MacSoft said today that its Dora the Explorer Animal Adventures children’s game for Mac OS X has shipped from their warehouse and will be available in stores this week. “Join Dora, the bilingual heroine, and her play-along pals in exciting adventures that encourage and teach children valuable skills. Help Dora and her friends feed the animals, rescue Baby Jaguar, sing along with a familiar song, and learn Spanish!
Read MoreMacXware today announced a new collection of 1,000 classic, designer and refined fonts that “seek to standardize the use of fonts in the OpenType font format, and better suit the needs of both personal and professional users.” The MacFonts 2 collection includes 1,000 unique fonts not found in the original MacFonts. MacXware said the OpenType format offers several advantages over TrueType, PostScript and other font formats.
Read MoreApple today announced that its Board of Directors has approved a two-for-one split of the company’s common stock and a proportional increase in the number of Apple common shares authorized from 900 million to 1.8 billion. Each shareholder of record at the close of business on February 18, 2005 will receive one additional share for every outstanding share held on the record date, and trading will begin on a split-adjusted basis on February 28, 2005.
Read MoreJamPlug, a division of DVForge, today announced that its new GuitarPlug and MicPlug plug-in form factor USB audio interfaces for Mac OS X are now shipping. The GuitarPlug and MicPlug both measure 2.3″ by .7″, are USB bus powered, with an on-off switch, and a blue LED power indicator. Each converts mono analog audio to 16-bit, 48KHz digital USB audio, is class compliant, and works with any Mac OS X application that accepts USB audio at that data rate. Both products are priced at US$49.99.
Read MoreO’Reilly has announced the release of “AppleScript: The Missing Manual” (US$24.95) by Adam Goldstein. “In this entertaining, authoritative, straightforward guide, Goldstein provides a thorough introduction to using AppleScript to eliminate repetitive jobs, automate complicated workflows, accomplish stuff in the background, and compute faster and easier than any person ever could.”
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