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Mon, 28 Jun 2004

Apple Previews Xcode 2 with New Features & Enhanced Performance

WWDC 2004, SAN FRANCISCO-June 28, 2004-Apple today previewed the next major
release of Xcode(tm), Apple's powerful suite of developer tools, designed
to make it even easier and faster to build innovative Mac OS X
applications. The combination of a high performance UNIX-based development
environment, a breakthrough user interface and outstanding performance
technologies, has allowed Mac developers including Oracle, Sybase and Alias
to deliver next generation Mac OS X applications. With the preview of Xcode
2, Apple is delivering a major update with support for 64-bit application
development and even faster turnaround times for creating applications for
Mac OS X.

"Since its launch 12 months ago, Xcode has been a hit with the Mac OS X
developer community," said Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president
of Worldwide Product Marketing. "We are pleased to continue to advance
these great tools so that our developers can build a new generation of
great Mac OS X applications."

"Apple's tools for Mac OS X development are second to none," said Jürgen
Kurz, senior vice president of product development at Quark. "We plan to
use Xcode to develop the next generation versions of our existing products,
as well as some new ones. The highly productive interface will give our
development staff the fastest way to build Mac OS X applications, and the
easiest path to take advantage of new Apple technologies."

"Xcode dramatically increases our productivity and is a crucial part of
all our Mac OS X product development, especially in developing Alias
SketchBook Pro and recent versions of Maya," said Kevin Tureski, general
manager of Maya Engineering at Alias. "Since Xcode uses UNIX and industry
standards, we are able to fully integrate it in our custom build system
with over 14,000 source files, many million lines of C++ code, and a final
Maya product containing 200MB of optimized executables and libraries."

Building on high performance technologies including Fix and Continue, Zero
Link and Distributed Build along with Xcode's groundbreaking user
interface, Xcode 2 further advances developer productivity with new
features such as Dead Code Stripping and Visual Modeling and Design. With
Dead Code Stripping, developers can remove unused executable code from
compiled applications and immediately see the effect in smaller code sizes
and faster customer downloads. Applications are even easier to design,
create and maintain by offering developers a clear visual representation of
the application structure with Visual Modeling and Design.

Xcode 2 also includes:

* 64-bit development tools to build data-intensive applications using
64-bit memory addressing;

* an integrated Apple Reference Library to offer a single search and
presentation interface to all of Apple's online and locally stored
developer documentation;

* Apple's enhanced version of GCC v3.5, the next generation of the
industry-standard compiler;

* graphical remote debugging to display the debugging of data for full
screen applications on remote machines;

* Auto Vectorization to automatically generate Velocity Engine-optimized
code without requiring any source code changes;

* Ant build system support to make cross-platform development of Java
applications even easier; and

* support for Subversion Source Code Management, in addition to supporting
CVS and Perforce, to enable easy integration with a wide range of
development infrastructure.

Pricing & Availability

Xcode 2 will be included in Mac OS X version 10.4 "Tiger." Tiger will be
available in the first half of 2005 through the Apple Store, at Apple's
retail stores and through Apple Authorized Resellers for a suggested retail
price of $129 (US). More information on Xcode can be found at
www.apple.com/xcode.

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Apple Unveils 30" Cinema HD Flat Display

WWDC 2004, SAN FRANCISCO-June 28, 2004-Apple today unveiled a new family of
widescreen flat panel displays featuring the 30-inch Apple Cinema HD
display, a professional-quality, wide-format active-matrix LCD with
2560-by-1600 pixel resolution-the largest high resolution display ever
created. Rounding out the new lineup are new 23-inch and 20-inch Cinema
Displays, offering creative professionals and prosumers the highest quality
flat panel displays in the industry. The new displays feature dual FireWire
and dual USB 2.0 ports built into the display and use the industry standard
DVI interface for a pure digital connection with Apple's latest Power Mac
and PowerBook systems, as well as PCs with a DVI connector. Two 30-inch
Cinema Displays can be driven simultaneously from Apple's new Power Mac
line of desktop workstations, offering professional users a desktop of 8
million pixels.

