Year: 2003

CNET: ‘Five reasons not to buy an iPod’

Posted by | Nov 7, 2003 | |

CNET Reviews senior editor Eliot Van Buskirk has posted his five reasons why not to buy an iPod. “If you don’t care about low battery life, aren’t fond of jogging, have ample disposable income, don’t need to record/encode music portably, and want to purchase music downloads only from the iTunes Music Store, then the iPod is the best the way to go.” He concludes: “While not ideal for some niche activities, it’s still hands down the best-designed MP3 player in the world.”

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IconBuilder Pro gets Photoshop CS, Panther support

Posted by | Nov 7, 2003 | |

The Iconfactory on Friday released IconBuilder Pro 4.1, an update to its professional icon construction filter for Adobe Photoshop. Version 4.1 brings support for the recently released Photoshop CS and Mac OS X 10.3 Panther. The free update also includes support for Photoshop Actions, support for Command-F to re-run processes, greatly improved adaptive 8-bit palette handling for Windows icon creation, and a host of bug fixes and user interface tweaks. IconBuilder Pro sells for US$69.

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Native Instruments releases Battery 1.3 for OS X

Posted by | Nov 7, 2003 | |

Native Instruments has announced the Battery 1.3 update, which brings the popular drum-sampler to Mac OS X and Pro Tools users. Battery 1.3 fully supports Maac OS X’s modern technologies and interfaces, including AudioUnits, RTAS, VST, and standalone operation with CoreMIDI and CoreAudio. The update is immediately available to all registered users as a US$29 direct download.

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Sonnet ships Tempo Serial ATA card

Posted by | Nov 7, 2003 | |

Sonnet Technologies said today that it is now shipping the Tempo Serial ATA PCI host adapter, which allows Mac owners to take advantage of the market’s latest offerings in Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) storage technologies. “With data transfer rates of up to 150MBytes/sec or 1.5Gbits/sec, the product performance is that of SCSI but without the SCSI price,” the company said. Tempo Serial ATA sells for US$99.95.

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Developer Day At The Iconfactory

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November 7th, 2003
“Developer Day” At The Iconfactory

The Iconfactory is pleased to announce the release of two new resources
geared toward developers and icon artists – IconBuilder Pro 4.1 for Adobe
Photoshop CS and the launch of the new “Developer Zone” at The Iconfactory.

IconBuilder Pro 4.1 has been updated to work with the recently released
Adobe Photoshop CS, as well as Apple’s new Panther OS X.

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