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Eastgate Systems has issued Tinderbox 11.8 with AI updates for the note-taking assistant. The Tinderbox-AI bridge has been rejiggered to provide better reliability with a broader range of models, and it allows you to provide Resources and Prompts to AI models directly from Tinderbox notes in your Hints folder.

Houdah Software has released Photos Workbench 1.7 with language localizations and a smattering of improvements. The organization and management companion utility for Apple's Photos adds French and German, enables you to re-arrange albums between Photos library folders via drag and drop, adds Sentry for crash reporting, and now requires macOS 12 Monterey or later (with full support for macOS 26 Tahoe). Version 1.7.1 followed to fix a bug that could cause update checking to hang.

Apple has released maintenance updates for its professional video apps: Final Cut Pro 12.3, Compressor 5.3, and Motion 6.3. Final Cut Pro receives a few intelligence boosts, including the Generate Captions feature to add subtitles and customize their appearance quickly, the Auto Mask feature to isolate recognized objects for color correction, and the Match Color tool to match video color across different cameras, lighting conditions, and cinematic styles.