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ADC Select members who missed the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in June can learn more about the technologies discussed there by purchasing the WWDC 2004 Sessions DVD-ROM Set. For US$299, you'll receive five discs containing video of more than 150 expert presentations that cover all aspects of developing and deploying on the Mac platform. (Note: this DVD-ROM set was automatically delivered to all WWDC 2004 attendees and ADC Premier members in October 2004.)

FmPro Migrator 2.35 Enterprise Edition from .com Solutions allows users to migrate FileMaker databases to popular databases such as MySQL, Oracle, Access, SQL Server, DB2 and PostgreSQL. This new version enables repeating field extraction from FileMaker to MySQL. It also allows users to generate Perl CGI scripts for use with FileMaker 7 databases.

OpenBase SQL 8.0.4 from OpenBase International is a high performance database server. This release enhances performance and offers ColdFusion compatibility; a new 4D plugin; and enhanced PHP, JDBC, and ODBC drivers.

SyBrowser 6.0 from MacSOS is a database query and entity relationship diagram client application for Sybase, MS SQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, and MySQL databases. This version adds many new alignment features and improved SQL query creation, with the addition of a context-sensitive auto-completion window.

Ch CGI Toolkit 3.51 from SoftIntegration is a free C++ toolkit that can be run in C/C++ interepreter Ch. It provides easy-to-use CGI APIs, similar to JSP and ASP for web development. With this toolkit, you can do web-based plotting, numerical analysis, ODBC database access, analysis and design of control systems, mechanisms design and analysis, and more.

WS4D/eCommerce 4.0r14 from MDG Computer Services is a standalone application that handles shopping carts, credit card processing, virtual domains, and database publishing. This update adds many enhancements to get your domains and products listed on search engines. It also improves cookie handling with search engines.

Apple Developer Connection has delivered a new article in the Tiger Developer Overview Series called "Working with Spotlight." With Spotlight, Tiger will be the first industrial strength operating system to feature a fully integrated, fast, and efficient search across all of the files on a system. The article explains the development technologies behind Spotlight and how you can integrate it into your applications.

The sources for Darwin 7.6, which correspond to Mac OS X 10.3.6, are available for download.

Documentation: Message Framework API Reference

Documentation: Darwin Notification API Reference

Sample Code: VideoHardwareInfo

Technical Q&A: Sending an Email

Sysquake LE 3.0 from Calerga is an interactive graphical analysis tool for understanding complex control systems, solving problems, and designing products. In this release, the user interface has been completely rewritten for Cocoa, and the Matlab-compatible programming language has been extended with new data types and math/graphical functions.

For Mac OS X development tools:
Macintosh Products Guide
Mac OS X Downloads

Logic Express 7, the latest release of Apple's music composition and production software, delivers professional quality audio and MIDI tools at an affordable price of US$299. With new Apple Loops support, software instruments, and high-quality effect plug-ins, Logic Express 7 allows musicians to create, record, edit, and mix music.

Documentation: QuickTime Overview

Documentation: Initializing QuickTime

Videocue 1.02 from Vara is a new, Mac OS X-only QuickTime authoring tool for creating fast, professional presentations for any web site, weblog, or e-mail message. To create a presentation, simply type in text, read back the words into a microphone, then add movies, images, and titles. It can be saved as a QuickTime movie and uploaded to a remote FTP site or weblog. English, Japanese, French, and German versions are available.

Java on Mac OS X (Java, Cocoa and the Web) November 16-18 in Shenton Way, SINGAPORE

Cocoa Development November 22-26 in Beaconsfield, Bucks, UNITED KINGDOM

AppleScript Studio November 25-26 in Shenton Way, SINGAPORE

Java on Mac OS X (Java, Cocoa and the Web) November 29-December 1 in Shenton Way, SINGAPORE

Advanced WebObjects Development December 6-10 in Beaconsfield, Bucks, UNITED KINGDOM

AppleScript Studio December 9-10 in Shenton Way, SINGAPORE

Internet Development with WebObjects (Introduction) January 10-14 in Beaconsfield, Bucks, UNITED KINGDOM

Advanced WebObjects Development February 21-25 in Beaconsfield, Bucks, UNITED KINGDOM

Ongoing: Apple Technical Training Courses
Courses for developers include:
- Developing Desktop Applications with Cocoa
- Internet Application Development Using WebObjects
- Advanced WebObjects Development

Ongoing: FileMaker Professional Foundation Training Series II

European Revolution Conference November 14-16 in Valletta, MALTA

InterBEE 2004 November 17-19 in Tokyo, JAPAN

MacExpo 2004 November 18-20 in London, UNITED KINGDOM