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Macintosh Products Guide
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November 1, 2002, No. 325 |
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ADC Member News |
[1] O'Reilly
Discounts on Technical Books and Conferences
In association with the Apple Developer Connection, O'Reilly
& Associates is offering substantial discounts on its printed
books (from 10% to 30%), Safari Tech Books Online, and O'Reilly
Conferences.
This week's issue includes information on the following O'Reilly
publications:
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Company |
[2] Apple's
iPod Now Available at All Target Stores
iPod, Apple's popular portable digital music player, will be
available at Target stores nationwide starting this week. All 1,148
Target stores will offer the 10GB iPod for Mac and Windows.
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Hardware |
[3] New Releases:
Image Capture SDK 2.0 Image
Capture SDK 2.0 contains both application development and camera/scanner
module development kits. It includes sample code and documentation
demonstrating how to use the Image Capture framework on Mac OS X
v10.2 to access camera/scanner devices, and how to write camera/scanner
modules. It also includes the CameraCheck tool, the Image Capture
Brower, and the ICANotificationListener tool.
[4] New
Hardware Sample Code
Devices
and Hardware: CD ROM: CDROM Sample
This sample application demonstrates how to find and read sectors
from CD-ROM media on Mac OS X.
Devices
and Hardware: Disks: VendorSpecificType00
This sample demonstrates how to subclass the IOSCSIPeripheralDeviceType00
driver to add custom vendor-specific functionality.
Devices
and Hardware: HID Manager: HID Config Save
This sample helps developers get up and running with HID Manager
in a quick and painless manner.
Devices
and Hardware: HID Manager: HID Explorer
This Carbon NIB sample uses the HID Utilities Source to build a
list of all HID device and device elements attached to a Mac OS
X system.
Devices
and Hardware: HID Manager: HID Manager Basics
This sample shows a basic use of the HID Manager, including device
discovery using queues and polling elements.
Devices
and Hardware: HID Manager: HID Utilities Source
This helps developers get up and running with HID Manager.
Devices
and Hardware: IOKit: IOPrintSuperClasses
This sample shows how to use the I/O Kit registry for things like
exploring the I/O Kit class hierarchy.
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Internet and Server |
[5] Online
Seminar: "Mac OS X: The New Desktop for UNIX Users"
Apple has posted a free online seminar on how Mac OS X represents
the future of the UNIX-based desktop, with its extremely fast performance,
stability, and unrivaled connectivity. This seminar, designed for
Mac OS and UNIX developers, covers the Mac OS X architecture, features
of interest to UNIX users, a developer tools overview, and more.
[6] Internet
Developer Article: CSS Hints in IE 5
Although Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) 5 browser is widely
acknowledged as having great Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) support,
you should be aware of several CSS issues in the Macintosh version.
This article describes the three general categories of CSS pitfalls
to avoid.
[7] "HTTP:
The Definitive Guide" Released by O'Reilly
O'Reilly's latest book, "HTTP: The Definitive Guide",
gives a complete and detailed description of Hypertext Transfer Protocol
(HTTP), the language by which web clients and servers exchange documents.
It advises on tricks of the trade, provides convenient reference material,
and serves as a readable introduction to HMTL specifications.
[8] O'Reilly
Releases Book on RADIUS Authentication Protocol
"RADIUS: Securing Public Access to Private Resources"
provides a complete, detailed guide to the underpinnings of the RADIUS
protocol. (RADIUS, or Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service,
is a widely deployed protocol that enables companies to authenticate,
authorize, and account for remote users who want access to a system
or service from a central network server.) Author Jonathan Hassell
brings practical suggestions for implementing RADIUS and provides
instructions for using an open-source variation called FreeRADIUS.
[9] Web Development Tool News:
4D WebSTAR v5.2.3, WooF 1.01 4D
WebSTAR v5.2.3 enables web page serving, database publishing,
file sharing, and mail serving -- all with a single server suite.
This free update fixes issues with FTP passive connections, SMTP
relay authentication reliability, and SMTP virus support compatibility
with some message encoding methods.
