News Archive for 01/05/16

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Preview WebSTAR V at WWDC

05/16, 8:20pm

Preview WebSTAR V at WWDC

4D, Inc. has announced that it will be demonstrating a preview version of WebSTAR V, its Macintosh Server Suite, at next week's Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Jose, CA. "4D WebSTAR V maintains the easy administrative interface while taking advantage of the speed and stability of Mac OS X."

Tech: GameCube Nov. 5, XBox Nov. 8

05/16, 8:15pm

Tech: GameCube Nov. 5, XBox Nov. 8

Evening tech news (E3 edition): Microsoft has announced that its new XBox game console will debut on November 8 for $300, matching the initial price of its tough competitor, Sony's Playstation 2; Nintendo has announced that its new GameCube console, a follow-up to the Nintendo 64, will go on sale on September 14 in Japan and November 5 in North America; and Sony will preview the Macromedia Flash Player running on its Playstation 2 game console this week, which will enhance its Web offerings when Internet access becomes available to Playstation 2 users.

Napster preps pay service preview

05/16, 8:00pm

Napster preps pay service preview

Music swapping company Napster has opened an e-mail address form for those interested in previewing its new membership service, which is expected to debut this summer and will require a monthly membership fee in order to download music from participating artists. The music would be limited in audio quality, and would be unable to be burned to CD.

New Farallon driver supports Ad hoc networks

05/16, 7:30pm

New Farallon driver supports Ad hoc networks

Farallon's beta SkyLINE 11Mb Wireless PC Card 3.0b3 driver offers support for the new Computer-to-Computer mode introduced with AirPort 1.3, named Ad Hoc networks.

Appearance OSAX for developers

05/16, 7:25pm

Appearance OSAX for developers

A new developer version of Script XTension 24U Appearance OSAX DE 1.1.1 offers "all of the features" of Appearance OSAX and can be used by developers in freeware, shareware and commercial software products.

New Turbo T6 touchscreen extends lifespan

05/16, 6:00pm

New Turbo T6 touchscreen extends lifespan

TouchSystems and eTurboTouch Technology have introduced a new 5-wire analog resistive touchscreen, Turbo T6, enhanced with an EMI (Electromagnetic Interference) shield. With a lifespan of more than 50 million touches, Turbo T6 is expected to last nearly twice as long as its closest competitor. The new Mac-compatible touchscreen is available in 2" - 21" sizes and is targeted for high-use environments in POS, Kiosk, mobile warehousing, GPS, Web phones, and more.

FireWire Depot changes CDCyclone pricing

05/16, 5:45pm

FireWire Depot changes CDCyclone pricing

FireWire Depot has changed the pricing on its CDCyclone FireWire and USB CD-RW drives, and has added a 24x10x40 FireWire CD-RW to its product line.

SNES9X 1.3.7 improves OS X performance

05/16, 5:40pm

SNES9X 1.3.7 improves OS X performance

SNES9x 1.3.7, the popular SNES emulator for the Mac from John Stiles, includes a number of performance enhancements and optimizations when running under Mac OS X 10.0.2 or later. The new version also adds a Cheat Finder, an option to control the freeze/defrost panel from a gamepad, a new sound decoding system, and an altered RAVE Smooth mode that is more compatible but may provide slower framerates on some systems.

iScreensaver Toolkit 1.6 released

05/16, 5:35pm

iScreensaver Toolkit 1.6 released

iScreensaver Toolkit 1.6 is a new version of Xochi Media's $10 screensaver that also allows users to create their own screensavers using Flash or QuickTime movies. Version 1.6 includes performance and stability enhancements, and is recommended for all users of Mac OS 9. A version for Mac OS X will be forthcoming.

Miles Sound System for Mac released

05/16, 5:10pm

Miles Sound System for Mac released

RAD Game Tools has released the Miles Sound System for the Mac, which supports all aspects of audio: digital output using a custom hand optimized assembly sound mixer, 18 DSP filters, MIDI support with a built-in software synthesizer, red-book audio, MP3 and ADPCM support, full 3D audio support, hard drive and CD-ROM data streaming, and more. The Miles MIDI subsystem supports full interactive MIDI files, DLS using a built-in software synthesizer, and compressed instrument sets.

Should Apple enter mobile phone arena?

05/16, 3:05pm

Should Apple enter mobile phone arena?

