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Fri, 27 Feb 2004
M-Audio KeyStation 49E still in short supply
There seems to be quite a shortage of M-Audio KeyStations. I've had one on order from MacMall (who still advertises them for $79) since Feb. 2. When I called again today to check on my order, I was told that they're backordered until Mar. 31 and that there are over 600 still backordered.
I had originally ordered one from the Apple Store, but I cancelled that order when I saw that it was due to ship Mar. 9 and MacMall claimed to be able to ship it the following week and they were selling it for $20 less.
Has anyone received their KeyStation yet?
Update: I just called the Apple store and was given a shipping time of 4-6 weeks.
Keynote Gallery releases the newest Keynote theme – Target
Keynote Gallery's Target theme
has a punch of color adding a bit of Zing!
to your presentation.
This theme is bundled with 21 masters and the usual Keynote Gallery extras such
as 5 unique bullets and 6 custom color chart fills. You'll want to grab this
Keynote theme with a price of only $9.95 US.
Keynote Gallery now offers two
ways to pay – thru PayPal or direct.
Now there's one more reason to choose www.keynotegallery.com for your Keynote
themes!
FileMaker Pro Entourage Manipulator Plug-in
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
San Diego, CA - February 26, 2004 Productive Computing, Inc. announces the release of the Entourage Manipulator Plug-in as the first FileMaker Pro plug-in that allows you to pass data between FileMaker Pro and Microsoft Entourage® for Macintosh OSX.
Features include:
- New Record, Delete Record, Delete All Records
- Save Record (or Send Mail)
- Set Record, Set Field Data
- Verify Field Data (used for synchronization)
- Get Field Data, Get First Record, Get Next Record, Get Record Count
- Set Mail Folder
- Get First Mail Folder, Get Next Mail Folder
- Get Mail Folder ID
- Move Mail
- Send Mail with attachments and dynamic file names.
- Retrieve and archive attachments
For the first time, developers and users will have the tools to be able to manipulate Microsoft Entourage data DIRECTLY THROUGH A FILEMAKER PRO INTERFACE! The Entourage Manipulator can exchange data within the Microsoft Entourage Address Book, Calendar, Tasks and Mail. The Entourage Manipulator can even send dynamically named attachments.
Example Uses:
- Move all contacts from your FileMaker contact manager into MS Entourage for easy Email address lookup.
- Populate and view the Entourage calendar using your FMP events database.
- Populate FileMaker with your Entourage Email for archiving purposes and quick search capability.
- Create Entourage tasks from your live FMP data to sync with your handheld device
- Send Mail complete with multiple attachments and dynamic attachment names.
Click here http://www.productivecomputing.com for a free ten day demo and to review our other FileMaker Pro related products!
* Outlook Manipulator Plug-in:
Exchange data within Microsoft Outlook® Contacts, Calendar, Tasks and Mail.
* SendFax Plug-in:
The SendFax Plug-in allows you to fax documents directly from your FileMaker database applications.
* Change Printer Plug-in:
The Change Printer Plug-in allows you to automatically change printer drivers within your scripts. It also lets you copy and move files and send mail with a dynamically named attachment which is useful when creating routines for auto PDF creation and attachment to Email.
* Calendar Popup Plug-in:
Enter dates, date ranges and times into your fields with a popup interface that includes a year at a glance and a side by side mini calendar for entering date ranges.
* Biometric Plug-in:
Add additional security to your solutions by incorporating fingerprint authentication.
* Multi-User Calendar v3 solution:
Create calendars for your consultants, sales people, technicians, meeting rooms, equipment or anything that requires its own schedule. Option to synchronize with Microsoft Outlook or Microsoft Entourage as well as the web are available.
* IT Asset Inventory solution:
Organize and label your entire organization's IT assets in one central database solution including Hardware, Software, Users and Passwords.
* Multi-Threaded Message Board:
An easy to install multi-threaded message board system built in FileMaker for the web.
You can download demos of these plug-ins and solutions from our web site at: http://www.productivecomputing.com
Productive Computing, Inc. is one of the Partner Level members of the FileMaker Solutions Alliance, a 2000 member organization of professional FileMaker pro developers. The company specializes in custom database design and FileMaker Pro plug-in development.
Productive Computing, Inc.
Creating Efficiency Through Automation
Phone: (760) 560-0443
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Inferiis - Mushroom 1.3 Press Release
Hello
I'm happy to announce that Mushroom 1.3 has just been released.
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Mushroom 1.3
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Mushroom is an easy to use developer tool for software localization. It has been designed to help the developers to create and maintain the localized resources and to keep them synchronized with the source code of their Cocoa projects. Mushroom also provides advanced features to improve team work, especially with third party translators.
Main features include
- Designed to work on projects.
- Reports all incoherences inside your project.
- Automatizes the whole localization process.
- Distributed localization support (team work).
- GUI for the "genstrings" and "nibtool" utilities
This release is a important update of Mushroom. It introduces several new features and improves many parts of the software.
The support for Xcode's projects has been added. Mushroom is now able to read the new project format and to recognize the new ".xcode" document bundles.
It also introduces the "NIB Helper" utility along the main application. NIB Helper is a GUI for the "nibtool" utility which has been designed to let you easily use Mushroom when working with Interface Builder's NIB files.
The text encoding and the format of the string dictionary files can now be specified for each Mushroom project. The settings are used when reading the files when opening or refreshing a project and when creating new files. Mushroom also provides conversion functionalities to preserve an homogenous state of the resources. The standard file format and the one used by WebObjects are supported.
In the previous releases, the key of the selected localized string was displayed above the localization edition text field. It is also now possible to display the localization corresponding to any supported language. That simple feature greatly improves the user experience when working on the localizations.