WooF 1.01
(WebObjects on FileMaker) is a plug-in for WebObjects that allows
it to dynamically access information stored in FileMaker Pro. This
product is primarily targeted at advanced FileMaker web developers
who need better speed, security, re-useability, and flexibility
than can be accomplished with CDML or Lasso.
[10] System Administration Tool News: Installgen
1.27, netOctopus
4.1.1, Web Site Maestro 1.6 Installgen
1.27 from .Com Solutions helps you generate scripts to install,
build, backup, recover, and document primary and standby Oracle
databases. This is the first version of Installgen to support Oracle
9.2.0 on Mac OS X.
netOctopus
4.1.1 from Netopia enables remote, cross-platform asset management
and diagnostics of desktops within a distributed enterprise network
using the industry standards of Open Database Connectivity (ODBC)
and Structured Query Language (SQL). This update features better
Jaguar compatibility and bug fixes.
Web Site
Maestro 1.6 by Ton Brand helps you manage site content, review
changed pages, and upload new content. It checks your web pages
for dangling tags, missing attributes, and broken links; and it
helps your pages load faster by optimizing both HTML and script
code. This update is optimized for Mac OS X v10.2 and includes several
enhancements.
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[11] Java Tool
News: DbVisualizer 3.1 DbVisualizer
3.1 from Minq Software AB is a cross-platform database visualization
and management tool that enables simultaneous connections to many
different databases through JDBC drivers. This update features a
number of feature enhancements and bug fixes.
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OS X |
[12] New Releases:
October 2002 Developer Tools Patch
The October 2002
Developer Tools Patch fixes a bug in the August 2002 Developer
Tools Update. It reverts the nibtool to the version supplied in
Mac OS X v10.2 Developer Tools, which was released July 2002. (Users
who didn't install the August 2002 Update won't need this reversion
patch.)
[13] New Mac OS X Documentation
QA1207 - Documentation
Updater for Project Builder Shipping
with Mac OS X v10.2
QA1205 - Getting
the Name of a Profile
QA1204 - Setting
Sequence Grabber Sound Input Device
Driver Parameters
QA1193 - QuickDraw
Text Anti-Aliasing using Quartz 2D
QA1186 - Quartz
2D Interpolation
[14] New Mac OS X Sample Code
OS
Utilities: CFPrefDockItems
This sample code shows how to use the CFPreference APIs to access
the Dock's preferences to set what applications show in a document.
Cocoa:
Cocoa_With_Carbon_or_CPP
This sample code shows how to call Carbon routines and C++ code
from within an Objective-C Cocoa program.
[15] O'Reilly Articles on Cocoa Memory Management and UNIX Tips
This excerpt from James Duncan Davidson's new ADC book, "Learning
Cocoa with Objective-C", provides a concise description of
how memory management in Cocoa works, as well as a set of rules to
help you manage things correctly.
In the article, "Top
Ten Mac OS X Tips for Unix Geeks", author Brian Jepson offers
ten tips he gathered while working on the new ADC Recommended Title, "Mac
OS X for Unix Geeks". If you're a UNIX expert moving to Mac
OS X, these tips will help smooth the way.
[16]
Useful Utilities: Accessorizer 0.8.4, StuffIt Deluxe 7.0.1,
UnicodeChecker 1.5.2, UNIX Utilities for Mac OS X Accessorizer
0.8.4 by Kevin Callahan is a freeware application and a set
of services that generate ObjC accessor declarations and implementation
methods from variable declarations. It offers a broad range of memory
management schemes used by the best-known Cocoa/Objective-C experts.
StuffIt Deluxe 7.0.1
from Aladdin Systems is an industry-standard access and compression
utility. The update fixes compatibility issues with Mac OS X v10.2.x
and improves the compression speed of the "Fast Compression"
option, which is available when using the StuffIt X file format.
UnicodeChecker
1.5.2 from earthlingsoft displays information for every code
point from the Unicode Standard. It features several conversion
functions and other Unicode utilities, some of which are also added
to the Mac OS X "Services" menu so they can be used from
within most other applications.
