Year: 2002

MacMinute reader Matt Fago notes that Apple recently released its developer note for the new PowerMac G4 towers, which offers a plethora of detailed information regarding the new systems.

eWeek columnist Matthew Rothenberg tackles Apple’s new Power Mac G4s in his latest piece, discussing the quiet roll-out of the new systems and speculating that the bump to 1GHz is just a drop in the bucket compared to what Apple has in the pipeline for pro users.

Apple and Genentech have partnered to develop an accelerated version of the Blast sequence alignment algorithm that takes advantage of the PowerPC G4 processor. The accelerated version can make homology searches of chromosomes over four times faster, according to GenomeWeb, as noted by MacSurfer.

Gibson Guitar Corp. has released the Opcode music sequencing applications, Vision DSP 4.5.1 and Studio Vision Pro 4.5.1, as freeware, reports WorkingMac.com. Both titles were released in the summer of 1999, and as such Gibson recommends using Mac OS 8.6 or earlier; Mac OS 9 compatibility is unclear. Also released as a free download is OMS, which enables user control of MIDI devices in Mac OS 8/9 applications.