MacMinute’s Executive Briefing for September 4, 2004–a recap of all the news we have posted over the past week–is now available. If you think you may have missed something, here is your chance to catch up.
Read MoreAdobe has released an update to its plug-in designed to optimize Photoshop 7.0.1 for use with the Power Mac G5 processor. Originally released in August 2003, the plug-in has been updated to support the Dual-2.5GHz G5 model. Adobe notes that the plug-in update itself is unchanged from the original version.
Read MorePod2Go 1.0 from Kainjow Software is the latest version of the software that downloads information to your iPod such as news, weather forecasts, movie showtimes, lyrics and more. New features in this update include a new user interface and icons, faster syncing, and the ability to sync unread messages from Apple Mail, backup files to your iPod, schedule automatic syncs, and more. Pod2Go is US$12 shareware.
Read MoreMindCad has updated Pyramid, its visual thinking software for Mac OS X, to version 1.2. New features added include the ability to link objects to external documents and Web sites, the ability to export OPML for compatibility with many traditional Mac OS X outliners, and an updated introductory tutorial. A full-featured, save-disabled demo is available for download from the MindCad Web site; the full version of Pyramid sells for US$29.
Read MoreApple CEO Steve Jobs offered Sony CEO Nobuyuki Idei the chance for Sony to join Apple’s iTunes Music Store as a partner, the Nikkei Sangyo Shimbun newspaper reports. “The offer would have allowed for joint operation of the service, the newspaper says. The offer was made when the two met at the Sony Open golf tournament held in Hawaii this January, according to the paper, which quoted unnamed Sony sources.
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