Digital Meadow today announced the release of Studycard Studio, and the free Studycard Studio Lite…
Month: March 2003
DockExtender for Mac OS X helps organize your Dock
DockExtender allows you to organize and access your applications, documents and web sites through custom menus that you create…
Alepin hits version 2.42; Mac OS X notepad and scrapbook replacement
Alepin is a notepad and scrapbook replacement. It features Classic Notepad import, Stickies X import, import of nested folders…
Freeverse Board Game version 2.0 now available
With Freeverse’s new Board Game series, taking a break for a game has never been easier…
‘A Better Finder Rename’ version 5.4 released
PUBLICSPACE.NET has released version 5.4 of its “A Better Finder Rename” Macintosh Finder enhancement.
Apple iMac G3 ‘discontinued’ says unidentified company executive; ‘well over 10 million sold’
Apple has discontinued the original version of the iMac due to falling sales, reports the Washington Post…
Automatically tag and organize MP3 files with AutoTagX
AutoTagX 2.6.5 can automatically tag and organize MP3 files using drag-and-drop and internet music databases…
iMac disappears into the ether (even Mac OS 9 got a funeral, Apple)
The US Apple Store was briefly offline earlier today with a note saying “We’ll be back soon.” When the Apple Store came back online…
Play DVDs, VCDs, MPEG, DivX and more with freeware VLC for Mac OS X
The VideoLAN Client (VLC) is a multi-platform multimedia player. It can read DVDs, VCDs, MPEG and DivX files and from a satellite card…
Navigate the minefields with BombSquad for Mac OS X
BombSquad takes the good looks of Mac OS X and its Aqua interface, and mixes it liberally with the popular Windows Minesweeper puzzle/game…
Encode your audio files into MPEG-4 AAC format with AACelerator 1.0
mac:method has released the final version of AACelerator 1.0, an utility that can encode audio files into MPEG-4 Advanced Audio Codec (AAC) audio files…
Microsoft’s ‘Switch’ rip-off (and more) makes ‘101 Dumbest Moments in Business’ list
Business 2.0 catalogues “The 101 Dumbest Moments in Business” in their April 2002 issue. The article features Enron, Martha Stewart, and our old favorite, Microsoft…
Award-winning film produced entirely on Mac G4; June DVD release slated
ADV Films today announced a June 10, 2003 DVD release for “Voices of a Distant Star,” a Japanese animated short film…
Apple releases X11 for Mac OS X public beta 3
Apple has released a new public beta version of X11 for Mac OS X. It’s a hardware-accelerated X Window System implementation…
Apple’s ‘G5’ motherboard blueprints ready-to-go; dimensions suggest new Power Mac case design
Apple has finalized its blueprints of the PPC970 (G5) motherboards…
NetNewsWire updated; browse the Web more efficiently
NetNewsWire is an easy-to-use Web news reader for Mac OS X. Its familiar three-paned interface, similar to Apple Mail and Outlook Express…
Record your Mac screen as a QuickTime movie
ScreenRecord is a screen recording tool that allows the user to capture continuous images on the screen as a Quicktime movie…
ZDNet writer considers 12-inch PowerBook to replace aging ThinkPad
David Berland writes for ZDNet, “This week represents an interesting confluence of events. For at least a couple of years, I’ve considered replacing my old clunker of a notebook, a 366 MHz IBM ThinkPad 570…
The Seattle Times reviews iLife
Life isn’t perfect with iLife, but it’s still pretty good…
IDC researcher ‘confused’ about Centrino CPU speed versus performance
Intel claims its Pentium M processor offers higher performance than the Pentium 4-M. Intel said the 1.6GHz Pentium M offers a 13 per cent to 15 per cent…
Fluid2 ‘screen liquifier’ for Mac OS X updated
Fluid2 is a realtime fluid-dynamics model and rendering engine that uses OpenGL to create the effect of flowing liquid on your screen…
Apple posts standalone 81.8MB iMovie 3.0.2 download
Apple has posted the freeware, full 81.8MB iMovie 3.0.2 download to its servers…
xGates game updated to version 1.3; slay ‘Bill’ the evil corporate monopolist
xGates has been update to version 1.3. xGates is a sophisticated and outrageously bloody action game that pits you and your trusty chainsaw against the evil forces of corporate monopolist tyranny…
SteveJack on Intel’s Centrino
On Wednesday, at Germany’s CeBit trade show, Intel unveiled its newest mobile processor, dubbed “Centrino.”
