Adobe Systems Incorporated is now shipping Adobe® Illustrator® 10, its industry-standard vector graphics software. Adobe Illustrator 10 provides cross-media design professionals, Web designers and Web developers with the tools necessary to creatively and efficiently produce and publish their artwork. Now available on Mac OS X and ready for Windows XP, Adobe Illustrator 10 allows users…
Installer Glitch In iTunes 2 For Mac OS X: Apple Pulls 2.0, Quickly Releases 2.0.1
On the X partition I lost all desktop pictures, Exploder plug-ins such as QuickTime and flash, and all of my iTunes play lists. My MP3is all remained as they are on a different drive – though some of them lost parts of their ID3 tags – which is what I find to be the strangest…
iDVD 2 Released For Mac OS X Only
Apple® today announced the immediate availability of iDVD 2, the next generation of the worldis easiest-to-use application for creating DVDs that play in consumer DVD players. Developed to take full advantage of Mac® OS X version 10.1, iDVD 2 is the first consumer application that enables users to add the eye-catching impact of motion video…
I Wonder If Chess Will Do For OS X What Solitaire Did For Windows?
"Can anything be more galling to the spirit of a man," continued John, "than to see his younger brother in possession of an estate which might have been his own?" Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
Connect An Apple LCD To A PC (If You Really Want To)
Dr. Bott is pleased to announce that they are now shipping a version of DVIator with a 4x AGP video card that is compatible with Windows PCs. DVIator allows the use of Appleis LCD displays with the proprietary ADC (Apple Display Connector) on computers with a compatible DVI video signal. The ELSA Gladiac 511 is…
Bypassing Apple's iPod Copy Limitation (With Pics) [Updated]
The Mac Observer was able to spend some time with Bob "Dr. Mac" LeVitus and his review iPod unit this weekend, and together we looked at how to get around the limitations built into the iPod to keep users from sharing MP3s between different Macs. Apple has officially said that one can not sync up…
Will Apple Ever Advertise Mac OS X?
"I call it a white book of a thousand pages — and hidden in those pages are a few haiku, written, perhaps, in invisible ink." Babylon 5 Dark Genesis: The Birth of the Psi Corps
Check Out Apple's iPod Commercial & Introductory Video
The new commercial features a goofy looking guy who starts jamming out while syncing his iPod to an iBook. Once finished, he stands up, inserts the iPodis ear buds, and the sound quality improves by an order of magnitude while he continues to dance and cavort.
Will The Real Apple Please Wake Up
John: "Donit let your Mac go to sleep, Marsha, it might turn into one of those things out there." Marsha: "But John, my Mac just went to sleep. You donit suppose…, OH MY GOD!!! ARRRRGH!" OK, maybe Iim exaggerating a bit, but only a bit, because Apple has been acting very strange lately. Just like…
Lucent "Loses" A Few Billion, Apple Shows A Profit: A Coincidence? Hardly!
