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Thursday, February 12, 2004

Palm: No More Mac Support

Handheld maker Palm announced today that they were no longer going to develop Palm Desktop for the Mac platform, freezing the current version as their final. Steven Frank, of Panic fame, is trying to turn our frown upside down with a little bit of forward thinking. Regardless, this is a serious loss for the Mac community. Will Apple revived the old Newton?

FWB to carry Disk Jockey tool

FWB to carry Disk Jockey tool

FWB Software is teaming up with Diskology to sell Diskology's Disk Jockey hardware via FWB's Web site.

CD offers drum loops for GarageBand

Drums On Demand has released its Vol. 1 loop CD in Apple Loops format for use with Apple's GarageBand component of the iLife '04 suite...

Stone Studio updated for Panther

Stone Studio updated for Panther

Stone Design today announced the availability of new versions of Stone Studio, specifically to take advantage of new features in Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther)...Great product bundle at a amazing price.

Access Virus Apple Loop Collection For GarageBand and SoundTrack

Access Music GmbH, the company behind the award winning Virus Synthsizer series, released a free Apple Loop collection for Apple's new GarageBand application.
The 46MB archive features punchy arpeggiator patterns, fat filter flows and amazing pad sounds exclusively generated with a Virus C synthesizer. All loops are royalty free and can be used in commercial productions without an additional license.
Get yours at: www.access-music.de/garageband_freebee

iCompositions posts a tutorial on the Soundtrack Loop Utility

In the second iCompositions Exclusive Article, themactech shows us how to create our own loops using the SoundTrack Loop Utility.
"Apple's SoundTrack Loop Utility can help you accomplish such a thing. Don't let the name fool you, though. This baby isn't just for SoundTrack. You use it to view and manage the tags within Apple Loops, such as Descriptors, Genre, Instrument, Key and other useful information as well as create Apple Loops for both ST and GB.

MacSpeech releases iLife '04 Voice Solution for iListen

Citing the benefit of using your voice "as a third hand,"MacSpeech CEO and founder Andrew Taylor announced recently that an update to the company's iLife Voice Solution for iListen is now available. The new version supports iLife '04 and contains ScriptPaks that provide more than 250 voice commands to help you control the most important features in the latest upgrades for iDVD, iMovie, iPhoto, iTunes, and GarageBand.

Stealth Serial Port available for Power Mac G5

GeeThree.com has noted that its Stealth Serial Port is now available in a configuration that works with Apple's Power Mac G5. The interface is de

Apple 20th Anniversary Best way to celebrate: Get Apple Confidential 2.0

Want to know how you to can celebrate Apple 20th Anniversary?
Simply by getting the new revised and expand Apple Confidential 2.0 by Owen W. Linzmayer from nostarch press.

It's the definitive collection on All you ever wanted to know about the Apple Empire. Great stuff, good format, the Apple history timeline alone is worth the purchase. Get this book, get this book, get this book!

www.nostartch.com

Lynda.com announces new movie-based workshops

Lynda.com, which produces video workshops aimed at creative professionals and delivers them online or on CD- or DVD-ROM, announced recently that three new sessions are now available: "Learning ActionScript 2.0 in Macromedia Flash MX 2004,""Learning Final Cut Pro 4," and "New in Adobe Photoshop CS

MacMall sells pieces of Virginia Tech G5 supercomputer

Virginia Tech's Power Mac G5-based supercomputer has already passed into legend among Mac fans, and now you can own a piece thanks to Mac catalog reseller MacMall. They're advertising refurbished Power Mac G5s that until recently powered Virginia Tech's Terascale Computing Facility

Aladdin Very Active with New Releases; Spring Cleaning 6.0 (French) and Game On!

Spring Cleaning French
Now Mac OS X Optimized, Allows Removal Of Language Files,
Permanent Deletion Of Confidential Files, Support For Opera, Safari, And More. Great product to deal with some of your Mac Security issue.

Game On! Pack
Is a great game bundle certain to please everyone with titles as:
Freedom Force, Incoming, No One Lives Forever, SpyHunter,
Star Trek Voyager Elite Force, and Tomb Raider Chronicles.
You get all of that for less than the price of one game.

Virtual Desktop PrVirtualDesktop Pro 3.0 Ready For Prime Time

Bill Goldstein annouced the release of Virtual DeskTop Pro 3.0
Go and see what it's all about at:
www.codetek.com

Really worth it!

iPod It New release V2.3.2

Michael Zapp announce the release of iPod It version 2.3.2, available for
immediate download at . This
release provides more robust and efficient handling of Panther Mail. It also
enhances Entourage Contacts transfer to include all personal information,
adds the ability to transfer messages from all Entourage Mail folders at
once, and fixes a number of bugs. For full details of this release visit
.

SGI will add Mac OS X support to InfiniteStorage CXFS

Silicon Graphics Inc. announced on Wednesday that its InfiniteStorage Shared Filesystem CXFS solution will support Mac OS X in March. The company has seen strong gains over the past year in the production and broadcast communities with its InfiniteStorage solutions.

Macromedia ships Director MX 2004

Macromedia Inc. announced the release of Macromedia Director MX 2004, the latest version of their multimedia authoring software for Mac OS X and Windows. The new version adds new features including support for JavaScript and Flash MX 2004. It can be downloaded now from the Macromedia Online Store.