


A new copy costs $49 (with a 20 percent discount for TidBITS members), but Rogue Amoeba is offering a $25 upgrade to owners of any previous version. A fully functional version can be downloaded and used for recording up to 10 minutes of audio, after which noise is overlaid. Rogue Amoeba has decided on a single edition release, which is now called simply “Audio Hijack” - it offers no fewer features than its former “Pro” version, but the name is no longer suffixed with that word. It also adds new options for manipulating settings and listening to audio as it’s being captured.

The just-released Audio Hijack 3 extends and improves the software, including a radical overhaul of its interface and methods of pulling together different audio elements. It’s a workflow tool for audio inputs and outputs that enables you to combine and separate sources, set timers to record audio at specific times or at recurring intervals, and add effects and filters. But Mac OS X has almost no built-in support for mixing different audio sources, which provided a perfect opening for Audio Hijack from Rogue Amoeba. On the Mac, Apple has long made it relatively easy to plug in and immediately use audio inputs, like microphones and headsets. Beats Fit Pro, ransomware protection, more OCR tools for text in images
