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Fri, 31 Oct 2003
GPL Unconstitutional?
In yet another ridiculous legal saga, Utah's SCO Group has asked a federal judge to declare that the general public license of the Linux computer operating system is unconstitutional and unenforceable.
The Lindon-based company made the motion as part of its request that U.S. District Judge Dale Kimball dismiss IBM's 3-month-old countersuit.
In its August countersuit, IBM denied SCO's allegations in its $50 billion March lawsuit that SCO's proprietary Unix code had been illegally incorporated into IBM's versions of the freely distributed Linux. IBM also accused SCO of breaking IBM patents, breach of contract, unfair competition, deceptive trade practices and violation of the Linux public development and distribution license.
In its response, SCO attacked the GPL.
"Apart from the patent issues, SCO views the GPL issues as much more significant," company spokesman Blake Stowell said Tuesday. "SCO's copyrights still stand. Congress has drawn a boundary between proprietary and open source."
IBM spokesman Mike Darcy would only say that his company "strongly believes in its counterclaims and looks forward to trying its case in the court of law."
However, open-source spokesman Bruce Perens, a Berkeley, Calif., Linux developer, blasted SCO's challenge to the GPL's constitutionality as being "way over the top."
Perens contended the enforceability of the GPL has withstood past court scrutiny, and he said SCO's filing was "just an attempt to delay the inevitable day that the case gets thrown out of court."
SCO argued that the chief enforcer of the GPL — the open-source community's Free Software Foundation — has been so selective and inconsistent as to render the license "barred as a matter of equity."
SCO contended that use of the license violates standing federal copyright, antitrust and export-control laws.
SCO, which is also being sued by leading Linux distributor Red Hat, filed its response late Friday.
Read the full story here.
Panther's coolest features
In addition to Panther's major enhancements, there are lots of tiny improvements that show Apple's attention to detail and make it much more pleasant to use. Here are a few of my favorites.
- In Mail.app, clicking on the reply or forward indicator next to a message will open the related message.
- If you use the terminal, there's now a Connect To Server command, which lists ssh, telnet, ftp, and other servers on your local network. Terminal also has a dock menu, which includes that command.
- If you use X11, it also has a dock menu now, which lists all of the windows and lets you start X applications.
- System Preferences now has a dock menu which lets you go to any panel instantly.
- You can now run Software Update directly from the Apple menu.
- For drives which support S.M.A.R.T. diagnostics, Disk Utility will show their status and warn of impeding failure if you click on the drive icon.
Recovering from a corrupted netinfo database
Before installing Panther on my PowerBook, I backed up the drive to an external FireWire drive with Carbon Copy Cloner. When I tried to boot that drive, however, I found that I was dumped to the login screen and my password didn't work. Here's how I recovered it.
First, boot into single user mode by holding down Command-S while booting. You'll get a black text screen with a shell prompt.
Make your disk writable by typing /sbin/mount -uw /
Next, delete the netinfo database with the following commands:
cd /var/db/netinfo
rm -r local.nidb
Finally, continue booting by typing Control-D. When you get to the finder, the setup assistant will run as it does for a new installation. You'll have to create a new user, but your old home directory will still exist and you can access it and change the password from the Accounts system preference panel.
Synchronize your address book without .Mac
Address-O-Sync is a new freeware utility ($5 donation suggested) which lets you synchronize your addressbooks via Rendezvous without using iSync or .Mac.
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New device lets you use Apple Pro Speakers with any computer
Griffin Technology's new iFire lets you enjoy the great sound and stunning design of the popular Apple Pro Speakers (pictured at right) with any computer in the world with FireWire. These speakers use a special connector called the Apple Pro Speaker Jack available only on Apple iMacs and G4s. No other machine could use these speakers - until now.
The iFire connects via FireWire and audio mini jack to ANY machine (like a PowerBook, iBook or the new G5) and then powers and connects any pair of Apple Pro Speakers (available separately from Apple).
The iFire brings Apple Pro Speakers to the masses. Use your Apple Pro Speakers from your PowerMac G4 on your new G5. Set up a hotel sound system with your PowerBook, the Apple Pro Speakers and iFire. Even play your iPod through Apple Pro Speakers using the iFire (powered by the iPod power supply) for the perfect compact sound system. The iFire brings Apple Pro Speaker music - to your ears.
For more information, visit Griffin Technology.
Security Update 2003-10-28 for Panther
Apple has released the first security update for Panther, which is now available via the software update panel. Security Update 2003-10-28 addresses a potential vulnerability in the implementation of QuickTime Java in Mac OS X v10.3 and Mac OS X Server v10.3 that could allow unauthorized access to a system.
DailyTunes
DailyTunes is a new community web site which lets iTunes users find new music and share their favorites.
Apple Releases Darwin 7.0 Source Code
Apple has released the source code for Darwin 7.0, which corresponds to Mac OS X 10.3.
The released version of each Darwin project is available to browse or download as a source archive. To browse the sources click on the project name in the list on Apple's Darwin project page. To download a source archive, click on the ".tar.gz" in the same row as the project.
Hidden Exposé blob
Panther's dock has a hidden feature that will display a floating blue 'blob' that activates Exposé if you click on it. The hint was posted in macosxhints a few days ago and now If Then Software has written a free utility to enable or disable the feature.
Or, you could use this shell script:
#!/bin/sh
if [ $1 = "on" ]
then
defaults write com.apple.dock wvous-floater -bool true
else
defaults write com.apple.dock wvous-floater -bool false
fi
killall Dock
Sat, 25 Oct 2003
Apple rips off Proteron?
Proteron has posted the following open memo to Apple, in response to a particluar Panther feature:
Dear Steve et al at Apple Computer,
Congratulations on the recent hardware announcements and release of Panther. Apple continues to innovate in the world of personal computers. Thanks for all the hard work. Our lives are a bit better and brighter for your efforts.
There is, however, one issue I must raise. It is regarding a specific feature introduced in Panther. As you are aware, keyboard application switching is significantly improved. What is disappointing is that this "improvement" is a near pixel duplication of a Proteron product, LiteSwitch X. And despite the obvious similarities, Proteron has received no recognition or credit.
This memo is written for two reasons. First, to request that Apple officially recognize that LiteSwitch X played a role in the formation of Panther's switcher. For tens of thousands of users the feature has existed since May 2002. A developer at Proteron first conceived of it. Proteron developed and published it. Now Apple has made it their own, an "Apple innovation", without recognizing Proteron.
This memo is also written to publicly highlight your behavior and request more of an explanation. What happened with LiteSwitch X is a repeat of recent Apple history, ala Sherlock 3 and Karelia's Watson. You have again absorbed a third-pary innovation into the OS without crediting the original authors. Why not give credit to your developers? Does Apple lose anything? Does it hurt Apple or the Mac OS to recognize that a someone's ideas are so good they belong in the Mac's core feature set? Is there any harm in hailing the achievements of the "little guy"?
