Year: 2004

Mesa Dynamics Releases Beholder 2.0

Mesa Dynamics Releases Beholder 2.0

Washington, DC – November 15, 2004 – Mesa Dynamics today released Beholder
2.0, a significant upgrade to its Internet image searching utility for the
Macintosh.

Beholder searches for images on the web, automatically querying Internet
search engines and presenting thumbnail results in a navigable contact
sheet with URL and other link details.

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Apple Stores designed to be ‘cool places to hang out’

Newsweek reports that companies such as Apple, Sony and Samsung are designing their retail stores mainly to be “cool places to hang out” unlike other electronics sellers. “The goal is to get shoppers to buy into the notion that using these products makes them part of a unique community; actually buying the products comes later (the Samsung showroom is, in fact, just for show–you’ll have to go to an old-school electronics retailer to buy the products).

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Apple could be ‘Sony of 21st Century’

In a three-page article entitled “Gates vs. Jobs: The Rematch,” Saul Hansell of the New York Times looks at Apple’s digital music dominance and how Microsoft and others are aiming to take over the No. 1 position. “[The iPod] dominates its market in a way that no Apple product has done in a generation, raising the possibility that the company is becoming more than just a purveyor of computers with high design and low market share.

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Audio Hijack 2.2 adds new recording options

Rogue Amoeba Software has released Audio Hijack 2.2, the latest version of its Mac OS X tool to record any audio on your Mac. The free update adds several new features, including a new AIFF Sample Rate selector, a “Stop Recording After” setting, and two new post-processing scripts to “Add To iPod” and “Encode To Wav.” Several other features have also been added, and minor bugs have been fixed. Audio Hijack sells for US$16.

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Audio Hijack 2.2

Audio Hijack 2.2

Princeton, NJ – Audio Hijack is constantly growing and improving, and
Rogue Amoeba has just released Audio Hijack 2.2. This new version adds
several new features, including a new AIFF Sample Rate selector, a “Stop
Recording After” setting, and two new post-processing scripts to “Add To
iPod” and “Encode To Wav”. Several other features have also been added,
and minor bugs have been fixed.

Audio Hijack is the perfect tool to record any audio on your computer.
With Audio Hijack, you can quickly and easily save audio from almost any
application to an AIFF file.

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