Year: 2004

iPods revolutionizing language classes at Duke

Posted by | Dec 6, 2004 | |

Lisa Merschel, a professor in the Spanish department at Duke, said the university’s US$500,000 iPod program has revolutionized her students’ experience with the language. “Before, I would just play a CD in front of the whole class and there would be some students whose eyes would glaze over after the first couple of seconds and some who would get this intense look of fear on their faces,” Merschel said. “With the iPods, each student can listen at their own pace and they have the control to pause or replay certain parts…

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CDW|MacWarehouse Hot Deals updated

Posted by | Dec 6, 2004 | |

Apple has updated its Hot Deals site with the latest offerings from CDW|MacWarehouse. The Apple reseller has deals on the Canon EOS Digital Rebel, Kensington FM/Auto Adapter and Car Charger for iPod, Sony DVD±RW Dual Layer External Burner, XtremeMac Get Connected iPod Audio Kit, Corel Painter IX, and more.

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SyBrowser v6.5

Posted by | Dec 6, 2004 | , |

SyBrowser:

A Macintosh application that can query Sybase, OpenBase, FrontBase,
PostgreSQL, Oracle, ODBC and MS SQL databases hosted on OSX, UNIX,
Linux, and Windows servers.

SyBrowser v6.5 features include:

– Added OpenBase support.
– Added a Cartesian graphing panel.
– Added a ‘Spotlight’-like search field that truncates the rows
displayed on the SQL panel.
– Added context sensitive Auto-Fill to the SQL statement panel.
– Added a ‘Spotlight’-like search field to the Sybase Stored procedures panel.
– Added help text and auto-fill for some common Sybase stored procedures
– Sta

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Twelve Days of X-Mas contest announced

Posted by | Dec 6, 2004 | |

Nitrozac and Snaggy, creators of the popular Joy of Tech comic series, are holding a fun holiday-themed contest. They are asking Mac users to come up with some new lyrics to the classic holiday carol, “The Twelve Days of Christmas.” And being Mac geeks, they are looking for lyrics that reflect the techie toys that you really want. So instead of “partridges in a pear tree” and “turtle doves,” they’re looking for things related to a Mac-lover’s wish list.

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OmniPilot intros Lasso Professional Developer 8

Posted by | Dec 6, 2004 | |

OmniPilot Software has introduced Lasso Professional Developer 8, a new edition of the software available to developers at a lower price. “Lasso 8 represents the next generation of building data-driven Web sites, supporting multiple databases simultaneously and easing the sequential migration of databases,” says the company. The Developer Edition retails for US$99. One license of the Developer Edition is free for current Lasso Professional Alliance (LPA) members.

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