Media Lab unveils SiteGrinder 3 with new add-ons
Media Lab has unveiled SiteGrinder 3, an update to its website production plug-in for Adobe Photoshop. The software is used to generate CSS and XHTML standards-compliant web pages using Photoshop designs. The latest release brings over 300 new features and functions, including a re-designed interface and two add-ons. The integrated web-text function has also been improved to support text-wrapping around images....
published on Thursday, the 11. March 2010, macintosh-news-network
Briefly: iPhone development platform, NeatWorks v3 update
RunRev has introduced the first pre-alpha release of its upcoming iPhone development platform. revMobile is designed to help teams reduce application development time, without having to sacrifice any functionality. Using the platform, developers can take advantage of many iPhone features including multi-touch, accelerometer output, Photo Library integration, and more. The current pre-alpha release is not able to create apps for the App Store, but that functionality will become available in future releases. Developers can sign up for the pre-release program for $800,...
published on Thursday, the 11. March 2010, macintosh-news-network
Google Reader Play makes RSS iPad-friendly
Google late Wednesday rolled out an alternate take on Google Reader that superficially makes things simpler but is also ideally suited to tablets. Google Reader Play switches from Reader's usual plain list view to a large-buttoned media browser based on user's "recommended items" feed. The new web app shows any photos or YouTube videos in a large, central area and lets users favorite or share the content they prefer; recommendations also come from fellow users....
published on Thursday, the 11. March 2010, macintosh-news-network
Six-core Intel Core i7 tested: fast for creative tasks
New tests of Intel's just-launched Core i7-980X is potentially much faster than existing chips but also faces noticeable limits. The first mainstream six-core processor is fastest in creative tasks such as 3D modeling, Photoshop filters and video encoding, many of which are aware of multithreaded code and can use six cores. The performance gap over a quad-core i7 at the same 3.33GHz speed is usually at least 20 percent higher and as much as 70 percent higher....
published on Thursday, the 11. March 2010, macintosh-news-network
Set photo titles to picture capture date in iPhoto
The titles iPhoto chooses for just-added photos is the annoying "IMG_nnnn" serial number from the camera. This AppleScript simply takes the date of the photo (EXIF info that iPhoto knows very well) and uses it as the photo title. The format is: yyyy-mm-dd-hh.mm.ss, so it's a bit easier to read than the ISO version, but also easily sortable. Here's the code: tell application "iPhoto" -- activate -- bring iPhoto back to front copy (my selected_images()) to these_images if these_images is {} then error "Please select some images before using this script." set thename to "" set thepaths to "" set thedates to "" repeat with i from 1 to the count of these_images set this_image to item i of these_images --set this_file to the image path of this_image set thename ...
published on Thursday, the 11. March 2010, macosxhints
iWebThemesPark launches 10 themes for iWeb, offers 11th free
iWebThemesPark on Wednesday released a package with ten new themes, along with a free theme, for Apple's iWeb software. Each of the themes provides eight fully-customizable templates including Welcome, About Me, Photos, My Albums, Movie, Blog, Podcast and Blank....
published on Wednesday, the 10. March 2010, macintosh-news-network
Second leak supports room for camera in iPad frame
A new slip today has reinforced beliefs that the iPad has room for camera hardware. Photos of a new, slightly modified version of the frame seen a month ago still show holes that mimic those seen for webcams on Macs. The only changes appear to be the placement of holes in the bezel and a more obvious space for the home button....
published on Monday, the 8. March 2010, macintosh-news-network