Archive - Mar 2005

iCompositions.com has partnered with loops producer Bandmateloops to give away another package of free loops for GarageBand, Logic, and Soundtrack.

MacAcademy/WindowsAcademy has provided training CD-ROMs, Live Siminars and Customized On-Site Training Programs since 1987.

FastIcon Studio, which offers high-quality royalty-free icons to designers and developers, are pleased to announce the new look and feel to their web site.
The web site incorporates an updated visual design and is fully redesigned to software and web site programmers looking to add a professional touch to their projects.

BeLight Software announces April Fool's Day Contest on the most original, funny or unusual story or sample of business cards. The best one will be chosen by the judge, Bob "Dr. Mac" LeVitus, and its owner will be awarded with an iPod mini. Two runner ups will get boxed editions of Business Card Composer for Mac OS X. To take part, participants need to send their stories or samples to from March 31 till April 21, 2005. The Official Rules:

Last week I finally received the Mac Mini I ordered in January for use as a home media center. Here's an overview of my setup and its performance.

IBM has released a preliminary alpha version of its History Flow Visualization Application that shows how collaboratively created documents evolve. The tool is written in Java and it's available for download. The application includes online help, as well as a plug-in for retrieving th

Odessa, Ukraine, March 29, 2005 – CS Odessa launches Project Documentation Suite for Mac OS X and Windows. The bundle includes LeadingProject 1.1, professional project management tool and ConceptDraw V, business and technical diagramming software. Together these tools cover project documentation stages from planning to visual presentation and save their users $249 in comparison with separate purchase.

Fort Lauderdale, Fla. – March 28, 2005 – OmniPilot Software, Inc., a global provider of integrated management software, has released Lasso Professional 8.0.2 upgrade. This release also includes a version of Lasso Professional Server compatibility for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the leading platform for open source computing.

Lasso is the premier tool for developing, serving and managing data-driven Web applications offering a “build once, deploy anywhere” approach for developers who demand an easy-to-use, yet powerful development environment. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is sold by subscription, delivers continuous value and is certified by top enterprise hardware and software vendors. From the desktop to the datacenter, Enterprise Linux couples the innovation of open source technology and the stability of a true enterprise-class platform.

Fort Lauderdale, Fla. – March 28, 2005 – OmniPilot Software, Inc., global provider of integrated management software, announces the release of Lasso Development Studio 8 (LS8). Lasso Development Studio is a full-featured Web application development environment operating within Dreamweaver or GoLive for developers who desire wizards and a graphical editing environment, allowing them to build data-driven Web sites with point-and-click ease. Lasso Studio is used for development while Lasso Professional Server must be used to deploy the site.

The Mac Mini is a small but powerfull machine that comes with a high-end embedded development board. It has a broader array of connectors, a faster processor, and support for a very large amount of memory. The development kit is fairly complete, with support for AppleScript, C, C++, Objective-C, Java™, Perl, Python, and Ruby programming out of the box or you can choose to use some third party Java tools such as Eclipse or Netbeans.