Apple has posted the winners from last night’s Eighth Annual Apple Design Awards, which honored developers for the creation of outstanding Mac OS X software. Salling Clicker 1.5 picked up awards for both Best Mac OS X Product (Best of Show) and for Most Innovative. Best Mac OS X User Experience went to Starry Night Backyard 4.0.
Read MoreApple has released Hard Drive Update 1 for Mac OS X, which improves the longevity of some hard drives shipped in certain Power Mac G4s, including the Cube, and Power Macs known as “AGP Graphics,” “Digital Audio,” “Gigabit Ethernet,” and “Quicksilver.” According to Apple, most drives do not need this update. You can check the drives in your computer by running this update. If the update is needed, a message will alert you.
Read More@Last Software today announced the release of SketchUp 3.0, a new version of its 3-D design software that adds a multitude of new features designed to help users create superior models and then take them into 3-D modeling, CAD, image editing, illustration and animation applications.
Read MoreMacMinute reader Andrew Abdalian wrote in to let us know that iMovie’s Ken Burns Effect was the subject of today’s “Final Jeopardy” answer on the popular game show, Jeopardy. The question read: “In Apple’s iMovie program, the effect seen here [queue sepia tone panning and zooming shots of the Jeopardy set with fife and drum music in the background], done with pictures, is named for this TV filmmaker.”
Read MoreThe head of Sony’s US operations said on Wednesday that the April launch of Apple’s iTunes Music Store was a “sea change” and a “wake-up call.” “Steve Jobs has liberated us,” Sony US CEO Howard Stringer told media executives and press at a breakfast hosted by The New Yorker and Syracuse University’s Newhouse School. “We’re all doing the same things and providing our own solutions… In the technology age, everything can be duplicated quickly.”
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