Itis possible that most of our readers may not be familiar with your company, could you give us a bit of its background? Well, we are located in Tokyo, Japan and have eight employees. The company was established in 1994. Besides Cookieis Bustle, we develop two other non-game products for the Japanese market. Was this…
MagiSign Illustrator Plug-ins Updated
New Ceres Solutions today announced the release 1.2 of NCS MagiSign, its collection of plug-inis for Adobe Illustrator 8.0 and 9.0, and that SignofNCS, its first collection of plug-inis for Adobe Illustrator, will now be available as a free download on its web site ). French, Spanish, Dutch and Italian language versions of SignofNCS will…
CNBC Offers Excellent Segment On Apple's New Retail Stores
As has already been reported, the invitations have the Apple logo on the front in the form of a bar code, and the announcement of the companyis first store which opens in McLean, Va. on May 19th. Ms. Wells also reports that the store will "most likely" be modeled after the company store at Appleis…
Intel Brings AirPort Compatibility To A Handspring Visor Near You
Intel Corporation today introduced the Xircom SpringPort(tm) Wireless Ethernet module, the first wireless local area network (WLAN) device for the Handspring(tm) Visor(tm) handheld computer. The new module complements Intelis existing line of WLAN products and is the first product announced after the companyis acquisition of Xircom. Slightly smaller than a deck of cards, the module…
Default Folder Gets Maintenance Update
Default Folder is a Mac OS 9 savvy control panel that enhances Open and Save dialog boxes to make it easier for Macintosh users to manage their files. It provides many of the essential features of the commercial ACTION Files, SuperBoomerang, and Directory Assistance utilities, but distinguishes itself by not including some infrequently used extras.…
Illustrator Users Get New Tools
Sapphire Innovations, today announced Sapphire Pack 4, a new 10-in-1 plugin for Illustrator 8/9. 10 new additions to the Illustrator toolbox in one: Drag paths or selected paths to duplicate rows and columns of paths create a checkerboard of paths create circular patterns .. and repeat Drag/scale/bounce/twists and turns… and more. spirals random paths for…
Casady & Greene Discontinues SoundJam MP At Developer's Request
Important Information for Our Customers Casady & Greene, Inc. will cease publication of SoundJam MP as of June 1, 2001 at the request of the developers. We believe that SoundJam MP will continue to give our customers long and useful service, and, in keeping with our philosophy of putting our customers first, Casady & Greene…
The iBook Will Be An Even Bigger Hit Than The iMac
All of us geeks or wannabe geeks tend to get hung up in technical details, like the number of ports, specific megahertz, blah blah blah. And even there, the iBook is doing well. But what counts is this: A very great number of people have been pining for an Apple portable but not gotten one,…
Remembering 1993 With Newton Commercials (QuickTime)!
Unlike todayis PDAs, a category of devices that the Newton itself gave birth too, the Newton was a true handheld computer. It did just about everything, including handwriting recognition at a time when Macs and PCs were running at 33 MHz, and while that made the Newton extraordinary, it also helped doom it to the…
Apple Lands Mammoth iBook Deal: 23,000 iBooks Sold To One School District
Apple® today announced an agreement with Henrico County Public Schools to supply 23,000 iBooks™ to the district. This initiative will give every middle and high school student and teacher access to their own laptop computer with plans to eventually provide every teacher and student throughout the district with an iBook. "This is the mammoth–the single…
OS X 10.0.2, iTunes Update Available, Now Supports CD Burning
Apple announced that it will release its second software update for Mac OS X today, which together with a simultaneously-released update to iTunes will add the ability to burn custom music CDs on Mac OS X. Both software updates will be released at noon today and will begin automatically notifying users and updating their copies…
The Mac Observer: The Apple Trader - To Break Up Microsoft Is A Slap In Capitalism's Face. Thanks, We Needed That!