We're flattered by the imitation. And we don't blame you for incorporating great features into the OS - it is good for Mac users everywhere. But it is definitely going to hurt our bottom-line during hard times. And we don't even get credit for our work.
I feel that what Apple has done by incorporating third party features into the Mac OS without recognition is both disappointing and dishonest. I invite you to change your approach. There is no shame in recognizing quality work whenever and wherever it appears, especially when it is coming from within the Mac community. We love what you've done with Panther. We love developing for the Mac. As you continue to innovate, please recognize those who have helped you. It's a basic courtesy: give credit where credit is due.
Sincerely,
Samuel Caughron et. al.
Proteron LLC
iCash 1.4.1
iCash is an easy-to-use, full featured and multi-purpose software intended to control your personal finances, keeping track of incomes, expenses, credits, debts and Banks transactions for you.
As simple as creating the accounts you need and move money between them! You don't even need to know about accounting or even care about it!
iCash can serve several small accounting needs for either private users, or clubs, associations, self-employed, small businesses or simply to be used at home, making keeping track of incomes, expenses and Banks transactions a snap. With a few clicks you can begin creating accounts and making transactions in minutes.
MacOS X:
- English: http://www.maxprog.com/shareware/iCash_X.sit
- German: http://www.maxprog.com/shareware/iCash_X_DE.sit
- French: http://www.maxprog.com/shareware/iCash_X_FR.sit
- Spanish: http://www.maxprog.com/shareware/iCash_X_ES.sit
- Italian: http://www.maxprog.com/shareware/iCash_X_IT.sit
- Dutch: http://www.maxprog.com/shareware/iCash_X_NL.sit
- Portuguese: http://www.maxprog.com/shareware/iCash_X_BR.sit
MacOS Classic:
- English: http://www.maxprog.com/shareware/iCash.sit
- German: http://www.maxprog.com/shareware/iCash_DE.sit
- French: http://www.maxprog.com/shareware/iCash_FR.sit
- Spanish: http://www.maxprog.com/shareware/iCash_ES.sit
- Italian: http://www.maxprog.com/shareware/iCash_IT.sit
- Dutch: http://www.maxprog.com/shareware/iCash_NL.sitPortuguese: http://www.maxprog.com/shareware/iCash_BR.sit
Panther upgrade notes
Although I've been running Panther on my G4 minitower for a while, I waited until this afternoon to install it on my PowerBook, which is my production machine. Here are some tips for making the upgrade as smooth as possible.
- If possible, install on a separate drive or partition. If you have more than one machine, test it thoroughly on a less critical system before you install it on one you depend on.
- I highly recommend doing an archive install, preserving user settings. You'll end up with a clean system with all of your data & custom applications intact.
- If you're using a version of Default Folder earlier than 1.9, upgrade BEFORE installing Panther. I learned this the hard way on my G4 - if Default Folder 1.8 is installed, bad things (such as the finder repeatedly crashing & relaunching) will happen when you boot Panther. Version 1.9 fixes this problem and makes it fully compatible.
- Make sure any applications you depend on work in Panther. If you're using a VPN connection, make sure you can still connect to your VPN server.
- If you do software development, especially if you're working on multiple programmer projects, make sure you remain compatible with everyone else. If the other programmers are still using 10.2, use ProjectBuilder (which is fully compatible with Panther) instead of XCode. If you do use XCode, force it to use GCC 2.95 or 3.1 using the gcc_select command (type 'gcc_select --help' in the terminal for more info).
By taking these precautions, your upgrade can be painless with little or no downtime.
Milwaukee Mac Summit
The MacUsersForum along with Surf-Bits present the Milwaukee, WI Mac Summit 2003!
Get a hands on look at the latest Mac products, including presentations of the latest Apple hardware and software.
The PowerMac G5, new PowerBooks and iSight will all be reviewed, as well as Panther, Apple's latest edition to the OS X family, and others.
Test-drive major third party software products, like Adobe and Macromedia applications.
Learn first hand how to keep your Mac in tip-top shape! Bring in your Mac for fun and games as we will share desktop backgrounds, mods, and play games.
Wi-Fi access will be available to those who have an airport card! So come to the Mac Summit, learn, and meet other great Mac users! The Mac User's Forum Summit will be on Saturday, November 15 at 2 p.m at Milwaukee Area Technical College
Please e-mail summit@macusersforum.com if you have any questions!
MySQL Studio 4.3.1 Released
MySQL Studio 4.3.1 is a powerful MySQL Frontend Tool for administrating and monitoring MySQL server on Mac OS X platform. The new version allows the importing/exporting of CSV, Text or XML files to/from MySQL database using Import/Export wizard.
An evaluation version of MySQL Studio 4.3.1 is available for download at www.mysqlstudio.com/shareware.php3. To use the product, you'll need Mac OS X 10.1 or later.
MySQL Studio 4.3.1 is a graphical database management tool with intuitive user interface. Except Normal database administration features, Navicat also provides import/export, backup, and data transfer features for user managing their MySQL database systems as well as monitoring various administrative information. It also includes a full featured graphical manager for setting the users and access privileges, local and remote connections, and more. MySQL Studio 4.3.1 comes with a well-edited manual and installation guide.
Major features include below:
-Browse your databases
-Create and delete databases, tables, indexes and users
-Modify your data
-Create, Save or Run SQL queries
-Manage user privileges [security configuration]
-Backup/Restore your database
-Import/Export data
-Data Transfer - you can transfer data from one MySQL server to another MySQL server (1. Local to Remote , 2. Remote to Remote , 3. Remote to Local)
Colourfull Creations releases a new update for Maxi Bidder
Oct 21, 2003; Colourfull Creations releases a new update for Maxi Bidder. Colourfull Creations fixed some minor issues with the software and added a few new features to Maxi Bidders strong lineup.
Other great features that are included with Maxi Bidder are the ability to sync prices with eBay, audio alerts, and much more. If you are a current user don't forget to download your update. New customers check out the demo available online at: http://www.colourfull.com, you'll love the product.
Apple introduces G4 iBooks
Apple today introduced new G4 based iBooks, starting at $1099, making it the lowest priced G4 laptop ever.
The new iBook is available in 12" and 14" models.
The 12.1-inch iBook gives you a 800MHz PowerPC G4 processor, a 133MHz system bus and 256MB of DDR SDRAM. The 14.1-inch iBook packs a powerful punch with either a 933Mhz or 1GHz PowerPC G4 processor and 256K on-chip level 2 cache running at full processor speed, a 133MHz system bus and 256MB of DDR SDRAM. All models support expansion up to 640MB of RAM, and come with the ATI Mobility Radeon 9200 graphics processor with 32MB of dedicated video memory and AGP 4X suppor.
