Alpine today announced the world’s first solution that enables consumers to connect and control their iPod from their in-vehicle sound system. Alpine said that with a one-cable connection, iPod users will be able to operate key playback features from the Alpine receiver’s buttons and have display of playlists, album, artist and songs on the head unit.
Read MoreBare Bones Software today announced the release of Mailsmith 2.1, the latest version of the company’s industrial-strength email client for Mac OS X. Among the new features in version 2.1 are automatic attachment encoding, a new command for quick message movement, enhanced SMTP support, plus new preferences and interface enhancements. Mailsmith 2.1 now requires Mac OS X 10.2 or later (10.2.8 strongly recommended), and is compatible with Mac OS X 10.3 (10.3.2 or later strongly recommended).
Read MoreApple today previewed Xgrid, a computational clustering technology from Apple’s Advanced Computation Group (ACG). “Xgrid helps scientists and others working in compute intensive environments to fully utilize all IT resources, including desktops and servers, by creating a grid enabled ‘virtual’ IT environment that takes advantage of unused computing capacity to run batch and workload processing.
Read MoreApple today announced that there are now over 9 million active users of Mac OS X and the company expects to cross the 10 million user mark later this quarter. In addition, the company says there are now over 10,000 Mac OS X applications that run natively on the platform. In terms of sales, Apple announced today that over two million iPods have been sold since its introduction and announced the immediate availability of a new 15GB model for US$299.
Read MoreApple today introduced Jam Pack, an add-on music content package for Apple’s new GarageBand music creation software, which was announced today as part of iLife ’04.
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