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Aspyr has released a Tomb Raider: Chronicles demo that, like the game itself, is Carbonized for Mac OS X. The demo is available from Apple’s site as a 15MB download, as noted by Macworld UK.

Macworld UK has published a brief interview with Richard Kerris, formerly director of Maya Technologies for Alias|wavefront. “I think that Apple, Mac OS X and OpenGL is set to be the platform of choice for professional 3D animation,” Kerris told Macworld UK.

Several members of the open-source development community are working to ensure that Microsoft’s .Net strategy, which will offer a myriad of online services in an effort to boost Microsoft’s standing on the Internet, will not be available to Microsoft’s customers only. Ximian, the company chiefly responsible for the Gnome user interface for Linux, today announced the Mono project, whose goals are similar to that of .Net.

Intech Hard Disk SpeedTools 3.3 is a disk management utility for SCSI, ATA and FireWire hard drives. Version 3.3 adds or extends support for a number of different devices, as well as other changes.

PlaySound Plug-In 1.0.1 allows FileMaker Pro databases to play custom sounds in WAV format or Macintosh system sound format. Version 1.0.1 is now optimized for Mac OS X.