The hard-to-explain, but fun-to-use Mac OS X discontinuous list reordering tip
This isn’t easy to explain, but it’s pretty useful. As an example, we’ll use Safari. Imagine you have a long list of bookmarks…
Chartsmith 1.2 for Mac OS X adds Keynote exporting and more
Chartsmith provides an intuitive user interface to enable users to create charts quickly and easily. From Bar and Pie charts to Histogram and Bubble charts, Chartsmith provides an extensive set of chart types…
Lock your Mac OS X screen from the menu bar by adding lock icon
Wouldn’t it be nice, especially in an office or educational setting to be able to lock your screen from the Mac OS X menu bar?
LoopRumors: ‘Apple aware of speed gap’ with competitors
Sources inside Apple have told LoopRumors that increasing the clock speeds of its computers has become a major priority…
Doggiebox for Mac OS X; create drum tracks in minutes
Doggiebox is a drum machine application for Mac OS X that allows you to create and manipulate percussion-based songs…
Apple’s rumored music service might not be Mac-only; ‘iPod-only’ instead
We’ve received information from multiple sources that suggest that rumors of Apple’s forthcoming online music service will not be “Mac-only” as most rumors have described…
Microsoft adds Creative Technologies to Media2Go partners; Apple looms as ‘potentially threatening c
Microsoft on Thursday added Creative Technologies to its coffer of manufacturers developing Media2Go portable devices capable of playing digital video and music…
Apple fifth (sort of) in January desktop retail sales
NPD Group/NPD Techworld reports that Apple was number five among desktop computer manufacturers for January in dollar terms, according to Bloomberg…
Mac OS X Jaguar lets you zoom in and out on your screen with ease
Ever want to peer at something a little more closely, but don’t want to stop, change display properties to a lower resolution…
Aquaruler 4.0 rewritten from ground up for Mac OS X
dot software has announced the release of Aquaruler 4.0. Aquaruler is a full featured screen measuring utility suited for designers, and programmers…
Read DivX files in QuickTime with ffmpeg DivX
ffmpeg DivX is an update to Jamby?s alternative DivX codec for QuickTime. It can read MS-MPEG4v1, MS-MPEG4v2, DivX 3.11 alpha, DivX 4, DivX 5, 3ivx (Delta 4 or later) and XVID and is optimized for all PowerPC and G4…
Fax or email directly from Mac OS X print dialog with Page Sender
Fax or E-mail anything you can print, directly from the print dialog. Page Sender can also receive faxes using your fax modem…
WeatherPop Advance updated
Are you bleary eyed from staring into bright white phosphor all day? You can be in touch with what it?s like outside right now…
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault updated; supports SMP on dual processor systems
Set during the most trying years of the war, 1942-1945, Medal of Honor Allied Assault gives players a sense of the courage it took to survive the landings at…
VueScan update for Mac OS X and 9; produce high-quality scans from over 100 scanners
VueScan is a program that works with most scanners to produce high-quality scans that have excellent color fidelity…
BBEdit 7.0.3 update posted
Bare Bones Software has released an update to BBEdit, its text and HTML editor. The new version, 7.0.3…
Warcraft III beta test expanded; 10,000 additional participants needed
Entertainment announced it will be selecting 10,000 additional participants to facilitate the on-going testing of Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne…
Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar’s oft-ignored ‘secret’ screenshot method
With Mac OS X v10.2, you now have yet another option for capturing screenshots. This method is so often ignored that it may as well be a secret…