The database design and synchronization program gains "support for custom data types (or user defined types), unique constraints and MySQL routines (procedures and functions)," along with some interface fixes.

Tri-Edre's Time Machine access utility adds new functions for controlling Time Machine, a Backups Link function to concatenate the backups of multiple disks, improved performance for analysis and research, information display about Time Machine disks, and more.

The book and media cataloging program adds more efficient use of Amazon lookups per item scanned, lookup support for people using non-Gregorian calendars, renewed support for sending rich text email, workarounds for Apple Bluetooth bugs with Bluetooth scanners, and other changes.

Rogue Amoeba's radio player and recorder can now play AAC and AAC+ streams, properly adjusts its output when headphones are plugged in, improves synchronization between track titles and audio for MP3 streams, and supports more Flash-based streams.

AutoDesk announced that it will release AutoCAD for Mac this fall along with AutoCAD WS, a mobile version for iOS devices.

Marketcircle released Billings Pro, a multi-user time tracking and invoicing application based on the Billings 3 desktop edition with sync technology from the company's Daylite application.

Dave Taubler's wireframing application gains new components (including a tabbed pane component and a dialog component), a Clipart Library, styling of individual cells in a spreadsheet component, auto-cropping of canvas sizes, an editor sidebar for notes, editing of grouped components, padding control for text components, and more.

An upcoming version of the REAL Studio development system promises to make Web application development as easy as Basic development for the Mac.

The drag-and-drop XHTML/CSS web design program gains tabs in Page Designer, list and tree views in File Manager, a widget palette, HTML5 support (including video), WebKit support, and more.

Thomson Reuters' widely-used bibliographic management program adds import and search of folders of PDFs, support for transferring references to EndNote Web groups, automatic hyperlinking between in-text citations and the bibliography in EndNote X4 and Microsoft Word, and other improvements.

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great response about dying Power Mac G5 that ran a business

Palm Desktop and Apple user interface follies

various notes

Rogers; performance issues; music with video

app review issues; travel

Google Voice and Truphone

AutoCAD returns

extended warranty for defects ending

wireless troubleshooting and other notes