Roxio Toast Titanium 10.0.6 update released

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Date: Friday, May 14th, 2010, 04:18
Category: News, Software

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Late Thursday night, Roxio released version 10.0.7 of its Toast Titanium authoring software. The new version, available here, adds the following fixes and changes:

- iPad video export profile now available as device setting for video exports.

- TiVo recordings (US only) can now be exported at 640×480 resolution.

- Resolves issue where text entered may appear outside text field.

- Resolves issue where DVD-Video volume with \ in name may be handled incorrectly.

- Resolves issue which may cause application to crash.

Toast 10 Titanium requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later to install and run and retails for US$99.99.

Carbon Copy Cloner updated to 3.3.2

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Date: Friday, May 7th, 2010, 05:14
Category: News, Software

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It’s the quick fixes that make a neat app that much better.

On Thursday, Carbon Copy Cloner, the shareware favorite for drive cloning operations by Mike Bombich, reached version 3.3.2. The new version, a 3.6 megabyte download, adds the following changes:

- Fixed the localization of a dialog that appeared in the Scheduled Tasks window.

- Addressed an issue in which a scheduled task would fail to mount a disk image if the disk image file was not located at the root of the backup volume.

Carbon Copy Cloner 3.3.2 retails for a US$10 shareware registration fee. The application requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later to run.

Carbon Copy Cloner updated to 3.3.1

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Date: Wednesday, May 5th, 2010, 03:19
Category: Software

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Late Tuesday, Carbon Copy Cloner, the shareware favorite for drive cloning operations by Mike Bombich, has released version 3.3.1 of the program. The new version, a 3.6 megabyte download, adds the following changes:

- Addressed an issue in which CCC was not properly aborting a scheduled task when the target volume disappeared, which would result in files being copied to the startup disk.

- Documentation and support are also now built-in to CCC. Answers are just a click away — choose “Ask a question about CCC” from CCC’s help menu to tap into Bombich Software’s online support community.

- CCC provides a more detailed alert panel when choosing to run a task with the “Delete items form the target that do not exist on the source”. The icon of the target disk along with details about capacity and disk usage will help prevent users from inadvertently selecting the wrong volume as a target.

- Added “?” help buttons in many dialogs that present common error conditions. These buttons link to more detailed information in the documentation about these error conditions and how to resolve the issues.

- Scheduled tasks now present a dialog upon successfully completing so you can tell that CCC is actually running your tasks as scheduled. For people that liked the old behavior, these dialogs can be shown only when errors occur.

- Addressed an issue in which CCC was unable to create an Authentication Credentials installer package on the MacBook Air.

- Several minor usability enhancements

- Scheduled tasks that were missed because the source disk was absent will now be initiated when the source disk reappears. Previous versions of CCC would only initiate a missed task when the target volume reappeared.

- Several enhancements around the handling of disk images:

- Resolved an issue in which CCC might be unable to unmount a disk image if antivirus or other software kept files on the disk image open.

- Resolved an issue in which the “Backup everything” cloning method failed in some cases when CCC was unable to determine the number of files on the volume (this looked like a failure to write the excludes file)

- Resolved an issue in which the target volume’s label would sometimes appear incorrectly at the boot picker on startup

- Resolved an issue in which CCC was unable to perform authenticated tasks on some Tiger machines (if the /Library/LaunchDaemons directory does not exist).

- Fixed an issue in which aborting a running scheduled task would abruptly end any other running scheduled tasks.

- Fixed an issue in which biweekly-run tasks would run weekly.

- Addressed a situation in which the CCC.log might not be readable by non-admin users.

- Scheduled tasks that end successfully, but with non critical errors, now present a dialog reporting the errors.

- Fixed an issue in which the CCC synchronization engine would report “mknod” errors.

- Addressed a minor performance issue with displaying the list of items to be copied for the startup volume.

Carbon Copy Cloner 3.3.1 retails for a US$10 shareware registration fee. The application requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later to run.

Apple releases iTunes 9.1.1 update

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Date: Wednesday, April 28th, 2010, 03:35
Category: News, Software

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Late Tuesday, Apple released iTunes 9.1.1, the latest version of its multimedia/jukebox application for Mac OS X. The new version, an 93.6 megabyte download, offers the following fixes and changes:

- Addresses several stability issues with VoiceOver.
- Addresses a usability issue with VoiceOver and Genius Mixes.
- Addresses issues with converting songs to 128 kbps AAC while syncing.
- Addresses other issues that improve stability and performance.

iTunes 9.1.1 is available via Mac OS X’s Software Update feature and requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later to install and run.

Elgato releases EyeTV 3.3.3 update

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Date: Tuesday, April 13th, 2010, 04:32
Category: News

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Late Monday, Elgato Systems released version 3.3.3 of its EyeTV software application, which finds and tracks all television programming you want to see and allows users to pause live television and save content to file.

