Archive - Aug 2006

CodeWeavers has released a free time-limited CrossOver beta for Intel Macs. CrossOver lets you run some Windows applications on your Intel-based Mac without installing Windows.

Berlin, 31st of August 2006 -- nova media today unveiled message2net version 1.2, a universal binary application for SMS- and phonebook management.

message2net allows you to send, receive and manage SMS-messages on a Mac OS X computer using a connected mobile phone and supports advanced features like multipart-SMS, group-SMS and direct Address Book access.

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Cluster Resources, Inc., a leading provider of cluster, grid, and utility
computing software, announced today that TORQUE* Resource Manager passed a new
milestone in its continued success, reaching 50,000 downloads since August 2005.

Melle, Germany - August 29, 2006 ProjectWizards release their Beta 6 of Merlin 2, adding superb new features and enhancing concepts close to perfection.

TEL AVIV, ISRAEL -- August 28, 2006 -- RedleX today released Mellel 2.1, a major update to the leading word processor for Mac OS X. Mellel 2.1 introduces several key important changes and features, including switching the file format to XML, top notch Find and Replace capabilities (full Regular Expressions support), Full screen mode, paragraph and character style palettes, and much more.

SANTA CLARA, Calif., August 28, 2006 -- Intel Corporation today announced the availability of three new threading tools that enable software developers to efficiently create reliable, high-performance threaded applications to take full advantage of multi-core processing systems. These new tools, Intel Threading Building Blocks 1.0, Intel Thread Checker 3.0 and Intel Thread Profiler 3.0, are part of the most comprehensive tool set in the industry, enabling developers to achieve correctness, scalability and ease of programming in parallel development. "These are the tools software developers need the most to enable them to exploit parallelism from multi-core processors," said James Reinders, marketing director for Intel's Developer Products Division. "Developers do not want to inflate their code by writing their own thread management code and no one should have to debug and tune applications using yesterday's developer tools. These products work with other Intel tools, understand locks, OpenMP and other parallel constructs, and fit easily into current development environments."

MacUpdate today announces the launch of a new program called the MacUpdate Promo. Every weekday, MacUpdate will feature a new software title on the front page sidebar, giving Macintosh users the opportunity to purchase that title at a steep discount. For example, today users can purchase iClip at a 40% discount. This is a great deal because you will receive a free upgrade to the highly anticipated version 4.0 release, which will cost considerably more than $12.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission said Apple plans to recall 1.1 million batteries in the United States, plus 700,000 sold abroad. A spokesman for the agency said it's the second-largest recall ever in the computer and consumer-electronics sectors.

Update: The list of affected serial numbers has changed.

Odessa, Ukraine, August 24, 2006 – CS Odessa announced to the public today that the ConceptDraw Product Line will start to support the Universal Binary beginning this autumn. ConceptDraw MINDMAP, the popular information management and visualization software, together with ConceptDraw Project, the professional project management application, will receive Universal Binary compatibility in November 2006. CS Odessa’s powerful business drawing and diagramming software ConceptDraw VI will become a native application for Intel-based Macs with a major release currently targeted for early 2007.