News Archive for 03/05/02

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FWD ships FireWire 800 PCI card

05/02, 6:50pm

FWD ships FireWire 800 PCI card

FireWire Depot today began shipping its new 1394b ('FireWire 800') PCI card. It features three external FireWire 800 9-pin bilingual ports, serial bus data rages of 100/200/400/800 Mbs, backwards compatibility with 1394a/FireWire 400, and compatibility with Mac and PC. It is priced at $90.

No iPods for some launch festivities

05/02, 5:25pm

No iPods for some launch festivities

An Apple specialist alerted us to delivery problems of iPods to some reseller locations, leaving some resellers without the devices for planned product launch festivities: "So, as I speak with resellers around our region, we are all left holding an empty bag with customers and clientele showing up within the next hour expecting an unveiling party for the new iTunes and iPod."

Aspyr ships BloodRayne for Mac OS X

05/02, 1:10pm

Aspyr ships BloodRayne for Mac OS X

Aspyr today said it has begun shipping BloodRayne: "Set in the mid-19301s, BloodRayne introduces the sexy, supernatural Agent BloodRayne. An unholy union of human and vampire, Agent BloodRayne was raised and trained by a secret governmental agency to hunt down and eliminate global evil forces. Now she must take on an occult faction of pre-Nazis and their army of vile, unearthly ghouls to prevent them from unleashing creatures of unfathomable terror onto the world." The $30 title runs on Mac OS X.

Tomatochip.com debuts 80GB FireXpress 250DX

05/02, 1:00pm

Tomatochip.com debuts 80GB FireXpress 250DX

Tomatochip.com has announced its 80GB FireXpress 250DX storage solution. The FireXpress 250DX includes a 80GB 4,200RPM IBM/Hitachi 2.5" hard drive with a both FireWire 400 and USB 2.0 interface. The dual-interface allows users to share the drive between PCs and Macs. The drive is bus-powered or can be self-powered with bundled FireCABLE system. It is available now for $300.

NYT, WSJ: rave reviews of Apple music service

05/02, 10:35am

NYT, WSJ: rave reviews of Apple music service

Both David Pogue (The New York Times) and Walt Mossberg (The Wall Street Journal) offer extremely positive reviews of Apple's new music service.

KB: password options, sendmail startup...

05/02, 10:25am

KB: password options, sendmail startup...

KB roundup:Apple has outlined the password authentication options available under Mac OS X in networked environments; Sendmail startup issues after installing the Developer Tools is a result of changes to the root directory; iTunes 2 users can create multiple libraries to overcome the 32,000 song limitation (iTunes 4 no longer has this limitation).

Fovea Pro 3 offers native Mac OS X support

05/02, 10:20am

Fovea Pro 3 offers native Mac OS X support

Reindeer Graphics has released an update to its flagship image processing, analysis and measurement package, Fovea Pro 3. It provides Mac OS X native functionality under Photoshop 7.x and many new features, including a new Interactive Deconvolution, a plug-in that provides a user-adjustable point spread function generator for deconvolving both defocus and motion blurs. Fovea Pro 3 also features condensed and reorganized menus for access to the 170 different functions. Fovea Pro is a comprehensive set of image analysis functions for manipulating and measuring high-depth (8-, 16-, 24-, and 48-bit) images. The $800 application runs on Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X.

BBC: Students get iPods as study aids

05/02, 10:15am

BBC: Students get iPods as study aids

BBC News reports that students at Georgia College & State University were given an iPod to help them with their coursework: "Apple donated about 50 iPods as part of an experimental project to illustrate creative uses for the machine. University professors say the gadgets have helped the students think more critically about their course. Students enrolled on the Gothic Imagination course, which looks at 18th to 20th century art, architecture, literature and music, were given 5GB of music on their iPods."

Apps: Still Life, WebLight, AppleWorks...

05/02, 10:05am

Apps: Still Life, WebLight, AppleWorks...

Granted Software today released Still Life 2.1 featuring a new audio track functions and an improved undo/redo functions. The stand-alone application enables users to pan and zoom over digital images to produce videos (ala "Ken Burns Effects in iMovie 3). The program allows users to take multiple "shots" of an image, pan along a curve and rotate the "camera". It is $25. [1.3MB]
WebLight 3.0.1 (formerly Website Illuminator) an easy to use web analysis tool that checks entire sites for HTML problems, accessibility problems, and links is now available. Version 3.0.1 features a completely revamped user interface and improved performance. A 15-day trial of the $25 application is available. [2.5MB]
Intelli Innovations has released Barcode Producer 1.9, an update to its barcode generation software for the Mac. This update adds support for "ISMN barcodes" and support for a 0.80 size factor for EAN-13 barcodes. The $100 application supports 12 different symbologies and has customizable output options, built-in printing options, and vectorized EPS export. [1.2MB]
Barcode Automator 1.2 updates Intelli Innovation's scriptable, bulk barcode generation solution. The update brings an extended EAN barcode generation system to theproduct, allowing Barcode Automator to generate barcodes for ISSN and ISMN values as well as ISBN barcodes. Version 1.2 also allows users to customize the ISBN/ISSN/ISMN prefix to a number of their choosing. It is $500. [1.2MB]
Apple has posted the International English version of the AppleWorks 6.2.7 update, which offers improved stability for spreadsheets, databases, web clipping searches, and printing under Mac OS X. Version 6.25, available in the same download for Classic, offers improved stability for spreadsheets and databases. [15.3MB]

Canon debuts PowerShot SD100, new printers

05/02, 9:50am

Canon debuts PowerShot SD100, new printers

Canon today announced th "world's smallest and lightest" digital ELPH camera. The new PowerShot SD100, with its ultra-compact size and new white-platinum finish crafted in stainless steel, offers 3.2 megapixels of resolution, exclusive support for Secure Digital (SD) Memory card, and an optional new waterproof housing that allows photographs to be taken up to 130 feet underwater. The PowerShot SD100 Digital ELPH is approximately 15% smaller and 8% lighter than the current PowerShot S230 model. It features the ability to capture up to 3 minutes of video at resolutions up to 640x480 pixels.

New Apple retail stores to open May 10

05/02, 9:50am

New Apple retail stores to open May 10

Apple's new Bellevue Square (Bellevue, WA) and Walt Whitman (Huntington Station, NY) retail stores will open May 10, as noted by its retail website: "To celebrate our Grand Opening, we’re featuring a week of exciting events. In our store, we’ll have a variety of unique and educational presentations, demonstrations and workshops — all free of charge. The first 1000 people to visit the Apple store receive a free Apple T-shirt."