Year: 2004

Formac unveils new Gallery Xtreme LCD line

Posted by | Oct 19, 2004 | |

Formac today announced its new Gallery Xtreme LCD monitor line. The new display comes with 19-inch or 20.1-inch viewable screen, and incorporates Formac’s 4th generation ColorProof VA TFT, which offers performance increases in brightness (300 cd/m2), contrast ratio (700:1) and pixel response (15ms). The company said that in combination with its proprietary digital graphics and conical viewing angle technology, the new displays can be calibrated accurately for use in color-critical applications.

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‘Take Control of Apple Mail’ released

Posted by | Oct 19, 2004 | |

Peachpit Press has announced the release of “Take Control of Apple Mail,” a US$16.99 book on the built-in email application in Mac OS X. “In Take Control of Apple Mail, longtime Mac consultant and writer Joe Kissell and TidBITS founder and author Adam Engst put Mail through its paces, teaching you in step-by-step, illustrated examples about how to best configure and use Mail’s simple yet powerful features.

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Lynda.com releases ‘Learning Apple Keynote’

Posted by | Oct 19, 2004 | |

Lynda.com today announced the release of “Learning Apple Keynote” with Tanya Staples, a movie-based tutorial for beginning and intermediate Keynote users. The tutorial covers basic topics such as working with text and graphics, and then advances to more sophisticated subjects like adding multimedia files, tables, charts, and transitions. “Learning Apple Keynote” features more than 8 hours of training and is available now on a Mac and PC compatible CD-ROM for US$49.95.

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Aspyr bringing The Sims 2 to the Mac

Posted by | Oct 19, 2004 | |

Aspyr Media has announced that it will publish a Mac version of The Sims 2, the sequel to the best selling PC game of all time. “In The Sims 2, players for the first time control their Sims over an entire lifetime taking them through life’s greatest moments. Every choice that is made has a relevant and dramatic effect on the life of a Sim. Players can now fulfill their Sims’ life dreams as they take them from cradle to grave.

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