And if I can be honest, it serves them right. Any company that can simply lose US$8.8 billion deserves what they get. I mean, just how sloppy do you have to be to misplace that kind of cash? I lost a twenty once, so I know what itis like, but anything more than a hundred…
Analyst Slams Apple Using Erroneous Information & Other Misinformation
Donit buy Appleis stock. And if you own it, sell it. I know the company has a core following that is loyal, even cultlike, but the broader base of believers has been steadily eroding for years. To wager on this company is to bet that the exodus of users can be staunched and then, implausibly,…
Microsoft Officially Unveils Windows XP Blah Blah Blah
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More For FileMaker Pro: Visualizer Diagramming App Available
Waves in Motion today announced Visualizer 1.0, an entity relationship (ER) diagramming tool for FileMaker Pro. From prototyping to documenting, Visualizer adds a new dimension to the development process. Visualizer allows developers to choose which fields are displayed, including table view, show key fields and show all fields. Assign custom colors and see a visual…
Mount Your G4 On A PowerRack G
Marathon Computer, Inc., is now shipping the QuickSilver model of the PowerRack G Series, a rackmount chassis created exclusively for the Apple QuickSilver Power Mac G4. The PowerRack G Series houses the Power Mac components a in a secure, durable chassis that easily fits into industry-standard 19" racks. The chassis occupies only 4U of rack…
It's Official: Apple Announces Portable MP3 Player Called The iPod & iTunes 2 (With Pic)
The iPod, according to The Apple Store: Holds over 1000 songs Weighs just 6.5 ounces – fits in your pocket Plays up to 10 hours with 20 minute skip protection Auto synchronizes all your music with iTunes Transfer a whole CD in less than 10 seconds Charge with the included power adapter or over FireWire…
MacPlay Bringing FPS "The Operative: No One Lives Forever" To Classic & Mac OS X
MacPlay announced today that it has secured the rights to publish Fox Interactiveis The Operative*: No One Lives Forever*. One of the most critically acclaimed first person shooters, the title will ship in the second quarter of 2002, on the Mac OS X and classic Mac OS platforms. The award-winning game was named "Action Game…
Alien Vs. Predator Ships For Mac OS X and Classic Mac OS
MacPlay announced today that Fox Interactiveis Aliens Versus PredatorTM Gold Edition has shipped. Offering three totally unique and spine-chilling, first-person gaming perspectives, Aliens Versus Predator will feature some of Foxis most notorious sci-fi creatures. "The reliability and stability of the Mac OS X platform, along with its superior memory management, creates a faster-paced and more…
Making Palm Apps On Your Mac: Metrowerks Updates CodeWarrior For Palm OS
Today Metrowerks began shipping CodeWarrior( for Palm OS(r) platform, Version 8.0, development tools, the industry-leading commercial applications toolset for Palm OS(r) platform and Springboard( module developers. CodeWarrior tools provide everything commercial developers need to get their Palm OS applications to market quickly, including: an editor, project manager, C/C++ compiler, linker, emulator and target device interface…
Change Rubles To Dollars: Currency Converter For OS X
Bert Torfs BVBA today released Version 2.3.5 of WhereDidAllMyMoneyGo?, its multi-currency personal finance manager. This version is the first non-beta version that runs natively on Mac OS X. It is also the first version that allows you to change your home currency ; making the move to, lets say, the EURO is now as simple…
Intel Wants To Be Your Digital Hub (With Screen Shots)
Thought you might like to see the attached screen grab. Seems like everybody is jumping on the idigital worldi bandwagon. kind regards, Robin Woods United Kingdom Tiny is a UK manufacturer of Wintel-based PCs that bills itself as the UKis oldest such manufacturer. The company also markets its computers directly through its line of retail…
Hard Drive Slowing You Down? Switch To RAM Reliant
ProVUE Development announces the release of Panorama 4.0.1, introduced today. Panorama 4.0.1 is a maintenance release that also includes several significant new features, including automatic guides, improved image support, several new wizards and a new personal use license. Panorama, first launched on the Macintosh in 1988, offers a RAM based alternative to traditional disk based…
One More Screen Shot Command
I am very glad they brought back the screen shot keystrokes in X.1 as well—that was one of the things that I requested via the feedback link. I am also bummed that they left off the "bulls-eye" window capture you mentioned in your article. FYI: There is another screen shot keystroke in X.1 you didnit…
"Undo" Actions In The Finder!
I have been trying this with every release of the Mac OS since System 8.0. Apple originally promised this in Copland, the ability to UNDO a misplaced file in Finder. If you accidentally place a file or folder in the wrong place, you can press (or select) UNDO and it will go back to the…
Another Ill-Informed Journalist Says Dell Is The Only Profitable PC Company
Dell has not given a formal forecast for either the third or fourth quarters, but [Dell vice president Kevin] Rollins said in an interview with The Associated Press that Dell could get a boost from strong computer sales to government in the third quarter, typically a government-driven quarter. The company replaced 10,000 computer systems just…
