Brand: MacNews

Macworld UK is reporting that Creativepro.com, founded by Extensis as an e-services provider, has effectively closed its doors due to the softened economy. “Sources close to the company say its employees are on hiatus, and are unlikely to return,” according to the article. Creativepro.com has thus far declined comment on the matter.

John Fortt of The San Jose Mercury News has written a positive article on Mac OS X 10.1, outlining and praising the improvements over the original release.

This week’s REALbasic tutorial at ResExcellence discusses how to create a virtual magnifying glass that enlarges portions of the screen that the cursor resides over.

VersionTracker notes the release of Grammarian 2.1.4, Casady & Greene’s interactive grammar checker. This version offers improved support for Adobe Illustrator (versions 8 & 9), FrameMaker 5, and BBEdit 6.1.2, a new Grammarian 2 engine and improved ease of use when switching from Mac OS 9 and Classic Layer of OS X.

DreamCatcher Interactive has announced that it will publish a new 3D hovercraft racing game, Fuel, for the Mac, according to MacCentral. The game, in development at Firetoad Software, features both single- and multi-player gameplay and has an optional rendering engine that takes full advantage of NVIDIA’s GeForce3, which provides custom vertex and pixel shader effects that result in more realistic imagery. Fuel is scheduled to be released in Fall 2002.