Brand: MacNews

Tech Superpowers Inc. has opened its new Macintosh Training Center on Newbury Street in Boston, Massachusettes. The center offers classes in Mac OS 9, Mac OS X, DV, and ColorSync, which begin at US$99 with the promotion code “tsp99.”

Apple has released a utility for their new iPod music player that has two simple functions — update and restore. iPod Updater 1.0 will restore your iPod to what Apple calls “factory fresh” condition, while the updater feature will download new software to your iPod if it is not currently up-to-date. This utility will work under Mac OS 9.2.1 or Mac OS X 10.1.

Sonnet Technologies has announced that it has significantly lowered prices on over 50% of its product line, including G3 and G4 processor upgrades and other enhancement cards and USB drives. Full details of the price changes are available in the press release.

CE Software today announced the release of QuickMail 3.0 beta, a new version of its e-mail client and server for OS 8/9 and Mac OS X. The new version adds client and server interfaces that take advantage of Mac OS X’s Aqua interface, a new address book distribution, and numerous other improvements. The public beta version of the QuickMail Pro client is available now, while a beta version of the server will be available in the coming weeks.

As the X-Box launch nears, Bungie Studios’ Matt Soell has assured fans of its long-awaited 3D action game, Halo, that the company still plans to bring the game to both Mac and PC. However, the company has yet to make specific plans for their development or release. “We still plan to do a Mac and PC version of Halo, but there are a lot of questions that must be answered before we can make the Mac/PC versions happen.”