Year: 2004

Wildform releases new Custom FX collection

Posted by | Sep 29, 2004 | |

Wildform today announced the release of the Custom FX Collection for the company’s popular video titling and text animation software, Wild FX Pro and Wild FX. The Custom FX collection contains fully customizable versions of all the effects that come standard with the programs. Each Custom Effect contains between 5 and 35 variables, including a speed control option. The Custom FX collection is priced at US$49, but for a limited time, existing and new Wild FX customers receive a 20% discount. Wild FX is $39 and Wild FX Pro is $99.

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Apple responds to .Mac email problems

Posted by | Sep 28, 2004 | |

Several MacMinute readers reported earlier today that emails sent to .Mac users were being returned with a message stating that the account was over its storage limit. Apple has now addressed the issue, saying the problem has been fixed. “A small number of customers were having difficulties receiving mail due to database issues,” the company said in a note on its .Mac support site. “The sender of the email will receive a bounce-back claiming that the destination account is over quota.

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Bloglines Web services to aid RSS bandwidth problems

Posted by | Sep 28, 2004 | |

Bloglines, a Web-based RSS newsfeed aggregator, today announced new application programming interfaces (API) and Web Services to help reduce the bandwidth demands on sites serving syndicated feeds. “Now, instead of thousands of individual desktop PCs independently scanning news sources, blogs and Web sites for updated feeds, Bloglines will make low-bandwidth requests to each site on behalf of the universe of subscribers and cache any updates to its master web database.

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