Year: 2003

Wired: Army’s Apple Shines in the Desert

Posted by | Mar 10, 2003 | |

Wired reports on Army Major Shawn Weed, who was issued a Panasonic Toughbook for use in the deserts of Kuwait, but quickly ditched it for a 1Ghz PowerBook G4. “The U.S. military is shipping a lot of hardware to the Middle East for the impending war on Iraq, but only one Mac. In the entire theater of operations, involving nearly 300,000 troops and hundreds of tanks and aircraft, one lonely Macintosh shipped out, according to the major who took it there.”

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Island Spirits releases Triangle Man 1.0

Posted by | Mar 10, 2003 | |

Island Spirits Software has released Triangle Man 1.0, a program for plotting ternary graphs. “By leveraging the Quartz drawing engine in Mac OS X, Triangle Man’s graphs are top-notch, including transparency, anti-aliasing, and export to resolution-independent PDFs.” Triangle Man is US$40 shareware and requires Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar).

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QueueSocket 1.1

Posted by | Mar 10, 2003 | , |

QUEUESOCKET 1.1 RELEASED

10 MARCH 2003 — QueueSocket, the first complete open-source Socket
solution for REALbasic developers, was updated to version 1.1 today from
developer Drew Hamlin of Vizspring Software.

QueueSocket is the first and only open-source solution made available to
REALbasic developers to improve Internet and network communication using
the Socket control.

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Xtools 1.2: An Alternative X11 Desktop for Mac OS X

Posted by | Mar 10, 2003 | , |

Xtools 1.2: An Alternative X11 Desktop for Mac OS X
Supports Macintosh applications on a Rooted X11 Dedicated Screen

Santa Barbara, CA, March 10, 2003. Tenon Intersystems is now shipping
Xtools 1.2 a free update to their X Window Server for Mac OS X. The new
Xtools 1.2 supports XFree86 4.2.1 and X11R6.6. Improvements have been made
to on screen rendering, refresh and redraw operations, OpenGL and Motif,
pseudocolor, visuals, support for antialias fonts, XDM, key mapping, secure
shell handling and support for Jaguar.

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