http://www.macnn.com/ MacNN is the leading source for news about Apple and the Mac industry. It offers news, reviews, discussion, tips, troubleshooting, links, and reviews every day. The best place for Mac News. Period. en-us http://images.macnn.com/images/macnn-logo-bw.gif http://www.macnn.com/ http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/07/08/xmenu.easyfind.updated/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0907/devontech-freeware-08.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />DEVONtechnologies has released two freeware updates, launching XMenu 1.9 and EasyFind 4.5 with new features and bug fixes. XMenu has new menu icons for easier recognition and also adds a snippets menu in a cascading structure that supports the user's inserting plain and rich text snippets, clippings, and Internet location files as single menu choices. From that point large numbers of rich text can... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/07/08/xmenu.easyfind.updated/ Thu, 09 Jul 2009 01:05:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/01/31/aac.hierarchy.patents/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0801/31-patent-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />The US Patent and Trademark Office today published 11 of Apple's patent applications. Among the 11, a patent regarding AAC audio bit allocation, as well as one pertaining to hierarchical menus stand out. Apple has presented a concept for perceptual audio encoding, a bit allocation technique that is designed to reduce the size of a file by finding a perfect balance of quality versus compression. Wh... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/01/31/aac.hierarchy.patents/ Thu, 31 Jan 2008 23:15:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/01/22/you.control.16.on.leopard/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0801/22-youcontrol-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />You Software today unveiled You Control 1.6, an update to its menu creation utility, adding compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, as well as a number of enhancements based around Leopard technologies. You Control can now interface with Leopard's new iCal format, allowing users to view their appointments and other iCal data. Performance with all of the components has been improved for both Leopa... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/01/22/you.control.16.on.leopard/ Tue, 22 Jan 2008 22:15:00 GMT