News Archive for 01/05/22

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GeForce3 Goes On Sale at Apple Store

05/22, 9:34pm

GeForce3 Goes On Sale at Apple Store

Apple is now taking orders for its nVidia GeForce3 AGP graphics accelerator. The upgrade is for Mac users with existing G4 systems that wish to upgrade to the newest nVidia accelerator. The GeForce3 Video Card Kit is only available for Apple's latest Power Mac G4 systems with 4X AGP slots. Currently the video upgrade is listed as having 10-day availability.

Son of Weather Grock 3.6: updated weather app

05/22, 9:01pm

Son of Weather Grock 3.6: updated weather app

StimpSoft's Son of Weather Grok 3.6 fixes several bugs in the freeware application that displays weather conditions for cities from around the world using NOAA's database.

ContentBarrier 1.2 adds features, fixes bugs

05/22, 9:00pm

ContentBarrier 1.2 adds features, fixes bugs

Intego's Internet filtering application, ContentBarrier 1.2, fixes a few bugs, adds a control strip login feature, updates the filters, improves performance, and adds the ability to "trust" certain applications for access to the Internet.

Finder enhancement utility updated for OS 9.1

05/22, 8:55pm

Finder enhancement utility updated for OS 9.1

FinderPatch 3.01, now updated for OS 9.1, adds several enhancements to the Finder, including keybboard command keys, a new Quit Finder menu, Finder memory adjustment, and other minor tweaks to standard Finder operations.

Steve Jobs Features Mac Stores in QuickTime

05/22, 6:24pm

Steve Jobs Features Mac Stores in QuickTime

Apple has posted a QuickTime movie of Apple's new Stores. The movie features Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO, walking us through the stores, showing us the products on display and making us aware of the different stations to be found. The movie lasts about three minutes, and is a big download but if you have the patience or bandwidth, I'd highly recommend it.

Apple Offering Apple Store Job Opportunities

05/22, 4:40pm

Apple Offering Apple Store Job Opportunities

Apple is looking to employ full-time and part-time sales associate, store manager, assistant manager and Mac Genius positions for the company's new Apple stores. New stores are scheduled to open in 25 locations around the U.S. Not all locations have been announced, but Apple is currently hiring in ten new locations. Stores expected to open in the near term are located in Albany/NY, Bloomington/MN, Buffalo/NY, Columbus/OH, Germantown/TN, Newport Beach/CA, Palo Alto/CA, Plano/TX, Tampa/FL, and West Hartford/CT. Each location varies in openings. To see the job listings, go to the site and navigate the Worldwide Jobs search button.

AppleShare IP and Mac OS X Server Merge

05/22, 4:26pm

AppleShare IP and Mac OS X Server Merge

Apple announced the release of Mac OS X Server v. 2.0 at the World Wide Developer's Conference yesterday. The new version of Mac OS X Server sports the Aqua interface and merges the ease of use of AppleShare IP with the power and features of Mac OS X Server.

FireWire 2 ads Bandwidth, Distance and more

05/22, 2:55pm

FireWire 2 ads Bandwidth, Distance and more

The 1394 [FireWire] Trade Association today introduced the new 1394b specification, the updated version of the industry's most important multimedia bus. Increased speeds will move the bar up to 1.6 Gigabits per second and then on to 3.2 Gigabits per second. Also in this news piece is the addition of a new arbitration technology.

VSE My Privacy 1.5: Security tool

05/22, 1:05pm

VSE My Privacy 1.5: Security tool

VSE My Privacy 1.5 is a new version of the $20 security tool and password manager that allows users to store and organize their confidential data in a safe place. Version 1.5 lets users add and remove categories in which the data should be stored, and contains other minor improvements.

PasswordWallet 2.4: Secure storage

05/22, 12:55pm

PasswordWallet 2.4: Secure storage

Selznick Scientific Software has released PasswordWallet 2.4, a new version of its $15 Carbonized software for securely storing usernames, passwords, PIN numbers, combinations, and notes. The software can also sync with a Palm OS-based handheld device. Version 2.4 restructures windows, menus, and dialogs for an improved interface on Mac OS X, enhances the "Find" function, and adds other minor improvements and bug fixes.

Toon Boom Studio for Mac OS X

05/22, 12:40pm

Toon Boom Studio for Mac OS X

Toon Boom Technologies, which develops 2D animation software for film and television studios such as Warner Brothers and DreamWorks, has released a beta version of Toon Boom Studio, a suite of Web animation tools, for Mac OS X. The animation tool allows artists to complete the entire Web animation process, from conception to the final product, and allows users to synchronize a soundtrack to drawings and produce compact files using an optimizes .swf rendering engine. Toon Boom Studio will retail for $500, but is available for $300 through June 20.

