Archive - 2005

Here's my look back at the top Macintosh stories of 2005 and my predictions for MacWorld Expo.

Chippewa Valley, WI, December 29, 2005-Small Tree Communications, leading manufacturer and designer of high performance networking products for Mac OS X, will remain on the forefront of leading edge technology for Apple users by being the first company to offer support for the PCI Express (PCI-E) IO Bus included in the recently announced Power Mac lineup. Product support availability from Small Tree is scheduled for early 1Q 2006.

Camino 1.0 beta 2 brings a heavily updated version of the only native Mac OS X browser using Mozilla.org's Gecko HTML rendering engine. This version has great improvements in rendering accuracy and speed, bookmarks and history management, preferences, plugin support, and many other areas.

Divine Fiat is pleased announce that the entire Americana Keynote theme set now cost 25% less than its release price. Purchase We the People, Old Glory or In God we Trust individually for $14.95 (originally $19.95) or purchase them as a set for $33.64 (originally $44.85). For more information or to purchase the themes please visit us at http://www.divinefiat.com/.

Spotted via http://www.memap.org -- The Maine Department of Education is making plans to continue the iBook computer program in middle schools beyond the original four-year contract.

SWF Movie Player by Eltima Software is a free, small and streamlined Flash player for Mac OS, which features a lot of unique and convenient extensions, such as zooming, playlist, SWF Info, standard movie controls -- everything which standard Flash lacks.

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ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA -- December 25, 2005 -- Lava Software is now shipping PC-Mac-Net FileShare v5.4, a fast and efficient file sharing and remote movie and music playback controller which operates over LANs and the Internet. It can turn almost any old PC into a media center and file server. Versions are available for Windows, MacOS and Linux.

The FastIcon has released a new icon set for use in your desktop: "iPod Christmas", which contains 4 freeware icons.

Animations exportable to video iPods or as Quicktime files

MONTPELLIER, FRANCE: 23 December 2005: Aquafadas announced iDive 1.5, the latest installment in its popular digital video cataloging and editing product. iDive l.5 will ship today with "Mosaic," a powerful new award-winning feature that allows users to create and share motion graphics from digital video footage in a matter of minutes.