Pixar, the animation studio headed by Apple CEO Steve Jobs, today reported financial results for its fourth quarter and fiscal year ended January 1, 2005. For the year, Pixar earned US$141.7 million, or $2.38 per share, on revenues of $273.5 million. For the quarter, the company earned $55.2 million, or 91 cents per share, on revenues of $108.9 million.
Read MoreIn a six-page Fortune article (subscription required), Apple CEO Steve Jobs says that Microsoft is still copying the Mac operating system and that three PC makers are wanting to use Mac OS X with their machines. Jobs said Mac OS X 10.4 “Tiger” will have everything Microsoft wants its Longhorn OS to have.
Read MoreEast Bay Technologies today announced iTube, new US$24 Internet television viewing software. “iTube, the largest Internet television and video tuner, allows access to over 1,500 channels of television programs, live video channels, and webcams,” explains the company. “In addition, iTube also includes an Internet Video Search function that gives users a search tool to access over two million Internet video clips.
Read MoreMichael Tsai has released SpamSieve 2.2.4, an update to his Bayesian spam filtering utility for popular e-mail clients such as Apple Mail, Mailsmith, Entourage, PowerMail, and Eudora 6. This update includes: increased message processing speed; improved accuracy through better HTML and header processing; colors to indicate “spamminess” in Apple Mail are now enabled by default; the option to play sounds (and bounce the Dock icon) when mail arrives; and more standard blocklist rules for non-Latin character sets. SpamSieve sells for US$25.
Read MoreZonic today announced the release of IconLab 1.1, an update to its Photoshop plug-in for editing Mac OS X’s native icon format. IconLab allows icons to be constructed with the full power of Photoshop, automatically flattening layers and resizing images to produce fully professional quality icons. Version 1.1 allows exported icons to be manipulated using the Finder’s “Get info” window. IconLab costs US$24.95.
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