Year: 2003

12″ PowerBook in stock at Apple Stores

Several Apple retail stores report having stock of the new 12-inch PowerBook G4 with Combo drive, which was introduced at Macworld Expo in San Francisco on January 7. A check of Apple Stores in New York, NY, Columbus, OH, Orlando, FL, McLean, VA and Los Angeles, CA revealed that all stores just received their initial shipment today. No stores had information on when they would receive the SuperDrive-equipped 12-inch PowerBook or the 17-inch PowerBook.

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Alepin 2.2 posted

MacChampion today released Alepin 2.2 (US$10), an update to its Mac OS X application designed to take the place of the Note Pad and Scrapbook applications found in the classic Mac OS. “It offers some nifty features like importing from the Classic Note Pad, Stickies X or folders of text files, RTFD Export, multi-page documents, Auto-open of a specific file, auto-save, QuickFind, sorting and naming using the Categories drawer and rapid navigation through all pages using the slider.

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Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne announced

Blizzard Entertainment announced today Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne, an expansion set to Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, which has sold more than 2 million copies since its release in July 2002. Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne will provide gamers with a “vast new chapter in the epic Warcraft saga,” and feature one new Hero per race, a host of new units, 3 new tilesets, player-built shops, an advanced world editor, expanded multiplayer options over Battle.net, and more.

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Jiiva ships SuperScrubber

Jiiva today announced that it is now shipping SuperScrubber, its new disk sanitization product for Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar) that can “save you from potential identity and intellectual property theft.” SuperScrubber is a disk utility, priced at US$29.99, that serves to completely and permanently erase all data from a specified internal or external hard drive or partition, leaving no retrievable trace of the old data.

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