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plasq releases Doozla 1.1.0 …what’s a Doozla?

doozla 20080416 210640 plasq releases Doozla 1.1.0 ...whats a Doozla?

plasq today released Doozla 1.1.0. What is a Doozla? Doozla is a fun graphics application for kids. It has four creativity modes as you can see in the tiny picture at right: Drawing, Coloring In, Draw on Background, and Webcam Drawing. These give kids the option to choose between free-hand drawing, adding color and lines to provided templates, drawing their own characters onto provided backgrounds or using an iSight to capture a picture and defacing it.

Like plasq’s Skitch, the drawings done in Doozla look like pixel-based graphics but are actually made using a pro-level ‘vector’ engine. The result is that every stroke of the mouse, or tablet pen produces smooth lines that print and scale smoothly without ‘jaggies’.

This update includes additional color-in art, commissioned from artists around the world. Included are historical and contemporary images, sophisticated backgrounds, color-in characters and scenes to entice students and young kids to color, complete or capture their own ideas.

Doozla requires Mac OS X 10.4.6 or above and costs USD$24.95. Volume Education Licensing options are available.

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Apple updates Safari to 3.1.1

safari 20080318 200824 Apple updates Safari to 3.1.1Today Apple released a new update to Safari bringing the web browser to version 3.1.1. The support page offers the usual vague explanations and SHA1 Digests, but following the link trail brings you to this page outlining the security content in this update. For those of us on Mac OS X, the update alleviates the danger that visiting a malicious website may result in cross-site scripting or that viewing such a page page may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution. In other words, the update has been provided in the hopes that it might prevent bad things from happening to good people like you and me.

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ARTIS Software and the Iconfactory update xScope to 2.1

xScope 20080403 204923 ARTIS Software and the Iconfactory update xScope to 2.1The insanely useful xScope was updated today to version 2.1 with many interface enhancements that are sure to please designers and developers.

Created for designers by ARTIS Software and The Iconfactory, xScope is a powerful set of tools that are ideal for measuring, aligning and inspecting on-screen graphics and layouts. Quickly available via the Mac OS X menu bar, xScope’s flexible tools float above desktop windows and UI elements making measuring a breeze.

xScope sells for USD$26.95

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