Archives for August 2000

August, 28th August 2000

• August 29th, 2000

  The Best & Worst today does NOT talk about OS X, believe it or not. But we did find a…

• OS X and Salomon Smith Barney’s Positive Comments Power AAPL

  A bit of profit taking held the Dow back, but the Nasdaq continued higher. Apple powered ahead for the seventh…

August, 27th August 2000

• All Aboard The AAPL Express!

  A clever analyst recently noticed that Apple's P/E ratio is about half the industry average while Apple's revenue growth, even…

• Drowning In A Sea Of Graphic Standards? You Need GraphicConverter!

  It has been said that standards are great...there are so many of them. If you deal with graphic files at…

• Adobe Officially Announces Photoshop 6 With New Web/Print/Photo Features

  Adobe has officially unveiled Photoshop 6.0, the next iteration of Adobe's flagship imaging product. The company has added a host…

• eMachines Running The MacOS? (With Pic)

  It seems that eMachines, makers of low cost, low-end Wintel machines, now run a version of the MacOS. At least…

• Canto Helps Extend Cumulus’ Customizability

  Canto has announced the availability of the Cumulus Developer Program, a program which allows Cumulus users to customize off-the-shelf Cumulus…

• QTVR Sound Tool Updated

  Squamish Media Group has released a new version of SoundSaVR. Version 2.0 allows QuickTime VR authors to embed directional stereo…

• Monday Means "Ink" At MacLotto

  MacLotto and BottomLine Distribution have teamed together for the return of Mega Ink Monday's at MacLotto. 1-in-25 players at the…

• Upgrade Prices Slashed Again

  Newer Technology announced special pricing on its G3 and G4 CPU upgrade cards. These price specials are offered for a…

• OS X Groupware App In The Works

  StudioSendai.com announced the upcoming release of GroupVille, a browser-based groupware built with Apple's WebObjects. As an introductory offer, GroupVille Lite…

• New Set Of Painter Nozzles Available

  Sapphire Innovations has released a new set of nozzles for the Painter line of products, Sapphire Star Nozzles 1. The…

• Studio Artist To Receive 3D Lighting Effects

  Synthetik Software has announced that they will be demonstrating a major upgrade to their art synthesizer, Studio Artist, at this…

• Things Heating Up For MacOS Radio

  The MacOS Radio Network is preparing a run of three exciting weeks, including a special appearance from FileMaker Pro, free…

• AAPL’s High Volume Rally Continues Ahead of Seybold

  Apple's stock, anticipating Steve Job's keynote address at the Seybold conference tomorrow, climbed higher for the sixth consecutive session. General…

August, 24th August 2000

• Shhh! Shhhh! Don’t Evangelize The Mac!

  Where the iMac is curved, the Cube is just a little bit sharper at the edges. Where the PowerMac is…

• First Look At Apple’s G4 Cube by Rodney O. Lain

  I got my Cube today. I've been sitting here playing with it since 7:00 PM. -- it's 11:49 PM as…

• Iomega To Use Mindvision’s Installer VISE

  Mindvision has announced that Iomega, makers of the popular ZIP and Jazz drives, will be using their Installer VISE program…

• Wit Sound View Upgrades Apple’s Stock To A ‘Strong Buy’ Rating

  Wit Sound View, a US brokerage and investment house,placed an upgrade on Apple's stock from 'Buy' to 'Strong Buy' this…

• eCommerce Hosting Package Updated

  MDG has updated their all-in-one ecommerce solution, WS4D/eCommerce, to version 3.3b4. The new version provides users with tools for tracking…

• Powerful Replacement For Stickies And Note Pad Available

  Dennis C. De Mars has released the final version of his note taking and organization utility, Pads. Version 1.0 allows…

• New High Speed Digital Camera Hits The Street

  Olympus America has released a new high-speed, professional level digital camera, the Camedia E-100 RS (Rapid Shot). The new camera…

• Online Password Manager Available For Testing

  Alco Blom has released Web Confidential 2.1b3. Web Confidential allows users to easily manage and store IDs, passwords, and registration…