The performances of the application have been improved in many areas, especially when importing or exporting a project (orders of magnitude in some cases), and a few dialogs and inspectors have been revamped.
Mushroom 1.3 requires any computer running Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar) or later with developer tools installed, and is fully compatible with Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther).
Mushroom 1.3 can be downloaded at http://www.inferiis.com/download/Mushroom-1.3.dmg.gz
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More information about our products (full descriptions, version histories, pricing...) is available on our website at http://www.inferiis.com/products/
I'm at your service to answer any question you may have.
Best regards.
Julien Dufour
Inferiis is a development group committed to providing softwares for Mac OS X.
Inferiis - http://www.inferiis.com
Big Medium Content Management System Adds WYSIWYG Editing and Document Uploads
Global Moxie released Big Medium 1.3, a major update to the company's web content management system. Big Medium is browser-based software that enables non-technical staff to update websites without learning HTML. New features include WYSIWYG text editing, document uploads, 20 new widgets for webpage templates, and fixes for a number of reported issues.
Global Moxie released Big Medium 1.3, a major update to the company's web content management system. Big Medium is browser-based software that enables non-technical staff to update websites without learning HTML. New features include WYSIWYG text editing, document uploads, 20 new widgets for webpage templates, and fixes for a number of reported issues.
"The new graphical editing interface makes editing website text as easy and familiar as using a word processor," said Global Moxie founder Josh Clark. "And the addition of document uploads means that it's easier than ever to share PDF files, Word documents or other downloads with website visitors."
Big Medium 1.3 is available now from the Global Moxie website at http://www.globalmoxie.com/. A free online demo is available at http://demo.globalmoxie.com/. The suite of Perl scripts is $129 for web servers running Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, BSD and other Unix-flavored operating systems. (A beta preview version is also available for Windows servers.)
The new WYSIWYG editor requires Internet Explorer 5.5+ (Windows only), Mozilla 1.4+ (Windows, Mac OS X and Linux) or one of many Mozilla-based browsers, including Mozilla Firefox 0.6.1+, Netscape 7.1, and AOL for Mac OS X. Users of other browsers can still continue to use Big Medium, but without the WYSIWYG editing features.
New features in Big Medium 1.3
- Big Medium's rich-text editor offers WYSIWYG editing for article content and descriptions, as well as the tip editor.
- The new "download" article type allows documents to be added to websites via Big Medium's easy-to-use interface. (A tabbed interface allows users to select from four article types: Text, Link, Download, Raw HTML).
- Twenty new template widgets provide enhanced control over the design of Big Medium's custom page templates.
- New settings in the Big Medium Setup and Site Setup dialogs allow administrators and webmasters to set max-size limits on document uploads.
A detailed list of new features and fixes is available at the Global Moxie website:
http://www.globalmoxie.com/moxie/about/news/bigmed13_details.shtml
Sophisticated software, affordable price
Priced at just $129, Big Medium is carefully designed to fit within the technical resources and budgets of even the smallest businesses and non-profits. A single installation of Big Medium can manage hundreds of websites on a single server, allowing organizations to provide individual departments, products, employees, teachers or students with their own sites. One price does it all: There are no per-seat licenses or hidden costs.
Big Medium uses custom design templates to manage any website in its own unique look and feel. The templates are simple to create and change, allowing users to give a website a complete design makeover in a matter of minutes, no matter how large the site. Big Medium also comes with pre-formatted templates, or "skins," allowing users to get up and running with a new site in minutes. Once the sites are set up, administrators can also use Big Medium to backup and duplicate entire sites.
In addition to making it easy to update and maintain website content, Big Medium also gives websites a broad range of interactive features and design elements: easy insertion of pullquotes and images into article pages, content syndication via RSS or JavaScript, printer-friendly pages, "e-mail this page" function, animated navigation bars, and more.
Behind the scenes, every contributor has their own account and password. Big Medium offers five levels of editing permissions, giving site administrators precise control over how writers and editors can add, edit and publish web pages.
Feature Checklist
- Perl-based
- Easy to install
- WYSIWYG content editing ("what you see is what you get")
- Document uploads
- Custom page templates
- Valid, error-free markup and style sheets
- Clean, intuitive interface
- Manage multiple websites
- Can run in a shared hosting environment
- Content categories and subsections
- News feeds and content syndication
- Search-engine-friendly URLs
- Five levels of access privileges
- Webpages are static and gentle on the server
- Unicode (UTF-8) encoding handles text in any language
- Automated navigation bars and breadcrumbs
- Unlimited images on article pages
- Pullquotes on article pages
Big Medium 1.3 is available now from the Global Moxie website at http://www.globalmoxie.com/. A free online demo is available at http://demo.globalmoxie.com/. The suite of Perl scripts is $129 for web servers running Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, BSD and other Unix-flavored operating systems.
About Global Moxie
Global Moxie creates innovative and affordable tools to make the Web a simpler publishing medium for businesses, non-profits and individuals. The company's flagship product, Big Medium, allows even the most hardened technophobes to create and edit web pages, effortlessly managing dynamic, fast-moving websites. Global Moxie's multimedia studio is located in Paris.
Useful Links
Overview of Big Medium's features: http://www.globalmoxie.com/moxie/bigmedium/features.shtml
Complete product tour, including screen shots:
http://www.globalmoxie.com/moxie/bigmedium/tour/
Free online demo:
http://demo.globalmoxie.com/
Featured sites using Big Medium: http://www.globalmoxie.com/moxie/bigmedium/featured/
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MacHack becomes ADHOC
ADHOC 2004 happens on July 21st through July 24th, a few weeks after
Apple's Information Dissemination conference. This should give plenty of
time to absorb what was said there, get some work done for your bosses, and
come to ADHOC with great ideas for spontaneous projects. ADHOC is a great
companion to WWDC; and if the budgets can't afford Apple's conference,
ADHOC is a wonderful way to get an introduction and hands-on experience
with Apple's new technologies.
