Year: 2003

NetNewsWire 1.0.4

Posted by | Aug 25, 2003 | , |

Ranchero Software releases NetNewsWire 1.0.4

Seattle, WA, USA — August 25, 2003 — Ranchero Software is pleased to
announce the release of a new version of the award-winning NetNewsWire,
the easy-to-use RSS Web newsreader for Mac OS X.

Highlights of NetNewsWire 1.0.4 include using Web Kit (the Safari HTML
renderer) for HTML display, custom style sheets, displaying differences
in updated items, performance boosts, TypePad weblog editing support,
and support for gzip compression.

See What’s New in NetNewsWire 1.0.4 for more details.
(http://ranchero.com/netnewswire/whatsnew/netne

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Apple eyes Bollywood for future growth

Posted by | Aug 25, 2003 | |

Apple said last week that it plans to make inroads into Bollywood, India’s film industry, with its new Power Mac G5, which recently debuted in the country. “India is a huge untapped market for Apple and apart from traditional industries such as designing and animation we are also looking to Bollywood as a potentially large market,” said Richard Ng, product marketing manager for Apple’s Asia Pacific region.

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Apple looking for new Austin office space

Posted by | Aug 25, 2003 | |

Apple is currently looking for new Austin, Texas office space in what might be the area’s largest office search of the past three years, according to the Austin Business Journal. “Sources say leases for the computer maker’s offices in North Austin and Northeast Austin will expire in about a year, so the company’s Dallas brokers at Swearingen Realty Group LLC are looking for 250,000 square feet as a replacement,” reports the publication.

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Plextor offers DVD+/-R/RW FireWire drive

Posted by | Aug 25, 2003 | |

Plextor today announced the new external PX-708UF DVD+/-R/RW drive for burning DVD+R/RW, DVD-R/RW, and CD-R/RW media. The drive features both FireWire and USB 2.0 interfaces, and supports 8x DVD+R and 4x DVD-R writing; 4x DVD+RW and 2x DVD-RW rewriting; and 12x max DVD-reading. The PX-708UF also boasts high-speed 40x CD-R writing, 24x CD-RW rewriting, and 40X max CD-reading. The new DVD+/-R/RW drive is scheduled to ship next month for US$359.

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G5 tours Australia ‘like a rock star’

Posted by | Aug 25, 2003 | |

The “only Power Mac G5 in the country” made a round of in-store appearances “like a rock star on tour” in Brisbane, Australia last week, according to the Courier-Mail. “Eager users thronged to the Brisbane events to see and touch the dual-2GHz prototype model for themselves, as proof that yes, it really does exist,” reports the newspaper.

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