News Archive for 02/03/01

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Apple licenses CUPS technology for OS X

03/01, 7:50pm

Apple licenses CUPS technology for OS X

Easy Software Products announced Friday that Apple has licensed the Common UNIX Printing System for use with Apple operating systems and software. The CUPS software will provide enhanced printing capabilities under Mac OS X. It is also anticipated that other Apple software will benefit from the technology. CUPS technology uses the Internet Printing Protocol as the basis for managing print jobs and queues.

Apple announces contest winners; runner-ups

03/01, 7:45pm

Apple announces contest winners; runner-ups

Apple has announced the iPhoto contest winners in the People, Creative and Nature categories. Three "Grand Prize" and three "1st prize" winners have been awarded an Apple iPod and Canon camera for winning in their respective category.

WSJ: Rio Riot can't beat Apple iPod

03/01, 7:30pm

WSJ: Rio Riot can't beat Apple iPod

Wall Street Journal columnist Walter Mossberg compares the Apple iPod to SonicBlue's Rio Riot in a two-product review published yesterday. Although Mr. Mossberg commends the Riot for its out-of-the-box Windows compatibility and larger storage capacity, he likens the Rio Riot to a "predecessor product" of the iPod. The iPod receives much praise for a fast 400Mbp/s FireWire connection and pocketsize design.

OpenAG X: Audiogalaxy client goes final

03/01, 6:45pm

OpenAG X: Audiogalaxy client goes final

Mac OS X developer Eric Seidel today announced OpenAG X v1.0 Final. OpenAG X is a client for the Audiogalaxy file sharing system that includes both essential and advanced features. OpenAG X has been in development as public beta software for several months and now sports a redesigned GUI and countless new features. [GUI, CLI]

Apple DVD Player v3.1 for Mac OS X available

03/01, 6:40pm

Apple DVD Player v3.1 for Mac OS X available

Apple has released DVD Player v3.1 via the Apple Software Update application in Mac OS X. The DVD software update adds features for DVD authoring, including the ability to select and play the contents of a 'VIDEO_TS' folder from a local volume as well as AppleScript support for selection and playback of DVD content and a 'wide' info window layout, bug fixes, and stability enhancements.

Sonnet announces significant price drop

03/01, 5:25pm

Sonnet announces significant price drop

DealNN notes that Sonnet Technologies has dropped the price on the Encore/ZIF G4 500 processor upgrade by $100 to $300. The Encore/ZIF G4 500 upgrade is one of the most popular cards from the upgrade manufacturer.

G4 tower gets good press in AP review

03/01, 4:25pm

G4 tower gets good press in AP review

Associated Press writer Matthew Fordahl puts the PowerMac G4 in the spotlight with praise for the machine's feature set and case design in his latest review. "The Power Mac G4s look like a traditional PC tower on style steroids." Fordahl also calls the latch-based case design with well-laid-out innards "eloquent."

Adobe plugin improves EPS support

03/01, 3:30pm

Adobe plugin improves EPS support

Adobe's LiveMotion 2.0 EPS Support plug-in provides support for EPS files in Adobe LiveMotion 2.0: "This installation improves on the existing support. It is recommended that all Adobe LiveMotion 2.0 users download and install this updated plug-in."

IntelliMerge 2.0.1 extracts emails from files

03/01, 2:50pm

IntelliMerge 2.0.1 extracts emails from files

Intelli Innovations has released IntelliMerge 2.0.1, which squashes a few bugs and addes the ability to extract emails from file via regular expression and wildcard searches. The $65 application offers dynamic e-mail merge and includes an integrated message editor, a recipient database system, and a message mailer. [Classic, Carbon]

Blosxom: Perl CGI script for Weblog

03/01, 2:30pm

Blosxom: Perl CGI script for Weblog

Blosxom is a lightweight "Weblog-in-a-jiffy" Perl CGI script for Mac OS X that features simple drag & drop installation, a number of customizable defaults, CSS-styled output, Permalinks, day/month/year "archive" views, and Weblogging from any text editor.

Pic2Icon 1.3 creates photo-icons for images

03/01, 1:55pm

Pic2Icon 1.3 creates photo-icons for images

Pic2Icon 1.3 is a small utility that creates 128x128 OS X icons for your pictures: "Simply drop pictures or folders full of pictures onto the application and it will start creating icons, complete with drop shadows and peeled back dog-ears, control over image quality, and support for many image types, including PDF and quicktime movies!" It now automatically quits after processing and adds an 'Open Recent' menu.