"Our gorgeous new 30-inch Cinema Display is the largest desktop canvas ever
created, and you can even run two of them side-by-side to get 8 million
jaw-dropping pixels," said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO. "Apple's Cinema
Displays have always set the bar for the industry's highest quality
displays, and our new 30-inch display is a giant leap forward for our pro
customers."

The new Apple Cinema Displays feature an all new aluminum design with a
very thin bezel, suspended by an aluminum stand with an adjustable hinge
that makes tilting the display almost effortless. Each Cinema Display
features two FireWire 400 ports and two USB 2.0 ports, making attachment of
desktop peripherals, such as a keyboard, mouse, iPod, iSight(tm), digital
and still camera, hard drive, printer and scanner, even more accessible and
convenient. The new displays support the Video Electronics Standards
Association (VESA) mounting interface standard. Customers with the optional
Cinema Display VESA Mount Adapter kit can mount their display in locations
most appropriate for their work environment.

Apple's new family of displays offers the widescreen design (16:10 ratio)
coveted by creative professionals who want access to more horizontal
workspace. The Apple Cinema HD 30-inch display has an unbelievable
2560-by-1600 pixel resolution and the 23-inch Apple Cinema HD display has a
1920-by-1200 pixel resolution, both capable of displaying High Definition
Television (HDTV) content with room to spare. The new 20-inch Apple Cinema
Display professional-quality flat panel offers a 1680-by-1050 pixel
resolution, more than enough room to edit images with all of the palettes
on-screen.

Perfect for creative customers in demanding color environments, Apple flat
panel displays provide maximum color quality using the industry's best
wide-viewing angle technology of up to 170 degrees even when viewing images
off-axis. With a broad color gamut that stays consistent edge-to-edge,
Apple flat panel displays have been certified by SWOP Incorporated as part
of the ICS Remote Director product, the first display-based proofing system
created to approve jobs for press production on-screen without the need for
hard-copy proofs-an innovation that can result in significant time and cost
savings for print professionals.

The 20-inch Cinema Display and the 23-inch Cinema HD Display are designed
to work with DVI equipped Power Macs, PowerBooks and Windows-based
computers. The advanced design of Apple's breakthrough 30-inch Cinema HD
Display requires the high-performance NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra DDL
graphics card and a Power Mac G5 professional desktop. Providing the most
advanced graphics architecture available, the NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra DDL
graphics card offers the latest graphics programmability for on-screen
cinematic realism and an astounding bandwidth throughput of up to 35.2
GB/sec to support incredibly high pixel fill rates of 6.4 billion texels a
second. The first card to provide support for two high resolution dual link
interfaces, the NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra DDL graphics card provides two
DVI connectors so that two 30-inch Cinema HD Displays can be used with the
Power Mac G5 desktop, resulting in an unprecedented amount of screen
workspace.

Pricing & Availability

The 20-inch Apple Cinema Display and 23-inch Apple Cinema HD Display will
be available in July, and the 30-inch Apple Cinema HD Display will be
available in August, through the Apple Store (www.apple.com), at Apple's
retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers for a suggested retail price
of $1,299 (US), $1,999 (US) and $3,299 (US), respectively. The NVIDIA
GeForce 6800 Ultra DDL graphics card will be available through the Apple
Store (www.apple.com) in build-to-order configurations of the Power Mac G5
as well as standalone kit in August for a suggested retail price of $599
(US).

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Apple Previews Mac OS X "Tiger"

WWDC 2004, SAN FRANCISCO-June 28, 2004-Apple today previewed Mac OS X
version 10.4 "Tiger," the fifth major version of Mac OS X that will ship in
the first half of 2005, extending Apple's leadership in software
innovation. Tiger continues Apple's blazing pace of innovation with more
than 150 breakthrough new features including Spotlight, a revolutionary way
to instantly find any file, document or information created by any
application on the Mac; Safari(tm) RSS, a new version of Apple's acclaimed
web browser that incorporates instant access to RSS (Really Simple
Syndication) data feeds on the web; Dashboard, a dazzling new way to
instantly access a new collection of accessory "Widgets;" and a new version
of Apple's iChat instant messaging client with the industry's first
multi-person audio and video conferencing in a stunning 3D interface.

"With OS X Apple has become, once again, the industry innovator in
operating systems and Tiger will further widen the gap," said Steve Jobs,
Apple's CEO. "Others are now following OS X's taillights, and Tiger will
make it even harder for them to ever catch up."

