Year: 2002

Ben Kirkendoll represents a new wave of DJs who are trading their vinyl for MP3s, an Associated Press article explains. Kirkendoll uses two 10GB iPods plugged into a mixer to entertain the crowds at Brooklyn’s BQE club. “Part of the beauty of MP3s, is that a regular guy with a day job and a passion for music can be a DJ without years of practicing and thousands of dollars scouring record shops for those rare must-haves,” Kirkendoll said.

The folks at MacMonkies let us know about a new Birthday Giveaway taking place on their Web site. Prizes offered include a Sony PlayStation 2, JVC DVD Player and loads of software titles. The giveaway ends on July 31, 2002 at midnight, so there is still time to sign up for your chance to win.

Carbon Copy Cloner 1.3.1, a utility developed with AppleScript Studio to make a carbon copy of your Mac OS X hard drive with permissions intact, is now available, as noted by VersionTracker. Version 1.3.1 is primarily a maintenance update which fixes several bugs.

Apple and Sun are cooperating on a version of Sun’s StarOffice for Mac OS X, according to c|net. The productivity suite is designed to directly compete against Microsoft’s Office v.X. A Java-based version of OpenOffice is expected by the end of the year, and a commercial version of StarOffice sometime in 2003. Sun is also considering offering StarOffice for free.

EarthGlobe, a new Mac OS X freeware application from Gary Martin, is now available. EarthGlobe is a real-time, OpenGL rendered globe designed as a sister application to MoonDock. The application provides a lightweight view of the Earth’s day-light/seasonal cycles and takes up few system resources so it can be left running on your desktop. This release (v0.9) is a preview version and the author encourages feedback from users for upcoming features.