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MacFlite Software releases Trip Plan 1.0.12 for Mac OS X

Coconut Creek, Florida – MacFlite Software today is proud to announce Trip Plan 1.0.12, an update to their popular trip planning application for Mac OS X. Designed specifically for aviation professionals, Trip Plan is a unique trip planning solution for pilots. Developed from the ground up utilizing the latest Cocoa technologies, Trip Plan focuses on ease-of-use and sports a beautiful, yet comprehensive interface.

Trip Plan features detailed information for airports around the world, with a database of over 24,000 landing facilities and heliports worldwide. Its advanced search makes it very easy to find airports, even if the user doesn’t remember what the airport name or spelling is – which can be quite a challenge when looking for accurate data. Users can organize and name groups of airports according to their working style, be it trip numbers or geographical locations.

Along side the airport and FBO (fixed-base operations) information, the application also offers helpful hotel, transportation and catering info. And Skype users can take advantage of Trip Plan’s built-in Skype support too – one-click dialing to anywhere in the world. Trip Plan takes all the guess work out of pre-trip planning and facilitates printing airport information as well as schedules. Airport reports come in an 2 page easy-to-read print out along with all the FBO phone numbers and runway information.

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Mac OS X 10.6.2 fixes several problems with Photoshop

Problems with OS X 10.5.7

It seems that the problems continue after the latest update of OS X. In this case, the affected version 10.5.7 and is reported as a lot of users have encountered problems.

Perhaps that is affecting more people are problems with the USB ports on the first computers that had been launched with Intel processors, this problem makes connectivity with peripherals lost. There are also problems with the graphics and monitors.

Besides the problems mentioned above are others such as lack of sound, problems with WiFi, computers are shut down for no apparent reason, overheating …

The truth that the list of problems is long. Some have been lucky enough to install the combo update from Apple’s website instead of using software update, but in other cases this has not worked.

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Amuse introduces My Living Desktop 4.0 for Mac OS X – Video Desktop

Marina del Rey, California – Premier provider of video desktop solutions, Amuse, Inc., today is pleased to introduce My Living Desktop 4.0 for Mac OS X, a complete rebrand of their highly popular video desktop and screen saver utility, Serene Saver Pro. My Living Desktop replaces the standard still desktop to which Mac users are accustomed, with a gorgeous video desktop that plays high-definition movies of the users choice.

With a focus on ease-of-use, My Living Desktop is a unique cross between a video desktop (moving wallpaper) and screen saver, offering an entirely new dimension of personalized computing experience. With its built-in video importer, users can effortlessly import their own movie scenes for use as video desktops. Anyone can now have beloved family movies, movies of friends and special events, vacation movies, and much more as their desktop, or as a superb screen saver.

“Even with the success of Serene Saver Pro, we wanted to re-brand it with a more meaningful title that immediately tells customers what the product is all about” said Kevin Kachikian CEO of Amuse, Inc. “We think My Living Desktop does that perfectly.” My Living Desktop continues to remain the #7 top download on Apple’s Download website and is a featured download and a Staff Pick.

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Cocoatech LLC releases Path Finder 5.1.1 for Mac OS X Leopard

San Francisco, California – Cocoatech LLC is proud to announce Path Finder 5.1.1, an update to their award-winning, file management utility for Mac OS X 10.5. This is the eleventh free update for Path Finder 5 since it’s release in late October 2008.

We’ve received thousands of complements, suggestions, and a few bug reports since the release of Path Finder 5.0 and we have been updating the application as fast as possible to get everything just right. Almost every feature has been optimized for CPU and memory usage to ensure rock solid stability and performance. The result is the best version of Path Finder ever.

No one likes to wait months to get software updates, we try our best to get new features and improvements in customers hands as fast as possible. We’ve been releasing almost two updates per month and will continue on this schedule for the foreseeable future.

Path Finder is a file manager that looks and operates much like the Finder, but with many extra features and enhancements. Path Finder is optimized for single window use, eliminating the clutter of overlapping windows.

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