Archives for October 2000

October, 31st October 2000

• The Usefulness Of Net Speed & How To Get It For The Mac

  "Broadband" Internet is slowly spreading over the world, taking root in the urban areas first. Actually Steve Jobs expresses the…

• Date & Time & Other Helpful Hints

  The end of daylight savings time means changing the time on your Mac unless you have automatically set it to…

• New Voodoo Card Offers High Performance At Lower Price

  3dfx Interactive has released the Voodoo4 4500 PCI graphics board, the company's second product for the Mac. It features fully…

• Font Reserve Makes It To Workgroup Servers

  DiamondSoft has shipped version 1.0 of Font Reserve Server, a client-server font management system available on the market. With Font…

• StuffIt Deluxe 6.0 Now Includes Receipt Technology

  Aladdin Systems has announced that with the debut of StuffIt Deluxe 6.0, they have broken a new technology barrier. StuffIt…

• English-Italian Dictionary Updated

  OneApp Software has released version 6.0 of its dictionary application, English-Italian Dictionary. English-Italian Dictionary is an English/Italian dictionary for Mac…

• Macs In Space: SkyCorp CEO On The Mac Show

  Tonight's Mac Show will feature the CEO of SkyCorp, Dennis Wingo. Mr. Wingo will discuss future plans of launching a…

• Last Chance To Save On King Of Dragon Pass

  Monkey Byte Development is offering their adictive adventure game, King of Dragon Pass, at a special discounted price. However, the…

• Win New Game Title, 4x4 Evolution

  The new Mac web site, MacDemos, is giving visitors to their site a chance to win a copy of the…

• Mailsmith Updated

  Bare Bones Software has updated their popular "alternative" e-mail client, Mailsmith, to version 1.1.6. Mailsmith is a full-featured e-mail client…

• Symantec Releases Norton Personal Firewall

  Symantec, one of the industry leaders in disk computer utilities, has launched a new product protecting users of "always on"…

• Apple Creates New Executive Position to Regain Education Market Share

  Apple announced this week the creation of a new executive position, vice president for Education Marketing and Solutions. Cherly Vedoe…

• Web/FTP Program Released

  The first public beta of WebiToome has been relased by Black Diamond Products. WebiToome allows a user to receive files…

• Markets Rest After Halloween Rally But Apple’s Stock Moves Higher

  The Halloween rally couldn't find the strength to follow through. Investors continue to be spooked by the high multiples among…

October, 30th October 2000

• Group Thinking & The Macintosh Explained

  To be a Mac user, you have to think differently. We have to go past the usual "I stick with…

• Bertelsmann AG drops Lawsuit Against Napster and forms Partnership

  In a surprising move today, Bertelsmann AG, parent company of BMG Entertainment and, more importantly, one of the 5 companies…

• New Apple Science And Technology Site Launches

  Following up the strong inherent focus Unix, and thus OS X, has on scientific pursuits, Apple has launched a new…

• OS X On Intel?  At Least 20,000 People Think It A Good Idea

  While the OS X on Intel rumbling has quited over the last month or so, one organization is out to…

• Iomega Enters Portable MP3 Market With New PocketZip Player

  Iomega, maker of the revolutionary Zip disks and drive, has thrown their hat into the portable MP3 ring with the…

• Mygate Offers iMac Deals In The UK

  Mygate has announced the launch of three brand new iMac Solutions, aimed at the Home, Designer, and Professional markets. They…

• Copernic Search Software Abandons The Mac

  Copernic.com has announced that it would cease Mac development of Copernic. Copernic is a gateway between the desktop and search…

• SoundJam MP Plus Updated, Carbonized Version Available

  Casady & Greene have updated their award winning MP3 player and encoder, SoundJam MP Plus, to version 2.5.2. The new…

• Intel And Media 100 Ink Deal Over Streaming

  Media 100 Inc. has announced that it is working with Intel Internet Media Services to provide high-bandwidth, highly-reliable hosting services…

• New Set Of Sapphire Illustrator Plug-ns Available

  Sapphire Innovations has release a new set of high quality plugins for Adobe Illustrator, Sapphire Pack 2. The new Sapphire…

