Railhead Design Offer a Virtual Tour of Panther

Want to see what panther looks like?
Visit http://www.railheaddesign.com/

It's the most we have seen yet!

First Battery Replacement Kit For iPod Available From PDAsmart

Did you know that your original iPod 5 or 10 gig is designed to last for only 500 complete charge/discharge cycles before beginning to lose capacity ? That explain y our faithful first generation iPod needs to constantly be recharged. Well, use to .....

Not anymore !
After receiving our package from UPS, following instructions and changing the original iPod Battery, by the new one supply by the iPod 1500mAh Replacement Internal Battery Kit , the iPod Rock more than ever. And it was easy. The kit comes with special plastic tools, and easy to follow instructions.
It was a "snap" to do.

If you own a original iPod (not the newer one) we urge you to consider this option to ensure that your iPod remains in top shape for years to come. We should mention also that even if we had never "service" a iPod before (and frankly we where nervous about it) the whole operation went smoothly and we did no visible damage to the iPod case. Don't feel up to the challenge but still need to replace the battery; No problem, for a few dollars more they will do it for you. One last thing; the service that we received by PDAsmart.com was the best door to door we have seen in a long time. Highly Recommended!

Visit them at: www..pdasmart.com/ipodpartscenter.htm

ToonBoom Studio Appoint New President & CEO

Efective immediately, Joan Vogelesang is name the new President and Chief Executive Officer
of Toon Boom Technologies.

You can read his first message at: http://www.toonboom.com/newsletter/#President

Uncle Sam Wants Mac Gamers

The America's Army game is coming to the Mac later this month. Rated T for Teen, the game consists of "two interlaced game experiences that highlight the role of various types of units within the Army and the development of the Soldiers that comprise these units. As with Soldiers in the U.S. Army, game players are bound by the laws of land warfare, Army values and realistic rules of engagement as they navigate challenges in teamwork-based multiplayer force versus force operations." Mac gamers will be able to join the ranks of over 1.7 million registered players of America's Army. It will be available later this month. (Source Macnn)

Making Fun Movies with Apple iSight

O'Reilly Mac Dev Center published a very interesting article on how you can do movies using your iSight Cam. Worth a look. Go to:

http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/07/01/isight.html

Is that a Pocket Google Reference Guide in your Pocket...?

You bet it is. O'Reilly announced that the "Google Pocket Guide" is now available.
Run to your favorite store and ask for it by name :

Google Pocket Guide
Tara Calishain, Rael Dornfest, and D.J. Adams
ISBN 0-596-00550-4

O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference open for Registration

This year's featured speakers include Andy Ihnatko, Tim O'Reilly, Adam Engst and others. The conference runs October 27th through 30th at the Westin Santa Clara in Santa Clara, CA. With Emerging Topics, Media and Publishing, Programming, Scripting and Sys Admin and Networking tracks, this conference has a lot to offer OS X users in the field as well as network and systems admins running OS X.It will be Fun! See you in Santa Clara! (Source Macslash and O'Reilly)

Casady & Greene close shop

"Longtime Mac software publisher Casady & Greene have said their final 'Goodnight.' The publisher of many notable Mac titles such as SpellCatcher, InfoGenie, iData, and Glider Pro, have decided to close the doors on July 3rd.

Notebooks outsell desktops for the first time

US and Canadian retailers in May made more money selling notebook computers than they did
selling desktops. Jobs was right wen he called 2003 the year of the portable.

Bands tell Apple 'no singles'

The Red Hot Chili Peppers and MP3 grumblers Metallica are among a group of
bands that are reportedly refusing to allow individual sales of their album
tracks on Apple?s iTunes online store. (Source macworld)

Update: Mac CinePaints

CinePaint is a graphics tool that offers support for 16-bit-per-pixel color and a frame manager for working with multiple-frame files. It runs in Unix and WIndows environments, including X11 and other environments on the Macintosh. The update enhances the Mac CinePaint launcher and installer, which has been rewritten in Cocoa and optimized for Apple's X11. It also fixes administrator password errors and a libpng issue and removes extra dependencies.

Mac CinePaint 16-3 is available now as a free download. For more information, visit http://cinepaint.sourceforge.net , or as always go to versiontracker.com (source dmn network)

LaCie Debut 7,200 RPM Pocket Drive

LaCie has introduced a new model in its line of portable Pocket Drives. The new model offers a 7,200 RPM mechanism and is expected to be available in July

Apple receives two Gold awards in 2003 IDEA

Apple's new 12-inch and 17-inch PowerBooks received the "Gold" Awards in the 2003 Industrial Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) competition, co-sponsored by BusinessWeek and the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA).

Apple's Xserve received a Silver Award in the competition. Judging criteria for each entry fulfilled five areas of industrial design excellence: design innovation, benefit to the user, benefit to the client/business, ecological responsibility, and appropriate aesthetics and appeal.

Rumours: Apple Pursuing Fuel Cell Technology for Future PowerBooks

MacEdition posts an interesting update... reporting that Apple is actively pursuing Fuel Cell technology to power future PowerBooks:

They report that Apple has been feverishly seeking out fuel-cell companies that might accept their investment dollars – and afford it a competitive advantage in this up-and-coming market.

Label Problem: Discus will Fix That

We believe that we have found the ultimate CD-DVD Labeling Application available for the Mac Fans anywhere.
Discus is it.
Still having nightmares about printing CD-DVD Labels under OS X ?
Not anymore!
Point you browser to www.magicmouse.com or as always use versiontracker.com and get your hand on that baby. It is a complete solution, price right and on top of it works perfectly under OS X.

Did I mention also that the developer Mister Jong is down right cool! Enough! Go download!

Mac OS X Security: Get to Know it All

Prepare to defend and audit Mac OS X Network with this fantastic book

by Bruce Potter (Not related to Harry...) Preston Norwell, and Brian Wotring, and available from New Riders.

Short of having this security team working for you around the clock, this is your best alternative. I have not found a better, easy to grasp and well written book on the subject yet.
Highly recommanded!

Mac OS X Security From New Riders, ISBN 0-7357-1348-0

Peachpit Press Release iMovie 3 For Mac OS X Visual Quick Start Guide

In a long tradition of "Best To The Point Guides" Peachpit Press offers one of the best guide on the market for iMovie 3 Fanatics who wants to spend more time editing and less time reading.

Writen by Jeff Carlson, this " iMovie Guide For the Rest of Us" is just perfect for the novice or intermediate user, and is available now. ISBN 0-321-19397-0

MyiSight Site Launch

A few days ago Apple announced the iSight cam package. If you are the proud owner of this new wonderfull stuff, but fall short on people to use it with go toMyiSight web page and find a whole bunch of people just waiting to share the experience.

www.myiSight.com

Trolltech unleash the power of Qt

Trolltech previously announced the upcoming release of Qt/Mac Free Edition. Well, now it is available for download . Grab your copy now while it's hot! (I've already downloaded mine, so let the slashdotting commence!) Now you can run a Mac-native version of Konqueror alongside Safari! Use the versiontracker.com site or go to www.trolltech.com

Apple pulls .Mac Backup 1.2.2, replaces with 1.2.1

Apple has pulled an update to the Backup component of .Mac, after several readers reported that the new release disengaged support for third-party external drives.

Version 1.2.2 was replaced with version 1.2.1 early this morning. (Source Mac Fixit)