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Mon, 26 Aug 2002
Jaguar breaks sales record with over 100k sold
CUPERTINO, California—August 27, 2002—Apple∆ today announced that more than 100,000 copies of Mac∆ OS X version 10.2 “Jaguar” were sold worldwide during its first weekend, setting a new record for Mac OS sales for a single weekend. More than 50,000 people visited Apple’s 35 retail stores during Friday night’s “100 Minutes of Jaguar” launch event.
“Jaguar is our fastest out-of-the-gate OS release ever, and it’s looking like a home run,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “The reviews are off the charts, and customers are raving about Jaguar’s stability, speed, new features and Windows compatibility.”
With more than 150 amazing new features and applications, “Jaguar” includes a new Mail application designed to eliminate junk mail, iChat AIM-compatible instant messenger, a system-wide Address Book, Inkwell handwriting recognition, QuickTime∆ 6 with MPEG-4, improved Universal Access, an enhanced Finder™, Sherlock∆ 3 with Internet Services, Quartz™ Extreme graphics acceleration technology and Rendezvous™ Apple’s revolutionary networking technology.
BasePlant 2.0 set to resurrect PowerPlant
ROSEMERE, Canada - August 26, 2002. Cafederic is proud to announce the
release of BasePlant 2.0, a collection of more than 300 classes to enhance
PowerPlant™,
the flagship framework from
Metrowerks.
Among the new features for this release, you will see:
- Assistants
- Full sheet support
- Custom toolbars (like in Mac OS X Finder) and custom floating toolbars
- Color Picker support with live updates
- Preferences dialog with one line of code (at least in most cases)
- Web resource checker (e.g. for software updates)
- New helpers for easy drag and drop support
- Generic shortcut keys editor dialog (something like the one of
CodeWarrior) - New panes and controls
- Live dragging of windows (both Mac OS 9 and X) with snapping for tool
window (like the ones from Adobe and Macromedia software) - Display Manager and Mac OS X Dock aware
- Layout management of window positions and size relative to each others
and the screen resolution - Carbon event loop timer
"If you are like me, you probably feel that Metrowerks has stopped to innovate with
their framework a few years ago", says śric Forget, owner of Cafederic.
"BasePlant doesn't just try to keep PowerPlant alive, it gives new energy to it!"
The list of BasePlant's attributes is too long for a press release, but
some of its other key features include:
- Data Browser
- Folder Parser
- AppleScript
- AppleEvents Wrapper
- Preferences Manager (global and/or per document)
- Starting Point to manage multiple types of document applications
- Window Enhancements
plus a whole lot more.
Price
$149 For commercial, in-house development
$35 For personal* freeware and shareware
* Not affiliated with a company in any way.
Availability
BasePlant is available right now from the
Cafederic web site.
About Cafederic
Cafederic began about eight years ago to enhance PowerPlant while developing
true applications. Its talented developers are dedicated to boosting Mac∆
OS development through the creation of innovative and powerful tools.
Mozilla 1.1 Released
The final version of Mozilla 1.1 has been released, with many perfomance enhancements & bug releases.
The improvements in the Mac version include support for MathML (which was already supported in Windows & Linux), Quartz rendering, and Java fixes for Mac OS X 10.2.
You can download it here.
CodeWarrior 8.2 Update
MetroWerks has released a patch for CodeWarrior 8, which is required for use with Mac OS X 10.2.
The CodeWarrior Development Tools for Mac OS, v8.2 update is a maintenance release of MSL, Debugger, Java RAD, Support folders, Stationery, Targeting Mac OS documentation, and Compilers and Command Line Tools. The 8.2 update is necessary for working on Mac OS X 10.2. This update should only be applied to a CodeWarrior Development Tools For Mac OS, v8.0 or v8.1 installation.
The patch can be downloaded here.
Update on server problems
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