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iTunes Apps Tab in Landscape?

If your iPad is locked in landscape orientation when in the charging dock, apps in the Apps tab of iTunes will display in landscape orientation. (This also occurs when your iPad is not in the dock but connected to iTunes via the charging cable while in landscape orientation).

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PDFpen and PDFpenPro 5.8.1

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Giving the people what they want, Smile has updated both PDFpen and PDFpenPro to version 5.8.1 to add an oft-requested viewing option. With the new Zoom to Width feature, you can zoom to fill the available width of your screen, as well as set Screen Width as your default view in the app’s preferences. The release also improves accuracy of OCR and text selection and blends in some additional (though unspecified) enhancements and minor fixes. ($59.95/$99.95 new with a 20-percent discount for TidBITS members, 43.3/44 MB)

 

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Comments about PDFpen and PDFpenPro 5.8.1

John Lawson  2012-05-14 20:02
Smile dropped support for my "older" intel core duo macbook running OSX 10.6.8

"PDFpenPro 5.8 now requires a 64-bit (Core 2 Duo) Intel processor, as we needed to adopt Apple's Automatic Reference Counting (ARC) for the future of PDFpen. PDFpenPro 5.7.2 remains available for download under both "System Requirements" and "Previous Versions" on the download page:..."