Year: 2001

PC Expo attendance falls

A continued waning interest in desktop and laptop products, as well as related technologies, led attendance at last week’s PC Expo in New York to fall for the first time in the show’s 19-year history. About 50,000 people attended the three-day expo, down from 55,000 last year. In contrast, Macworld Expo New York, which is held in the same location, attracted 61,500 attendees last year.

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Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 reviewed

Bob “Dr. Mac” LeVitus has written a review of Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 for the Austin American Statesman. The highly successful game has been available for PC and PlayStation for some time, but was only recently released for the Mac. “In the past two weeks my son, my daughter and I all have spent countless hours with Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2. In the immortal words of that other Tony (the Tiger), ‘It’s grrreeeaaat!'”

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VideoPlug 1.2 for REALbasic

Essence Software is proud to announce the release of VideoPlug 1.2.

VideoPlug is a plugin for REALbasic which allows developers to utilise
QuickTime-compatible video capture hardware in their applications to
capture audio & video sequences.

VideoPlug 1.2 improves VideoPlug by adding:

– Support for MacOS X (Carbon)
– Programmatic control over grabber parameters (compression, brightness,
contrast, audio gain, etc.)

VideoPlug also fixes some problems regarding the release of compression
hardware after an application using VideoPlug had quit.

Download a demo of VideoPlug here:
(http://www

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