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Codewarrior Joins HP iPod in Bit Bucket in the Sky

By Arden, August 1, 2005

Metrowerks announced on their website that they have sold their Intel x86 technology to Nokia and will be discontinuing anything including this technology, including CodeWarrior.  CodeWarrior 10 will be released this fall, for download only, at a significantly discounted price, and will not be ported to the Macintel architecture.  Metrowerks will support the program through email until the end of the year, and on their website until August 1.

This announcement is not surprising after Steve Jobs’s last keynote, in which he emphasized the importance for developers to move their workload from CodeWarrior to Xcode in order to develop for the Intel-based architecture.  It is not clear at this time what Metrowerks’s focus will be in the future.


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End of the HP iPod

By Arden, July 31, 2005

It was posted in one of the comments for Clay’s blog, but here’s the MacNN blurb:

Hewlett-Packard has decided to stop reselling Apple’s iPod portable music player, according to the Wall Street Journal. “The two companies have reportedly confirmed that H-P will immediately phase out sales of the iPod through its retail distribution partners, whom H-P notified of the changes Thursday. ‘They’ve decided that reselling iPods doesn’t fit with their company’s current digital media strategy,’ the Journal quoted Apple spokeswoman Katie Cotton as saying.”


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Final Cut Studio: The Return of the King

By Clay, July 29, 2005

My oh my how time flies… Howe long has it been?  A week… A month?  At any rate, far too long for me to have kept quiet, and I do apologize for that.  Busy I have been, busy working through a project of monolithic proportions so that I might bring you a thorough review of a fine suite of software.  What software am I talking about?  Well, I’ll make mention of it in a bit, but you’ll probably gather what I’m talking about using context clues.  First off, this project had a tight deadline.  Less than two weeks to manipulate hundreds of photos, three hundred to be exact.  Now that I think about it, I could write a second review on the rest of the software I used, but let’s take it one step at a time, shall we?

So, where are we, ah yes, the project well, it was long. 32 minutes worth of FMV is no joke when your starting point is three hundred pictures.  But a PowerPoint-ish slide show is not enough to wow your clientele, I figured this out in about ’98, but it appears that the rest of the world still hasn’t caught on.  That’s where Final Cut Studio comes in.  This is a behemoth of a software package, I’ll ge that out of the way to begin with, a behemoth, both literally and figuratively.  Shipping at a staggering 17 lbs, Final cut Studio may well be the best $1299.00 that I have ever spent.  I…
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MacMine Looking to Launch VOIP Company

By Nick, July 25, 2005

MacMine is looking to gauge interest among Macintosh users for a VOIP venture they are untertaking with a partner company. According to the anonymous news contributor, the price structure is similar to that of Vonage. MacMine states that “Support will be handled by our partner and therefore should be operating 24/7. They are a leading VOIP company in Canada with servers and numbers in almost all area codes in C.A. and the U.S.A.”

More information can be found on MacMine’s web site.

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What’s wrong with this picture?

By UnnDunn, July 25, 2005


(as seen when trying to access one of our RSS feeds.)

Personally, I find it galling for a browser to arbitrarily refuse to open a file, instead ‘advising’ you to upgrade your entire operating system to read said file. I find it galling that the only worthwhile new feature in Safari 2.0 is RSS support, yet it costs $120 to get. I find it especially galling that Safari 1.3 just throws up its hands and says “nope, can’t read it” even though it’s no more than a plaintext file. Even Internet Explorer, the bane of my existence (at least, my existence as a web developer) can manage a rudimentary formatted XML tree display when it encounters an RSS feed.

Of course, it’s Apple, so i guess I shouldn’t have expected anything different. This is the company that charges $30 for the privilege of viewing certain movies fullscreen, after all.  blank stare 


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