Category Archives: Mac News

Manhattan Edit Workshop is pleased to announce the upcoming online availability of its training courses for aspiring and professional editors, filmmakers, and cinematographers. In partnership with Class on Demand, the leading provider of professional educational products for creative markets, Mewshop is prepping to take its immersive, hands-on training to the next level. The first training course, Hands-on With FCP X, with instructor Ari Feldman, is set to take place on July 9th and 10th.

Noise Industries, has announced FxFactory 2.6 for Final Cut Pro X and Motion 5. The upgrade makes more than 140 filters, generators and transitions from FxFactory Pro available inside the new Final Cut Pro X. FxFactory allows for seamless background renders, firing up multiple processor cores and graphics cards to deliver your results. FxFactory 2.6 lets you enjoy all our products in Motion 5, giving you access to the full range of plug-ins and advanced features.

Independent app developer, Martin Man, today announces the release of Best Baby Monitor 1.0 for iOS. Best Baby Monitor turns any of your two iOS devices, into a Wi-Fi video baby monitor, capturing live video and clear audio with one device, and transmitting it over Wi-Fi or personal hotspot to the other device. Automatic discovery and zero configuration ensure that your devices pair easily and stay connected all the time. The app comes with three lullabies to soothe your little one to sleep.

Soluble Apps along with Northern Film & Media today announce the release of ShotList 1.0 for iOS. ShotList places a professional-quality filmmaking tool in the hands of anyone putting together a movie or video shoot. The unique new app puts the Production Stripboard system used for many years in the film industry onto mobile devices for the first time, allowing the planning and tracking of every scene of a shoot as it happens. Communication is streamlined with DropBox and email integration.

Verbena Games is pleased to announce the release of PlanetSave TD 1.0 for iOS. PlanetSave TD is a tower defense game that pits you against the aliens. Your mission is to go from point A to point B without being destroyed by the aliens. To accomplish your mission each tower has its own unique set of defenses that is upgradeable as you accomplish new levels. Be careful though as the aliens also have their own unique skills including invisibility and increased speed.

iWeb Themes Park is proud to announce the release and immediate availability of the new iWeb Themes for Apple’s iWeb. The new design themes are for people who want to build high quality websites quickly. The renewed elegant iWeb themes collection is oriented to people with various needs. Arts and crafts presenters, weekend videographers or vacationers will find even more themes for their websites. iWeb Themes includes many themes especially for the small business owner.

iStoryTime today launched the Transformers Dark of the Moon Mix & Match storybook available immediately on Apple’s iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. Fans can use their imaginations to create over 200 different reading adventures between the Heroic Autobots and Evil Decepticons before the premiere of the theatrical film directed by Michael Bay, which will release on June 29, 2011.

Digital Nomad Girl Dee Jones today announces two crowd-pleasing apps to celebrate summer and the upcoming Fourth of July Weekend. Cocktails and Cookbook – Easy Recipes 1.0 features a combination of over 600 cocktail, wine and food recipes. This app spotlights a wide variety of Summer and USA themed cocktails. Pocket Cocktails 4.0 is the famous mixology app that now contains over 500 top cocktail recipes each with a full screen photo and step-by-step instructions.

Jumsoft, a developer of high-quality applications for Mac OSX, has fully upgraded its popular finance and budgeting application, Money. Money provides small businesses and home users with a simple and effective way to track their finances. Among other novelties, the new Money 4 features a redesigned interface, allows direct downloads from banks, and institutes smart importing rules and a document-based system that allows multiple users to work with a single copy of the application.

Synium Software is proud to announce MobileFamilyTree Pro 1.0 – the first full-featured standalone genealogy app for iPhone and iPad. Other genealogy apps are either feature-limited or require a Mac or PC application. MobileFamilyTree however offers you the whole wealth of genealogical research on iOS. MobileFamilyTree Pro brings a plethora of printable and customizable charts: Ancestor Chart, Descendant Chart, Double Ancestor Chart, Fan Chart, Timeline, Statistics and more.