Freeverse, Inc., a software developer who is known for Comic Life Deluxe, Burning Monkey Solitaire series and an upcoming game Heroes of Might & Magic, is currently running an art work contest in use of its software title Lineform. (The free trial version may be downloaded and used.) A successful winner submitting his/her original art work will be awarded $1,000. According to Freeverse, the contest will close at 11:59 PM (EST) on December 14, 2006.

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We, MacHouse, use screen capture applications a lot. Well, that’s because our primary job is to produce video tutorials. There are now quite a number of screen capture applications. So we decided to compare three of them: Snapz Pro X, ScreenRecord and Screenography.

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10 years ago, Aladdin System took care of most of the files from the Internet for Mac users with its popular freeware application called StuffIt Expander. Now, disc images are more popular, and Mac users sometimes grab disc images for Windows OS. There are many extensions such as bin, cue, daa, mdf that Mac users don’t usually use. And we have wrapped up some of the popular file extensions used under Windows OS to show how Mac users can open such files.

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Apple Computer, Inc has released a new update patch that fixes more than a dozen vulnerable components including AirPort, Finder and Font Book. It has been pointed out that Apple’s main disc image, dmg, has a security weakness. But this security vulnerability has yet been fixed this time.

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Sorenson Media today announced that its compression suite, Sorenson Squeeze, has been upgraded to 4.5, which is in Universal Binary.

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