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.

Feature Highlights:
* Find over 24000 airports in an easy-to-use worldwide database
* Advanced Search
* Google Earth and Google Maps
* Airport Information
* FBO and Runway Information
* Hotel, Transportation and Catering
* Print Airport information
* Print Quick Trip Schedules
* Organize and group airports in any way
* Use Skype to call Handlers, FBO’s and Hotels around the world
* Updates itself Automatically

Among only one of Trip Plan’s most prolific features is its ability to give quick and accurate great circle distances and flight times between any airports in the database. By adding specific aircraft performance information, pilots can also plan landing and takeoff times based on timezone changes. This information is particularly useful when crossing multiple time zones in one trip. Additionally, Trip plan can give pilots quick fuel planning requirements based on their aircraft’s fuel burn. While this feature is no substitute for proper flight planning, it serves as an excellent preflighting tool.

“Trip Plan comes from where most successful software products come from,” said Steve McFerrin, founder of MacFlite Software. “I had a need that was not being fulfilled by other products. Trip Plan came from my own needs as a professional pilot. I had been using bloated “Windows” applications that just didn’t take the time to think about the experience or how the user was going to take advantage of the software. My goal was to make a trip planning application for pilots that was not only easy to use but something they would enjoy using. Thats the kind of experience I expect from good Mac software and the kind of experience I want to provide for my customers. When I hear one of our costumers say how easy Trip Plan is or how they wished other software worked like this, I know I’ve got it right.”

Trip Plan can be set to update itself any time there is new Data Cycle or a new application update. The user’s subscription data will be downloaded and automatically installed. No CD’s to get in the mail and no long drawn out updates to install. Just click ok when an update appears and Trip Plan will automatically download in the background and will prompt the user when the application is ready to restart. All application updates are free as long as the user’s subscription is active.

Minimum Requirements:
* Mac OS X Version 10.5 Leopard or later (Snow Leopard Compatible)
* Universal Binary for PowerPC and Intel
* 32.9 MB Hard Drive space
* Internet Connection required for automatic updates

Pricing and Availability:
Trip Plan 1.0.12 is available now at $129.00 (USD) for a one year subscription. All application updates are free and new airport data is automatically updated monthly via the internet. Trip Plan is free to try for 30 days, fully functional with no restrictions.

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Located in sunny Coconut Creek, Florida, MacFlite Software is a fast growing independent software company founded in 2009 by Steve McFerrin. Leveraging his longtime aviation and programing experience, Steve is dedicated to bringing the highest quality aviation software to the Macintosh, iPhone and iPod Touch platforms with a major emphasis on total customer satisfaction. Steve McFerrin brings MacFlite over 20 years of aviation experience, ATP rated with more than 7000 hours. Steve has been flying corporate aircraft for most of his aviation career. Copyright (C) 2009 MacFlite Software. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

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.

My personal experience was not entirely satisfactory. After downloading the package from software update, install it and restart the computer, and did not return to boot. I tried several things (check permissions, secure boot, etc …) but there was no way that the system starts. So at the end a complete reinstallation of Leopard was the only solution I found. DONOTCHANGE

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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.

My Living Desktop boasts a wide variety of stunning, high-definition movie videos shot from all around the globe, accompanied with relaxing nature sound effects. Upon purchase, download access to over three dozen additional hi-def movie videos are available from within the software itself.

The application also sports Automatic Serenity Breaks. This feature allows the user to have My Living Desktop automatically remind them to take a break. Simply specify the interval or time(s) of day and a pleasant sound chimes, all work is faded into the background and the entire screen converts into a playing scene.

Among My Living Desktop’s most prolific features is its ability to automatically mute its sound at appropriate times. For example, when the user launches a music player, My Living Desktop can disable and/or mute itself. When the user finishes listening, it will automatically turn back on. Users may designate any set of applications for which My Living Desktop disables itself or mutes. My Living Desktop can also be set to recognize when the users laptop is operating on battery power, and disable itself to conserve power. My Living Desktop turns back on when the user plugs into a power source.

Minimum Requirements:
* Mac OS X Version 10.4 Tiger or later
* Universal Binary for PowerPC and Intel
* 1 GB Hard Drive space
* 1 Gigabyte RAM
* Internet Connection

Pricing and Availability:
My Living Desktop 4.0 is priced at $34.95 (USD) for a single-user license, and $49.95 (USD) for five-user license. Customers can purchase My Living Desktop directly from their website. Single-user customers may upgrade to multiple-user for only $20.00.

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Based in beautiful Marina del Rey, California, Amuse, Inc. was founded in 2005 by Kevin Kachikian with a focus on bringing unique desktop innovations and solutions to the Mac. Kevin is a longtime Mac developer, having brought award-winning educational titles to the Mac. Kevin also developed a product called SmoothTalker, which became the core of Apple’s speech synthesis technology. He is the brains behind Disney’s use of Macintosh computers to control the Indiana Jones prototype amusement ride. Amuse, Inc. is recognized for and holds various patents on innovative technology advancements, and has a technology patent pending for My Living Desktop 4.0. Copyright 2005-2008 Amuse, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.

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.

Feature Highlights:
* List, Icon, Column, Coverflow views like the Finder but with Coverflow available in any configuration
* Tabbed file browsing
* Dual pane browsing
* Animated Sidebar for your volumes, shares, recent documents and favorite places
* Drop Stack – Drag and Drop files to the stack, then navigate to new location, then drag off
* Path Navigator – Displays the current path and you can click on any folder name to quickly navigate
* Quicklook window – Hit space bar to display a quick preview of a file
* Super fast File List filtering
* Size Browser – Find which files are using the most space in a file hierarchy
* Bookmarks Bar – Put favorite folders here and view item contents using a popup menu.
* Selection tool to select files using various criteria
* Customizable Contextual Menus
* Search features to search volumes using Spotlight or traditional directory searching
* Go to Folder Shortcut to jump directly to a typed path
* Quick Application Launcher
* Shows Hidden Files and opens packages
* Integrated tools like an Image Converter, Subversion Client, Preview Pane, Terminal, Disk Burning
* Modify attributes, permissions, labels, comments and more
* Integrated Stuffit Compression Engine – compress and decompress nearly every archive format

Language support:
English, Japanese, French, German, Taiwanese, Dutch, Spanish, Chinese, Korean, Italian and Russian

Minimum Requirements:
* Mac OS X Version 10.5 Leopard or later
* Universal Binary
* 66.1 MB Hard Drive space
* 1G Ram Recommended

Pricing and Availability:
Path Finder 5.0 can be purchased for $39.95 (USD), and available as a full-featured, try before you buy 30-day demo. Owners of Path Finder 4 may upgrade for $19.95 USD. You can purchase Path Finder within the application using the built-in secure purchasing system.

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Located in San Francisco, California, Cocoatech LLC is a privately held software company founded in 2001 by Steve Gehrman. Steve has over 20 years experience as a Mac OS software developer, and founded Cocoatech with the intention of creating great software for Mac OS X. Our formula is simple, we listen to our customers and give them what they want. Copyright 2001-2009 Cocoatech LLC. All Rights Reserved.