Year: 2004

‘Craptacular’ Sony Network Walkman now in iPod mini colors

Posted by | Sep 29, 2004 | |

Sony has announced a new version of its Network Walkman in three new iPod mini-like colors. “They changed the name a bit (it’s now the NW-HD2 rather than the NW-HD1), switched the backlight color to blue, and added three new colors (pink, blue, and silver), but Sony’s new version of their 20GB Network Walkman digital audio is just as craptacular as it was when it first came out, i.e. it still doesn’t play MP3s unless you convert them into Sony’s proprietary ATRAC3 format first,” reports Engadget.

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Extensis announces Pro Photo Raw Image Filter for Portfolio 7

Posted by | Sep 29, 2004 | |

Extensis today announced an update to its Pro Photo Raw Image Filter for Portfolio 7, which enables professional photographers to read Raw data from image files of leading digital SLR cameras. With the Pro Photo Raw Image Filter, Portfolio generates high-quality thumbnails and previews from the unprocessed raw image files created by professional digital cameras from Nikon, Olympus, Kodak, Canon, Fuji, Konica-Minolta, Pentax and Imacon.

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Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell in stores Oct. 1

Posted by | Sep 29, 2004 | |

Aspyr announced today that the Mac version of Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell (US$39.99) is now shipping and will be available in stores nationwide by October 1. The title “introduces a new type of game to the line-up, a 3rd person stealth action game with cyber-terrorism, shadow agencies and covert operations on the menu.” In related news, Aspyr also said that Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six 3: Athena Sword ($29.99) has hit beta status and is expected to ship in November.

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textSOAP 4.0.4 update released

Posted by | Sep 29, 2004 | |

Unmarked Software today announced the release of textSOAP 4.0.4, the latest version of its text cleaning and formatting utility. textSOAP 4.0.4 is a maintenance release to fix a number of reported issues, improve integration with existing applications, and add enhancements. The update is available free of charge to all registered textSOAP 4 customers.

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Apple plans EU expansion of iTunes next month

Posted by | Sep 29, 2004 | |

Apple has reiterated its plans to expand the iTunes Music Store with a multi-country European launch in October. “We are well on pace to launch more EU stores. We will do it next month,” Eddie Cue, Apple’s vice president of applications, told music executives at the annual Popkomm conference in the German capital. While Cue would not give specific details on the launch, he did say it would likely include more than five new countries.

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