Archive for the ‘ Software ’ Category
AutoCAD is coming back to the Mac after being absent for 15 years. The software will be available for presale on September 1 and hit the market sometime this fall.
Autodesk is also releasing AutoCAD WS, a free version for the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. The app will launch this fall and let AutoCAD users view, edit and share their files.
Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 will be released at the end of October. There will be two versions available, Office for Mac Home and Student 2011 and Office for Mac Home and Business 2011. It will cost between $99 and $119.
Your guess is as good as mine on what this new Mac application, Courier, actually does. The developer, Realmac Software, says it will come out “in about a week.” Federico Viticci at MacStories.net is the only reviewer and says that he can’t really say what the app does, but that “Courier is great, and will probably turn out to be one of the best apps released on Mac this year.”
I guess we’ll just have to wait and see, but the teaser video is pretty cool.
Miro is a cool program that brings together thousands of shows from all over the web. It even lets you download video feeds from sites like YouTube so you can watch when you’re offline or traveling. The best part about Miro is that it’s free, so check it out at getmiro.com/download.
iPliz is an interesting program for Mac OS X that lets you remotely access your files, but I’d much rather use cloud storage options like Dropbox and MobileMe’s iDisk.
From iPliz:
iPliz is software that allows to you remotely access your Mac through email messages. This means you can submit tasks to your Mac from any device capable of sending email, or through webmail. Some examples of stuff you can do with iPliz: Read more
Adobe’s Flash Player 10.1 for Mac has been updated to enable hardware-accelerated decoding of video content. Flash Player 10.1 was released in June, but did not include hardware acceleration for the Mac. This update should help bring smoother playback and lower system resource usage.
We just pushed a few minutes ago a new version of the Flash Player 10.1.82.76 containing a nice feature that was in beta until now called “Gala”. Yes, H.264 GPU decoding in Mac OSX is now officially enabled in the Flash Player.
You should notice now a nice difference when playing H.264 content on your Mac in terms of CPU usage. We rarely enable new features in security releases but we really wanted to enable such a cool feature. Read more
Microsoft announced that Office for Mac 2011 will hit retail shelves in October. Home and Student version will retail for $119 and include Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Messenger. The Home and Business edition adds Outlook and retails for $199. There is also an Academic version for $99 that includes all the programs. This version will only be available directly from Microsoft or at authorized academic stores.
Microsoft has released some new details about Office 2011 for Mac on their website. Hopefully it won’t suck as much as the previous Mac versions. I’d rather use Apple’s iWork any day.
Apple has published the Safari Extensions Gallery. There are many extensions available, including Twitter, New York Times Updates and My eBay Manager just to name a few. Check out the gallery at extensions.apple.com and let us know what your favorite extensions are.
To enable extensions, you first need to run Software Update and get the latest version of Safari, 5.0.1.
Mac4ever is reporting that Apple will update its iLife suite on August 7th, 2010. The new version will be called iLife ’11 and is rumored to include the following new features:
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