Year: 2004

The Mac Night Owl tonight taking calls

Posted by | Oct 28, 2004 | |

Tonight’s broadcast of The Mac Night Owl, the radio show hosted by technology journalist and author Gene Steinberg, features Eliot Van Buskirk, Technology Editor for mp3.com, as well as Pat Cooper of Lowry Digital Images will be on hand to tell us how they used 600 Power Mac G5’s to restore such feature films as the “Star Wars” Trilogy. You can tune into the broadcast tonight from 9:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. ET. An archive of the show will be available within eight hours of the original broadcast.

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Mossberg looks at iPod mini challengers

Posted by | Oct 28, 2004 | |

Wall Street Journal tech guru Walt Mossberg and his assistant Katie Boehret have been testing three potential competitors to Apple’s popular iPod mini — Pocket DJ from Dell (US$199), the Rio Carbon ($249), and Creative Zen Micro ($249). The Rio Carbon was released last month, and the Pocket DJ and Zen Micro will be available in November. “In our judgment, the three players are closer in style to competing with Apple’s Mini than competitors have been in the past,” writes Mossberg.

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SyBrowser 6.0 Released

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SyBrowser 6.0 Released

SyBrowser:

A Macintosh application that can query Sybase, Oracle, PostgreSQL and
MS SQL databases hosted on UNIX, Linux, and Windows servers.

SyBrowser v6.0 features include:

– ERD properties palette adds many alignment features
– Multiple undo’s when creating ER diagrammes
– Faster loading and saving of query files
– Auto-completion of SQL commands

SyBrowser Overview
SyBrowser is a suite of 32-bit Macintosh, MacOS X and Win32 ODBC and
native client applications that provide an overview of the tables in
Sybase, Oracle, PostgreSQL and MS SQL databa

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SuperCard 4.5

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Solutions Etcetera announces SuperCard 4.5 Public Beta

October 27, 2004 – Solutions Etcetera today announced that SuperCard
4.5, a major upgrade to their award-winning authoring environment, is
now available to the public in a Beta release.

“SuperCard 4.5 has already been in testing since early this year so I
don’t expect this beta period to be a long one” said Scott Simon,
Director of Product Development.

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iVideo 2.5

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Waterfall Software Releases iVideo 2.5
Vancouver, B.C. — 10/26/04

Waterfall Software today announced the release of iVideo version 2.5 –
a significant update to it’s easy to use movie organizing utility.
iVideo organizes and plays digital movie files the same way iPhoto
organizes and views photos.

iVideo 2.5 adds numerous features and fixes; most notably a feature
called “Sharing” which allows you to seamlessly share movies across a
local network. Once enabled, shared playlists automatically appear in
iVideo on other Macs within a network.

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