Here's a handy comparison of the new 12" iBook and the 12" PowerBook G4:
iBook
| PowerBook G4
|
I'm sure this will kill sales of the 12" PowerBook. Most people will probably opt for either the much less expensive iBook or the 15" PowerBook.
Colourfull Creations releases SpaceInBack for OS X
Colourfull Creations Releases a program that brings the hard work of NASA to your desktop
The discoveries from NASA straight to your desktop
SpaceInBack is a great system enhancement that allows your Mac OS X computer to instantly download images from the NASA web site to your desktop. See what NASA has discovered from the comfort of your own home or office. For more information on this product go to http://www.colourfull.com today.
Rogue Amoeba Audio Software Updates
Rogue Amoeba has today released Detour 1.2, with support for OS X 10.3 (Panther) and Unsanity's Xounds 2.1 (Coming soon).
Now, users of Xounds can send their Xounds sounds out through one set of speakers and their music to another. This update to Detour also includes new French and Italian localizations.
In addition, all of Rogue Amoeba's products have been updated over the past week for 10.3 support. Both audio recording and enhancing tools, the original Audio Hijack and the enhanced Audio Hijack Pro received minor updates and are now available for download and use by 10.3 users. As well, all Freebies are also new and improved: LineIn, the Audio Input software and SoundSource, our convenient menubar audio device selector.
New Music Tuesday - Oct. 21, 2003
Despite the FUD* from Microsoft's Dave Fester (what a great name), Windows users downloaded 1 million copies of iTunes and bought 1 million songs in only 3 days. Following one of the biggest weeks ever, today's new additions were pretty light, so I'll focus on celebrity playlists and some older gems today.
My first choice is Sting's Playlist, hilighting Shaking the Tree, by Peter Gabriel.
Herbie Hancock's Playlist has some interesting selections, especially
Bitches Brew, by Miles Davis (which iTMS often renders as B***es Brew), one of the most important albums ever, which paved the way for all jazz/rock fusion artists.
After listening to Joe Stummer's final album, streetcore, non-stop for the last two weeks, it's time to dig out more Clash albums. Start with The Essential Clash and The Singles. Don't miss
Sandanista! (Remastered), their most heavily Reggae-influenced album.
For jazz fans, check out Electro Bamako, by Malian singer Mamani Keita, who I never heard of before I previewed this one in new releases, and
Verve Remixed 2, which features electronic dance remixes of jazz standards.
*FUD: Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt. A marketing technique pioneered by IBM in the 60s and raised to an art form by Microsoft.
Unsanity releases Application Enhancer 1.4.1
Unsanity today announced the release of Application Enhancer (APE) 1.4.1, which is now compatible with Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther) as well as 10.2. The new version also no longer affects processes owned by root for added security.
Unsanity has also posted this page disclosing the Panther compatibility of all of their products.
Keynote Gallery team celebrates World Series!
Go Team Go! Keynote Gallery unveils the newest Keynote theme – World Series. With an astroturf feel, this theme is not just for baseball, you can use it for any type of sports presentation. This theme includes 44 masters with multiple cutouts and bleeds for use with Keynote's Push and Cube transitions. World Series sports the usual Keynote Gallery extras such as 5 custom bullets, 6 custom chart fills plus 5 underlines and a text background.
Check out www.keynotegallery.com and grab this theme for only $9.95 US.
Industry added to Keynote Gallery
The Industry Keynote theme is now part of the theme group of Keynote Gallery. This hard core stainless steel theme includes 43 masters with multiple cutouts and bleeds for use with Keynote's Push and Cube transitions. Industry comes with the usual Keynote Gallery extras such as 5 custom bullets, 6 custom chart fills plus 4 bonus underlines.
Check out http://www.keynotegallery.com/ and purchase this theme for only $9.95 US or in collection 5 for $24.95 US.
SideTrack 0.7.2
Raging Menace has released a public beta of SideTrack, a replacement trackpad driver for PowerBooks & iBooks.
SideTrack brings many of the trackpad scrolling features found on Windows laptops to MacOS X. Most Windows laptops implement trackpad scrolling using drivers made by Synaptics. Although Apple PowerBooks also use Synaptics trackpads, the standard Apple driver uses none of the extended features.
SideTrack supports these features: Vertical scrolling at left or right edge of pad; Horizontal scrolling at top or bottom edge of pad; Map hardware button to left or right click; Map trackpad taps to no action, left click, left click drag (with or without drag lock), or right click.
Although I normally use a mouse with my 12" PowerBook, I find the scrolling features a welcome addition for those times when I'm working unplugged.
Chickenbyte announces IconBox 1.5
Belgium based software developer Chickenbyte is proud to present version 1.5 of their icon organizing tool "IconBox". We have been listening to the many request from our users over the past couple of months and have succeeded in incorporating a lot of the features that were requested.
What's new in this version?
* Manual re-ordering of icons within a library.
* Sort icons by name, keywords, description, author *nd copyright.
* "iDrop" feature: Drop files or folders onto it to *hange their icon.
* Auto Icon Count status.
* Set a different background color for every library individually.
* Completely re-styled interface. (Toolbar and menu's)
* Info drawer organized with tabs.
* View progress when importing icons.
* Support for Pixadex Containers.
* Added authoring information to info drawer. (Author, Copyright, URL)
* Faster scrolling and resizing of the icon view.
* Added new type of selection border.
* Search icons within a specific library.
* Faster searching.
* Support for filtering unwanted files on import.
* Support for importing ICNS files.
* Added several new export formats including ICNS, PNG, GIF and Windows XP icons.
* Added the ability to export multiple icons at a time.
* Added ability to change icon info for multiple icons at once.
* Added the following localization: Portuguese.
* Several small bug-fixes.
For more info please visit http://www.chickenbyte.com/iconbox/
Deep Links from EFF
Deep Links features noteworthy news items from around the Internet.
- Bad Grades for a Voting-Machine Exam
Salon on shoddy security measures for electronic voting machines. (Ad-viewing
nonsense required.) - All the President's Votes?
Contains a good synopsis of the many problems with e-voting
- EPIC Looks Into Justice Department's Pro-PATRIOT Act Lobbying
It's generally frowned upon when a political appointee engages in lobbying. So
why did Attorney General Ashcroft tell all 93 United States Attorneys to fight
PATRIOT Act reform legislation? - Brits Tap the U.S. for Anti-Spam Recipes
Our neighbors from across the pond want the U.S. to pass more legislation
banning salty, processed email - Movies Come from Hollywood - Especially on P2P Networks
Researchers at AT&T Labs downloaded 285 movies from P2P nets and found that 77%
had been leaked by industry insiders - Illegal Art in the City of Brotherly Love
The exhibit is ending its national tour in Philadelphia - "TIA's Not Scary; It's Necessary!"
