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.
Restores compatibility with pulling video from Netflix in full-screen mode and can now capture audio from sandboxed applications sold through the Mac App Store. ($25 new, free update, 9.8 MB)
Subscribers to Apple’s iTunes Match service are sending copyright holders “magic money,” writes Jeff Price at the blog for the TuneCore online music distribution service. And while not an overwhelming amount ($10,000 in the first two months, spread out across 55,000 TuneCore artists), Price points out that it is more than the null sum that artists were previously receiving.
Fixes addition of “-Temporary” to some EPUB display names plus disappearance of table of contents when resizing window in Mac OS X 10.6. ($9.99 new, free update, 2.6 MB)
Fixes issue that prevented recording audio from Skype on Mac OS X 10.7.3. ($10 new, free update, 2.8 MB)
Trio of updates for additional 2010 Macs enables Lion Recovery from an Internet connection. (Free, 3 MB)
Long list of new features, bugs, and tweaks highlighted by support for archiving Lion Recovery HD partition and cloning a Lion installation disk image. (Free update, 6.0 MB)
Refines connections between ChronoSync and ChronoAgent with SSL encryption, plus additional new features. ($40 new for ChronoSync, $10 new for ChronoAgent; free updates; 29 MB, 8.1 MB)
Includes latest version of Instant On component for pulling audio from sandboxed application from the Mac App Store. ($32 new, free update, 5.2 MB)
Major update to Web site creation software includes new drag-and-drop Slide Show object, improved sharing to social networks, and support for Mac OS X Lion features such as Resume and Auto Save ($79.99 new, free update, 31.5 MB)
A trio of updates for mid-2010 Macs enables Lion Recovery from an Internet connection. (Free update, 3.1 MB)
Update focused on adding support for managing files on iCloud and integrating with the new PDFpen for iPad app. ($59.95/$99.95 new, free update, 41.6 MB)
Improves entry of recurring events using natural language and display of events, plus adds language localizations to the calendar utility. ($19.99 new, free update, 8.7 MB)
Maintenance update fixes bugs in the desktop software plus synchronization and pairing issues related to the Yojimbo for iPad app. ($38.99 new, free update, 7.2 MB)
Fixes bugs with syncing to Google, updating meetings in iCloud, and silent alarms in Lion iCal Server. ($49.99 new, free update, 6.7 MB)
Adds support for syncing interactive textbooks with iBooks 2 for the iPad. (Free, 102 MB)