“It’s always been an interesting relationship with the Mac community… sometimes a bit rocky,” said Jürgen Kurz, Quark’s VP of product management at a feature presentation from last week’s Macworld CreativePro Conference & Expo. However, he told the crowd that Quark was there to “celebrate” that QuarkXpress 6 was shipping.
Read More“Mac users don’t have to deal with the annoyances that regularly plague Windows users, such as computers that don’t recognize camcorders, or software that routinely encounters a ‘fatal error’ nanoseconds before you want to save, as if it knows what you want to do and is programmed to prevent it,” writes Tad Simons, editor-in-chief of Presentations magazine in the July issue. “The rest of us aren’t so lucky…
Read MoreO’Reilly has announced the release of “Building Wireless Community Networks, Second Edition” (US$29.95), authored by Rob Flickenger. The new edition of this book has been “thoroughly updated to keep pace with rapid changes in wireless technology. It shows readers how to make a network available, how to extend high-speed internet access into the many areas not served by DSL and cable providers, and how to build working communities and a shared though intangible network.”
Read MoreEZQuest has announced that it is shipping its new Boa FireWire and USB 2.0 4x DVD+RW/-RW external drives, which are compatible with DVD+, DVD- and all CD media. The FireWire version is compatible with Mac OS 9.1 and 10.1.2 or later and both versions include Retrospect Express software for scheduling automatic backups. The drives are available now for an estimated retail price of US$299.
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