05/27, 7:40pm
Free fonts from Macware
In brief: Izatt International will be running an evening course designed to help grow the iPhone development community in Utah. The courses will be run in the evening from June 23rd to the 26th and all day on the 27th. A new partnership has brought 10 new travel guides to the App Store. Dorling Kindersley and Coolgorilla joined together to release a series of travel guides for the iPhone and iPod touch that cover some of the world's most famous cities. Meanwhile, Macware has announced that its updated website is now online. The company is also currently offering several free fonts as a preview of their upcoming MacFont 3 and MacFont 4 font collections.
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05/21, 8:55pm
Friar Pro Font
In brief: A new iTunes visualizer, TRAKART has been released as a public alpha. The visualizer builds slideshows based on a song's lyrics, analyzing each track to extract keywords which it then uses to search Flickr. Images are then arranged into a slideshow which plays along with the song. Three guides have been released by Peachpit which teach users how to make better use of iLife '09, iWork '09 and GarageBand '09. The guides cover the basics of using each application, along with tips to create more professional products. Meanwhile, Ascender has released a new font style that is based on one of Goudy's original typefaces. The Friar Pro font is based on the original Friar typeface that was lost in a fire at Goudy's studio in 1939.
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03/05, 2:10pm
Mac Restart, Schmierzettel
EasyFrame 2.3 ($15) is a simple utility for quickly creating basic frames around images. The application comes with a built-in library of frames and also allows users to build their own or download additional frames from the web. Version 2.3 has added a Photo Browser to make image selection easier and has also rearranged some menu items to be more consistent with other applications. [Download - 6.4MB]
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03/02, 5:50pm
DeskSaver
CheckUp 2.1 ($25) is a tool designed to check and monitor the behavior of a Mac system, either locally or remotely. The software scans a computer and provides information on the systems functionality and overall performance and can also allow any unused applications to be removed. The latest update includes a revised interface, support for Raid disks, improved support for Spaces and a better memory test. [Download - 17.4MB]
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07/23, 1:30pm
FontXChange updated to 1.5
Morrison SoftDesign has released FontXChange 1.5 for Mac OS X. The font-format converter has updated its Unicode support to 5.1 and improved its parsing and rendering tools. The 1.5 update can generate .AFM files, can rebuild a damaged font and has new naming options available. FontXChange converts between OpenType, PostScript Type 1, TrueType for Mac and Windows and many other font-types and it supports font encoding for Adobe Standard, Unicode, Mac Roman and others. It offers a batch processor and a preview window for inspecting fonts.
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