Two great keynote speakers are scheduled to appear: Jordan Hubbard,
Apple's manager of BSD Technologies, famous for FreeBSD & his countless
Open Source contributions; and David Pogue, New York Times columnist,
author, piano player.
Being a conference by Mac Developers for Mac Developers, you can help
contribute to ADHOC's content. If you know something you're particularly
good at, have learned some new Apple technology over the past year or so,
and you'd like to lead a session on this topic, your fellow participants
would definitely appreciated your efforts! Speakers also enjoy a very
healthy discount off the already affordable standard registration fees.
Check out the Call For Speakers page
(http://www.adhocconf.com/callforsessions.html ) for further details.
Here are important dates to remember:
- Last day for Early Registration 4/16/04
Make plans to be there A.S.A.P.
Book your stay at the hotel early for rates of under $100 per
night for participants. Check the website ( http://www.adhoc.conf ) for
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Mozilla 1.7 Alpha Released
The first alpha version of Mozilla 1.7 is now available. I find it to be much faster than both Mozilla 1.6 & Safari.
Security Update 2004-02-23
Security Update 2004-02-23, now available via the Software Update panel, delivers a number of security enhancements and is recommended for all Macintosh users. This update includes the following components: DiskArbitration, IPSec, Point-to-Point-Protocol, tcpdump
Dissolve Factory Updated
Chicago,IL - Buena Software, Inc. announced the release of an update to their Dissolve Factory plugin for creating new types of transitions in After Effects, Final Cut Pro, and now Final Cut Express.
This update, which is free to registered users, adds support for Apple’s Final Cut Express video editing application. In addition, it now works as a transition rather than an effect in Final Cut Pro making it significantly easier to use. Users can read more about Dissolve Factory and purchase it for $39.95 from Buena’s website.
This update eliminates the tedious work with the razor tool in Final Cut Pro that previous versions required. Since it is now a full-fledged transition, instead of an effect plugin, you can even set it up as your default transition.
Dissolve Factory allows users to create new types of cross fades based on various properties of their video. For example, they can choose to fade dark areas faster than light areas, creating a more film-like transition than the standard cross dissolve. Or they can choose to fade specific colors first or last. And the properties used to fade out the outgoing clip can be different from those used to fade in the incoming clip. This allows a wide variety of new and interesting, yet tasteful cross dissolves.
Buena Software, Inc. offers video, image and audio processing software and development services. For more information about their consulting services and/or products, visit their web site at , or call them at (847) 259-7970.
Tasks Pro 1.0 Released
I'm pleased to announce today's release of Tasks Pro™, the multi-user version of my Tasks software.
Tasks Pro™ is a web-based hierarchical task manager with polished multi-user functionality. Features include advanced user and task permissions, e-mail notifications and reminders, RSS feeds and iCalendars for all users and groups, and a rich, powerful interface that is a real pleasure to use.
Mac Games and More Reviews DETOX
New to the Internet, Mac Games and More posted a review of the satirical game, "Detox," a game that speaks louder than a drug addict's, "Whoa."
World's Safest Operating System
A study by the mi2g Intelligence Unit, a London-based security firm, reveals that the world's safest and most secure online server Operating System (OS) is proving to be the Open Source family of BSD (Berkley Software Distribution) and the Mac OS X based on Darwin. The study also reveals that Linux has become the most breached online server OS in the government and non-government spheres for the first time, while the number of successful hacker attacks against Microsoft Windows based servers have fallen consistently for the last ten months.
To arrive at its conclusions, mi2g analysed 17.074 successful digital attacks against servers and networks. It states: "With Linux accounting for 13,654 breaches, Windows for 2,005 breaches followed by BSD and Mac OS X with 555 breaches worldwide in January 2004."
The group discounted the recent wave of worms, viruses and other attacks that have affected Windows systems worldwide. It confined the study to overt digital attacks by hackers.
"For the first time, the number of recorded breaches against government servers running BSD or Mac OS X worldwide fell to zero in January 2004," the analyst said.
Company executive chairman DK Matai said: "The swift adoption of Linux last year within the online government and non-government server community, coupled with inadequate training and knowledge on how to keep that environment secure when running vulnerable third party applications, has contributed to a consistently higher proportion of compromised Linux servers."
Ipod Game released by XO Play
XO Play today launched their first long awaited game for the iPod. 'The Rise Of The Lost' is an adventure story game. It puts you in the role of Sir Jacob Zaviour. Your mission is to travel through lands and fight the evil Wizard Sazque. As you read through the adventure you will be asked to choose your destiny by selecting from a number of options found at the bottom of the page. Similar to the 'choose-your-own-adventure' series.
The game costs $9.99 is played via the notes section of your iPod. It is available exclusively at http://www.xoplay.com
New Book - How to Do Everything with Mac OS X Panther
How to Do Everything with Mac OS X Panther is a thorough presentation of Mac OS X 10.3 Panther for beginners and intermediate users.
In this hands-on guide, How to Do Everything with Mac OS X Panther, Kirk McElhearn shows his readers how to get the most out of OS X Panther. Features such as Exposé, iChat AV, .Mac, iCal, iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie, and iDVD are explained and illustrated in detail. The book provides easy methods for networking and customizing the Mac and important details about computer security, such as encryption solutions.
The book begins with a thorough examination of the new Panther Finder, and how to best use the new Finder windows. It covers all the ins and outs of working with networks, creating user accounts and managing your Mac. A full chapter is devoted to keeping the Mac in tip-top shape with pointers on maintenance and backing up files.