To Break Up Microsoft Is A Slap In Capitalism’s Face. Thanks, We Needed That! May 1st, 2000 "…let me remind you why Gates is an icon for innovators, not just capitalists. He is the greatest innovator of my lifetime, the first person in the computer industry to understand the importance of building a technological system–by…
Mouseworks For OS X Updated
This is the third pre-release version of MouseWorks for OS X. Kensington is making this beta release publicly available in order to get as much feedback as possible regarding bugs and compatibility issues. We will work hard to identify and fix all major bugs before the final release of version 1.0. However, because this is…
Schedule Mac Server Tasks With Ease
MacAT is a “cron” task scheduling application for Macintosh server administrators. It is a PowerPC application that allows 37 of the most common MacOS tasks to be run daily, weekly, fortnightly, monthly or yearly without user intervention. These scheduled tasks include: Launching Applications, Files and AppleScripts; Quitting individual applications or alternatively quitting all currently running…
Remembering 1990 With A Couch Made From 35 Macs!
From Observer Tim Sitkiewicz. The macstore is an Apple Specialists with a large retail and service location in the St. Louis, MO area. We basically have a 10,000sq ft. warehouse where we had been collecting a lot of old machines, mainly because we couldnit sell them anymore. So about 3 years ago we decided we…
QuickTime 5 Downloaded Over 1.5 Million Times In First Week
Apple? today announced that QuickTime 5, Appleis industry-leading software for creating, playing and streaming high-quality audio and video over the Internet, has been downloaded more than 1.5 million times during its first week of availability. QuickTime 5 is available as a free download to Mac and Windows users at www.apple.com/quicktime. “QuickTime 5is quality, speed and…
Magellan Speaks Even More Languages
Magellan 1.8.2 is minor update of Magellan 1.8.1: Major changes are: Better mailer compatibility of non ascii language. Speeding up for non roman languages. Fully Ukrainian supported. bug fixes. Features: Send and receive multilingual e-mail. Any languages will correctly be sent and received. Send and receive e-mail message containing any plural languages. Not only unicode…
Remembering 1990, The IIfx, & The Power To Be Your Best
Observers Lex Jenkins and Fred Turner each sent us some great scans of Appleis advertising from this year. In particular we love the ad for the Mac IIfx. The Mac IIfx was one of the most powerful computers of its day. It was also a truly innovative computer for the time, and we might remind…
Track Your Health Better
Health Tracker is a simple yet powerful program which helps you keep track of and graph any health related measurement. For example, if you are diabetic you could track your blood glucose levels. For weight loss, you could track your weight, measurements for various body parts, or your % body fat. Or, if you keep…
Use Yor Mac To Relax
Software Perspectives announced it has unveiled a major release of its popular Relax software product for Macintosh, as well as a slew of upgraded Relax related products and a new tool for Relax environments.Relax 3.0 is a complete rewrite of the companyis flagship product. The software now sports a sleeker, cleaner interface with loads of…
Track Time And Expenses With TimeCache
The PandaWare Company has released an update to TimeCache, its popular time and expense tracking application for Macintosh users who bill clients for project work. PandaWare(r) TimeCache(tm) 4.07 includes a number of improvements, a new feature and bug fixes. Features: TimeCache makes it easy to enter data. It has an “Enter Job” window where you…
Apple Releases QuickTime 5 And QuickTime Streaming Server 3
Apple has announced the much anticipated release of the next version of their multimedia player, QuickTime 5. QuickTime 5 is the latest upgrade to Appleis popular and powerful QuickTime technology. Version 5 shipped with Mac OS X, but this announcement marks the availability of QuickTime 5 for Mac OS 9 and Windows. Apple has also…
Alternate QuickTime Player Now Available For OS X
SearchWare Solutions is proud to announce the release of a public preview of a Mac OS X native version of Pix Lite, their well-received QuickTime-based Media Viewer.Functionally identical to Pix Lite 1.1 for the Classic Mac OS, Pix Lite for Mac OS X is an easy to use application for viewing various types of QuickTime…
An Interview With A Mac Using, Pioneering, Technomad
(Big Electronic Human-Energized Machine Only Too Heavy). After that Steven went after the obvious goal of computing and communicating on inland and nearland waters, building the one-person floating micro-technology wonder: the Microship. Microship Photos. Newest photos. Do read A Day In The Life Of A Technomad, it reads like science fiction, but it is real.…
