Archive for June, 2008

Hypercard Redux

I was in Boston in 1987 when Apple announced Hypercard for the Macintosh. At that point there was only the MacPlus, the Mac II and the MacSE to run it on. Continue reading »

Walt Mossberg at Pi

Walt Mossberg, noted Wall Street Journal Technology Columnist, will join Washington Apple Pi Mug as its 30th Anniversary Speaker, Falls Church, VA, June 28, 9:30 a.m. Continue reading »

280 Slides

Need a presentation package? 280Slides will allow you to keep you presentation on their web site. Continue reading »

FileMaker® Developer Conference 2008

The FileMaker Developer Conference will be held July 13-17, 2008 at the JW Marriott Desert Ridge in Phoenix, Arizona. Continue reading »

Windows 7 to include Touch technology

According to an article in the Australian Sunday Herald Sun for June 8th, Microsoft recently demoed a touch interface as part of Windows 7. Continue reading »

Parallels for Mac OS X Server

The Wall Street Journal’s blog has a brief article about Parallels for Mac OS X Server. Continue reading »

FluidApp

We are all aware that web kit forms the basis for Safari and several other browsers. It is possible to have multiple tabs and windows open and have a site or a Flash application freeze Safari and cause an “unexpected quit.”

Fluid App allows you do create a browser specific to a web site that you frequent. Continue reading »

OpenOffice

OpenOffice has been mentioned here several times as an Alternative to Microsoft’s products. Currently for the Macintosh, OpenOffice comes in two flavors even if one of them is still in beta. Continue reading »

Emulators for Macintosh (Mac OS X)

There have been a lot of game consoles over the years. This web site tells us how to run emulators of a lot of them on our Macs running OSX. Continue reading »

Snow Leopard

As you may know, Apple announced that the next version of OS X will be called Snow Leopard. They only let out a few details. It will be “no new features”. Well, not quite, it is suppose to have support for Microsoft Exchange server built-in. Continue reading »

3D Toolbox for Mac

Microspot 3D Toolbox is a unique “build your own” 3D application which may be expanded into an advanced modeling, rendering and animation package. Continue reading »

Graphic Preflight Reports for Adobe InDesign

Zevrix Solutions announces the release of InPreflight 2.5, a major update to its quality control solution for Adobe InDesign. InPreflight quickly and easily locates potential problems, helps produce error-free documents and automates packaging of multiple files. Continue reading »

WWDC Party Invite

Savant Systems Invites WWDC Developers to a party — Mac OS X Engineers: Now you can rock the house. Continue reading »

Welcome to Macintosh

Cult film all about Macintosh made its US premiere earlier this year at the Wisconsin Film Festival in April — now slated for screenings in Germany and Ohio this summer! Here’s the trailer … Continue reading »

Search Me

SearchMe is a search engine that uses Apple’s Cover Flow format to display the results. Continue reading »