The National Review on how much safer we'd be in DARPA's surveillance-based
dystopian future - FCC May Give DTV a Hollywood Ending
If a broadcast flag mandate is adopted, be prepared to buy more expensive
equipment with fewer features - Four Jewish Websites Deemed "Terrorists" by U.S. State Department
Two of the sites are held by cybersquatters, not a suspected-militant Jewish
group. Evidently, the State Department doesn't know how to use "whois" - Bad Database Bill Clears First Hurdle
The Database and Collections of Information Misappropriation Act of 2003 is bad
mojo. We're not excited that copyright-like protection for facts lived through
subcommittee - Fighting to Preserve Old Programs
Wired on EFF Board Member Brewster Kahle's fight to save digital history
For more information about the Electronic Frontier Foundation, visit www.eff.org.
AquaFold simplifies multi-platform database administration with version 3.5
AquaFold, Inc today announced the latest version of Aqua Data Studio, its universal database tool for building, managing and maintaining enterprise relational databases.
The new release introduces complete schema extraction and SQL scripting of database objects. With a click of a mouse the SQL DML (data manipulation language) for tables, views, stored procedures and all database objects may be scripted to a query window. SQL history capabilities provide complete and easy access to the history of all SQL statements and scripts executed. A new popup query window provides the flexability to open multiple query windows side by side to compare scripts and query results. The Query Analyzer window now also includes support for Oracle's DBMS_OUTPUT package and 'Text History', which provides quick access to a history of query results. An enhanced Query Analyzer includes support for openning scripts and saving results in different encoding types, printing of scripts and results, server side comments, enhanced syntax coloring and more. Version 3.5 also comes with improved memory consumption and up to 600% increased query performance. Additional database support includes PostgreSQL 7.3 with new schema support and Trusted Connection support for Microsoft SQL Server through an ODBC interface.
Complete list of new features: http://www.aquafold.com/features_3_5.html
Photologist Update
Version 1.3 of Photologist is now available to download.
Photologist provides users with easy but powerful ways to work with digital photos. Manage photo folders and create custom photo albums. Show photos with slide shows, web albums, and custom print layouts or print layout templates. Scale photos visually. Crop, rotate, and flip images. Adjust photo brightness, contrast, and colour. Edit images pixel by pixel. Apply special effects, styled text, shapes, and background colours. Use Photo Finder for quick, easy, and flexible photo searches. Batch process image files (rename, scale, apply shape, add keywords, categories, and comments).
New in this version:
- removed non-agua interface elements
- Viewer window now remembers size and location
- improved album creation/management to address some inconsistencies
- improved appending of proper file extensions to saved and exported images
Features:
Photologist is a versatile image management, manipulation, and presentation solution. It provides users with easy but powerful ways to work with digital photos. Key features include:
Managing Photos
- organize photo folders (copy, move, and make aliases)
- create custom photo albums from multiple sources
Showing Photos
- run customizable slide shows
- make web photo albums
- create and send eCards
- create screen savers
- print custom layouts with image overlapping and picture transparency.
- use print layout templates to print multiple image on a page
- print layout template maker for creating custom multiple image layouts
- visually scale and drag photos to email messages or other applications
- Quicktime slide show movies with over 100 transition effects
Editing Photos
- visually scale photos
- crop, rotate, flip images
- adjust brightness and contrast
- adjust colours
- remove "red eye" and edit individual pixels
- apply special effects to pictures
- apply styled text to photos
- make picture words from images
Finding Photos
- use Photologist's Photo Finder to locate photos by name, keywords, comments, or a range of dates
- run successive searches to broaden or narrow the results
- search recursively within a folder (search into nested folders)
Browsing Photos
- choose from a variety of photo viewing options (gallery, slide show, screen saver, viewer window)
Processing Photos (individual images, selected images, or whole folders of images)
- rename images (use Photologist's flexible renaming system for batch renaming)
- attach keywords, categories, or comments to photo files
- resize (scale) pictures
- apply shapes and add colour backgrounds
Other Features
- screen capture utility
- contact sheet utility
The download includes an online illustrated User's Guide
Product URL: http://www.ttpsoftware.com/photologist.html
Download URL: http://www.ttpsoftware.com/photologist.sit
Home Page: http://www.ttpsoftware.com
Contact: contact@ttpsoftware.com
Web Dumper 1.8.1
Maxprog is proud to present another update of its web tool product named 'Web Dumper' a full featured internet tool that allows users to download web sites for offline browsing. Available in English, French and Spanish.
If you are viewing a Web site with your browser and you decide that you would like to make a copy of it on your hard drive, you have to manually save each page as you view it along with embedded pictures, sounds and so on. This can be a very long and tedious process, and in many cases it's more trouble than it's worth. It doesn't have to be that way, however, as Web Dumper makes this whole process very fast and easy.
With Web Dumper you can download entire Web sites off of the Internet, and save them on your hard drive for later offline browsing. Downloaded Web sites are saved on your hard drive with their directory structure intact. Web Dumper automatically downloads HTML documents along with their embedded pictures, sounds, movies and so on while it screens them to look for any enclosed links to other documents.
Web Dumper lets you select which kinds of file you want to be dumped between more than 60 available standard types, the folder depth level, how links must be processed and if it must re-link your HTML documents for offline browsing.
Features
- Able to send Text or HTML mails in a way mail client software always
- Multi-thread with user definable time-out.
- High-speed downloading with bandwidth selector.
- Smart definable spider engine including across Web Sites.
- Include/Exclude Filters with more than 60 standard MIME file types.
- Duplicate file database and duplicate rejection.
- Links Explorer with definable depth level.
- Re-Link documents locally for offline browsing.
- Complete HTTP error and link checking and handling.
- Detailed file download monitoring.
- Authentication support for password-protected sites.
- Proxy server support.
- Native versions for Mac OS X and Mac OS Classic.
Download
You can get MaxBulk in five different languages, MacOS or X at:
MacOS X:
- English: http://www.maxprog.com/shareware/WebDumper-X.sit
- French: http://www.maxprog.com/shareware/WebDumper-X_FR.sit
- Spanish: http://www.maxprog.com/shareware/WebDumper-X_ES.sit
MacOS Classic:
- English: http://www.maxprog.com/shareware/WebDumper.sit
- French: http://www.maxprog.com/shareware/WebDumper_FR.sit
- Spanish: http://www.maxprog.com/shareware/WebDumper_ES.sit
Fri, 17 Oct 2003
iTunes Link Maker
Apple has added a very useful utility to their website that will generate HTML you can paste into your website to search for any song, artist, or album in iTunes.
Try it at http://apple.com/itunes/linkmaker
EFF: MP3 Caper
For years, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has been waging war against peer-to-peer file-sharing software and the technologists who create it. Now the RIAA has turned its crosshairs on you, threatening to sue you for sharing the music you love. But even shotgun-style lawsuits won't solve the RIAA's problem. As more and more Americans learn to love online music, the answer must lie in new business models that harness the power of P2P as a vehicle for paying artists. If artists get paid when we share files, then artists win, we win, and yes -- even the RIAA wins.