UNIX Utilities for Mac OS X,
distributed by Cylogistics and published by Daemon News, is a collection
of time-saving UNIX utilities, such as OpenOffice and Fink. It also
allows you to access X Window System applications from within Aqua
windows. Normally US$ 39.95, ADC Members receive a 15% discount
on orders placed through the BSD Mall. (Use the coupon code: UNIXUTIL15.)
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| Multimedia
and QuickTime |
[17] New
Book: "Inside QuickTime: Interactive Movies"
"Inside QuickTime: Interactive Movies" is now available
in HTML and PDF formats. This book guides content authors, webmasters,
and tool developers in building, developing, and incorporating interactive
QuickTime movies with wired sprites, sprite animations, and Flash
content into their applications.
[18]
Apple Launches New Multimedia
Pro Web Page
Apple's new "Pro" web page features interviews with
professionals in photography, music, video, and science. Current articles
profile composer Danny Elfman, writer/director/producer Roger Avary,
publisher David Cohen, and Dr. Will Gilbert, a researcher at the Hubbard
Center for Genome Studies at the University of New Hampshire.
[19] New QuickTime
Documentation QA1206 - Video
Output Components - Implementing
QTVideoOutputGetIndSoundOutput on Mac OS X
[20] New QuickTime
Sample Code QuickTime:
QuickTime VR: vrmovies
This sample code uses the QuickTime VR API to provide support for
playing QuickTime movies inside a panoramic images.
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| Training
and Events |
[21] Final
Cut Pro School in L.A. Lowers Tuition
Dr RawStock, a Los Angeles company that specializes in Final
Cut Pro training, has reduced its Digital Film School class fees by
up to 25 percent.
[22] Music
Recording/Production Seminar at MacExpo in U.K.
One of the highlights of MacExpo 2002 will be an Apple-led
workflow seminar covering music recording, audio post-production (including
5.1 surround mixing) and music video editing using Emagic Logic 5.4
and Final Cut Pro 3. The seminar takes place on Thursday, November
21, and spaces are limited, so please register soon.
[23] Developer-Related Conferences
OracleWorld
Apple will be an exhibitor.
November 10-14 at the Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA.
The 2nd European BSD Conference
November 15-17 in Amsterdam, NL
http://2002.eurobsdcon.org
Apple-related sessions:
MacFair 2002
November 16 at Cerritos College in So. Cal.
ADC member discounts: Select 30%, Premier 50%.
Contact: Keith Mueller at 949-721-9280 or info@macfair.org.
IETF (Internet
Engineering Task Force)
November 17-21 in Atlanta, GA.
ApacheCon
November 18-21 in Las Vegas, NV.
ADC is the Platinum Sponsor and is an exhibitor.
MacExpo 2002
Nov 21-23 in Islington, London
DV Expo West
December 9-12 in Los Angeles, CA
Four-day DV Certification program offered.
MACWORLD
Expo San Francisco 2003
Jan 6-10 at the Moscone Center, SF, CA.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs will deliver the keynote January 7.
Exhibit discounts available to ADC
Members
O'Reilly Bioinformatics
Technology Conference [New]
February 3-6, 2003 in San Diego, CA
Information
on ADC Member Discounts.
Exhibitor
and Sponsor Prospectus.
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Other Info |
[24] MacHack
Conference Call for Papers
The MacHack developers conference will be held in June in Dearborn,
Michigan. Conference organizers are now accepting proposals for technical
presentations and academic papers to be delivered at the event. As
an incentive, MacHack paper authors won't have to pay the conference
registration fee -- a US$ 550 savings.
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is subject to change without notice. Any use of, or actions taken
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done entirely at your own risk. Mention of non-Apple products or services
is for informational purposes only, and constitutes neither an endorsement
nor a recommendation. Apple assumes no responsibility with regard
to the selection, performance, or use of these products. Copyright
2002 Apple Computer, Inc. All rights reserved.
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