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PDF Checkpoint Now Supports macOS Mojave: PDF Preflight, Conversion Tool - Published on 12/04/18
Zevrix Solutions announces PDF Checkpoint 1.8.8, a compatibility update to company's PDF preflight and conversion solution. Remarkably fast, PDF Checkpoint automatically preflights, exports as images, splits and optimizes Adobe PDF files. The software can also convert the PDF document colors to specific ICC profile helping users easily prepare their files for print, web and mobile devices. The new version adds support for macOS 10.14 Mojave and integration of the SoftwareKey licensing system.
Toronto (ON), Canada - Zevrix Solutions today announces PDF Checkpoint 1.8.8, a compatibility update to company's PDF preflight and conversion automation tool. Remarkably fast, PDF Checkpoint automatically preflights, exports as images, splits and optimizes multiple Adobe PDF files. PDF Checkpoint is an ideal solution for users who need a fast, affordable and easy to use app to check PDF files for errors and convert them to the desired format and color space.
The new version adds support for the recently released macOS 10.14 Mojave and is offered as a free update to licensed users. The update also features implementation of the SoftwareKey licensing system, which offers users streamlined registration experience with the ability to manage their activations in a personal online license portal.
"It's a great idea to enable color profile conversion in PDF files so easily," says Dr. Wolfgang Lorenz from Munich, Germany. "PDF Checkpoint saves me a lot of time when submitting ads for large magazines."
PDF Checkpoint is designed to automate and simplify PDF workflows of publishers, ad agencies, prepress houses, printers and graphic designers:
* Batch preflighting and conversion of PDF files
* Check PDF fonts, colors, images and metadata for specific attributes
* Convert PDF color mode using ICC profiles
* Split files into single page PDFs
* Route files by preflight results into success and error folders
* Export PDF as images with specific resolution, color and page scale
For example, users can preflight a folder of PDF files and convert them to TIFF images at 300 dpi while scaling each page by 50%. Users can also create print-ready PDFs from such apps as Apple Pages and Swift Publisher by converting colors to the recommended CMYK profile.
Pricing and availability:
PDF Checkpoint can be purchased on Mac App Store and Zevrix website for $39.95 (USD), as well as from authorized resellers. The update is free to licensed users. Trial is also available for download. PDF Checkpoint requires macOS 10.7-10.14.
Zevrix Solutions: http://zevrix.com
PDF Checkpoint 1.8.8: http://zevrix.com/PDFCheckpoint.php
Download PDF Checkpoint: http://zevrix.com/PDFCheckpoint.dmg
Purchase: http://zevrix.com/store.php
Screenshot: http://zevrix.com/screenshots/pdfcheckpoint/pdfc-main-sierra.jpg
Located in Toronto, Canada, Zevrix Solutions provides automation and productivity solutions for Adobe Creative Cloud and Creative Suite software, PDF workflows, graphic file diagnostics and Microsoft Office output on Mac OS. Zevrix is dedicated to help professionals increase their profits through automating everyday tasks, producing error-free documents, saving disk space and cutting production costs. For more information, visit their website. Copyright (C) 2018 Zevrix Solutions. All Rights Reserved. Other trademarks and registered trademarks may be the property of their respective owners.
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Australian Psychologist's App is Putting Stressed People to Sleep - Published on 12/04/18
Renowned Australian psychologist, Mark Grant releases Sleep Restore 1.1.3 for iOS and Android. Uniquely designed for sufferers of stress-related insomnia, Sleep Restore harnesses the power of bilateral stimulation to turn off tension and worry to help restore normal sleep functioning. On first use, the app evaluates issues causing a person to suffer from insomnia and then selects a specialized set of audio treatments for them to listen to as they lay down to sleep.
Melbourne, Australia - Stress comes in many forms and from many things, including traumatic events, chronic pain/illness or simply the demands of a busy lifestyle. One of the first things to suffer is sleep. In fact, experts no longer consider insomnia a sleeping disorder, but a stress disorder. Thankfully, a new mobile app called Sleep Restore, released by renowned Australian psychologist Mark Grant, is helping people around the world find rest through its incorporation of bilateral stimulation, a treatment element of EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing), a cutting-edge PTSD therapy.
On first use, Sleep Restore evaluates the issues causing a person to suffer from insomnia and then selects a specialized set of audio treatments for them to listen to as they lay down to sleep. In addition, the app will alert you if it suspects some other potential issues are causing sleep disturbances which you can then bring up with your own physician.
