The Apple Developer Center website is once again available in full to the public. With no comment, Apple restored the site at about 5PM EST, with no difference in user experience. The restoration of the site ends an eight-day period of unavailability, where Apple initially had no information to share, and ultimately the source of […]
Quark has formally unveiled QuarkXPress 10, the next edition of its design and layout software. The release incorporates a number of major improvements, such as a long-awaited switch to a Cocoa code base. The change should help boost performance, and make it easier for Quark to support future versions of OS X. Paired with the […]
Corel has released Painter X3, a major update of its Mac and Windows illustration software. X3 focuses mainly on tool improvements, for instance adding Jitter brushes, used to make strokes appear less rigid. 25 special Jitter brushes are included, but the effect can be applied to other brushes as well. “Smart” brush controls should make […]
Airfoil is a software utility that can send audio files to AirPort Express units and Apple TVs, as well as other Macs and PCs. The latest release now fully supports the Airfoil Remote app that allows users to control Airfoil from any iOS device. Last.fm and Radium 3 are also now supported for enhanced metadata […]
Smith Micro has officially launched Manga Studio 5 EX, a new edition of its comics illustration software at Comic-Con. The EX releases are more professionally-oriented than their non-EX counterparts. In the case of Studio 5, the core EX addition is a multi-page story layout module, which let people organize complete comic books. Layouts can accommodate […]
Apple has launched Logic Pro X, a long-delayed upgrade of the company’s digital audio workstation software. X represents a major revision, adding several new features. Among these is Drummer, which can automatically supply a drumbeat for a song using different styles and techniques. Flex Pitch is a form of autotuning, letting users fix or manipulate […]
Extensis has released Suitcase Fusion 5, an update of its font management tool for OS X and Windows. The software now includes plugins for Adobe’s latest Creative Cloud apps, such as Photoshop CC. Updated panels in the CC plugins allow font activation without switching back to Fusion. A new feature called QuickComp lets users preview […]
Twitter has pushed updates to its Android, iOS, Mac, and browser-based services. The update adds one critical new feature: Twitter will now sync direct messages, so if a message is read on one device, it will appear read on other devices. Until today, users would have to mark read messages on each device from which […]
This afternoon, Apple released security update 2013-003 for OS X 10.7 Lion and OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion. The Mountain Lion patch is a 20.4MB download, with the Lion version coming in at 61MB. The fixes in the update relate primarily to flaws in QuickTime. The fixes publicized by Apple involve the QuickTime application and […]
Avid is now shipping updates to two of its flagship apps, Pro Tools 11 and Media Composer 7. Pro Tools has switched to a new audio engine and a 64-bit architecture, and gained features like offline bounce and dynamic host processing. The software is $699 new, or about $300 to $500 as an upgrade. Media […]
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