BusinessWeek Online's Stephen Baker suggests that Apple and Motorola should team up to create mobile phones with wireless Internet capabilities. "Apple has the brand and knows computers. Motorola does phones. In this ramp-up for the mobile Web, these two need each other."

PopTop's Tropico coming in July

05/16, 3:00pm

PopTop's Tropico coming in July

In an interview with Inside Mac Games, PopTop Software President Phil Steinmeyer states that the Carbonized Mac version of Tropico is expected to be released in early July by MacSoft. In addition, Steinmeyer admits that Railroad Tycoon III is a possibility for the company's next project.

Sierra Sports releases Maximum Pool 1.06

05/16, 2:35pm

Sierra Sports releases Maximum Pool 1.06

Sierra Sports has released Maximum Pool 1.06, a new version of its pool game for the Mac that fixes several bugs and adds support for Mac OS X. [Classic: 3.1 MB; Mac OS X: 3.0 MB]

Apple's Darwin: Open source but not free

05/16, 2:20pm

Apple's Darwin: Open source but not free

ZDNet's Evan Leibovitch, who recently called Apple "open source's black hole" for its stance toward the open source community, now admits that the Open Source Initiative (OSI) has endorsed the Apple Public Source License, which it includes with its open source Darwin distribution, as an official open source license. However, the Free Software Foundation (FSF) retains its stance that the license is non-free, due to a clause that requires users to publish (and register with Apple) not only code that they change and redistribute, but code that is changed and only used internally.

ACDSee distribution in Japan

05/16, 2:00pm

ACDSee distribution in Japan

ACD Systems and P&A have jointly announced an agreement to distribute all major ACD titles, including ACDSee 1.5 for the Mac, in over 300 retail store across Japan. ACDSee 1.5 for Mac is an image viewer, browser, manager and multimedia player.

Calindock 1.0.2 for Mac OS X

05/16, 1:55pm

Calindock 1.0.2 for Mac OS X

Calindock 1.0.2 is a maintenance release of the dockling for Mac OS X that places a monthly calendar in the operating system's dock.

Extension Overload 5.8.3 released

05/16, 1:45pm

Extension Overload 5.8.3 released

Extension Overload 5.8.3 is a maintenance release of the $20 utility that now provides information on 4,700 control panels, extensions, control strip modules, and contextual menu modules.

Yellow Dog Linux 2.0 in two weeks

05/16, 1:40pm

Yellow Dog Linux 2.0 in two weeks

Terra Soft Solutions has announced that Yellow Dog Linux 2.0 has reached golden master and will be available in approximately two weeks. The Linux solution for PowerPC processors includes a new graphical installer, a simplified booting procedure, the KDE 2.1 desktop, kernels 2.2.19 and 2.4.4, XFree86 4.0.2, Mozilla, Open Office, Java, and a simplified setup procedure for Mac-On-Linux, which allows the entire Mac OS to be run inside of Linux.

Architosh: Aircraft design software, VRML

05/16, 1:35pm

Architosh: Aircraft design software, VRML

Architosh has posted reports on aircraft design software and VRML solutions for the Mac.

MailBurst 2.1.3 adds group mail files

05/16, 1:20pm

MailBurst 2.1.3 adds group mail files

MailBurst 2.1.3 is a new version of the add-on utility for EIMS and SIMS that adds group mail files (similar to EIMS' send to mailing list feature) so users can forward mail to a single address in MailBurst to more than 255 users. Users who purchased or upgraded MailBurst after January 1, 1998 can upgrade to version 2.1.3 for free, while earlier purchasers can upgrade for $200 (or half-price, $99 until May 31).

Office 2001: The Missing Manual ships

05/16, 1:10pm

Office 2001: The Missing Manual ships

Office 2001: The Missing Manual is a new $30 guide book for Microsoft's productivity suite, which ships without a manual. The book begins by covering the basics of the suite's four programs—Word, Entourage, Excel, and Powerpoint—and then delves into the more advanced and less frequently used features of each program.

Carbonized plug-ins for FMP 5.5

05/16, 1:05pm

Carbonized plug-ins for FMP 5.5

With the release of FileMaker Pro 5.5 for Mac OS X, Waves in Motion has released Carbonized versions of four of its most popular FileMaker Pro plug-ins: oAzium Events 3.0, oAzium Date & Time 3.0, oAzium String Functions 2.0, and oAzium Portal Filter 1.0.

