Archive - Feb 15, 2005

I didn't notice this feature until recently, but iCal 1.5.5 can use alternate time zones when creating an event.

Thanks to the wonder of telecommuting, my employer's time zone is 3 hours earlier than mine, so conference calls and other events are given in West Coast time. Until now I mentally converted the time when I added an appointment to my calendar.

Apple has announced that their World Wide Developer's Conference (WWDC) 2005 will take place June 6-10 at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco.

WWDC is Apple's most important annual event for hardware and software developers, including in-house developers, computational scientists, IT managers, and system administrators. Thousands of developers from around the world come to California each year to receive in-depth information and instruction from Apple's technical architects and engineers.

February 16, 2005 - Burgundy, France - Midori announced the release of a new children’s software for Mac OS X. The software, called, "YooDoo," combines two inventive activities that encourage kids to explore their creative sides.

OmniPilot Gains MySQL® Network™ Certification for Lasso Professional

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – February 15, 2005 – OmniPilot Software, Inc., developers of Lasso Professional – the easiest way to tie corporate databases to the Web, has officially partnered with MySQL AB, developer of the world’s most popular open source database. The new partnership will promote fluid integration between MySQL and Lasso technologies to ease development and deployment of data-driven corporate Web sites.