Brother intros pair of eco-friendly color printers

Brother on Tuesday announced the release of two new laser printers, the HL-4040CDN and the MFC-9450CDN all-in-one. Both use an automatic duplex printing feature for reduced paper use that will print on both sides of a page. The HL-4040CDN directly replaces Brother's existing HL-4040CN, sharing many of its features, including 21ppm print speeds for black and white and color pages as well as maximum...

published on Tuesday, the 2. December 2008, macintosh-news-network

Review: OnOne PhotoFrame 4 Professional

OnOne Software creates photographic plug-ins that work with Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, Lightroom, and Aperture. While their products may seem expensive for the digital photography enthusiast, they make it very easy to create art from a simple photograph. The editing time saved to create a variety of pleasing looks, including newsletter inserts, cards, or professional prints make the initial in...

published on Monday, the 1. December 2008, macintosh-news-network

Clearwire WiMAX named "Clear," ready for LTE

Clearwire today said its recently completed deal with Sprint for WiMAX will use the "Clear" name on its own side of the network rather than use Sprint's Xohm naming scheme. Worth about $14.5 billion, the agreement will effectively replace Xohm on Clearwire's portion of the network rather than see the two provide a united naming scheme....

published on Monday, the 1. December 2008, macintosh-news-network

uTorrent Mac beta gets official launch

The long-awaited uTorrent beta for Macs is out as of Wednesday, offering users of Intel-based Macs running Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard or newer the same low-memory footprint Windows users have enjoyed to date. Compared to the Windows version, however, the newly-released version is missing certain features, including an RSS downloader. Rumors of a Mac uTorrent release first surfaced in June of 2007, with...

published on Thursday, the 27. November 2008, macintosh-news-network

Silex intros SDKs for network sharing of USB devices

Silex Technology on Tuesday launched a suite of SX Virtual Link SDKs that allow manufacturers to implement USB over IP technology for connecting and sharing devices, such as iPods or printers, across private or business networks. The technology is claimed to be compatible with Windows and Mac platforms, as well as most embedded network devices with USB host ports. Integration of the Virtual Link f...

published on Tuesday, the 25. November 2008, macintosh-news-network

DealNN: 2GB flash drive 3 pack, free gas card, more

A variety of products from flash drives and graphics tablets to MacBooks are currently being featured at DealNN today. Buy.com is offering a three pack of Kingston Data Traveler 2GB flash drives for $16.96. MaxPerks members get a FREE $30 gas card at OfficeMax.com with the purchase of the Brother wireless InkJet all-in-one printer for $90. The Wacom Intuos3 4" x 6" graphics tablet is priced at ...

published on Tuesday, the 18. November 2008, macintosh-news-network

Curio 5.3 intros custom headers and footers, more

Zengobi has posted a v5.3 update for Curio, its combination brainstorming and task management software. Several different functions fall under these catagories, including notetaking and mind-mapping. The patch for the software allows custom headers and footers during print jobs, with support for inserting dynamic variables. Users can now also convert lists into mindmaps, or run the reverse oper...

published on Tuesday, the 18. November 2008, macintosh-news-network

Livescribe Pulse Smartpen gains Mac beta

Developer Livescribe is releasing a beta of Mac software for its Pulse Smartpen, which simultaneously records hand-written notes with sound. The company is also adding features to the Windows version of the software, allowing users to print the special micro-dot paper used by the pen. Add-on software allows Windows users to transcribe handwriting into editable text....

published on Monday, the 17. November 2008, macintosh-news-network

Houdah releases ACTPrinter app for iPhone

Houdah Software has released its latest app for the iPhone and iPod touch, ACTPrinter. The program allows users to print documents to their mobile device from any Mac application. ACTPrinter can be used to save electronic tickets, boarding passes, bar codes and e-mails. The company claims that bar codes contained in the documents can be scanned from the display of the iPhone or Touch....

published on Monday, the 17. November 2008, macintosh-news-network

Keian intros photo frame, printer, MP3 player combo

Japan's Keian on Friday announced the release of its P71-A2-JP product that combines a 7-inch LCD screen with 480x234 resolution with a color photo printer, digital audio player and a USB port that allows users to connect external and flash-based hard drives. The printer can produce images viewers can see on the 7-inch screen at a 300dpi sharpness....

published on Friday, the 14. November 2008, macintosh-news-network