Author: mactech

Aspyr Media today announced that it has begun shipping Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2 for the Mac. The highly anticipated title has won several accolades on the PC and PlayStation side. Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2 is also among the first games to ship Carbonized for Mac OS X. The game is available for US$39.95.

Apple took home four awards last night at the British Design & Art Direction 2001 Awards. Apple’s Pro Mouse took home the gold in the Products for Work category, while its Pro Speakers, Pro Mouse, and G4 Cube took home silvers in the same category.

I am very pleased to announce today that Misha Sakellaropoulo — formerly of the MacNN Web site — has joined the MacMinute family as Executive Editor.

Iomega has posted an update for HipZip, the company’s digital audio player. The newest firmware version, 1.00454, has many fixes including increased sound quality in lower bit rates; playlist Manager update to allow you to highlight and play a song on the list; changes to the playlist order will remain even after the disk is ejected; support for low bit-rate WMA files (16 Kpbs); auto shutdown time change from 30 seconds to 2 minutes; and much more.

Apple has posted the English-North America version of Network Assistant 4.0.3. The update includes only the Network Assistant Startup extension, which resolves several bugs with the network management software. Apple has also posted the English-North American version of MacintoshManager 2.0.1, a new version of Apple’s workstation management technology. The update addresses a minor bug.