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/09/10/30/noise.buster.now.works.with.adobe.elements.cs4/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0910/akvtemp.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />AKVIS has announced a new version of its photo enhancement tool, Noise Buster 7.0. The application is designed to remove noise in the color and luminance layers of images, both separately and together. The upgrade delivers a series of new features including support for Adobe Photoshop Elements 8, 64-bit Adobe Photoshop CS4, and Snow Leopard, as well as improvements to both the noise reduction algo... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/10/30/noise.buster.now.works.with.adobe.elements.cs4/ Sat, 31 Oct 2009 03:50:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/05/19/tuneup.plugin.updated/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0905/tuneup.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />TuneUp Media has updated its iTunes add-on, and has announced that Apple will sell the plug-in online and at its retail stores. The TuneUp interface has been updated to closely resemble iTunes, and new features have been added. The software takes an "audio fingerprint" of songs to help users identify and organize tracks, find album art, and locate information about artists and concerts.... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/05/19/tuneup.plugin.updated/ Tue, 19 May 2009 22:30:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/02/21/macuarium.10.anniversary/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0902/computerapp.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />In brief: Toolfarm a source for professional visual effects and motion graphics plug-ins has announced that it has acquired Pluginz. ToolFarm views this acquisition as a natural step in growing their site into a one-stop shop service. MacNN readers are now being offered a 30% discount on several video tutorials from Computer App Training. The latest releases include tips and tricks on working with... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/02/21/macuarium.10.anniversary/ Sat, 21 Feb 2009 17:25:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/02/18/stacks.10.launched/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0902/stacks1.0-forrapidweaver-18.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />YourHead Software has launched Stacks 1.0, a page-style plugin for RapidWeaver. Stacks 1.0 brings layout editing to the website creation software, allowing for flexible web page design using a drag and drop interface. Stacks arrives with a library of simple building blocks for creating complex layouts. Users build web pages using Stacks by placing elements from the Stacks Library anywhere onto a w... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/02/18/stacks.10.launched/ Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:40:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/02/17/paintgrade.plugin.launched/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0902/paintgrade-foraperture-17.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Pomfort has released PaintGrade Plugin for Aperture, offering a painting approach to color correction within Aperture. The software allows common adjustments like brightness, saturation and contrast to be painted into the picture, making adjustments to only the areas affected by the brush strokes. The plugin uses dynamic color keying, allowing interactive modifications of the keyed area and uses a... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/02/17/paintgrade.plugin.launched/ Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:40:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/10/23/tuneup.coming.to.mac/ <img align='left' src=' http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0810/tuneup.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />TuneUp Media is bringing its Windows-based iTunes plugin to the Mac, and MacNN users are invited to try the beta. TuneUp works within iTunes to find missing album art, clean-up mislabeled tracks and inconsistent metadata and more. TuneUP claims its plugin is the most popular iTunes add-on for Windows with more than 60-thousand downloads in the past three months... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/10/23/tuneup.coming.to.mac/ Fri, 24 Oct 2008 01:10:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/07/07/firefox.mac.pdf.add.on/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0807/firefoxlogo.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Google Code project owner 'Colesbury', has released Firefox Mac PDF Plugin. Unlike other browsers such as Safari, Firefox by default does not allow for inline viewing of PDF files (that is, the viewing of .PDFs without need of third-party applications). Based on the PDFKit in Cocoa, the open-source Mac-PDF plugin allows users to view full .PDF documents within the browser itself, bringing Firefox ... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/07/07/firefox.mac.pdf.add.on/ Mon, 07 Jul 2008 10:55:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/06/29/total.workstation.audio/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0806/totalworkstatio.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />IK Multimedia and Muse Research have joined forces to create what they claim is one of the most powerful music sound modules ever made. The Total WorkStation Rack uses Muse Researchís Receptor hardware plug-in player with IKís SampleTank 2.5, Sonik Synth 2, Miroslav Philharmonik, SampleMoog and Sampleton virtual instruments. The product also ships with more than 10,000 sample-based sounds from eve... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/06/29/total.workstation.audio/ Sun, 29 Jun 2008 22:30:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/06/17/quick.dial.for.leopard/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0806/phoneplugins.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Nova Media has released Phone Plugins, a utility that allows one-click dialing and text messaging from any application in Leopard. Users of OS X Tiger were able dial cellphones connected over Bluetooth, but Apple removed that feature in OS X 10.5. Nova claims the utility not only restores that lost functionality, but improves on it as well. The Berlin-based developer says the Phone Plugins include... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/06/17/quick.dial.for.leopard/ Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:35:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/04/10/noise.buster.60.ships/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0804/noisebuster.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />AKVIS has released the v6.0 update to Noise Buster, its photo enhancement tool. The app is able to remove noise in both the color and luminance layers of photos, separately or together. The Mac version of the upgrade has a variety of changes, among these support for Photoshop Elements 6; also new though is the "Microdetail" parameter, which attempts to return minute details to a photo without ad... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/04/10/noise.buster.60.ships/ Thu, 10 Apr 2008 13:10:00 GMT