Jiiva today announced the release of SuperScrubber 1.1, the latest update to the company’s disk sanitization utility for the Mac. SuperScrubber is a disk utility, priced at US$29.99, that serves to completely and permanently erase all data from a specified internal or external hard drive or partition, leaving no retrievable trace of the old data.
Read MoreGreene County, North Carolina leaders have approved a four-year lease agreement that will provide more than 1,715 Apple iBooks to every middle and high school student, at a cost of US$3.23 million. Students and teachers at four Oak Ridge, Tennessee elementary schools will also have new iBooks when school resumes in August. The school district approved a four-year lease for 425 of the laptops, at $200,617 a year.
Read MoreUtilizing an iTunes plug-in, AudioScrobbler.com is a new Web site that “endeavours to be your personal music advisor. It grows to know what music you like by monitoring what songs you play on your computer. From this information you can discover other users that share some or all of your taste in music. You can also view data showing what your most-played artists are, and find out who likes a particular artist the most.
Read More“Safari is one of Apple’s finest releases, an elegant piece of work that shows a refreshing emphasis on two often-neglected qualities: simplicity and speed,” writes Rob Pegoraro for the Washington Post. “This browser — a free, 6.2-megabyte download for Mac OS X 10.2 — boots in a few blinks of the eye and displays pages faster than competing browsers.” See the full article for Pegoraro’s glowing review of Safari 1.0.
Read MoreApple received two awards in this year’s Industrial Design Excellence Awards (IDEA), which honored companies that “use design to push traditional brands into new markets, extend well-known brands into new products, and invent something totally new, cool, and useful.” Apple picked up a Gold Award for its 12 and 17-inch PowerBooks and a Silver Award for its Xserve.
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