Archive - Sep 14, 2005

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Aliso Viejo, CA - September 13, 2005 - Smith Micro Software Inc. (NASDAQ: SMSI) today announced it will continue the annual tradition of it's Allume Systems division by donating $1 of each sale from its Websites over the next 30 days to help national and local charities. This year the company will donate all proceeds to the American Red Cross and America's Second Harvest to help the people affected by Hurricane Katrina.

Aliso Viejo, CA - September 13, 2005 - Allume Systems, Inc., a division of Smith Micro Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: SMSI), today released StuffIt Deluxe 10, the latest version of its innovative data compression, access, and management tool for Mac OS X. This release includes our patent pending JPEG compression technology, allowing users to compress JPEG images and photos up to 30% with no loss in image quality. The only previous solution available for those looking to reduce the size of JPEG images was to further reduce the quality of the image. StuffIt's JPEG compression technology provides a new solution that offers smaller files without any penalty of reduced picture clarity. The product also allows users to view thumbnails for archived JPEG images without requiring them to decompress the archive.

Following DEVONthink Professional’s footsteps, DEVONthink Personal inherits the great iPod and web site export capabilities of its professional brother and also features the comfortable full screen mode that allows users to view documents and web sites without any disturbing interface elements. Local documents can also be edited in full screen. “This makes DEVONthink a perfect writer’s tool”, says Eric Boehnisch-Volkmann, President of DEVONtechnologies, LLC.

Model and Generate Objective-C from UML Class Diagrams

Placitas, NM – September 14, 2005 - Excel Software began shipping MacA&D OSX 1.1.4, a free update of its modeling tool that adds UML design and code generation enhancements for Objective-C programmers. MacA&D OSX brings requirements management, software modeling, code generation, reengineering and software design report generation to Mac OS X computers.

Diagram Programming Source Code in Minutes

Placitas, NM – September 14, 2005 - Excel Software began shipping MacTranslator OSX 1.0, a reengineering tool for generating graphic models of programming source code on Mac OS X computers. MacTranslator scans source code to extract design information that it outputs to a text file. That text is imported into the MacA&D modeling tool to automatically generate UML class models, structure charts and rich data models.

Tabasoft (http://www.tabasoft.it) announces the availability for free download of Biferno version 1.2.

This version includes some enhancements and bug fixes in various parts of Biferno.
Among others:
- SMTP code modified to allow SMTP authentication and attachments on emails.
- The method IsEMail of class string has been updated.
- Support for prepared queries has been added to mysql extension.
- Another version of the Apache module compatible with the Linux Trustix distribution has been added.