Archive - Feb 15, 2007

Parallels has released a new release candidate of Parallels Desktop for Mac. The major changes in RC3 (Build 3170) include the ability to upgrade seamlessly from Windows XP to Windows Vista. New options to drag-and-drop make it even more secure.

Beginning with Ubuntu 7.04 ("Feisty Fawn", to be released in April 2007), the PowerPC edition of Ubuntu will no longer be officially supported. The PowerPC software itself and supporting infrastructure will continue to be available, and supported by a community team. However, support for Intel Macs has been added in this release.

Bare Bones Software has released maintenance updates to BBEdit and TextWranger, now available for download from their Web site, http://www.barebones.com/support/updates.shtml. No release notes are available for TextWrangler 2.2.1. The changes to BBEdit 8.6.1 include the following:

Slife Labs announced today the immediate availability of Slife 1.0, the awareness browser for the Mac OS X. Slife, previously known as Onlife, is a new application that lets users visualize, organize and share their computer activities like never before.

Odessa, Ukraine, February 15, 2007 – CS Odessa launches ConceptDraw Lab project which combines corporate blog, new products marketplace and discussion forum. In the context of ConceptDraw Lab there are planned periodic releases of freeware utilities developed by CS Odessa engineers, publishing of the latest news and articles on products, company and technology.

Syncro Soft Ltd, the producer of Syncro SVN Client, has announced the immediate availability of version 2.1 of its Subversion (SVN) client.

Release date: February 14, 2007