Software

Roxio Creator 2010 is an upgrade focused on the process of capturing, editing and enjoying personal video, including high-definition content. Roxio Creator 2010 now offers automatic smart encoding to dramatically decrease rendering times while maintaining optimum video quality, and leverages ATI Stream and NVIDIA CUDA technologies to make project encoding up to five times faster. Creator 2010 also adds a range of Blu-ray Disc (BD) features including AVCHD Archiving, BD-RE on-disc editing, and complements its comprehensive Blu-ray Disc authoring capabilities with a new array of high-definition motion menus.

Roxio Creator 2010 makes it easier to enjoy video on a range of mobile devices with a newly revised output display that enables users to quickly transfer videos that are automatically optimized for the display characteristics and playback features of their particular device. Adding to Creator 2010's versatile video capabilities is a Web video capture feature that allows you to grab streaming video, such as user-generated content on YouTube, for viewing offline on portable devices and DVD players.Read more

Apple today announced that Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard will go on sale this Friday, August 28.

Snow Leopard is said to have hundreds of refinements, new core technologies and support for Microsoft Exchange. Some of these refinements are; a more responsive Finder; Mail that loads messages up to twice as fast; Time Machine with an up to 80 percent faster initial backup; a Dock with Expose integration; QuickTime X with a redesigned player that lets you view, record, trim and share video; and a 64-bit version of Safari 4 that is faster and resistant to crashes caused by plug-ins. Snow Leopard is also half the size of the previous version, which will free up about 7GB of drive space once it's installed.

Apple's online store is now accepting pre-orders. Snow Leopard will be available as an upgrade for Mac OS X Leopard users for $29 (single user) on August 28, 2009 through Apple Authorized Resellers and Apple Retail Stores. The Snow Leopard Family Pack, a single household, five-user license, will be available for $49. For Tiger users with an Intel-based Mac, the Mac Box Set includes Mac OS X Snow Leopard, iLife '09 and iWork '09 and will be available for $169 and a Family Pack is available for $229.

Olympus just announced the new WS-400S Kit that packages its WS-400S digital audio recorder with Dragon NaturallySpeaking Version 10 Recorder Edition speech recognition software. With Dragon NaturallySpeaking, simply dictate on the WS-400S, download files to a computer, and recordings are automatically transcribed to text! The kit also includes the ME-12 noise-canceling microphone to cut down on background noise.

The WS-400S features a large backlit LCD, has 1GB of internal flash memory and can capture up to 272 hours of Windows Media Audio files on its built-in stereo microphone. Two higher-quality recording modes are also available, stereo standard play (SSP), and stereo high quality (SHQ), for even better sound quality.Read more

MAGIX, a leader in multimedia software will be distributing its highly acclaimed Music Editing Software on HP laptops.

From the very beginning, MAGIX' idea was to give users who didn't have any previous music experience or knowledge the possibility to make their musical ideas a reality on their PC. Today, Music Maker is used by both beginners and advanced users to produce professional results quickly and easily in all musical genres including rock, hip-hop, dance and classical.

For those of you that don't have HP's new notebook, MAGIX is offering the Music Maker for 59.99 – Download this Music Recording and Editing Software now. The MAGIX Music Maker is also available for trial on Download.com.

Corel Home Office is a new office suite designed specifically to address the needs of consumers and home-based businesses. Corel Home Office is excellent for netbooks due to its low memory requirements and small footprint. Corel Home Office includes Corel Write for word processing, Corel Calculate for spreadsheets, and Corel Show for presentations.

Some features are:

• Sleek and simple interface
• File compatibility and document sharing: With extensive file format support (including Microsoft Office) and the ability to create PDFs in all three applications.
• Multi language support: Toggle between 13 available languages.
• Portability: Delivery on a USB stick makes Corel Home Office easy to install on the go
• Customization: Netbook owners can use manual or auto configuration options to easily adjust their settings and maximize screen real estate

Corel Home Office is available immediately and is priced at $69.99. For more information, to download a free trial version or to purchase Corel Home Office, please visit www.corelhomeoffice.com.

Flip Video just announced its new FlipShare software that makes sharing personal videos from your Flip camcorder easier than ever. With FlipShare you can publish your own personal video channels online with Flip Channels, as well as upload to MySpace and YouTube.

The new Flip Channels feature lets you share Flip content with the people you choose. Once you create a Flip Channel, their personal Flip Channels can be viewed online at FlipShare.com or on any iPhone (with the new FlipShare for iPhone app, available soon).

The new version of FlipShare software will begin shipping as the on-board software for all Flip Video camcorders today (June 16, 2009). The free software can also be downloaded by visiting www.theflip.com. The FlipShare for iPhone application will be available free in the iPhone App Store.Read more

Cyberlink today announced YouCam 3, new webcam software for live chats and video blogging. What makes YouCam 3 different from other software is it is the first webcam software that lets you upload videos directly to YouTube or Facebook.

Other features of YouCam 3 include face-tracking technology, video noise reduction, auto zooming, new animated effects, new scene locations, automatic lighting, a desktop capture mode and it also supports HD webcams, netbooks and more.

CyberLink's YouCam 3 is now available online, and supports the following languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Japanese, and Korean. YouCam 3 is priced at $34.95 for a single license download.