news of 2004-10-12



New iPod ad: U2 "Vertigo"

You can take a look here at apple.com/itunes/u2 and at the iTMS there's a 2min extended version.

[ written by fryke™ on 2004-10-12 at 17:32 CET ]
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Cherry OS: Fraud?

Cherry OS claims to emulate Mac OS X at 80 percent of the host's CPU speed. For about 50 USD, that's quite a cheap Mac (OS sold separately...). Their website says (right now) they feature a 'skin enadled GUI' (sic!). Well, I hope they have not so many typoes in their software, then. ;)

[ written by fryke™ on 2004-10-12 at 17:14 CET ]
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MS Office 2004 (Mac) SP1

You can read more about it here. Will be available soon here at Mactopia, too.

[ written by fryke™ on 2004-10-12 at 16:08 CET ]
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Apple releases Remote Desktop 2.1

Fixes and new features include support for full screen mode when controlling and observing remote computers; support for controlling and observing remote computers with multiple monitors; support for mouse scroll wheel and right-click when controlling remote computers; support for computer restart for packages that require a restart; improved reporting of output for the Send UNIX command; improved printing of hardware and software reports; improved remote data collection; improved file copy for files on networked home directories; and enhanced column sorting in Administration application.

[ written by fryke™ on 2004-10-12 at 16:04 CET ]
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Apple seeds Mac OS X 10.3.6 7R14

Select and Premier ADC members have access to this latest build of Mac OS X 10.3.6. A release of the update is expected in the coming weeks. Developers are still asked to test this build against Graphics including OpenGL intensive games and DVD playback, FireWire, Safari, Disc Recording (CD and DVD), USB, Mass Storeage devices etc.

[ written by fryke™ on 2004-10-12 at 14:26 CET ]
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