Archive - Aug 2004

Apple Expo, Paris - Tuesday 31st August 2004 - Runtime Revolution announces major update to its professional developer tools packages, Revolution Studio and Revolution Enterprise. Version 2.5 brings new data security features, support for XML-RPC, Linux native theme (GTK) support, an improved user interface, overhauled documentation, and over 700 other enhancements.

"This must have upgrade is a big step forward for our award winning Revolution product. It is our fourth major upgrade since Revolution was released in 2001, and brings many new features, together with hundreds of refinements and an overall stability improvement" said Kevin Miller, CEO of Runtime Revolution.

Apple Expo, Paris - Tuesday 31st August 2004 - Runtime Revolution today announced the release of the new Revolution Dreamcard. Dreamcard is ideal for educators, students, hobbyists, user interface professionals and for beginning to intermediate developers. Dreamcard includes a step by step video learning center and printable PDF library that makes it possible for anyone who can use a computer, to create their own software.

Apple today announced the long-awaited iMac G5, scheduled to ship in mid-September. The new all-in-one design integrates the entire computer within a 17" or 20" flat panel display. Pricing starts at $1299 for a 17" 1.6 GHz model.

August 30, 2004 - Presenta Ltd. is pleased to announce the new release of iGetter
version 2.0 for Mac OS X.

iGetter is a full featured download manager and accelerator. With iGetter you
can get the most out of your Internet connection (dial-up, wireless, cable,
DSL, T1 etc.). iGetter can greatly improve the speed of your downloads using
segmented (accelerated) downloading. In addition it allows auto resume on broken
downloads, queue filtering by various criteria, history list, scheduling downloads
for low traffic periods, auto redial on broken connection, auto hang-up and
shut down on completion, and much more.

Bare Bones Software has released BBEdit 8.0, a major update to their popular text editor.

Mac Games and More has a posted a selection of Mac OS X Accessible Software, as well as a call to action article for Mac OS X developers.

Today is the last day to sign up for your free VIP Pass for the South Beach iPod Garage Party

Today is your last chance to sign up for your free VIP Pass for the South Beach iPod Garage Party, which takes place this Wednesday, September 1st, on Miami Beach. The VIP Pass entitles you and your party to free admission and more. Bring your iPod, and you'll be eligible to be the DJ for up to twelve minutes and compete for more than $600 worth of prizes, including an iPod mini. Don't feel like playing DJ? No problem! We'll also be giving out an additional $500 worth of iPod-related random door prizes to attendees. Oh, and be sure to arrive early: the first one hundred people to arrive will receive a complimentary copy of the inaugural issue of Playlist Magazine, in addition to being eligible for all the other great prizes. See you there:

NEW YORK, N.Y. - - August 27, 2004 - - Trinfinity Software released today an update to Time Track, it's popular time tracking software, designed for consultants and freelancers to minimize the time spent logging hours and to enhance billing accuracy.

Time Track for Palm OS has been released and Time Track 2.0 for Macintosh and Windows is required in order to share log files among the three platforms. Users can choose between using the original log format or the new Palm compatible log format. There are also new export options to convert between the two formats. Macintosh users can now synchronize their log files with Time Track for Palm OS using the Time Track Conduit. A conduit for Windows is currently under development.

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AUSTIN, Texas (August 26, 2004) - REAL Software, Inc. announced today that REAL World 2005, The REALbasic User Conference, will be held March 23-25, 2005 at the Austin Convention Center in Austin, Texas. Noted REALbasic authors and experts and REAL Software engineers will be presenting sessions at REAL World 2005.

"REAL World is the perfect opportunity for REALbasic users, both expert and novice alike, to get together to share ideas, information and techniques. Attendees gain critical content that helps make them better, more informed REALbasic developers," offered Geoff Perlman, president and CEO of REAL Software.