New Updates to SkySafari iPad/iPod Software (June 27, 2011)

By Mike Hubbartt, © Copyright 2011, All Rights Reserved. Last week several of my iPod touch apps were updated, including SkySafari Pro and SkySafari – both were version 3.0.1. I contacted Southern Stars and they sent me a list of fixes/enhancements that are current for the 3.x release – click here to see them. I installed [...]

Apple Launches Macbook Bottom Case Replacement Program (June 1, 2011)

By Mike Hubbartt, © Copyright 2011, All Rights Reserved. May 31, 2011 I needed a new laptop, so I bought a Macbook on Black Friday (the day after Thanksgiving in the US) in 2009. I wanted to use Mac and Windows applications on it for my classes, so a low end Mac laptop was a better [...]

Mathematica 8.0.1 Now Available (May 18, 2011)

By Mike Hubbartt, © Copyright 2011, All Rights Reserved. I know it seems like yesterday when Wolfram released Mathematica 8.0, but they just released an update: version 8.0.1. This version is not an incremental update, so the entire application must be downloaded and installed. This update is free for owners of Mathematica 8.0, and it can [...]

Adobe Announces Release of Photoshop CS5 SDK (April 11, 2011)

By Mike Hubbartt, © Copyright 2011, All Rights Reserved. I had a couple of press releases from Adobe today, and was very happy to see they are releasing an SDK (Software Development Kit) for Photoshop CS5. I appreciate when product vendors give developers a way to interface with their products, which isn’t new, but it doesn’t [...]

Starry Night Version 6.4.3 (February 22, 2011)

By Mike Hubbartt, © Copyright 2011, All Rights Reserved. A new update for Starry Night Pro and Starry Night Pro Plus is available today. Use the ‘Help/Check for Updates’ menu option to download and install the update. I updated Starry Night Pro Plus and did not see any glitches during the update nor after restarting SNPP. [...]

Starry Night Version 6.4.2 (January 18, 2011)

By Mike Hubbartt, © Copyright 2011, All Rights Reserved. Starry Night version 6.4.2 is available as of today. I downloaded and installed it for Starry Night Pro Plus and had no errors during or after the update. Per an email I received from Starry Night Support on 1/19/2011, this update has the following bug fixes: Crash [...]

Starry Night Version 6.4.1 (March 29, 2011)

By Mike Hubbartt, © Copyright 2010, All Rights Reserved. This post contains information about Starry Night version 6.4.1. Click here to read our post on release version 6.4.2, which was available for downloading the morning of January 18, 2011. Version 6.4.0 to 6.4.1 Update January 12, 2011 I contacted Starry Night Support for a list of [...]

Apple TV Sales Approaching 1 Million Units (December 22, 2010)

By Mike Hubbartt, © Copyright 2010, All Rights Reserved. I bought a first gen Apple TV when they were released. My unit has a 32 GB drive and I’ve enjoyed using it from the very start. I keep my favorite movies and songs on the unit itself, streaming other content as desired. In truth I am [...]

SpaceX Successfully Launches, Recovers Dragon (December 9, 2010)

By Mike Hubbartt, © Copyright 2010, All Rights Reserved. SpaceX achieved a huge milestone in their pursuit of private industry space travel. This morning they launched their Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, which carried the Dragon spacecraft into a near earth orbit. The impressive fact about this accomplishment is not launching a rocket, but actually [...]

Southern Stars Astronomy Products Press Announcement (November 29, 2010)

I received this press release and wanted to share it since we’ve reviewed their products in the past. Mike ====================================================== We’re Southern Stars – formerly the mobile products division of Carina Software. As a Carina customer, you’re receiving this notice regarding our mobile astronomy products and plans for the holiday season. SkySafari is a universal [...]

Wolfram Announces Mathematica 8 (November 15, 2010)

By Mike Hubbartt, © Copyright 2010, All Rights Reserved. I just saw a presentation on version 8 of Mathematica, the newest update to this powerful product used in a wide variety of industries, and I am impressed. There are a ton of enhancements and I will be covering the new release here and for Software Latest. [...]

Apple and Oracle Announce OpenJDK Project for OSX (November 12, 2010)

By Mike Hubbartt, © Copyright 2010, All Rights Reserved. The Java Developer Mailing list has been buzzing about Apple’s recent announcement to deprecate Java. Apple even statied it would not include Java in the next version of OS X (Lion, due the middle or end of next year). Bad news for Java developers, educators, students, and [...]

New version of IntelliJ IDEA on the way (November 7, 2010)

By Mike Hubbartt, © Copyright 2010, All Rights Reserved. IntelliJ IDEA (http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/) Introduction I’ve been using IntelliJ IDEA since version 9.0.0 and really like this IDE. I wrote a review about the 9.0.2 CE (click here to see it) and  IntelliJ was kind enough to let me evaluate the Ultimate Edition for 3 months. I used [...]

New update to Eschalon Book II (November 7, 2010)

Basilisk Games Announces the development of “The Secret of Fathamurk”, an extended adventure for Eschalon: Book II Indianapolis, IN – September 3, 2010 – Basilisk Games, Inc. today announced the development of an add-on adventure for Eschalon: Book II called “The Secret of Fathamurk”. “This expansion for Eschalon: Book II will add 5-10 hours of [...]

