Year: 2005

Eggplant 2.1

Posted by | Feb 8, 2005 | , |

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

EGGPLANT 2.1 AVAILABLE FEBRUARY 8, 2005

Lafayette, CO, February 7, 2005 – Redstone Software, Inc.,
announces Eggplant 2.1, the latest update to the premier Mac OS X tool
for automated, cross-platform testing. This release provides numerous
enhancements to the user experience, including an improved image
capture panel, new functions for working with dates and times in
scripts, enhanced access to file system information, and provides a
number of minor bug fixes and small enhancements.

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ADHOC 2005 Call For Papers

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ADHOC 2005 Call For Papers

Following up on an exciting and successful MacWorld San Francisco, The
Advanced Developers Hands On Conference (ADHOC) is announcing the Call For
Papers for ADHOC 2005/MacHack 20. ADHOC focuses on, but is not limited to,
Macintosh and Unix development issues. Abstracts for papers must be
received by February 28, 2005 by the conference papers committee for
consideration.

Have you done interesting work you would like to tell others about? Many
new things are happening in the world of computing, from low cost
supercomputing to new OS releases.

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Georgia school district looking to get 63,000 iBooks

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Georgia’s Cobb County wants Apple to provide laptops (presumably iBooks) to more than 63,000 teachers and students in what would be one of the largest such programs in the country, reports The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “System officials Monday acknowledged the choice, but declined further comment until Wednesday–including the multimillion-dollar price tag. Board members will be asked for approval next month, when the first of three phases of the program comes before them for a vote.

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Mac Mini: ‘A 21st Century Trojan Horse’

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Fortune’s Peter Lewis says the Mac mini is “a sneaky way for Apple to get its secret weapon–creative software–in front of all those Windows users.” Lewis writes: “The Mac mini is a Trojan horse… For an investment of less than $600, Windows users can see for themselves what all the Mac fanatics have been raving about all these years. Windows users have probably read that Mac OS X is far more reliable and secure against online threats than Windows.

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History 1.0 plug–in for InDesign, InCopy released

Posted by | Feb 7, 2005 | |

DTP Tools has released History 1.0, a US$39 plug-in for Adobe InDesign and InCopy that brings the useful History panel from Photoshop to the applications. “It represents simple, yet invaluable solution which shortens the time of undoing actions and simplifies orientation in history. Using History 1.0 also decreases the risk of loosing work, thanks to the separate database of screenshot states, which doesn’t get deleted by certain actions (e.g. Save as), unlike the InDesign’s database of past actions.

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