Year: 2005

1st Smart Label Printer SDK Available to Mac Community

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

NEW SDK FROM SEIKO INSTRUMENTS ALLOWS MAC DEVELOPERS TO WRITE SMART LABEL
PRINTER APPLICATIONS

1st Smart Label Printer SDK Available to Mac Community

TORRANCE, Calif. – March 14, 2005 – Business and home/office products
supplier Seiko Instruments USA Inc., the pioneer of the one-label-at-a-time
“smart” printer, has released a Software Development Kit (SDK) for Mac
developers and independent software vendors (ISVs) who want to create
applications for the company’s line of Smart Label Printers.

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Core Mac OS X Bootcamp

Atlanta, GA – March 14, 2005 – Find your Core Values: Core Mac OS X
Bootcamp June 13-17, 2005

Afficionados of the Big Nerd Ranch way will celebrate the latest
offering of Core Bootcamp for Mac OS X. The bootcamp offers a richer
and more intensive study of Unix programming by examining the
underpinnings of the OS X operating system. In five short days,
students will review Daemons, Multiprocessing and Multithreading,
Rendezvous, FileManager, Performance tools like sampling and CHUD, and
networking with Berkley sockets, TCP/IP and UDP.

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StickyBrain 3.4 adds iPhoto, clip art integration

Chronos has released StickyBrain 3.4, a free update to its popular note manager for Mac OS X. Version 3.4 introduces iPhoto and SOHO Series clip art integration. The new iPhoto image browser lets you easily browse the contents of your iPhoto albums so you can quickly drag a photo to any note in StickyBrain. StickyBrain’s new clip art browser lets users who own clip art collections from SOHO Business Cards or SOHO Labels & Envelopes to access them right from within the application. StickyBrain sells for US$39.99.

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Jaguar Cocktail update released; Tiger version due in April

Cocktail developer Kristofer Szymanski has announced that the Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar version of his general purpose utility has been updated to version 3.5. Cocktail allows users to quickly clean, repair and optimize their system. It also simplifies the use of advanced UNIX functions and gives access to hidden Mac OS X settings. Version 3.5 includes “lots of new features, changes, improvements and bug fixes.” The Mac OS X 10.3 Panther version of Cocktail 3.5 was released in December.

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