Friday, April 19, 2002
mmm...Aqualicious
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Pixeljerk has a neat interface, and icons tasty enough to lick. (via Boing Boing)
Friday nifty Mac news roundup
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a few notable Mac-related news items:
- Jobs to kick off WWDC '02: Apple's CEO will be delivering the keynote at the annual World Wide Developers Conference. the highlight of the show should be a demonstration of Mac OS X 10.2 (aka Jaguar).
- Adobe ships Photoshop 7.0: the latest version of Photoshop brings the essential design tool to Mac OS X. this should spark a virtuous cycle of upgrades for both Apple and Adobe.
- keyboards and trackballs and mice! oh my!: Microsoft has posted Mac OS X drivers for its USB hardware products (IntelliPoint yadayada and IntelliType blahdeblah).
- Microsoft brings Trustworthy Computing to Office v.X: Microsoft releases Office v.X security überpatch to seal two known (and one not-so-known) vulnerabilities.
- UK code shop brings DirectX to Mac: Coderus has released MacDX, giving Mac game developers the option of linking directly to Microsoft DirectX APIs within their Mac games. the developers of Wipeout2097 for the Mac describe their experience with MacDX here, and it's encouraging reading.
- Apple tests web interface to mac.com mail: you can now check your mac.com (iTools) e-mail from anywhere using just a browser.
- check your Software Update system preference: Mac OS X 10.1.4 is waiting to be installed, featuring security enhancements, network performance improvements, and a longer list of supported optical drives.
(via MacMinute, MacInTouch, and MacNN)



