SmartDisk today announced the availability of FireWire, USB 2.0 and combination PCI and PCMCIA cards for users who want to upgrade their desktop or notebook systems with high-speed connectivity. For notebook users, SmartDisk offers a powered 3-port Cardbus card that slides into any PCMCIA Cardbus slot, allowing for the addition of FireWire. SmartDisk’s FireWire PCI Card features 3 external 6-pin FireWire ports.
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MACSPEECH UPDATES iLISTEN 1.5 FOR MAC OS X VERSION 10.2 “JAGUAR”
Bedford, NH, September 4th, 2002 – MacSpeech, Inc., the speech recognition
authority for the Mac, today released an update to its flagship product,
iListen 1.5, for Mac OS X version 10.2 “Jaguar.”
The updated version of iListen 1.5 takes advantage of Mac OS X v10.2’s
Universal Access environment for improved speech recognition and easier
navigation by voice. iListen 1.5’s Correction feature now works more
proficiently with Mac OS X applications as well.
Glucose today updated WeatherPop and WeatherPop Advance, the popular utilities that display current weather conditions in your menu bar, to version 1.5.1. Users of previous versions of WeatherPop must upgrade to version 1.5.1 because all previous versions no longer work. The new version allows users to select between multiple sources of weather data and also corrects a critical performance problem that has affected many users.
Read MorePalm will offer refunds to customers who bought its m130 device and are unhappy that it is not capable of displaying the 65,000 colors that the company had advertised, according to a note on its Web site. Palm admitted last month that the handheld could only produce 58,621 color combinations. Customers can get either a full refund or a free download of the popular SimCity game, a US$29.95 value.
Read MoreMacScripter has posted an interesting interview with Tim Bumgarner, lead engineer of AppleScript Studio. In the interview, Bumgarner discusses the origins of AppleScript Studio and its plans for the future, the forthcoming AppleScript Studio documentation, and the plans to make more Cocoa features available to provide users a way to build full-featured applications directly in AppleScript.
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