Apple is hoping to triple the number of Asian developers using Mac OS X to develop software over the next five years, according to TechCentral. A representative within Apple’s worldwide developer relations program for the South Asian region said that the company would like to increase the number of developers in Malaysia by fifty percent by year’s end.
Read MoreOther World Computing today introduced its 160GB OWC Mercury external FireWire hard drive that spins at 5400 RPM and uses the Oxford 911 chipset. The drive is available now for US$379.95. The company also announced that it has lowered prices by up to twenty percent on its entire range of OWC Mercury FireWire drives, which include 5400 RPM drives ranging in capacity from 20GB to 160GB, 7200 RPM drives ranging in capacity from 20GB to 120GB, and portable, 2.5-inch drives ranging in capacity from 20GB to 60GB.
Read MoreScripting Matters, Inc. has announced that it has added additional speakers and Adobe Photoshop 7 to its AppleScript Pro Sessions, which are slated for May 13-17 in Monterey, CA. The new speakers include Shirley Hopkins of Digital Technology International, who will be demonstrating FaceSpan, and Mark Aldritt, the developer of Script Debugger and other AppleScript-related products.
Read MoreNew REALbasic Module (Classic/Carbon/Win32)
UniHelp 1.01 for REALbasic
Cross-Platform HELP Engine for Your REALbasic Apps!
Apple Help Viewer, Microsoft HTML Help, WinHelp…. Why waste your precious
development time designing and compiling a different Help system for each
platform when you can easily use UniHelp for all of them?
NO additional plug-ins or classes needed.
Read MoreVersion 1.5 of the Precision Plugin now has x86 support. So it can be used
in the construction of REALbasic applications for Mac OS 9.x, Mac OS X, and
Windows.
Bob Delaney is releasing his freeware Precision Plugin. It allows
mathematical operations on very large numbers. It is a light version of his
MPCalc plugin, but is not based on an RPN calculator interface. Rather it
is more like C in its behavior. As an example, here’s how you would divide
two very large numbers at a precision of 20.