Archives for July 2001

July, 31st July 2001

• Apple Offers WWDC Session Recordings. Some Free, Some Discounted With Free WWDC PowerBook Bag

  Apple has put together a couple of good offers for WWDC Conference Sessions for online and Select ADC membership

• Digital Art & Digital Artists Discussed On Tonight’s Mac Show

  It's Wednesday, and that means it's time for another Mac Show. The Mac Show is a weekly QuickTime Streaming broadcast…

• Develop Your Own "Throbber" With Updated App

  Shareware maker Vizspring Software has released an update to ThrobberDeveloper. The software lets users make their own "throbbers" for Internet…

• XLR8 Makes Upgrading Less Expensive, Again

  XLR8 has announced across the board price cuts from 3% to 16% off of its processor upgrade products. Pricing for…

• LaCie Announces FireWire Hard Drives Which Bypass Some Performance Bottlenecks

  LaCie has announced new FireWire hard drives that take an interesting approach to overcoming the limitation of non-native FireWire controllers

• Turn Your Visor Into A Cordless (Landline) Telephone

  Who wants to look up numbers and then have to go through the mucky-muck of actually dialing them? A company…

• Conflict Catcher Updated With Support For Unreleased Mac OS 9.2 (And More)

  Casady & Greene has released an update to Conflict Catcher that includes support for the as yet unreleased Mac OS…

• Having Trouble Getting The OmniWeb Update? Use Your iDisk

  The good people at The Omni Group released an update to OmniWeb last night, and the demand has brought their…

• Photographer Launches Photo Restoration Biz With A Mac

  Dr. Eric Flescher tells us about cool article about a photographer who used the Mac to launch a photo restoration…

• Mac Shareware Game Gets A Price Cut

  Cosmologik has announced a price reduction in their Mac shareware game, A60 Rescue Mission. A60 Rescue Mission is a combat…

• Introduction To Drug Dealing 101 With Free FileMaker Pro DopeWars Port

  DopeWars, a drug-dealing simulation game, is now available for FileMaker Pro 5 owners. Brian Dunning has "ported" the classic game…

• Tech Rally Shepherds Apple Back Above 19

  A rally among tech stocks helped Apple kick its way back above the 19 mark, though Apple closed well off…

July, 30th July 2001

• TMO Bids Goodbye To Assistant Editor, Kyle D’Addario

  I have been dreading writing this piece since the moment Kyle told me he was leaving school and applying to…

• OS X Web Site Creation Package Updated

  Pine Hill Products has updated their OS X compatible Web site creation program, CreativePage, to version 2.7.5. CreativePage provides users…

• Cable Allows Users To Extend DVI Connections

  Gefen has announced a new product that allows a DVI display signal to be repeated and amplified up to a…

• Does US$2000 Get More Mac Or PC? Handy-Dandy Chart Has The Answer

  Charles Gaba has posted a very interesting round up at AAPLTalk.com of comparable G4 and Pentium 4 (P4) systems. Sparked…

• Price Cut On Windows 2000, Mac OS RAID Software

  Charismac Engineering has announced that they are now bundling their Charismac RAID software for both Windows 2000 and the Mac…

• Griffin Releases New OS X iMate Driver

  Griffin has released an OS X driver for their iMate USB to ADB adapter. The iMate supports all of the…

• OmniWeb 4.0.3 Available

  The Omni Grouup has updated their popular OS X Web browser, OmniWeb, to version 4.0.3. OmniWeb is a full featured…

• FileMaker Server 5.5 Available Including Linux, OS X Versions

  FileMaker Inc. has released FileMaker Pro Server 5.5. FileMaker Pro Server allows users to host FileMaker databases on the Internet,…

• Spring Cleaning Adds Mac OS X Support

  Aladdin Systems has updated their system management and uninstaller utility, Spring Cleaning, to version 4.0.1. The latest version adds complete…

• HP To Bundle NetObjects Fusion With Imaging Products

  NetObjects today announced that their Web site building tools, NetObjects Fusion and NetObjects Matrix, will be bundled with certain HP…

• Want Apple Stuff?  RedLightRunner Has You Covered

  RedLightRunner has announced that they are holding a sale on a variety of their Apple and Mac related merchandise. Users…

• MUG Center Takes A Look Back At MACWORLD

  The MUG Center is looking for user made movies and pictures from the recent MACWORLD Expo. The best way to…

• Cool Cube Carries Cheesy Commercial

  A new service called Orchestrate has a very bad low-budget commercial with some very good taste, and that good taste…

