Year: 2003

DiskWarrior 3.0 offers OS X native directory rebuilding

Alsoft today announced the release of DiskWarrior 3.0, a new version of its award-winning disk utility. Version 3.0 brings several new features, including native Mac OS X directory rebuilding for Mac OS X Extended disks, as well as disks running under earlier versions of the Mac OS. Also new to this version are significant speed improvements, support for journaling, and a component that uses a drive’s built-in S.M.A.R.T.

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FirewireDirect introduces FireWire 800 Mbps PCI host adapter

FirewireDirect.com has announced the introduction of its new FireWire 800 1394b PCI Host Adapter Card, the first new product to ship in a series of upcoming FireWire 800 products from the company. Their new 3-port FireWire 800 card has two fully compliant bilingual 9-pin FireWire 800 ports and a single legacy 6-pin 400Mbps FireWire connector for user’s existing devices and cabling. It is priced at US$79.95 and is for sale now from the FirewireDirect Web site.

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MCE ships DVD-R/RW drive for G3 PowerBooks

MCE Technologies has announced the release of a DVD-R/RW video authoring and data solutions for Apple PowerBook (FireWire) and PowerBook G3 Series — 1999 (Bronze/Lombard) machines. The MCE Expansion Bay DVD-R/RW drive includes Macintosh DVD-authoring software for the creation of DVD-Video discs, playable in most home and computer DVD players, in addition to software for burning data DVDs of 4.7GB and CDs of up to 700MB.

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