Throughout the book are special notes, shortcuts, and tips, such as how to get the most out of Panther's built-in applications, prolong battery life on an iBook or Powerbook, use iCal to manage your schedule, use iTunes to organize your music, and much more.
A bonus feature of the book is the spotlight on “Writers and their Macs,” which offers glimpses of how three writers work with their Macs: novelist Arthur Golden (Memoirs of a Geisha), screenwriter Mike Rich (Finding Forrester), and suspense writer Jeff Abbott (Cut and Run).
Kirk McElhearn is a freelance Mac author and journalist. He has authored or co-authored a half-dozen Mac books, and is a regular contributor to Macworld magazine and TidBITS.
Find out more about the book here: http://www.mcelhearn.com/htde.html.
iSignt 1.0.2 Update
Apple has released an iSight driver update, now available via the Software Update panel.
The iSight 1.0.2 update provides improved auto exposure and auto white balance functionality, enhanced IIDC compliance and better overall performance. The iSight 1.0.2 update is recommended for all iSight users.
For information about iSight, visit the Apple website at http://www.apple.com/isight/. For iSight support information, visit http://www.apple.com/support/isight/.
Fun retro software makes a comeback
Before Mac OS X, there were always lots of fun, useless little programs that did quirky things. Two of them are now available for Mac OS X.
Many oldtimers will remember MacPuke, which made a gross sound when the Mac ejected a disk. Well, it's back, and like the original version, it wears thin pretty quickly.
Mystery Science Theater fans may remember the old Torgo screen saver, based on a character from Manos: the Hands of Fate, which is generally believed to be the worst movie ever made. The new Mac OS X version works with the standard system screen saver. I strongly suggest turning off the sound if you use it.
How to never lose Pepsi's iTunes giveaway
The guys at MacMerc figured out a foolproof way to win tunes every time with Pepsi's new iTunes labeled bottles.
If you tilt a sealed, new Pepsi bottle at 25 degrees and squint at the underside of the cap, you can tell whether it's a winning free-iTunes-track bottle or a try-again bottle.
(I *still* haven't seen any Pepsi bottles with yellow caps here)
CreativePage updated to 3.2
PineHill Products' CreativePage, Web site creation software for Mac OS X, has been updated to version 3.2, adding an updated interface for Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther), full scroll wheel support, Dock-aware windows and more. CreativePage 3.2 costs US$29.95; a demo version is available at the product Web site.
PC-Mac PasswordVault v2.1 released
ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA -- February 18, 2004 -- Lava Software is now shipping PC-Mac PasswordVault v2.1, a password manager which securely stores website usernames and passwords, Internet banking data and software registration details for convenient and easy access on Windows 95/98/NT/ME/2000/XP, MacOS X and MacOS classic computers.
This new version stores longer usernames, passwords and web addresses, which are all conveniently accessible via a single-click on a compact global floating window. The new version is also now fully compatible to MacOS X 10.3 (Panther), and has some minor bug fixes.
Graphic of compact global floating window
http://www.lavasoftware.com/pvmainsmall.gif
Graphic of main window
http://www.lavasoftware.com/pvmainbig.jpg
PC-Mac PasswordVault protects user data using very strong 896-bit Blowfish encryption, yet provides convenient access to it via a simple master password. If the user forgets their master password, they can answer a series of customized questions they previously entered to access their data - this simple and highly effective master password recovery system is unique to PC-Mac PasswordVault.
The free Lite Edition of PC-Mac PasswordVault supports up to 10 services, whilst the Standard Edition supports any number of services. The Standard Edition is priced at USD14.95 per license, and purchasers get download access to the current version of the software for all platforms, as well as free upgrades for one year. Site licenses (for any number of users at one organization) are available for USD99.00.
About the Company
Lava Software Pty. Ltd., a company incorporated in the State of South Australia, began developing its range of cross-platform software in 1992. More information is available from http://www.lavasoftware.com or by emailing service@lavasoftware.com.
RSS Feeds from Apple
Apple has posted a very useful page listing all of their available RSS feeds including Knowledge Base articles & downloads. You can subscribe to any of these feeds in a news reader such as NetNewsWire to have the latest headlines delivered to your desktop.
Advanced Web Ranking v2.4 Released
Release date: February 16, 2004
Caphyon LLC is pleased to announce the release of Advanced Web Ranking 2.4, a tool that helps check your web site position on all major search engines. Advanced Web Ranking runs on Mac OS X, Windows 98/2000/XP, Linux and Solaris.
Checking your web site position is a very time consuming task. For example, if you have 10 keywords that you want to monitor, and you want to check the top 20 positions for 10 search engines, you need to perform about 200 (10 keywords * 10 engines * first 2 pages) individual searches to get the results. Then you need to compare the results one by one to find where your site is positioned. It may take you days to complete this task if you do this manually. That's where Advanced Web Ranking comes to help.
Advanced Web Ranking is able to query over 130 search engines and quickly find out if you're moving up or down in the rankings, or if your site is listed at all. It will track the progress of your rankings over time and display that information in an easy to read and understand graphical and tabular reports. It can help you check not just the position of your website but the position of your competitors' web sites as well.
Advanced Web Ranking has the ability to generate and email reports after an update was finished. Couple that with the Scheduled Updates ability, and you will be able to turn on your computer in the morning and find reports on your websites ranks waiting for you in your Inbox. As a SEO, you can have updates being run and sent to your customers every night without even lifting a hand. Various types of reports (Current Rank, Top Sites, Web Site, etc.) can be created in any of the formats Advanced Web Ranking supports (PDF, HTML, Excel, XML or Text). Then they can be emailed to any of the addresses you pick from the Address Book, or saved to a folder where you can access them over the Internet.
