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Ann Arbor, Michigan – Humble Daisy is offering a 40% discount on all academic site license purchases of ProfCast during the month of May 2009. Sites who take advantage of this discounted price will receive a FREE upgrade to ProfCast 3.0 when it becomes available. Additionally, licenses purchased during the month of May are also compatible with the forthcoming ProfCast for Windows** which is currently in beta testing.

Additionally, effective May 1st, 2009 Higher Educational institutions world wide can purchase school site licenses of ProfCast including up to 300 seats at just $600.00

ProfCast is perfect for professionals and educators alike who need to provide a more flexible, rich media to supplement traditional pedagogical tools such as books, course packs, or notes. ProfCast is a perfect compliment to Apple’s iLife Suite. With its integrated workflow, ProfCast provides a low cost solution for recording and distributing lectures, special events, and presentations as podcasts.

Feature highlights include:
* Records Live Presentations
* Supports Multiple File Formats
* ID3 Tags for iTunes U
* Integrated Podcast Manager
* Export to GarageBand
* Share to iWeb
* URL Linking
* Audio Playthrough Support

ProfCast sports live presentation recording, synchronization of slides with audio, Keynote and PowerPoint support, RSS generation and publishing support. All elements of a presentation, including slide timings, bullet point builds and voice narration are seamlessly recorded. ProfCast allows users to record their presentation as they give it, and also helps publish recorded presentations as enhanced podcasts, complete with RSS.

ProfCast is a unique utility that is easy to use and produces high-quality results. It remains the only innovative capture solution that records presentations and creates enhanced podcasts.

“The response to our Site License Sale in December was fantastic, but there were a lot of customers who asked us to do it again.” explained Humble Daisy Chief Instigator and CEO Dave Chmura. Site licenses for ProfCast are regularly priced starting at $1750.00 for up to 500 users. “I also want people to know that even if they take advantage of this discount, they will receive a FREE upgrade to ProfCast 3 when it becomes available.”

Minimum Requirements:
* Mac OS X Version 10.4 Tiger or later (10.5 Leopard Compatible)
* Universal Binary for PowerPC and Intel
* 500 MB Hard Drive space
* PowerPC G4 667MHz or greater
* Keynote 2.0 or later
* Microsoft PowerPoint 2004 or Microsoft PowerPoint 2009
* Integration with GarageBand and iWeb requires iLife ’06 or later.
* Integration with GarageBand on Mac OS X 10.5 requires iLife ’08.
* Internet connection (required for online publishing)

** ProfCast for Windows includes lecture recording and media creation functions only. RSS generation and publishing are available on the Macintosh platform only.

Pricing and Availability:
ProfCast is priced at $59.95 (USD) for a single-user license. A full-featured, 15-day demo is available and a recommended update for all customers. Educational discounts are available.

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Headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Humble Daisy, Inc. is a privately funded company founded in 2002 by husband-wife team of David and Michael Chmura. With a focus on the Mac platform, Humble Daisy’s goal is to provide simple and elegant, user-centered solutions to facilitate personal and professional success. Copyright 2002-2008 Humble Daisy, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, and Keynote are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Los Angeles, USA – ProteMac is proud to announce ProteMac Meter 2.6, their network Activity monitor and network traffic logger utility for Mac OS X. ProteMac Meter allows control network activity for every application on your Mac, showing you exactly what was transmitted and to where. The capability to audit what flows in and out of every piece of software is critical for security aware users. ProteMac Meter provides real-time processes (applications and services) monitoring and shows the history of every network activity.

ProteMac Meter shows extensive information about each connection: application network connections, host availability, remote host name, amounts of incoming and outgoing traffic through connection or application, timestamps of the first and last activity, application that initiated or accepted this connection, full path to the application the process belongs to, and much more. The traffic summary indicator shows an upload and download speed graph and traffic totals specially for selected application.

Visualizing your Internet activity is simple, even for inexperienced users. You can view all established connections, monitor network and per application traffic over a certain period, setup various notifications and much more. Use ProteMac Meter right from your menubar floating diagrams to see the application and network bytes flow.

