Year: 2004

CNET: ‘Forget Macworld. Think Macsnore.’

It is a pretty safe bet to say that Charles Cooper, writing for CNET News.com today, didn’t enjoy the Macworld Conference and Expo in San Francisco this week very much. “This turned out to the most forgettable Apple love-in it’s been my agony to endure. Apple says it has sold some 2 million devices and makes for a nice one-two punch with the slickly packaged iTunes music download site.

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Azlance Timeline 1.0

Azlance, LLC Debuts New Product

ORLANDO, FL – January 9, 2004 – Azlance, LLC, introduces Azlance Timeline
1.0 for MacOS X 10.3 (Panther). A trial version of Azlance Timeline is
available for download at http://www.azlance.com/

Azlance Timeline is a full-featured, easy-to-use tool for building and
displaying event-object relationships within the framework of an enhanced
numberline based timeline.

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iBeeZz 2.2.1

In February 2003, iBeeZz’s first release already had simple but very
useful features: wake up and startup any Mac running Jaguar.

Beyond its Panther compatibility, the 2.0 version allows a complete
multi-scheduling. Just schedule as many events as you want regarding to
week-days. And then, each type of event is developed as a module.

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Hitachi debuts new DVD camcorders at CES

Hitachi today introduced the company’s fourth generation DVD camcorders at the 2004 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. The new models, the UltraVision Digital DZ-MV550A and DZ-MV580A, add a lighter chassis with a more comfortable grip and a new Quick Mode menu function that allows for easier navigation through the camcorder’s menu system. Additionally, the DZ-MV580A adds an optional 16×9 widescreen filming format for DVD-RAM recording.

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The top 20 Macs over 20 years

In light of the twentieth anniversary of the Macintosh this year (1984-2004), Wired has posted an article by Owen Linzmayer in which the twenty most memorable Macintosh computers are selected. Spanning the entire twenty years of the Mac’s history, the list of “Macs that mattered most” is an interesting, not to mention nostalgic, read.

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