What's new in Advanced Web Ranking 2.4
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This new version features two new interactive reports, the ability to define custom reports that can be executed after each update, and a new and improved documentation system.
* Added custom report templates.
You can now define custom reports that can be executed after each manual or scheduled update.
* Added URLs panel.
This new panel allows you to select multiple URLs which will then be highlighted in the report views.
* Added a new Current Rank report.
This new report displays all the keywords of a search engine in one view.
* Added a new Overview report.
This new report displays an overview of keywords and search engines, for a selected URL.
* Added a new filter: Colored.
This new filter shows only the URLs that have a color assigned. All the URLs that have no color assigned (black by default) will not be displayed.
* Added ability to choose from multiple User Agents.
This is the signature used when connecting to search engines.
* Modified how the Rank Evolution charts display the dropped URLs
* Added ability to select a random delay between search engine requests.
* Servers that allow SMTP authentication are now supported.
* New and improved documentation.
Advanced Web Ranking costs USD $49 for the Standard edition and USD $99 for the Professional edition.
The application can be downloaded from:
http://www.advancedwebranking.com/download.html
More details about the application can be found at:
http://www.advancedwebranking.com
Contact Information
Philip Petrescu
Caphyon LLC - Advanced Web Ranking Team
support@advancedwebranking.com
Phone: +40-722-636499
Caphyon LLC
2017 California St, Suite 1b
Mountain View, CA 94040
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Interarchy 7.0 Released
Interarchy 7.0 is the latest version of the popular FTP/SFTP file transfer client. The new version features a brand new user interface and many new features.
New in 7.0:
- Fully Mac OS X native (carbon events and native core networking).
- Tabbed Browsing.
- Icon view.
- Full bookmark management system, including FTP Disks, Rendezvous, Bookmarks, Address Book, Scheduled and Startup items.
- Full internal file mapping support, with Get Info, Edit With, and more.
- Full support for local files (file listings, checking local web sites)
- Full support for dragging between windows (FTP, SFTP, File, HTTP)
- Toolbars everywhere.
- A single combined Transfers window
- Enhanced scheduling.
- Enhanced Check Web Site including options, local sites and warnings.
- Enhanced mirroring with progress reporting.
- History menu showing recent actions.
- Combined Network Host Info with Ping, DNS, MX, and registrar information.
- Full network traffic watching with detailed packet display.
- Full networking support with Trace Route, connection list, status, port scan.
- Bandwidth monitoring with graph.
- Full support for printing.
Interarchy 7.0 can be downloaded here.
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Freshly Squeezed Software releases Rock Star 1.0 & more
Freshly Squeezed Software has gone update crazy! Today they're releasing FTPeel 1.1.1, MailDrop 1.3.2, and Rock Star 1.0.
Rock Star is an addictive game that uses your iTunes play list for a music quiz. Can you beat the clock - and your friends - in a mad dash to name that tune, artist, or album? Rock Star pits you against your very own music in a fast-paced game full of good music and high scores! Rock Star is only $9 until Saturday.
FTPeel 1.1.1 continues to support more servers, grows in its stability and speed, and is pretty darn close to being one of the best FTP clients on any platform. A mere point-point release, this was nearly FTPeel 1.2. They fixed, improved, or added over fifteen things, including support for Tex-Edit and Mac OS X's native Date & Time settings. This update is free to all registered users.
Maildrop 1.3.2: now supports German-speaking customers. They've also fixed a few little crashes and improved the attachments handling routines. This update is free to all registered users.
Tabasoft announces the availability for free download of Biferno version 1.0.3
Tabasoft (http://www.tabasoft.it) announces the availability for free download of Biferno version 1.0.3.
Some crash bugs about classes and by reference parameters have been fixed.
Functions have been added to manage oracle BLOB and CLOB locator.
Methods of string class have been added to transform a string between Hex and Bin formats (Bin2Hex and Hex2Bin).
On Unix bifernod can now read script code from stdin.
Other features and better error report/documentation have been added, see the complete release notes for details (ReleaseNotes.bfr).
Biferno is 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 easley 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.
iCompositions posts a tutorial on the Soundtrack Loop Utility
In the second iCompositions Exclusive Article, themactech shows us how to create our own loops using the SoundTrack Loop Utility. In the article, he says:
"Apple's SoundTrack Loop Utility can help you accomplish such a thing. Don't let the name fool you, though. This baby isn't just for SoundTrack. You use it to view and manage the tags within Apple Loops, such as Descriptors, Genre, Instrument, Key and other useful information as well as create Apple Loops for both ST and GB. But the best part is you don't have to own SoundTrack to get it."
OWC Unsanity ShapeShifter Contest Results
The Unsanity and OWC ShapeShifter Theme Contest has ended and the winners have been announced.
- 1st Place - Digital Device by Joe Kohlmann
- 2nd Place - Good Grey by Martin Ottosson
- 3rd Place - Latium by Harlan Lewis
For more information, visit: http://www.unsanity.com/contest/.
Special thanks to OWC for sponsoring this contest and giving themers a chance to win their great storage products!
FIRST PRIZE:
120GB Mercury Elite Pro + $250 USD
SECOND PRIZE:
120GB OWC Mercury Elite + $150 USD
THIRD PRIZE:
80GB OWC Neptune + $100 USD
Unsanity LLC is the creator of other popular haxies such as Application Enhancer, WindowShade X, FruitMenu, Mighty Mouse, Labels X, Xounds, Dock Detox, Silk, Cee Pee You, and ShadowKiller. Unsanity is dedicated to providing quality software for the Macintosh community.