Other audio sleep solutions tend to focus only on standard meditations or "relaxing sounds" such as rainfall to attempt to help a user get to sleep. Unfortunately, an anxious brain soon gets used to these and goes back to being tense or worried. Sleep Restore gets around this through its incorporation of bilateral stimulation (bls) which, in effect, creates an auditory illusion that something is moving, a sensation the brain is unlikely to get desensitized to. This captures and holds attention of the brain long enough for its functioning to be altered. Bls has been found to decrease brain activity associated with stress and stimulate brain activity associated with restful sleep.
Sleep Restore 1.1.3 is free to download on iTunes and in Google Play for most mobile devices including phones and tablets. The free version comes with the complete sleep evaluation tool and six tracks that are 20 minutes long each. The tracks consist of a blend of music, nature sounds guided meditations and bls. For those who wish to have more options, a premium version is available for around $9.50 USD (price may vary due to currency fluctuations) for a total of 18 tracks (with bonus tracks). Users who complete a sleep evaluation questionnaire in the app three times receive 2 free bonus tracks and their sleep data will anonymously be evaluated in ongoing sleep research.
Sleep Restore 1.1.3: https://sleeprestoreapp.com/
Download from iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/app/sleep-restore/id1339488667
Download from Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.overcomingpain.sleeprestore&hl=en
YouTube Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuTUoeLlDjI
Media Assets: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ob2rt5s1atqs1n9/AABE1lwhVVjLwfhrpwJQBxTKa?dl=0
Mark Grant MA is an Australian clinical psychologist/researcher in independent private practice. He has researched the use of EMDR as a treatment for chronic pain resulting in several peer reviewed articles in various professional journals. He is particularly interested in the impact of stress on health and the involvement of the brain in stress. Reflecting his origins as the son of an artist and an engineer, he likes to take a creative but practical approach to creating tools for undoing the effects of severe stress; ie, strategies that harness innate brain capabilities. He is also the author of 'Change Your Brain Change Your Pain' (self-help book), 'Pain Control with EMDR' (clinical treatment manual), Anxiety Release (app) and 'Calm and Confident' and 'Pain Control with EMDR' (audio download/CD). All Material and Software (C) Copyright 2018 Trauma and Pain Management Services pty ltd. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone, iPod and iPad are registered
trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries. Other trademarks and registered trademarks may be the property of their respective owners.
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Australian Psychologist's App is Putting Stressed People to Sleep - Published on 12/04/18
Renowned Australian psychologist, Mark Grant releases Sleep Restore 1.1.3 for iOS and Android. Uniquely designed for sufferers of stress-related insomnia, Sleep Restore harnesses the power of bilateral stimulation to turn off tension and worry to help restore normal sleep functioning. On first use, the app evaluates issues causing a person to suffer from insomnia and then selects a specialized set of audio treatments for them to listen to as they lay down to sleep.
Melbourne, Australia - Stress comes in many forms and from many things, including traumatic events, chronic pain/illness or simply the demands of a busy lifestyle. One of the first things to suffer is sleep. In fact, experts no longer consider insomnia a sleeping disorder, but a stress disorder. Thankfully, a new mobile app called Sleep Restore, released by renowned Australian psychologist Mark Grant, is helping people around the world find rest through its incorporation of bilateral stimulation, a treatment element of EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing), a cutting-edge PTSD therapy.
On first use, Sleep Restore evaluates the issues causing a person to suffer from insomnia and then selects a specialized set of audio treatments for them to listen to as they lay down to sleep. In addition, the app will alert you if it suspects some other potential issues are causing sleep disturbances which you can then bring up with your own physician.
Other audio sleep solutions tend to focus only on standard meditations or "relaxing sounds" such as rainfall to attempt to help a user get to sleep. Unfortunately, an anxious brain soon gets used to these and goes back to being tense or worried. Sleep Restore gets around this through its incorporation of bilateral stimulation (bls) which, in effect, creates an auditory illusion that something is moving, a sensation the brain is unlikely to get desensitized to. This captures and holds attention of the brain long enough for its functioning to be altered. Bls has been found to decrease brain activity associated with stress and stimulate brain activity associated with restful sleep.
