Archive - Jan 2005

Apple® today unveiled the fastest, most affordable PowerBook® line ever, featuring PowerPC G4 processors running up to 1.67 GHz, faster hard drives and a faster 8X SuperDrive™—all housed in the PowerBook's signature aluminum enclosure. All new PowerBooks come standard with 512MB memory, faster graphics, integrated AirPort® 802.11g, Bluetooth 2.0 wireless networking and two new Apple patent-pending technologies—the scrolling TrackPad and the Sudden Motion Sensor.

Release date: Jan 31, 2005

Manage Your Search Engine Web Rankings

Caphyon LLC is pleased to announce the release of Advanced Web Ranking 3.6, a tool that helps check your web site position on all major search engines. Advanced Web Ranking runs on Mac OS X, Windows 98/2000/XP, Linux and Solaris.

MONTREAL - January 28, 2005 - SYPECom is unveiling a major update to its Collaba product line, a brand new web site, a new secure online store and the introduction of an unlimited technical support service included in all Collaba Enterprise Server and Collaba Education Portal servers.

DashboardDeveloper launched today as a community for developers of “widgets”, mini-applications for Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger. While Tiger won’t be available to the public for quite some time, DashboardDeveloper is giving developers the opportunity to start developing and sharing their creations.

New Version Features New Menu System, Persistent Clipboard Recorder, Improved Help

Inventive, Inc. announces the release of iClip version 3.5, their award winning productivity software for Mac OS X. iClip enables users to quickly store, organize, and access snippets of information without having to save them as entire documents.

Now available in iClip is a new menu system that moves the main iClip functions from the global menu to a set of menus directly within the iClip window, making it much more intuitive to use. The contents of the Clipboard Recorder are now automatically preserved through iClip relaunches and restarts, eliminating the need for users to explicitly store it before quitting. Also new in version 3.5 are significant improvements to iClip documentation, in that it now uses Apple's Help Viewer application, making it easy to print and search.

Since the Mac Mini has been released, a whole flock of sites dedicated to turning it into a home media center have appeared. There are at least two open source home media projects: Mac Media Center Project and iTheater.

A new security update is now available via the Software Update panel. Security Update 2005-001 delivers a number of security enhancements and is recommended for all Macintosh users. This update includes the following components: at commands, ColorSync, libxml2, Mail, PHP, Safari.

For detailed information on this Update, see http://www.info.apple.com/kbnum/n61798

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (January 25, 2005) – Graphic designers on a tight budget may appreciate the fifty new stock photo CDs released by Turbo Photo ( http://www.turbophoto.com ) for only $49 or less each. The royalty-free CD-ROMs cover various subjects such as Animals, People, Nature, Food, Travel, and Backgrounds, and include a free 300dpi hi-res download for each CD title. With fifty CD titles, this means that fifty stock photos may be immediately downloaded for free.

A new project plans to develop a free Media Center application for the Apple Macintosh, bringing togther the power and intuitiveness of the Macs' built in applications under a simple interface, for use as part of a Home Theatre system. Visit http://mrzippy.org.uk/macmediacenter/ for more information.

ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA -- January 24, 2005 -- Lava Software is now shipping PC-Mac PasswordVault v4.0, a simple and practical password manager for both individuals as well as enterprises requiring cross-platform compatibility (Windows, MacOS and Linux) and secure password data backup, recovery and distribution. The portable version runs directly off USB flash drives, such as the iPod Shuffle, providing users with secure access to their website usernames and passwords, Internet banking and other data when they're on the road, as well as the convenience of auto-synchronization of data when they return to their desktop computer.