Year: 2002

Apple is set to report its first-quarter results shortly. The company will webcast its financial results conference call at 17:30 ET. Analysts expect the company to report earnings of 11 cents per share on revenues of US$1.43 billion. MacMinute will be delivering live coverage of conference call. Shares of Apple closed down $0.92 ahead of the earnings, a decline of 4.24 percent on the day.

Aspyr Media has announced that it plans to release both Clive Barker’s Undying and The Sims: Hot Date forthe Mac in March, according to InsideMac Games. Clive Barker’s Undying is a horror-adventure game inwhich the player takes the role of Patrick Galloway, who comes face-to-facewith the reanimated corpses of his four dead siblings that are intent on himjoining the undead.

Apple has released a Windows version of its AirPort Admin Utility, allowing Windows systems to configure advanced settings on Apple’s latest AirPort Base Station, as noted by MacCentral.

Hitachi today introduced the 17-inch CML170+ flat-panel display, an upgraded version of its CML170 LCD that features support for both digital and analog signals and enhancements in the areas of brightness, contrast and resolution. The CML170+ features a 14-pound, 7-inch deep design, 250 nit brightness, 400:1 contrast ratio, a native resolution of 1280×1024, integrated speakers, headphone jack, and volume control on the bezel.

Frank Reiff today released A Better Finder Rename 4.3, an update to the utility for quickly batch renaming multiple files. The new version improves support for OS X long file names, extends the number manipulation operations, and corrects a problem with non-ASCII characters in file names. A Better Finder Rename is US$14.95 shareware.