News for Saturday, 22 November 2008

Another update released by Apple is dedicated to users of Shake or Final Cut Studio and can be downloaded from Apple Support website or from your software update panel:

Pro Applications Updates improve reliability for Apple’s professional applications and are recommended for all users of Final Cut Studio, Final Cut Server, and Logic Studio. Pro Applications Update 2008-04 addresses general performance issues and improves overall stability.
Pro Applications Update 2008-04 addresses general performance issues and improves overall stability.
Applications included in the update:
Final Cut Pro 6.0.5
Compressor 3.0.5
Color 1.0.3
Shake 4.1.1
For more information about this software update, see http://www.apple.com/support/releasenotes/en/Final_Cut_Studio_2.0_rn/

You can also visit the following webpage: http://www.apple.com/support/releasenotes/en/Final_Cut_Pro_6.0_rn/ for a summary of Final Cut Pro 6.x release notes.

Express Card 2.0 format was announced earlier this year. To evolve with other formats, it will adopt USB 3.0 and PCI-Express 2.0, both formats being backwards compatible, Express Card will be too.
So, current extension cards based on Express Card 1.x format will be fully functional when the Express Card 2.0 format will be launched in 2010. If current applications of Express Card format in such as DBT card or memory reader will not really benefit from faster transfer speed associated with the version 2.0 of this format, eSATA card might make good usage of higher performance level.
It is about time for Mac users that Apple update Mac OS X to let us start from external drives connected to Mac hardware via eSATA.