January 29 - 7:15pm EST   KavaSoft has released the newest update to its web-photo downloading tool, HyperImage 2. Designed to help users download online pictures onto their computer, people can simply place a website address into HyperImage and the program will find and retrieve all the pictures on that website. The new version includes an image browser that contains infinitely resizable thumbnails, and allows users to browse through all their pictures from a particular page or website. [full story]

April 4 - 7:10pm EDT   Aquafadas has released BannerZest 1.0, a new Flash presentation application for Mac OS X. The tool allows creators to turn images into a gallery, a navigation banner, or a slideshow in a series of steps. BannerZest ships as both a standard edition and a pro version. The pro edition adds advanced publishing options, workflow enhancements, and specific Pro templates. The tool integrates with popular javascript media viewer applications that let the user visualize high resolution versions of each of the banner images. [full story]