October 24 - 3:30pm EDT   Bare Bones Software has released BBEdit 9.0.2, a maintenance update to its HTML and text editor with bugfixes and some new features. The new version adds a language selector to the Scratchpad, enabling syntax coloring, and added the option to apply the Use Selection for Find option to Find or Multi-File Search. Fixed in v9.0.2 are parsing glitches, edit menu problems, JavaScript declarations and a bug in the HTML paragraph tool. [full story]

August 29 - 3:55pm EDT   Many computer professionals need to work with text for writing, designing web pages using HTML code, or writing programs in a variety of languages such as C++, Ruby, or Python. While you could use a word processor, web page designer, or text editor to write code, many of these programs focus on helping you create text, but lack specific features for manipulating text. If you need to create, edit, and manipulate text, you need a professional text editor such as BBEdit 9.0. [full story]

June 11 - 1:40pm EDT   Despite a series of conflicting news releases, Vodafone has confirmed that there will not be a pay-as-you-go version of the iPhone 3G available in New Zealand. NZMac.com first spotted the confusion in statements from Vodafone and Apple New Zealand which announced both contract and prepaid versions of the iPhone in various press releases. Vodafone cleared things up this morning, saying only the contract versions will be available in New Zealand and Portugal beginning in July 11. [full story]