Year: 2006

Apple schedules shareholders’ meeting April 27

Posted by | Mar 20, 2006 | |

Apple is scheduled to hold its shareholders’ meeting on Thursday, April 27, 2006 at 10:00 a.m. PT, reports Macworld UK. “Shareholders will be asked to re-elect Apple’s current seven-strong board of directors and to ratify auditors and to consider any properly presented shareholder proposals,” notes the story. The current roster of board members includes: Steve Jobs, Al Gore, Fred Anderson, Arthur Levinson, William Campbell, Millard Drexler, and Jerome York.

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Free eBook: Become An Xcoder

Posted by | Mar 20, 2006 | , |

19th March 2006

Become An Xcoder

Bert Altenburg, author of “AppleScript for Absolute Starters”, in
co-operation with Alex Clarke and Philippe Mougin, has released a new book
for newcomers to Cocoa programming using Objective-C and XCode.

This tutorial is for non-programmers, and is aimed at levelling the
learning curve as much as possible.

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Desktop pictures/icons weekly recap

Posted by | Mar 19, 2006 | |

Last week MacDesktops posted 14 new desktop pictures, including: Apple Cutout over Fur (Logos, Apple), Super Tattoo (Logos, non Apple), and Divi Divi Tree in Aruba (Flora). Mandolux has issued two new desktops: Glowing Rose and Darkness/Leaf, while The Iconfactory has released Contour Multimedia & EPS Stock Sets, a set of 52 add-ons that extends the original collection into the audio & visual realm.

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NetNewsWire 2.1b17 fixes bugs found today

Posted by | Mar 18, 2006 | |

NewsGator Technologies released NetNewsWire 2.1b16 earlier today, but later discovered a few bugs (as with all beta releases), which it has now fixed. NetNewsWire 2.1b17 now includes the ability to run on Mac OS X 10.3.9. This update also fixes a bug where, for some people, the refresh commands would never appear and feeds would never refresh, and corrects an issue with long startup times. NetNewsWire 2.1b17 requires Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later.

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Apple posts feature on photographer Jody Dole

Posted by | Mar 18, 2006 | |

Apple has posted “A Master of Digital Photography,” a new feature on leading commercial photographer Jody Dole. “Marketing is key. No one understands that better than Jody Dole, who, as one of the country’s leading commercial photographers, has shot everything from cosmetics to furniture to brain surgery,” notes Apple. “To ensure that his clients always see his latest work in the most beautiful light, he organizes it with Aperture (Apple’s post production photography solution).”

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