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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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Fantastical 1.3.6

Enables you to specify a calendar using natural language. ($19.99 new, free update, 11.2 MB)

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Quicksilver β71

The keyboard launcher gains compatibility with Mountain Lion’s Notification Center amongst a multitude of improvements and fixes. (Free, 3.6 MB)

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Sandvox 2.7.4

Improved performance in the Web authoring tool when saving files (particularly for those running Snow Leopard), editing, and dragging media. ($79.99 new, free update, 31.2 MB)

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LaunchBar 5.4.1

Wide-ranging list of enhancements to the keyboard launcher, including improved support for iTunes 11 and entering abbreviations that start with a digit. ($35 new, free update, 2.5 MB)

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PDFpen and PDFpenPro 5.9.4

Reduce memory usage for overall performance gains and improve OCR error handling. ($59.95/$99.95 new, free update, 47.5/48.5 MB)

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MacBook Air EFI Firmware Update 2.6

Fixes several nagging bugs for mid-2012 MacBook Air models. (Free, 4.76 MB)

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Firefox 18

Adds Retina display support and improves speed for Web apps and games thanks to new IonMonkey JavaScript compiler. (Free, 36.6 MB)

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Fission 2.1.1

Adds the capability to add folders to the Batch Converter, plus ensures that the Mac App Store version provides errorless file saving. ($32 new, free update, 10.7 MB)

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Carbon Copy Cloner 3.5.2

Shifts notifications from Growl to Notification Center for Mountain Lion users. ($39.95 new, free update, 10.7 MB)

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Airfoil 4.7.5

Restricts searches to your local network to prevent issues with Back to My Mac and iCloud. ($25 new, free update, 10.6 MB)

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SpamSieve 2.9.6

Fixes a bug that slowed spam-filtering operations in Postbox when running Mountain Lion. ($30 new, free update, 10.7 MB)

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BusyCal 2.0.2

Fixes some unspecified Google Calendar syncing bugs and a bug that prevented past due to-do items from appearing in the To Do List. ($29.99 new, free update, 8.3 MB)

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Typinator 5.4

Enables you to export abbreviation sets using either tab-delimited text or comma-separated value formats. (€24.99 new, free update, 5.0 MB)

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BBEdit 10.5.1

Maintenance release squashes a number of bugs to improve overall stability. ($49.99 new, free update, 12.6 MB)

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iOS 6.0.2 Squashes Unspecified Wi-Fi Bug in iPhone 5 and iPad mini

Prepared solely for the iPhone 5 and iPad mini, the iOS 6.0.2 update hopefully improves Wi-Fi connections.