Berlin, Germany -- (SBWIRE) -- 04/13/2011 -- Xara Ltd today announced that Xara Designer Pro has been selected in the About.com 2011 Readers' Choice Awards in three categories as Best for Graphic Designers, Best for Business Professionals and Best for Personal Projects.

Now in its fourth year, the About.com Readers' Choice Awards honor the best products, features and services across more than a dozen categories, ranging from technology to hobbies to parenting and more, as selected by its readers.

"This year's Readers' Choice Awards program had a record number of nominations submitted across more than a dozen categories and featured hundreds of finalists," said Margot Weiss, managing editor, About.com. "We are thankful to all our readers for their participation and congratulate Xara Designer Pro on their success."

"We are delighted with the triple awards" said Charles Moir, Managing Director, Xara Ltd. "Xara Designer Pro offers a single application for every type of creative or artistic document. It has world-class PDF support, and it's one of the best tools for web graphics. Xara Designer Pro provides the most flexible page layout of any web authoring product. It offers website creation for designers, not programmers."  Xara Designer Pro is one super-fast, easy-to-use program that does it all – fast and efficiently."

Why Xara Designer?

One of the unique points is that Xara Designer Pro offers a fast, single application for every type of creative or artistic document creation. Instead of requiring three or more separate programs to edit photos, or create web graphics, illustrations, or page layouts,

Faster & More Powerful

Xara Designer Pro is the world's highest performing graphics software title - by a large margin. Its speed enables more complex and realistic graphics to be created more easily and in less time.

Professional Features

Xara Designer Pro is ideal for any graphics enthusiast, small company or academic user that requires a single general purpose photo and graphics design tool. It incorporates website design features, plus support for tools that might typically be required by professional designers such as PANTONE®, CMYK colors, color separations and PDF/X. It also supports multiple processors for even faster performance.

To view the Xara Designer Pro award please visit  awards.about.com. To view Xara Designer Pro please visit xara.com/products/designer

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Mufin releases its newest installment of their ground-breaking music player. It includes, for free, an application for 3D music playing and online storage for music. It's all simplicity, fun, and exploration in one little mufin.

Berlin, Germany -- (SBWIRE) -- 11/11/2010 -- Mufin, the Berlin-based digital music company, has today announced that the latest free release of its mufin player will include the first 3D music navigation feature. Mufin player 2.0 will include mufin vision, a new 3D music interface which uses three distinct song attributes to display digital music collections as a visual map. The result is that mufin vision provides music fans with a fast, intuitive way to explore the thousands of tracks on their PCs or mobile phones using either a mouse or touch screen interface.

'Even casual music fans now have access to thousands of digital tracks on their PCs and mobile devices, and managing such vast collections has become a real challenge,' said Boris Loehe, mufin President. 'We have introduced mufin vision as a unique feature in the free version of mufin player 2.0 to give music fans a truly innovative way to navigate music, and so far the feedback has been amazing.'

Mufin Drive Free Online Storage For Music

Along with mufin vision, the new mufin player 2.0 also includes mufin drive, a free service for online storage for music that allows fans to access their tracks from the cloud using a web browser or the free mufin Android app.

Added Loehe: '3D music navigation is one of the most exciting advancements in music player technology in recent history, and one which we think will change the way consumers relate to digital music for years to come, especially as touch screen technology becomes standard.'

The free mufin player 2.0 can be downloaded immediately at http://www.mufin.com. A short video covering all the features included in the new mufin player 2.0 release can be found on YouTube.

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Manage Your Digital Music with MP3 Software from MAGIX

Berlin, Germany -- (SBWIRE) -- 10/26/2010 -- Manage your digital music library with ease, or perfect the sound of any digital audio file with the MP3 software from MAGIX, MP3 deluxe. The software is an organizing, content searching, music ripping, and podcast recording powerhouse. With the added feature of mufin music finding technology, automatically analyze your music to create specialized playlists, or discover new music with mufin's suggestion engine! All of these features are integrated into a simple interface that allows you to organize and experience you music in a whole new way.

MP3 Software from MAGIX, an Easy and Perfect Tool for Any Music Collection:

MAGIX MP3 deluxe is the perfect tool for your digital music world and offers all functions from one source. It has never been easier to import CDs, manage your music collection, record new songs from the Internet and transfer everything to MP3 players, iPods™ or mobile phones. Easier then programming your VCR, tune into your favourite podcasts on your own time. Program MP3 deluxe to record and store your favorite streams off the internet at specific times. With the Hit Finder, simply upload your music library and have MP3 Maker's technology find you similar hits to listen to!

With MP3 deluxe the digital music will be perfectly organized: from lightning-fast re-sorting or simple renaming of individual songs to creating playlists and burning your favorite hits to self-compiled CDs, the MP3 software from MAGIX will help with any audio related task.

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