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TidBITS Watchlist: Notable Software Updates for 2 August 2010

Snapz Pro X 2.2.3Snapz Pro X, the popular screenshot and video capture utility from Ambrosia Software, has been upgraded to version 2.2.3. The update addresses two crashing bugs. One, limited to newer MacBooks, occurred during object selection, and the other occurred for folks using mirrored monitors while attempting to make captures. The updated version of the software also automatically stops capturing video before the movie fills up your hard drive. ($69 new, free update, 10.8 MB)

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Retrospect 8.2 — Cross-platform backup software Roxio Retrospect (recently purchased by Roxio’s parent company; see “Retrospect Backup Software Acquired by Sonic Solutions,” 27 May 2010) has been upgraded to version 8.2. Beyond interface enhancements designed to make the software simpler to use, the upgrade makes network backup performance up to three times faster than before. The new version also adds support for 64-bit memory utilization, which can handle backups for volumes with “tens of millions of files,” the company says. Additionally, the upgrade reintroduces the capability to restore
from backups made using the older Retrospect 6 (those backups are treated as read-only). In the Retrospect 8.2 Read Me, Roxio recommends that you run Retrospect servers on Intel-based Macs, and warns that the software performs more slowly on PowerPC-based Macs. The company also notes that Internet/FTP backups are not yet supported, and optical device support has been deactivated in this release (though you can enable it manually if you don’t mind dedicating the drive to Retrospect). Full release notes are available. ($129 new for up to three
users, free update, free trial available, 258 MB)

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BBEdit 9.5.1 — Bare Bones Software has released a minor update to its powerful text editor BBEdit. The update doesn’t pack in any new features, but it does offer a host of fixes covering a wide range of issues. For those irked by BBEdit 9.5’s changed approach with Capitalize Sentences and Capitalize Lines, one of the two dozen fixes reinstates the behavior from pre-9.5 versions of BBEdit, so that the software now once again lowercases your text before applying the selected capitalization. Beyond that fix, the release corrects an issue with updating HTML markup preferences, addresses a
bug with prefixed Emacs commands, and attempts to better preserve file permissions when saving documents. Several other fixes to script attachability enable scripts that run when documents are closed to work properly. ($125 new, free update, 16.4 MB)

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