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Veenix Technologies has announced a special summer software bundle for its highly acclaimed TypeBook Creator software for Mac OS X. Purchasers of the Studio Version or Corporate Version of TypeBook Creator will receive a free copy of Veenix Font Tools, font management tools featuring a unique fast-font-previewing system. Veenix TypeBook Creator was developed for Mac graphic professionals and allows them to easily create and print type specimen books and font sample sheets of their fonts.

nova media today announced the GlobeTrotter Express 441, a sleek modem which supports quad-band HSPA connections with up to 7.2 Mbit/s download speeds and up to 5.76 Mbit/s upload speeds. The GlobeTrotter Express 441 allows Macintosh users for the first time to establish 3G connections with an ExpressCard on all continents. The necessary software is delivered on the modem’s flash memory ready to install and does not need a separate CD or download.

A recent posting at iPod touch Fans has gained some publicity for the re-discovery of references to an “iPod3,1″ model in the public release of iPhone OS 3.0. The current iPod touch is termed “iPod2,1″, so the references suggest that Apple will be r…

START MOBILE today announced the launch of sixteen mobile art galleries for the iPhone, featuring curated art wallpapers from some of the world’s premier emerging and underground artists. START MOBILE iPhone Galleries each feature a bundled collection of curated artist wallpapers. Wallpaper galleries featured artists include Justin Bua, Ricky Powell, Shepard Fairey, Sugarluxe, Drew Brophy, Mark Wasyl, Kelly Towles, Tricia Choi, Felix LaFlamme, and Luke Feldman.

TimeStream Software’s popular “Walt Disney World Secrets” Notescast App for the iPhone and iPod touch receives 4 out of 5 Mice rating from Macworld. Noted as “This Secrets Notescast is chock full of advice on where, when and how to experience the many hidden treasures scattered across the parks.” Filled with over 180 fun, magical and surprising secrets, the new Walt Disney World Secrets Notescast works as an innovative guidebook allowing Guests to tour all of Walt Disney World Resort.

In a feature article today, The New York Times reports on Apple’s history of secrecy regarding its product plans and other company matters. While Apple’s long history guarding of its product pipeline has fostered the growth of dedicated rumors sites…

Dare to be Creative today announced the release of Slices 1.0, a utility to split large files on Mac OS X. With Slices users can email large documents by breaking them down into smaller files before attaching them to emails. Slices also allows users to backup large files onto multiple CDs, USB memory sticks and other writable media. It is the latest addition to Dare to be Creative’s system utilities suite, and will be available at an introductory price for the next few weeks.

locr, leading European platform for geo tagged photos and dynamically generated geospatial products and deCarta, the leading supplier of software and services for the location based services industry, today announced their strategic exclusive partnership. By combining technologies and knowhow, locr will enter the print market of high resolution maps, offering geospatial services and map content for the tourism, print and photo finishing market at consumer compatible prices.

I store all my photos (iPhoto) and music (iTunes) on an external FireWire drive. Normally the drive is attached to my iMac, but when I travel, I take the external hard drive and hook it up to my laptop. I want to have my iTunes work whether or not the drive is attached, and have it work automatically.

The quick summary of my solution is:

• Move ~/Music/iTunes to ~/Music/iTunes.local
• Move ~/Pictures/iPhoto Library to ~/Pictures/iPhoto_Library.local
• Make a link from ~/Music/iTunes to ~/Music/iTunes.local
• Make a link from ~/Picutres/iPhoto_Library to ~/Pictures/iPhoto_Library.local
• Write a script to change the links to the appropriate library upon mount
• Write a script to change the links to the appropriate library upon unmounting the external disk
• Use Lingon to make my mounting script run when a disk is mounted.
• Use Lingon to run my unmounting disk when…

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

Well, this is not really a hint, but a nice bit of info I didn’t read about anywhere: the new Copy function even works in the Calculator app! Just tap and hold your finger over the calculator’s results area and select Copy from the pop-up menu. You can then paste the numbers in the app of your choice, of course. Very handy!

Sorry if this was obvious to some readers. I think it’s the kind of thing that could have been overlooked, but Apple once again proves they do pay attention to detail. This new copy/paste thing works really all across the board.