Adobe Labs offers the pre-release of the Adobe Color Management Module (CMM). According to Adobe Labs, CMM “provides methods to transform colors using industry standard ICC (International Color Consortium) color profiles.” This pre-release version is available without signing in an Adobe labs memebership account. The file size for the Mac version (.dmg) is 770 KB, and the file size for the Windows version (.zip) is 512 KB.






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Apple, Inc has released an updater for GeForce 7300 GT graphics cards. Only Mac Pro models require this firmware update.






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What is HDV? It is the video format that was developed by Japanese electronics makers such as JVC and Sony. JVC first introduced an HDV camcorder that supported both standard DV (480i) and HDV (720p30). Sony’s camcorder supports HDV 1080 interlaced format. The file extension used for HDV is .m2t. And its video compression is based on MPEG-2. So the average bitrates are about 25 Mbit/s for 1080i and 19.7 Mbit/s for 720p, respectively. Furthermore, the audio compression is MPEG-1 Layer II (MP2) with a bitrate of 192 kbit/s per channel. Continue reading →

Little Snitch, a popular shareware security program for Macs from Objective Development, has been updated to 1.2.4 with minor fixes. The previous version was in beta.






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Apple, Inc has released an updater for AirPort Extreme. This update only applies to Intel-based Mac computers.






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