Corel has delivered its first “service pack” update to its photo workflow tool, AfterShot Pro (formerly known as Bibble 5.x). The program is aimed at professional photographers and competes with programs like Aperture, Lightroom and ACDSee Pro. The new update adds support for 20 new cameras, improved highlight recovery processing, and improved plugin SDK, support […]
Autodesk is expanding its presence on the Mac platform by releasing a “technology preview” version of Inventor Fusion, its first 3D direct modeling software for the Mac. Users can open and edit 3D models from other programs and incorporate them into new or existing designs, including those from AutoCAD and other Autodesk programs. The program […]
Enterprise data management company MokaFive has released an iOS version of its self-titled Mac and Windows software for corporate and enterprise use, allowing mobile devices such as iPhones and iPads to protect business data and enforce corporate use and rights policies remotely with the same console used to provide business data protection for desktops. Popular […]
Adobe has released a public beta of it’s next iteration of Flash Player, version 11.3.300.214, which features improvements to the desktop player, as well as enhancements to AIR Mobile for developers. In the release notes, Adobe mentions that it has “relaxed” the driver gating hardware acceleration to 2006, which may mean that older cards and […]
E Frontier and Mirye Software are teasing features of the next version of Shade, the two companies’ 3D rendering, modeling and animation program. The new version, called Shade 13, is accessible through Shade X, an early-access channel for paid subscribers. So far, the companies have offered sneak peeks at three new features: advanced irradiance caching, […]
Adobe has formally unveiled Premiere Pro CS6, the next major upgrade of its video editing software. Among its changes is a radically different interface, for instance defaulting to a new “two-up” workspace in which the Source Monitor and the Program Monitor sit side-by-side, with Info, Effect, Project, Media Browser, Timeline, and Audio Meter panels below. […]
Google has posted a Chrome 19 beta that answers a common call for fast access to tabs across devices. Signing in on the same Google account both on a desktop and an Android device running Chrome for Android will give either device access to whatever tabs happen to be open on that device at that […]
Users of Adobe’s free Reader apps got a major upgrade Tuesday through the ability to digitally sign PDF files. Both the desktop Reader X, as well as mobile apps for iOS and Android, can now sign either by hand-drawing or typing. Mobile users also now get much-requested support for filling out forms as well as […]
Parallels has released a minor update of Desktop 7 for Mac, its flagship virtualization software. The patch introduces “experimental” support for the final beta of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, a Linux variant due to be launched on April 26th. Another new Linux-related feature is the ability to download and install Fedora 16 without leaving the Parallels […]
FileMaker has released a new set of database offerings, beginning with the flagship FileMaker Pro 12. The software brings a variety of changes, many of them with an iOS focus. It for instance includes 16 new Starter Solutions, which also have iPad- and iPhone-optimized screens; among 40 new themes are ones that are specially designed […]