Jul 30, 2005
Top 10 Shareware Apps - MacZealots.com
For those of you who are loyal MacZealots readers, you will remember that last year we ran an article about the Top 10 Shareware applications of 2004. The article went over so well that we decided to do it again this year. With the release of Tiger there has been a great deal of third-party development recently. Although Macs are great straight out of the box, third-party developers are the glue that holds Apple and its customers together. Developers continue to create freeware and shareware applications that allow Macs to perform at their very best.
Jul 27, 2005
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
Apple will be opening two new retail stores this Saturday, July 30. In Texas, Apple will open The Woodlands Apple Store at 1201 Lake Woodlands Drive, Suite #1038, The Woodlands, TX. The Apple Store is located on the first floor, near Sears.
Yay! Only 45 minutes away!
Jul 23, 2005
iTheater: Mac Media Center
Welcome to iTheaterProject.com, the home of iTheater: Mac Media Center!
iTheater is an open source project that will be a media center application for OSX, not just the Mac Mini. We are currently programing this application, so check back often to see our progress! Any help is greatly appreciated, so please feel free to join and volunteer!
Jul 22, 2005
InformationWeek > FireFox Patches > Firefox 1.0.6 Release Fixes Flaws > July 20, 2005
The Mozilla Foundation late Tuesday updated both its Firefox browser and Thunderbird e-mail client for the second time in eight days to fix flaws that popped in last week’s refreshes.
Versions 1.0.6 of both Firefox and Thunderbird, said Mozilla, have been patched to “restore API (Application Programming Interface) compatibility for extensions and Web applications “which were unintentionally broken in the editions released last week.
One of the most popular extensions for Thunderbird, Enigmail PGP, which is used to encrypt e-mail, wouldn’t work with the 1.0.5 version, for instance.
This week’s updates should quiet the complaints from the developers of foreign language editions, who were told last week by Mozilla to skip localized versions of 1.0.5, and await Tuesday’s 1.0.6.
Firefox 1.0.6 and Thunderbird 1.0.6 can be downloaded from the Mozilla Web site.
Legal music downloads triple in 2005 - vnunet.com
Legal music downloads triple in 2005
Lawsuits take their toll on P2P usage
Iain Thomson, vnunet.com 22 Jul 2005
New figures from the
International Federation of
Phonographic Industries (IFPI) show that legal music downloads have grown
threefold in the first half of 2005.
Sales from January to June in the UK, France and Germany outstripped last
year’s total sales, reaching 180 million tracks compared to last year’s 157
million.
In the UK, single-track downloads in the first half of 2005 were up tenfold
on the same period last year at just over 10 million. Meanwhile illegal
downloads on peer-to-peer networks rose by just three per cent.