News Archive for 02/09/28

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Goldberg 2.3: free QuickTime viewer/editor

09/28, 5:50pm

Goldberg 2.3: free QuickTime viewer/editor

Goldberg 2.3 is a QuickTime-based image viewer and editor that includes support for applying QuickTime and other effects. The new version adds more resampling algorithms to the Resize command (Nearest Neighbor, Bi-Linear, Bicubic Spline, Bicubic B-Spline and QuickTime 6 - Bicubic enhanced), offers JPEG 2000 support with QuickTime 6 (Mac OS X only), and makes other minor improvements. Goldberg is free for Mac OS X and Mac OS 8/9. [Classic, OSX]

Apple releases iSync public beta

09/28, 2:45pm

Apple releases iSync public beta

Apple has released the beta version of iSync, its application for synchronizing address books, Bluetooth-enabled cell phones, calendars, PDAs, and the iPod. The free application is available exclusively for Mac OS 10.2.1, and expires on February 28th, 2003.

Seek 2.0 searches 7 engines from desktop

09/28, 12:15pm

Seek 2.0 searches 7 engines from desktop

Macintosh software company Wingnut Development has updated Seek 2.0, its freeware web search utility for Mac OS X that brings the search results from one of seven different search engines to your desktop. Version 2.0 adds the ability to save your favorite search engine/category combo to be set automatically at launch among other improvements.

CalcPad X 1.0 evaluates math expressions

09/28, 12:10pm

CalcPad X 1.0 evaluates math expressions

John McGruer has posted a "cool little math utilty" CalcPad X 1.0, as noted by a MacNN reader. The utility is described as a  "word processor" and evaluator for mathematical expressions and features many scientific and trig functions, custom naming of variables, paper tape for history logging, and many number formatting options.

IPNetTunerX 1.1 optimizes network connections

09/28, 12:05pm

IPNetTunerX 1.1 optimizes network connections

Sustainable Softwork's IPNetTunerX 1.1 offers the ability to optimize your network performance under Mac OS X by tuning any of 20 different TCP/IP parameters, including the TCP Window Size, Time Out intervals, Maximum Segment Size, and MTU. Version 1.1 of the $30 utility adds parameters for IP firewall logging.

Apple KnowledgeBase has iSync info

09/28, 12:00pm

Apple KnowledgeBase has iSync info

Apple's Knowledge Base has the iSync beta notes available as well as dozens of other articles on the beta software, including the need to use a .Mac account to sync data between two Macs, although "it is possible to pair two Macintosh computers over Bluetooth and share files."

Apple to open Towson, Maryland store

09/28, 12:35am

Apple to open Towson, Maryland store

Apple will open a new retail store at the Towson Town Center, in Towson, Maryland. The grand opening takes place October 5.