Archive - Mar 14, 2005

Afficionados of the Big Nerd Ranch way will celebrate the latest offering of Core Bootcamp for Mac OS X. The bootcamp offers a richer and more intensive study of Unix programming by examining the underpinnings of the OS X operating system. In five short days, students will review Daemons, Multiprocessing and Multithreading, Rendezvous, FileManager, Performance tools like sampling and CHUD, and networking with Berkley sockets, TCP/IP and UDP. Its section on the debugger is one of the highlights of class, allowing students to fully utilize the debugger in their application development efforts.

Kiel, Germany (March 14, 2005) - turingart is pleased to announce the immediate availability of 'AB Transfer' 1.2.

'AB Transfer' reads, converts and imports contact data from files into OS X' address book. An enhanced version 'AB Transfer Pro' will allow to import data from database sources like FileMaker, MySQL or generic ODBC sources. Pro is to be released soon.

Besides CSV and tab-separated input data, 'AB Transfer' converts Windows/DOS to Mac data, strips leading or trailing white space. A preview window show read data before the actual import. Currently, 'AB Transfer handles these fields: First name, name, maiden-name, nickname, title, email, phone fax, homepage, country, state, city, ZIP, street, note.

Today, 24U Software announces an update of 24U FM Template, the ultimate template for building FileMaker 7 native plug-ins. The new version 2.1 is an update to the copy distributed with FileMaker Developer 7.