Year: 2004

Office 2004 for Mac Service Pack 1

Posted by | Oct 12, 2004 | , |

Microsoft Delivers Enhancements to Office 2004 for Mac in Service Pack 1
Customer Feedback Data Drives Fixes, Improvements

REDMOND, Wash. – Oct. 12, 2004 – The Macintosh Business Unit (Mac BU) at
Microsoft Corp. today announced the availability of Service Pack 1 (SP1)
for Office 2004 for Mac via Microsoft AutoUpdate. Customers are encouraged
to download SP1; it addresses potential security issues and bugs that their
feedback played an important role in identifying.

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Miraizon announces Cinematize 2

Posted by | Oct 12, 2004 | |

Miraizon today announced the availability of Cinematize 2, a software package that extracts audio and video clips from a DVD movie and saves them in a format compatible with standard multimedia editing software such as QuickTime, iMovie, and Final Cut. With Cinematize 2, users can now select start and end points down to the video frame level, making it possible to extract a segment as short as a fraction of a second or as long as an entire movie.

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Server Monitor Module for eyeSignal released

Posted by | Oct 12, 2004 | |

Lamp Express has released another free software module for its eyeSignal personal notification device. The Server Monitor Module monitors any Web device with a static IP address or URL. It pings all devices in the monitor list and turns on the red LED if a server is not answering or the blue LED in case the response time is longer than 500 ms. The white LED flashes briefly whenever the modules starts to ping the devices.

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Apple to open first Delaware store this week

Posted by | Oct 12, 2004 | |

Apple will open its first retail store in Delaware this Saturday, October 16 at 10:00 a.m. The new Apple Store is located at the Christiana Mall in Newark. Like all Apple Store grand openings, free T-shirts and a Digital Lifestyle package valued at US$2,350 will be given away (package now includes an iMac G5). Curiously, Apple said it will give away only 100 shirts, compared to past store openings of 1,000.

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Apple Remote Desktop 2.1 update released

Posted by | Oct 12, 2004 | |

Apple has released Apple Remote Desktop 2.1, an update to its asset management, software distribution and help desk support software. Version 2.1 includes numerous enhancements including: support for full screen viewing; multiple monitor support; support for mouse scroll wheel and right-click when controlling remote computers; multi-line output for Send UNIX Command; improved remote data collection; enhanced file copy for files that reside on networked home directories; client authentication using Active Directory; and more.

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