Phelios Releases a Valentine’s Edition of Swap and it’s 2 for 1
Phelios announced the release of a Special Valentine’s Edition of their game, Swap--one of many Phelios games made with the game engine, PTK. Upon launching Swap, players now have new Valentine Skins to choose from; one is called, “For Her,” the other, “For Him,” as well as the original Swap skin, “Classic.” In addition to the Valentine’s Skins, there are now 2 new sets of heart-shaped tokens to choose from, bringing the selection of sets to 4. Players also now have the ability to design their own token sets and add them to Swap.
The other sweet news is that Phelios is offering a promotional special for this Valentine’s Edition and players can purchase one Swap and get a second one for free. Since Swap is a shareware download, this means the second free Swap can be a gift for someone (a Mac or PC person) and the purchaser can request a second code for their free version if they contact Phelios via email with the name of the gift recipient. Upon receipt of the email request, within 24 hours, Phelios will respond via email with a second code that will correspond with the recipient’s name. Gamers that have previously purchased Swap are also eligible to take advantage of this promotion, and can request a second code from Phelios if they provide a name and if they are in the Phelios records (proving they’ve already purchased Swap.) This Valentine promotion is offered for a limited time and ends on February 15, 2004.
To find out more about the Valentine Edition of Swap and for screenshots, click here
The Special Valentine Mac Edition of Swap (demo) can be found here (direct download)
The Special Valentine PC Edition of Swap (demo) can be found here (direct download)
Description of Swap
Play Swap F-O-R-E-V-E-R…or for 60 seconds. Or something in between. It’s your choice - though you may want to play in Relax Mode, sit back and play without getting that knot in your neck. With Swap, work your mental agility to the umpteenth degree and match similar bubbles. Your score can skyrocket to exponential potential if you explode the loads of bonuses. Choose your many options and game style then match it with your personality:
-RUSH Mode: Want to play but in a hurry? Push your agility and mind to the minute. It’s timed play and you have exactly sixty seconds to haul…butt.
-CLASSIC Mode: Gives you a bit more leeway with a whole 5 minutes of play. That’s 300 seconds to earn heaps of points!
-MILLION Mode: Who wants to reach a million points? But more importantly, how speedy can you be? Flex your brain muscle (and fast!) to make that million.
-RELAX Mode: Why meditate when you can play Swap? Take a deep breath and exhale. Simply take your time in this game version of ultimate relaxation. Relax Mode embraces the thrill of chill and let’s you play as long as you like. Consider it even, a form of stress management.
Swap is a puzzle game for everyone, from small kids to the brainiest adults, from busy professionals with a minute of free time, to the dedicated game enthusiast who creates extra hours to challenge their personal best scores. The player is in complete control to choose easy, normal and hard settings, as well as choosing the game that fits his/her own personal style or mood.
For more information:
Contact Patrice Krysztofiak via email: contact@phelios.com
Phelios Mac Shareware Games and PC Shareware Games
Access Virus Apple Loop Collection For GarageBand and SoundTrack
Access Music GmbH, the company behind the award winning Virus Synthsizer series, released a free Apple Loop collection for Apple's new GarageBand application.
The 46MB archive features punchy arpeggiator patterns, fat filter flows and amazing pad sounds exclusively generated with a Virus C synthesizer. All loops are royalty free and can be used in commercial productions without an additional license.
The Access Virus loop package can be downloaded free of charge from http://www.access-music.de/garageband_freebee/
Themes: Good, Bad, and Ugly
MacThemes.net has posted a look at the entries in the OWC/Unsanity Theme Contest. Let's face it: most themes, with a few exceptions, just plain suck.
The Aqua UI isn't perfect, but it's a lot better than most other themes. The most effective themes refine and improve on Aqua instead of changing it to something completely random.
The best things about Aqua include easy to find window controls (unless you're colorblind), readable menus & window titles, and good contrast between active and inactive user interface elements. A good theme will improve on it, such as refining the buttons & window elements, or replace the brushed metal appearance with something more subtle. Themes such as Max Themes Aqua Extreme & SmoothStripes are among the most effective because they improve on Aqua, eliminate some of its rougher elements, and make it more attractive.
On the other hand, themes which completely replace the user interface or make it look like another operating system may be fun as a novelty but quickly get annoying. They're not an improvement over the standard UI.
Phelios Updates Drip Drop
Mac Games and PC Games Shareware Developer, Phelios today released an update to their puzzle game, Drip Drop, which was made with Phelios' game engine, PTK.
The update includes a completely reprogrammed AI incorporating improved game play. Graphically, many opponents faces were added bringing the total to 10. Lastly, Drip Drop now supports Gamepad use so gamers can opt to use something other than the keyboard.
About Drip Drop
Drip Drop is a game collection of 3 falling object puzzles: Wipe out your foe with FLOOD and cast him away with watery waves; In game 2 called, “Feed,” you’ll have to hurry because you have the need to FEED! The animals are hungry! Match animals with their corresponding food. In the third game, overpower your opponent. - simply make him cry (just like the little guys on the board) with CLASSIC.
System Requirements:
Mac OS X
64 MB RAM
openGL acceleration
23 MB Hard-Drive space
Stuffit Expander 8.0.2 or higher to uncompress file
Drip Drop is available online for $14.95
About Phelios, Inc.
Phelios, Inc. is an independent Mac game and PC game developer creating entertaining shareware. Designed for kids of all ages as well as adults, Phelios strives to create quality games for engaging game play while also providing excellent customer service and free technical support.
