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Ilene Hoffman has once again posted her “Hess Events List” for Macworld Expo New York — July 17-20, 2001. If you are going to the show and are looking to party, this is the place to check out all of your options. Not only is there event information, but the page boasts resources galore on New York City for visitors attending the expo. If you are heading to The Big Apple, this page is not to be missed.

The Mac Show, an Internet-based live radio show focusing on all things Mac, has announced their guest lineup for tonight’s broadcast (9:00-11:00 pm ET). Tonight’s guests include Peter Ryce, Senior Director of Marketing for Macromedia; Gene Steinberg, author of recently published Mac OS X Little Black Book; Ron Obvious, the designer, builder and technical director at Canadian Rocker Bryan Adams’ Warehouse Studios; and more.

As every Mac users knows, applications designed for another platform cannot run under the Mac OS until they have been ported. Besides rewriting the code, though, it’s possible for a microchip to “translate” the code from one platform to another. Transitive Technologies is working on one such solution and believes it will be successful where others have failed.

Symantec has posted updated definitions for Norton AntiVirus versions 5.x-7.x. The new file adds detection and eradication support for the Mac.Simpsons@mm AppleScript virus.

Adaptec has posted a firmware update for their 39160 SCSI card, as noted on VersionTracker. The update fixes several problems including a sleep issue with the Power Macintosh G4 with 133MHz system bus running at 466, 533, 677, 733MHz; the computer should no longer hang after being put into sleep mode.