Year: 2002

Economy takes its toll, but Expo happy with turnout

Tighter budgets and a tighter economy on the part of attendees and exhibitors has had a profound impact on this year’s Macworld Expo in New York City. But while attendees roam empty space of red carpet and red curtains, Rob Scheschareg, VP of Sales, Marketing & Product Development for IDG World Expo, is realistic that under current conditions the show is doing well and will have a good, final attendee turnout. (continued…)

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Desktop pictures weekly recap

During the past week, MacDesktops has posted 14 new pictures, including: Britney Spears (Music), Frog (Fauna), Io and Jupiter Farewell (Starscapes), Lara (Games), Seattle Space Needle (Landscapes – Urban), and Tiger lilies (Flora). Mandolux has posted 12 new pictures: five SR-71 Blackbirds (aerospace), five BOXA desktops (abstract art), and additions to the Technosis/Anthraxis (abstract) and Vector series.

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MacSpeech Announces New Scriptpaks

MACSPEECH ANNOUNCES NEW SCRIPTPAKS

Macworld Expo, New York, NY – July 19, 2002 – Macintosh speech recognition
authority MacSpeech, Inc. today announced ScriptPaks for QuarkXPress and
iTunes. ScriptPaks are plug-ins that add application-specific commands to
the company’s popular iListen program, as well as its free Mac OS 9-only
ListenDo! utility.

The QuarkXPress ScriptPak gives QuarkXPress users a “third hand” by
providing voice access to over 125 commands in QuarkXPress.

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VideoClix for QT6

eline Technologies today announced the launch of its QuickTime 6 compatible
interactive video authoring software “VideoClix” for Mac OS X.

VideoClix enables content producers to build -Hyper Objects- into QuickTime
movies, allowing viewers to click on actual items in the video and purchase
the products, play along, vote, learn more=8A without even having to stop th=
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stream.

VideoClix is the most user friendly and cost effective tool for creating
entertaining and engaging videos for use in DVD/CD-ROM, Internet and
Intranets.

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