Sleep Restore 1.1.3 is free to download on iTunes and in Google Play for most mobile devices including phones and tablets. The free version comes with the complete sleep evaluation tool and six tracks that are 20 minutes long each. The tracks consist of a blend of music, nature sounds guided meditations and bls. For those who wish to have more options, a premium version is available for around $9.50 USD (price may vary due to currency fluctuations) for a total of 18 tracks (with bonus tracks). Users who complete a sleep evaluation questionnaire in the app three times receive 2 free bonus tracks and their sleep data will anonymously be evaluated in ongoing sleep research.
Sleep Restore 1.1.3: https://sleeprestoreapp.com/
Download from iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/app/sleep-restore/id1339488667
Download from Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.overcomingpain.sleeprestore&hl=en
YouTube Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuTUoeLlDjI
Media Assets: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ob2rt5s1atqs1n9/AABE1lwhVVjLwfhrpwJQBxTKa?dl=0
Mark Grant MA is an Australian clinical psychologist/researcher in independent private practice. He has researched the use of EMDR as a treatment for chronic pain resulting in several peer reviewed articles in various professional journals. He is particularly interested in the impact of stress on health and the involvement of the brain in stress. Reflecting his origins as the son of an artist and an engineer, he likes to take a creative but practical approach to creating tools for undoing the effects of severe stress; ie, strategies that harness innate brain capabilities. He is also the author of 'Change Your Brain Change Your Pain' (self-help book), 'Pain Control with EMDR' (clinical treatment manual), Anxiety Release (app) and 'Calm and Confident' and 'Pain Control with EMDR' (audio download/CD). All Material and Software (C) Copyright 2018 Trauma and Pain Management Services pty ltd. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone, iPod and iPad are registered
trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries. Other trademarks and registered trademarks may be the property of their respective owners.
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DriveDx 1.8.2 for Mac will Protect You from Data Loss and Downtime
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DriveDx 1.8.2 for Mac will Protect You from Data Loss and Downtime - Published on 12/04/18
BinaryFruit today announces the immediate availability of DriveDx 1.8.2, its latest solution for SSD and HDD health diagnostics and monitoring. As macOS does not have a comprehensive drive health indicator, DriveDx fills a critical role in measuring the overall health of both SSD and HDD drives. Because DriveDx tracks more indicators of impending failure than any other product on the market, users will get an advanced warning before their drives fail.
San Francisco, California - BinaryFruit today is pleased to announce the release and immediate availability of DriveDx 1.8.2, its latest solution for SSD and HDD health diagnostics and monitoring. As macOS does not have a comprehensive drive health indicator, DriveDx fills a critical role in measuring the overall health of both SSD and HDD drives. Because DriveDx tracks more indicators of impending failure than any other product on the market, users will get an advanced warning before their drives fail. This will allow them to take action to avert the failure and save themselves from resulting data loss and downtime.
Unlike many other drive health diagnostics utilities that simply check built-in S.M.A.R.T. status, DriveDx performs overall drive health diagnostics using drive health indicators (like SSD wear out / endurance, reallocated bad sectors, offline bad sectors, pending sectors, I/O errors, and more) that most closely correlate with drive failures according to the statistics reported in the latest researches focused on identifying drive failure trends. This gives a user a comprehensive picture of a current drive health status and enables foreseeing potential problems with drive failure and loss of sensitive data. Moreover, DriveDx shows this information on a user-friendly Mac-style interface in an easy-to-understand format.
"Here's a DriveDx triumph. DriveDx showed my just out of AppleCare iMac with two pre-fail conditions for the hard drive. Made appointment and took it to Genius Bar yesterday. Tech looked at DriveDx and was very impressed. Even though out of warranty - they replaced the drive without question," said Michael Sidoric, CapMac User Group Treasurer, ex-Vice President of CapMac.org. "God knows how many dollars and troubles DriveDx saved me since I had several vital FinalCut projects on it."
DriveDx is a combined drive health analysis and forecasting tool. It monitors and analyzes changes to S.M.A.R.T. attributes in order to continuously evaluate drive health status and predict drive failures. In addition to "Failed" and "OK" drive statutes DriveDx supports "Warning" and "Failing" statuses indicating that a drive is in a pre-failure status and backup of sensitive data is highly recommended.
DriveDx performs both SSD and HDD health diagnostics. Moreover, it uses a separate set of indicators for SSD and HDD to monitor drive health status. This is particularly important as SSD works different from HDD, and requires a different algorithm to check its health status. Also, SSDs typically are more dependent on firmware than HDDs, and DriveDx has been programmed to support many versions of firmware (please see our website for a complete list of supported firmware).