For more information:
Contact: Patrice Krysztofiak
Phelios Mac Shareware Games and PC Shareware Games
email: contact@phelios.com
Inventive Releases iClip 2.7 Productivity Software for Mac OS X
New Version Adds Scrolling, Window Transparency, Multi-Line Text Pasting
Inventive, Inc. announces the release of iClip version 2.7 productivity software for Apple Macintosh computers with OS X. iClip is a multiple clipboard/scrapbook application designed to improve user efficiency and productivity for various computing tasks.
iClip works as a small window that floats above all other applications, allowing easy access to multiple bins that store clippings that users place into them. Clippings can be text, pictures, URLs, movies, etc. iClip helps eliminate redundant typing, especially in tasks like filling out online forms. Users can arrange clippings into groups to stay organized.
Version 2.7 adds several new features including the ability to scroll through clipping bins and adjustable window transparency. Multi-line text can now be pasted to several clipping bins in a single step. Adding or removing clipping bins can now be accomplished with one click.
iClip is widely used to assist users with general purpose tasks such as word processing, web browsing and research. Webmasters, graphic designers, and programmers also find iClip to be useful in their more specialized tasks.
Pricing and Availability
iClip is available now for Mac OS X as a "try before you buy" download at http://inventive.us/iClip/. It can be purchased for $19.95 USD and the version 2.7 upgrade is free to registered users of any previous version.
Phelios Posts Games by Developers Using the PTK Game Engine
Phelios, Inc. announced that they are publishing the game, “Spin Around” on the Phelios.com website. Spin Around is an innovative twist on the matching color puzzle games, created by Winter Wolves’ Programmer, Celso Riva. Not only must the player match 3 or more colored balls in rows, but can do so by spinning the whole board around and letting the balls fall, as well as shift individual rows of balls.
Phelios was pleased to post Spin Around on their site as it’s a high-quality game and uses the easy to use Phelios Game Engine, PTK. Other games created by PTK include Jadeware’s Grizzly, Android and Ultranium 4 and can also be found on the Phelios site. Phelios is optimistic that more and more games will be made using PTK as it is quite user-friendly, making it uncomplicated for even the hobbyist or beginning programmer to make games easily. Selected games made with the PTK Engine will be an opportunity for game developers to showcase their work on the Phelios site.
There’s a demo of Spin Around on the Phelios Site here as well as at the Winter Wolves Site, and it is also available to purchase at both sites for $19.95.
About Phelios, Inc.
Phelios, Inc. is an independent game developer creating entertaining Mac shareware games and PC shareware games. Designed for kids of all ages as well as adults, Phelios strives to create quality games for engaging game play while also providing excellent customer service and free technical support.
About the Game Engine PTK: Make Your Own Games Easily
PTK is the result of a collaboration between Patrice Krysztofiak of Phelios, Inc., and Patrice Trognon , a Paris-based Independent Consultant, C++/Java Developer. The two partnered together to share a common wish: create powerful tools for game developers. In addition, though developing potent tools, these were meant to be simple to use, so simple that even the aspiring game programming student or programming hobbyist would also have access to create their own games with a user-friendly engine. With the next generation belief that game development should be accessible to everyone rather than a separate selected group, PTK was born, granting openness, straightforwardness and ease to making games.
For more information:
Contact Patrice Krysztofiak via email: contact@phelios.com
Phelios Mac Shareware Games and PC Shareware Games
Contact: Celso Riva with Winter Wolves Games Studio
Free version of PC-Mac PasswordVault v2.0 released
ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA -- February 3, 2004 -- Lava Software is now shipping PC-Mac PasswordVault Lite v2.0, a free product which securely stores website access information, Internet banking data and software registration details for convenient and easy access in a central location on your Windows 95/98/NT/ME/2000/XP, MacOS X or MacOS classic computer.
This new version adds Windows XP style buttons, import and export of service data (for easy backup, printing or transfer to another computer), a fast lockout button, a web address button, service categories, five additional skins, a compact global floating window interface, and sorted services within categories.
PC-Mac PasswordVault protects user data using very strong 896-bit encryption, yet provides convenient access to it via a simple master password. If the user forgets their master password, they can answer a series of customized questions they previously entered to access their data - this simple and highly effective master password recovery system is unique to PC-Mac PasswordVault.
The free Lite Edition of PC-Mac PasswordVault supports up to 10 services, whilst the Standard Edition supports any number of services. The Standard Edition is priced at USD14.95 per license, and purchasers get download access to the current version of the software for all platforms, as well as free upgrades for one year. Site licenses (for any number of users at one organization) are available for USD99.00.
About the Company
Lava Software Pty. Ltd., a company incorporated in the State of South Australia, began developing its range of cross-platform software in 1992. More information is available from http://www.lavasoftware.com or by emailing service@lavasoftware.com.
ADHOC: The Advanced Developers Hands On Conference
ADHOC, Formerly MacHack, will take place July 21-24, 2004 Dearborn, MI. Here are some details and a call for speakers.
ADHOC sessions!
We talk about things of interest to Mac OS X Developers at ADHOC, and that
covers a lot of ground.
Some sessions are going to be about projects which use specific Mac OS X
technologies, or talk about the technologies themselves. This bring to mind
names such as Cocoa, Quartz, and Carbon.
Other sessions will cover subjects that are likely to be found running on
other operating systems. To name only a few, we're thinking about PHP,
Perl, Tcl, Apache, zeroconf, Rendezvous, and so on. The actual list of
possibilities is quite long.
Hey, if something works on either Mac OS X or Darwin, the underlying open
source operating system upon which Mac OS X is based, then ADHOC attendees
are interested in how it works, how to program for it, or how to program
with it.
We're also interested in related tools and technologies, like smart phones,
new languages, amazing achievements, and working in multiple platform
environments.
