Archive - Mar 2004

There are only a few hours left in iCompositions' Best GarageBand Song contest. The contest, which ends at 12:01 A.M. (EST), April 1st, will feature a prize of 250 MB of song upload space (which iCompositions calls "Rock Star" status). You can enter up to three GarageBand songs here.

Gimp.app is a self-contained Mac OS X application bundle of the X11-based GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP), a free open source graphics editor. The project is hosted on SourceForge and is based on free open source code, but was commercialized by OpenOSX & MacGimp.org and the free version pulled.

Voting is now open in MacTheme.net's Theme Mockup Contest. See the entries and vote here. Contest prizes are provided by Unsanity.

iPodMods has recently gone public and offers a wide variety of repair services and upgrade options. Their competitive pricing puts them above the rest with a staff of professional installers, and technical savvy support specialists. iPodMods.com is not a 24 hour service, but it offers the same professional support at almost half the price of all the iPod repair centers on the internet.

I found that Safari has been slowing down and I would see the spinning cursor for several seconds every time I open a page. Thankfully This tip from Mac OS X Hints solved it.

As you probably noticed, I just changed the site's theme. Since Panther got rid of pinstrips I think it's time for us to do the same. If you want the old theme, registered users can select the theme MM_Old in account settings.

REAL Software has announced the winners of their REALBasic Design Awards 2004, honoring the best products developed with REALBasic.

I am pleased to announce a new site to the growing Garageband and Soundtrack community - musiconthemac.com

iMeMiner, the popular web gallery download tool, has undergone an incremental, but significant upgrade with new version 1.6.

Stand By Soft, Ltd. just released Java Date Picker 2.3, a suite of Microsoft
like Swing components capable of powerful date selection operations.