Year: 2002

NEC-Mitsubishi has announced a new line of NEC MultiSync Flat Enterprise CRT monitors, which include the 17-inch NEC MultiSync FE770, FE770M, FE771 SB, and FE791 SB; 19-inch FE990 and FE991 SB; and 21-inch FE2111 SB. The new line of displays offer superior brightness through NEC-Mitsubishi’s SuperBright Diamondtron flat aperture grille. The monitors are available in either white with brushed aluminum bezel or black cabinet options.

Malus Softwares has released Sambacus 2.0, a new version of its time tracking application for Mac OS 8/9 and Mac OS X. The new version adds contact information per project, note attachments for projects and tasks, a description field, hourly rates for individual tasks, imports and exports, task sets, and additional improvements. Sambacus 2.0 sells for US$20.

At NAB, Pioneer Electronics has announced its PureVision PDP-433CMX, a Mac-compatible 43-inch plasma monitor capable of displaying a native XGA resolution of 1024 x 768 as well as PC signal resolutions ranging from 640 x 480 to 1600 x 1200. An included expansion slot offers compatibility with DVI, FireWire, TCP/IP, and other analog and digital signals. The PDP-433CMX sells for US$11,500.

Two free tools are now available to owners of Apple’s iPod. Ambushed Networks has released PodNews 1.0, a free, open-source Mac OS X application that allows users to update their Apple iPod with the latest news headlines from various Web sites. THHdesign has released Podtext 1.0, a free application for Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X that lets users easily transfer up to 2000 character messages to their iPod.

eVision has released ePhoto Preview Release for Mac OS X, a pre-release version of its alternative to iPhoto for organizing, storing, and searching digital photos and digital videos. ePhoto offers the unique feature of searching photos visually: users can tell ePhoto to find images that look similar to a sample image or that share similar colors or shapes. The preview version expires on April 24, 2002.