Archive - Jan 12, 2005

Bare Bones Software has released TextWrangler 2.0, a free general purpose text editor with many of BBEdit's features.

Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2005 first quarter ended December 25, 2004. For the quarter, the Company posted a net profit of $295 million, or $.70 per diluted share. These results compare to a net profit of $63 million, or $.17 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. Revenue for the quarter was $3.49 billion, up 74 percent from the year-ago quarter. Gross margin was 28.5 percent, up from 26.7 percent in the year-ago quarter. International sales accounted for 41 percent of the quarter’s revenue.

KAUAI, Jan. 12 /News Release/ -- Subband Technologies LLC, a leading developer, licensor and marketer of next generation audio, video, and gaming technologies for the consumer electronics, personal computing and entertainment industries, announced today in partnership with 4Front Technologies, the release of OSS 3D for iTunes!

OSS 3D utilizes state of the art DSP technology allowing for the addition of Bass/ Spatialization, 3D Surround, and various other real-time enhancements of the sound played in iTunes.

I am here in San Francisco and was one of the few who got to buy an ipod shuffle. I posted a review of it on my blog at http://www.brianstucki.com/blog/

RALEIGH, NC — January 12, 2005 — Zengobi today announced Curio 2.1, the latest version of their award-winning environment for brainstorming and idea management. Curio 2.1 features new support for flowcharting and mind mapping shapes for more flexible creative explorations. In addition to the rectangle and rounded rectangle shapes offered previously, Curio's group, text, and asset figures can now be framed with octagons, hexagons, trapezoids, brackets, vertical brackets, triangles, diamonds, semicircles, ovals, and clouds. Curio 2.1 also allows figure adornments to be embedded within the shape border; features better Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" support; and offers additional keyboard shortcuts and printing options.

Basasoft has updated BasaOne, its Graphical Web Application Development Environment. This free update fixes various issues, improving many features like code generation, test environment, JavaScript and more.

To celebrate the first anniversary...