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Macintosh Products Guide
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Jun 18, 2004, No. 403
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WWDC 2004: Onsite Badging
Onsite badging and walk-in registration, located in the Moscone West Convention Center, will be open during these times:
- Saturday, June 26, from 5PM to 8 PM
- Sunday, June 27 from 7 AM to 8 PM
Several streets near the convention center will be closed on
Sunday for a special event. Please allow for extra travel time.
- Monday, June 28 starting at 7 AM
If you already have a WWDC 2004 E-ticket, we advise you to pick up your badge early to avoid the crowds on Monday morning. WWDC is also open to walk-in registration all week, space permitting. We hope to see you there!
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Company News
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[1] New Release: Apple/Genentech BLAST Updated
Apple/Genentech BLAST has been updated to correspond to NCBI BLAST 2.2.9. The new A/G BLAST is optimized for use with the Power PC G4 and PowerPC G5 processors, including vectorization and other algorithmic enhancements. The source code and binary versions are now available for download.
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Internet and Server
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[2] New Release: Mac OS X Server Admin Tools 10.3.4
Mac OS X Server Admin Tools 10.3.4
[3] System Administration Tool News: Post.Office 3.6, WEBmail 6, SQL4X Manager J 2.8.5, SyncDeK 5.0
Post.Office 3.6 and WEBmail 6 from Tenon are now available. Both Post.Office, the mail server and list server widely used around the world, and WEBmail, a web-based mail client developed by EMUmail, have been significantly enhanced with feature updates.
SQL4X Manager J 2.8.5 for Mac OS X from MACOSGURU is a professional database tool for web and database developers, administrators and power users. This version includes several interface enhancements and supports new features for Oracle 10g, PostgreSQL, IBM DB2, MS SQL Server 6.5/7/2000 and several bug fixes.
SyncDeK 5.0 from WorldSync is a bi-directional asynchronous data replication technology for FileMaker databases. SyncDeK 5.0 is written in Java, leverages XML to manage data exchange, and won a Macworld 2004 Best of Show Award.
[4] Web Development Tool News: BasaOne 1.1
BasaOne 1.1 from Basasoft is a web application IDE. It allows you to write web applications with database access without knowledge of different programming languages, servers, or databases. This version adds alignment guides, translucent drag, creation of class files, enhanced JavaScript a window palette and more.
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Java
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[5] Eclipse and Mac OS X: A Natural Combination
The Eclipse IDE is one more reason why Mac OS X is a great Java development platform. This article introduces Eclipse on Mac OS X and explains how to get started with it.
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Mac OS X
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[6] ADC Reference Library Documents Translated into Japanese
Technical Note: Native Scripting Additions
Technical Note: The System Sound APIs for Mac OS X 10.3 and later
Technical Note: New API AudioUnitEvents
Technical Note: NSView: Working Around Incorrect -needsToDrawRect: Behavior
Technical Note: Identifying Java on Mac OS X
Technical Note: Device input using the HAL Output Audio Unit
Technical Q&A: CGBitmapContextCreate Supported Color Spaces
Technical Q&A: Rendezvous enforces a proper service type format in Panther
Technical Q&A: HTTPS Proxy Settings and Java Applets
Technical Q&A: Rendezvous services types used in Mac OS X
Technical Q&A: Signaling the end of data when using AudioConverterFillComplexBuffer
Technical Q&A: Rendezvous and Domains
Technical Q&A: Duplicate Rendezvous services while browsing
Technical Q&A: Use NSSound instead of NSMovie for audio only playback on Mac OS X 10.3 and greater
Technical Q&A: Using the Sequence Grabber DataProc for Audio
[7] Useful Utilities: PC-Mac PasswordVault 3.1, Xupport 2.1
PC-Mac PasswordVault 3.1 from Lava Software is a secure password manager for both desktop computers and portable media, such as USB flash drives. This new version supports Mac OS X and earlier, Windows, and Linux.
Xupport 2.1 by Laurent Muller is a system maintenance utility that optimizes system performance, allows administrators to access hidden system and finder settings, clears junk files, and more. This is a maintenance release.
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Training and Events
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[8] WebObjects Training Courses in UK July 5-9
Introduction to WebObjects Development will be offered by P & L Software, an Apple Authorized WebObjects training organization, from July 5 to July 9 near London, UK. Take advantage of special pricing in honor of WWDC.
[9] Developer Training and Seminars
Advanced WebObjects Development
June 21-June 25 in Cupertino, CA
Developing Desktop Applications With Cocoa
July 6-10 in Cupertino, CA
Core Mac OS X and Unix Bootcamp
July 19-23 in Atlanta, GA
Internet Application Development Using WebObjects
July 26 in Reston, VA
August 2 in Cupertino, CA
Ongoing: Apache Bootcamp
Ongoing: OpenGL Shading Language Seminars
Ongoing: Apple Training Courses
Ongoing: FileMaker Professional Foundation Training Series II
[10] Developer Events
A special hardware discount program is available to ADC Premier and Select exhibitors at several major trade shows.
NEXPO
June 19-22 in Washington DC
National Education Computing Conference
June 20-23 in New Orleans, LA
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2004
June 28-July 2 in San Francisco, CA
Hardware discounts for Premier and Select exhibitors
ADHOC/MacHack 19
July 21-24 in Dearborn, MI
NAMM
July 23-25 in Nashville, TN
O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON)
July 26-30 in Portland, OR
ADC Members receive a 15% discount, use code:os4adc
Early Bird registration ends June 18
Siggraph
August 3-12 in Los Angeles, CA
Apple Expo
August 31-September 4 in Paris, France
IBC
September 9-14 in Amsterdam, Netherlands
O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference
October 25-28 in Santa Clara, CA
European Games Network
September 1-3 in London, UK
European Revolution Conference
November 14-16 in Malta
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Other
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[11] Free 30-day Pilot of Elluminate Live! version 5
Elluminate Live! version 5 from Elluminate allows you to talk over the Internet, chat online, share whiteboards, and share applications -- all while ensuring the highest quality user experience. Elluminate Live! now supports Xserve. Contact appleteam@elluminate.com for a free 30-day pilot.
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