The folks at San Francisco’s Computers & Music let us know that they are offering free Saturday clinics on some of the most popular Mac music applications. Learning sessions are offered this month for Propellerhead’s Reason 2.0, Abelton’s Live, and MOTU’s Digital Performer 3. Registration information is available from the company’s Web site.
Read MoreMicrosoft’s Macintosh Business Unit (MacBU) today announced a new Office v.X ad campaign that focuses on cross-platform compatibility and how Office v.X helps Macs and PCs to communicate. The ads, which launch nationally on October 12 in Mac, business, technology and design publications, portray an iMac and a PC as human personas spending time together in different environments (click ‘continued’ to view two of the new ads).
Read MoreBlizzard today released a new patch for Warcraft III: Reign Of Chaos, the company’s popular real-time strategy game. Warcraft III: Reign Of Chaos 1.0.3 includes PowerPC optimizations, Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar) specific acceleration to the graphics engine, and numerous bug fixes. A detailed list of improvements can be found here. The update is currently only accessible by logging into Battle.net. Blizzard is expected to post the update to its FTP server soon.
Read MorePeachpit Press recently released the newly updated Quicken 2003 for Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide by Tom Negrino, the author’s ninth book for the publisher. The book, which sells for US$17.99, offers tips, tricks, and step-by-step instructions for using Quicken 2003 on a Macintosh.
Read MoreEmagic today released Logic Platinum 5.4 for Mac OS X, the latest version of its professional audio production software. The update brings support for Audio Unit plug-ins (Effects and Instruments) and the Rex file format. Logic Platinum 5.4 is available now as free download to registered users of Logic Platinum 5, and requires Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar) or higher.
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