Archive - Oct 2004

Free copy of ShapeShifter 2.0 from pcweenies.org

pcweenies.org is giving away one copy of Unsanity's ShapeShifter2.0 this weekend! For more information on how you can enter the contest, please visit our website.

MacintoshDevelopers.net

MacintoshDevelopers.net hosts freeware Macintosh developers, providing 35 MB space, 5 GB bandwidth per month, and a free POP3 e-mail address! Additionally, there are NO FORCED ADS - because our service is limited to this niche market, we don't have as many signups, so we can offer better services.

Go to http://www.macintoshdevelopers.net/ for more details and to sign up.

Mozilla releases first Firefox release candidate

Mozilla.org today released the first 1.0 release candidate of Firefox. It fixes a long list of bugs (including the annoying one where switching tabs didn't change the window title).

Mail Factory Drawing

BeLight Software, developers of Mac OS X business productivity software, offers Mail Factory Drawing, a great event to take part in! To win the Grand Prize - a DYMO LabelWriter 330 printer, participants need to purchase Mail Factory, a tool to print envelopes and mailing labels, from October 27th to November 27th, 2004. Each participant gets also 50% discount for Business Card Composer, the elegant software to make business cards.

Apple Security Update 2004-10-27

Apple Security Update 2004-10-27 is now available via the Software Update panel. It fixes the following issue which affects Apple Remote Desktop 2.x:

QuickTime 6.5.2 released

Apple has released QuickTime 6.5.2, which is now available for download via the Software Update panel.

QuickTime 6.5.2 is an important release which includes a security update and bug fixes. In addition, this release, includes enhancements in the Apple Lossless Encoder and AAC codecs, as well as improved support for iTunes and other QuickTime-based applications.

Reading of hard disk on mac os

hi all
I have tried to read the hard disk using c/c++ fuuction fopen(),fread(),fwrite() but i failed to read.
device permissions entry is
crw-r----- 1 root operator 14, 0 27 Oct 09:36 /dev/rdisk0
What i have to do now plz help me
With best regards
darpan

ShapeShifter 2.0 released

Unsanity today released ShapeShifter 2.0, a major upgrade to their OSX theme changing utility. This is a free upgrade for owners of ShapeShifter 1.x.

Apple announces iPod Photo, iPod U2 Special Edition

In today's media event featuring U2, Apple introduced the long-rumored iPod Photo, as well as a special edition U2 iPod and iTunes 4.7.

MacA&D OS9 7.5 and MacA&D OSX Beta

Software Engineering Made Easy for Macintosh

Placitas, NM – October 26, 2004 - Excel Software today announced version 7.5 of MacA&D OS9. MacA&D OS9 is a software engineering tool for Macintosh OS 9 computers that automates requirements management, software modeling, code generation, reengineering and flexible report generation. Popular design methods are supported including structured analysis & design, object-oriented design with UML, data modeling of information systems and real-time, multi-task design.