Archive - Aug 25, 2005

Linux Gazette has posted an article exploring PowerPC assembly language programming on a MacMini. The article also details how to get Ubuntu Linux up and running and install the development tools.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark – August 23, 2005 – Today OTEE announces a major revision of the game development platform Unity, targeted at medium to small game developers. 

Unity is the only Mac-based high-end game development tool sporting a stylish pro-app GUI, no-friction workflow and top-of-the-line technical features such as extensible graphics, great particle effects, highly optimized scripting, the Ageia physX Engine, skinned character animation and ragdolls.

"Wow! This is the game development engine I've been waiting 12 years for! I'm simply amazed at how elegant this program is in design and function. It is one of the very best Macintosh applications I've seen in, perhaps a decade. It is a tool, in the true sense of that word. It amplifies my abilities and makes my job easier," says Norm Dwyer, president of casual game studio Snap2play.com.

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MailTags is a plug-in for Apple's Mail.app 2.0 (Tiger) that enables you to go way beyond folder filing for organizing mail by enabling metadata tagging.

Release date: Aug 25, 2005

Manage Your Search Engine Web Rankings

Caphyon LLC is pleased to announce the release of Advanced Web Ranking 4.1, a tool that helps check your web site position on all major search engines. Advanced Web Ranking runs on Mac OS X, Windows 98/2000/XP, Linux and Solaris.