The new version, a 112 megabyte update which can be found here via VersionTracker (and can also be found through EyeTV 3.0′s update feature), adds the following fixes and features:

- EyeTV 3.3.3 contains several additional components that are running in Intel 64-bit mode. In addition to the H.264 video decoder, MPEG-2 video is decoded in 64-bit mode for both playback and export.
- Improved quality of analog recordings with EyeTV Hybrid (North America 2010) on Macs with Intel Core Duo processors 2.26 GHz and faster.
- Improved stability for the EyeTV Netstream DTT, EyeTV Hybrid 2010 (North America), and EyeTV Sat.
- Improved CAM reliability and support for EyeTV Sat.
- EyeTV Sat no longer accepts remote commands from unsupported remote controls.
- Fixed a problem where analog channel names were not displayed when tuning with EyeTV Hybrid.
- Improved performance when loading large libraries.
- Fixed crashes related to memory usage.
- Fix a problem where an incorrect audio track was exported to program or elementary streams.
- Improved sort speed in Programs window.
- Fixed a problem where shows longer than 3 hours would not show a title or episode title in the EPG.
- Improved details view for EPG.
- Fixed a crash when clearing the EPG.
- Program Guide searches are no longer case sensitive.
- Improved resiliency during EPG server outages.
- EyeTV 3.3.3 fixes video playback problems with EyeTV 3.3.2 in certain countries.
- Fixed a crash when displaying Picture-in-Picture.
- Fixed a problem during analog input capture where certain VHS players would show “No Signal” after a few seconds of fast forward or reverse.
- Improved picture quality of DV exports.
- EyeConnect now recognizes when the local IP Address has changed, and resumes working.
- Fixed a problem where large channels list were deleted.

EyeTV 3.3.3 requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later to install and run. The program retails for US$79.95.

Mozilla releases Firefox 3.6.3 update

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Date: Monday, April 5th, 2010, 03:47
Category: Software

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Late last week, Mozilla.org released version 3.6.3 of its Firefox web browser. The new version, an 18.6 megabyte <a href=”http://www.mozilla.com/products/download.html?product=firefox-3.6.3&amp;os=osx&amp;lang=en-US”>download</a>, sports the following major change:

- Fixes a critical security issue that could potentially allow remote code execution.

Firefox 3.6.3 is available in more than 70 different languages and requires a G3, G4, G5 or Intel-based Mac, Mac OS X 10.4 or later and 128MB of RAM to install and run. If you’ve snagged the new version and have any feedback to offer about it, let us know in the comments.

Apple releases iTunes 9.1 Update

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Date: Wednesday, March 31st, 2010, 04:27
Category: Software

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Late Tuesday, Apple released iTunes 9.1, the latest version of its multimedia/jukebox application for Mac OS X. The new version, an 93.6 megabyte download, offers the following fixes and changes:

- Sync with iPad to enjoy your favorite music, movies, TV shows, books and more on the go.
- Organize and sync books you’ve downloaded from iBooks on iPad or added to your iTunes library.
- Rename, rearrange, or remove Genius Mixes.

iTunes 9.1 is available via Mac OS X’s Software Update feature and requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later to install and run.

Perian 1.2.1 Released

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Date: Wednesday, March 24th, 2010, 05:18
Category: Software

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Late Tuesday, the Perian team released version 1.2.1 of Perian, the open-source QuickTime components effort that allows QuickTime to support and play a variety of additional formats beyond what it would normally be able to handle.

The new version makes the following fixes and changes:
- Added Indeo 5 decoding. [r1271].
- Fixed several bugs in Matroska support (1.2 regression) [r1240, r1243].
- Incomplete AVI files were not fully imported (1.2 regression) [r1242].
- Fixed subtitles crashing in 10.4 [r1240].
- Fixed a rare crash with .mp4 [r1265].
- No error was shown if the installer somehow failed [r1270] Note that it does not try to correct errors, only report them.
- Fixed crash in SSA support [r1250].
- Fixed invisible subtitles sometimes appearing over the first frame [r1275].

Perian is a 3.3 megabyte download and requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later to install and run.

Mozilla releases Firefox 3.6.2 update

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Date: Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010, 04:33
Category: Software

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On Tuesday, Mozilla.org released the long-awaited 3.6.2 version of its Firefox web browser.
The new version, an 18.6 megabyte download, sports the following fixes and changes:

- Fixed a critical security issue that could potentially allow remote code execution (see bug 552216).
- Fixed several additional security issues.
- Fixed several stability issues.

Firefox 3.6.2 is available in more than 70 different languages and requires a G3, G4, G5 or Intel-based Mac, Mac OS X 10.4 or later and 128MB of RAM to install and run.

If you’ve snagged the new version and have any feedback to offer about it, let us know in the comments.

TomTom Home Updated to 2.7.3.754

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Date: Thursday, February 25th, 2010, 05:06
Category: Software

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TomTom Home, the company’s free desktop GPS management software, was updated to version 2.7.3.754 Wednesday night. The new version, a 42.5 megabyte download (via VersionTracker), includes the following fixes and changes:

- Fresh look and feel.
- Improved process for installing items to your navigation device.
- HOME now smartly manages internal and external memory on your device and helps you making best use of available space.
- A new Manage my device button now manages content on your device and you computer in one central location.
- Windows 7 compatible.
- Improved stability decreases the chance of error messages.

TomTom Home 2.7.3.754 is available for free and requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later to install and run.