The long wait is over for Snapz Pro X users. Ambrosia Software has updated its popular screen capture shareware title for Mac to 2.1.0. This version is in Universal Binary, so Intel-Mac users are now able to run Snapz Pro X natively to capture screen movements. According to the software developer, this updated version allows the user to compress H.264 video with multi-pass.

Apple, Inc. has released Mac OS 10.4.10 update. This update includes many OX fixes and security updates. One of the fixes, for example, is a fix “for a specific issue in which users importing video from a DV camera may experience dropped frames,” according to Apple.

Unfortunately, this OS update does not offer a direct fix for the QuickTime problem for which some movies cannot be viewed. On the other hand, it seems that the QuickTime problem is alleviated to some extent in that some of the movies longer than 12 minutes or so may now be viewed.

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A German software developer has updated its relatively affordable and yet powerful shareware title for 3D modeling Cheetah3D to 4.2 with more than a dozen new features plus bug fixes.

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We finished a 5-part video tutorial series for Realmac Software’s RapidWeaver 3.6 last week. We are currently working on three additional video tutorials for web designers who want to take RapidWeaver to the next level. In these three video tutorials, we use Adobe Dreamweaver 8 to edit the files created by RapidWeaver. For example, one of the video tutorials will show how to use Server Side Includes (SSIs) on the webpages. Another video tutorial will show how to embed more webpages without going back to RapidWeaver. These video tutorials will be available to our members later on this week or perphas next week. Continue reading →