Apple Developer Connection News • April 29, 2005 • Issue 439

Mac OS X v10.4 “Tiger” Now Shipping

Deliver your Tiger app fast with the Tiger Developer Kit.

Worldwide Developers Conference 2005Tiger is here and it's time to accelerate your development with the Tiger Developer Kit. Bundled with an ADC Select membership, the Kit includes the software, hardware, tools, and one-on-one engineering advice you need to create innovative Mac OS X Tiger applications. Order yours today!

WWDC Early Reg Savings Extended to May 6

Now that customers are getting their hands on Mac OS X Tiger, Worldwide Developers Conference 2005 is an excellent way to jumpstart your development and deliver innovative Tiger features to your end users quickly and easily. May 6 will be here before you know it, so act now to save $300 on your WWDC E-ticket.

New Tiger Mailing Lists Available

With the launch of Tiger, four new public mailing lists are now being hosted by Apple. You can join these lists to share technology experiences, questions, and comments with others. Note that Apple Confidential Information should not be discussed on these lists:

Automator-dev
Automator-users
Dashboard-dev
Quartzcomposer-dev

Apple Upgrades Power Mac G5 Line

Apple announced its fastest, most powerful Power Mac G5 desktop line ever, featuring dual 64-bit PowerPC G5 processors running up to 2.7 GHz. Apple also reduced the price of its award-winning line of widescreen flat panel Cinema Displays to $799 for the 20-inch model and $1,499 for the 23-inch HD model.


New on the ADC Website

ADC Articles

Getting Going with Tiger: Guide to ADC Resources
Learn about the many valuable resources available to help you get going with your Tiger development.

Tiger Early Adopter: Bare Bones Embraces Automator
Find out how Bare Bones Software delivered powerful Automator Actions in BBEdit in time to meet the Mac OS X Tiger ship date.

Exploring Mac OS X Tiger Server
Tiger Server is loaded with technologies that provide great opportunities for developers, including Xgrid, 64-bit support, Access Control Lists, and more.

Developer Profile: Porting From Windows in Days
CompuTest used REALbasic to quickly port Electronic Bluebook, a Visual Basic-based application, to the Mac, opening a broader market for their product.

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Reference Library

Here are just a few of more than 100 new-for-Tiger developer documents that are now available in the ADC Reference Library:

Release Notes: What's New In Mac OS X
Documentation: 64-Bit Transition Guide
Documentation: Automator Programming Guide
Documentation: Core Data Programming Guide
Documentation: Dashboard Programming Guide
Documentation: Performance Overview
Documentation: Spotlight Overview
Documentation: Sync Services Programming Guide
Documentation: QuickTime Kit Programming Guide
Documentation: Xcode 2.0 User Guide

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In the Community

DarwinPorts 1.0 Now Available
OpenDarwin.org has released DarwinPorts 1.0 to provide an easy way to install various open source software products on the Darwin OS family (OpenDarwin, Mac OS X, and Darwin). Version 1.0 features about 2500 completed ports, with more being added on a regular basis.

Automator eBook from SpiderWorks
The eBook “Tiger Technology Guide to Automator” describes what you need to know to easily build your own Workflows and custom Actions for Automator, the powerful new tool in Mac OS X Tiger that makes it easy to automate time-consuming, repetitive tasks.

Developer Tools
iPatch 3.6
FTP Suite for REALBasic 4.1
Java Date Picker 4.0

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Unix & Open Source
OpenLaszlo 3.0
WinSwitch 3.1
R for Mac OS X 2.1.0

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WWDC 2005: Register by April 22 and save.
April 29, 2005 • Issue 439
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