Year: 2006

SightSpeed 4.5 released for Intel-based Macs

SightSpeed, a provider of free and premium Internet video and voice communications services (VVoIP and VoIP), today announced the release of SightSpeed 4.5 for the new Intel-based Macs. The company says by “taking advantage of the added processing power and faster processing speeds of the new Macs, SightSpeed is able improve upon its already best in class video communications performance.” This update is free for registered members.

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Analyst expects Apple to grow 35% in 2006

Shaw Wu, and analyst with American Technology Research, expects Apple to grow 35% this year, reports Macworld UK. “He believes the company will continue to achieve above-average market growth rates, and continues to state the company has ‘arguably the industry’s most powerful and complete stack of hardware, software, and service addressing the digital entertainment space.'” Wu has advised his investors to buy Apple.

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GarageGames announces partnership with A K Peters

GarageGames today announced a partnership with scientific book publisher A K Peters. Together, the two companies will produce and distribute books for game developers worldwide. The first book that will be published under this partnership is The Game Programmer’s Guide to Torque, a primer on how to make games using GarageGames’ proprietary Torque Game Engine. The Game Programmer’s Guide to Torque will be available at booksellers on April 3, 2006.

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Toybox’s Garden Dreams now available For Mac

Toybox Games and Macgamestore.com have announced the release of Toybox’s latest game, Garden Dreams. This marks the tenth game available from Toybox Games for the Macintosh in its partnership with Macgamestore.com. “Try your hand at this fresh adventure in extreme gardening! Profits are the only way to succeed and to do that you have to make your garden grow. Invest in new seeds, pest control and bigger and better hardware. The more you grow the more profits you sow.

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Take Control of Maintaining Your Mac

New Take Control ebook gives readers an easy maintenance program to keep
their Macs running smoothly.

Ithaca, NY USA (March 10, 2006) — Regular maintenance is the best way to
avoid nasty problems and to ensure that Macs runs at peak performance, but
it’s hard to know what to do and when to do it, and even harder to fit
maintenance tasks into a busy schedule. Best-selling ebook author Joe
Kissell has now applied his commonsense approach to the task of maintaining
a Mac.

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