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Photo Management

OS X Yosemite 10.10.2, New Features for Photos for iCloud Beta

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iCloud First off, AppleInsider has a few new details about the current Photos for OS X beta. Manual image zoom controls have been added to iCloud.com, as well as email sharing. Photos for OS X will launch sometime later this year, and will bring iPhoto and Aperture together, along with full iCloud integration.

Next, OS X Yosemite 10.10.2 has been released, with quite a few fixes and some updates/new features. iCloud Drive can now be browsed from within Time Machine, which could mean that you can go back and look at previous file versions stored in iCloud.

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Jan 21, 2015 Updates: LastPass for Mac, CrashPlan, iPhoto Library Manager

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LastPass iPhoto Library CrashPlan Three interesting updates/releases for Mac users – LastPass, the password manager, has finally been released for OS X users, and iPhoto Library Manager 4.1.11 and CrashPlan 3.7 (a cross-platform online/cloud backup service) have been released.

CrashPlan now has better support for OS X 10.10 Yosemite, but the big news is that LastPass, a popular cross-platform/cross-application password manager is now officially available for Mac users.

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VueScan 9.4.29 Released

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VueScan 9.4.29 ($39.95 Standard, $79.95 Professional), the popular cross-platform scanner software, was released a few days ago. Version 9.4.29 is mainly a fix for some scanners: – Fixed problems with some Brother document feeders, Epson A3 scanners, some Image Capture scanners running under OS X 10.9. – Added support for … Read more

Adobe Photoshop CS6 – Open Beta for Mac & Windows

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Adobe has posted a public beta of ADobe Photoshop CS6 – March 21, 2012. The Photoshop CS6 beta covers both Photoshop CS6 and Photoshop CS6 Extended – keep in mind that Extended has additional features that the normal Photoshop doesn’t have, such as 3D image editing.

Update – it is a 60-day trial edition.

Just over a month ago, I posted about a video that Adobe posted concerning Photoshop CS6’s Content Aware features. That’s one of many new or upgraded features.

Features of Photoshop CS6
– Aforementioned Content-Aware upgrades, such as “Content-Aware Patch”
– Increased performance from the “Mercury Graphics Engine”
– Upgraded User Interface, a “modern UI”
– “New and re-engineered design tools.”

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Apple’s New iPad, iPhoto Updates

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By now you know that Apple’s new iPad has been officially announced. We won’t see it in stores until the 16th of March, but it’s a very nice update and in some ways better than expected. It’s being called their new iPad – not iPad 3 or iPad HD as … Read more

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 Available

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Earlier today, Adobe officially made Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 available, both in the full and upgrade packages. Along the way they’ve reduced the pricing as well. Keep in mind that this is not like Adobe Photoshop, although it shares some of the same features and does work with Photoshop. Lightroom … Read more