DEVONtechnologies has released the first public beta of DEVONagent, its new Internet search agent. DEVONagent 1.0b1 comes with a total of 15 plug-ins for querying a variety of search engines and databases, scanning the Usenet, and more. Also released was DEVONthink 1.7.1, which adds tight integration with DEVONagent, an automatic update check function, and performance boosts. DEVONagent requires Mac OS X 10.2 and Safari.
Read MoreWiebeTech has announced price reductions on several of its popular storage products. “The amount of the reductions vary by product. For example, the extremely popular MicroGB+ pocket drive with a 40GB, 5400RPM, 8MB cache drive has been reduced $40, from $269.95 to $229.95. At the top end of the scale, the price of the 1.2 Terabyte Quad BayDockTM FireWire storage system has been cut from $3,995 to $2,539.” More than 35 different product configurations have been permanently reduced in price.
Read MoreApple has contracted Jeffrey Zeldman of Happy Cog Studios and Douglas Bowman of Stopdesign to help redesign the company’s Web site. Both men are widely known for their standards-based Web design practices. “We’ll be working with Messieurs Rand Hill, Douglas Vincent, and Chad Little of Apple’s Web design team,” Zeldman said. “If you read zeldman.com even casually, you will know that we hold Apple in high esteem, and will deduce that we’re pleased to have landed the gig…
Read MoreMicrosoft confirmed on Wednesday that the recently released Virtual PC 6.1 is not compatible with the new Power Mac G5. “Currently, Virtual PC 6.1 does not run on the Power Mac G5,” Microsoft’s Sandra Peignaux told Macworld UK.
Read MoreThe Big Nerd Ranch has announced it will launch its revised Cocoa training class, modified to incorporate new features being added to the Panther release of Apple’s Mac OS X operating system and developer tools. The Big Nerd Ranch offers intensive training classes for Unix and Mac OS X programmers in a lodge outside Atlanta, GA.
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