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Agen Schmitz

Agen Schmitz

Agen Schmitz has worked within the Apple eco-sphere since helping manage conference speaker content for Thunder Lizard Productions in the mid-90s. After spending time at Amazon in the early 2000s (as senior editor for the Electronics, specializing in PDAs and MP3 players—he still has his original pre-release iPod), he has continued to focus on e-commerce content and works with a variety of brands across the e-retail landscape. Agen lives in Seattle with his wife and son (who, sadly, has moved onto Windows for gaming), loves making monthly music mixes, and is always dreaming of Iceland.

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Typinator 5.5

Adds calculation fields to expansions and includes over 20 improvements and fixes. (€24.99 new, free update, 5.3 MB)

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Mailplane 3.0

Major update to Gmail-specific email client integrates Google Calendar, supports up to 10 accounts, and previews attachments with Quick Look. ($24.95 new, free update, 3.4 MB)

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Things 2.2

Improves core performance, download speed from Things Cloud, and handling of dates when traveling between time zones. ($49.99 new, free update, 16.3 MB)

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CloudPull 2.4

Backs up tagged Google Reader articles and enables you to export them into an HTML bookmarks file. ($9.99 new, free update, 12 MB)

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LiveCode 6.0 Released in Free and Commercial Editions

After a successful Kickstarter campaign, RunRev has released the LiveCode 6.0 app development toolkit in a free, open-source edition as well as a commercial edition that’s required for apps destined for Apple’s App Stores.

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Audio Hijack Pro 2.10.7

Improves overall stability and fixes a couple of crashes. ($32 new, free update, 5.6 MB)

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LaunchBar 5.4.3

Maintenance release improves detection of Google Chrome and Chromium bookmarks and squashes several bugs. ($35 new, free update, 2.5 MB)

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DEVONthink and DEVONnote 2.5.2

Clip to DEVONthink browser extension now indicates whether a Web address has already been added to a database. (All updates are free. DEVONthink Pro Office, $149.95 new; DEVONthink Professional, $79.95 new; DEVONthink Personal, $49.95 new; DEVONnote, $24.95 new)

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Snapz Pro X 2.5.2

Improves the precision of screen captures and brings back several options for image borders. ($69 new, free update, 15.8 MB)

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TextWrangler 4.5.1

Maintenance release to the free text editor that mirrors many of the fixes in BBEdit 10.5.3. (Free, 9.6 MB)

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BBEdit 10.5.3

Maintenance release squashes over 50 bugs in the powerful text editor. ($49.99 new, free update, 12.5 MB)

Final Cut Pro X 10.0.8 Agen Schmitz 4 comments

Final Cut Pro X 10.0.8

Maintenance release with a short list of targeted fixes and improvements. ($299.99 new, free update, 1.64 GB)

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PDFpen 6.0.1

Enables export to Microsoft Word document when running Lion and ensures that Preview and Quick Look respect password-protected PDFs. ($59.95/$99.95 new, free update, 49.6/50.3)

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ChronoSync 4.3.7

Adds a few features that improve the handling of network volumes. ($40 new, free update, 28.9 MB)

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Skype 6.3

Adds slideshow view of other participants in a group call and an in-call dial pad for generating DTMF tones. (Free, 37.5 MB)