Liquid Player Five 5.1 released

05/16, 11:55am

Liquid Player Five 5.1 released

Liquid Audio has released Liquid Player Five 5.1, a new version of its music player for the Mac. Version 5.1 lets users stream, download, purchase, playback, and burn audio CDs. The application's FastTrack Security lets users purchase and download copyright-protected music from major and independent record labels through leading online retailers.

Microsoft funds iBooks for school

05/16, 11:40am

Microsoft funds iBooks for school

The 18 students of a one-room schoolhouse in Brothers, Oregon each have access to an Apple iBook, equipped with AirPort, and wireless, high-speed access to the Internet. The computers were paid for by grants through Microsoft's Anywhere Anytime Learning Program and through local funding.

Arizona to get two Apple Stores

05/16, 10:15am

Arizona to get two Apple Stores

Phoenix, AZ, and its surrounding areas will play host to two Apple Stores later this year: one in the Biltmore Fashion Park in Phoenix, and one at the Chandler Fashion Center mall in Chandler, AZ, a suburb of Phoenix. The Chandler Fashion Center is currently under construction and expected to open its doors later this year.

MacDesktops: 14 new pictures

05/16, 9:45am

MacDesktops: 14 new pictures

Over the past week MacDesktops has posted 14 new pictures, including: Rei (Animation), Penelope Cruz (Portraits), Oasis (Music), and X-Men (Movies).

ATI Radeon roadmap leaked

05/16, 9:30am

ATI Radeon roadmap leaked

Universe Games has leaked the details of ATI's RADEON roadmap, with specifics on ATI's Radeon2 and Radeon3 chips.

Employers force platforms, apps on workers

05/16, 9:30am

Employers force platforms, apps on workers

A New York Times article discusses AOL Time Warner's decision to switch all employees to AOL for their email, drawing parallels between employers that force workers to use PCs instead of Macs. "I tried to say I could design better or faster or more efficiently on the Mac," says one worker quoted in the article, "But it wasn't like I couldn't design on the PC, which was their argument."

Tech: Handspring licenses Filemaker, more...

05/16, 9:00am

Tech: Handspring licenses Filemaker, more...

Morning tech news: Days after releasing FileMaker 5.5, FileMaker has announced that Handspring has purchased a site license for the software; Intels' Pentium 4-based Xeon processor is expected to hit 2.4 GHz next year; Eazel, a company that was working on making the Linux interface more Mac-like, has closed its doors; and Sony and Real have partnered to bring streaming audio and video to the PlayStation 2.

MacTech launches new career site

05/16, 9:00am

MacTech launches new career site

MacTech has launched a new career site where Mac professionals can find jobs and Mac employers can post job openings.

Fizilla 5/14: new Carbon version of Mozilla

05/16, 7:35am

Fizilla 5/14: new Carbon version of Mozilla

A new post-v0.9 build of Fizilla 5/14, the Carbon version of the open-source, Mozilla browser project, is available online.

Bash 1.5.6 updated for 4D 6.7, adds new docs

05/16, 7:20am

Bash 1.5.6 updated for 4D 6.7, adds new docs

Deep Sky's BASh v1.5.6 is an updated 4th Dimension component that provides several utility functions for 4D programmers, including a dynamic stack space module for reusing variable space and encoding and cryptography routines. It includes "important" bug fixes as well as the documentation module, z_Library, as a separate 4D Insider library.

New Carbon, FileMaker 5.5 plugins

05/16, 7:10am

New Carbon, FileMaker 5.5 plugins

Waves in Motion has released Carbonized versions of its FileMaker plug-ins for use with the recently released FileMaker 5.5, including oAzium Events 3.0 (trigger scripts, open/close databases--$90), oAzium Date & Time 3.0 (date/time functions--$50), oAzium String Functions 2.0 (complex string manipulation--$50), and oAzium Portal Filter 1.0 (text filter for fields--$50).

Roundup: 25 Apple retail stores in 2001

05/16, 2:00am

Roundup: 25 Apple retail stores in 2001

Yesterday Apple announced that it would open 25 retail stores across the U.S. in 2001, beginning with stores in McLean, VA and Glendale, CA on May 19. Other reports included the looming introduction of ".info" and ".biz", a new relationship between Apple and UCLA, Sonnet's price drops, Apple's new iBook TV ads, the P5 glove, the world's fastest Mac cluster, and Epson's new PhotoPC 3100Z digital camera. Software releases included IomegaWare 3.0, REALbasic 3.2, and iMap 1.0 for Mac OS X.