Year: 2006

Apple debuts iTunes + iPod commercial with Bob Dylan

Apple has debuted a new silhouette-style television commercial for iTunes and the iPod featuring Bob Dylan performing a song from his new album, Modern Times. This ad differs from any of Apple’s previous silhouette ads in that the ad features mostly black and white coloring as opposed to the traditional pink, yellow, blue, and green. Previously, U2 starred in a silhouette iPod+iTunes television ad of their own.

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RedleX releases Mellel 2.1 word processor

RedleX today announced the release of Mellel 2.1, a major update to the company’s multilingual word processor for Mac OS X. Version 2.1 introduces several key important changes and features, including switching the file format to XML, top notch Find and Replace capabilities (full Regular Expressions support), Full screen mode, paragraph and character style palettes, and more. Mellel is priced at US$49.00 ($34.99 educational price).

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HoudahSpot 1.2.4

Luxembourg – August 28, 2006 – Houdah Software s.=20
=E0 r. l. announces the immediate availability of=20
HoudahSpot 1.2.4.

HoudahSpot brings powerful and flexible Spotlight=20
searches to Mac OS X 10.4 “Tiger”. And it doesn’t=20
stop there. It adds a unique way of browsing=20
search results, one-click file previews, a=20
detailed inspector and much more. Be sure not to=20
miss out on the drag-and-drop “find by example”=20
feature. Managing your files will never again be=20
the same.

HoudahSpot is a desktop search tool based on=20
Apple’s Spotlight technology.

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Aspyr ships The Sims 2 Open for Business

Aspyr Media today announced that the Mac version of The Sims 2 Open for Business from Electronic Arts has shipped to retail outlets in the US. The Sims 2 Open for Business is the third expansion pack for The Sims 2 and is the first Mac title in The Sims series to ship as a Mac Universal product, running natively on both PowerPC- and Intel-based Macs. The Sims 2 Open for Business was developed for the Mac by Aspyr Studios, Aspyr’s internal development team, under license from EA. It is priced at US$34.99.

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