Macromedia on Monday will announce FreeHand MX, the latest version of its graphics illustration application, along with a new software-by-subscription program, reports c|net. The new version of FreeHand includes new tools that allow artwork to be easily reformatted for different media and a user interface that conforms to other MX products.
Read MoreApple Australia’s managing director, Ben Bowley, will leave the company at the end of March, according to The Age. Both internal and external candidates are being considered for his position, although the strongest speculation is that an executive from Apple’s headquarters in Cupertino, California may be sent to Sydney. Bowley said on Friday that he wants to start his own tourism business. He also said that he leaves Apple Australia in good shape.
Read MoreMacMinute’s Executive Briefing for February 8, 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.
Read MoreRanchero Software has released NetNewsWire Pro 1.0b17, the latest beta release of the company’s easy-to-use, customizable RSS news reader and Weblog editor. This update includes several bug fixes and feature tweaks, all of which are documented here. NetNewsWire Pro 1.b17 expires on March 24 and requires Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar) or later. And for your reference, MacMinute’s RSS feed address is: http://www.macminute.com/headlines.xml.
Read MoreApple CEO Steve Jobs’ “other” company, Pixar Animation Studios, is switching from Sun Microsystems to Intel, reports c|net. The company, which created the hit movies Monsters Inc. and Toy Story, is replacing servers from Sun in its render farm — a bank of servers that fuses artists’ images into finished film frames — with eight new blade servers from Rackspace. The system contains a total of 1,024 Intel 2.8GHz Xeon processors and runs the open-source Linux operating system.
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