See the movie & join the EFF here.
Apple UK offers ability to lease a new Power Mac G5
Starting now until the end of this year, if you qualify, you can lease a new 1.6 GHz G5 for £54.93 per month, a 1.8 GHz G5 for £65.63 per month, or a Dual 2.0 GHz G5 for £81.52 per month. Sadly though, Apple will only ship to UK addresses.
First Animated Keynote Theme Released
Global, an update from Keynote Theme Park , is the first theme to incorporate an animation in the background.
If the rotating continents are too strong or too subtle, just edit the opacity in the Master Slides to your liking. All charts and tables have been sized for each photo cutout and have a dark translucent fill that lets the background show through. In addition, charts have been customized for the blue-gray complimentary background. Extras include a stand alone animated globe, 6 views of still globes, a Robinson projection map, design element, one complimentary background and 12 photo cutouts. Global includes three themes, Global, Global Asia and Global Animated. Masters can be combined from any theme into one presentation.
Past owners should ask for the free upgrade or it can be purchased and downloaded for $12.95
The Sub-$1000 PowerBook G4 Special Returns!
MacResQ has PowerBook G4/400 systems with 256M RAM, 10G drive, and DVD for only $999.99! Expires 10/22.
Apple AirPort Extreme Wireless Networking Card
Retail price: $99.99, MacResQ Price: $84.99, this week, take an
additional $5 off with Q-Pon code "EXT"
AirPort Wireless Networking Card
Normally $79.99, take $10 off with Q-Pon code "AIR"
First look at iTunes for Windows
Since I have access to a Dell Laptop, I decided to try out iTunes for Windows. Here are my impressions as a Mac user.
The first thing I notice is that iTunes for Windows looks and works exactly like iTunes for the Mac, yet it doesn't feel out of place on the PC. The window & menu arrangement is almost identical to the Mac, although the menus are located in the window, in standard Windows fashion.
iTunes for Windows also includes an icon in the system tray, which lets you play, pause, rate songs, and change some options. Windows & Mac versions of iTunes can share their playlists - the PC had no trouble seeing my Mac servers, and my Macs are able to see and play music from the PC.
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iTunes 4.1 & iPod Software 2.1
Apple's music event today announced the release of iTunes for Windows, as well as new features for the iTunes Music store, new iPod peripherals, and software updates for iTunes and the iPod.
iTunes 4.1 lets you share music between Mac and Windows computers, buy Audible spoken word content from the iTunes Music Store using your Apple Account, synchronize On-The-Go playlists and voice notes created on your iPod, burn large playlists on multiple discs without interruption, and drag URLs from the Music Store to an email or other program.
iPod Software 2.1 supports only iPods with a dock connector and adds the following new features:
- Better default contrast setting
- Added Voice Memos application (requires optional iPod-compatible microphone, available at www.apple.com/store)
- Added digital photo storage functionality (requires optional iPod-compatible photo card reader, available at www.apple.com/store)
- Enhanced On-The-Go playlist functionality
- Improved playback performance
- Added Music Quiz game
- Improved backlight functionality
- Improved battery meter
Both updates, as well as QuickTime 6.4, which includes a number of audio and performance enhancements, are now available via the Software Update panel.
Among the hilights of today's event:
- iPod unit marketshare is 31%. Revenue marketshare is 56%. No 1 in both unit and revenues.
- New iPod peripherals from Belkin: flash card reader for iPod, supports all flash memory; $49 device adds voice recording.
- Lots of exclusive content. REM, Black Eye Peas, Eagles Album ("The very best."), Grateful Dead, Coldplay (new exclusive), Rolling Stones EP, Sara McLachlan EP.
- iTunes for Windows, with exactly the same features as the Mac version.
- New iTunes Music Store features include gift certificates, allowances, and celebrity playlists offering music recommendations.
- iTunes 4.1 will feature audio books in conjunction with Audible. Over 5000 books available in multi-year exclusive deal. Free previews of each content. Pricing ranges from $11-$16. Users can also browse for books based on category.
iTunes Music Store currently unavailable
As of 11 AM EDT, the iTunes Music Store is down for maintenance, in preparation for today's big changes.
New Mozilla Releases
Mozilla.org has released 3 major updates: Mozilla 1.5, Mozilla Firebird 0.7, and Thunderbird 0.3.
Mozilla 1.5 is the familiar all-in-one application with a web browser, email & news client, and web authoring tool.
Firebird 0.7 is a pleasant surprise. This new release is fast, and is finally a usable browser. It's starting to become my favorite browser due to its speed.
Thunderbird is a stand-alone mail & news client based on the ones included with Mozilla.
Meanwhile, the Camino developers are still working on a new release & nightly builds.
Bluetooth Firmware Updater 1.0.2
Apple has released a firmware updater for D-Link USB Adapters and internal Bluetooth modules on PowerBooks and PowerMacs to improve connectivity between the computer and the Apple Wireless Keyboard and Mouse.
The Bluetooth Firmware Updater 1.0.2 provides improvements in the update installation process, better performance when waking the computer from sleep, and support for additional key commands during startup.
The Bluetooth Firmware Updater 1.0.2 is for D-Link USB Adapters (revision B2 or later), and Apple internal Bluetooth modules on PowerBooks and PowerMacs. This firmware update will improve connectivity between the computer and the Apple Wireless Keyboard and Mouse. Use this updater for the modules specified above; this updater is unsupported with any other Bluetooth modules.
Important: Using this firmware update will make your Bluetooth module incompatible with Windows based systems.
System Requirements
- A Macintosh computer with either:
The Apple Internal Bluetooth module or
A D-Link USB Bluetooth Adapter (DBT-120, rev. B2 or later) - Mac OS X v10.2.6 or later
- Mac OS X Bluetooth 1.3 or later client software
- An Apple Wireless Keyboard and Mouse
This update can be downloaded here.
Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results
Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2003 fourth quarter ended September 27, 2003. For the quarter, the Company posted a net profit of $44 million, or $.12 per diluted share. These results compare to a net loss of $45 million, or $.13 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. Revenues for the quarter were $1.715 billion, up 19 percent from the year-ago quarter, and gross margins were 26.6 percent, up from 26.4 percent in the year-ago quarter. International sales accounted for 38 percent of the quarter’s revenues.
The quarter’s results include an after-tax investment gain of $6 million, a favorable accounting transition adjustment of $3 million related to Apple’s stock repurchase agreement, and a gain on settlement of the stock repurchase agreement of $6 million. Without these items, net income would have been $29 million, or $.08 per share. Management believes that presentation of results excluding these items provides meaningful supplemental information regarding the Company’s operational performance.
Apple shipped 787 thousand Macintosh® units during the quarter, up 7 percent from the year-ago quarter, as well as 336 thousand iPod® units, up 140 percent from the year-ago quarter.