Eudora Mailbox Cleaner offers Mail.app import

03/01, 1:15pm

Eudora Mailbox Cleaner offers Mail.app import

Eudora Mailbox Cleaner 2.0 is "a simple drag'n'drop application which provides easy one-step migration from Eudora to Mail.app, directly importing Eudora's mailboxes and filter files and preparing nickname files for import into Address Book." It currently imports Mailboxes, nickname, and filters. Versin 2.0 offers direct conversion into Mail.app, performance increases during import, and other enhancements.

OS X: Eudora beta, Guardian, FutureBASIC

03/01, 1:10pm

OS X: Eudora beta, Guardian, FutureBASIC

osx.macnn.com has reports on the latest Eudora beta, FutureBASIC R6, PowerGuardian for monitoring UPS systems, Firewalk X 2.0 (advanced firewall application), and a new Folding@home graphical client.

Eisner chides 'rip, mix, burn' slogan

03/01, 1:00pm

Eisner chides 'rip, mix, burn' slogan

Don Pavlish writes "Congressional hearings on the draconian SSSCA bill were held yesterday...this is the bill that would force copy-protection onto computers and put people in jail for five years if they disabled this on their own machines. ..Apparently, Disney CEO Mike Eisner isn't too keen on Apple's 'rip, mix, burn' slogan. A VP of Intel was also at the hearing, and issued this defense of the slogan."

Jobs among world's billionaires with $1.1B

03/01, 12:55pm

Jobs among world's billionaires with $1.1B

Steve Jobs is among the world's top billionaires, ranking 413th, with a fortune of $1.1 billion. Forbes' 16th annual ranking of the world's billionaires tracks 497 people, including 50% of whom saw their net worth fall and the average net worth dipped from $3.2 billion to $3.1 billion. Bill Gates ($52.8B), Warren Buffett ($35B), Karl Albrecht ($26.8B), Paul Allen ($25.2B), and Apple Board member Larry Ellison ($23.5B) round out the top 5, respectively.

Intuit R3 updates use new online certificate

03/01, 12:40pm

Intuit R3 updates use new online certificate

Intuit today released Quicken Deluxe 2001R3 and Quicken 2002R3. Both updates include new Quicken online certificates, which are required "in order to continue using some of the online features of Quicken 2002. If you have already installed the R2 update, this is the only change." [2001R3, 2002R3]

Architosh: Interstudio announces Domus.Cad

03/01, 12:40pm

Architosh: Interstudio announces Domus.Cad

Interstudio has announced Domus.Cad v11, a 3D-based architectural CAD for Macintosh, according to Architosh.

Pangea releases Bugdom as shareware

03/01, 12:35pm

Pangea releases Bugdom as shareware

Pangea Software has re-released its popular video game Bugdom 1.1.5 as a $20 shareware title. Pangea will donate 50% of all profits from Bugdom shareware sales during the month of March to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. The boxed version of Bugdom will continue to be sold off of Pangea's web site until inventory runs out.

No OS X support for ThumbDrive

03/01, 12:30pm

No OS X support for ThumbDrive

Trek 2000 will not be providing OS X support for the original ThumbDrive, according to a note from company representative. A new, driverless model "ThumbDrive Smart," however, will support OS X.

iMac-styled Apple Pro Keyboard available

03/01, 12:20pm

iMac-styled Apple Pro Keyboard available

Apple now offers the iMac-styled Apple Pro Keyboard (White keys) for purchase from the Apple Store for $60 as well as the Apple Pro Mouse (White color) for $60.

Eudora 5.1b21 supports services, URL access

03/01, 12:20pm

Eudora 5.1b21 supports services, URL access

The latest beta of Qualcomm's Eudora 5.1b21 email client is available. It now supports services in the Services menu (under the Eudora menu): "However, there is an OS X bug that prevents services from pasting data into Eudora if the service provider as a Cocoa application." It also brings a new application icon, LDAP support, better scroll wheel support, and other enhancements as well as restored URL Access.

