News Archive for 00/11/28

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Macs in the Amazon

11/28, 5:52pm

Macs in the Amazon

DV.com has posted a story about Avi Hoffer's adventures in Brazil, with his Macintosh and a DV camera, which he used to produce streaming video content from the Amazon.

Review: Fox Interactive's King of the Hill

11/28, 5:50pm

Review: Fox Interactive's King of the Hill

We've published a review of King of the Hill, Fox Interactive's new game for the Mac and PC based on Fox's animated TV series.

Analyst discusses Apple

11/28, 3:55pm

Analyst discusses Apple

Analyst Alex Yakirevich discussed Apple today on Radio Wall Street's "Insider's Insight" feature, stating that he "does not see a lot of downside to the stock at this point." Yakirevich was bullish about the stock's long term prospects, but cautioned short term investors that investments in Apple may be "dead money for a while." (Readers can listen to the conversation; Yakirevich discusses Apple about 12 minutes into the segment).

Oni News from games.macnn.com

11/28, 3:30pm

Oni News from games.macnn.com

games.macnn.com has information on a new 1.0.4 patch for both the retail and demo versions of Cro-Mag Rally, the 3D kart racing game for the Mac. Earlier today, it posted a feature with details on the characters that will play major roles in Oni, the upcoming "full-contact action" game from Bungie Studios and Gathering of Developers, was posted. More than a dozen exclusive screenshots are also available for viewing. [updated]

Pads 2.0b1

11/28, 1:30pm

Pads 2.0b1

Pads 2.0b1 is Carbon-compliant beta version of the robust Note Pad/Stickies replacement application.

Macworld Expo Special Interests Blvd.

11/28, 1:25pm

Macworld Expo Special Interests Blvd.

IDG World Expo today announced that a new Special Interest Boulevard will be featured at Macworld Expo in January. The designated area will play host to a number of "up-and-coming companies and cutting edge technologies." Macworld Expo takes place from January 9-12 at the Moscone Center.

Forums Links 11/28/00

11/28, 11:50am

Forums Links 11/28/00

In our Forum areas today, there are questions about networking a 6200 with an iMac, installing a low-profile chip in a Lombard PowerBook and a missing battery icon on an iBook; and problems with the Control Strip causing crashes on startup and toolbar preferences in Netscape 6.

PageSpinner 3.0.2

11/28, 11:40am

PageSpinner 3.0.2

Optima System has released PageSpinner 3.0.2, a $30 HTML editor, and Peter's CDML Tags for PageSpinner, a collection of PageSpinner menu extensions for publishing data from FileMaker Pro. The new version of PageSpinner has more flexible windows handling, improves the text menu and fixes some bugs. The upgrade is free to registered users.

Prowler 1.1

11/28, 10:30am

Prowler 1.1

Andrew Cunningham has posted Prowler 1.1, a freeware image browser and slideshow presenter. This version adds a randomize and open subfolders option, speeds up the list by at least 15 percent and adds the ability to adjust the size of the browser window.

DealNN

11/28, 10:00am

DealNN

Today's bargains at DealNN include a refurbished iMac DV G3/400 for $840, free shipping on monitors purchased from Refurb Madness, 128 MB PC100 Kingston ValueRAM for $50, and reconditioned HP OfficeJet 600 multifunction printer for $150.

FileMaker finalist for Codie Awards

11/28, 9:00am

FileMaker finalist for Codie Awards

FileMaker 5 Unlimited has been named as a Codie Award finalist for Best Numeric/Database and FileMaker Developer 5 has been as a finalist for Best Application Development Software by the Software & Information Industry Association.

Movie-making consumers

11/28, 8:15am

Movie-making consumers

Silicon Valley News has posted an article about FireWire and Apple's contribution to the acceptance of the standard. "About the same time as the MiniDV camcorders were being rolled out, Apple began installing FireWire ports in its mid-level and high-end computers. And the nexus of digital video camcorder and computer had begun."

MSU debunks science myths

11/28, 8:09am

MSU debunks science myths

Michigan State University students are using iMac DV computers and iMovie to help trace and debunk some of the more controversial science-related myths and misconceptions that have appeared in modern times.

Money Making Tracking DB

11/28, 8:08am

Money Making Tracking DB

Internet Ideations has released Money Making Tracking Database 1.0, a $12 e-business shareware application designed for e-Gold and E-Biz Ventures members. Features include unlimited tracking of spending, search and projected payouts by date, an interactive calendar to track payouts and the ability to import e-Gold reports into the database.

Links LS 1.0.2

11/28, 7:55am

Links LS 1.0.2

MacSoft has posted Links LS 2000 1.0.2 Updater, a maintenance update to the recently-released golf simulation that fixes a bug with network play. (More daily gaming news at games.macnn.com.)

WYSIWYG Font Preview

11/28, 7:54am

WYSIWYG Font Preview

WYSIWYG Font Preview 1.0 is a $10 shareware utility that will display fonts in their typefaces. Users can also specify the size and style of the font.

MacVCD 1.8.2 fixes bug

11/28, 7:25am

MacVCD 1.8.2 fixes bug

MacVCD 1.8.2 is a maintenance release to the Video CD player for Macintosh that fixes a problem that would result in Video CDs not showing up in the VCD and Eject menus on systems with a large number of mounted volumes.

MacVCD 1.8.2 fixes bug

11/28, 7:25am

MacVCD 1.8.2 fixes bug

MacVCD 1.8.2 is a maintenance release to the Video CD player for Macintosh that fixes a problem that would result in Video CDs not showing up in the VCD and Eject menus on systems with a large number of mounted volumes.

LockOut 2.0 adds admin mode to security util

11/28, 7:23am

LockOut 2.0 adds admin mode to security util

Maui Software's $15 shareware utility, LockOut 2.0, adds an administrator mode, the ability to ignore, such as Sherlock indexing and Virex, and the ability to disable disk monitoring for better performance.

LockOut 2.0 adds admin mode to security util

11/28, 7:23am

LockOut 2.0 adds admin mode to security util

Maui Software's $15 shareware utility, LockOut 2.0, adds an administrator mode, the ability to ignore, such as Sherlock indexing and Virex, and the ability to disable disk monitoring for better performance.

Yesterday's Top Stories

11/28, 6:00am

Yesterday's Top Stories

Yesterday we noted that Apple grew 47% in the Canadian market in the past year, the immediate availability of Dreamweaver 4 and Fireworks 4, a review of Microtech's ZiO!, and the official launch of the highly-anticipated speech recognition software iListen.

Early morning tech news

11/28, 12:01am

Early morning tech news

Early morning tech news: Federal antitrust officials have delayed a Thursday vote on the AOL-Time Warner merger; Stephen King has stopped writing The Plant after six chapters, citing a lack of readers who paid for the ebook; the long disputed sex.com domain is being returned to its original registerer; and Linux creator Linus Torvalds explains that the alternative operating system was created largely by accident in an upcoming biography.