Archive - Oct 10, 2005

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - October 10, 2005 -- Heunox Corporation and OmniPilot Software, Inc., today announced Lasso Summit 2006 scheduled for February 17-19, 2006 at the Riverside Hotel in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The Lasso Summit is the premier event for all Lasso developers of any skill level.

Salinas, CA -- October 7, 2005 -- FastMac announces the first iPod battery recycling program available at no extra charge, to all customers who purchase a TruePower iPod battery upgrade from FastMac. This program is also available to the general public who purchase third party battery replacements and need to properly dispose of their original iPod battery. All disposal fees are covered by FastMac.

After working on the Developer Transition Kit for a few days, I found that porting to Intel isn't always quick & painless. If you have a Cocoa application which uses no low-level APIs, doesn't deal with binary files, and doesn't use Altivec accelleration, the port may be quick & easy, but everyone else will probably run into some issues.

FreeMacWare.com has announced two new contests for developers and freeware users. Prizes include an iPod nano and iTMS gift certificate.