New in version 2.6:
* New notification engine
* Updated user interface
* Stability Improved
* Misc bugs fixed

Feature highlights include:
* Display chart and table of network application’s or connection’s real time activity
* Display real time network traffic usage for each application on your Mac
* Display real time network traffic summary for your Mac
* Display real time network speed for your Mac
* Provides clear graphical and numerical network traffic details
* Log each session, include start/stop time, application, remote address/port, total transferred bytes and average speed
* Generate network traffic statistics report, display period network usage for each application and each remote IP
* Monitors multiple network connection interfaces at the same time
* Views connection details in summary, daily, weekly and monthly format, plus export to many different file formats
* Readout in either kB/sec (kilobytes per second) or kbps (kilobits per second)
* Useful stopwatch to accurately time downloads and report the average transfer rates
* Includes complete window configuration and view options
* Alarms once a particular amount of traffic volume is reached in the period
* Alarms for specified Application, bandwith or time
* The utility has a transparent user-friendly interface and is very simple in use

Minimum Requirements:
* Mac OS X Version 10.4 Tiger or 10.5 Leopard
* Universal Binary for PowerPC and Intel
* 12.4 MB Hard Drive space

Pricing and Availability:
ProteMac Meter 2.6 is available for only $29.95 (USD) for a Single License, and may be downloaded directly from the Macvide website.

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Located in historic St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, Intelus, Ltd. is a privately funded company founded in 2002. Leveraging their longtime experience in the video industry, Intelus’ goal is to develop best-of-breed tools for the Mac platform, and lead to the creation of Macvide. Copyright 2002-2008 Intelus, Ltd. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries. Flash, the Flash Logo and Macromedia are registered trademarks of Adobe Inc.

San Francisco, California – Cocoatech LLC is proud to announce Path Finder 5.1.1, an update to their award-winning, file management utility for Mac OS X 10.5. This is the eleventh free update for Path Finder 5 since it’s release in late October 2008.

We’ve received thousands of complements, suggestions, and a few bug reports since the release of Path Finder 5.0 and we have been updating the application as fast as possible to get everything just right. Almost every feature has been optimized for CPU and memory usage to ensure rock solid stability and performance. The result is the best version of Path Finder ever.

No one likes to wait months to get software updates, we try our best to get new features and improvements in customers hands as fast as possible. We’ve been releasing almost two updates per month and will continue on this schedule for the foreseeable future.

Path Finder is a file manager that looks and operates much like the Finder, but with many extra features and enhancements. Path Finder is optimized for single window use, eliminating the clutter of overlapping windows.

Feature Highlights:
* List, Icon, Column, Coverflow views like the Finder but with Coverflow available in any configuration
* Tabbed file browsing
* Dual pane browsing
* Animated Sidebar for your volumes, shares, recent documents and favorite places
* Drop Stack – Drag and Drop files to the stack, then navigate to new location, then drag off
* Path Navigator – Displays the current path and you can click on any folder name to quickly navigate
* Quicklook window – Hit space bar to display a quick preview of a file
* Super fast File List filtering
* Size Browser – Find which files are using the most space in a file hierarchy
* Bookmarks Bar – Put favorite folders here and view item contents using a popup menu.
* Selection tool to select files using various criteria
* Customizable Contextual Menus
* Search features to search volumes using Spotlight or traditional directory searching
* Go to Folder Shortcut to jump directly to a typed path
* Quick Application Launcher
* Shows Hidden Files and opens packages
* Integrated tools like an Image Converter, Subversion Client, Preview Pane, Terminal, Disk Burning
* Modify attributes, permissions, labels, comments and more
* Integrated Stuffit Compression Engine – compress and decompress nearly every archive format

Language support:
English, Japanese, French, German, Taiwanese, Dutch, Spanish, Chinese, Korean, Italian and Russian

Minimum Requirements:
* Mac OS X Version 10.5 Leopard or later
* Universal Binary
* 66.1 MB Hard Drive space
* 1G Ram Recommended

Pricing and Availability:
Path Finder 5.0 can be purchased for $39.95 (USD), and available as a full-featured, try before you buy 30-day demo. Owners of Path Finder 4 may upgrade for $19.95 USD. You can purchase Path Finder within the application using the built-in secure purchasing system.

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Located in San Francisco, California, Cocoatech LLC is a privately held software company founded in 2001 by Steve Gehrman. Steve has over 20 years experience as a Mac OS software developer, and founded Cocoatech with the intention of creating great software for Mac OS X. Our formula is simple, we listen to our customers and give them what they want. Copyright 2001-2009 Cocoatech LLC. All Rights Reserved.