Year: 2002

MacHack, the popular gathering of Mac programmers from around the world, has announced their preliminary sessions list and the theme for this year’s event. MacHack 2002 will carry the theme “”Hakku no tetsujin,” literally Iron Man of the Hack. “These developers of the highest technical prowess do battle for 72-hours each to prove their technical prowess versus their opponents,” says the press release. Conference registration will set you back US$525 and includes access to all conference events, 3 meals and the conference banquet.

Our friends at MacMerc today have posted an interesting article on the status of RealPlayer for Mac OS X. The report contains a letter that MacMerc says was received by one of their readers from Real and talks about the company’s future development plans for Mac OS X-savvy products.

Beginning today, Extensis is offering all customers who purchase its Suitcase 10 font manager a free copy of SoftDesign FontDoctor, a US$69.95 value. Current Suitcase 10 users can download FontDoctor at the special price of $29.95. Suitcase 10 sells for $99.95.

MacPlay today announced the Macintosh Value Series, 12 games priced at US$19.99 each. Initial titles in the series include Bejeweled and Alchemy, two puzzle games that the company announced it has licensed from PopCap Games, which will ship in early June. Other titles include the classics Zork Grand Inquisitor, Birdie Shoot, JINNI ZEALA Pinball, and HeXen II.

CE Software has released QuickMail 3.1 Public Preview, the latest version of the client for its interoffice email solution. Version 3.1 adds support for viewing HTML messages and is available as a download to anyone. The preview expires June 26; the final version will be available as a free upgrade to 3.0 users.