March Notes of Interest
By Mike Hubbartt, Copyright ©2007
1. Apple Updates general site: http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/
• Apple TV – finally shipped (see the review in the hardware section of this issue)
• iTunes 7.1.1 – 28 MB – provides Apple TV support, fixed stability issues in the new 7.1 release distributed earlier in March, released March 16, 2007
• QuickTime 7.1.5 – 41 MB – provides bug fixes and addresses security issues
Two Apple updates of interest are:
• Airport Extreme 2007-001 – 6.5 MB (improves MacBook and MacBook Pro compatibility and addresses a security issue): AirPort Extreme Update 2007-002
• Mac OS X 10.4.9 incremental update, released 3/13/2007 – PPC (72 MB) Update, Intel (160 MB) Update
2. Project 3.1 (Released March 9, 2007) free upgrade from ConceptDraw Project 3.0
Website: http://www.conceptdraw.com/en/
Download the update: ConceptDraw Project 3.1
The recent update to Project 3 contains a lot of improvements, fixings and additions:
* Fixed:
• Tasks multi-selection;
• Special symbols adding
* Improved:
• Appearance of dialogs, including Task Info;
• Network Diagram renewal mechanism;
• Dialogs closing by Enter pressing (Mac);
• Selected tasks highlighting;
• Dialog Import/Export appeared at import/export;
• Complete zooming
* Added:
• Tasks adding at Enter pressing;
• Resources adding in Assign Resources dialog at double click (at 100% assignment);
• Quick switch to Resources view from Assign Resources dialog using Show Resource Sheet context menu;
• Network Diagram print;
• Notification messages appeared if Assign Resource dialog is inactive, informing the user about the reason of the dialog inactiveness;
• Quick switch to Project from Project view by highlighting the project and choosing Show Project from the context menu;
• Native grid (Mac);
• Views and floating dialogs interaction;
• Buttons Select All/Deselect All in dialogs Column Customization are added;
• Shortcut Option+Cmd+N on Network Diagram is added (Mac).
3. Microsoft Word 2004 for Mac
For some cool templates for Word 2004, go to Word 2004 Templates at Microsoft's website
4. Adobe
A. Check out Adobe’s color selection dashboard widget
B. Creative Suite CS3 released
Largest Software Release in Adobe’s 25-year History Revolutionizes Creative Workflows
SAN JOSE, Calif. — March 27, 2007 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the Adobe® Creative Suite® 3 product line, a revolutionary offering of tightly integrated, industry-leading design and development tools for virtually every creative workflow. Adobe’s new Creative Suite 3 line-up unites the best of Adobe and Macromedia® product innovation to provide designers and developers with a broad spectrum of creative options for all facets of print, web, mobile, interactive, film, and video production. There are six all-new configurations of Adobe Creative Suite 3. These include, Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium and Design Standard editions; Adobe Creative Suite 3 Web Premium and Web Standard editions; and Adobe Creative Suite 3 Production Premium (see separate releases). Rounding out the product line is Adobe Creative Suite Master Collection which combines 12 of Adobe’s new design and development applications in a single box—the most comprehensive creative environment ever delivered.
5. Shameless Book Plugs
A. The Children of Hurin by J.R.R. Tolkien is due out this spring. This book was started in 1918 and LOTR fans should pick up the HarperCollins book when it hits the shelves April 17th. Alan Lee contributed 25 sketches and 8 painting to the book, so it will look familiar to fans of the Middle Earth movies from Peter Jackson.
B. On Writing by Stephen King. This book is reviewed in this issue of macCompanion and is well worth the price to get a little insight into the world of Stephen King.
6. Shameless Astronomy Plug
A. March 2007 issue of Starry Night Times
B. Hexagon Weather pattern on Saturn – check this out.
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/070327_saturn_hex.html
C. Websites of interest
Check out Virgin Galactic recently updated website –http://www.virgingalactic.com/
The Starry Night widget downloads are considerable - http://www.starrynight.com
To see Starry Night online –http://www.space.com/snserver/snweb.html?zip=55311
D. Pending Eclipses
* 2007 Aug 28: Total Lunar Eclipse
* 2007 Sep 11: Partial Solar Eclipse
And don’t forget to download that new Starry Night widget - it is nice!
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