Newton’s Lore

If you’re interested in some cool Apps, check out the MacWorld Best of Show 2008 list, including
Hardware:

• MacBook Air
• Eye-Fi wireless MMC memory card
• MultiSync LCD3090WQXi

Software:

• Adobe Photoshop Elements 6
• Guitar Hero III
• BusySync
• Flow
• Dictate
• Parallels Server
• Vector Designer
• OmniFocus

According to an EMC spokesperson the new beta version of Retrospect due later this year will feature

• a totally new codebase (with new bugs no doubt!),
• Universal Binary
• New OS X interface (iTunes like, no doubt
• Multiple backups running at the same time
• New disk backup sets
• Disk grooming (previously only available in the Windows version)
• Fast Catalog rebuild
• New Calendar interface for scheduling backups
• New E-mail Notification system
• New Reporting system
• Widget to view backup progress
• Remote management console for multiple servers
• Support for Windows backups of applications like Exchange and SQL
• New Universal Client
• Much better performance and memory management
• Supports old backup set formats
• AES Encryption

And more! 

Ambrosia software is celebrating its 15th birthday as a Mac shareware house and as such is offering 10% off to Macworld attendees and at its online store.

Microsoft have annouced that Mac Office 2008 will be available on shelves as of 15th January (ie after the MacWorld keynote). Ships on a DVD, includes universal binaries, requires Mac OS X 10.4.9 or later and a recommended 500MHZ machine minimum.

List price is US$399, ff course, there’s always the free NeoOffice as an alternative.