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eMedia Guitar Method 5 adds finger tracking tools

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 03:15:00 GMT

<img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/musictemp.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />eMedia has released a new version of its guitar-tutorial instructional software, eMedia Guitar method 5. When a microphone is attached, the software utilizes audio recognition technology to provide instant feedback while a user is playing. Notes being played during an exercise or song can be viewed within any screen with the �ear� icon in the upper right hand corner. The function highlights each n...

Briefly: Office 2008 for Mac discount, iMac repair guides

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:15:00 GMT

<img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0909/office2008biz.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />In brief: To help U.S college and graduate students dealing with heavy educational-based costs, Microsoft's MacBU has announced a special deal for the Office 2008 for Mac, dropping the price by over 70 percent. Office 2008 Business Edition provides a series of different applications to help support all areas of education, including Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Entourage 2008, and Document Connection f...

Ebbinghaus 3.0 flashcard app adds new study function

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:20:00 GMT

<img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/ebbtemp.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Christian Kienle has introduced Ebbinghaus 3.0, the latest version of the flash card application for organizing cards into decks, folders or "smart decks." All cards will be displayed within a table, while a progress indicator shows overall performance. The update features a study function that displays the cards consecutively, allowing users to type in an answer, while smart decks can be configur...

Epson intros line of ultra short throw projectors

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:05:00 GMT

<img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/canon1.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Epson has introduced its latest line of ultra-short throw projectors, the PowerLite 450W and Epson PowerLite 460. Both projectors are designed for educational purposes and draw on 3LCD projection. Each device provides a microphone input that allows users to hook up a microphone to boost their voices over the integrated 10W speaker; it also has a built-in closed captioning decoder for presentations...

Reference Tracker 1.5 adds improvements, bug fixes

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 04:05:00 GMT

<img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/reftemp.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Malkinware has launched v1.5 of its reference manager and research utility, Reference Tracker. The software enables users to track all citations and references within essays or books, while creating a reference list that can be accessed whenever necessary. The latest version features improved accuracy for the formatted reference list importer. Bug fixes also deal with changes to the �Page Numbers�...

OLPC axes dual-screen XO, switches to ARM

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:50:00 GMT

<img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/olpc.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />The One Laptop Per Child Association, the manufacturer behind the OLPC notebooks, has axed its plans to build a dual-screen XO device, according to an Xconomy interview with the group's founder and chairman, Nicholas Negroponte. The second generation notebook, originally announced in May of last year, has been scrapped as OLPC instead focuses on adapting the first-generation XO with updated intern...

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Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:50:00 GMT

FoxTrot Professional Search 2.5 works with PDF, HTML content

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:40:00 GMT

<img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0910/prosml.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />CTM Development has released FoxTrot Professional Search 2.5, an update to its find-by-content utility designed for legal, media, or enterprise users. The software provides options for searching through content such as PDFs, HTML, word processing files, e-mail, and other documents. Multiple categories of relevance-ranked results are presented on the interface....

Citrin 2 adds new graphing and charting tools, dBase support

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:40:00 GMT

<img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0910/citrinsml.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Gigawiz has released an update to its graphic application, Citrin. Version 2 adds a range of new features including an "X-zooming" tool that allows users to walk through hierarchies of data in both directions. The feature prevents the exclusion of data from being a visual effect, as the content is not sent through the visualization pipeline....

Absoft Pro Fortran 11 uses 64-bit compilers

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:00:00 GMT

<img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/gallery/oct2009/absoftprofortran11.0-story-22.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Absoft has launched Pro Fortran 11 for the Mac. Version 11 includes both 32- and 64-bit compilers, allowing developers to design code for Mac, Windows and Linux using a single code source. Similarly present is support for OpenMP multi-core parallel programming standards when using Nehalem-era Xeon processors....

KnowledgeMiner (yX) 2.0 for Excel adds 64-bit support

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:25:00 GMT

<img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0910/knowledgeminer.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />KnowledgeMiner has released v2.0 of KnowledgeMiner (yX) for Excel, a data mining tool. The software scrutinizes Excel spreadsheets for patterns, highlighting trends in a more explicit fashion. It can also use data to generate predictions based on algorithms. Among the new features in v2.0 is support for 64-bit processing, which accelerates computations by scaling to the number of cores present ...