DriveDx allows configuring the delivery of customized drive status and free space reports by email and therefore does not require user presence to inform about drive status changes. In addition, DriveDx can launch built-in drive diagnostics self-tests. Drive self-tests will help to quickly identify if the drive is faulty.
DriveDx is the first utility of its kind to have a real user-friendly Mac-style interface. It is organized in a way that allows a user to view and understand drive status and its performance at a glance. User can switch between different view modes to drill up or down data related to drive health, including S.M.A.R.T. indicators and attributes, drive statistics and errors.
What's New in DriveDx 1.8.2:
* Fixed disk free space monitoring on Bootcamp volumes
* Improved temperature monitoring of SSDs,
* Improved detection of drives behind some RAIDs and USB/Thunderbolt HUB/multiport docks,
* Improved disk health diagnostic algorithms and heuristics
* Many stability improvements
* Many cosmetics tweaks and fixes
DriveDx feature highlights:
* Support of modern SSDs and HDDs
* SSD lifetime left indicator
* Different routines for SSD and HDD health evaluation and diagnostics
* Real-time SSD & HDD health status monitoring
* User-friendly and intuitive UI
* Multi-tier warning system that will inform the user about deviations from the normal state of drive attributes
* Diagnostic Knowledge Base online auto-updating
* Drive overall health rating
* Drive overall performance rating (if drive supports this subset of indicators)
* Device statistics
* I/O errors monitoring
* Drive free space monitoring
* Support of drive short and full (extended) self-tests
* Sending a warning whenever a problem with a drive firmware exists
* Saving detailed drive status reports to a file
* Warning a user with pop-up notifications about errors and failures
* Displaying drive status on a macOS status bar
* Runs natively on macOS
System Requirements:
* macOS 10.6.8 or newer
Pricing and Availability - DriveDx has 4 types of licenses that are currently being offered on promotion:
* Personal License - $19.99 (USD)
* Family License - $39.99
* Business License - starting from $99.99
* IT-Consultant License - starting from $49.99
DriveDx can be purchased from the BinaryFruit website. A fully functional 15-day trial version is available for download at our website. Review copies are available upon request.
DriveDx 1.8.2: https://binaryfruit.com/drivedx
Download DriveDx: https://binaryfruit.com/download/drivedx/mac/1?ref=pr
Purchase: https://binaryfruit.com/store
Screenshot 1: https://binaryfruit.com/permalink/press-release/drivedx/mac/1_8_2/DriveDx_screenshot_1.png
Screenshot 2: https://binaryfruit.com/permalink/press-release/drivedx/mac/1_8_2/DriveDx_screenshot_2.png
Application Icon: https://binaryfruit.com/permalink/press-release/drivedx/mac/1_8_2/DriveDxIcon512x512.png
BinaryFruit is a team of creative IT professionals developing the most comprehensive and user-friendly macOS tools and solutions. We make fruitful software! Copyright (C) 2012-2018 BinaryFruit. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, macOS are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.
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DriveDx 1.8.2 for Mac will Protect You from Data Loss and Downtime - Published on 12/04/18
BinaryFruit today announces the immediate availability of DriveDx 1.8.2, its latest solution for SSD and HDD health diagnostics and monitoring. As macOS does not have a comprehensive drive health indicator, DriveDx fills a critical role in measuring the overall health of both SSD and HDD drives. Because DriveDx tracks more indicators of impending failure than any other product on the market, users will get an advanced warning before their drives fail.
San Francisco, California - BinaryFruit today is pleased to announce the release and immediate availability of DriveDx 1.8.2, its latest solution for SSD and HDD health diagnostics and monitoring. As macOS does not have a comprehensive drive health indicator, DriveDx fills a critical role in measuring the overall health of both SSD and HDD drives. Because DriveDx tracks more indicators of impending failure than any other product on the market, users will get an advanced warning before their drives fail. This will allow them to take action to avert the failure and save themselves from resulting data loss and downtime.
Unlike many other drive health diagnostics utilities that simply check built-in S.M.A.R.T. status, DriveDx performs overall drive health diagnostics using drive health indicators (like SSD wear out / endurance, reallocated bad sectors, offline bad sectors, pending sectors, I/O errors, and more) that most closely correlate with drive failures according to the statistics reported in the latest researches focused on identifying drive failure trends. This gives a user a comprehensive picture of a current drive health status and enables foreseeing potential problems with drive failure and loss of sensitive data. Moreover, DriveDx shows this information on a user-friendly Mac-style interface in an easy-to-understand format.
