Apple Updates Final Cut Express to version 1.0.1

Apple has released its 1.0.1 update to entry-level professional
video-editor Final Cut Express.

Wall-Mart To Rent DVD

AP reports that Wal-Mart is entering into the online DVD rental arena, currently dominated by Netflix . Wal-Mart is starting out with 13,000 titles, six distribution centers, and competitive pricing. With a seriously tremendous infrastructure and expansive will, Wal-Mart stands poised to overtake Netflix.

Quark Xpress has been announced for OS X and will be available as of next week .
According to Apple Web Site.

ALADDIN SYSTEMS SHIPS INTERNET CLEANUP 1.0 FOR MACINTOSH

Protect Internet Privacy -Block Popup and Banner Ads, Remove Spyware,
Erase Data Trails and Permanently Remove Tracking Devices

Aladdin Systems, Inc., today announced Internet Cleanup(tm) 1.0, a new Macintosh privacy tool that blocks pop-ups, banner Ads, and detects the presence of spyware on the computer. Internet Cleanup resolves privacy concerns by removing cookies, history files and Internet clutter that can be traced and allow for the permanent deletion of any file or folder.

"Privacy is an issue that gets more important every day," said Pauline Shumake, Sr. Product Manager for Aladdin's Cleanup and Privacy product lines. "People are concerned about their habits being tracked and watched, AND with all the pop-up Ads you get inundated with while surfing, it has become annoying at many levels. Internet Cleanup puts people back in control."

Internet Cleanup Special Features:
NetBlockade(tm) / SpyAlert(tm) / Cookie Tosser(tm) / Web Cache Files Remover(tm) / Internet History Files(tm) / SecureDelete(tm)
The Digital Document Shredder(tm), permanently deletes file(s).

For anyone that surfs the Web, Internet Cleanup is a necessary and complete privacy protection solution for the Internet.

Internet Cleanup is available online: http://www.aladdinsys.com/store or as always go to: versiontracker.com

Inferiis announce Up-date; Alfred 1.5.1

Alfred is an easy to use, customizable, universal plug-ins manager. Inspired from Mac OS 9's Finder and Extensions Manager, taking care of Mac OS X specificities, it improves user experience to install, remove and manage any kind of plug-ins like screen savers, preference panes, fonts... or anything else. This maintenance update provides the following improvements:

- Slightly enhanced performance of the file browsing. The managers are thus refreshed a little faster.- The packages are sometimes malformed. Although they are correctly detected, they are recognized as ordinary folders by the system and the applications like the Finder or Alfred. Alfred now works around this issue and takes such packages into account.- A few new actions have added to open the selected files with the Finder or to get Finder's information for them.- Many icons and toolbars have been revamped to improve overall user experience.- The browsing depth limit feature has been fixed. The setting was not taken into account.- A few new built-in rules have been added. Alfred 1.5.1 can be downloaded at http://www.inferiis.com/download/Alfred-1.5.1.dmg.gz or point your browser to versiontracker.com

Inferiis is a development group committed to providing softwares for Mac OS X.
Inferiis - http://www.inferiis.com

"iPhoto2: The Missing Manual" available Now from O'Reilly

"iPhoto2: The Missing Manual" takes readers far beyond iPhoto's feature
list. The book covers choosing and mastering a digital camera, the
basics of good photocomposition, and tips for shooting special subjects
like sports, kids, nighttime shots, and more. Great Summer Reading.

Palm to buy Handspring

Palm and Handspring, both rumored at different times as being buyout targets for Apple, have agreed to a Palm buyout of its competitor.
The transition will combine the two companies by fall while Palm spins off it's software subsidiary, Palmsource.

[Rumour] -ThinkSecret reports that Apple is working on video conferencing in the new iChat as well as a possible video camera introduction: While many specific details are largely unconfirmed, multiple sources also suggest that the company plans to announce some sort of video camera to complement the video-enabled iChat.

Final Cut Pro 4 will be available on June 14

"According to Apple press release, Final Cut Pro 4 will be available on June 14. It has a pretty impressive suite of new features.

Apple to Announce G5 ?

"Apple Insider is reporting that Apple will announce computers based on IBM's 64 bit PPC 970 processor in the upcomming WWDC and will market them as G5. The new Power Mac G5s will sport a completely new motherboard design utilizing DDR 400 RAM as well as AGP 8x graphics, FireWire 800, and USB 2.0, sources said. "In the box" connectivity among the news systems is based on Hypertransport which provides 64-bit addressing and will replace Apple's multilevel bus architecture found in current systems. Initial offerings of the Power Mac G5 are said to boast 1.4 to 1.8GHz, single core PPC 970 processors, with the possibility of a dual 1.8GHz chips shortly thereafter."