News Archive for 02/09/06

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Epson posts laser printer drivers on FR site

09/06, 7:50pm

Epson posts laser printer drivers on FR site

MacNN reader John Savage reports that Epson has made available Mac OS X printer drivers for its 5700, 5800 and 5900 series laser printers on its French support site. "They seem to support all of the features the OS 9 drivers do," writes Mr. Savage.

NewTek Texture Collection: 50 high-res images

09/06, 6:10pm

NewTek Texture Collection: 50 high-res images

The NewTek Texture Collection is a free set of fifty high-resolution textures for use in graphics. Subjects for the first set of textures include Wood, Metal, Sky, Nature, and Stone and all textures are unretouched photographic images at 1600 x 1200. [free registration required]

XRay 1.0.5 improves the OS X Get Info

09/06, 5:40pm

XRay 1.0.5 improves the OS X Get Info

XRay 1.0.5 is a $10 shareware File/Folder information utility for Mac OS X. "It offers more of a detailed view of files, folders, applications and volumes than Mac OS X's "Show Info" window." The update fixes bugs an adds support for registration over Kagi, online version checking, and improved textual menus.

Escape Velocity Nova 1.0.2 improves engine

09/06, 4:05pm

Escape Velocity Nova 1.0.2 improves engine

Ambrosia SW has updated its space action RPG game, Escape Velocity Nova 1.0.2. Improvements include game engine and scenario changes as well as other bug fixes. The full version is priced at $30, while the update is free.

Ad Age Poll: PowerMac G4 wins with creatives

09/06, 3:45pm

Ad Age Poll: PowerMac G4 wins with creatives

An Ad Age Pop Culture Poll of more than 300 executives and marketers found that "Apple's Power Mac G4 won as the favorite tech tool of creatives, with almost 30% of respondents voting for it." Other interesting notes include 20.9% of respondents named their PDA as the tech tool they could not part with, while 16.8% said their cellular phone was more important. Other popular devices were Research in Motion's BlackBerry, the iPod and the iBook.

Systeris Remote 0.9b11 controls apps remotely

09/06, 1:40pm

Systeris Remote 0.9b11 controls apps remotely

Systeris Remote 0.9b11 for Mac OS X allows users to remotely access and control Microsoft Entourage, Microsoft Outlook Express, iTunes, and even AppleScript, all via a standard web browser. A 10-day trial version is available; the full version is $22 and includes 6 months of free access to Systeris.com.

DayLite 1.0.4 Personal Edition released

09/06, 1:30pm

DayLite 1.0.4 Personal Edition released

DayLite 1.0.4 Personal Edition is a contact and customer relationship manager for Mac OS X. It features a powerful tab/comma text importer, multiple views, extensive drawers, toolbars, and sheets, powerful sorting tools and more. The update brings numerous improvements, including a phone dialer, a Time List view and improved organization capabilities. The price is $95.

Apple launches Xserve in India

09/06, 12:55pm

Apple launches Xserve in India

Apple has launched its new rack-mounted server solution, Xserve, in India. "India is a important market for Apple. It has a very high rate of IT literacy and quality IT professionals. Hence the product is launched in India and targeted at new segments apart from the traditional strong verticals of Apple," said Apple Computer Asia Pacific Software Product Marketing Manager Darren Sng. The server solution is priced at 246,000 rupees and 326,000 rupees, depending on the configuration.

GRASS 5: Geographic Information System

09/06, 12:45pm

GRASS 5: Geographic Information System

GRASS 5 Geograhic Information System is an Open Source/Free Software Geographical Information System (GIS) for Mac OS X with raster, topological vector, image processing, and graphics production functionality. "It contains over 350 programs and tools to render maps and images on monitor and paper; manipulate raster, vector, and sites data; process multi spectral image data; and create, manage, and store spatial data. GRASS also uses both an intuitive windows interface as well as command line syntax for ease of operations."