• New Photoshop Textures Available

• Database Plug-In Update

  Paradigma Software ha released a new beta of its Valentina XCMD database plug-in. The plug-in offers improved performance and allows…

• New Graphics Bundle Available

  Wacom has announced the availability of their new Graphire Power Suite. The new package includes Wacom's cordless mouse and such…

• New Dynamic Screensaver Available

  Living Screen, maker of a Flash based dynamic screensaver, has released The Living Screen for the Mac OS. Long available…

• August 25th, 2000

• Apple’s Stock Rallies For a Fifth Day Ahead of Seybold Next Week

  The stock markets seem to be treading water while waiting for the summer to end. But that doesn't mean trouble…

August, 23rd August 2000

• Internet Appliances: Enough is Enough!

  Chris Rogers thinks that we may be going to far in our quest to have the Internet be "everywhere." Net…

• New York Times Features The Mac Color Classic

  Sure, it's a slow Mac news day, but we are always excited to see Macs and a Mac Web site…

• Star Wars Gangsta Rap Movie, A Must See

  A site called iGhetto.com has released The Star Wars Gangsta Rap Movie, a Flash movie that features Star Wars characters…

• Can’t Touch This… Wait, You Can: The Untouchable Fighting Game To Ship In September

  Creative Edge Studios with Globalstar Software have announced that the long awaited Mac game The Untouchable will be published in…

• MacLotto & MGL Announce "The Sims" Giveaway

  MacLotto.com and MacGamer's Ledge are teaming up to give away The Sims today at MacLotto.com. Two random players of the…

• Server Database Viewing Utility Gets An Update

  MacSOS has announced an update to SyBrowser, which provides database table overviews on different types of servers. Version 3.1 introduces…

• Finder Selection Tool Made "1" Better

  Frank Reiff Software announced A Better Finder Select version 2.1. The update to the Finder enhancement introduces selection by creation…

• Translate This!

  OneApp Software has update Agill English-German Dictionary to version 2.4. The latest version of the dictionary application includes a more…

• All Purpose System Utility Updated

  Chaotic Software has updated their do-it-all system utility, Mac Army Knife, to version 2.1. Mac Army Knife includes a variety…

• New Company To Offer Cheap Mac Stuff

  MacResQ and MacWorks, companies focusing in the resale of used Mac equipment are preparing to merge forming a new company…

• MacOS Radio Soon To Go Big Time

  After some high quality "star power" for their weekly broadcasts, the MacOS Radio Network announced that British celeberity Robert Llewelyn…

• August 24th, 2000

  Yes, OS X (or lack thereof, actually) is still a hot topic around the Web. Today's Best & Worst covers…

• High Volume Rally in AAPL!

  The stock markets continued their steady climb after yesterday's Federal Reserve decision to leave interest rates unchanged. Apple's stock ended…

August, 22nd August 2000

• ScrapIt Pro: A Handy Application For Your Mac

  Nancy Carroll Gravley shows us ScrapIt Pro, a great application that helps you organize files, including text files and graphic…

• Still Have An iPuck? iCatch Makes The Round Mouse Usable

  iCatch is a snap-on adapter designed specifically for the hockey puck shaped mouse that was standard equipment with all iMacs…

• When Will We See OS X Beta?  Not At Seybold

  MacUser UK is reporting that we may have to wait a bit longer for OS X Beta, after all. A…

• Painter Paper Grains Available

  Sapphire Innovations has released Paper Magic 2, a collection of 100 paper grains for use with Painter. The grains can…

• Mac Using Lawyers Get Version Of Transcript Software

  realLegal.com has announced a Macintosh version of their popular electronic court transcript viewer, . The e-transcript Mac Viewer. The new…

• Macworld Magazine Well Represented On Tonight’s Mac Show

  Tonight's Mac Show will feature some major players from the print world, as Jason Snall and Chris Breen will be…

• Upgrade Your Note Pad

  Vincent Software has released a preview edition of their forthcoming replacement for Apple's system Note Pad, iNotePad. iNotePad 1.0a4 allows…

• REALbasic Graph Class Available

  MacSOS has released Graph Pro 1.4, a class for creating flicker-free graphs with REALbasic. Graph Pro 1.4 adds the ability…