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Purchase Hydra Pro 3.0.2 On Sale Now for only $74.99 (25% off)

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Hydra Pro (was Hydra + Aperture Plug-In) provides human eye-like perception to your photographs by allowing you to create High Dynamic Range (HDR) images from a series of regular photographs (up to 7), either from DSLRs or traditional point-and-shoot cameras. This is because a single photograph cannot represent the full gamut of light due to the physical limitations in the sensor.

Hydra does not require pictures taken with a tripod, as it is usually the case with HDR software. This is a unique feature that means you can take photos anywhere without a tripod to later merge them in Hydra.

Hydra uses an advanced image processing pipeline that first aligns the imported images and then merges them in a smart way to preserve the interesting inputs of each image. This method has been entirely implemented on the GPU to provide interactive previewing. This allows you to finely tune all parameters in real-time while observing the changing result until you are satisfied, and then render the full resolution image (resolutions above 20 Mega Pixels supported) in less than a minute. The output produced by Hydra is much closer to what your eyes actually see.

Hydra is also available as a Aperture Plug-In for Aperture and Lightroom so that you can create HDR images right from within Aperture or Lightroom.

Last but not least, Hydra 3.0 introduces many new options: ghost handling, cropping, vignetting, batch processing, tone mapping presets… Thanks to these pro options, you can preprocess and postprocess your photographs and get the result you are looking for.

Hydra (stand-alone version and Aperture/Lightroom plug-ins) is available in English, French, and German.

Requires

• Mac OS X 10.7.1 or later
• 64-bit processor

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Arq is online backup solution. It backs up and faithfully restores all the special metadata of Mac files that other products don’t, including resource forks, ACLs, and creator codes.

Arq works like Time Machine, except you don’t have to remember to plug in your external hard drive. Following the initial backup, Arq automatically makes incremental backups every hour, every day, uploading just the files that have changed since your last backup. Arq keeps hourly backups for the past 24 hours, daily backups for the past month, and weekly backups for everything older than a month.

Arq lets you set a budget for S3 storage, and it automatically drops the oldest backups to keep within the budget.

Arq backs up everything with no limits. It backs up files of any size, external drives, and network drives.

Arq “de-duplicates” your backups, never storing the same file twice in your S3 account.

Requires Mac OS X 10.5 or later

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TranslateIt! Deluxe is an accelerated offline dictionary for effortless universal text translation. TranslateIt! Deluxe is easily extendible and comes pre-loaded with Russian, English, French, Spanish, and German dictionaries. No Internet access needed unless you’re using full text translation tool. Works with StarDict, Babylon, XDXF, Apple dictionaries and other free dictionary resources.

TranslateIt! Deluxe has the following features:

• Real translation for words under mouse (no selection required) like Apple Dictionary
• English, German, French, Spanish and Russian morphology
• Small and minimalistic, very fast, extensible translation tool, with a streamlined interface and history.
• Integrated Full Text Translation tool
• Useful flexible and customizable user interface.
• Color formatting output for translated text.
• Works with a multitude of free dictionaries.
• HTML formatted dictionaries support.
• Extended multimedia dictionaries format (images, wavs, movies, Flash, any documents attaches).
• Users can rename and reorder (change priority) dictionaries as they wish.
• Speech synthesizer.
• Users can add RTFD-Notes for existing articles and even create new articles as Notes for existing active dictionaries.
• Two different modes for translation history.
• Dictionary developer utilities – DictBuilder (Perl core scripts + GUI included to TranslateIt! Deluxe).
• Global dictionaries support (publication to /Library/Application Support/TranslateIt!).
• Auto look-up new dictionaries (in ~/Library/Application Support/TranslateIt! and /Library/Application Support/TranslateIt!) on start-up.
• User can select needed dictionaries, using all selected dictionaries for translation at the same time (without dictionary switching).
• Topmost and transparency facilities, fast alignment control for main window.
• Drag-and-Drop operation support for words from other apps and TranslateIt! by itself (just select word and drop it to TranslateIt! window to any place excluding word to translate field).
• Translate any word from TranslateIt! by double click.
• Copy any word from article by double click on it with OPTION key.
• Fast dictionaries reordering (by mouse click to article with CMD key).
• Smart history for learning with import/export.
• Integrated game mode based on learning history.
• Printing history on double sided paper cards.
• Smart drawer behavior (like iCal).
• Registration at Services.
• Localized to Russian, English, French, Portuguese, zh_CN, zh_TW.
• Console mode – TranslateIt! works in terminal (Terminal.app) and remote SSH.
• Growl (visual notifications) & Sparkle (software updating) support.
• TranslateIt! Dashboard Widget (Mac OS X 10.4.3 or later required) included.
• Flags and additional Sounds support
• Detachable cards with translation results
• Dictionaries repository
• Dictionaries auto-update

Requires Mac OS X 10.6 or later

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Everyone who purchases Proview PDF Editor from MUPromo will get a free upgrade to version 2 which will be out in April 2012. New features will include:

• Visual drag and drop preview for adding text
• Edit page labels for page ranges or individual pages
• Rearrange PDF pages with drag and drop
• Drag and drop pages between documents
• Text justification, opacity, unicode and special characters, and other new text features
• Edit Trim, Art, Bleed and Crop boxes per-page or for many pages

Proview allows you to merge and split files, rotate flip and scale individual pages, or all pages, crop pages and modify the document information.

• It can edit encrypted files, and can decrypt and encrypt PDF documents.
• You can also manage PDF bookmarks, add or remove PDF attachments, and add text and dates to one or more pages.
• Proview has a simple, clean interface with all functions easily accessible, and comes with full interactive help.

Requires Mac OS X 10.5 or later

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