• Tech Rally Leaves Apple 14 Cents Lower

  A tech rally didn't help Apple's stock as AAPL closed lower by 14 cents

July, 29th July 2001

• Recommended Web Sites & The Further Adventures Of The Little Performa That Could

  Nancy Carroll Gravley has some travel Web site tips and more about the Performa 540 that is finding its 5th…

• Business Week Ranks Apple In The Top 50 World’s Most Valuable Brands

  Business Week has released a new listing of the world's Top 100 Most Valuable Brands, and our favorite computer maker…

• New Set Of Photoshop Brushes Available

  Sapphire Innovations has released a new set of brushes for use with Adobe's Photoshop, Sapphire Brushes Vol 9. The new…

• HTTP 4D Component Finalized

  Deep Sky Technologies has finalized and released their HTTP 4D component, HTTP Client Deux 1.0.0. HTTP Client Deux contains a…

• Free OS X Native Desktop Calendar App Updated

  Panda Systems has updated their handy desktop calendar utility, PandoCalendar, to version 5.7. PandoCalendar is Carbonized to run natively in…

• Unit Coversion Utility Updated, Adds OS X Support

  Black Cat Systems has updated their measurement unit conversion utility, iUnit, to version 2.0.0. iUnit allows users to convert over…

• Apple Collection Announces Slew Of Updates

  The Apple Collection Web site has announced a slew of updates, including new desktop images, new concept designs for an…

• Educational App Updated

  Fast Rabbit Software has updated their educational application, US Constitution and Government Quizzer, to version 3.2. As the title suggests,…

• Tool Helps Speed Web Site Performance

  Blue Line Studios has updated their Web site optimization tool, WebsiteCompressor, to version 2.3.0. WebsiteCompressor allows users to easily optimize…

• It’s Official: Snapz Pro X Now Available

  Ambrosia Software has announced the immediate availability of the super screen capture utility, Snapz Pro, for Mac OS X. Snapz…

• Mark Your Calendars, Adobe To Visit Houston Group

  The Houston Area Apple User Group has announced that Adobe will be offering information on all of their products during…

• ZDNet’s TechTV Features MACWORLD Fresh Gear

  Fresh Gear, a show on ZDNet's TechTV cable channel, featured the recent MACWORLD Expo New York show this weekend

• Ho-Hum Day Sees Apple Lose 3 Cents

  It was a ho-hum trading day as investors sat on the sidelines awaiting more earnings reports and economic indicators that…

July, 26th July 2001

• App Allows OS X Users To Track Time, Expenses

  PandaWare has updated their time and expense tracking utility, TimeCache, to version 4.1.1. TimeCache allows users to easily track and…

• Goof Off With A New Episode Of The Macinchat Variety Show

  The guys at the Macinchat Variety Show have posted a new episode for your amusement and entertainment. The Macinchat Variety…

• QuickTime VR Authoring Solution Adds Support For Nikon Cameras

  Kaidan Incorporated has announced that their Photographic VR hardware will now support two new digital cameras from Nikon, the Coolpix…

• Exciting Or Not, MACWORLD Packed ‘Em In

  While there is some debate on whether last week's MACWORLD Expo was a success regarding the number of vendors in…

• One Can Never Have Enough Money. Money Desktops, That Is

  Mando Gomez of Mandolux has released another batch of desktop pictures in his Money Series. The Money Series will contain…

• Password Management App Comes To OS X

  Erich H. Rast has released his password management application, ForgotIt?, for Mac OS X. ForgotIt? 1.3 provides users with a…

• Waiting To Max Your New iBook’s RAM?  Please Stand By

  Nicolas diPierro reports on the pricing of 512 MB RAM modules for the current iBook models. Be prepared to pay…

• Aspyr Brings The Sims To Mac OS X

  Aspyr has released a Carbonized update for their smash gaming hit, The Sims. The update brings The Sims to version…

• On Being A 1st-Class Citizen: Maybe Apple Shouldn’t Buy DAVE & VirtualPC After All

  Rodney O. Lain looks at the impact of Apple's decision to include support for Windows networking in Mac OS X

July, 25th July 2001

• Apple Critics Got One Thing Wrong (With Pic)

  With all the negative sentiment still lingering from the Expo, we wanted to get one thing cleared up. Some have…

• Deep Sky Finalizes 4D Component, TCP Deux

  Deep Sky Technologies has finalized and released their 4D component, TCP Deux 1.0. TCP Deux provides 4D programmers with a…