Archive - Feb 28, 2005

Locally owned, RipIt Digital Music launches iPod loading and MP3 digital music service in Chicago.

Chicago, Illinois – February 28, 2005 – The iPod has created its own industry and is growing everyday. RipIt Digital Music, www.RipItDigital.com, has launched their digital music services in the Chicago area and joins the niche industry. RipIt Digital Music bridges the gap between the consumer, who wants to use an iPod but does not have the time or knowledge to work the technology. As a locally owned and run company, RipIt Digital Music provides iPod loading, iPod tutoring and CD to MP3 conversion.

nib4j is a simple but powerfull Java library that permits the use of Apple's Interface Builder to design Swing-based user interfaces. It creates Swing menus, frames and dialogs from Carbon nib files and provides a complete separation of UI and application code.

The new version supports the creation of cross-platform UIs with use of JGoodies Forms. With the nib4j Viewer you can try out your Swing interfaces without writing any code and do a cross-platform test showing different Look & Feels.

Laughing Dragon Games is giving a free copy of Derelict, their game of non stop alien fighting, to the person who can provide the best name for their new mascot.

"Veenix®: Design & Type Tools Adds Font Database Features"

LAKE GROUP SOFTWARE announces version 3.2 of "Veenix®: Design & Type Tools", a set of 20 easy-to-use Macintosh OS X font and design tools for Mac creatives -- conveniently organized in one small-footprint application.

Version 3.2 introduces the WYSIWYG Font Database, a full-featured font viewing and printing system for installed and uninstalled fonts. The system offers user-defined font classification and sorts as well as auto-classification of several types of fonts, including: narrow or compressed or fonts, wide or expanded fonts, monospaced fonts and specialty fonts (image fonts, expert fonts and non-traditional fonts.) The new Type Book printing services allow printing by category or by folder of origin. Other font related features include: character set viewing, font comparison, font measurements, font activation/deactivation and font installation.