Year: 2003

Password Retriever 4.5.4 offers new features

Koingo Software has announced the release of Password Retriever 4.5.4, a utility to store and categorize passwords for everything from voice mail to e-mail accounts. Version 4.5.4 introduces several new features and enhancements, in particular, a new database format which allows unique category names for each database, alongside a new synchronization utility. Password Retriever sells for US$15.95 — a 15-day demo is also available.

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Xplain Offers Companies Turnkey Pavilions at Apple Expo Paris

XPLAIN OFFERS U.S. COMPANIES TURNKEY PAVILION PACKAGES AT APPLE EXPO PARIS
— Both Xplain pavilions return to Apple Expo Paris 2003
— MacTech Central: The Technical Products Showcase
— “International Pavilion” to help developers expand in European market

WESTLAKE VILLAGE, CA — August 4, 2003 — Xplain Corporation, the leader in
pavilion management, announced today they’ll offer turnkey station packages
to U.S. based companies, in market-focused pavilions at Apple Expo, in
Paris (16-20 September, 2003).

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Exchange Update for Entourage X 10.1.4 coming today

Microsoft’s Macintosh Business Unit (MacBU) today will release Microsoft Exchange Update for Entourage X 10.1.4. The company says that this update “provides enhanced functionality between Entourage X for Mac — a comprehensive e-mail and personal information manager (PIM) designed specifically for the Mac OS X platform — and Microsoft Exchange Server, an enterprise server designed to meet the messaging and collaboration needs of small organizations and larger enterprises.”

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Australian Apple resellers experience iPod drought

Apple resellers in Australia are currently dealing with a “dire” iPod supply situation. “We’ve been averaging a hundred calls a day,” said Adam Steinhardt, director of Next Byte. “It’s been a drought for six weeks. Supply has been trickling through.” According to ARN, shoppers looking for an iPod are turning to Internet auction sites like eBay, where they are actually bidding above the suggested retail price of a new model. “We’ve been flabberghasted by demand,” said Arno Lenior, Apple Australia’s marketing manager.

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Mr. Roboto talks about the upcoming G5s

In an article for the Village Voice, Brendan Koerner (Mr. Roboto/Mac Daddy) talks about Apple’s new G5s — are they a “must-have” for every Mac fan? He extolls the virtues of Apple’s fastest Mac ever — one Apple says is the fastest personal computer in the world. “If the G5 were a car, it’d be a souped-up Mustang with a tank of nitro in the back,” says Koerner.

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