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Mien Software has released MediaEdit 3.1.6 for the Mac, a consumer-level video editing tool which supports standard painting tools and multiple layers. Designed specifically for moviemakers, amateur photographers and new creative artists, MediaEdit 3 can edit virtually all QuickTime compatible formats. This update improves stability. Built completely from the ground up with the latest video editing technologies. Add video, audio, photo, and text with ease.

Mien Software has released MediaEdit 3.1.6 for the Mac, a consumer-level video editing tool which supports standard painting tools and multiple layers. Designed specifically for moviemakers, amateur photographers and new creative artists, MediaEdit 3 can edit virtually all QuickTime compatible formats. This update improves stability. Built completely from the ground up with the latest video editing technologies. Add video, audio, photo, and text with ease.

TimeStream Software today announces free downloads of its popular “Walt Disney World Secrets” Notescast for the iPod Classic and iPod nano for a limited time. Over 180 secrets, a Hidden Mickey tour and a bonus over 200 Fun Facts. Now iPod Classic and iPod nano owners can tour all of Walt Disney World Resort during their Disney vacation using their iPods in hand as their personal interactive tour guide.

Sandvox Web Designs has announced the “4 Corners” design, a brand new design for the popular website creation tool Sandvox. Serving as a professional design with easy to use features. “4 Corners” offers users some new and unique features which make creating their website as easy as possible. 2, 3, or 4 column snippets along with “Boxes” snippets are included to help you get up and running in the shortest amount of time possible.

Softpress Systems today launched version 5.4 of Freeway, its award-winning website design software. This latest update features an extended CSS menu creation tool and an AddThis social bookmarking Action. It also includes several other enhancements and bug fixes. Famous for its ease-of-use and clean standards-compliant code generation, Freeway is the tool of choice for professionals and home Mac users who want total design freedom and prefer to focus on design issues, not on coding.

Microsoft yesterday announced at its Worldwide Partner Conference 2009 that its forthcoming Office 2010 suite will gain a web-based component offering free, ad-supported access to browser-based versions of Word, PowerPoint, Excel and OneNote to anyon…

In addition to the previous “twist” gestures which are disabled by default, Firefox 3.5 also ships with default enabled multi-touch swipe inputs:

• Three-finger swipe up: Home key (top of the page)
• Three-finger swipe down: End key (bottom of the page)
• Three-finger swipe left: Browse back
• Three-finger swipe right: Browse forward

These can be edited by entering about:config in the address bar. Enter swipe in the filter box.

Files with Japanese names that show up fine when I’m in the local terminal, all turn into ???? when I ssh in from my laptop. It’s because the locale of the remote sessions is ignoring the default locale and encoding of my local terminal. My local terminal defaults to “en_US.UTF-8,” while the ssh sessions are something called “C,” which apparently doesn’t support Unicode.

One solution I’ve discovered is to to edit the ssh_config and sshd_config files so that the client sends the language environment variables, and the server accepts them. I’ve created two commands you can run in Terminal to achieve this:On the server, you should run:

sudo sh -c 'printf "\n\n# Accept language environment variables\nAcceptEnv LANG LC_*" >> /etc/sshd_config'

and on the client…

Unlike most browsers, Safari doesn’t have a setting to use WPAD (web proxy auto-discovery) in OS X. However, there is a way to ask Safari to automatically detect the network’s proxy settings, but only if your network administrator has configured WPAD on your network.

This auto-detect feature works through DNS. The browser looks for a host named “wpad” and if it exists, loads its settings by accessing a file named “wpad.dat” via HTTP. To use DNS-based WPAD with Safari on OS X, follow these steps:

• In Safari, choose Safari » Preferences
• Click on the Advanced icon
• Click on the Proxies » Change Settings button
• In the Configure Proxies dropdown menu, select Using A PAC File
• In the PAC File URL field, enter http://wpad/wpad.dat
• Click on OK
• Click on Apply

Again, this is only helpful if your network administrator has set up a proxy to be auto-configured. If you’re on a network that doesn’t have such a setup, Sa…

Branchr Advertising Network today unveiled support for text advertisements for both advertisers and publishers to use. The new text based advertisements serve as a great approach for advertisers to advertise their products in a way that looks and feels natural to any potential customers. The new ad format can be integrated into any website, and enables publishers to earn the same generous royalties, as they can earn from the existing Branchr image ads that are available on the network.