• Ambrosia Offers Up Ferazel’s Wand At A Discount

  Ambrosia Software is offering their smash hit side-scrolling action game, Ferazel's Wand, at a discounted price for a limited time.…

• New Mac Only Internet News Viewer Available

  Theodore H. Smith has announced a new news viewer for the Macintosh, News XPress. News XPress is an XML based…

• October 31st, 2000

  There are lots of great articles, and some really bad ones, on the Internet. Though we link to all of…

• Treats for Everyone As Investors Say Good Night to October

  Great Pumpkin! It's Halloween and the ghosts of bull markets past possessed the Nasdaq today. It seems all the dead…

October, 29th October 2000

• Apple Explained Part III: Discounting The Fears

  We are rerunning Part III of Wes George's excellent explanation of Apple's financial situation. Wes explains the four major areas…

• No More Need For Napster Clones. Napster For Mac is Here!

  Following a recent Mac Observer article about the release of a Napster public beta for the Mac, we decided to…

• Virtual TimeClock Updated

  Redcort Software has updated their employee time tracking application, Virtual TImeClock Professional, to version 3.01. The new version of the…

• Sonnet Expands Line Of Power Mac 7200 Updgrades

  Sonnet Technologies has expanded their line of processor upgrades for the previously non-upgradeable Power Mac 7200 series. Sonnet released the…

• New Java Application Available

  4D Inc. has announced that 4D Open Java is now available with the release of 4D version 6.7 for use…

• New E-Commerce Site For Goodies And Gifts

  Xplain Corporation has announced the launch of RadGad, a new consumer site for useful gifts and gadgets. Customers are not…

• Jazz Up Web Sites With Updated Animation Tool

  Recosoft Corporation has updated their web animation creation tool, WebShocker, to version 2.2. The new version includes a host of…

• Popular Internet Chat Client Updated

  Kent Sorensen has updated his popular IRC chat client, Snak, to version 4.5. Snak allows Mac users to participate in…

• Second Generation TV/FM Tuner Released

  Formac Electronic Inc. has announced that it is now offering ProTV Stereo, its second generation TV/FM Tuner and Video Capture…

• Eudora Archive Utility Released

  Softobe has released a new utility to simplify archiving e-mail and attachements from Eudora, Eudora Archiver. Eudora Archiver allows e-mail,…

• Photoshop?  We Don’t Need No Stinking Photoshop

  Norbyte Software, formerly Addiction Interactive, has released a new version of their popular shareware image editor, Rainbow Painter. Version 1.9.3…

• October 30th, 2000

  So you have been using OS X Beta for over a month now, and are wondering when all the REAL…

• The Old Economy Rallies while Technology Sells-Off, But AAPL is up 4%

  Value investing is back in vogue, fueled by a backlash of investor disgust for the triple digit P/E ratios that…

October, 26th October 2000

• Accessing Home AirPort Networks From Remote

  Dave Hamilton, he from whom all Mac knowledge flows, has everything we need to know about accessing your home AirPort…

• Not Another "Windows Is Not So Bad Article"

  Lately, I've been spending a lot of hours working with Quake III. Working with it mind you, not playing it.…

• Macs Rock, PC’s Don’t!  Now Wear It Proudly

  MacSurfshop has released two new T-shirts, giving Mac users the opportunity to show support for their favorite computer platform, and…

• FileMaker Pro Filter Updated

  Waves in Motion has released a new FileMaker Pro filter plug-in, the oAzium Portal Filter. oAzium allows FileMaker users to…

• Playstation 2 Hits The Market…Good Luck Finding One

  The long awaited Sony Playstation 2 hit retail shelves yesterday, but if you blinked you might have missed it. CNN.com…

• Pick Up A New Game…For Cheap

  Monkey Byte Development is offering their fantasy roll playing game, King of Dragon Pass, at a discounted price for a…

• Canto Releases New Software Module And Web Publisher

  Canto has released the Cumulus Leonardo Module, an add-on that allows you to send assets directly from within Cumulus. Additionally,…

• Ground Control To Major Tom

  Lunar Software has updated Earth Browser to version 1.3. Earth Browser allows users to get nearly a real-time look at…

• OS X Virtual Classroom Tool Released

  Dr. Robert Bergman has released a new virtual classroom utility, Dr. B's Virtual Classroom. The new program allows teachers to…