Year: 2006

New PCI/PCIe cards available, bundled with G5Jam Express

Posted by | Jul 18, 2006 | |

WiebeTech today announced two more additions to its new TeraCard Series of host adapters that bring SATA connectivity to Macs or PCs with PCIe expansion slots. The TeraCard TCES0-2e (US$99.95) has two external Serial ATA ports for use with any external SATA drive enclosure, and allows hot-swapping of SATA devices on both Mac and PC. The TeraCard TCES2-0 has two internal ports and is being sold individually or as a bundle with the G5Jam Express to add up to two extra internal drives to a Mac Dual Core G5.

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Apple active following upgrade

Posted by | Jul 18, 2006 | |

Shares of Apple were among the most actively traded stocks in Monday’s after-hours session, following an analyst’s upgrade ahead of its quarterly results, reports MarketWatch. Apple shares closed up 3.4% earlier after Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster said that he expects the computer maker to top Wall Street expectations for its fiscal third quarter, following his checks with Apple specialist stores and data from research group NPD (see previous report).

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Stone Design ships July 2007 Stone Works

Posted by | Jul 17, 2006 | |

Stone Design today announced the availability of its complete low cost and high performance productivity suite Stone Works — 15 applications that allow users to design and publish to print and Web, bill for your services, make movies, photo albums, watermark documents, convert fonts, complete image processing, monitor the weather, choose fonts visually, manage preferences, PDF management and more.

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Civilization IV Beta 1.61 Rev A released

Posted by | Jul 17, 2006 | |

Aspyr Media today announced the release of Civilization IV Beta 1.61 Rev A, a free patch the new Mac strategy game. This update offers better performance on certain Macs (particularly G5’s) that exhibited excessive CPU use in the original release — the game should no longer run dual CPU’s to 100% capacity; and some missing sounds will now play correctly — other sounds may still be inaudible, but a future official release of the Rev A patch will address those.

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