Virgin Galactic continues to lead the commercial space access race (October 29, 2010)

By Mike Hubbartt, © Copyright 2010, All Rights Reserved. Sir Richard Branson is the CEO of Virgin Galactic Airlines, a company dedicated to fulfilling the dreams of people wanting to take a suborbital commercial space flight. On July 19, I posted this short piece about SpaceShipTwo. October is a month of important milestones for Virgin Galactic. [...]

PC64:The Rebirth of the Commodore 64? (September 19, 2010)

By Mike Hubbartt, © Copyright 2010, All Rights Reserved. One of the first computers I owned was a Commodore 64. It was far less expensive and vastly superior graphics over DOS-based computers, and it had a lot of games. While those C64 games are primitive compared to modern ones, they were better than any other platform [...]

New Apple Product Announcements (September 1, 2010)

by Mike Hubbartt, © Copyright 2010, All Rights Reserved. Apple announced new products today. Their updated their iPod line of the Shuffle, iPod Nano, and iTouch. They also released a new version of iTunes (version 10) which incorporates some social networking aspects. The final new product is a new and inexpensive version of the Apple TV. [...]

Adobe Releases Lightroom 3.2 and Camera Raw 6.2 (August 31, 2010)

I received this press release this morning and wanted to share it with our readers. ========================================================= I thought you would like to know that Adobe today announced the Lightroom 3.2 and Camera Raw 6.2 updates are available for immediate download on Adobe.com. The updates, originally posted as release candidates on Adobe Labs, extend raw file [...]

Adobe CS5 InDesign, Fireworks, and DreamWeaver (August 16, 2010)

by Mike Hubbartt, © Copyright 2010, All Rights Reserved. I’ve been working with Adobe’s CS5 suite the past few months and I am impressed. The three applications I’ve used the most in the past few weeks are InDesign, Fireworks, and DreamWeaver, and they are nice! The best thing about InDesign CS5? The ability to generate PDFs, [...]

Incredible Maps of Mars Now Online (July 30, 2010)

If you ever in your life had any interest in space and space travel, you have got to check this out -> click here. ============================================================================ The actual JPL Press release is: Source: Jet Propulsion Laboratory NASA Spacecraft Camera Yields Most Accurate Mars Map Ever Close View of Valles Marineris This image shows a 90-mile-wide portion [...]

Dell Drops Ubuntu Linux PCs from Their Sales Website (July 28, 2010)

I came across this article at MacWorld UK and must admit I’m disappointed. While Windows 7 is a huge upgrade over Vista, Ubuntu is one of the finer Linux implementations and Dell had listed PCs with Ubuntu for 2 years. For more information, click here.

Eclipse Helios is Released (June 23, 2010)

A late announcement of the newest version of eclipse (Helios) to be released, but still worthwhile news for us fans of the IDE. ============================================================================== OTTAWA, CANADA – June 23, 2010 – Today the Eclipse community delivers its annual release train, a coordinated release of the major Eclipse projects. For the seventh year in a row, [...]

Apple Unveils New Mac Pro With Up to 12 Processing Cores (July 27, 2010)

CUPERTINO, California—July 27, 2010—Apple® today unveiled a new Mac® Pro line with up to 12 processing cores and up to 50 percent greater performance than the previous generation.* Featuring the latest quad-core and 6-core Intel Xeon processors, all-new ATI graphics and the option for up to four 512GB solid state drives (SSD), the new Mac [...]

Microsoft Biology Foundation 1.0 ships

by Peter Galli on July 15, 2010 05:59PM <!– –>Version 1.0 of the Microsoft Biology Foundation (MBF), which is  licensed under the OSI-approved Microsoft Public License, has shipped. MBF is a language-neutral bioinformatics toolkit built as an extension to the Microsoft .NET Framework, initially aimed at the area of Genomics research. Currently, it implements a range [...]

Press Release – SWF Protector (July 12, 2010)

© Copyright 2000-2009 DCoM Soft. All Rights Reserved. Nice, France: DcomSoft has released absolutely new powerful SWF Protector, that works on Mac OS X 10.4 and Mac OS X 10.5. This very simple to use, yet very profound tool helps you protect your SWF files in very reliable way. From now on nobody will be [...]

JetBrains TeamCity 5.1.2 (June 9, 2010)

Greetings from JetBrains, We are pleased to announce the availability of TeamCity 5.1.2! TeamCity is a continuous integration server featuring quick setup and out of the box continuous unit testing, code quality analysis, and early reporting on build problems. TeamCity offers a gentle learning curve, so you can quickly improve your release management practices by [...]

Eschalon: Book II Released (June 2, 2010)

Basilisk Games Announces the Availability of Eschalon: Book II for Macintosh and Linux Indianapolis, IN – May 26, 2010 – Basilisk Games, Inc. today announced that Eschalon: Book II for Macintosh and Linux based computers is now available. “Macintosh and Linux users can finally return to the land of Eschalon once again” said Thomas Riegsecker, [...]

Photoshop Camera Raw 6.1 (June 2, 2010)

I thought you would like to know that Adobe today announced the immediate availability of the Photoshop Camera Raw 6.1 plug-in on Adobe.com. Originally posted on Adobe Labs for community testing, the final release of Camera Raw 6.1 brings new lens correction functionality and adds raw file support for 10 new popular camera models for [...]