Jake MacMullin has updated JJEdit, his light-weight IDE (Integrated Development Environment) for Java programming, to work with the latest version of Java for Mac OS X. JJEdit 1.1 adds support for the new classes introduced in Java 1.4.1, which was released by Apple earlier this week. Features such as auto-completion, syntax coloring and the novel integrated API search now support the new Java classes.
Read MoreMacMinute’s Executive Briefing for March 15, 2003 — a recap of all the news we have posted over the past week — is now available. If you think you may have missed something, here is your chance to catch up. Incidentally, our goal is to make our weekly Executive Briefings as useful and convenient for you as possible. If you have any suggestions or comments as to how we can make them better, please let us know. We love to hear your comments.
Read MoreRanchero Software today released NetNewsWire 1.0.1, the latest version of the company’s popular RSS news reader and weblog editor. The updated version includes several crashing bug fixes, and improves the news reader so that it is more forgiving of RSS feeds with errors. A detailed list of enhancements since the 1.0 release can be found here. NetNewsWire requires Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar) and sells for US$29.95.
Read MoreAspyr today announced they have secured a deal with Majesco to publish BloodRayne for the Macintosh. “Set in the mid-1930s, BloodRayne introduces the sexy, supernatural Agent BloodRayne. An unholy union of human and vampire, Agent BloodRayne was raised and trained by a secret governmental agency to hunt down and eliminate global evil forces.
Read More“Thirteen-year-old Jeremy Harmon says that learning on a laptop computer is more fun than just reading a book,” writes Tess Nacelewicz for the Portland Press Herald. “‘You can be more involved with the work and we can do a lot more stuff, like spreadsheets,’ the seventh-grader at Portland’s Lyman Moore Middle School said Thursday. His comments echo those of other seventh-graders who participated in a state study of the impact that Maine’s unique laptop computer initiative is having, halfway through its first year.
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