Archive - Apr 2005

Drum Werks Vol. VI: Blues and Bluesy-Rock Drum Loops and Samples for GarageBand from Beta Monkey Music

A complete Apple Loops songwriting resource for blues and bluesy-rock. Beta Monkey's Drum Werks Volume VI offers 13 song-based drum loop sets with 12/8 feels, shuffles, and swinging blues-rock grooves. With 700+ loops (grooves, variations, fills, one shots), and a complete multi-velocity collection of drum and cymbal samples (almost 200 total single hits), this is a versatile collection of acoustic drum grooves and samples. A must for any bluesman or blues-rock guitarist!

I've been running the final developer seed of Tiger for several weeks and now that it's released I can talk about it without invoking Apple's wrath. Here are some of my favorite features and a few tips.

Iconshock.com - Professional icons has just released a new set of stock icons, ideal for software developers and web designers. Soft Stock is a beautiful set of professional icons with a Mac style, specially designed for corporative and business oriented applications.

MONTPELLIER, FRANCE : 29 APRIL 2005 : Aquafadas Software
(www.aquafadas.com) launches today version 1.3 of iDive, its digital
video management application. iDive comes now with a dedicated
Spotlight plugin providing the ability to instantly search for specific
clips using the annotations entered in iDive.

Apple has redesigned their Mac OS X Downloads for Tiger with new sections for Dashboard Widgets, Automator Actions, and Spotlight plugins.

Hi,
We are a kiosk developer company in Hungary (Tactus Multimedia Studio). We have launched a new product in this week! iWoodKiosk - is a new generation of information/internet kiosks - with an Apple iMac G5 inside! Back to the Nature!

Unsanity has released a whole round of updates for Tiger compatibility today! FontCard, FruitMenu, WindowShade X, Xounds, Application Enhancer, APE SDK, and ClearDock have all been updated.

When I start up Garageband, it starts initializing then gives me a message that the Native Instruments demo version trial period has expired. I'm guessing that this refers to some plug-in (it was probably a loop, I think) that I installed a while back. Any ideas on how to delete this plug-in/loop or otherwise solve the problem?

Boinx Software announced today that all their apps are ready for Tiger:

iStopMotion 1.8.1, FotoMagico 1.2.3, iVeZeen 2.0, MiracleSight 1.0 and Mouseposé 1.2

The original "bondi blue" iMac was the first computer to offer USB ports without offering "legacy" ports. That's right -- no serial ports, no ADB. The result was a flood of USB devices in white-and-blue plastic. This was a crucial turning point that created a reason to prefer USB to non-USB ports. Learn the history of the USB standard and some of its benefits to users and vendors, as well as where it missed the boat.