“It was a great new product quarter for Apple,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “We launched the Power Mac G5, the fastest personal computer in the world, new PowerBooks and new iPods. Plus, we’re delivering Panther, the next major release of Mac OS X, later this month and we’ll have some exciting news regarding our music efforts tomorrow.”
“We are very pleased to have exceeded our revenue and profit targets for the fourth quarter,” said Fred Anderson, Apple’s CFO. “Our balance sheet remains strong and our working capital management is among the best in the industry. Looking ahead to the first quarter of fiscal 2004, we expect a sequential increase in revenues to about $1.9 billion and a slight sequential increase in GAAP earnings relative to the September quarter.”
For the year, the Company reported net income of $69 million on revenues of $6.21 billion compared to net income of $65 million on revenues of $5.74 billion in 2002.
New Music Tuesday - Oct. 14, 2003
I'm an iTunes Music Store addict. Every week I look forward to Tuesday's new releases. With iTunes for Windows coming Thursday, this promises to be an especially exciting week. Here's a look at today's new additions.
Following last week's addition of Joe Strummer's final album Streetcore, his previous album, Global a Go go has been added. Most of the music is pretty offbeat, but it has some great songs, especially the title song and Bhindi Bhagee.
If you like the blues, don't miss In Session by Albert King & Stevie Ray Vaughan.
For African music fans, Nomad Soul, another great album by Baaba Maal, has been added. Don't miss the first track, which features vocals by The Screaming Orphans, best known as Sinead O'Connor's backup singers.
If you like Sigur Ros (whose music still isn't in the store), check out Mogwai, one of the newly added artists from Matador Records.
Studycard Studio Makes it Easier to Create and Exchange Multimedia Flashcards
Version 2.0 adds printing, import, export, find, sort and more
For Immediate Release
Studycard Studio Makes it Easier to Create and Exchange Multimedia Flashcards
Version 2.0 adds printing, import, export, find, sort and more
ROLLING MEADOWS, Illinois--October 14, 2003--Digital Meadow today announced the release of Studycard Studio 2.0, and the free Studycard Studio Lite 2.0. The new versions are the latest major update to Digital Meadow's multimedia flashcard applications for Mac OS X and OS 9.
Studycard Studio 2.0 offers the ability to print individual cards or multiple cards per sheet, with the question on the front and the answer on the back. Users can even print on perforated card sheets available at most office supply stores. What's more, by printing to a PDF file, users can view and study their cards in a variety of applications, including Acrobat Reader or Keynote, and on different platforms, including Palm OS.
The new version imports and exports text, CSV (comma separated values) and iFlash files encoded as styled text, RTF (Rich Text Format) or Unicode, allowing users to create their cards using virtually any text editor or spreadsheet application. The features allow for exchange between other flashcard applications that support these formats. By selecting a card to use as a template, users can import all their cards preformatted.
Users can also import from EDICT and CEDICT Japanese and Chinese dictionaries and use them to enhance their vocabulary. A variety of these free dictionary files exist on the web for downloading.
The new version has improved performance in order to facilitate importing and studying very large documents such as dictionaries. It can now smoothly handle 100,000 or more cards in a document.
Other new features include, find and replace, resizable thumbnails, and a sort command to order and group cards with a slew of options.
About Studycard Studio
Studycard Studio allows students and educators to create and memorize multimedia, multilingual flashcards, quizzes and tutorials, including video, picture and sound identification, or spelling tests with speech. Students can create and study their own cards and track their progress. Educators can develop quizzes or flashcards for their students.
Studycard Studio includes features shown to reduce study time and improve retention, including automatic daily scheduling based on the Leitner cardfile system. With flexible card design, a variety of study methods, options and question types, users can create quizzes for a variety of material.
Pricing and Availability
Studycard Studio 2.0 is immediately available through Digital Meadow's web site (www.digitalmeadow.com), for $29 (US). A site license is $199 through Nov 15th, and $249 thereafter. Owners of a previous version can download the 2.0 updater for free. Studycard Studio Lite 2.0, with fewer features, is available immediately as a free download at www.digitalmeadow.com/studycardstudio. Minimum system requirements include Mac OS 9 with CarbonLib 1.3 or later, or Mac OS X 10.1 or later -- built for Mac OS X.
About Digital Meadow Software
Located near Chicago, Digital Meadow is committed to providing useful, high-quality software for the Macintosh market. For more information about Digital Meadow, visit www.digitalmeadow.com, or email info@digitalmeadow.com.
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Hi-res screen shots are available at www.digitalmeadow.com/press/ss31803.
Keynote, Mac OS and Macintosh are registered trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. Acrobat is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated. Palm OS is a registered trademark of Palm, Inc. iFlash is a trade name of Loopware. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
10.2.8 Reducing Processor Speed?
I recently noticed that Xbench as well as a piece of code I'm working on was reporting my 12" PowerBook G4's processor speed as 533 Mhz instead of the expected 866 MHz even though I had full speed selected in Energy Saver. This thread in Apple's discussion forum indicates that it seems to be a widespread problem with 10.2.8. Resetting the PRAM seems to cure it.
Blue Worx announces Powerbacks® online library for PowerPoint®.
Blue Worx, a Phoenix based graphic design firm specializing in presentation art, announces its new online library for global template and clipart delivery.
Following the trend of a more international marketplace the online offering is scaled to meet dial-up as well as broadband demands. Presenters worldwide will now be able to acquire a single template or clipart on even the slowest of connections in remote areas as well as the larger 25meg monthly files and 300meg annual files for broadband users. The newly posted archive boasts of over 2,100 templates, dating from January 2002, with 100 new works being created each month. A one-day pass lets you access the current entries for just $4.95; $19.95 gets you an annual subscription or 3,300+ templates or a CD-ROM of the current offerings plus a year online subscription for just $29.95. The collection was previously only offered as CD or large download and now hopes to appeal to more users with the new online strategy. As one of the original presentation packages on the web debuting in 1997, Powerbacks® from Blue Worx has a long history of trend setting presentation designs and intends to keep it that way.
http://powerbacks.com
For more info contact:
Gary Blue
blue@powerbacks.com
Biferno: Web Scripting Environment
Tabasoft announces the availability for free
download of Biferno, a new
object-oriented, HTML embedded, scripting language for web development. The
high-level built-in classes, with their methods and properties, make the
code very clean and easy to mantain.
Biferno is an open-source, cross-platform project for Linux, Windows,
MacOSX and Classic and with the effort of other programmers can be
recompiled on other operating systems. This makes very easy to move a site
created with Biferno from one system to another.
Biferno has a plug-in architecture that makes the language completely
extensible, allowing other developer to easely add functionality through
internal and external classes.
For more information please visit http://www.tabasoft.it/biferno where you
can download the software, including guides, manuals and an on-line
reference.
Best regards,
Valerio Ferrucci
Tabasoft
Italy
New Apple Logo Found In 10.2.8
Been bored, I started giong through my System Preferences. I then decided to review the screen effects my Mac has.
