Year: 2003

FingerWorks announces the ZeroForce iGesture Pad

Posted by | Feb 18, 2003 | |

FingerWorks today announced the ZeroForce iGesture Pad, a “gesture-based” user interface for personal computers. The iGesture Pad is an ultra-thin, hand-size, touchpad that is both a mouse and a multi-finger gesture input interface. Mouse operations like point, click, drag, scroll, and zoom are combined with multi-finger gestures anywhere on the pad’s surface. The ZeroForce iGesture Pad is priced at US$179 and is available for Mac OS 9 and above, including Mac OS X.

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Pentax expands digital camera line

Posted by | Feb 18, 2003 | |

Pentax today announced the addition of three new cameras to its digital camera lineup. The new 5.0 megapixel Optio 550 and the 4.0 megapixel Optio 450 both offer 5X optical zoom (20X combined), a high resolution 1.5-inch LCD monitor, a movie mode that captures up to ten minutes of video with sound, voice memo-recording mode, panorama assist, and full manual control.

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Arkeia expands line to include Mac OX backup support

Posted by | Feb 18, 2003 | |

Arkeia today announced that its Arkeia v5 network backup solution now supports Mac OS X operating systems and offers a plug-in to safeguard Mac MySQL databases. The Arkeia beta version performs backups of all files, including documents and applications, and important system files, such as the Netinfo database. In addition, users can preserve privilege information and special file system features like Mac OS resource forks and Finder attributes.

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Quark offers first glimpse of QuarkXPress 6

Posted by | Feb 18, 2003 | |

Quark today announced it is offering a first look at a few of the features of QuarkXPress 6, the forthcoming release of the company’s design and layout software. QuarkXPress 6 is designed to run in the native Mac OS X and Windows XP environments and conforms to the new user interfaces of both operating systems. QuarkXPress 6 will run on Mac OS X, Windows 2000, and Windows XP.

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CocoaTech and YazSoft update Mac OS X Finder replacement

Posted by | Feb 18, 2003 | |

CocoaTech and YazSoft today announced the availability of Path Finder 2.1, which they claim is “the most powerful, most complete Finder ever written for Mac OS X.” A few of the features noted in the press release for Path Finder 2.1 include up to 50% faster Finder performance, Mac OS 9 functionality, Mac OS 9 file and folder color labeling, and richer contextual menu selection. A compete list of features in available from the Web site.

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