Pixelmator ScreenCastsOnline:

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A special free show this week all about Pixelmator, the beautiful new image editing application. Pixelmator is a low cost, yet extremely powerful, image editor built especially for Mac OS X. It utilises many of its core technologies including Core Image, Open GL, Automator, ColorSync, Spotlight and many more!

As well as being a fully featured, layer based image editor in its own right, it also fully supports the editing and saving of PhotoShop files, removing the financial barrier many of us have in achieving PhotoShop compatibility. “

(Via Screencast.)

Notify yourself periodically using Growl: “You can use Growl to create your own notifications, assuming you’ve installed the included growlnotify extra (installation instructions). Here is an example of how to notify yourself every 10 minutes about something useful like ‘dont forget to drink something.’ Open Terminal and if your shell is the bash shell, then run the following command at the prompt:

for ((i=0; i<1000; i++)); do sleep 600s && growlnotify \
-s -m 'dont forget to drink'; done

This will remind you every 10 minutes to go get a drink.

[robg adds: To kill the command, just hit Control-C. You can change the delay, the message, the loop length, etc.]

(Via Mac OS X Hints.)

Use AmazonMP3 to find iTunes album art: “I just checked out the new AmazonMP3 site to see what all the hype is about. Since I already have an existing Amazon account, it started to recommend music to me. Turns out that most of the recommendations were albums that I already have, ripped long before the days of including album art.

Since iTunes’ ‘Download album art’ feature is terribly hit or miss, I’ve tried to complete my library manually. I was delighted to discover that AmazonMP3 is easier to search than the corresponding Amazon CD stores, and the artwork on the site is higher quality than the CD store! Combined with the recommendation aspect, I’m able to quickly retrieve and add art for lots of artists in my Library. Thanks Amazon!
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(Via Mac OS X Hints.)

Rumour: Apple preps ‘multi-touch MacBook’: “Is Apple planning a giant iPhone/MacBook hybrid?

Apple may plan to introduce a multi-touch enabled sub-notebook – a kind of modern day Newton, a report claims.

(Via Macworld UK.)

Last.fm moves to encourage new musicians: “Last.fm plans to show new musicians how to make a living without a label

Popular social music network Last.fm has launched a new campaign to encourage new and unsigned acts.

(Via LastFM.)

Living the Low End: Web Design

Web designing on older macs. Many web designers feel that they need the latest machines to run web design and image manipulation applications. I debunked the later last week by showing you seashore which is a more than capable web image solution. I personally know a bit of HTML and XHTML code but it’s really not practical to design websites by hand (please spare me the hate mail). If you really want to hand code I think you can find your way to the text editor or Textwrangler. But I’m focusing on WYSIWYG editors (or: What You See Is What You Get), the industry standard WYSIWYG editor is Dream Weaver. Unfortunately Dream Weaver is ridiculously expensive and very bloated. I’m going to examine a great open
source, free, and powerful editor called Kompozer.

(Via macmegasite.)

Paris, France – September 28, 2007 – During the Apple Expo in Paris each year, MacGeneration gives awards to the best products available on our platform, and delighted to present the results of the Troph�es MacGeneration 2007.

The readers of MacGeneration have elected nine products, with results and all photos related to the event online.

* iPod Touch as the “best Apple product”.

* La Cie FireWire Speakers as the “best hardware”.

* Adobe Creative Suite 3 as the “best professional creative software”.

* FileMaker Pro 9 as the “best productivity software”.

* OpenOffice.org as the “best open source software”.

* Boinx FotoMagico as the “best creative software”.

* Titanium’s Software Onyx as the “best OS X utility”

* Kesington QuickSeek FM Transmitter as the “best iPod accessory”

A special award has been granted to Skitch by a jury composed of MacGeneration, MacBidouille, MacNews.de and MacsimumNews.

