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iLife’11 contains significant updates to iPhoto, iMovie and GarageBand :

iPhoto ‘11

Features stunning new full-screen modes allowing control of virtually every feature and including gesture awareness. In addition to that, iPhoto ‘11 improves connection to FaceBook, enhances the experience when emailing your photos and includes new and expanded slideshow themes. iPhoto ‘11 makes it even easier to create your books with the new dynamic Theme browser and smarter Autoflow. Finally, iPhoto now lets you create custom Letterpress cards.

iMovie ‘11

Turn your home movies into spectacular Movie Trailers in an instant, using specially built templates and the new People Finder: iMovie finds faces in your footage so you can choose fitting scenes quickly. Furthermore, iMove ‘11 features enhanced audio editing, One-Step Effects as well as new Sports and News Themes.

GarageBand ‘11

Now features Flex Time and Groove Matching, which allows for quick fixes of timing mistakes in your song. On top of that, there are seven new guitar amps and five new stompbox effects included in GarageBand ‘11. GarageBand ‘11 adds 22 new genre-based lessons for piano and guitar and a new feature called “How did I play?” which tells you how your are doing in real-time, and keeps track of your learning progress.

Visit the Apple website for more information.

Wester Digital has released its hard disk Caviar Green of 3 TB, SATA 3 Gb/s, 64 MB Cache.

As hard drive capacities increase, the power required to run those drives increases as well. WD Caviar Green drives make it possible for energy-conscious customers to build systems with higher capacities and the right balance of system performance, ensured reliability, and energy conservation.

WD Caviar Green drives use less power and support quieter, cooler-running high-capacity desktop PCs and external storage devices.

Visit the Western Digital website for more information.

According to Adobe, an important library-loading vulnerability has been identified in Adobe InDesign CS5 7.0.2 and earlier, Adobe InDesign Server CS5 7.0.2 and earlier, and Adobe InCopy CS5 7.0.2 and earlier. Adobe recommends users update their product installations using the instructions provided below.

Affected software versions:

• Adobe InDesign CS5 7.0.2 and earlier versions for Windows
• Adobe InDesign Server CS5 7.0.2 and earlier versions for Windows
• Adobe InCopy CS5 7.0.2 and earlier versions for Windows

Visit the Adobe website for more information.

Adobe Acrobat X Pro

Adobe® Acrobat® X Pro software includes the award-winning functionality in Acrobat X Standard to convert and edit PDF files, scan paper to searchable PDF, and save PDF files in Word and Excel, plus:

• Combine different file types, even video and interactive media, into a polished PDF Portfolio.
• Use the Action Wizard to automate and share multistep tasks in a single action.
• Gain quick feedback through easy-to-manage electronic reviews.
• Create fillable PDF forms to collect critical data.
• Protect your work with passwords and permissions.

Visit the Adobe website for more information.

Office for Mac 2011 coming October 26th.

What’s new:

• Excel: Smarter, sharper ways to visualize and present your data.
• Photo Editing: Give your projects more visual impact.
• Compatibility: You look more professional when you’re compatible.

Office for Mac 2011 delivers reliable compatibility between Mac- and Windows-based computers, ensuring that your work looks the way you intended . Shared tools and file formats between Office for Mac and Windows-based Office mean that your polished reports, presentations, and spreadsheets look and behave just as you designed them.

Qualifying customers can upgrade to Office 2011 with the purchase of Office 2008 between Aug. 1, 2010, and Nov. 30, 2010.

For  more information and pre order call Trams on 0845 330 1600.