Year: 2003

Nicecast turns your Mac into Internet radio station

Posted by | Oct 28, 2003 | |

Rogue Amoeba today announced the release of Nicecast, new software that allows you to easily broadcast music from Mac OS X. “Broadcast to the far reaches of the globe, or just across your house. Nicecast can help you create your own internet radio station or allow access to your iTunes Music Library from anywhere in the world.” A preview version of Nicecast is available now and will expire December 7, 2003. Nicecast can be purchased for US$30 ($40 after December 31).

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WindowShade X ready for Panther

Posted by | Oct 28, 2003 | |

Unsanity today released WindowShade X 3.1, a new version of its haxie that brings the familiar window-collapsing effect from Classic Mac OS into Mac OS X, and allows you to control window shadow settings. The free update brings support for Mac OS X 10.3 Panther. WindowShade X sells for US$10.

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OWC offers Mercury Extreme 700Mhz G4 upgrade

Posted by | Oct 28, 2003 | |

Other World Computing (OWC) has expanded the low end of its popular Mercury Extreme line with a 700MHz G4 processor upgrade available immediately for US$199.99. OWC also reaffirmed that the entire Mercury Extreme line, from the G4/700MHz model to the current top end G4/1.4-1.467GHz model, is 100 percent compatible with all Mac OS versions, including Mac OS X 10.3 Panther.

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ASCII/edit

Posted by | Oct 28, 2003 | , |

ASCII/edit is the first WYSIWYG editor for tables, diagrams, or simple
graphics made of ASCII characters for Mac OS X. It lets you arrange text
on a page, as with a layout software; align and indent paragraphs, like
in a word processor; and add lines and rectangles, as in a drawing
application. The output, however, is simple ASCII text, which you can
include in e-mails, newsgroups, or source code.

If you need to do anything similar, ASCII/edit will greatly simplify
these time-consuming and nerve-racking tasks.

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