Year: 2003

MacFeast 2003 details announced

Posted by | Apr 2, 2003 | |

Soutern California’s MacFeast 2003 event is scheduled for Saturday, June 14, 2003 at Cerritos College in Norwalk, California. Guest speakers include Shawn King, host of the Your Mac Life Internet radio show, and Brendan Schilling, regional manager from Apple Computer. This year’s show features a chuckwagon-style BBQ dinner, various contests and prizes, and more. The event costs US$29.95 and includes the BBQ dinner, the evening’s speakers, plus the pre-show vendor expo and door prize drawing.

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Third-party iBox Mac planned

Posted by | Apr 2, 2003 | |

Wired’s Leander Kahney reports on a Minnesota man who plans to launch his own Mac-manufacturing business, building a low-cost, upgradeable system called the iBox. “John Fraser, a 21-year-old engineer from Chanhassen, Minnesota, is finalizing the design for his flat ‘pizzabox’ Mac and hopes to go into production in three to four months.

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Media 100 announces Media 100 i v8.2 software

Posted by | Apr 2, 2003 | |

Media 100 today announced version 8.2 of the software for the company’s family of Media 100 i digital video solutions for Mac OS X. Version 8.2 expands the Media 100 i toolsets for editing, effects design, and media management. In addition, the updated version gives Media 100 i editors tighter integration with 844/X, its editing system for compositing of unlimited layers. Media 100 plans first shipments of Media 100 i v8.2 software in the third quarter of 2003.

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Apple included in Time’s ’80 Days That Changed The World’

Posted by | Apr 2, 2003 | |

Last month, Time magazine celebrated the 80th anniversary of its first issue. To mark the milestone, it looked over the past eight decades and picked 80 days that changed the world. “April 1, 1976: They were two guys named Steve, so Steve Jobs was called Steve and Steve Wozniak went by Woz. At 25, Wozniak was the technical brains,” writes Lev Grossman. “Jobs, 21, was the dreamer with a knack for getting others to dream along with him.

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NetZero Introduces Mac Version of Its Value-Priced Internet Access

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NetZero Introduces Mac Version of Its Value-Priced Platinum Internet Access

WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif., April 2, 2003 (PRIMEZONE) — United Online, Inc.
(Nasdaq:UNTD), a leading provider of value-priced Internet access through
its NetZero, Juno and BlueLight Internet consumer brands, today announced
the availability of a Mac version of its NetZero Platinum value-priced
Internet access service. The release of NetZero for Mac OS X follows on the
heels of the company’s earlier announcement of a Mac product for its Juno
brand of Internet access.

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