Year: 2002

VersionTracker notes the release of Grammarian 2.1.5, Casady & Greene’s interactive grammar checker. This version offers live text-scrolling for all scrolling text fields; support for PageMaker 7, Netscape 6.2 and Idea Keeper; a few bug fixes and more.

The release of QuickTime 6, which has been delayed pending Apple’s desired modifications to the MPEG-4 licensing structure, could be held off for as long as half a year. A c|net article quotes MPEG LA executive Larry Horn as stating the group hopes to finalize the MPEG-4 licensing structure in the next three to five months. Horn also defended the group’s decision to charge a fee to both those who license the MPEG-4 codec and those who broadcast MPEG-4 content. “A use fee is fair.

Adam Iser has posted Adium 1.5b7, the latest beta release of the popular alternative AOL Instant Messenger client. The new version adds support for formatted links and countless bug fixes.

Aspyr Media has released version 1.2.1 of Star Trek: Voyager – Elite Force Holomatch, the multiplayer component of the Quake III engine-based first-person shooter. Version 1.2.1 improves the speed of listing servers under Mac OS X. New versions are available for both the original game and the expansion pack.

Apple has released QuickTime Streaming Server 4, a new version of its open-source, standards-based streaming server for Mac OS X Server 10.1 or later with MPEG-4 and MP3 streaming capabilities. The software does not require an MPEG-4 license and therefore is available immediately.