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Macintosh Products Guide
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Oct 1, 2004, No. 417
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ADC Member News
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[1] ADC Members Save 30% on O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference
Come to the O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference, October 25-28 in Santa
Clara, to hear about Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger directly from Apple
experts, to see Stewart Copeland talk about digital music on the
Mac, and to dig deeper into Mac technologies than you've ventured
before. ADC members are entitled to a 30 percent discount by using
the following code during registration: macosx04ae.
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Hardware
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[2] New Releases: Power Mac G5 Uniprocessor 5.1.5 f2 Firmware
Update
Power Mac G5 Uniprocessor 5.1.5 f2 Firmware Update
[3] IBM Launches Zone for Power Architecture Developers
IBM has launched a new Power Architecture technology zone on their
"developerWorks" website to serve as a focal point for information
on POWER- and PowerPC-related technologies. This site is designed
for the Power Architecture community: the original AIM (Apple, IBM,
and Motorola) alliance, microprocessor technologists, OEMs, embedded
designers, and anyone else who works with POWER- or PowerPC-related
technologies.
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Internet and Server
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[4] New ADC Article: Using Open Source Tools to Filter Email on
Mac OS X Server
Mac OS X Server administrators can use open source tools to guard
against mail viruses. Read this article to learn how to identify,
filter, and remove viruses from the Postfix mail server.
[5] System Administration Tool News: ODBC Router, WIBU-KEY
ODBC Router from August Software is an Open Database Connectivity
(ODBC) router that connects Macintosh, Linux and Windows
applications with hundreds of UNIX, Windows, and mainframe systems.
It ensures that critical database upgrades can always be installed
on non-Windows platforms without delay. This major update adds
support for FileMaker Pro 7, improved support for Microsoft Office
X, and automatic translation of extended European characters between
Macintosh, Windows, and Linux.
WIBU-KEY from WIBU Systems is an advanced copy protection and
license management system for heterogeneous network systems. This
update increases the WIBU-BOX memory to 16KB, so it can be used for
depositing important information such as texts, configuration data,
and customer information.
[6] Web Development Tool News: Deep Navel 1.0, PHP Function
Index 1.0, Sun Java Studio Creator
Deep Navel 1.0 saves hours of website hacking by automatically
turning a site's folder structure into a hierarchical website with
an easy-to-navigate tab structure, and customizable art and HTML.
This version includes 12 tab art themes and allows you to reparse
folders to continuously maintain changing folder structures and
content.
PHP Function Index 1.0 from ARTIS Software is a simple browser that
helps you quickly look up any PHP function. Its search function
offers real-time filtering of the function list, and its AppleScript
interface lets you look up functions easily from within your
favorite editor.
Sun Java Studio Creator is the first 100% Java-standards based
visual development tool for delivering portable web applications and
portable developer skillsets. The IDE provides a rapid visual
designer, smart code editor, synchronized editing, and easy
deployment for rapid iterative development of web applications.
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Java
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[7] Java Tool News: Servoy 2.1
Servoy 2.1 is an application environment used to create and deploy
user-interface applications. It consists of a powerful GUI designer,
and it is fully event-driven and scriptable through JavaScript to
help you build and deploy your SQL database front-ends. This release
delivers higher performance, availability, and scalability, as well
as more than 50 new and improved features.
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Mac OS X
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[8] "Understanding Open Source & Free Software Licensing" Released
by O'Reilly Media
"Understanding Open Source & Free Software Licensing" from O'Reilly
Media explores open source and free software licensing options, how
they compare and interoperate, and how license choices affect
project possibilities. For open source and free software developers,
this book is an absolute necessity.
[9] Mac OS X Tool News: Ch 4.7 and Embedded Ch 4
Ch 4.7 and Embedded Ch 4.7 from SoftIntegration is an embeddable
C/C++ interpreter for cross-platform scripting, 2D/3D plotting,
numerical computing, shell programming, and embedded scripting.
Major product enhancements for embedded scripting include
input/output redirection, obtaining complete information about
variables and functions in a Ch script, and interfacing functions
with a variable number of arguments.
For more development tools:
Macintosh Products Guide
Mac OS X Downloads
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Multimedia and QuickTime
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[10] Apple Introduces Logic Pro 7 and Logic Express 7
Logic Pro 7 and Logic Express 7 are major new releases of Apple's
award-winning professional music creation and audio production
software applications. Along with over 100 workflow enhancements,
new mastering plug-ins, and support for Apple Loops, Logic Pro 7
debuts distributed audio processing, which allows audio pros to tap
into a virtually unlimited number of Macs to expand available
Digital Signal Processing (DSP) power.
[11] New QuickTime Reference Library Document
Technical Q&A: GetDIBFromPict fails with QuickTime "Minimum"
installation
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Training and Events
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[12] Developer Training and Seminars
Advanced WebObjects Development
October 11-15 and November 22-26 in Beaconsfield, Bucks,
UNITED KINGDOM
PHP 5 Bootcamp
October 18-22 in Atlanta, GA
Introduction to Programming on Mac OS X: Cocoa Workshop
October 23-24 in Biloxi, MS
Cocoa Development
October 25-29 in Beaconsfield, Bucks, UNITED KINGDOM
Internet Development with WebObjects (Introduction)
November 1-5 in Beaconsfield, Bucks, UNITED KINGDOM
AppleScript Pro Training Sessions
November 8-12 in Newport, RI
Cocoa Bootcamp
November 8-12 in Atlanta, GA
Ongoing: Apple Training Courses
Ongoing: FileMaker Professional Foundation Training Series II
[13] Developer Events
A special hardware discount program is available to ADC Premier and
Select exhibitors at several major trade shows.
Graph Expo
October 10-13 in Chicago, IL
4D Summit Conference 2004
October 19-22 in New Orleans, LA
Educause
October 19-22 in Denver, CO
PhotoPlus Expo
October 21-23 in New York, NY
Blender Conference 2004
October 22-24 in Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS
Neuroscience 2004
October 23-27 in San Diego, CA
O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference
October 25-28 in Santa Clara, CA
ADC Members receive a 30% discount by entering code: macosx04ae
Audio Engineering Society (AES) Convention
October 28-31 in San Francisco, CA
EuroBSDCon 2004
October 29-31 in Karlsruhe, GERMANY
SC2004: High Performance Computing, Networking and Storage Conference
November 6-12 in Pittsburgh, PA
European Revolution Conference
November 14-16 in MALTA
MacExpo 2004
November 18-20 in London, UNITED KINGDOM
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