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Essence Software is proud to announce the release of VideoPlug 1.2.VideoPlug is a plugin for REALbasic which allows developers to utilise QuickTime-compatible video capture hardware in their applications to capture audio & video sequences.VideoPlug 1.2 improves VideoPlug by adding:Support for MacOS X (Carbon)Programmatic control over grabber parameters (compression, brightness, contrast, audio gain, etc.)VideoPlug also fixes…

All you need to do is installing Kids GoGoGo in order to protect children from harmful web sites. Kids GoGoGo filters known or unknown web contents without slowing down your web browser. As Kids GoGoGo affects nothing to your network peripherals, you can try filtration ability safely by yourself. What kind of sites are blocked?…

Apple® today demonstrated its ongoing commitment to providing innovative technology solutions for education at the National Educational Computing Conference in Chicago. During the opening keynote, Steve Jobs, Appleis CEO, announced that three more school districts, Chicago Public Schools, the Archdiocese of Baltimore and the Fremont Union High School District, will be implementing the PowerSchool® from…

Rhetoric has a number of overlapping meanings; the practice of oratory; the study of the strategies of effective oratory; the use of language, written or spoken, to inform or persuade; the study of the persuasive effects of language; the study of the relation between language and knowledge; and, of course, the use of empty promises…

The Apple I Owners Club, founded in 1977 by Joe Torzewski, is back, along with the most extensive reference to the Apple I in existence. This historic reference contains over 120 pages detailing the Apple I computer. Yes, there are still those interested in the old Apple I. You can find more information at the…

Q Another person who has a certain mythology about him is your friend Steve Jobs. Everybody seems to believe they know the book on Jobs: heis brilliant but hard-driving, overly sensitive. Do you and he ever talk about that? A We almost decided to wear T-shirts: "The Mercurial Steve Jobs" and "The Arrogant Larry Ellison."…

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Effective immediately, LaCie announced an end user price of only $299 — after $30 rebate — on the firmis high-performance 16x10x40x CD-RW drive that features”BURN-Proof” (Buffer Under RuN) technology. Equipped with LaCieis unique U&I interface, the new drives are the first true 16X CD-RW drives to offer both Universal Serial Bus (USB) and FireWire (IEEE…

"Even though the earnings that are going to come out in this next quarter are pretty weak, thereis a sense that maybe tech land is bottoming out," said Michelle Clayman, chief investment officer at New Amsterdam Partners. IBM is about to announce a new technology that will increase processor speeds by up to 30-35% without…

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Version 3.6 of FUNDimensions fundraising software is now shipping, with a new integrated word processor and other features.The word processor is an optional plug-in that facilitates mail merge by making database information readily within the word processing environment. To add a donoris name, gift amount or any other information to a word processing document, you…

If you are reading this site, you probably do not need any convincing of the PowerMac G4 Cubeis stunning style. Despite poor sales, the machine generates a relatively high “drool factor” in those that see it. The photographers and Web site designers at Dessy, a company that makes bridesmaid dresses, agree. For at least one…

The Newton was one of the most exciting technologies to come out of Apple during the reign of John Sculley. The Newton was a handheld computer that stemmed from a vision of Mr. Sculleyis, then CEO of Apple, called the Knowledge Navigator. The Knowledge Navigator was actually more of tablet computer, but one of the…

Volume was light on both the Dow and the Nasdaq as the selling sent the Nasdaq off by 3% and the Dow by 1.35%. Goldman Sachs initiated coverage of the PC hardware sector today. The firm offered Dell a fat "Recommended" rating, while Apple, Gateway, and Compaq all got "Market Outperform" ratings. Our old friend…

Steve Jobs demonstrates wireless connectivity through AirPort. This is merely a screen shot, for the real movie, hit the link below.

Apple today announced that its first two retail locations welcomed over 7700 people and sold a combined total of $599,000 of merchandise during their first two day weekend. The stores, located in Glendale, California and McLean, Virginia are the first of 25 stores the company is opening across the U.S. in 2001. “We are blown…

iPeople are looking ahead for when earnings are going to turn, because it appears the Fed is insistent on getting the economy moving," said John Davidson, chief investment officer at Circle Trust Co., which has $8 billion under management. "People believe this is eventually going to work." All of the stocks we track in he…

Why does Mr. Galloway suspect Macsoft? The company, which is a leader in publishing Mac ports of PC games, recently announced a mammoth deal with Take Two. It will publish Tropico, Fly! II, and Myst III, among other highly-anticipated titles. While most Mac Web sites reported this as a major coup for Macsoft, few immediately…

Ms. Herera noted that Dell Computer had so far resisted the move to open its own retail stores, unlike Gateway and Apple, and asked Mr. Dell if his company would ever consider doing so. “No, you know, we figured out 10 or 15 years ago that you don’t need stores to sell computers,” replied Mr.…

Casady & Greene announced today the release of Zone Warrior II, version 2.0.2, for Mac OS 7-9.1. Zone Warrior II is a 3D space flight simulator in which you, the pilot, defend your space station from attack by blasting away incoming asteroids and enemy ships. The game has over 100 levels and offers intense action…

Mr. Jobs said that Appleis goal was to locate their stores in high-traffic gathering places where those people (the other 95 out of 100) were concentrated. "Weire going to make it so that those customers only have to walk a few feet into our store," he said. "Once they get in our store, weire going…

MacPlay 2001 Summer Line-UpBalduris Gate II: Shadows of AmnThis critically acclaimed RPG of the year is progressing at a rapid rate thanks to Chris Jacobson of MumboJumbo Games. Balduris Gate II: Shadows of Amn will “officially” enter the beta testing phase pending the inclusion of GameRanger support. We fully anticipate receiving a GM candidate in…

Itis possible that most of our readers may not be familiar with your company, could you give us a bit of its background? Well, we are located in Tokyo, Japan and have eight employees. The company was established in 1994. Besides Cookieis Bustle, we develop two other non-game products for the Japanese market. Was this…