I chose "computer name", and to my surprise, the rumoured new Apple logo appears in it.
ProjectBuilder and Panther
If you're working on a multiple programmer project, it's important for all of the developers to be using the same version of their development environment to avoid conflicts.
I've verified that ProjectBuilder will continue to work with Panther, so it isn't necessary to update to XCode. Although XCode has many advantages, if you have to share your code with other programmers, stay with ProjectBuilder until everyone can update to XCode.
Deep Links from EFF
Deep Links features noteworthy news items from around the Internet.
- Silly Wabbit, RFIDs Are for Kids!
A U.S. company is launching an initiative to implant RFID chips in Mexican
children - Software CEOs Stump in D.C.
Executives from Adobe, Microsoft and other monster software companies were in
Washington this week to argue against DMCA reform and legislation that supports
open-source - Intuit Apologizes for Flawed Antipiracy Measures on Turbotax
"You told us that you want the flexibility to install and use TurboTax on
multiple computers, and we heard you, loud and clear" - FBI to Reporters: "Oops, We Did It Again"
It must be national "Apologize to People You Abuse" week. The FBI has issued
an apology for trying to intimidate 13 news organizations into turning over
notes on conversations with a computer hacker - Music Business "Stuck in Past"
But that won't matter as soon as they drag us back there with 'em, right? - Peer-to-Peer Defense Fund
Downhillbattle.org's Peer-to-Peer Defense Fund "lets you donate money directly
to one of the individuals or families being sued by the record companies" - The Best Way to Void the Warranty on Your Xbox
The chilling effect of the DMCA almost kept "Hacking the Xbox" off the shelves,
but now it's selling like hotcakes and the critics like it, too: - SunnComm Won't Use DMCA to Sue Grad Student
After thinking things though, SunnComm decided it won't sue a Princeton grad
student for publishing a paper revealing that its CD copy protection can be
broken simply by holding down the "Shift" key:
The Electronic Frontier Foundation
454 Shotwell Street
San Francisco CA 94110-1914 USA
+1 415 436 9333 (voice)
+1 415 436 9993 (fax)
http://www.eff.org/
Thu, 09 Oct 2003
Announcing SmartPlaylists.com
SmartPlaylists.com is a new resource for creating, sharing, and chatting about iTunes' Smart Playlists. Why? Because they're cool and there are many ingenious ways to use them to keep your music fresh.
CSO Releases Major Upgrade of ConceptDraw
CS Odessa Releases ConceptDraw V, Major Upgrade of its Business and Technical
Diagramming Software
Odessa, Ukraine—October 8, 2003—Computer Systems Odessa has released ConceptDraw V, a major upgrade of its award-winning flowcharting and diagramming application, the only software of its kind designed to work with both Macintosh OS X and Windows. Completely redesigned to facilitate charting and presentation tasks for business and technical users, the new version features ConceptDraw Basic, a built-in scripting language that enables developers to create customized visualization solutions based on the ConceptDraw drawing engine.
“ConceptDraw V is not just a simple upgrade but a comprehensive enhancement of our existing product,” said Vera Zvereva, marketing director for Computer Systems Odessa. “Our users will quickly discover how easy it is to work with our new flexible interface, task-specific wizards and expanded collection of pre-drawn shapes that covers more business, technical and scientific topics than ever before.”
ConceptDraw V enables users to visually develop and express ideas in any combination of drawings, diagrams and charts. A key feature is the ability to select pre-drawn shapes from over a hundred libraries and “drag and drop” them into complex configurations such as workflow designs, network diagrams and UML (Unified Modeling Language) notations. The software can also be used for other kinds of projects, including business consulting; marketing; project management; software design and development; database design; Web site design; systems/network integration and administration; information architecture; resource management; engineering and science.
ConceptDraw V’s customizable toolbars, floating dialogs, anti-aliasing feature and strong adherence to WYSIWYG provide a user-friendly environment and improved representational quality. Because of a completely rebuilt kernel, the program consumes fewer resources, enabling users to work with outsized files quickly and efficiently. New features such as Vector Picture technology enable users to work easily with even the most complex CAD documents.
The addition of XML (Extensible Markup Language) for Visio allows users to import diagrams that have been created using Microsoft Visio. ConceptDraw V can also access ODBC-compliant databases and visualize the data stored therein. Other enhancements include a fully redesigned text editor; the ability to create custom styles; password protection and auto-save.
ConceptDraw V is available in Standard and Professional versions. The Standard Edition ($149) is aimed at business users, managers and administrative staff. The Professional Edition ($349 for a single-user license) is designed specifically for IT, technical users and developers. Current users can upgrade the Professional version for $99. The Standard license upgrade is $79. Discounts for educational users and users of other diagramming software are available.
The full product line comprises ConceptDraw diagramming and drawing software; ConceptDraw MINDMAP, a brainstorming tool that uses mind mapping technique to
help organize ideas and tasks; ConceptDraw PRESENTER, an application for creating slide shows, animated presentations and Flash movies; and ConceptDraw Viewer a free application that enables users to view and print any ConceptDraw file. Also available is ConceptDraw MEDICAL, a special module for medical and biochemical specialists.
About CS Odessa
Founded in 1993, Computer Systems Odessa supplies cross-platform productivity tools and graphics technologies to professional and corporate users. With headquarters in Odessa, Ukraine, CS Odessa sells ConceptDraw tools internationally from reseller offices in 25 countries. For more information please visit: http://www.conceptdraw.com.
Panther release date announced
Apple's front page now has a countdown timer and an announcement that Panther will be available at 8PM October 24. According to several rumor sites, build 7B85 or 7B86 has been named golden master, although the latest one available under both of my ADC accounts is still 7B74, which was released several weeks ago.
New Music Tuesday
Every Tuesday I look forward to the new additions in the iTunes Music Store. For the last few weeks, the "Just Added" section of the iTunes Music Store has shown a huge number of new additions. I'll try to make this a regular feature hilighting a few new releases each week.
Today I found that one of my favorite gems was added. Djam Leeli - The Adventurers, by Baaba Maal & Mansour Seck, is a beautiful acoustic album featuring some great guitar work & vocals. It's very reminsicent of Ry Cooder & Ali Farka Toure's "Talking Timbuktu".
Also among the new additions is Streetcore, the final album by Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros (which I bought). It includes a great cover of Bob Marley's "Redeption Song". Interestingly, Joe Strummer mentioned Baaba Maal in the title song of "Global-a-go-go"
If you haven't checked the just added section in iTMS, you'll be surprised by the amount of new music being added every week.
Phelios Releases Marbles Deluxe for Mac
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT:
Patrice Krysztofiak, Phelios, Inc.
