Congratulations to Perceptive Automation! (Indigo Touch 1.7 release)

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Congratulations to Perceptive Automation on the Indigo Touch 1.7 release.
From the Release Notes:

We are excited to announce that Indigo Touch 1.7 has been approved by Apple and is now available in the App Store. New features include:

  • Support for iOS 4 multitasking — commands will finish executing and images will continue to load even if the Home button is pressed. Load times should be quite a bit faster as well.
  • iPhone 4 Retina-compatible UI images — built-in images should look much sharper. Note Control Pages still use lower resolution images. We hope to have that addressed in a future major release.
  • Improved device and variable popup UI appearance.
  • And a workaround for the iOS Bluetooth bug which causes Wi-Fi connections to drop out upon launching Indigo.

Just like the previous version of Indigo Touch, version 1.7 is also free. All you need is Indigo 4.1 Lite or Pro, then download Indigo Touch from Apple\’s App Store. Also note it is a universal binary application — the same app runs as a native app on the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.

Apple Releases iPhone Configuration Utility 3.2

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About iPhone Configuration Utility 3.2
iPhone Configuration Utility lets you easily create, maintain, encrypt, and install configuration profiles, track and install provisioning profiles and authorized applications, and capture device information including console logs.
Configuration profiles are XML files that contain device security policies, VPN configuration information, Wi-Fi settings, APN settings, Exchange account settings, mail settings, and certificates that permit iPhone and iPod touch to work with your enterprise systems.
Available for Macintosh & Windows…

Apple releases iPhoto 9.1.1

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Apple has released iPhoto 9.1.1….Here\’s the release notes….

About iPhoto 9.1.1

This update adds new email options to iPhoto \’11. It also improves overall stability and addresses a number of other minor issues. Specific fixes include:

  • Adds a preference allowing photos to be emailed using an external email application
  • Adds \”Classic\” and \”Journal\” themes to email.
  • Photos attached to an email can now be sized to Small, Medium or Large
  • Improves reliability when upgrading a library from an earlier version of iPhoto
  • iPhoto now correctly preserves the sort order of Events after upgrading a library
  • Event titles displayed in headers can now be edited in Photos view
  • Addresses a problem that could cause duplicate photos to be added to a MobileMe album
  • Scrolling overlay now correctly displays ratings when photos are sorted by rating
  • Photos are now sorted correctly when a rating is changed and photos are sorted by rating
  • Fixes a problem that could cause text formatting controls to become inaccessible when editing a calendar

The update is recommended for all users of iPhoto \’11

Apple publishes six free e-books for developers

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Apple has released a set of free E-Books for the Macintosh / Ios programmer in all of us.

  • iOS Human Interface Guidelines
  • Object Oriented Programming With Objective-C
  • Cocoa Fundamentals Guide.
  • The Objective-C Programming Language
  • iOS Technology Overview
  • iOS Application Programming Guide.

While not super exciting for the non-programmer, it\’s a great sign that Apple is making this available for free.  Just power up iBooks, and download the books…