Archive - Apr 12, 2005

Thought I'd get the word out about a new site for news, tutorials, downloads, and discussion about Dashboard and Widget development. It's a free resource (AdSense-supported) I put together because I thought Dashboard could use something like this.

Check it out:

http://www.dashboardexposed.com/

The newest release of Maui, v. 3.2.6 patch 13, was released to the public at the beginning of this month. This release includes numerous usability enhancements and bug fixes. The biggest single enhancement incorporates the latest Department of Energy S3 (scalable systems software) infrastructure. This infrastructure allows encryption, compression, improved XML management, improved internal diagnostics and other features.

Apple has announced a release date for Tiger.

Mac OS X v10.4 “Tiger” will go on sale Friday, April 29, at 6:00 p.m. during special events at Apple’s retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers. Tiger has more than 200 new features and innovations including Spotlight, a revolutionary desktop search technology that lets users instantly find anything stored on their Mac, including documents, emails, contacts and images; and Dashboard, a new way to quickly access important information like weather forecasts and stock quotes, using a dazzling new class of applications called widgets.

Redlien Systems is getting into the spring cleaning mode, releasing a maintenance update to its flagship OSX-based CRM product, Redlien Account Executive, and giving away 3 iPod Shuffles!

Throughout the month of April, users who download and try Redlien Account Executive v1.3.3, can register for a chance to win one of three free Apple iPod Shuffles. Please see official rules at http://www.redlien.com for full details.