MacGeneration

Austin, TX – September 26, 2007 – Intego, the Macintosh security specialist, today announced the publication of a new blog focusing on Macintosh and Internet security. The Mac Security Blog, accessible at blog.intego.com, will feature timely information about Mac security issues, such as viruses, Internet protection, data protection and privacy. Covering all aspects of Macintosh security, the blog will include the following:

* Alerts regarding security risks that affect Macs
* General articles on Macintosh security
* Information about Apple security updates, for Mac OS X and other Apple products
* Information about security updates for other popular Macintosh software
* Articles about general Internet security
* Questions from readers, and answers from Intego’s security experts and support team
* Interviews with Macintosh security experts
* Announcements of new Intego products, and tips and tricks for getting the most out of Intego software

The Mac Security Blog will be updated regularly, and information about new Macintosh security threats or security updates will be added as soon as possible. In addition to presenting articles about best practices for Mac security, The Mac Security Blog will also feature articles about general Internet security for Mac users. Written for novices and experts alike, The Mac Security Blog will be the place to go for up-to-the-minute Mac security news and information.

“We want to help Mac users, in every way possible, keep their Macs secure,” said Laurent Marteau, CEO of Intego. “With the many security threats facing Internet users, The Mac Security Blog is the ideal platform for Mac users who want to make sure they are protected from the dangers of the Internet.”

The Mac Security Blog can be read at http://blog.intego.com, and an RSS feed is available for readers who want to know about the latest articles as soon as possible.

Intego
The Mac Security Blog

Freeridecoding today updated the CD and DVD multisession burning tool BurnAgain DVD to 1.2.1, adding Leopard compatibility, several bugfixes, overall improvements and chinese localisation.

BurnAgain DVD is an easy to use multisession burning tool for Mac OSX. BurnAgain DVD simply adds files to a disk several times without creating an individual volume for each session. If items are burned again BurnAgain DVD automatically only adds new or changed files. BurnAgain DVD allows to change the title of the disk at each burn, hiding of previously burned sessions and preserves all HFS specific attributes (resource forks). It supports the use of Aliases and Tigers “Burnable Folders”.

BurnAgain DVD supports burning to CDR,CDRW,DVD+RW and DVD-RW. It is the only application on the Mac available supporting that kind of multisession burning.

Licenses: Single 17 Euro (USD 23.80) , Family Pack 34 Euro (USD 47.20)

If you would like to test BurnAgain DVD for a review, press licenses are available upon request.

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BitRocket – Mac OS X BitTorrent Client

: “UI Features:

* RSS support (Download .torrent’s from within the application)
* Integrated (Customizable) Search Engine (Download .torrent’s from within the application)
* Flexible Filtering
* Torrent Generator
* Live Info View
* UPnP and NAT-PMP Port Forwarding”

(Via bitrocket.)

Mac plugins for Facebook :

“Want an easy way to upload and tag your photos on Facebook? Need to know sooner if your friends are poking you or that you’ve been invited to an event? What you need are these free Mac OS X plugins so you can spend even more time procrastinating on Facebook.”

(Via applesource.)

More syncing with PlaxoPlaxo Online

* · Retrieve your address book and calendar from anywhere at anytime
* · Synchronized with all of your other Plaxo Toolbars
* · No download necessary, just sign in on the Web

(Via plaxo.)

.Mac alternative goes on trial: “The NotMac Challenge has released a solution that may replace .Mac

A free open-source alternative to .Mac has been assembled and is currently being tested.

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(Via notMac Challenge.)

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Pixelmator Team today released Pixelmator 1.0, GPU-powered image editing tool that provides everything needed to create, edit, and enhance still images. Built from the ground up on a combination of open source and Mac OS X technologies, Pixelmator features powerful selection, painting, retouching, navigation, and color correction tools, and layers-based image editing, GPU-powered image processing, color management, automation, and transparent HUD user interface for work with images.

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SWF & FLV Player for Mac – SWF Player – FLV Player – Mac Flash Player:

“SWF & FLV Player is a free, swift and smart Flash player for Mac OS. Eltima enriched it with numerous handy options and controls, which ensures top grade usability for viewing and managing Flash movies.

Using extended Flash movie controls you can easily forward and rewind Flash movies, arrange a playlist of Flash movies to view them randomly, repeat loaded file or the whole playlist continuously. SWF & FLV Player provides control of playback quality to save your Mac’s resources and can even restrict SWF access to Web content.

It fully supports not only FLV and SWF movies, but also Mac and Windows Flash Projector files. SWF & FLV Player is the most flexible Flash player for Mac OS with clean interface and absolute control of Flash movies, and it’s still free for all Mac users.”

(Via swf-mac.)