TWAIN for Mac OS X released

05/22, 12:30pm

TWAIN for Mac OS X released

Digimarc and the TWAIN Working Group have released a pre-release version of the TWAIN interface API that allows Mac OS X application developers to acquire images from scanners and digital cameras. The two organizations have collaborated for the past year to develop the Carbonized API for Mac OS X. The pre-release version will soon ve available from the TWAIN Working Group Web site.

Optimizeit Profiler 4.0 for OS X

05/22, 12:30pm

Optimizeit Profiler 4.0 for OS X

Tomorrow at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), VMGEAR will demonstrate its Optimizeit Profiler 4.0 running on Mac OS X for the first time during the "Java Development Tools" session. The Java-based language profiling tool enables Java technology developers to understand and solve performance issues such as memory leaks, excessive object allocation, inefficient algorithms and unproductive processor use in their Java programs. Optimizeit Profiler 4.0 will be released for Mac OS X later this year. Pricing starts at $500.

Security bulletin for Microsoft Word

05/22, 12:25pm

Security bulletin for Microsoft Word

Microsoft has issued a security bulletin for many recent versions of Microsoft Word, including Microsoft Word 98 and Microsoft Word 2001 for the Mac. The security vulnerability appears in the instance where a Rich Text Format (RTF) file is linked to a template and the user opens the RTF file. Word will check the RTF file for macros, but it will not check the template. Therefore, a hacker could embed a macro in the template linked to the RTF file that changes data, communicates with web sites, reformats the hard drive, or changes the Word security settings. A patch for the vulnerability will be available shortly.

Panasonic DVD-RAM with USB 2.0

05/22, 12:20pm

Panasonic DVD-RAM with USB 2.0

Panasonic and ESBuy.com are now shipping a $580 Panasonic 4.7GB DVD-RAM Drive that includes both USB 1.1 (standard on today's Macs) and USB 2.0 connectivity. Compatible with both Macs and PCs, the drive carries a transfer rate of 22.16 Mb/sec and reads CD-ROM, CD Audio, CD-R, CD-RW and video discs at 24x speed. It also reads DVD-R and DVD-ROM discs at 6x speed.

Jobs, Tevanian vow to fight OSX speed drain

05/22, 12:10pm

Jobs, Tevanian vow to fight OSX speed drain

Apple CEO Steve Jobs and chief software henchman Avi Tevanian went out of their way to acknowledge performance concerns about OS X in a marathon keynote yesterday. Jobs cited that performance was top of the list of features both users and developers wanted to see fixed. The news article points out that OS X is not slow but that elements, like the OS's finder application, require optimization before OS X's speed advantages can really be seen.

Aspyr announces Tomb Raider: The Trilogy

05/22, 11:55am

Aspyr announces Tomb Raider: The Trilogy

Aspyr Media has announced that it will release Tomb Raider: The Trilogy in the next few weeks. The compilation of the first three games will include Tomb Raider, Tomb Raider Gold, Tomb Raider II, The Gold Mask (never released on CD), Tomb Raider III and The Lost Artifact (never before released on the Mac). The compilation will also include new high-res movies, an integrated installer for all games, and the latest updates for each game. Tomb Raider: The Trilogy will be made available for preorder for $30 beginning early next week.

Steve Wozniak at MacHack 2001

05/22, 11:50am

Steve Wozniak at MacHack 2001

Just as Apple Co-Founder and CEO Steve Jobs conducted a "fireside chat" with attendees of Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak will host a "fireside chat" with developers at the annual MacHack conference in Dearborn, Michigan. The conference begins on June 21 and runs for 72 hours non-stop.

Motorola plugs low-power PowerPC chip

05/22, 11:45am

Motorola plugs low-power PowerPC chip

Catering to customers in the networking-equipment realm, Motorola announced a new, lower-power version of its top-rated PowerPC chip Monday. The new chip, dubbed PowerPC 7440, was announced along with a flurry of other new networking-oriented chips at the Motorola semiconductor product sector's Smart Networks Developers Forum in New Orleans on Monday.

oAzium FileTools for FileMaker Pro

05/22, 11:45am

oAzium FileTools for FileMaker Pro

Waves in Motion has introduced oAzium FileTools, a $50 plug-in for FileMaker Pro that adds powerful file manipulation and interaction to databases. The plug-in allows users to import and export data as any format, generate web-ready product catalogs that update with a single click, and automate complicated relational import/export processes.