Rage Hard web site launched

09/06, 12:20pm

Rage Hard web site launched

An official web site for Rage Hard, a multiplayer tactic shooter based on the new Claws -3d Engine, has been launched. The game will be developed for Mac OS X first, and will feature particle effects, detailed 3d objects, realistic lights and shadows, dynamic shadows and lights, up to 32 players and 4 different multiplayer modes.

eWeek: Mac OS X for Intel project at Apple

09/06, 11:25am

eWeek: Mac OS X for Intel project at Apple

An eWeek report says that Apple is maintaining current, PC-compatible builds of Mac OS X, including the most recent Jagaur version under the Project code-name Marklar: "Sources said more than a dozen software engineers are tasked to Marklar, and the company's mainstream Mac OS X team is regularly asked to modify code to address bugs that crop up when compiling the OS for x86. Build numbers keep pace with those of their pre-release PowerPC counterparts."

.Mac: no support for firewalls, proxy servers

09/06, 10:50am

.Mac: no support for firewalls, proxy servers

Michele Zundo notes that .Mac's iDisk and Backup cannot be used behind firewalls or proxy servers: "This has been confirmed by Apple representative in the support forum....Also the backup application cannot be used in 'local' mode to back up to CD since it checks at startup the existence of an active .mac subscrition."

Surround SCM manages software development

09/06, 10:45am

Surround SCM manages software development

Surround SCM is a software change management solution that provides control over source code changes to software development teams that require remote access, integrated defect tracking, and advanced branching and merging options. The cross-platform solution has client/server support on Microsoft Windows, Linux, Solaris, and Mac OS X and offers GUI-based clients for each OS. Surround SCM, billed as a "full replacement for Microsoft Visual SourceSafe," integrates fully into Microsoft's popular development IDEs-Visual Studio 6 and Visual Studio .Net. Pricing starts at $400 for a single-named user.

Two 'fun' desktop utils updated

09/06, 10:35am

Two 'fun' desktop utils updated

Stick Software released Eyeballs 2.2, a Mac OS X application that "gives you a set of eyeballs in your menu bar or on your desktop. The eyes watch the cursor move around as you work." The $10 shareware is localized in seven languages including English and Japanese. Stick Software also released BigFoot 2.1 ($10), which it describes as a "fun, creative desktop critter..The feet dance, chase the mouse and play hopscotch, among many other behaviors." [EB, BF]

Quarto!: 3D strategy game updated

09/06, 10:25am

Quarto!: 3D strategy game updated

Spectral Class has updated its OpenGL-based board game, Quarto! 1.1b3. The 3D strategy game is available as $15 shareware and "offers more control over piece colours and textures as well as small UI tweaks."

Upcoming Power4 CPU not for Macs?

09/06, 10:15am

Upcoming Power4 CPU not for Macs?

A MacNN reader forwarded a note passed along to an Apple development mailing list, offering some unofficial IBM comments on the future of its Power4 CPU in Apple desktops, noting that there are technical issues with marrying the chip's vector processing unit with AltiVec and that Apple will not likely adopt the new chip for its desktops.

Karelia releases Watson 1.5.5 with Google

09/06, 10:15am

Karelia releases Watson 1.5.5 with Google

Karelia has released Watson 1.5.5, a maintenance upgrade to its desktop interface to the most popular Web content and services. Watson 1.5.5 offers improved compatibility with Mac OS X version 10.2 (Jaguar), and adds a plug-in that uses the Google Web search engine, a new plug-in for browsing and searching Amazon.com, and updated Zip Code lookup plug-in. The update also brings an updated two-week trial for all users.

MacSpeech announces more language support

09/06, 10:00am

MacSpeech announces more language support

MacSpeech announced it will be showing French, Italian, UK English, Dutch and German versions of the latest release of iListen at the Apple Expo - Paris next week and will announce Italian, Dutch and German distribution partners for its speech recognition product.

Macromedia intros developer kit for MX apps

09/06, 9:55am

Macromedia intros developer kit for MX apps

Macromedia today announced its Macromedia MX Developer Resource Kit Vol 1. The $100 developer kit is the first of a quarterly series, which contains extensions, components, and resources to enable Macromedia Flash MX, Dreamweaver MX, and ColdFusion MX developers to create and deploy Internet applications. The kit also contains an archive of more than 400 MB of content from the Macromedia Designer & Developer Center as well as DataGrid and Media components for Flash MX developers and extensions for website building and application development, including components for displaying data in PHP applications, adding functions to the file menu in Dreamweaver, and editing themes for sites developed using Radio Userland for editing weblogs.