Year: 2001

URL Manager Pro — the best bookmark manager bar none, in our opinion — has been updated to 3.0b11. This release, which is optimized for Mac OS X only, is available for download now.

Blizzard has posted updates for two of their games — Starcraft 1.08b, and Diablo 1.06b. Both updates provide a few fixes and feature additions and are available for download now from the company’s Web site.

Here’s another well-written tutorial from our friends at Low End Mac. “The No-No’s of Computer Use” is geared for toward newer users and offers tips and advice on keeping your Mac alive and well. And while we are on the topic, this would make a good category for our Reader Café. We’ll set that up right away, so if you have a good tip, please be sure to post it.

The ResExcellence Web site has posted an excellent REALbasic tutorial by Erick Ejkowski that shows you how to create a simple program to extract ‘PICT’ resources from your favorite applications and save them to disk as a PICT file.

Merant announced today plans to extend its DataDirect ODBC technology to Mac OS X. DataDirect will enable Macintosh software developers to connect their Mac OS X applications, including Microsoft Office, FileMaker or any ODBC-enabled application, to industry-leading databases including SQL Server, Sybase and Informix.