to Vue d'Esprit 4, its natural scenery animation and rendering tool. A special price of $100 is available through May 12-- a 50% savings of the regular price and a savings of $70 over the regular competitive upgrade price of $170.


• Isadora 0.9.9b11 is a graphic programming environment that provides interactive control over digital media, with special emphasis on the real-time manipulation of digital video. It adds support sound output to multi-channel sound output devices, communication with other networked copies of Isadora, and the ability to capture live input (video and/or audio) to disk. [6.5MB]


• Melonsoft has released PianistEnvy 1.1, an update to its instrument keyboard application. The new release improves on PianistEnvy's usability with a new Rollovers feature, which allows the piano keys to be played with a quick drag of the mouse. PianistEnvy ($5) allows anyone with a Mac and QuickTime to instantly use 120+ instruments built-into Apple's QuickTime software. [Classic, OSX]


• TennisAce 1.2 lets you track your performance against any number of players: "View head-to-head statistics, track court fees and prize money, or print fun awards for your partners. Shortcuts and customizable defaults make data entry as easy as clicking a mouse." A single user license costs $25. [Classic, OSX]


• BeLight Software today announced it would ship its Business Card Composer application in the middle of May. The Mac OS X application guides users through the card creation process and ships with over 500 various images and backgrounds, around 100 ready business card designs. It features a built-in automatic background generator as well as special effects, text, masking, and other gradient/fill tools.

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