Native Instruments has announced the availability of Absynth Sounds Vol. 1 – Sonic Expansion, which includes 256 new Absynth presets, ranging from evolving atmospheres, acoustic sounds, innovative synths, to basses, pads, drums, and rhythmic patterns. Absynth Sounds Volume 1 – Sonic Expansion sells for US$49.90.
Read MoreFWB Software today announced the immediate availability of Partition Toolkit 1.0, featuring a streamlined user interface for creating, deleting, and modifying drive partitions. Partition Toolkit, which carries a suggested retail price of US$24.95 ($19.95 for a limited time), supports HFS (Mac OS Standard File System), HFS+ (Mac OS Extended File System), MS-DOS, and LinuxPPC formats. The utility requires Mac OS 8.6 or Mac OS 9.X, G3 or G4 processor, 16 MB of available RAM, and a SCSI or IDE hard disk.
Read MoreThe folks at Willow Design have announced a special year-end sale on cases for Apple products. All Apple cases are on sale and Willow will pay half of the regular sized cases’ shipping costs of ground shipping for American and Canadian orders placed before December 12th. International orders will also receive a reduction in their shipping rates. In addition, the company is offering MacMinute readers an additional 5% discount for orders placed before December 6th.
Read MoreApple has posted the iMac SuperDrive Firmware Update for Mac OS 9, as noted by MacUpdate. The update addresses an incompatibility with 4x DVD-R and 2x DVD-RW media when used with the internal SuperDrive found in the 15″ flat-panel iMacs, and also fixes a problem with ejecting audio CDs that are copy-protected or have mastering errors.
Read MoreApple today released a firmware update for the Power Mac G4 with mirrored drive doors. The Power Mac G4 Firmware Update 4.4.8 improves fan control behavior and reduces high speed fan cycling when running in Mac OS 9. The 1.3MB download is available via the Software Update utility.
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