Hex Appeal 1.0: new puzzle game

03/01, 12:15pm

Hex Appeal 1.0: new puzzle game

Hex Appeal 1.0 an original puzzle game for Mac OS 8/9 and OS X: "The aim of the game is to unscramble a hexagonal grid of colored pieces in a given number of moves." The $15 shareware includes 12 boards, 2 practice modes, a board editor, and "beat-the-clock" and regular game modes.

Describe 2.0: Java utility for Flash files

03/01, 9:40am

Describe 2.0: Java utility for Flash files

Describe 2.0, now completely re-written in Java 2, adds Flash 5 support to the utility that allows "developers and the curious to browse the contents of Flash files - examining the fields in each of the tags to see how the Flash file specification is put into practice." It can also browse files containing 'compiled' ActionScript to view the byte-codes executed by the Flash player. It is freeware.

FutureBASIC R6 provides OS X support

03/01, 9:35am

FutureBASIC R6 provides OS X support

STAZ Software has released FutureBASIC R6, an update to its BASIC programming environment that offers performance increases as well as OS X compatibility. Release 6 provides access to all Appearance Manager buttons and implements all window types including sheets, floating windows, and windows with toolbars as well as advanced features for handling preference files and automated features that move the Quit and Preferences menu items to the application menu when a program is run under OS X. The $170 application includes 1-year of updates on CD--after which the price is $100 per year. It is also available in French, Italian, and Japanese.

Folding@Home clients released for OS X

03/01, 9:30am

Folding@Home clients released for OS X

Final versions of the Folding@Home 2.1.9 client is available for OS X, offering users the ability to help scientists understand protein folding by "donating" the computational power of their computer when it is idle. Command-line (CLI) and graphical clients (GUI) are available. (Readers are encouraged to visit Team MacNN for more information on our effort.) [CLI, GUI]

PowerGuardian: UPS management software

03/01, 9:15am

PowerGuardian: UPS management software

BenaTong has introduced PowerGuardian, a $20 application for OS X that monitors a connected UPS (uninteruptable power supply) and performs a safe system shutdown (saving open files) as well as optionally allows for shutdowns to be based on remaining battery capacity (if supported by the UPS).

Toshiba reduces PDR-M25 digital camera price

03/01, 9:15am

Toshiba reduces PDR-M25 digital camera price

Toshiba has reduced the price on its 2.2 megapixel digital camera. The PDR-M25, now available for $250 ($30 drop), has an aspherical glass lens, offers a 3X optical/2X digital zoom; a 1.5-inch high-resolution color LCD, SmartMedia card storage; and a macro mode. It includes a soft case, a wrist strap, a protective lens cap, an instruction manual on CD, a USB cable, a Video cable (PAL/NTSC), and 4x Alkaline AA batteries.

LA Times:'The iMac Challenge'

03/01, 9:10am

LA Times:'The iMac Challenge'

The Los Angeles Times has published part one of The iMac Challenge, which compares a new flat-panel iMac to a Gateway 500SE: "From the hardware perspective, neither computer cleaned the other's clock. The iMac has style and setup advantages; the Gateway is marginally cheaper and far more expandable."

Firewalk X 2.0: firewall software package

03/01, 9:05am

Firewalk X 2.0: firewall software package

Firewalk X 2.0 is a $35 firewall software package offering the ability to restrict network access by appliction, IP, user, and traffic-type. Firewall rules can apply to IP addresses and ports, both destination and source, subnets, port ranges, incoming and outgoing traffic, and specific devices. It is fully compatible with the system's built-in firewall system. [download available again as of 3:45 pm]

ProSQL 1.1.4: advanced database management

03/01, 9:00am

ProSQL 1.1.4: advanced database management

Intelli Innovations has released ProSQL 1.1.4, adding support for the display of Japanese characters within database records to the advanced SQL database management software package. Licensing starts at $90. [Classic, Carbon]

IomegaWare 3.5 supports OS X

03/01, 8:50am

IomegaWare 3.5 supports OS X

Iomega yesterday released IomegaWare 3.5, an OS X-compatible version of its software for formatting, protecting, managing and changing settings on Iomega drives, including Zip, Peerless, Jaz, PocketZip, FotoShow Digital Image Center, and HipZip products. Version 3.5 adds support for OS X 10.1, support for Active Disk titles, and other enhancements. The package includes Iomeag drivers, Password App, contextual menu suport, Mac Help guide, and single installer for Classic and OS X.