P.O. Box 170160
Atlanta, GA 30317
Email: contact@phelios.com
http://www.phelios.com
Phelios Releases Marbles Deluxe for Mac
Atlanta, GA, October 6, 2003 – Phelios announced the release of Marbles Deluxe, a ported game from the PC to Mac platform. Phelios’ Patrice Krysztofiak partnered with Mike Boeh of Retro64 to bring a tremendously fun and different puzzler game to the Mac market.
The Mac demo for Marbles Deluxe includes 8 levels, while the full version consists of 96 new levels, and international players can choose one of 9 languages: Czech, English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Norwegian, Swedish and Dutch. Also in the full version is a level editor where gamers can easily customize and create their own puzzles. Marbles Deluxe is available for Mac at http://www.phelios.com and costs $19.95. System Requirements: Mac OS X. 450 mhz processor or higher
“I’ve always enjoyed the great games from Retro64 and thought it would be fun to team up with Mike to bring Marbles Deluxe to the Mac world,” says Patrice Krysztofiak. “From the business stand point, it’s really a win-win scenario. Partnerships are a positive factor for businesses today; it’s part of the success equation for both parties. I believe it's going to become more and more of a trend of the times.”
Description of Marbles Deluxe
Put on your best game gear because Marbles Deluxe for Mac will grant you loads of entertainment in style. Phelios teams up with Retro64 to bring you one of the sharpest games out there.
Marbles Deluxe is a fun and challenging puzzler like no other! Simply drag and drop your marble to where you want it to go but first let your brain figure out how it’s going to get there! It’s marbeliciously addictive! 8 puzzles are free to try and 96 new puzzles are in the full version. You can have more too with the easy to use built-in puzzle creator. Is there more? Yes! Marbles Deluxe speaks 9 languages. Get ready to have a marble-ous time!
Features
•Solve 8 FREE levels, and all 96 brand new levels in the full version!
•Customize a World of your own creating puzzles yourself with the easy to use Level Editor.
•Fantastic 3D graphics and animation, with its own unique style.
•What language works best for you? Marbles Deluxe speaks Czech, German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, Norwegian and Swedish!
•Mystical soundtrack by the infamous DNA-Groove.
•You'll be playing in no time because Marbles Deluxe is only a 5 meg download. That's only 15 minutes on a 56k modem.
•Safe, secure online ordering from a well-known and trusted source.
System Requirements: Mac OS X 450 MHZ processor or higher
ABOUT PHELIOS, INC.
Games
Phelios, Inc. is an independent video game developer offering electronic delivery software. Their main ambition is to create entertaining games for the MAC and PC platforms. With very small kids to the brightest adults in mind, Phelios strives to produce quality games to provide people of all ages and backgrounds with engaging game play while also providing excellent customer service and free technical support.
Developer Tools
As developers themselves, Phelios understands the need to be able to concentrate on content without the distractions of research and tools, so they decided to make their own technologies available to others, hoping it will minimize software developers’ time spent on ancillary tasks. Their tools are designed with the essential philosophy that developer tools should be “a breeze”. In other words: Phelios’ software tools are powerful and streamlined for user ease without the bulk of long, complicated code.
For more information:
Contact Patrice Krysztofiak
Phelios, Inc.
P.O. Box 170160
Atlanta, GA 30317
Email: contact@phelios.com
http://www.phelios.com
A Backup in your pocket
If you're lucky enough to have an iPod, it also makes a convenient backup device.
Since an iPod also works as an external FireWire drive, you can use it to keep an extra backup of your document folder or even your entire home folder. Higher capacity models, like the latest 40G model, should give you plenty of room for backups.
To use your iPod as a backup device, go to iPod preferences in iTunes and enable FireWire disk mode. Your iPod will appear as a disk in the finder, with a Calendar, Contact, and (if it's a 2.0 iPod) a Notes folder. You can create other folders for your backups.
Popular backup software such as QDea's Synchronize! or LaCie's SilverKeeper can back up to your iPod.
An iPod is also convenient for transporting your essential applications to another system when you don't want to take your PowerBook with you.
Mac OS X 10.2.8 Update re-released
The Mac OS X 10.2.8 update has been re-released, now at build 6R73. The previous 10.2.8 update was build 6R65. This update includes an updated ethernet driver for 450MHz and 500MHz dual processor Power Mac G4 desktop systems and an update to the battery status menu.
eSuite4X 2.6 - MySQL Edition released. The easiest way to run MySQL.
The easiest and fastest way to start with MySQL on Mac OS X. eSuite4X - MySQL Edition combines the power of open source products with first class commercial software to bring you a truly Macintosh-like user experience.
The new release includes over 30 enhancements to the graphical installer (now including MySQL 4.0.15a), configuration tools and the graphical management interface. SQL4X Manager J 2.6 is now included for browsing your tables, managing users and access privileges, databases and MySQL server status.
What's new in this version:
The new release includes over 30 enhancements to the graphical installer (now including MySQL 4.0.15a), configuration tools and the graphical management interface. SQL4X Manager J 2.6 is now included for browsing your tables, managing users and access privileges, databases and MySQL server status.
Product Description:
The easiest and fastest way to start with MySQL on Mac OS X. eSuite4X - MySQL Edition combines the power of open source products with first class commercial software to bring you a truly Macintosh-like user experience:
- Easily install MySQL 4 in less than 5 minutes
- Start/stop and configure MySQL with the included eSuite4X System Preferences pane
- Easily view log and configuration files with the integrated Log & Config File Manager
- Schedule backup jobs with the included eSuite4X Job Control pane
The included graphical database manager (SQL4X Manager J 2.6) makes common tasks easy to handle:
- Browse your databases and tables with a Mac OS X Finder-like column view
- View, Filter and Edit data (including Image and RTF data)
- Graphically manage users and access privileges
- Create, alter and drop databases, tables and indexes
- Pre-defined views make it easy to watch the server and table status, configuration data and connected clients
- Graphically check, analyze and repair tables
- Easily create queries
- import and export data (CSV, text, tab-delimited, etc.)
A free trial release is available at http://www.macosguru.com/macosguru3/ftp/e4x2r6M.dmg.gz. For more information visit http://www.macosguru.de/products/eSuite4XM.html
Download the trial release now to see how easy it is to install and run a fully featured MySQL database server on Mac OS X.
eSuite4X 2.6 includes the award winning SQL4X Manager J 2.6 database frontend for Mac OS X.
Wed, 01 Oct 2003
Personal note
I've been busy with work recently. We're having major network problems and are working on a software update to support Panther. News updates will remain infrequent for the next week or so.
Colourfull Creations releases a new update for Maxi Bidder
Colourfull Creations releases a new update for Maxi Bidder. Colourfull Creations fixed some minor issues with the software and added a few new features to Maxi Bidders strong lineup.
Other great features that are included with Maxi Bidder are the ability to sync prices with eBay, audio alerts, and much more. If you are a current user don't forget to download your update. New customers check out the demo available online at: http://www.colourfull.com, you'll love the product and the world class support.