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FEELORIUM has released Full Screen Player 1.0 today. Full Screen Player is a full screen QuickTime movie player. Full Screen Player is very easy to use. You can use Finder to organize your movie files, for example, make aliases of movies into a folder as a play-list. Then drag and drop movie files or folders…

VIDVOX a company dedicated to multimedia research, development and services, is proud to announce the major update of its flagship product, VDMX 2 QuickTime Mixer for Macintosh. VDMX 2 is a robust software-based video mixer optimized for realtime control and mixing of any audio visual material. VDMX 2 can seamlessly mix live video with disk-based…

The first impression, they say, is everything, and the new iMac makes one helluva first impression, at least, from afar. With the possible exception of the Cube, the new iMac is simply the best looking computer I have ever seen. It probably borrows a lot design cues from the Cube , though you couldnit tell…

Dr. Benderfritz found that the mice in the control group continued to cavort and play, while the mice in the study group went on to become emanate scientists or really great waffle chefs. While Dr. Benderfritz may have found a link between Steve Jobsi keynotes and tasty waffles, he has not uncovered what affects the…

The security problems affect SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 7.0 and are related to the way these two versions of the product create and display text messages after a query is submitted, the company said in a security bulletin. Microsoft labeled the risk from the first flaw as “moderate” and from the second flaw…

This update is intended for users of AppleWorks on Mac OS X 10.1. If you are using an earlier version of Mac OS X, Apple recommends that you first upgrade your OS to 10.1 before using this updater. If you already have AppleWorks 6.1.2 and you are not running Mac OS X then you do…

"This is a serious vulnerability. People running Windows XP need to put the patch on right away," said Scott Culp, manager of Microsoftis Security Response Center. Culp said users of Windows ME or Windows 98 only need the patch if they are running UPnP. Windows ME was released with UPnP built in, but the feature…

Aparajita Fishman today announced the release of 1.64 of ObjectTools. ObjectTools is a 4th Dimension plugin which provides a suite of commands for creating BLOB-like data structures called "objects". Version 1.64 of ObjectTools is fully Carbonized to run under Mac OS X and fixes a few minor bugs. ObjectTools eliminates the limitations of 4D BLOBs…

Today, however, that has changed somewhat. One of the spin-offs of the fact that Microsoft has been upheld by an appellate court to be an illegal monopoly was a raft of class action lawsuits spearheaded by attorneys looking to cash in on MSis legal standing. Last month, a settlement offer was announced by the litigants…

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Driven by the popularity of high-quality QuickTime® content on popular web sites, one million copies of Appleis QuickTime 5 are being downloaded every three days. The rate of QuickTime 5 downloads has steadily increased since its launch in April, putting QuickTime 5 on track to exceed 100 million downloads in its first year of distribution.…

Under the terms of the settlement, Microsoft would pay not the plaintiffs, but would instead pay somewhere between US$550 million and US$1 billion to low income school districts. Better yet, as far as Microsoft is concerned, that payoff would largely be in the form of its own software. Thatis right, the company would be punished…

Well, thatis just what it seems that Microsoft did. On the companyis job recruiting section for designers, there is a page dedicated to the Xbox. Long time Observer CrazyEric pointed out to us that there is a section on industrial design on the Xbox page, and that the person being highlighted is working on a…

Let me explain. Iim typing this using the Test Drive version of Microsoftis new Word for OS X. I started out writing it on AppleWorks 6.2.1, but I couldnit finish, I had to stop. Why? Well, to put it as delicately as I possibly can, in OS X, AppleWorks reeks like dead sun-bloated skunk. AppleWorks…

There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said of them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves. Joseph-Marie de Maistre

Apago has released a new Acrobat plug-in, imageAlter. This plug-in can repurpose an existing PDF file by downsampling and compressing images inside the PDF file. In addition, imageAlter can greatly reduce the time it takes Acrobat draw the contents of a page by using something new, "alternate" images. Similar in concept to OPI, alternate images…

Feelorium has released Textation 1.0 today. Textation is an easy to use QuickTime text track editor. Users simply point, click and type the text needed to display. No need to manipulate text descriptors manually. No need to type time codes one by one. Textation even checks the validity of time codes while users input data.…

Dr. Bott is pleased to announce that they are now shipping a version of DVIator with a 4x AGP video card that is compatible with Windows PCs. DVIator allows the use of Appleis LCD displays with the proprietary ADC (Apple Display Connector) on computers with a compatible DVI video signal. The ELSA Gladiac 511 is…

The Mac Observer was able to spend some time with Bob "Dr. Mac" LeVitus and his review iPod unit this weekend, and together we looked at how to get around the limitations built into the iPod to keep users from sharing MP3s between different Macs. Apple has officially said that one can not sync up…

The new commercial features a goofy looking guy who starts jamming out while syncing his iPod to an iBook. Once finished, he stands up, inserts the iPodis ear buds, and the sound quality improves by an order of magnitude while he continues to dance and cavort.

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