Spotlight is Apple's new lightning fast way to find any file, document or
information created by any application on the Mac. Much like users can
instantly find songs in iTunes by their name, artist or album, Spotlight
enables users to instantly find just about anything-including emails,
presentations, images, appointments and Microsoft Office documents-then
automatically organizes and displays the results by kind, time or people.
Spotlight technology also powers Smart Folders in the Finder(tm), Smart
Mailboxes in Mail and Smart Groups in Address Book that work like Smart
Playlists in iTunes to automatically keep a user's information organized
and updated.

Safari RSS, a new version of Apple's acclaimed web browser uses the
emerging RSS Internet standard to provide instant access to the most
current information from leading sites such as The New York Times,
BusinessWeek and the BBC. Safari RSS automatically discovers an RSS enabled
site and displays a special icon, which when pressed instantly transforms
Safari into a full featured RSS reader displaying the discovered RSS feed.
With Safari RSS, users can easily create their own personal news clipping
service with up to the minute information from several RSS feeds merged
into one easy-to-read interface.

Dashboard offers users instant access to a new class of accessory
applications called "Widgets." Built on Apple's Expose technology
introduced in Panther, Dashboard provides fingertip access to everyday
tools and information such as stock quotes, webcams, calendars and
calculators. Tiger includes several Widgets and provides a rich developer
environment for developers to extend Dashboard with third party Widgets.

iChat in Tiger supports the new industry standard H.264 video codec for
dramatically better picture quality with no increase in bandwidth. In
addition, the new iChat adds multi-way audio and video conferencing, so
that users can audio conference with up to 10 people and video conference
with up to three other people using a stunning new 3D interface.

Additional new features in Tiger include:

* Core Image and Core Video provide the foundation for new image and video
processing applications, building on the success of Core Audio which is
leading the next generation of innovative audio application development;

* QuickTime support for the next-generation MPEG-4 video codec H.264
delivers incredible scalability across the entire bandwidth spectrum, from
3G mobile media to High Definition broadcast and beyond;

* Tiger can natively run 64-bit processes for database, engineering and
scientific applications to take advantage of the increased performance
unleashed when accessing massive amounts of memory while still running
side-by-side with existing 32-bit applications;

* .Mac Sync using a completely new Sync engine in Tiger ensures that .Mac
subscribers can synchronize their contacts, bookmarks, email preferences
and calendar across multiple machines;

* Automator, an innovative easy-to-use application that automates simple,
complex, or repetitive tasks without requiring the user to write scripts;

* major advances to the open standards UNIX-based foundation including an
updated state-of-the-art kernel with improved SMP scalability, 64-bit
virtual memory, modernized network services and Xgrid, Apple's easy-to-use
distributed computing software;

* improved Windows compatibility that uses powerful open standards-based
networking technologies to make it even easier for Mac OS X users to access
a Windows-based home directory and authenticate against Microsoft's Active
Directory; and

* Xcode(tm) 2, the latest version of Apple's powerful suite of developer
tools, designed to make it even easier and faster to build innovative Mac
OS X applications.

Pricing & Availability

Mac OS X version 10.4 "Tiger" will be available in the first half of 2005
through the Apple Store, at Apple's retail stores and through Apple
Authorized Resellers for a suggested retail price of $129 (US). Users with
a .Mac membership can take full advantage of all the innovative new
features in Tiger to synchronize their information between multiple Macs.
More information on Tiger can be found at www.apple.com.

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EditiX 1.4 - XML / XSLT Editor

We are glad to announce the availability of EditiX 1.4. EditiX is a Mac OS X and powerful XML/XSLT Editor.

News :



  • Surround CDATA action from the "edit" menu

  • Surround Comment action takes the place of the comment/uncomment action

  • Global performance improvement

  • Last path saved/restored while assigning a DTD, a schema or an XML or result document for XSLT

  • New syntax assistant system (header for the context and a filter for user entries supported)

  • Multiple errors popup available from the status bar

  • Multiple file extensions is supported for a same document type

  • Parts of the XSLT editor are now dockable

  • A preference file / tab-size has been added

  • ...


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