"Here's a DriveDx triumph. DriveDx showed my just out of AppleCare iMac with two pre-fail conditions for the hard drive. Made appointment and took it to Genius Bar yesterday. Tech looked at DriveDx and was very impressed. Even though out of warranty - they replaced the drive without question," said Michael Sidoric, CapMac User Group Treasurer, ex-Vice President of CapMac.org. "God knows how many dollars and troubles DriveDx saved me since I had several vital FinalCut projects on it."
DriveDx is a combined drive health analysis and forecasting tool. It monitors and analyzes changes to S.M.A.R.T. attributes in order to continuously evaluate drive health status and predict drive failures. In addition to "Failed" and "OK" drive statutes DriveDx supports "Warning" and "Failing" statuses indicating that a drive is in a pre-failure status and backup of sensitive data is highly recommended.
DriveDx performs both SSD and HDD health diagnostics. Moreover, it uses a separate set of indicators for SSD and HDD to monitor drive health status. This is particularly important as SSD works different from HDD, and requires a different algorithm to check its health status. Also, SSDs typically are more dependent on firmware than HDDs, and DriveDx has been programmed to support many versions of firmware (please see our website for a complete list of supported firmware).
DriveDx allows configuring the delivery of customized drive status and free space reports by email and therefore does not require user presence to inform about drive status changes. In addition, DriveDx can launch built-in drive diagnostics self-tests. Drive self-tests will help to quickly identify if the drive is faulty.
DriveDx is the first utility of its kind to have a real user-friendly Mac-style interface. It is organized in a way that allows a user to view and understand drive status and its performance at a glance. User can switch between different view modes to drill up or down data related to drive health, including S.M.A.R.T. indicators and attributes, drive statistics and errors.
What's New in DriveDx 1.8.2:
* Fixed disk free space monitoring on Bootcamp volumes
* Improved temperature monitoring of SSDs,
* Improved detection of drives behind some RAIDs and USB/Thunderbolt HUB/multiport docks,
* Improved disk health diagnostic algorithms and heuristics
* Many stability improvements
* Many cosmetics tweaks and fixes
DriveDx feature highlights:
* Support of modern SSDs and HDDs
* SSD lifetime left indicator
* Different routines for SSD and HDD health evaluation and diagnostics
* Real-time SSD & HDD health status monitoring
* User-friendly and intuitive UI
* Multi-tier warning system that will inform the user about deviations from the normal state of drive attributes
* Diagnostic Knowledge Base online auto-updating
* Drive overall health rating
* Drive overall performance rating (if drive supports this subset of indicators)
* Device statistics
* I/O errors monitoring
* Drive free space monitoring
* Support of drive short and full (extended) self-tests
* Sending a warning whenever a problem with a drive firmware exists
* Saving detailed drive status reports to a file
* Warning a user with pop-up notifications about errors and failures
* Displaying drive status on a macOS status bar
* Runs natively on macOS
System Requirements:
* macOS 10.6.8 or newer
Pricing and Availability - DriveDx has 4 types of licenses that are currently being offered on promotion:
* Personal License - $19.99 (USD)
* Family License - $39.99
* Business License - starting from $99.99
* IT-Consultant License - starting from $49.99
DriveDx can be purchased from the BinaryFruit website. A fully functional 15-day trial version is available for download at our website. Review copies are available upon request.
DriveDx 1.8.2: https://binaryfruit.com/drivedx
Download DriveDx: https://binaryfruit.com/download/drivedx/mac/1?ref=pr
Purchase: https://binaryfruit.com/store
Screenshot 1: https://binaryfruit.com/permalink/press-release/drivedx/mac/1_8_2/DriveDx_screenshot_1.png
Screenshot 2: https://binaryfruit.com/permalink/press-release/drivedx/mac/1_8_2/DriveDx_screenshot_2.png
Application Icon: https://binaryfruit.com/permalink/press-release/drivedx/mac/1_8_2/DriveDxIcon512x512.png
BinaryFruit is a team of creative IT professionals developing the most comprehensive and user-friendly macOS tools and solutions. We make fruitful software! Copyright (C) 2012-2018 BinaryFruit. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, macOS are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.
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