Virtual Programming (http://www.vpltd.com) has released Galactic
Assault for the Mac. The US$29.95 game works with Mac OS X 10.4.11 or
higher. It’s Universal Binary so runs natively on both PowerPC and
Intel Macs.
Here’s how the game is described: “Thrust yourself into a deep and
harrowing story as four unique races battle for supremacy on the
planet Saraksh.
Media companies, publishing houses, and corporate publishers now have
the option to rent vjoon’s K4 Publishing System (though not in the
Americas). According to their individual situation, publishers can
hire as many K4 workstations, K4 Web Editor licenses, and other
system components such as K4 Overview or K4 XML Exporter as their
projects, order position, and workload demand.
New customers can test the system, existing customers can add
additional K4 seats to their current system as needed.
Open-Xchange, a provider of open source groupware, has announced the
availability of two software extensions that enable native Mac
applications to be used with Open-Xchange and the iPhone to access
Open-Xchange groupware.
Now, data and groupware information stored on Open-Xchange can be
accessed on Macs, or the AJAX-based web interface, or by using
Microsoft Outlook on PCs, or virtually any smartphone.
Samsung Technologies (http://www.Samsung.com) has announced the
Expedition XP3081, a portable PA system with an iPod docking station.
It’s designed for traveling performers and presenters and will ship
next month.
The XP308i comes complete with dual two-way speakers, an on-board
mixer and 300-watt power amplifier. You can pack all the pieces
together into a single case. It all weights less than 40 pounds.
The system’s speakers are 2-way vented enclosures with heavy-duty
8-inch woofers for deep bass.
Tension Software has updated Private Contact
(http://pomola.com/products_privatecontact/privatecontact.html) a
native Cocoa software to manage an address book in an encrypted form
in Mac OS X (10.4 and higher), to version 2.1. The upgrade adds an
improved “View” area and fixes some bugs.
Witih Private Contact informations inside documents, relative to
various persons, can be read only by the Mac owner.