Year: 2002

Approximately 50,000 people used QuickTime to view the live webcast of Steve Jobs’ Macworld Expo keynote last week, according to an Apple press release. Of those, about 25,000 used QuickTime 6 and viewed the MPEG-4 stream of the keynote, making it the first large-scale web event to be streamed in that format using a complete Apple solution. Four Apple Xserve servers using QuickTime Streaming Server 4.1, QuickTime Broadcaster, and QuickTime 6 delivered the MPEG-4 stream.

Apple today announced Shake 2.5 for Mac OS X, the first release of the industy-leading compositing and visual effects software for the platform. Apple aquired Shake when it purchased Nothing Real earlier this year. Shake 2.5 will ship in August and will require Mac OS X 10.2. It will also be released for Linux, IRIX, and Windows.

Miglia has announced the Catalyst ATA/FW Kit, which enables users to upgrade an external SCSI drive case to the latest Oxford 911 bridge board technology. The converter plugs into Centronics-type connectors on SCSI drives. Additionally, FireWire cases with first-generation bridges may also be converted to the 911 chipset.

E.Digital today announced its new Odyssey 1000 digital jukebox and data storage device, which bears a striking resemblance to Apple’s iPod. The device uses e.Digital’s own MicroOS 2.0, which also looks very similar to the iPod’s menu system.

A Mac OS X Jaguar Web page lists a number of the new features found in the upgrade but not touched upon during Steve Jobs’ Macworld Expo keynote. These include AirPort Software Base Station support, a clean install option, new Japanese and Chinese fonts, multilingual spell checking, CUPS printing, FireWire audio drivers, better font smoothing on LCD displays, scanner support in Image Capture, and lots more.