Maine’s effort to put an Apple iBook computer in the lap of every seventh-and eight-grader in its public schools is attracting international attention…
Month: March 2003
FAXst X Pro for Mac OS X now shipping
Smith Micro Software today announced FAXst X Pro for Mac OS X, the latest release of the company’s fax software for Mac OS X…
Mac OS X FolderSynchronizer beta updated; syncs folders, files, and disks
FoldersSynchronizer is a shareware utility for Mac OS X which synchronizes and backs up files, single or mutiple pairs of folders…
Turn phone numbers into easy-to-remember words with Mac OS X freeware PhoneWord
A phone word is a way to represent a phone number by using digits and words made up from the letters that represent the digits in a phone number…
Player Manager 2003 can make you a footballing (soccer) legend
Ever wanted to be a football (soccer) manager? Ever thought you could take Liverpool back to their distant glory days…
Mac OS X freeware Raptor ASF game ready for flight
Take to the air in the cockpit of the advanced F-22 Raptor fighter jet in this Raiden-style arcade game…
Bag Of Unusual Strategy Games for Mac OS X updated
This is a collection of games “you won’t find elsewhere,” according to the developer Dr. Herwig Henseler…
Newsday: 12-inch PowerBook ‘has no competition’
When money is no object, buy the Apple…
Apple updates Java to v1.4.1 via Software Update
Apple has posted a significant upgrade to Java for Mac OS X, now available for download through the Software Update system preference…
Clean elegant Keynote: ‘the anti-PowerPoint’
PowerPoint doesn’t annoy me as much as Celine Dion or that loathsome substance known as tomato soup, but it comes close…
CNET Reviews: Apple’s control of ‘whole widget’ make iPod ‘smooth to use’
It’s not the iPod, the operating system, or the iTunes software alone that makes the Mac iPod so smooth to use…
Power Mac G5 and 64-bit Mac OS X 10.3 coming sooner than expected?
Is IBM’s much-vaunted PowerPC 970 coming to the Mac sooner rather than later? There’re at least two conflicting, but equally well-sourced points of view…
Bigfoot ‘desktop critter’ for Mac OS X updated
BigFoot is a Mac OS X ‘desktop critter’ that provides you with endless entertainment, in the form of a pair of feet…
CrossCards game for Mac OS X combines poker and X-Words
Like the famed combination of peanut butter and chocolate, CrossCards takes two great elements, poker and Freeverse?s X-Words…
Go after the source of email spam with Star69 for Mac OS X
Don’t filter your e-mail for spam, go after the source on your Apple Macintosh. Star69, a Mac OS X application, determines an e-mail’s originating ISP/network, identifying the e-mail contact for that network…
Standard U.S. Army issue laptop too slow? Send in the Apple PowerBook
The U.S. military is shipping a lot of hardware to the Middle East for the impending war on Iraq, but only one Mac…
Standard U.S. Army issue laptop too slow? Send in the Apple PowerBook
The U.S. military is shipping a lot of hardware to the Middle East for the impending war on Iraq, but only one Mac…
Sony CEO says he ‘would consider buying Apple Computer’
atnewyork.com’s Michael Singer reports that Sony chairman and CEO, Nobuyuki Idei would condier buying Apple Computer…
Up your Finder’s (and other programs’) priority in Mac OS X with Renicer 1.2
Northern Softworks today released version 1.2 of Renicer, its automatic operation prioritization utility for Mac OS X…
You can’t do this on Windows: Sony Ericsson Clicker might be Apple’s next killer app
You can’t do this on Windows, folks. Last week, Salling released a surprisingly versatile piece of software for Mac OS X called the Sony Ericsson Clicker…
Apple updates iMovie to version 3.0.2
Apple has updated iMovie to version 3.0.2. The update provides improved performance and stability, according to Apple…
Customize your Mac OS X menu bar with AliasMenu X
AliasMenu X adds customized menus to the menu bar. Each menu extra has a corresponding folder and the menu automatically reflects the folder’s content…
Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection Client 1.0.1 update posted
Remote Desktop Connection Client 1.0.1 for Mac allows you to connect to a Windows-based computer and work with programs and files on that computer from your Macintosh computer…
Analyze information about web pages with freeware Tyrantula X
Tyrantula is an analysis tool that provides sundry information about a web page…
Call the plumber; Drip Drop game available for Mac OS X
Call the plumber, quick! Theres a leak somewhere, hear it? DRIP DROP DRIP DROP! Oh, actually its DRIP DROP…
Microspot X-RIP a professional Mac OS X printer driver for large format printers
This new version of Microspot X-RIP supports printing by both direct connection (USB) and over a network (TCP/IP)…
IOXperts 802.11b driver for Mac OS X gives PowerBook users access to over 60 PC cards
This driver gives Mac PowerBook users access to more than 60 wireless PC cards. Support for 64- and 128-bit WEP, AppleTalk, AirPort Password Algorithm…
Man shoots Dell laptop four times after it crashes once too often
George Doughty hung his latest hunting trophy on the wall of his Sportsman’s Bar and Restaurant. Then he went to jail. The problem was the trophy was Doughty’s laptop computer…
Apple now shipping dual 1.42 GHz Power Mac
Apple’s Web site states that the dual 1.42 GHz Power Mac G4 is “now shipping.” The fastest Power Macintosh…
Apple Keynote vs. Microsoft PowerPoint
Like Windows users, Mac users who need to make computer-based presentations have had little choice in recent years but to use Microsoft Corp.’s PowerPoint…
PC Magazine on video editing: Buy ‘any Mac and do a better job’ than a 3GHz PC
Bill Howard of PC Magazine provides a checklist and shopping list for video-editing hobbyists in his article…
New iPods soon to feature AAC audio; up to 40GB capacities
A varied collection of sources are now telling MacDailyNews that Apple will soon debut new iPods with up to 40GB capacity and AAC (Advanced Audio Coding) audio support…
CalculatorMaX 2 for Mac OS X is freeware algebraic and RPN calculator
CalculatorMaX 2 is an algebraic and RPN calculator with other capabilites such as: store and recall, trigonometric funtions…
Track 32 satellites automatically with MacDopplerPRO
MacDopplerPRO will read in the Keplerian elements (in either format), calculate the position and relative velocity of the satellite…
Wordnet for Mac OS X hits version 1.7
Wordnet for Mac OS X 10.1 and later, is a freeware lexical reference system…
Helix helicopter game for Mac OS X updated
Grab your chopper and pilot through four worlds and 100 levels of Helix for Mac OS X…
Get your Outlook info off your PC and onto your Mac
Outlook2Mac may be the fastest way to move your Windows Outlook email, contacts, and calendar appointments from your PC to your Macintosh computer…
MenuMeters for Mac OS X lets you monitor your Mac
MenuMeters is a set of CPU, memory, disk, and network monitoring tools for MacOS X. The MenuMeters monitors are true SystemUIServer plugins…
autoID Password Manager tracks and automatically enters your website passwords
autoID can be used to track names, passwords, credit cards, software serial numbers and confidential notes in an encrypted form…
Speed Download 1.9.6 update now available
Tired of waiting for files to download? Shatter download rates and maximize your bandwidth…
Liquify your Mac OS X screen with Fluid2
Fluid2 is a realtime fluid-dynamics model and rendering engine that uses OpenGL to create the effect of flowing liquid on your screen…
Championship Manager 4 Demo posted
Prepare yourself for the most emotionally involving and realistic football (soccer for Americans) management game in history…