At no other time in the Mac's history has there been such a large selection
of useful, working, robust tools that we can use to make dynamite
solutions. There is a tremendous need to share with others how they all
work.
That's what we do at ADHOC.
Session Speakers Desired!
ADHOC is a conference run by developers for developers, where you
absolutely have to bring your own fun. So talk to us, we want you to show
up and participate.
AdHoc needs speakers to lead sessions that discuss all this stuff, from
innovations in BSD, where Darwin has its roots, to how to make OpenGL do
amazing things. Four major revisions of Mac OS X have been released, with
more to come, so there's plenty to talk about. There's probably going to be
a great deal of interest in what you have to say about programming, running
a business, working the press,...
This is how we set you up to do a session. First, send us an email at
sessions@adhocconf.com. This first email should tell us who you are, where
we can contact you, and provide a brief description of more or less what
you want to tackle in a session. We will exchange emails enough to get you
on the right track, and then we'll add your idea to the list and bug you
about it a few weeks later after you've had some time to percolate on the
idea. Then, send us a session title, a concise description about the
session and a short description describing who you are and what you're
about. After that, work on your project and your presentation, so when the
conference rolls around, you'll be able to talk (or, well, gush) for an
hour on your stuff. We provide some A/V assistance so that people can see
what's on your screen while you talk.
ADHOC attendees mostly (not exclusively) are: Mac developers; students
working hard to become developers; programmers working on other platforms
and have more than a passing interest in knowing what's going on on the
Macintosh; or aren't professional programmers but have a strong desire and
the drive to understand how it all works.
We like sessions that talk about what you personally built that can run on
Darwin or Mac OS X. An example of that would be is, oh, "This is How I Got
Graphics Printing to Work." We also like sessions which survey a
programming endeavor like "Exception Handling in Objective C" or "the
GNUStep Status Report". Something loftier might be "The Salient Differences
between Linux, BSD, and Mac OS X Kernels." Sessions on programming
handhelds have been scheduled during each of the last few years. We also
need people to lead sessions targeted for student attendees. Also, students
can and do present sessions.
ADHOC is not about marketing, so session presentations need to be technical
and not presented as a marketing vehicle.
Your presentation does not have to be a highly polished and practiced
production number.
Session authors do pay the conference registration fee, but get a $100
discount.
We're anxious to see what kinda stuff you got! Let us know as soon as
possible at sessions@adhocconf.com if you're thinking about doing a session.
By the way, you may also want to consider doing a paper. It's more work,
but if you get your paper accepted you don't have to pay the conference
registration fee, but you do have to 1) write a paper, and 2) do a session
about your paper. The deadline for papers is a lot earlier than the
deadline for sessions, note.
The conference will take place July 21-24, 2004, in Dearborn, Michigan.
More information is available on the Web from www.adhocconf.com.
For attendees, discounted registration is available for early action. Full
attendees can register for $425 online (before 02/28/04), a savings of $100
off the regular registration rate. Students can register for $50 which
includes access to the entire conference as well as a special meal package.
Total attendance is limited to 400. Student attendance is limited to 50.
More details are available on the conference website.
Colourfull Creations releases Maxi Bidder update
Colourfull Creations releases Maxi Bidder update for Macintosh OS X and Macintosh OS 9. Colourfull Creations updates Maxi Bidder the popular eBay snipe tool for Macintosh eBay Bidders. The update includes: Automatic password conversion, Native OS X Bidding Engine, Window size and positioning, New Time Sync, and New Program Error Handling. This is the best most reliable version that has been released so far. For more information and to download go to: http://www.colourfull.com
Apple releases Safari 1.2, Java 1.4.2 updates
Apple has released Safari 1.2 and Java 1.4.2, which are now available via the Software Update panel.
Safari 1.2 improves compatibility with websites and web applications by providing increased support for standards, adds support for personal certificate authentication, and works with Java 1.4.2 to enable websites that rely on LiveConnect for communication between JavaScript and Java applets.
This update also provides improved application stability, full keyboard access for navigating web pages, and the ability to resume interrupted downloads.
Java 1.4.2 adds support for Sun's Java 1.4.2 APIs as well as enhancements to drawing performance and stability for both Java applications and Java applets.
Florida city plans to offer wireless internet access
The city of Wilton Manors, FL, a two square mile island city just outside Fort Lauderdale, plans to offer wireless internet access along the main street.
Anywhere Internet will set up a main tower at the Five Points intersection in the center of the city. That tower will beam a high-speed Internet signal to antennas that are about 11 inches tall, which will be stationed at points along Wilton Drive. The signal travels for about 300 feet, enveloping businesses, offices and shops.
City officials are also considering offering Wi-Fi throughout the Island City. If that happens, Wilton Manors could be the first municipality along the East Coast where residents can access the Internet anywhere within city limits without needing a telephone line -- even in their homes.
A Fort Lauderdale technology firm, Anywhere Internet, pitched its idea of making Wilton Manors Internet-accessible at a recent city council meeting, where commissioners got a crash course in Wi-Fi.
"We're helping the city move forward," said company president Bryan Kidd. "Wireless is certainly becoming the standard way in which business is done. Imagine sitting at a café with your laptop and a cup of coffee instead of being in the office?"
Wilton Manors is the right size to make that service available citywide, Kidd said.
"We decided that Wilton Manors would be a great city for us to do this project because it's small enough where we can manage it," he said.
Kidd says if the project succeeds along Wilton Drive, the company will work with officials to expand Wi-Fi citywide.
Other cities in South Florida are considering going wireless, including Coconut Creek and Key Biscayne.
Read the full story here or visit the home page of Wilton Manors.
Last year I moved from Wilton Manors, which has some of the highest property values, to the neighboring town of Oakland Park for a bigger and less expensive home.