Year: 2005

Apple adds ATI Radeon X850 XT to G5 BTO option

Apple has added the ATI Radeon X850 XT graphics card to its build-to-order option for the Power Mac G5. “The Radeon X850 XT graphics processor provides a significant step up in graphics processing horsepower,” Apple notes on its site. “Featuring a 16-pixel pipeline architecture and a large 256 MB DDR SDRAM frame buffer the performance metrics delivered by the X850 XT are impressive; memory bandwidth is 34.6 GB per second, over 700 million vertices and over 8 billion textured pixels per second.

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QuickerTek announces new P2P wireless bundles

QuickerTek today announced the debut of two new Point-to-Point and Point-to-MultiPoint network product bundles. “These Do-It-Yourself product bundles were created to ease concerns over assembling the exact equipment for creating wireless networks spanning more than a mile. The hardware is Windows and Mac compatible.” Compatibility includes the Apple AirPort and AirPort Extreme Base Stations (not Express).

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Tidy Up! v1.0.2 was released (was Doublet Scan 10)

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Our next generation of duplicate finder and disk tidiness utility.

Long description
With Tidy Up! you can search for duplicate files and packages; by the owner
application, content, type, creator, extension, date modified, date
created, name, label, visibility and more. You can also search by the tag,
duration and bit rate of MP3s and AACs audio files, search the content of
the iTunes and iPod dababases, and synchronize deletions with iTunes.

Tidy Up!

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Apple releases iPod software update 2005-06-26

Apple today issued an iPod firmware update via Software Update and its Web site. The company says: “iPod software update 2005-06-26 delivers iPod Software 1.2 for iPod with color display, iPod mini Software 1.4 for iPod mini and iPod Software 3.1 for iPod with Click Wheel Integration with iTunes 4.9 for downloading and listening to podcasts.

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