Year: 2005

Unity 1.1.1 game development utility released

Posted by | Sep 27, 2005 | |

OTEE has announced an update to their game development platform Unity, targeted at medium to small game developers. Unity 1.1.1 offers: a complete “Racing Game Tutorial” introduction to scripting with Unity is now complete; support for Maya 7.0 file importing, and stability, quality and performance improvements; support for Cheetah3D 2.4 file importing; Shader quality improvements, particularly on low end cards; and a host of other performance, stability, and usability improvements. Pricing for Unity starts at US$249.00.

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Chaotic releases Media Rage 2.2

Posted by | Sep 27, 2005 | |

Chaotic Software today announced the release of Media Rage 2.2, the latest version of the company’s collection of tools for media enthusiasts using Mac OS X. Media Rage can read and edit information stored in MP3, AAC, FLAC, BWF, AIFF, WAVE, and Ogg Vorbis audio files, and can assist in cataloging, organizing, sorting, and updating thousands of media files.

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O’Reilly releases switching to the Mac book

Posted by | Sep 27, 2005 | |

O’Reilly today announced the release of “Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Tiger Edition” (US$24.95), a 520-page book by David Pogue and Adam Goldstein that promises to make the transition to the Mac for Windows users painless. The book “begins with a crash course in Mac essentials, including all the nifty features you see when you turn the machine on, and continues with sections on making the transition to the Mac as smooth as possible.”

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Apple Executive to speak at RNIB Conference

Posted by | Sep 27, 2005 | |

Mike Shebanek, a senior executive with Apple US, will deliver the keynote address at the Royal National Institute of the Blind’s international technology conference, Techshare 2005. As Senior Product Manager for Apple Mac OS X, Shebanek is responsible for the management and development of key features and technologies within the operating system, including Mac OS X Tiger’s integrated screen reader technology called VoiceOver for people with sight problems.

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