Insider Software revs FontAgent Pro to version 6.2

Insider Software (http://www.insidersoftware.com) has announced FontAgent Pro 6.2 for Macintosh, an update to its professional font manager that delivers auto-activation plug-ins for QuarkXPress 10 and Adobe Creative Cloud 2014 applications Photoshop, InDesign, InCopy and Illustrator. 


The new release also supports Insider’s line of font server products, including TeamServer for workgroups, FontAgent Pro Enterprise Server with replicatiofail-over and FontAgent Pro CloudServer.

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Adobe announces Camera Raw 8.6 Release Candidate

Adobe has announced the availability of Camera Raw 8.6 Release Candidate on Adobe Labs (http://labs.adobe.com). The release candidate adds bug fixes, lens profiles, and support for new cameras including the recently released Nikon D810.
 
The release candidate also includes improvements for batch processing and color matching profiles for the Sony DSC-RX100 III, Sony A7S, and Sony Alpha SLT-A77 II. Camera Raw 8.6 is available as a free update for Photoshop customers.

Sue Wagner joins Apple’s Board of Directors

Apple has announced that Susan L. Wagner, founding partner and director of BlackRock, has been elected to Apple’s board of directors. Bill Campbell, the board’s longest-serving member, is retiring after 17 years of service.
 
Wagner co-founded BlackRock in 1988 and helped it become one of the world’s most successful asset-management companies, holding a range of leadership positions including vice chairman until mid-2012. She continues to serve on the boards of BlackRock and DSP BlackRock (India), as well as Swiss Re, Wellesley College and Hackley School.
 

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NChart3D comes to Mac OS X

Nulana LTD says NChart3D 1.5, their charting framework for iOS, is now available for Mac OS X (10.7 and higher). It allows developers to make data visualizations in Mac OS X applications.
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PageMeUp for Mac OS X gets maintenance upgrade

Softobe has introduced PageMeUp 1.0.2 (http://tinyurl.com/ozgvtyr), an update of its layout editor for Mac OS X 10.8 or higher. It’s a maintenance release with bug fixes and improvements.
With PageMeUp, you create a document, choose its page format, s…

The latest iOS apps: July 1

Here are the latest iOS apps. You can find them at the Apple App Store.

Yacha has announced Yacha 1.0. The free app is a messaging platform, allowing anyone to create truly multimedia messages from audio, text, drawings, photos and video, in any combination, which can be sent as a single message.

Vizoal has released Vizoal Football. The free app provides push notifications of live scores, updated match information, videos, comprehensive statistics, lineups and searchable player profile databases from the world’s most popular leagues and competitions.

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Apple updates OS X, iOS

Apple has updated Mac OS X Mavericks to version 10.9.4 and iOS to version 7.1.2.

According to Apple, Mavericks 10.9.4 Update is recommended for all mavericks users. It improves the stability, compatibility, and security of your Mac.
This update:

° Fixes an issue that prevented some Macs from automatically connecting to known Wi-Fi networks;

° Improves the reliability of wake from sleep;

° Includes Safari 7.0.5.

You can download it at the Mac App Store.

According to Apple, iOS 7.1.2 contains bug fixes and security updates, including:

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Addonics announces Internal GigaNAS Adapter

Addonics Technologies has announced the Internal GigaNAS Adapter, a solution for custom building your own high capacity network attached storage system, including private cloud storage. It’s compatible with Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux 2.6.x and higher.

The new adapter is designed to mount into a PCI slot of a desktop computer, server or a storage chassis with a centronic 50 connector cutout. With two SATA ports and one USB port, the new adapter  allows you to share up to 16 hard drives over a LAN with as much as 16TB per drive volume and up to 85MB/sec. transfer rate over a 1G network.

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